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Buck has always known how to take care of people.
It's easy for him to be the one who shows up, the one who makes everyone laugh, the one who insists he's fine even when the world is asking a little too much of him. It's a role he's played for so long that sometimes he forgets there are people who would gladly take care of him, too.
Then an injury takes him away from the job he loves and leaves him with more time than he knows what to do with.At home, Eddie does his best to keep everything together. Christopher and Theo adjust to a new routine, and their little family learns how to navigate the unfamiliar territory of recovery. There are quiet mornings, unfinished dinners, movie nights on the couch, and the small, ordinary moments that make a house feel like home.
But healing isn't always as simple as getting better.And in a house full of people who love him, he starts to discover that sometimes the hardest thing in the world is letting yourself be loved back.
Or: Buck gets hurt, Eddie tries to hold their family together, and four people learn that love was never something any of them had to earn.
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Buck has always known that family isn't necessarily about blood.
He knows it because Christopher has been calling him family for years. He knows it because Theo somehow became his son long before Buck ever felt ready to call himself a father. And he knows it because Eddie Diaz has been standing beside him through almost every version of his life.
What Buck doesn't know is when exactly Eddie stopped being his best friend and became something more.
Maybe it happened somewhere between late-night conversations, shared dinners, school runs, bad days at the 118, and the quiet moments when the four of them started looking less like separate lives and more like one family.
Falling in love should be the easy part.
Learning how to build a life together with two kids, old grief, complicated feelings, and everything they've both been carrying for years isn't.
A story about Buck and Eddie finding their way to each other, Christopher and Theo finding their way to each other, and four people slowly realizing that sometimes home isn't a place.
Sometimes, it's the people who stay.