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He’s so close. But Buck’s face sways even closer, eyes laser-focused on Eddie’s mouth, like he wants to ensure that what he whispers next make its way inside:
“The quiet, closeted catastrophe of Edmundo Diaz—performed nightly for an audience of none.”
Eddie flinches like the words hit skin. For a second, all the noise in his head goes silent, leaving gaping awareness and the awful, naked feeling of being seen.
“W-what—” Eddie’s voice cracks and he’s trying to frown, trying to be mad, but he feels exposed, so his words come out broken, quiet and confused. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
or: buck fights back during the kitchen scene in 8x17 and it sends eddie spiralling
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26 May 2025
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"I don’t like oranges.”
“Since when?” Eddie frowns. “You used to love oranges.”
Christopher shrugs. “I don’t like them anymore.”
And that’s fine, really. Tastes change. Christopher doesn’t have to like oranges.
It’s just that he does. Christopher loves oranges. Christopher has loved oranges since the first time he tasted one, Eddie watching on over a shaky video call from the desert.Or, Eddie knows his kid, and his kid loves oranges. Buck knows both of them better than Eddie realized. He shows it in various citrus-based ways.
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04 May 2025
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“Um. He’s.. well — he has a list. An…agenda.”
“An agenda?”
“Yes. Like, you know. It’s a - - it’s a gay agenda,” Buck winces.
“Great. Okay. So, my son is queer-eyeing me?”
“I believe that is what’s about to happen, yes.”
“Wonderful.”
Or, Christoper hyper-fixates on Queer Eye and takes it out on his freshly gay father. Buck's there, too.
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08 Jan 2025
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Every step of the way by Angelwithwingsoffire, DaniWib for SpringSprague, TheGhostWriter313
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
15 Oct 2024
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After the tsunami that devastated Los Angeles, Athena goes to the rescue after a report of people in need of help. To her horror, she finds Christopher and Buck stranded amidst the wreckage of the city. And Buck’s leg is pinned — the same leg that had only just healed from being crushed by a ladder truck.
As time runs out, Buck is being crushed all over again, and Athena faces an impossible choice. With Christopher watching, she must decide: do the unthinkable, risking Buck’s career as a firefighter forever, or hesitate — and let the man beloved by the 118 die in front of the boy who might as well be his son?
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18 Nov 2024
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moonchild by elysiumgates
Fandoms: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types
30 Sep 2024
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After the Cullens leave Forks, Bella falls into a deep depression and begins risking her life to create hallucinations of her ex-boyfriend. One night, during another attempt to see Edward, she happens across a runaway werewolf, kickstarting a butterfly effect that shakes the entire supernatural world. [COMPLETED.]
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18 Oct 2024
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After dinner, Buck wedges himself on the couch between Hen and Eddie. Maybe, if he’s squeezed between them, he won’t be able to feel that weird creeping sensation over his skin anymore.
He drums his fingers on his knee, trying to focus on the TV. Eddie jolts next to him.
“Sorry, did I bump you?” Buck asks.
Eddie shakes his head. “Nah, sorry. Just..” He sighs, rubbing a hand over his face, and Buck feels it again—that pressure, running over his nose and his cheeks and—
Eddie drops his hand and the feeling stops.
Wait.
Or, Buck and Eddie wake up one morning able to feel each other's touch. They make the most of it.
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16 Oct 2024
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His phone vibrates in his pocket and he fishes it out. One message from Eddie:
I know you’re still spinning out about Gerrard. Come over if you need a distraction. Whatever time it is. And yes, Buck, I mean it.
Buck’s heart clenches at the last line - how well Eddie knows him. How much he needs to hear that from Eddie right now.
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Or: the OCD!Buck fic.
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12 Oct 2024
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in which buck dies.
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08 Sep 2024
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“Hey there sweetheart,” Buck says softly to the baby as he adjusts his grip so that she’s resting against his chest. “You’re okay. We’ve got you now.”
