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Buck was totally fine, thank you very much, until Eddie decided to save some fish, and now Buck can't get how perfect he is out of his head.
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"And it was like—" Buck zoned out at the memory, only coming back to himself when Maddie snapped her fingers in his face. "Maddie. He was picking up fish from the ground. And he knew what types of fish they were and what fish they could safely be put with. He saved them."
"So, you're all—" she gestured vaguely at his face, “—because Eddie picked up fish off the ground and put them in tanks."
"Well, when you say it like that, it doesn't sound so impressive," Buck said stubbornly.
"It sounds so impressive, honey," Maddie said patiently. "Not just anyone can pick up fish."
"Maddie," Buck whispered conspiratorially, "I think I might want Eddie to pick me up, too."
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31 Oct 2025
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Buck has travelled so far, but always dodged almost any flight he could take, even if it would make his life easier. Eddie hasn’t pressed about it, but Buck has explained further that it isn’t even because he needed the Jeep by his side at all times, but it is because he has always despised flying.
It scares him, sure, but it also makes him feel ill. His stomach twists, his head spins, and he has to fight every urge to throw up. The first time he flew, he spent so long in the bathroom that the air hostess was genuinely concerned he’d passed out in there.
And Eddie, like he does with all the information Buck gifts him, folded it up and tucked it into the Buck folder of his brain for safekeeping.
Knowing this factoid, Eddie just thinks it’s a little ironic that Buck is dating a pilot.
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To be loved is to be known.
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- Part 15 of Kryptonian Fictober 2025
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19 Oct 2025
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“You really don’t see it, do you? Eight years. Eight years of you and me and a whole damn family wrapped around you, and you still think you’re a ghost in your own life—” Eddie spreads his arms, gesturing around them. “A visitor in your own home.”
Buck’s inhale catches in his throat. “It’s your house.”
Eddie recoils a fraction, as if the floor tilted beneath him. His mouth tightens, his breath catching like he’s been struck somewhere no one can see.
“Don’t,” he says— quiet, pained, pleading. “Don’t do that.”
a 9x01 coda
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- Part 1 of season 9 codas
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18 Oct 2025
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Trust Fall (Doubt You'll Catch Me) by Lovechraft
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
27 Sep 2025
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It sucked that Tim couldn't trust his family. They had either been his abusers or bystanders, but even when he tried to take himself off their hands, they clung to him like a sticky residue. Trapped, he felt like a mouse beneath a cat's paw, and he knew the only escape would be a clean-cut break with no room for interpretion.
Somehow, they made room for interpretation.
“Bruce,” Tim rasped, his discarded Red Robin suit a thousand pound weight in his hands, clean and ready to go in its case. “You don’t even *like* me.”
The truth dangled between them like a spider’s web clinging to separate walls.To no one’s shock, Batman said nothing. The only sounds in the cave were the shuffling of bats and Tim’s bike rumbling softly at the entrance, waiting patiently for him to make his escape.
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03 Oct 2025
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Tim hums. “Is that why you sound southern sometimes?”
Bart doesn’t immediately process the words, he’s too distracted by the hand on his ankle.
“…I do?”
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Bart is surprised to find out that Tim has spent quite a lot of time thinking about his accent.
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27 Aug 2025