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Buck's knuckles barely brushed the door before it was flung open and a frantic eyed man said, "Oh thank God, you're here."
A firm grip on his arm pulled him into the room but instead of leading him towards a living room or maybe a lounge he found himself hauled down a hallway lined with framed family pictures and into a kitchen that was rapidly filling up with smoke.
"I just called 911, I didn't think you'd get here so fast," the man said, moving aside to reveal the cause of the problem.
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Stripper!Buck shows up for a gig and meets the love of his life. Title from 'Light My Fire' by The Doors
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29 Apr 2023
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Navigating the aftermath of Shannon’s death, Eddie never thought he’d be a widower by age thirty-two and raising a kid on his own without any help. When Christopher calls into one of those late-night talk radio shows asking how to help his Dad, Eddie realizes that he needs to try and move on for Christopher’s sake, so he reluctantly starts dating what everyone tells him is the perfect woman for someone like him.
It turns out Christopher, and he have much different ideas of just who they need.
Buck has had a terrible year. His physical injuries from the truck bombing were bad enough but having Ali leave him seems like a sign from the universe that he’s always meant to be alone. Listening to the radio at night, he hears the most adorable kid ever talking about how his Dad is sad and needs a new partner—LA kids are pretty progressive, and this Christopher kid isn’t particular if his Dad ends up with a woman or a man. It almost gives him hope, but who would want to date a firefighter who can’t help anyone?
A chance encounter on a pier, a tsunami, and a promise to meet up at the Griffith Park Observatory on Valentine’s Day brings together two soulmates who, in another life, would have met very differently.Series
- Part 3 of 911 holidays
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29 Apr 2023
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It’s something about the way Eddie phrases it. Something about the combination of his words and the way he’s staring down at the floor, and the flush in his cheeks and the way he’s fidgeting. Buck thinks, abruptly, he’s going to ask me on a date.
“Well I - wanted to tell you first, and I need someone to watch Chris, anyways - I know he’s getting old enough now he doesn’t like feeling like he’s got a babysitter, so I was hoping - sorry. Not the point. Uh. I have a date on Saturday.”
Just as abruptly as his own hopes had come soaring up above the cloud cover of his own unawareness - they go crashing back down to the floor - to the basement, and into the mud. “A date?” Buck rasps out.
or - the one where eddie decides to start dating again, buck figures out his own feelings just a minute too late, and then he spends a week going through the five stages of grief
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18 Apr 2023
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took a picture of that smile and stuck it in my heart by farfromthstars
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
13 Mar 2022
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Buck had…hundreds of pictures of Eddie. Candid shots at work, pictures of him with Christopher Buck had taken, selfies of the three of them together, selfies of just Buck and Eddie, photos of Eddie with the rest of the team, photos from quarantine of Eddie and Chimney with bottles of beer on Buck’s balcony or that time they’d insisted they could improve the water pressure in Buck’s shower and ended up fully dressed and drenched, of Eddie posing with the cake they got him when he returned after the shooting, or with the cupcakes he and Buck had made for the bake sale at Christopher’s school, Eddie up on a ladder trying to fix his kitchen window before he’d relented and called his landlord, Eddie asleep in Buck’s jeep, head tilted back and mouth open. Proof of a life shared.
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Buck looks through his camera roll and realizes it’s time for a few tough conversations
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17 Apr 2023
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"Hear me out," Buck said. "Clearly, both of us are sick of dating other people. And we're a good fit, in pretty much every way that matters. So what if we're not in love? We don't need to be in love to be happy together."
Eddie frowned. "So basically, we'd be boyfriends, without benefits?"
"Yes!" Buck snapped his fingers. "Like platonic boyfriends! We'd get all the benefits of a relationship and none of the heartbreak."
And maybe Eddie had finally lost his mind, or maybe it was from all the alcohol clouding his judgment, but the idea of it didn't sound half as crazy as it should have.
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After Buck’s and Eddie’s dates both end with disasters – proving once again that maybe dating just wasn’t meant for them – they decide to simply settle for each other. If there was one person in the world they'd ever trust with their hearts, it was each other. And who was a better person to date other than your very own best friend?Series
- Part 1 of What's love?
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16 Apr 2023
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Romance is a lot easier to write about than it is to put into practice, and Eddie is the world’s most ridiculous living example of that. He can practically hear the kind of jokes that Shannon would make about it, if he ever told her about the books but - he didn’t. And somehow, probably just because he didn’t start writing until after they weren’t living together anymore, she never found out.
There’s actually only a handful of people in the world who know that Eddie is a writer - and more specifically, that he’s E. Diaz, one of the bestselling romance authors on the market.
or - the one where everything in canon is the same, except eddie diaz is secretly a bestselling romance author, and nobody knows. Yet.
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14 Apr 2023
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Buck is still calling exes, and Eddie tells him what he thinks of Buck’s new founded insecurity, and a few other things.
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13 Apr 2023
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#thosetwofirefighters starts to gather a following on social media, as everyone tries to figure out if those two cute firefighters from the 118 in LA are a thing or not.
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04 Apr 2023
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“Truth.”
“How many times have you fallen in love?”
The table was quiet, but Eddie didn’t take long to think it over. “Three times.”
“With who?” Lucy asked.
“Nope, not part of the question,” he smiled at Lucy, easy as anything. Buck tried to count quickly in his head, the math not adding up.
“My turn, right?” Eddie asked the group. “Chim. Truth or dare.”
or: the 118 has a 24 hour shift, and zero calls. The firefam spends it playing games, and everyone takes the opportunity to tell Buck just how much they love him.
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- Part 1 of bottle episode
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02 Apr 2023
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“Okay, okay, come on, let’s do this,” Buck says, in a trying-to-be-serious tone that just sets Eddie off again. “Come on, we’re gonna do this right. You need the full Buckley Experience.”
