Swiftmicheles
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“When I was little, maybe six or seven, I remember my mom saying that she ‘had to live with a reminder of her loss, staring her in the face every day.’ That’s all I ever was to them. Their grief was a cage, a gilded one, but still. And they locked me and Maddie in there with them. Maybe, doing this, asking them to sign away any claim they have to me? It-it sets them free, sets us all free.”
Bobby’s not thrilled about the metaphor, and even less thrilled about the anecdote.
Stories like that remind Bobby why simply telling the whole truth – that Bobby and Athena were pursuing an adult adoption of Buck – is out of the question. Margaret and Phillip are manipulative at best, abusive at worst; and their reaction to such an announcement would be wholly unpredictable. Keeping the adoption out of things is the best course of action, Bobby knows that. But God does he want to rub it in their faces that, for the rest of his life, he gets to be Buck’s dad and claim him as his son.
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10 Nov 2025
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And there, Phillip's voice echoed in his head:“When you lose a child, you… you see him everywhere, in all the people he could have become, in all the lives he could have lived. It’s something you can never recover from, someone who can never be replaced!"
Because that was the point, wasn't it?
Buck didn't know how to be a son because he was never anyone's baby; just a reminder of what his parents had lost.
He knew that, but what scratched the walls of his brain was the annoying thought that crept under his skin and whispered the fateful question: did Bobby also see him as nothing more than what his kids could have been?
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Or, If being someone's son meant living as a fallback, Buck was destined to die in someone else's shadow.
Bobby won't allow that.
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10 Nov 2025
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My collection of Buck & Bobby centric fics that are (mostly) canon compliant <3
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25 Jul 2025
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Buck was used to being unwanted.
He didn't fit in at any of the group homes, and he definitely didn't fit in with any of his failed family placements.
But Bobby was different, and if he had to follow him halfway across the country just to hear someone say his name without contempt--Well, it wouldn't be that bad of a trip. And he'd probably be shipped right back to a new group home, but....what if?OR, the pre-canon re-write where Buck was abandoned as a toddler, and finds his way home to Bobby and the 118 anyway.
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10 Jun 2025
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wishing these memories would fade, they never do by reyesdiaz (whateverthecalamity)
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
15 Oct 2024
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Given the complexities of his childhood, Buck should, in all self-honesty, be more adjusted to this idea by now. He spent his fair share of time in the emergency room or the backs of ambulances – as well as one or two cop cars, but that’s mostly irrelevant – and thus has plenty of experience watching teenagers doing the same things he did, getting hurt the same way he did. It’s been eight years since he joined the 118, and he’s had thousands of familiar-feeling calls in that time – and far more than one motorcycle crash. Or the one where the civvies are like mirrors to Buck, childhood is better remembered, and Bobby seems to know just what to say.
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- Part 15 of whumptober 2024
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31 May 2025