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“It’s yours,” Eddie had finally said, looking down at it for a moment before handing the phone to him. “I… There’s a lot of stuff you might want to go through on there.”
Buck frowned, confused, but when he looked down at the screen, he saw it.
[250 missed calls]
[635 unread messages]“Wha–”
“A lot of people used it as a… A way to communicate with you while you were gone.”
Eddie’s voice was tense. Buck couldn’t stop staring, reading the top message from Eddie over and over again, the only one that he could see. It didn’t make sense.
“You don’t have to go through it all but… We missed you, ba– Buck.” Buck slowly looked up from his phone, and there was that look again. Eddie had reached out, the same way he had when Buck came back, fingers brushing across his face gently. Buck wanted to melt into it. He did, later, but in that moment, he had to keep himself together.
“I want to.”
“Okay,” Eddie’s hand had dropped. Buck’s skin felt cold. “Come get me when you’re done.”
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Buck gets blipped. Eddie's left behind. A love story told through what Eddie did in his absence.
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24 Nov 2025
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Curling in on himself, Buck coughs in earnest, hacking violently enough that he tastes bits of copper on his tongue. Eyes watering, struggling to breathe, Buck shifts to his hands and knees. The vials roll away, leaving him with a free hand to pound against his sternum. The sensation of something crawling up his neck, choking him, has panic setting in until it’s finally free. Something plops onto the floor with an unsettling wetness.
Looking down, he sees a full grown string of honeysuckle, roots and all, tainted with splatters of blood in the silvery moonlight. Its nectar still lingers on his lips, sugary, delicate, ominous. The message is clear. Buck leans his forehead on the floor, and screams.
Even knowing this love would eventually kill him, for Eddie, he’ll let it.
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Buck's looking death down the barrel, yet again, this time in the form of Hanahaki. Eddie's leaving for Texas, Maddie's struggling in the aftermath of being kidnapped, Bobby has yet another specter of his past coming to haunt him. Buck will let himself strangle on the blossoms of his own unspoken love rather than ruin what little he has left.
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- Part 2 of Under the Hawthorn Trees
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22 Nov 2025
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The top of the train creaks again, loud and threatening. Some gravel rains down, clanking lightly on his helmet as it clatters to the ground.
“Rav,” Buck turns to say, his voice laced with worry. “Let’s pick up the pace.”
Ravi looks up at him, his leg mid-motion getting ready to step out from behind the concrete pillar. He opens his mouth to say something to Buck, but he doesn’t get the chance to. The top of the train groans one last time before it comes crashing down.
Buck is knocked off his feet, flung back from the sheer force of all the debris tumbling down around him. His head smacks hard against the ground, rattling around in his helmet. Dust fills his vision, crawls up down his throat and nose. It chokes him.
For a second, the world is silent.
Complete and utter silence.
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Ravi gets hurt and Buck spirals.
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27 Oct 2025
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“So, with a group of your size,” the guy says, and Eddie tunes back in, glad no one seems to notice the way he’d been staring at Buck and paying absolutely no attention. “You might want to divide into two groups of four."
Everyone in the group looks around, wondering how they should split up.
“Well, I’m sticking with my wife,” Karen says, holding tight to Hen’s arm.
“Me too,” Chimney says quickly, and Maddie rolls her eyes with a fond smile.
“I’ll go with you guys,” Ravi says, stepping over to Hen and Karen.
Eddie sees Buck look his way and acts before he has a chance to think.
“Yeah, me too.”
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The 118 and co. go to a haunted house attraction and, despite going through it separately, Buck and Eddie find ways to make it all about each other.
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25 Oct 2025
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“But with Bobby, I’ve been trying to do better,” Eddie says.
A hand rests on his shoulder, a thumb stroking. It’s a familiar gesture, but the fingers aren’t calloused enough to be her brother’s. Maddie’s fingers are slimmer, more delicate. It eases the hurt all the same.
“I think you have been,” Maddie reassures him, “at least you’re not joining illegal fight clubs this time. Just very legal book clubs.”
Eddie snorts. The callout was unexpected.
“You’re not what?” Karen’s eyes bulge out of her head as she sits back down.
Eddie chuckles and finally meets Maddie’s gaze. “I hate that Buck tells you everything.”
OR: Eddie joins a book club with Maddie and Karen after Bobby’s death, while Buck slowly drifts away.
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18 Oct 2025