ray_of_earness
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While in Texas, Christopher had moved into his dad’s childhood bedroom and one night when he couldn’t sleep, he decided to go through the taped up old boxes he found in the closet. In there he finds something that makes him want to run away.
He found a journal.
His dad’s journal from when he was sixteen.
And from reading it, Christopher found out his dad was sent to a conversion camp when he was caught kissing a boy by his parents.
Panicked and scared, Christopher calls Buck, demanding him to come get him.TW - Homophobia, Homophobic language, Conversion camp/therapy, Repressed memories, Abusive Helena and Ramon Diaz, Child Abuse references, Religious abuse and Catholic guilt.
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19 May 2026
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“Just rest now,” Bobby says. His voice retains the authority of a commanding officer — the tone that Eddie has been drilled to obey since he was seventeen. But behind it is something else. Something with more worry, more anguish.
“Wait,” Eddie says. Memories hide behind frosted glass in his mind. Something is missing, something important. His eyes sweep the room, searching every corner for the one person who isn’t there.
The question breaks through the frosted glass. “Bobby, where is he?”
“Eddie…” Bobby says slowly. “We can talk about it later when you’re feeling better.”
“Bobby,” Eddie says, slow and calm despite the panic racing through his veins. “I need to know.”
Or: An AU where Doug kidnaps Buck to get to Maddie
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18 May 2026
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“Where is your plus one?” Helena asked, looking around.
“Buck,” Eddie replied.
“Buck?”
“Yes,” Buck said. “I’m Eddie’s plus one.”
Buck's fingers intertwined with Eddie’s fingers, and he looked at her with a tense gaze.
“I’m Eddie’s boyfriend.”--------
Or:
Eddie and Buck travel to El Paso for Abuela's birthday celebration. But how will the Diaz parents react when Eddie tells them that he's gay and his boyfriend is Buck?Series
- Part 3 of Falling back to you
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18 May 2026
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“He’s not,” Christopher interrupted after he swallowed, his eyebrows furrowed, “that’s not- no. Bucks not my uncle.”
His abuela waved a dismissive hand, “Oh, of course not, I know that. Isn’t that a thing you young ones do? Refer to your parents' close friends as aunts or uncles?”
And here’s the thing, yes. He refers to Hen and Karen as his aunties. He’s never blinked at that. He routinely tells people that he and Denny are basically cousins.
Sure, he even calls Maddie and Chim his aunt and uncle without a second thought, but that’s because - well, that’s because..
“He’s not my uncle,” Christopher repeated, “He’s my other dad.”
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OR Five times Christopher Diaz sets the record straight on who Buck is to him and the one time he makes sure Buck knows it too.
(and a buddie confession just for funsies)
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18 May 2026
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He is thirty-four and he runs back To Texas,
He is thirty-four and There’s a new priest at the church.
He is thirty-four and so, so tired of running.
There is no one left to outrun.
No war. No marriage. No God that’ll listen.
He is thirty-four and watching Buck’s chest stop rising beneath his hands. Over and over and over.He is thirty-four and Buck is dead.
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A love is confessed. A shot is fired. And everything falls apart.
Series
- Part 1 of Soul Tied
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17 May 2026