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Years before joining the 118, Buck’s travels take him to El Paso, where he meets Christopher. When Eddie comes back from Afghanistan and Shannon leaves, Buck ends up staying. As bills pile up, the best move is for them to get married, just for convenience, they’ll divorce when Eddie comes back from his re-enlistment.
Then Eddie gets injured and it’s just easier to stay married for a little longer, while Buck gets started at the 118. However, Buck doesn’t mention his ‘husband’ and kid, not feeling like they’re his to keep. When Eddie gets the offer from Bobby, they decide to lie and pretend they don’t know each other, so they can work together.
The whole lie gets out of hand as feelings start to become real, until it all comes to a head in the aftermath of the fire engine explosion.
AKA: Secret marriage of convenience buddie slow burn AU, where Buck and Eddie have been married for years so Buck could adopt Chris and no one at the 118 knows.
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- Part 1 of The I Do Verse
- Part 1 of All the Different Ways to Say I Do
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Theo hands Buck three dandelions.
"Oh, thank you Theo. I love them."
Theo shakes his head. "They're not for you. They're for you to give to Eddie." He points at Eddie, standing frozen with two stacks of toilet paper in his arms. "Eddie likes flowers."
"He does?" Buck asks, looking at Eddie curiously.
Eddie looks away, cheeks colouring. The two pendants under his shirt burn against his skin.
Theo nods enthusiastically. "He likes flowers and he likes you, so you should give him flowers Buck."
"Yeah Buck," Chris singsongs. "You should give him ~flowers~."
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Buck adopts Theo. Eddie's Saint Christopher pendant suddenly has a companion.
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12 Jul 2026
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A pair of novelty handcuffs malfunction on a call, leaving Buck and Eddie attached at the wrist with no key and no bolt cutters available.
What follows is an entire shift of shared seats, awkward bathroom logistics, increasingly coordinated rescues, merciless teasing from the 118, and far more forced proximity than either of them is emotionally prepared to handle.
The cuffs might be fake.
Unfortunately, the feelings are not.
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- Part 9 of No thoughts, just firefighters
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12 Jul 2026
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“She said she wasn’t worried about us breaking up.”
Oh. Well. That was pretty definitively a thing that people said about partners who were together romantically.
“Say something,” Buck instructed.
“What?”
“Anything,” Buck said, his voice wavering on the word. Which was—it was weird, right? Why was Buck so shaken by a throwaway comment?
Or maybe the better question was why wasn’t Eddie? If either of them was going to get freaked out by the assumption that he was dating a man, it would make more sense for it to be Eddie, who was straight, and not Buck, who had, in fact, already dated men.
“Aren’t you going to be late for your shift?”
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Buck and Eddie get shaken up by a comment from Theo’s social worker, and then by a magnitude 7 earthquake; it turns out, some disasters are better than others.
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11 Jul 2026
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Eddie has been back from Texas for a few weeks now. Buck hasn't yet moved out, so they're essentially living together.
This would be fine if Eddie hadn't realised he was in love with Buck while he was away.
Now Eddie is being domestically tortured, because Buck is performing husbandly duties while he's only Eddie's best friend.
One morning, it all gets to be too much, and Eddie snaps.
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or: Eddie sees Buck shirtless and making him breakfast, crawls into his lap and kisses him drunk. Then he leaves for a shift, leaving Buck stunned.
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08 Jul 2026