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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    Buck nods in understanding, looking down at their intertwined hands. "You don't have to worry about me, you know."

    You're doing better. Sorry that I'm not.

    "I don't think I know how to stop," Eddie confesses.

    Buck looks at him for what feels like a long time, his mouth in a line.

    Then he swallows, squeezing Eddie's hand again. "Eddie, I think you need to talk to someone."

    Or: Buck is doing better. Eddie is still struggling after New Mexico. (A 9x16 coda/9x17 spec fic)

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    22 Apr 2026

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    This is all perfectly applicable to friendship. Friendships require effort. Intentionality. Sometimes you have to watch a minute long Instagram video about attracting men to figure out how to get your male best friend to come back to your house and fall asleep on your couch again. Or in your bed. Either one.

    Whatever Buck's comfortable with. Eddie's not picky.

    Eddie will take whatever proximity Buck is willing to offer and be grateful for it, and if that sounds desperate then fine, it's a little desperate, but it's friend-desperate, which is a completely different thing than regular desperate.

    He replays the video and takes mental notes, formulating a plan that is simple: get Buck's attention. Spend more time with Buck. Stop feeling like his ribcage has been hollowed out with a melon baller every time he goes forty-eight hours without hearing Buck laugh.

    Easy and straightforward. He’s got this.

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    Five times Eddie tries to show Buck how much he misses him; plus the one time he just says it.

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    21 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 11

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    He probably should call off work. He knows what comes next, dreads what comes next, but if he stays home, everyone will fuss over him, and he can’t have that. He can’t let them know how weak he is. After all, Eddie had just accepted that he was doing fine after everything that happened in New Mexico—he’d be so disappointed if he found out Buck had been lying to him.

    So.

    Work it is.

    He’ll be fine.

    or; a look into buck's head in 9x15 "pick your poison"

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    21 Apr 2026

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    There was something…tense…as he continued reading. Freddie followed Tuck into the back of the ambulance, holding tight to his hand, tears streaming down his face telling Tuck “don’t ever do that again, okay?”

    That was when the atmosphere started to shift, and Eddie started to realize he wasn’t just reading a story about a house fire.

    It was almost…romantic?

    Or: After getting roped into watching the newest season of Hotshots with Christopher, Eddie falls down an internet rabbit hole about the show, where he discovers the wonderful world of archiveofourown.org.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    “What, uh,” Buck says, stopping at the top of the stairs. “What’s going on here?”

    Sam steps around the island, grinning, “Hey, man! I made spaghetti to thank everyone for the warm welcome. Want me to make you a plate?”

    Warm? Welcome?

    For the guy who lied to a room full of bureaucrats who were ready to fire Chimney over it?

    A clink of silverware hitting porcelain drags Buck’s confused glare back to the table, as four other sets of silverware follow after it. Like a wind chime of betrayal, ringing the bitter song of the 118’s treachery, their silverware sings with shame.

    At least, that’s what it sounds like to Buck.

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    Or, Buck catches Sam cooking for the 118.

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    19 Apr 2026