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“If you wanted to see me that bad, you could’ve just asked me out.”
There’s a choked sound from the chair. A muffled laugh, quickly swallowed.
Buck’s eyes flick, just once, toward the chair, and then he flushes so fast it’s equal parts alarming and endearing.
“I’m fine,” he says, each word coming with its own zip code.
He always does that. It’s their routine, their little dance. He tries to bolt, she gives him a reason not to, without calling him out. He acts like it doesn’t hurt, she pretends she doesn’t notice the way his jaw tightens, the tremor in his hands.
This time, though, it doesn’t get that far.
“What you are is stubborn,” the guy in the chair says. If there’s meant to be an edge to it, Sam can’t find one. “You took a pretty bad hit to the head, Buck. The helmet came off. You should let them check you out.”
Buck rolls his eyes, but he doesn’t argue. Doesn’t even try.
That’s new.
Sam studies him for half a second, then gestures. “Okay, chin down.”or, Buck and Eddie being perceived by an ER nurse for a decade
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- Part 5 of buddie nde fest
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22 Mar 2026
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“Do none of you care about the children? It’s a bachelor auction, and you, my friend, are a bachelor. Abracadabra, put your name on the list.”
“I can’t,” Eddie repeats. He can’t. He cannot. “I’m not.”
“You’re not? Since when?” Chimney frowns. “Who?”
It’s not Eddie’s fault that, at that exact moment, Buck walks in. So it’s not his fault that he opens his mouth and says, “Buck.”
Or, Eddie trips and falls into a lightly fraudulent HR-disclosed "consensual romantic relationship" with his best friend. Really, if you think about it, it's a win-win.
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19 Mar 2026
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“You’re very talented at being bad at flirting.”
“Who says I was flirting? It would be inappropriate to flirt with my son’s teacher.”
Buck pulls out the chair across from Eddie and drops down into it. “Would it?”
Eddie shrugs. “Could be. Probably.”
Or, Eddie goes on a date with his kid's teacher. And sure, fine. It's also the guy he's been sexting with for months. By accident.
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- Part 2 of T is for Texas
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20 Jan 2026
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romancingtheuniform.com (a terrible idea, allegedly) by buckmeetsboy
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
30 Dec 2025
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Eddie Diaz joins a dating site. Eddie Diaz meets a firefighter. Eddie Diaz reports for duty at the 118.
OR Eddie meets Buck on romancingtheuniform.com before his first day at the 118
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18 Jan 2026
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Buck yelled back, “I’ve always liked him!”
Chim yelled, “That’s not the question!”
Buck yelled, “IT’S MY ANSWER!”
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Or newly dating Buck and Eddie invite the 118 over for a dinner party.
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17 Jan 2026
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“Chim is gonna be at the hospital for awhile. He asked me to handle shift transfer,” Eddie says casually.
Buck pauses mid-whisk. “He asked you?”
Eddie levels him with a stare. “I’m gonna pretend you don’t sound surprised before I get offended,” he says, voice flat.
“I’m not surprised!” Buck holds his hands up in surrender, the whisk dripping a traitorous stream of beaten egg onto the counter. “I just–y’know. Kinda figured he’d ask me.”
Chimney asking Eddie to handle shift transfer effectively makes him Interim Captain Diaz, and he is going to use his newfound power to annoy the shit out of Buck for as long as he possibly can.
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16 Jan 2026
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He left, and when he told Maddie she cried and Buck held her until she stopped shaking. He stayed for a dinner he made, and then well past Jee-Yun's bedtime and Chim had told him, seriously, when he was gathering his things and Maddie had fallen asleep on the couch, to do something that should have been simple. "Call Eddie."
"Sure," Buck said with a half smile and a bubbling in his gut.
He wasn't going to call Eddie. Eddie was busy, and Buck was an adult, and, in the grand scheme of things, his mother dying wasn't anything for anyone to worry about. She was dead, Eddie Diaz could stubbornly restart Buck's heart, but Margaret Buckley was well past the ressusitation point. Eddie was a lot of things (smart, capable, funny, handsome, adorable, so, so, so kind), but he wasn't a necromancer.
Besides, what had sent him back to Texas was much more important than Buck dead mother.
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Or a story about grief, and love, and all of the complicated emotions in between.
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01 Jan 2026
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Buck’s hair is gray at the temples, buzzed neatly on the sides and a bit longer and curlier on top than Chris remembers him wearing it, and there’s a new scar through one of his eyebrows. He looks good, like he’s living a happy life, and the only possible reason Chris can imagine for Buck to be here at Helena Diaz’s funeral in El Paso is that Chris’s father brought him.
“Why would you come?” Chris snaps at him.
Buck blinks. “Why wouldn’t I come?”
“She didn’t mean anything to you.”
“I’m not here for her,” Buck scoffs. “She is dead. I’m here for him.”
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Chris is forced to grapple with the choice he made eleven years ago when his father comes back for Helena’s funeral.
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30 Dec 2025
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“If I could get everyone’s attention up the front, please?” The professor sighs. “I know I’m not as interesting as our new student, but I am the one with the answers to your exam.”
More eyes turn to him. Buck is about to beg the universe for a sinkhole or a lightning strike or something.
“Professor?” Someone asks, breaking the awkward tension. Buck swivels and finds the cutest boy he’s ever seen.