“Someone’s confident,” Eddie manages.
“I know what I’m good at,” Buck says, and something about the way he says it—grinning and smug with laughter still leaking out of the edges of his smile—makes Eddie go still.
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28 Mar 2023
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All These People Think Love's for Show, but I Would Die for You in Secret by greensenne
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
25 Mar 2023
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"I think it might have been better for him if I was the one who got shot," Buck had told him in the hospital.
He’d neglected to mention that it almost had been.
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Or, Eddie doesn’t remember much about getting shot, and he definitely doesn’t remember Buck endangering himself to save him. When a video of the incident surfaces months later and Eddie learns the truth—needless to say he isn’t pleased. Important conversations ensue.
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25 Mar 2023
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“What...what have you done with Buck?” Eddie is going to kill him for messing with his phone. No, that’s too extreme. He’s going to maim him. Just a little.
“Check under H,” Chim offers helpfully, shooting a look over to Hen with a smirk.
Why the hell would he be under—
Then he sees it.
Husband.
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19 Mar 2023
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Chris continues to chatter in Eddie’s ear, and Eddie half listens as Buck goes up to Margaret and hands her the tape measurer he’d been holding. She stares at him with one tape measurer in each hand now, eyebrows drawn in confusion as he smiles and waves goodbye at her.
“See you later!” Buck calls as he exits the loft with Chris.
Eddie is only a few feet behind, but he looks at her, gives her a polite but fake smile, and says, “See you later, Maggie!” as he closes the door. He only catches the first half of her spluttering and protest of the name as the door shuts behind him.
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Buck doesn’t think that if he were to say, “I’m in a bad place”, that anyone would turn him away. Really, he doesn’t. The 118 has too many good, kind people for that.
But every time he wants to open his mouth, to say something, to reach out to Eddie or Bobby or Hen or Chim, he hears Eddie yelling, “you’re exhausting.”
—you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting—
So each day he does his job and he laughs and he jokes and he pretends he’s the care-free goofball he’s always been. And each day he packs away his bruises and his worries, takes them home to his empty loft with its quiet rooms, and licks his wounds in silence.
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17 Mar 2023
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Buck doesn’t remember the call for the fire or jumping in front of Chimney to climb the giant lightning rod in the sky. He doesn’t remember the last thing Eddie had said to him before – Alright, cowboy, go get ‘em – or the hooking a carabiner into his harness or the smile Eddie gave him. Memory loss. Muscle spasms. Shortness of breath. They won’t know how this will affect him because not many people wake up from something like this. And it’s the not knowing that succeeds in making Eddie feel a little out of his mind, like he no longer has a solid place to stand.
Keep your theories, Eddie wants to say, pushing away everyone in a white coat that comes by to study Buck’s charts and gawk like they’re behind glass. I just want him back.
He was already interesting before your so-called miracle.
Recovery isn't linear. Eddie only tries to keep a grasp on everything he holds dear as he and Buck find that out the hard way.
*Disclaimer for a not so nice/maybe more realistic version of post-lightning strike life than what the show will probably give us. 🙃
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13 Mar 2023
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The one with all the nicknames by buddiefication (pumpkincreamcoldbrew)
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
08 Mar 2023
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Eddie has never been overly fond of pet names. He uses them on Buck a lot, though.
OR: 5 times Eddie calls Buck a platonic nickname + 1 time he doesn’t.
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10 Mar 2023
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On the screen, the camera pans down as they introduce the contestants. Mary, on her 3rd day winning streak, is a dowdy teacher type. Center stage is occupied by a graying man with loopy handwriting named Auggie. And all the way to the right is…
Evan.
Damn.
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One night when Eddie can't sleep, he discovers the hottest Jeopardy contestant of all time (objectively). With the "help" of his team and his fairly good working knowledge of Twitter, they devise a plan to get Evan (from Jeopardy) to slide into Eddie's DMs. It works surprisingly well.
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07 Mar 2023
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Buck is all in. He’s one-hundred percent, give em everything he’s got, will do anything Maddie asks—
“You can’t tell anyone,” Maddie suddenly becomes so serious Buck feels like he has whiplash.
He blinks a few times, brow furrowed, “Well, yeah I know that.”
“No, Buck,” Maddie leans forward covering his hand with her own, “I mean it. No one else is allowed to know about this.”
Buck opens his mouth, but Maddie reads him like the traitorous sister that she is and cuts him off by saying, “That includes Eddie.”
“Maddie,” Buck whines, and he’s very well aware at how pathetic it sounds, “that’s not fair! It’s — he’s — it’s Eddie!”
[or Maddie wants to propose to Chimney. She gets Buck involved. Buck can't tell anyone. He somehow proposes to Eddie instead.]
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23 Feb 2023
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“We’re not having sex in the shower,” Eddie says.
“Sure,” Buck agrees easily, following him into the bathroom. They’re both tracking mulch and grass clippings everywhere, but that’s a problem for later. For now, he watches while Eddie peels his sweaty t-shirt off, turns the water on, and fiddles with the dial until it’s at the temperature he likes—a little too cool for Buck’s preferences, but he’ll put up with it. He’s a nice boyfriend like that.
Eddie glances over his shoulder. “I mean it.”
“Definitely.” Buck nods very seriously. “Absolutely no shower sex. I got it.”
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21 Feb 2023
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It’s not like Buck’s the only mutant firefighter. There’s a woman in Austin with a crazy following on Instagram who calls herself Fire Fox and can literally walk through flames, like fucking Daenerys; Mutant and proud, she always declares, in her videos.
Buck’s not proud. Buck lives in a horror movie.
(or: Buck sees dead people)
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09 Feb 2023