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Eddie doesn’t remember when it started. Maybe it was always there—quiet and steady, tucked behind shared laughter and late-night calls, in the space between a look and the moment it’s returned. He never meant to hold onto it so tightly. He just never found a way to let it go.
So he stayed silent. Let Buck live his life. Let himself ache through it.
And then one day, Buck starts smiling for someone else. He starts leaving shift lighter than he came in, eyes soft in a way Eddie hasn’t seen in months. Eddie doesn’t say anything. Just watches. Just breaks, a little more each day.
Until the night the words fall out, uninvited and low.
''He doesn’t look at you like you’re the air in his lungs.''Buck hears it. Doesn’t turn around. And Eddie finally understands what it means to love someone so deeply it swallows you whole—and still choose silence.
But silence doesn’t always mean nothing.
And sometimes, love finds its way back anyway.Bookmarked by Should_be_reading
11 Jul 2025
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This series is all about the different ways Buck and Eddie could meet. In different circumstances, universes, etc.
The stories will not be related to one another, you will be able to read them separately.
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09 Jul 2025
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From there, it becomes a thing. At least once a day, either Christopher or Buck declare that a mild inconvenience is a part of the anti-gay agenda.
They hit every red light? During pride month? Homophobic.
The hot water stops working? In June? Homophobic.
Or, Eddie doesn't think he really needs to come out to anyone. Christopher adopts a new catchphrase. Buck is confused.
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10 Jun 2025
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After logging out of Reddit for the night, Edie Diaz switched over to the tab labeled ‘Inbox (1)’ and was faced with a name she didn’t recognise.
Evan Buckley | Subject: Hey :)
Her grandchild had warned her countless times about internet safety and how older people are more susceptible to being scammed. She opened it anyway.
___________________________One small typo leads to Edie Diaz, a bored old woman living in Minnesota, accidentally receiving a series of increasingly dramatic emails from an LA firefighter named Evan Buckley.
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30 May 2025
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“We should probably talk,” Buck says.
“Probably,” Eddie answers.Coda for 8X17 Don't Drink the Water. Buck and Eddie talk, cry, apologize and try to find a way forward.
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09 May 2025