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The door beside him swings up, the hinges squealing, and the sounds of the crowd and pumping music slip through. Maddie and Chimney stumble through the doorway, holding onto each other and laughing. Maddie tucks a strand of hair behind her ears, her eyes widening when she spots Eddie standing nearby.
“There he is!” she says. “Looking forward to our future date?”
Eddie laughs, throwing his head back. “Definitely.”“Why did you get my wife to cheat for you?” Chimney asks, an eyebrow partially raised. “It wasn’t exactly in the spirit of the event.”
“I told you I wasn’t keen on the idea, and Maddie was the only other person there who I thought could help me. The charity is still getting the money, and I don’t have to go out on a date with anyone. Win-win.”
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OR Maddie pushes Eddie to take the first step with Buck.A 09x11 Coda
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The thing Buck still struggles with, however, is his shoes.
His first instinct has always been to kick them off the second he walks through the door. He leaves them scattered across the threshold without a care, one of them usually upside down or on its side. His parents always complained when they tripped over them, and once threw away a pair of sneakers because he kept leaving them out.
The chart never worked for his shoes.
When he lived alone, it wasn’t a problem. Buck didn’t care if he tripped over his shoes; he just kicked them aside like they didn’t mean anything. He was the only one who ever got inconvenienced by it.
Living with Eddie and Chris has left him considerably more mindful of what he does with his shoes.
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OR Buck's forgetfulness leads to deadly consequences...
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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death by Spruce_Goose
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
16 Feb 2026
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Night has started to fall, a slight haze of pink giving way to the encroaching darkness. Despite it being a clear evening with not a cloud in sight, the sky is blank. It’s illuminated by the almost constant lights that fill the city, chasing away the stars Eddie longs for. He sighs. Back in El Paso, he can step outside and look up at the stars littering the sky.
They’ve always been the one constant thing in his life, the one thing that made him feel like he wasn’t so alone.
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OR Buck and Eddie talk after the kitchen fight (08x17 Coda)
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Learn How to Live Again (Realize This is Not My End) by Spruce_Goose
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11 Feb 2026
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Almost a week after leaving L.A., Evan "Buck" Buckley is back with a plan and a newfound determination to get back the job and the family he lost. This time, he's the one in control and he's adamant that no one will take that away from him.
He decides to keep his return to L.A. a secret until he's ready to face them one by one. With some interesting but much-needed conversations on the horizon, Buck readies himself for the fight ahead of him.
OR, Buck returns to L.A. to try to fight for his job.
This is a sequel to my other Fic 'Can't Keep Chasing This Fire (I'm so Damn Tired)' and would make more sense once that one has been read.
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- Part 2 of Live Again
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Except the firehouse doesn’t have a weighted blanket.
It does, however, have—
“Buck?” Eddie tilts his head back against the couch cushion, looking at Buck sitting at the dining table with the cap of his pen between his teeth.
“Hm?” He looks up from the crossword, glancing at Eddie.
“What’s up?”
“Can you come here for a second?”
“Okay, sure.”
Buck caps the pen and drops it on the table with a clatter. His chair scrapes against the floor of the loft with a sound that makes Eddie’s teeth ache. Each step Buck takes across the loft rattles Eddie’s bones to the point that a Jack and the Beanstalk joke sits on the tip of his tongue.
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OR Eddie turns Buck into his personal weighted blanket.
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“Were you really worried?” asks Eddie. Buck’s brow furrows, confused. “About, you know—what you said. That your looks wouldn’t cut it. Because that’s…”
Buck’s head tilts on its axis, in a manner that would be almost harrowing if it weren’t his familiar, ludicrously handsome face. “That’s what?”
“Stupid,” Eddie blurts out. Shakes his head. Rectifies. “Not—you’re not stupid. Not at all. I just mean that… obviously, someone should want you for all of you.” Eddie thinks that should really go without saying. “But even without all the addendums. You’re, like, a total smokeshow, man.”
Good God. That’s fucking embarrassing. Even worse—or perhaps better, Eddie is so ruined—Buck beams.
"Total smokeshow?” Buck repeats, nothing short of delighted. On topic, Eddie really could go for a smoke bomb right about now. Just—pull the pin and flee.
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Buck goes on a hot date and knits Eddie a scarf.
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01 Mar 2026
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"And how does Hen feel about you serving her cat food under the guise of health advice?"
Buck chuckles and shakes his head, and Eddie knows how it went down, because when Hen had arrived earlier in the day, she'd made sure the coast was clear before unleashing on Eddie (and Chris, much to the teenager's delight), a tirade of epic proportions about how Buck had lost his mind and needed to be stopped.
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- Part 4 of Bek's s9 Coda Collection
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01 Mar 2026
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"The pocket-sized knife didn’t feel as laughably small when it was resting against Buck’s throat. Especially not when its wielder was unsteady on his feet, blade trailing over Buck’s pulse point every time the guy swayed.
“Buck.”
Buck’s eyes followed the broken sound, finding Eddie standing just inside the station, bag still slung over his shoulder, looking so terrified it made Buck’s head spin, panic sparking brighter as the knife dug in a little more."
or, who doesn't love a good "get kidnapped at knife-point in front of the love of your life" fic?
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01 Mar 2026
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Maddie swings the door open approximately thirty seconds after Buck knocks.
“You might throw up,” Buck tells her.
“Hi, Buck,” Maddie says mildly. “Why might I throw up?”
“You’re lactose intolerant.”
“I’m not following.”
“I’m milk,” Buck says. “Because, clearly, I have an expiration date.”
Her eyebrows furrow. “I thought the auction went well?”
Nonsensically, Buck says, “My soul is not well.”
OR: after the LAFD auction, Eddie reveals who his mystery bidder is. Buck, shockingly, does not take this well.
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28 Feb 2026
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“Where is he?”
“We’re at Cedars-Sinai… Eddie, his whole team is here. I know you guys-”
“I don’t care. I’ll be there as soon as I can,” he replied before hanging up.
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Eddie gets home just in time to find out about the firetruck explosion. He meets his husband's team at the hospital.
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27 Feb 2026