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“This isn’t my life!” Buck exclaims. “This is not how it’s supposed to be. Abby is supposed to be gone. She’s supposed to have left. As in, left Los Angeles, not left me to marry Bobby. Bobby’s supposed to marry Athena.”
“Cap and Athena? But she’s—”
“Married. Yeah,” Buck huffs. “Like I said, that doesn’t work out.”
“Because Real Michael is gay?” Eddie asks skeptically.
“Real Michael is gay,” Buck confirms.
OR: After his break up with Tommy, Buck falls asleep on Eddie’s couch and wakes up in a world where Bobby is married to Abby, Hen and Karen are divorced, Athena and Michael are faking a happy marriage, Chim has a daughter that is not Buck's niece, and—just to really, personally fuck with him—Eddie and Maddie are engaged to be married.
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“Just say it, Chim,” Eddie replies, his tone clipped.
Chimney winces but presses on. “Eddie…” He hesitates, glancing at Karen like he’s begging her for an out. She nods firmly. No turning back now. “Buck is dead.”
The line goes silent. A heavy, eerie silence that settles over the room like a shroud. She knows what Eddie must be feeling right now—the cold shock, the hollow ache, the frantic disbelief. She remembers how it felt when Chim had told her Hen was dead, how her world had stopped spinning for one agonizing moment. Her hands curl into fists against the table. This is fine. This is part of the plan.
But then there’s a screech through the phone, followed by an extended, blaring honk.
Karen’s stomach drops. Her eyes dart to Hen’s, wide with alarm.
Fuck.
OR: When Eddie leaves for Texas on bad terms with Buck, their friends can't help but meddle.
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“But I could,” Buck insists. “I could go with you.”
“Buck—”
“I didn’t say I would,” he clarifies quickly, “I just said I could.”
“You can’t,” Eddie says, shaking his head. “Your life is here, in L.A. Everything and everyone you love is here.”
“Not everyone.”
Not if you leave.
Not if Christopher never comes back.
Not everyone.
Buck doesn’t say any of it, but he thinks Eddie hears it anyway.
OR: Eddie decides to go to Texas to get his son back, unsure of when he will return; Buck realizes what never wanting to live without his best friend actually means.
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we ain’t angry at you, love (you’re the greatest thing we’ve lost) by jamespctters
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
07 Jun 2024
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Chris seems to be looking anywhere but into the camera; he won’t look at Buck, not even over the phone. He lets out a big sigh, and with a twitch of his nose, mumbles something that sounds an awful lot like, “I’m sorry.”
Whatever Buck had been expecting, it wasn’t that.
“For what, buddy?”
“For not calling you.”
Even in context, it wouldn’t make much sense to anyone else, given that they’re currently on a FaceTime call Chris initiated. But Buck knows damn well that the kid doesn’t mean this call.
OR: A few days after leaving for Texas, Christopher reaches out to Buck.
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“I thought you were gay, okay?” she blurts out. Eddie immediately feels the stares of other customers burn his skin as they pass by; his cheeks are already burning enough as it is, and then Amber adds, “And I definitely thought you were in love with Buck.”
She sighs with relief, as if this just feels so damn good to finally get off her chest.
Eddie’s not sure how or at what point he got to having a random girl yelling at him about his own sexuality in a grocery store, but here he is.
(For the record, he hates everything about it).
OR: Eddie Diaz suddenly has the whole world telling him who he is, and he has to decide if figuring it out for himself is worth the risk.
(Canon Compliant Until 7.06)