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Evan “Buck” Buckley was not an honest person as much as he would like to be or even was trying to be in his own way. His dishonesty wasn’t malicious in the slightest though. He had his reasons, of course, but his entire identity was built on a shaky Jenga tower of lies. As much as he built it up, one by one the blocks were still removed over the years making the tower less and less stable.
Buck joined the 118 fresh out of the Navy and braced himself for all the questions that were about to come his way which he did not want to answer. Then, like a gift from above, somehow and shockingly, no one had read his resume, and he found he could start all over again, be a new person, someone completely different or maybe who he was supposed to be all along.
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03 Apr 2025
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Love Is Like Lightning, It Strikes Only One Time (Ain't It Enough?) by FormerKnight
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
23 Mar 2025
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“Please, I’m begging you. I’ll do anything. Anything. Just don’t hurt him.”
The blade lets up on Eddie's throat.
“Anything?”
Eddie opens his eyes. Uneasiness creeps up his spine. Sharp, like a jolt of electricity. Petey is staring at Buck now, his hold on Eddie has loosened. And suddenly, Eddie wants nothing more in the world than for Petey to turn his attention back on him.
But Buck's gaze is fixed on Petey. He’s deliberately avoiding looking in Eddie’s direction. Because he knows if he does, he’ll have to betray him.
“Anything,” Buck says. “Please.”
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Buck and Eddie are on their way to Greece for their honeymoon when their plane gets hijacked.
And one of the hijackers has a particular fascination with Buck.
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- 17/17
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29 Mar 2025
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“God, Dad. No.” He huffed in displeasure. “I'm not— It's Buck, Dad.”
Eddie barely ever heard that name anymore, except for an echo in his own head, and he went still, looking down at his phone and then replacing it by his ear.
“What— what about him?” Eddie asked, hoping he sounded less thrown off guard than he felt. Hoping he sounded less breathless through the phone than he did to his own ears.
“I got, um, an invite. To his wedding.”
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A story told across five years. Eddie finds out Buck is marrying someone else and reflects on what brought them to this - and what, if anything, he can do about it.
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17 Mar 2025
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“I’m not leaving you, Buck.” Eddie says with a tired sigh, like he’s struggling with the weight of the world and Buck’s the one who put it there. “Just switching jobs, that’s all.”
That’s all?, Buck wants to scream, because every relationship he has is tied to the job in some way, and first Maddie left, and then it was Chimney, and now it’s Eddie. But he doesn’t scream, because that would be a little bit too tragic, even for him, and nods instead. Bites his tongue. Pretends that he isn't falling apart where he's stood.
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Or, set post season 5A, where Buck is alone, and angry, and exhausted, but mostly terrified that everyone he loves is slowly slipping away from him.
**rated mature for heavy themes**
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- 53,697
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- 10/10
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15 Feb 2025
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when you're lost in the universe, don't lose hope by kaleidoscopeskies (desert_moonchild)
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
23 Oct 2023
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As tired as he looked, Eddie had never seen Buck look so soft or in love before. The only other person Buck had ever even remotely looked at like that was Christopher. And that’s when it hit him.
This was Buck’s baby.
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Buck had never felt so alone in his life, in the weeks after he dropped the lawsuit, when he gets a call letting him know he was never going to be alone again.
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- 46,707
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- 3/3
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26 Jul 2024
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Buck is tired.
Everyone is doing important things, moving on with their lives, while he's stuck in this heart wrenching loop of hurt, neediness and unworthiness.
So he lets go.
Eddie asks for another chance at making things right, at keeping Buck alive and happy, and gets several. Stuck reliving the same day over and over until he figures a way out, he finally learns to listen to the universe when it screams at him.
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- 56,238
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- 10/10
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25 Jul 2024
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Harry Potter and portkeying your problems away by WigglySlime
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Feb 2024
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Harry experiences Portkey travel for the first time and decides 'hey it would be neat to know how to do that'.
The Triwizard Tournament and the Dark Lord had no idea what hit them.
Hint: It was a Portkey.
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- Part 2 of Harry Potter One-Shots
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- 9,775
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- 1/1
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13 Jul 2024
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Harry Potter & Seven Years of Chaos by JessalynMichele, Severitus812 (JessalynMichele)
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jul 2025
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July 8, 2021 - June 14, 2023:
706 days.
1,259,579 words.And Chaos Harry’s journey is at an end.
(Afterlife and Missing Moments to be updated eventually, main series is over)
- Please quit reposting this without crediting this original series.