The screaming seems to die down the smallest amount.
“I know you’re scared, and you’re probably really confused, huh?” Buck walks her around in a small circle in front of the baby box, bouncing her ever so slightly. “Don’t you worry though, you’re safe here with us. And we’re gonna get you somewhere even safer once the nice DCFS people show up.”
The screaming ever so slowly comes to an almost full stop, little whimpers still escaping her tiny body every now and then.
“That’s it,” Buck encourages her with a smile. “You’re being so brave. Look at you go!”
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(A Safe Haven Baby Box is installed at the Station 118 firehouse. Buck's really good with the surrendered babies.)
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- Part 1 of Safe Haven Baby Box Series
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04 Sep 2024
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“I don’t want to downplay how traumatic this all is,” Frank says, “but I want you to see the opportunity this situation presents you with. There’s a silver lining here. For the first time in your adult life, your only responsibility is to yourself. Your son is being taken care of. Your family doesn’t need you to provide for them right now. The situation is not ideal by any means, nor is it what you would choose, but it does allow you to stop and reassess. I’ll be here to help you through it, and you have an extensive support network to lean on. They love you, Eddie, and they only want what’s best for you. Use them.”
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Chris leaves for Texas. Eddie figures himself out and falls into something new with Buck and Tommy.- Language:
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01 Sep 2024
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They’d promised each other, sworn blind that they wouldn’t let him get a rise out of them. That they weren’t going to snap and give Gerrard and his ugly ass presence what he wanted.
Despite that promise, the following shift they all had after Buck being wrung out, it happened.
“What in the hell is that?” Gerrard’s arms were folded, eyes narrowed, looking to all the world a villain from an 1800s children’s novel.
Eddie, who Buck had never seen quite so obviously looking to start something, turned on his heel from the coffee machine, the shadow of a smirk written across his face.
“What’s what?” Eddie asked coolly, as if he didn’t have a caterpillar crawling along his upper lip to match Gerrard’s.
OR - Eddie is a little unhinged since Christopher left. When Buck gets yelled at for having facial hair, Eddie makes a spectacle out of his own.
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28 Aug 2024
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Christopher starts shaking more violently then. “Buck jumped back in the water for me.”
There’s a protocol for a lot of scenarios, both in the Army and as an EMT. Eddie is used to knowing what to do, and how to do it; who to help, and where. Yet now, hopelessness splits through him like a bullet. Eddie doesn’t know what else to do other than hold his kid tighter and press his lips to his temple.
“Is that– Christopher?” Hen asks over his shoulder. The tiny pocket of universe that he’s created with just him, his son, and Buck’s name battering in his chest unravels.
Still keeping Christopher in his arms, Eddie rises to his feet. “I made Buck watch him for the day to get him out of the house. He– he brought him to the pier.”
“Where is he, Eddie?” Bobby asks carefully.
There’s a protocol for a lot of scenarios, both in the Army and as an EMT, but not for this.
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Evan Buckley can’t look his best friend in the eye and tell him he failed, so he doesn’t. He stumbles around a drowning wasteland looking for the brightest little boy he’s ever known, and when he can’t find him, he just… keeps on walking.
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18 Aug 2024
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The kid with blood pouring down his shins is not so far from the dog lonely enough that he thinks breaking his housetraining is worth it for the ten minutes of berating that come with it, the ten minutes of undivided, if reluctant, attention.
Buck thinks, sometimes, that at least he wasn’t the kind of puppy that gets put in a sack and drowned at birth. He wasn’t always unwanted. And he isn’t anymore.
or, evan “i love you like a dog” buckley has only ever known how to love like, well, a dog, but maybe eddie diaz is the kinda guy to give a flea-bitten mongrel a forever home
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- Part 1 of i love you like a dog
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12 Aug 2024
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Buck is fucking frozen. His mouth is dry, and his brain is blank except for oh no, oh fuck reverberating in his frontal lobe. He can’t answer. He feels the pressure against the metaphorical closet door, the hinges creaking against the weight of the boxes crashing down.
