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"Max just came out to their parents," Chris explains. "And it didn't go well."
Eddie takes a moment to process that sentence. Max and Chris have been close friends for a few years now, 'they' is not the pronoun he's used to hearing accompany Max's name.
"Right, okay." Eddie pushes himself up from the couch and moves to pick up his car keys. "Of course they can come over. Where are we picking them up?"
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In which Christopher Diaz is a good friend, Eddie Diaz is a good dad, and Christopher's purple-haired nonbinary best friend Max clocks Eddie's gay ass and sends him on a journey of self discovery.
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"I - uh," Buck stammers. "Sorry, I'm a little nervous."
"Yeah," Eddie huffs softly. "Me too."
"I think this is my last first kiss," Buck admits, not looking away from Eddie for even a second. The deep, familiar brown of his eyes is grounding.
"I know it's mine," Eddie says quietly.
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or, one night a quiet conversation on Eddie's couch leads Buck and Eddie in a direction neither of them anticipate - especially Buck.
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"He's beautiful like this, when he lets his guard down and trusts someone to give him what he needs. He trusts Buck with the truth, even when it hurts. He just doesn't know yet that it'll hurt him more than it could ever hurt Eddie."
Or, there's no place in this world where Buck could go that Eddie wouldn't follow. Someone just needs to tell Buck that...
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- Part 12 of Soup's 911 S9 Specs
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18 Dec 2025
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Buck exhales, holding a sob back. His hand shakes over his mouth, and Eddie stays silent. “I used to be homeless, you know.” He sniffs, shaking his head. He can feel Eddie’s gaze on him. “But, Eddie—I can’t be that brave again. I don’t wanna stay at another homeless shelter and get kicked out in the afternoons and go to church because I have no where else to stay and at least they have heating.
“I just—I need this. I need to stay. Here. I need to stay here, and you need to say that’s okay, because I’m not strong enough to handle that again. ‘M not.”
or: Eddie comes back from Texas, and Buck starts to feel weird about living in his house. For more than one reason.
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15 Dec 2025
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The first time Buck tries to sleep in the main bedroom of 4995 South Bedford Street, he can’t.
He turns off the lights, double-checks that the oven is off even though he didn’t turn it on, and triple-checks he locked the front and back doors. The house falls silent except for the creak of floorboards underneath his feet. Buck has never thought about the floor so much as he does in that moment; the old, loved wooden slats - sanded and refinished over the decades. An oak tree somewhere in the country cut down so a family would have a place to stand, to sit, to sleep. To live.
This house is not his. It’s not his home. Not yet. But he hopes it could be.
or: Eddie leaves for El Paso to get Christopher back and Buck doesn’t even try to be normal about it
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