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"Maddie." Eddie’s fear matches her own when they meet each other’s eyes again. “You gotta get out. We don’t have time…”
“I’m not leaving you.”
“What about Jee, Maddie?” Eddie grabs it like the steel frame in his side and jams it straight through her heart. “Who’d you rather leave? Me or her?”
For a moment, she thinks of how simple it would be. How badly she wants to get out. To remove the danger, to remove the possibility of leaving Jee, again, of leaving Chimney again. She could get out of the car. She could survive this.
Some part of her wants to, so bad, but she’s staring at Eddie, and thinking of Buck’s shaking hands after he got shot, thinking of Eddie spinning Christopher at the fire station, thinking of all the things this world has to lose if it loses Eddie Diaz. Thinking of all the things her brother would lose.
Thinking of all the things she would lose.
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Eddie and Maddie end up in an impossible situation.
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"Though—and I know you probably don't want to talk about it, but since you and Natalia are over with now, I've been wondering…" Maddie pauses, watches Buck make a face like he's bracing to be smacked. "What happened with Eddie?"
Buck stops wincing and just blinks at her for a second. Then he says, "What?"
"You two were dancing around it for so long, and then… what, it just didn't work out? Was the date really that bad?"
She's expecting another wince, or even for him to duck out of the conversation entirely, but instead Buck is staring at her like she's grown a second head. "Maddie. I've never been on a date with Eddie."
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Or: the poker game was a date. It takes Buck a while to catch on, though.
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25 Jan 2025
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A combat medic and a G.I. meet during one of the world’s greatest battles. A WWII European Theater based AU.
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16 Jun 2024
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As stupid as it seems now, Eddie always thought they’d have more time.
He should know better. If the bullet wounds that riddle his body weren’t evidence enough, the scarring that he knows twists across Buck’s leg should have been. It wasn’t, though. Despite everything they’d been through, Eddie always thought they’d have enough time.
Now, though, as he opens the door to find Buck already standing in front of it, he knows they’ve finally run out. Eddie draws him into a hug without a second thought. There’s no space left for pretenses.
“I didn’t even knock,” Buck says into his shoulder. Eddie can hear the unsteadiness in his voice and it breaks his heart all over again. None of it was supposed to happen like this.
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22 Jan 2024
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He still gets stuck in it sometimes: the absolute silence after the shot, and time so, so still in that endless second when Eddie’s eyes met his. When the air turned cool against the skin of Buck’s face because there was something else, now, something warmer, sticky in his eyelashes, pooling at the corner of his mouth. Staining him in a way that will never, never come out, all in the time it took to remember how to breathe again.
It didn’t happen fast at all. There are days when Buck wakes up and thinks it might still be happening.
And Eddie is—Eddie won’t—Eddie—
or, six months after the near-fatal shooting of a member of the LAFD, footage of the incident surfaces on social media.
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31 May 2023
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Maddie blinks, her heart dropping into her stomach. That's Evan’s address.
“We have one male, late twenties with a concussion and a suspected fractured collarbone, and a second male with a possible fractured ankle.”
Suddenly, she recognises the voice.
"Eddie?”
There’s a moment of silence, then a muffled, "I think I got Maddie.”
AKA, the firefam responds to a rather embarrassing call at Buck’s place.
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“The roof didn’t collapse because of what I said,” Eddie adds, a little petulantly.
They’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. Because from where Buck’s standing- leaning- trapped- this has cosmic retribution written all over it. The 118 were called to the subway station for a passenger complaining of chest pains. Buck can count on one hand the number of times he’s ever even set foot in LA’s little-known underground railway system. And before the doors to the compartment with their would-be patient could even open, the ceiling gave an almighty rumble and rained down right on top of them.
“Still think you should’ve let me kiss you when we had the chance,” he grumbles.
Buck can be petulant too, thank you very much.
“Did you say kiss? Did he say kiss?!” Chimney’s voice projects from the radio on his shoulder that is not, in fact, broken.
“I definitely heard the word kiss,” Hen confirms.
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Buck and Eddie fight the universe to get their fairytale beginning
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15 Apr 2023
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Bodyguard Boyfriend Beside Himself as Prince Checks into Rehab
“I Want to Live with Bobby!” says Young Prince
Royal’s Lover Splits: “Too Much Baggage!”
The headlines weren’t anything new—Eddie was pretty sure that he and Buck had broken up at least forty times in the last year according to the tabloids— but it was overwhelming to see them all at once.
But then Eddie’s phone chimed followed by another one and another one in rapid succession. The first was a stern email from the media liaison reminding Eddie to remain no comment. The second was a text from Chimney telling him not to say anything. The third wasn’t even a text message. It was a notification for his news app and the words across the banner had Eddie swearing as he abandoned his cart.
FORMER THERAPIST OF ROYAL PRINCE TELLS ALL
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- Part 2 of Prince Buck AU
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31 Mar 2023
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"Why are we at the cheese aisle?" Eddie asked from behind Buck, like it wasn't obvious.
Buck turned on his heel and delivered a puzzled look to his best friend. "Because kids like cheese, Eddie."
Eddie stared at him like he'd lost his mind, and let go of their grocery cart to gesture at the huge array of junk food it held. "What kind of weird kid goes to a party and wants the cheese?"
"Oh," Buck said, feeling a bit deflated. "That's what I always ate first. But I was kind of a weird kid, I guess."
