7 Works by WaywardGhost
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“You can’t tell me I didn’t pick you,” Eddie says, voice shaking, “when you never put yourself on the table to begin with.”
Buck just looks at him—tired, concussed, past pretending.
“Eddie, I’ve been on the table for years. Jesus Christ—I built the damn table. I sanded it, stained it, set a fucking place for you at it. I waited for you to sit down. Do you know what it does to a person to love a life they're not actually part of? To be allowed everywhere but chosen nowhere?”
Or, a collapsing stairwell, years of swallowed feelings, and a fight that finally forces the words out.
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it could be love, we could be the way forward by WaywardGhost for freezethismoment
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
17 Nov 2025
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Buck doesn’t think there’s a word big enough for this.
For the way Eddie hums under his breath when he’s stirring something on the stove, hips swaying minutely to music only he can hear. For the way the late-afternoon light turns the dust in the air into slow, lazy constellations. For the way Christopher is hunched over his laptop at the table, mouthing the words as he types with pencil dust smudged across his hand. It’s all so normal that Buck’s heart keeps misfiring, his body still adjusting to the idea that this is his baseline now. That he gets to come home to this. Before he met Eddie, he’d have called a night like this a fluke, a gap between disasters. Now it keeps showing up again and again, stubbornly, like it’s the rule and not the exception.
Or, Buck has a ring in the back of his sock drawer.
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“You don’t have to do that,” Eddie says.
Buck shrugs. “You also don’t have to smile at every person who says ‘she’s in a better place’ like that helps, but here we are.”
The joke is soft, an opening. Eddie almost steps into it. “You’ve already done a lot,” Eddie says instead, faster than he means. “Go sit. Or eat. It’s—”
He hears it lining up and can’t stop it.
“—this is family stuff. I’ve got it.” The words are wrong the second they’re out; he hears them like Buck must. Buck’s hands still on the plate.
Or, Eddie is taking things day by day. Buck has a bit of a breakdown, then a bit of a breakthrough. Chris sees dead people.
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Eddie watches the two of them, and it hits him that of everyone in their orbit, Buck is maybe the only one who could meet Harry exactly where he is. Not with answers, not with neat, grown-up comfort—but with the kind of understanding that comes from surviving the echo of someone else’s grief.
Eddie is watching Buck do what Buck always does: find someone’s hurt, name it gently, hand them back a little light. He’s good at it.
Or, Hen inspires Buck to update his will before she leaves for space.
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Sometimes Buck watches Hen and Eddie from across the room, eyes flicking to where Eddie’s laughing—the easy kind, the kind he hasn’t heard in years. Hen bumps Eddie’s shoulder, something quick and affectionate, and Buck smiles like it doesn’t catch. Like it doesn’t twist somewhere deep in him. He’s happy to hear it—he is—but the warmth in his chest burns on both sides.
Some moments, it feels like Buck has been orbiting the same sun for too long, and Eddie’s light has moved just slightly out of reach. He swallows it. He always swallows it. Because Eddie’s happy. Eddie doesn’t need Buck to complicate that.
Or, Eddie convinces himself it’s not about Buck. (It is.) Buck tries explaining romance to a six-month-old.
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touching me, touching you (good times never seemed so good) by WaywardGhost for hwaelweg, livesbetweenpages
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
05 Oct 2025
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The new house is too clean. Too quiet. Buck drops his keys on the counter just to hear them hit something, but the sound dies too fast. It’s not like the Diaz house, where there was always noise, laughter, life. He’s getting good at pretending it doesn’t ache, but after Chris and Eddie boomeranged back from Texas something was knocked out of place within him on the rebound.
He didn't duck in time.
Or, Buck starts faltering when Eddie touches him. Eddie notices.
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Buck and Eddie are paired together on the International Space Station for 90 days — with everything still unsaid between them after Eddie's return from El Paso.