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“I’m tired of settling for people who just tolerate me. I want the next person I’m with to like me for exactly who I am. I feel like I deserve that, you know?”
Buck tilts his head to meet Eddie’s eyes, and there’s a soft, uncertain sort of vulnerability in his eyes. Eddie holds his gaze—finds he can’t look away as the moment swells slowly between them like a bubble, iridescent with possibility, something vague yet essential hovering just around the edges.
“You do deserve that,” Eddie says at last, his voice a little unsteady.
or: Buck’s dates keep finding things wrong with him. But Buck’s red flags are all green to Eddie.
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31 Oct 2025
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Years unfurled gently: birthdays, burnt pancakes, lazy Sunday mornings. Eddie’s hair silvered first; Buck’s knees started cracking when he knelt to tie their daughter’s shoes. There were bad days, of course—arguments, grief, the quiet exhaustion that comes with living—but every morning, Buck would roll over, find Eddie beside him, and it would still feel like winning.
Then one evening, in the middle of a conversation about nothing, Buck noticed the lamp on the nightstand was wrong. The base was supposed to be brushed steel—but now it was glass. The shade cast the wrong color light.
He frowned. Blinked once.
And woke up.
OR: Buck grows old with Eddie—twenty years of everything he ever wanted—and then wakes up to find it was all a cruel coma dream + epilogue.
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30 Oct 2025
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like sugar in my soul (how sweet it is to be loved by you) by granadas
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
12 Nov 2024
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“I kind of have a sweet tooth,” Eddie admits. “It was easier when we were a little broke. I took my coffee black because I was always in a rush to my next shift, and we were scraping by, so any juice and sweets I bought were for Chris.”
“So what changed?”
Eddie’s finally looking at him, and he flushes.
“I’m just trying this new thing,” he says, “where I stop punishing myself. I’m trying to be… nice to myself, I guess. For once. Like, showing myself that the world isn’t going to end if I do something just for me.”
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OR: Post 8x06, Eddie is making changes to his life. Buck panics, until he doesn't.
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30 Oct 2025
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Buck cautiously peers into the small opening, catching a glimpse of Eddie staring at himself in the mirror, fingers gripping the edge of the porcelain sink as he shakes his head and says, “I can’t believe I’m in love with a Buckley.”
It's a miracle Buck doesn’t pass out on the spot.
He takes a stumbling step back into Eddie’s room, somehow managing to close the door quietly in his haze. Although it’s entirely possible that he just slammed it because he can’t hear anything over the whooshing in his ears.
He doesn’t know how he didn’t see it before.
Eddie is in love with Maddie.
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Or, 5 times Buck thinks Eddie is in love with Maddie, +1 time he's sure he's not.
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30 Oct 2025
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He’s fairly sure, in some faraway part of his brain, that Eddie doesn’t mean for him to climb onto the couch, slot his legs between Eddie’s, and collapse on top of him — Eddie’s chest his new favorite pillow.
He does know that’s probably not what he meant. But it is what Buck does.
Or, Buck's so, so tired. What's he supposed to do but take a nap on top of Eddie?
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30 Oct 2025