Or, Evan Buckley would love to be a normal, regular college kid. Unfortunately, he’s the President's son. A 'First Daughter' AU.
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- Part 12 of Pal's 12 Days of Ficsmas
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12 Dec 2025
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“How did you get home from the hospital?”
“Took an uber.”
“Does Maddie know?” Silence. “Does anyone?” More silence. More of Buck refusing to meet his gaze, staring at the door like he thought he could entice Eddie to leave by the power of suggestion. Well, good fucking luck, Eddie thought. Wild horses, and all that. “Why didn’t you call anyone?” he demanded. “Why didn’t you call me?”
“I did!” Buck snarled. The momentum of his indignation carried him into a sitting position, and Eddie could see him flinch with the pain of it. His unnaturally stoic front was gone, and something raw and wrenching took its place; it occurred to Eddie that he’d never heard Buck raise his voice before. “I did call you, Eddie! As I was bleeding out on my kitchen floor. You. Didn’t. Answer.”
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The squatter in Buck's attic has a knife. Buck has a bit of a breakdown. Eddie has a plan to make everything right.
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08 Dec 2025
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Chris hates this stupid party. He hates it and he wants to go home. He pulls up a contact he hasn't messaged in a while.
Can you come get me?
Buck:
Yef
Yes
Where are you?Series
- Part 1 of Pal's 12 Days of Ficsmas
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01 Dec 2025
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14 Nov 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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11 Nov 2025
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The bookstore is haunted.
But it's fine. All Buck has to do is convince his witch boyfriend to engage in some witchy stuff like cast a protection spell or do a séance to communicate with the ghost.
The only problem is that said witch boyfriend doesn't believe in ghosts, or in magic, or even in the fact that he is a witch.
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- Part 2 of Halloween street
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31 Oct 2025
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“Eddie!” Nash yells repeatedly. “Eddie! Eddie!”
Eddie feels himself turning bright red.
“Wow,” he says after his name is repeated a good half a dozen more times in a row. “You weren’t kidding, huh?”
“He’s been like this all day,” Maddie says with a grin on her face. She shifts Nash in her arms, pointing over at Eddie as she says, “Look who it is, sweetie. It’s Eddie!”
Nash frowns, looking confused. “Eddie?”
Maddie nods. “Yeah, that’s Eddie!”
“Eddie!” Nash yells, reaching for Buck. “Eddie!”
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(When baby Nash's first word is “Eddie”, questions are raised as to how this could possibly have happened.)
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11 Oct 2025
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“What’s– what’s wrong with Eddie?” Buck all but collapses next to Eddie, voice panicked. Blinking down at the floor, Eddie can see Buck’s hands hover in front of him, like he’s scared to touch him.
“I— I don’t know,” Chim stutters, misery plain in his voice. “I think I broke him.”
“What did you say to him?”
“I, uh— may have told him you were grievously injured. But I was just—“
“You what?”
“Listen, it was a tense situation–”
“Jesus, just– go,” Buck says. Pleads, almost. “Go, I’ve– I’ve got this. Please.”
Or: Eddie and Buck stop speaking entirely. Chim intervenes.
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11 Oct 2025
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And Eddie asked him. Asked him if he was sure, assured him that he wasn’t imposing or putting him out or whatever other frankly incredible things Buck’s brain might’ve been telling him. He double triple quadruple checked if Buck was sure he wanted to move into a glorified sardine can, to which Buck responded, beggars can’t be choosers, I’m not exactly swimming in it, Eddie! And yeah. Fair. But there was just. There was no reason for him to leave so quickly, that’s all.
Eddie hates this apartment.
Buck moves out. Eddie tries to cope.
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21 Sep 2025
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“Everything okay?” Hen asks him when he reascends the stairs, plopping back down on his seat at the table next to Eddie.
Buck puts his head in his hands. “My mother is pimping me out to the women of Los Angeles.”
Chimney snort-coughs whatever’s in the mug he’s been sipping from.
“Come again?”
After another relationship blows up in his face, Buck does himself the generous favor of taking a vow of relationship-celibacy for the greater good of humanity. Then his parents skip back into town with a vengeance, his mother starts meddling in his love life, and Buck elects to find a fake girlfriend to get them off of his case. He's also in love with his best friend, but that's a minor detail.
Meanwhile, Eddie is losing his mind for completely separate reasons. Obviously.
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19 Sep 2025
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“You don’t see it?”
“Do I see a caterpillar, Eddie? No. No, I don’t, because it’s clearly a walrus.”
“I don’t see it. Looks caterpillary to me.”
Buck scoffs. “A caterpillar.”
Or, Buck and Eddie look at the clouds and everything is completely fine and no one is dying. NO ONE IS DYING.
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- Part 1 of word prompts
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06 Sep 2025
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“You didn’t tell me your agent’s name was Dick,” Eddie says, halfway to a laugh.
Buck tries to force a smile onto his face, but it won’t come. “Yeah, he didn’t mention that before. Apparently, that was info he only wanted to share with you.”
“Oh, weird,” Eddie says, like it’s not worth thinking about. “Still funny, though.”
“Hilarious,” Buck says as he pulls into the street and Eddie types in the next address.
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The problem isn't that Buck's real estate agent is into Eddie or that Eddie seems to like it; it's a matter of professionalism.
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05 Sep 2025