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    “Hi, Buck,” Chris grins, his eyes sparkling mischievously behind his black framed glasses.

    Buck just stares at him, still not saying anything. He can’t remember when he last took a breath but oxygen was the least on his priority list when Eddie and Chris are here right now.

    “Hi, Buck,” Eddie echoes the greeting pulling Buck’s stare on himself. A soft smile and something so, so gentle lights up his eyes.

    “I think we broke him, dad,” Chris snickers, nudging Eddie with his elbow who just hums in agreement.

    “I – uhm, I didn’t uhm – w-what are you guys doing here?” He stammers, his eyes still wide with disbelief as he takes a much needed breath.

    “Heard you were in desperate need of some Christmas decorations.” Eddie crosses his arms as he raises his eyebrow, the look in his eyes far too knowing for Buck’s liking. Man, Buck has forgotten how well Eddie can read him when he’s not just three pixels on a facetime call.

     

    Or, Eddie and Chris surprise Buck for Christmas and give him everything he's ever wanted in the span of seven days.

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    28 Dec 2025

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    On Friday night, Buck showed up at the Diaz house after his shift with an armful of pizza and what looked like half the board games out of the game cabinet at the 118. On Saturday, he worked a twelve-hour shift, but he texted Eddie nearly every hour, sending pictures of the book Hen was reading and long rants about the fight he and Chim were in over the viability of modern-day gladiator fights and ranked lists of which Masterchef Junior seasons Eddie should watch first. On Sunday, he got there just before Chris woke up and started making waffles before Eddie was awake enough to be sure what was happening.

    And on Friday night and Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, Eddie was in love with him.

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    A season 5b fic. Eddie wrecks his room with a baseball bat and realizes he's in love with Buck, one domino falling after the other. He copes with it.

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    25 Dec 2025

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    When Buck moved to LA he was following a true purpose: He was going to be a firefighter for the LAFD. He put in the work, the studying the training, all to have that dream ripped away from him a month before graduating the academy. Buck needed to adjust his path finding himself working as a 9-1-1 Emergency Dispatcher in attempt to answer the calling that brought him to LA.

    Buck still manages to find family with the 118.

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    When Bobby asked what made him decide on firefighting Buck attempted to doge the question, "You're gonna laugh."

    "Try me," Bobby shrugged.

    "I saw a movie," Buck answered. Bobby snorted.

    "I told you."

    Bobby smiled, "You just seem the type. You see a cool stunt on TV?"

    Buck resisted the urge to sneer a bit while he defended himself, "No. Well, I mean. Okay, yeah, the stunts were cool but I really liked the brotherhood, you know?"

    Bobby lifted an eyebrow. Buck corrected, "Or, siblinghood, whatever. The team. Having people have my back, it was a nice thought."

    Bobby hummed, "You're really caught up on this whole team stuff, huh?"

    Buck flashed a teasing grin, "So just my luck I get a loner mentor."

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    25 Dec 2025

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    “You and me, Diaz. If we’re both single at forty then we’re getting married.”

    “Yeah?” Eddie blinked.

    “Unless you got a problem with that,” Buck offered, a challenge was back behind his grin. Eddie loved this, he always loved this. The moments between him and Buck where they pushed each other, challenged each other, cornered the other while refusing to back down. It fueled Eddie with a giddy excitement, sparking his nerves despite the dulling effect the alcohol had on his body.

    He smirked and held out his bottle, “You’re on, Buckley.”

    ~~OR~~

    When Buck and Eddie make a pact to get married if they're both single by age forty, it takes an embarrassingly short amount of time for Eddie's thoughts to start referring to Buck as "fiancé" instead of "best friend."

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    23 Dec 2025

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    When Eddie end up in the hospital, Buck travels to El Paso to be there for Chris. In the overwhelming Texas heat Buck and Chris learn to navigate the complexities of their relationship to each other. What does it mean to be a legal guardian? What does it mean to be family?

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    Chris is fourteen and heavily traumatized. When he's confronted with yet another drastic shift in his family, he acts like it. He's insecure, he's full of doubt, and he can't seem to wrap his head around why Buck showed up at all.

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    "How did you do that?"

    "Open the door?" Chris asked back, as if it was the stupidest question he ever heard.

    "I thought it was locked," Buck said.

    Chris raised his eyebrow and held up the key in his hand, balanced his weight on one single crutch while he did so, "You don't have a key?"

    "Uh," Buck cleared his throat, a little embarrassed, "N-no."

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    23 Dec 2025