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    “My mom said, uh, that his name was Buck. That he was going to go to the fire academy and that he had a—” she broke off, rubbing her own forehead, exactly where his skin went pink. “She said he went by Firehose.”

    Buck didn’t need all of his coworkers to look at him in alarm; he was pretty sure he’d gone deadly pale. His daughter knew four things about him, and one of them was his old tinder profile handle. He felt a little like he was going to die.

    “She’s got your eyes,” Eddie commented, unhelpfully.

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    Buck finds out he has a daughter, and also a stupidly big crush on his best friend. It's an adjustment.

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    29 Sep 2025

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    “I feel fucking explosive, Buck. Like I’m about to go off at any second. I don’t want you caught in my mess.”

    His eyes sting. At the very least, Buck contains the sound of it in his voice. “Eddie, I don’t know if you’ve noticed,” he replies, “but I already am.”

    Eddie self-implodes. Christopher, seeking refuge, flees to Buck—whose priorities amount to, in varying order: take in the kid, get Eddie to talk to him, and keep the three of them afloat in the process. (Oh, and Tommy’s there too. He thinks.)

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    12 Jan 2025

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    Eddie really didn’t intend to keep it a secret for so long.

    Especially not from Buck. Buck, who believes so strongly in the possibility of things beyond his own comprehension, who would never be freaked out by anything about Eddie. Buck who trusts him, who believes in the universe, who would be delighted to know that his best friend has real-life magic. It’s just—

    All of the women in the Johansson family have magic. All of the women, that is, except for Adriana and Sophia.

    Helena can’t explain it. It’s Eddie’s fault, of course, he’s the one who stole the magic which rightfully belonged to his sisters, but his mother has never quite pinned down how he managed that. Her own mother didn’t know why little six-month-old Eddie was able to make his bottle float, and she was dead before she could learn that both of her granddaughters had been born without magic.

    According to historians, seiðr was a traditionally feminine religious practice among the Old Norse. According to Eddie’s mother, seiðr is the birthright of a woman and a woman only, and Eddie is an aberration.

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    05 Dec 2024

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    One day, Buck will tell an interviewer that he would be happy to make movies with Eddie Diaz until the day he dies.

    But first, years before that, he sees Eddie for the first time on the set of Chimney’s fifth movie.

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    or, the actors au

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    10 Nov 2024

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    “I’m in Abby’s house!” Buck whispers urgently to the phone and the busyness on the other side of the line stops. “And she’s here!”

    Eddie doesn’t answer right away. Buck gets it, it’s fucking crazy. His brain hasn’t shut off since he woke up. Eddie deserves some time.

     

    “And…?”

     

    Out of all the things that Eddie could’ve said, that was the least likely in his head. He brings the phone away from his ear to make sure he called the right person because that is not how Eddie would react. Eddie hates Abby – Buck knows he hates Abby no matter how poorly he tries to hide it. Eddie’s never been particularly good at his hiding his disdain for Buck’s girlfriends, and now when Buck needs him to ratchet it up to eleven?

    Nowhere to be found. Eddie has put Buck on a raft and pushed him out to sea.

    “What do you mean, ‘and?’” Buck hisses in the phone. “That’s not enough life changing information for you?”

     

    “Buck, why would it be life changing to be sleeping at the house you own with your wife?”

     

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    Or, Buck thinks too hard about couches, his past relationships, and the stupid alarm that just won’t shut up.

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