“Are those… hearing aids?” He registers Eddie's voice through the ringing in his ears.
It takes him a moment before he can finally whisper it out. He feels his head nod against his will.
“Yeah.”
The door gives out.
or: how a conversation about tardigrades results in buck grappling with a disability he's suppressed, getting hearing aids, and realizing that the family he craves has been there for him all along. in that order.
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- Part 1 of hard of hearing buck
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01 Aug 2024
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you'd have to stop the world (just to stop the feeling) by wenttoafortuneteller
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
28 Jun 2024
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“And you know what the worst part is?” The girl asks, wiping angrily at her tears. “I want the life I’m supposed to live. I want to get married and raise kids and be happy. I just don’t want to do all that with a man.”
It’s like Eddie’s understanding of himself — of the reason why he’s always felt like something is wrong with him — has been locked away his entire life. Labelled break glass in case of emergency, gathering dust for thirty-four years, and all of a sudden some conflicted teenager is shattering his worldview without meaning to.
I don’t want to do all that with a man, she’d said. The words slip out without Eddie intending them to.
“I do.”
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Or: the Eddie Diaz gay realization arc we all deserve. In which Bobby puts some pieces together, Chimney sees something he shouldn’t, Hen gets to have a conversation she’s been waiting to have for years, and Buck can’t understand why his best friend is avoiding him.
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16 Jul 2024
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Isabel calls to tell them Eddie's been shot on a Thursday afternoon and by lunch on Friday Helena and Ramon are landing at LAX. When they land, they learn Eddie's already home recovering and has been for two weeks.
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Or, Helena (and Ramon) tries to find a way back into Eddie's life and doesn't know what to make of finding Buck around every corner she turns.
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13 Jul 2024
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When Eddie finally goes back to work after the sniper incident, Buck is relieved to get just a little bit of space so everything can hopefully go back to normal. He spent so much time at the Diaz's place while his friend recovered that it was getting harder and harder to hide both his nightmares and his feelings from the man resting up in the next room.
Buck knows the universe is against him, that it is determined to take from him every possibility of love, so he is determined to keep this locked away for everyone's good. It's just that that gets harder and harder as time goes on. If remnants of real-life nightmares haunt him into silence, what will it take to unlock his heart?
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13 Jul 2024
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The AU where Bobby adopted Evan when he was six years old, and then twenty years later Eddie joins the 118 and starts dating Buck... and no one initially realises that Evan and Buck are, in fact, the same person. Part 1 is the story of the identity shenanigans and the reveal.
Part 3 is a collection of missing scenes from the original story, while Parts 4 ('how it could have gone') and 5 ('another way it could have gone') are outtakes and depict two different scenarios where the reveal of Buck and Evan being the same person go a different way.
Part 2 'oh captain my captain' is a prequel and shows the 118 meeting Bobby and then later on Evan.
Part 6 'these are the days we've been waiting for' is the story of Buck's first day at the 118.
Part 7 'may you live in interesting times' is a sequel to that takes place about a year or so later, and Part 8 'I once was lost (but now I'm found)' directly follows on and is a full-length sequel and prequel to the main story.
This series as it is now is standalone and can be considered complete. The only reason I haven't marked it as such is because I do expect to be adding additional installments at some point in the future. Happy reading!
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01 Jul 2024
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Buck’s voice was soft and hesitant, but full of patience when he finally spoke again. “Did I do something to upset you, Chris? I can leave—”
“No!” Chris whirled on him, a complete shift from the standoffish vibe he had been giving a second ago. The tears he bravely held back finally broke free from his eyes, sliding down his rosy cheeks from behind his glasses. He shook his head vehemently, the yellow crayon falling to the table. “No, I’m not mad. Please…” His words turned to whimpers, his lip trembling. “Please don’t leave me too.”
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24 Jun 2024