Dark brown eyes shot him an indecipherable look, strong fingers combed through even darker hair, and then Eddie was dropping random selections of cheese into the cart. "Well, we don't want the weird kids to have a bad time. It's a party."
Buck couldn't help the smile that beamed out of him. Eddie's so kind to kids. "Um... anything left to get?"
"Snacks for that girl who has diabetes. Amy, Audrey, uh..."
"Abby."
"Pfff... I'd remember if she was called Abby," Buck half-heard Eddie say, but his focus was on the other end of the grocery store aisle, where at 11pm at night his ex-girlfriend Abby Clark was carefully assessing two different brands of provolone.
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26 Mar 2023
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Kaleidoscope by kianspo
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: The Original Series
09 Aug 2021
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The first time Spock joins an away mission, he nearly dies. It goes downhill from there. Then uphill. Then sideways. In short, Ensign Spock's first year onboard the Enterprise goes nothing like he imagined, and that is before there are feelings.
(Basically, this picks up right where Short Trek Q&A left it.)
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25 Jul 2022
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Fire and Fury by Brinady
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
26 Jun 2020
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When Jaskier is taken hostage by a group bent on exacting revenge against a certain witcher, he learns first-hand how Geralt earned the title 'Butcher of Blaviken.'
Geralt, for his part, has to deal with having indirectly brought the harm to the bard, and having revealed the horrors of which he his capable.
They're both a bit of a mess, but, of course, they work things out as only they can.
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19 Jun 2020
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when you feel bad about what you've done by ollyollyoxenfree (onionblossomhorseradish)
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
19 May 2020
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Jaskier hopped down from the table he had been standing on, and wound his way quickly through the crowd to Geralt’s side, smiling up at him big and bright and like nothing had ever happened.
Geralt remembered the last words he’d exchanged with the bard, tone cruel and desperate and bitter. He could see Jaskier’s face as he said them. That feeling in his chest tightened and twisted and writhed uncomfortably.-
I've seen so many angsty takes on Geralt and Jaskier navigating their fight on the mountain, but I really wanted to come at that idea from a different angle. So, Geralt feels super bad about everything he said on the mountain and is EXPECTING a huge blowup from Jaskier, but then Jaskier just forgives and forgets like it's nothing and they're travelling together again like usual and why does Geralt still feel kinda shitty about all this?
Basically, Geralt learns about feeling guilty, and how sometimes apologies are as much for yourself as they are the other person.
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24 May 2020
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Intricate Rituals by butt_muncher_seven
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
18 Feb 2020
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Five times Geralt and Jaskier get up close and physical for entirely normal, non-sexual reasons (because they are not attracted to each other) plus one.
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27 Feb 2020
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louder and louder by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
08 Mar 2020
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Geralt tries to puzzle out why Jaskier keeps following him into danger after danger... completely missing the obvious. There's too great a gulf between what his witcher senses pick up, and what his damaged heart is willing to accept.
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"The bard’s heart always beats faster whenever the witcher draws near. That isn't unusual. So do the hearts of most humans he encounters. Not only do they blanch and recoil at the sight of his white hair and amber eyes, but they begin to sweat, the stench of their fear a sour tang at the back of his throat.
But the bard never seems to reek of fear."
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26 Feb 2020
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home is nowhere, therefore you by Ark
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski
30 Jan 2020
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"Right, well," Jaskier says, when he halts before Geralt. Up close, he looks much more nervous. There is sweat on his brow and his collar is damp with it, and his teeth keep catching on his lower lip. "True love's kiss. There's—ah—there's nothing to it." And he bends, the utter imbecile, and kisses Geralt full on the mouth.
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22 Feb 2020
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Geralt is summoned to the court of Count Enri and called on to fight a monster - and Jaskier, of course, is right in the middle of things.
Except monsters can be human, too.
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17 Feb 2020
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If Life Could Give Me One Blessing, It Would Be You by LadySuchDisgust
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
29 Mar 2020
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“We’re going to get him back.” Jaskier promised Roach as they galloped down the road. Geralt was in trouble and no matter how the witcher felt about the subject, Jaskier was his friend, and friends helped each other. He didn’t know how much help a bard like him would even be, but he had to try nonetheless.
Or: Geralt is in trouble and this time Jaskier needs to be the hero.
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- 4/4
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16 Feb 2020
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Incandescent by GonEwiththeWolveS
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
09 Mar 2020
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Geralt runs into Jaskier after a hunt and very not eloquently tells him to leave town after he senses the presence of another monster.
Jaskier (obviously) doesn't listen.
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13 Feb 2020
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The Man's a Bit of a Dandy by N0t4llWh0W4nd3r
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher (TV)
19 Mar 2020
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During a fight with Noonwraiths, Geralt is temporarily blinded while protecting Jaskier, and forced, begrudgingly, to admit the bard might be somewhat of a friend.
(Or maybe even something more)
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30 Jan 2020
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A Light in the Dark by AvoidingAverage
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
25 Jan 2020
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The world around him went oddly silent--drowned out by the roar of blood in his ears.
A lock of familiar brown hair fell onto the table, tied neatly with a string from a lute. Mouth dry with panic and fingers shaking, Geralt brushed his fingers over the tiny bundle before reaching for the piece of parchment folded beside it.
Any hope that the package was some sort of mistake died a quick death at the short message scrawled across the page:
Come and play, Butcher--before he can’t.
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- Part 1 of A Light in the Dark
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- 5/5
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23 Jan 2020