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say i love you (then drink it backwards) by etherealplans for niteschach
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
07 Nov 2025
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"There's not a perfect formula to make it work," Hen says. She's drunk. That was good advice. She should stop there.
Except, Hen's been in her own share of relationship shit this year. She almost lost her wife, the love of her life. She almost never saw the sun rise again, almost had to live in some lifelong darkness. She's not in the ideal headspace to give good advice.
She doesn't stop there.
"There should be, though," she carries on, starting to match Buck's half-manic energy. "We should make one, a list. A list of things you can do to make a relationship work."
or five times Buck got drunk with Hen to complain about his love life, plus the one time they got drunk together at his wedding.
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The sound Buck makes sounds ripped from his throat. It's closer to animal than human. Eddie thinks maybe it was supposed to be his name, but it just sounds painful.
He knows what happened. He wants to believe he's wrong. He wants to believe that this is some anxiety working its way through his body. He wants to be catastrophizing, but he knows.
or Eddie gets the call and goes home.
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Buck’s clinging to any relic of this life he's been living. He wants something that says Evan Buckley was loved once, even if he didn't get to keep it. Eddie's leaving, and Buck needs something to remind him that he had this, something to stop him from calling Eddie to hear his breathing on the other end of the line, just to know he wasn't some beautiful dream. Buck just wants to go home.
Or: Eddie moves out, Buck moves in, and the love is stored in the walls of the Diaz house.
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Buck wanted his best friend. He wanted Eddie on the couch, letting him cry in an embarrassingly snotty way and heave until he couldn’t breathe, and he’d put his hand in that spot between his shoulder and neck and say “We’ll figure this out together” or “I’ve got you,” and Buck would be able to fucking breathe again.
Or when Eddie falls into the Pacific, he’s missing, presumed dead. Buck has to fight for Christopher, who’s still in Texas, and Eddie has to fight for himself.
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not as cool as i thought i was (stuck on the stupid stuff) by etherealplans
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
17 Nov 2024
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Buck debated saying something, thinking through how he could put it into words when it hit him like a ton of bricks. Tommy. He’d said that someone’s first queer relationship usually wasn’t their last, and Buck couldn’t do that. He could survive a rejection, but he couldn’t survive knowing what it felt like to have Eddie and losing that. He couldn’t work next to Eddie, knowing what his lips felt like or what he looked like disheveled in a bed they shared or wrapped around him when they were making breakfast. He wouldn’t come back from that.
He’d let Eddie get his first out of the way, and then he’d say something. Then, he could be the last if Eddie would have him.
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Or Eddie comes out, but Buck took Tommy’s words to heart, and he won’t stop trying to set Eddie up so he can get his first out of the way. Eddie has plans of his own that Buck is really getting in the way of.
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"Hey," Eddie says. "Can we go outside for a minute?"
Buck looks up and his face is carefully neutral, which on Buck is the equivalent of a five-alarm blaze because this man has never been neutral about a single thing in his life.
"Sure."
They leave cash on the table and step out into the parking lot. The air is heavy and thick with honeysuckle and asphalt and the far-off electric promise of rain. The cat is gone and the neon sign buzzes above them, pink and sputtering.
"I don't want to stay here tonight," Eddie says.
Buck’s eyebrows tick up. "Okay?"
Hesitating, cutting a look back at the diner, Eddie says, "Look, I know we were gonna find a motel somewhere around here but this place doesn't sit right with me. I can't explain it. I'd rather just keep driving."
He's bracing for Buck to push back, to ask what specifically feels wrong, use this as a doorway back into the booth and the hand and all of it. But Buck just looks at his face for a second and nods.
"Yeah. Okay. Let's go."
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Buy one Buck kidnapping and get an Eddie kidnapping for free!Can be read as a standalone but is technically a continuation of my fic 'hands on'
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- Part 2 of no grave can hold my body down
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13 Mar 2026
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Running to the frontlines from a childhood he never had. Taking a bat to the wall with his son in the next room. Having an affair with the spitting image of his dead wife.
Eddie knows he’s never been good at grieving, knows he’s never been good at losing what little he allows for himself in the first place. This is why he also knows his coping mechanisms can’t possibly get any worse.
Buck, as he so often does, makes him reevaluate his assumptions.
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Evan Buckley dies behind a wall of glass. It’s a shame that when he’s revived not three minutes later, no one is informed.- Language:
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22 Feb 2026
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Evan Buckley, golden boy. Season jeopardizing injury. Career jeopardizing injury. Will Evan Buckley ever see the ice again?
Golden boy, fallen.
A tragedy to the sport of hockey.Or, Evan Buckley, star forward for the Los Angeles Kings, suffers an injury in the offseason. Eddie Diaz, forward for the Dallas Stars, is traded to the Los Angeles Kings one month into the season.
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12 Jan 2026
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03/25/2025 3:45 AM - Missed Call - Eddie
[Voice roughened with sleep] "Don't mix in the honey until the very end. For the tea. If you put it in too early it cooks out and won't be as sweet as you like it. I, uh, sent you a text with very detailed instructions on how I make it. Knew you were never paying attention. But, yeah. Honey [pause] at the end. Oh, and stir counterclockwise. Don't ask why. It makes a difference, just accept it."
or, eddie and christopher are in texas, buck is in la, and they all keep missing each other but somehow still stay connected
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17 Oct 2025
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Buck asks, "Where is your dad?"
"He's downstairs buying sodas," Christopher replies. He sits down next to Buck and points at the magazine. "Why are you reading Bridal Guide?"
"Oh." Buck flushes a little. It's not like he can explain: I realized I'm in love with your dad and keep accidentally planning a wedding we're never going to have. "It was this or Golf Digest."
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18 Oct 2025