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10 Jul 2024
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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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11 Jun 2024
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Pepa’s been eyeing him all evening, so it shouldn’t be a surprise when she says, “Why aren’t you dating Eddie?”
And yet Buck still nearly veers the car straight off the road.
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14 May 2024
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Buck and Eddie finally start to work things out on NYE – but because they collectively have the luck of every devil in existence, things are never that easy.
When Buck vanishes, Eddie wonders if Buck is ghosting him, and they really feel the same way about each other after all.Series
- Part 2 of Buddie Begins
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- English
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- 56,689
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- 12/12
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14 May 2024
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Maddie didn’t kill Doug in the woods when he attacked her. Instead, he was arrested and sent to prison for life. The same prison the 118 are called into to deal with the riot fires in s05e06 Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1.
Buck doesn’t get a good look at the second escapee in the ambulance until it’s far too late.
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- 27,708
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- 7/7
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12 May 2024
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The thing was, the 118 was full of gossips.
Eddie had been at the station less than a week before Hen and Chim wrangled details about his “hot young thing” from him (“Buck is only 4 years younger than me, he is not a ‘hot young thing’!” Eddie complained.)
And Bobby was open about his worries for his son’s lack of direction and the secrets he appears to be keeping (“I just wish I could help Evan find the thing that gives him purpose,” Bobby lamented.)
It just made it all the more ridiculous (and horrifying) when Eddie realizes he’s been dating his Captain’s son this whole time (“Defiling his baby,” Chimney cackled, because he clearly wanted Eddie murdered.)
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Or, the AU where miscommunication abounds as Eddie seeks advice about his new relationship, Bobby despairs over his adopted son's career prospects and his refusal to talk about it, and Evan Buckley-Nash juggles training at the fire academy, building a family with his new boyfriend, and trying to work out how to tell his overprotective dad that he's already chosen the life he wants, actually.
It takes a goddamn tsunami, of all things, to get the story straight.Series
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- English
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- 60,866
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- 7/7
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- 6
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10 May 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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09 May 2024
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May realised a very long time ago that Buck was basically her stepbrother. So, when the lightning strike finally provided the impetus for Bobby to admit that he also brought a kid into their family, she had every intention of seizing the opportunity to properly integrate Buck into the Grant-Nash family.
And, look, if in the process she also gains a brother-in-law… clearly the universe was just waiting for the opportunity to make that happen.
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Or, the one where May ensures Buck is enfolded properly into the Grant-Nash clan, which means Bobby (and by extension the firefam, because gossip) suddenly gets significantly more insight into the inner workings of the Buckley-Diaz family, and all roads lead to Buddie…
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- 70,004
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- 7/7
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09 May 2024
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AU: Buck and Eddie have never met. They both work at the 118 but just on different shifts. That's all about to change when Buck finds a sticky note message, signed E.
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04 May 2024
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One of the first things Ravi learned when joining the 118 was to, under no circumstances, think too hard about Buck and Eddie’s relationship. But brother, they could try make his job easier.
“I mean, I get it,” Buck’s saying, overhead, and Ravi’s knee-deep in literal human crap and even he can smell that shit from a mile away. “You and Tommy have a lot in common.”
or, Ravi continually suffers as a third-wheel.
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30 Apr 2024
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“Oh my God,” the girl says.
It’s not the oddest exclamation Eddie’s heard from a person who’s just crashed their car into a telephone pole, but more the way it’s said: something dizzied and a little resigned, as though she is both concussed and mostly just inconvenienced by it. It’s enough for Eddie to peer into the window as Buck heaves at the car door with the jaws of life, armed with a penlight. “Ma’am, can you tell me your name?”
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” the girl says, which doesn’t quite sound like a name to Eddie. He’s just about to tell her as much until she goes, “You’re LAFD Updates man.”
or, five times someone recognises Eddie as the LAFD Updates man.
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- Part 2 of Mr LAFD Updates Man
- Language:
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- 10,112
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- 1/1
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- 4
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- 415
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30 Apr 2024
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“He kept mumbling about someone named Ev in the ambulance…"
“I was thinking it might be a wife or girlfriend named Evelyn, maybe? But I honestly have no idea…” Hen wondered.
“Me neither,” Bobby added. “I just hope, for his sake, that they’re able to get a hold of whoever it is.”
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Eddie gets hurt on the job. The team meets and comforts his husband in the hospital waiting room.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,488
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- 1/1
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- 110
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27 Apr 2024
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The guy Merlin keeps running into at Comic-Con, wearing matching cosplay, just might be his soulmate. Too bad he’s kind of an asshole.
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- 34,828
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 55
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11 Feb 2024