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"Dad." Chris looks up. "Dad, please tell me this isn't actually you. Please tell me you have a secret twin or something."
Eddie frowns. "What isn't me?"
"This." Chris shoves his phone across the table, nearly knocking over Eddie's water glass in the process.
Eddie catches it before it can slide into his plate and looks at the screen. It's TikTok, which Eddie barely understands despite Chris's many patient attempts to explain it to him. There's a video playing on loop and the quality is terrible but Eddie recognizes his kitchen immediately. Those floor-to-ceiling windows he'd been so excited about when he first saw the apartment. The window with the busted blinds he keeps meaning to replace. His couch. That’s definitely his couch.
And yeah, okay, that's definitely him, shirtless, wearing the stupid cowboy hat that his buddy from his new firehouse gave him as a welcome-to-the-team gift.
That’s him. Cooking dinner. In full view of his massive windows. For apparently the entire internet to see.
"Oh my god," Eddie says faintly.
Or,
A crash course in accidental thirst traps and the soulmates they attract.Bookmarked by eshickman0
18 Jan 2026
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Eddie thinks for a moment.
He can’t, he shouldn’t get caught up in the oxytocin-laced response of whatever this is. His heart sings desperate beneath its rapid pulse, and Eddie knows this feeling isn’t going away. He deliberates before proposing, “I’m good with casual.”
Buck works his lower lip into his mouth, lost in thought. He’s quick with his response. “Yeah. Casual. I’ll warn you though, I’ve never been great at casual.”
“Ok. Let’s make a deal: we keep our personal lives out of it. No personal details. No last names, nothing. Just two guys, being… casual.” Eddie realizes it makes no sense as soon as he says it. He blames it on the alcohol, but really, he’s just saying anything, anything he can think of to try and convince Buck to let Eddie see him again. He wonders if Buck’s groveling with himself just as much.
“Fuck it. Yeah, let’s do that.”Or, Buck meets Eddie at a bar and the two agree to keep things casual. Meanwhile, Mr. Buckley is a junior high teacher who meets Christopher Diaz, a student of his with an elusive single dad. These two things aren't connected, probably.
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16 Jan 2026
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Chimney clears his throat lightly. “Uh, Cap? We have a customer who wants to order the daily special.”
The daily special that doesn’t exist. Because no one comes into this place to eat because this restaurant isn’t real.
Or, the 118 run a front restaurant for money laundering, and accidentally adopt the Buckley siblings
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- Part 1 of Rhythm of Your Heart
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12 Jan 2026
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He sighs, frustrated, with the world, with himself, with the stupid, mediocre beer he’s drinking that cost him twelve damn dollars, before tip even.
“The club isn’t the problem,” Eddie mumbles, staring across the dance floor, where Buck is curving his hand around the woman’s head and whispering in her ear.
“Is the problem that your wingman is a traitor?” Ravi asks, snickering at the sight.
“No. The problem is I don’t want to pick up women.” Eddie really hopes that’s enough information. Ravi is a smart guy. He kind of hopes he’ll piece it together. Though another part of him, a soft, new part of him, hopes Ravi doesn’t. He hopes he has to say it. He should probably get some practice in, right?
Ravi looks at him then, studying him. “You’re really happy being single?”
Eddie exhales. Smiles small and shakes his head.
“No, it’s not that,” he says. “I’m just gay.”
OR Eddie comes out at the club during 9x07. Just not to Buck.
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10 Jan 2026
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ret·ro·grade ˈre-trə-ˌgrād
- being in motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies
- affecting memories of a period prior to a precipitating event (such as brain injury or disease)
- to go back
After an accident leaves Eddie with amnesia, Buck takes him home to recover, and in the absence of his memories, Eddie reveals parts of himself he’s kept hidden for years.
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03 Jan 2026