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Buck was never allowed back to the 118 post-lawsuit. 3 months later, Eddie and Ravi find him at a party in the hills — high, hollowed out, and barely holding on.
What follows isn't a rescue. It's a slow, unglamourous fight to give a man his family back, one hard conversation at a time — a best friend choosing honesty when secrecy would be easier, a probie offering a safe harbor and simplicity, a boy who just wants to know why his person disappeared, and a captain who has to earn back what his silence cost.
Nothing gets fixed clean. But it gets carried together.
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01 Sep 2026
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“That’s it,” Eddie said sternly, turning the lid on the tube and pulling it off. He squeezed the tube from the bottom, dotting a pea sized amount on his finger. “Open up.”
Buck’s eyes widened. “Excuse me?”
“Open. Up.” Eddie repeated, stressing each word.
OR; Buck has a toothache. Eddie takes care of it, and then Eddie gets taken care of - in more ways than one.
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15 Aug 2026
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The bunk creaks as Eddie stands up and takes a step towards him with that unreadable look on his face. It makes Buck's insides squirm, and his mouth continues to run away from him because now that he's started talking, he can't seem to stop.
"And now everything's weird. I can't walk into work without being shunned like I'm some sort of criminal, just for simply wanting what I should have gotten in the first place. It's—it's all wrong, and it just makes me want to, I don't even know—"
"Punch someone?"
It's the first thing Eddie has said to him all day that sounds like a concession. An olive branch, maybe, or perhaps Buck is coming to realise just how right Eddie is.
He huffs. "Yeah, a little."
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Following an argument with Eddie on Halloween night, Buck doesn't stop at the gas station on his way home.
…And instead finds himself in an underground fighting ring.
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14 Aug 2026
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After the lawsuit, Buck keeps silently spiralling. It’s been one hit to the gut after another—the truck bombing, the embolism, the wave—and a person can only take so much before they break. Now, vile nightmares of the pier collapsing plague his nights, leaving him gasping awake at ungodly hours.
But he’s fine. He has to be fine.
Except the 118 is freezing him out. As Buck finds himself completely isolated from the only real family he’s ever known, the rising tide threatens to pull him under for good.OR: The tsunami is long over. Buck keeps drowning anyway.
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13 Aug 2026
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In which a family stitches itself together around a heart of gold, and that heart of gold is rather clueless about the whole affair. (ft. duct tape, name changes, near-losses and clear gains.)
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06 Aug 2026