ThatOneMess



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    Dean keeps going back.

    When he arrives, it's always to blooming flowers and a windmill in the background, not too far from a brook, the sun painting the plains.

    He likes it there. He likes to stand in front of the makeshift urn and check that it's still where he put it, switching out the flowers when they wilt. He likes to listen to the sound of birds chirping, insects singing, the faint sound of water trickling in the distance. He likes to turn his face up and feel the sun on his skin, wondering if Cas would do the same if he were here, somehow knowing that he would.

    He likes to talk.

    There's never a response, but Dean feels the breeze rustle through his hair and watches the flowers bob when bees come to them and stares as the windmill keeps turning, turning, turning. And he imagines that Cas is replying—the windmill is the tilted head, the bobbing flowers are a gentle smile, the breeze is whatever words Dean wants to hear at the time.

    Sometimes, it's almost like he's there.

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    19 Oct 2025

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    Summer 2006: fifteen year old Edmundo Diaz marries his best friend in El Paso, Texas. It's not that serious, really. They'll probably never meet again.
    Summer 2018: Twenty-seven year old Eddie Diaz meets one of the new recruits at the fire academy. He kind of looks exactly like his husband but it can't be. Right?
    Right?

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    04 Oct 2025

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    What do you do when your daughter utterly despises your brother's new boyfriend?
    What do you do when every time they come to dinner, it ends up in a disaster?

    Turns out, you just need Eddie Diaz, child whisperer extraordinaire and, coincidentially, also madly in love with your oblivious brother.

    Or, another 5+1
    Five times Maddie invites Buck and his boyfriend for dinner (and it's one disaster after the other) plus one time it all goes smoothly (kinda).

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    03 Oct 2025

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    “You look like the pretty stranger my dad keeps talking ‘bout,” Chris pipes up. “He ‘scribed him and everything. Said there was a lil’ red mark by his eye like a heart—jus’ like yours!”

    Eddie groans and throws his hands up to his face, but not before Buck catches a glimpse of the apples of his cheeks flushing fire engine red. “Oh, is that right?” Buck teases.

    Or, Buck is a flight attendant, Eddie keeps showing up on his flights, and they fall in love along the way.

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    01 Oct 2025

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    There was something…tense…as he continued reading. Freddie followed Tuck into the back of the ambulance, holding tight to his hand, tears streaming down his face telling Tuck “don’t ever do that again, okay?”

    That was when the atmosphere started to shift, and Eddie started to realize he wasn’t just reading a story about a house fire.

    It was almost…romantic?

    Or: After getting roped into watching the newest season of Hotshots with Christopher, Eddie falls down an internet rabbit hole about the show, where he discovers the wonderful world of archiveofourown.org.

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    28 Sep 2025