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“Does that say sweethearts?" Dad’s voice startles Chris from behind the couch, making him jump. “For me and Buck?”
Chris dares to turn around and face him. He seems completely stunned, eyes wide open as he stares incredulously at the screen. “Yeah,” he replies with a swallow.
“What—What does that mean?”
Chris answers honestly. “It means you’re dating.”
Dad furrows his brows. “What, why?”
“You did that on your own,” Chris says. He does not mention that he changed Dad’s Mii’s dating options to include men as well, just to make this happen.
OR: Too impatient to wait for them to get together in real life, Chris makes Buck and Eddie date in Tomodachi Life
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26 May 2026
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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.”--------
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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.
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- Part 1 of Soul Tied
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17 May 2026
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you can stay through the night in the palaces of my mind by buckstairs
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
15 May 2026
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“...What I’m trying to say is, we’re best friends, you know? There’s nothing romantic about it. Just best friends.”
“Best friends who live together and raise two kids,” Eddie adds, perplexed.
“Yes!” Buck agrees, nodding, “Exactly.”
“Okay,” Eddie says, but it’s not, not at all. He’ll be demanding answers soon.
(Or, Eddie wakes up without remembering most of his life. He doesn’t freak out, really, he just needs someone to explain why is he not married to Buck.)
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16 May 2026
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"That is. Okay. Where do I start." Pushing off the counter — hands need to be free for this. "Number one. That is not how being secure in your sexuality works. Number two. That is the opposite of how it works. Number three. Most straight men who are secure in their sexuality do not, as a method of confirming this, seek out gay sex. That is— Eddie, that is gay. The thing you are describing is gay. The act of doing it is gay. There is no version of this where you end up more straight at the other end."
Eddie scoffs. "You don't know that."
"I do know that."
"You don't."
"Eddie, I am bi. I have personally conducted this experiment. The results are in."
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Eddie asks Buck to fuck him to prove he's straight. Things go about as well as you'd think.Series
- Part 1 of veni, vidi, vici
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16 May 2026
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Ever since the Diaz boys moved to El Paso, Buck has been estranged from their lives. Eddie first, and then Christopher.
He's lived a lot since then. Gotten married, had a kid, gotten divorced.
But the second his phone rings with the name "Chris 🦖" Buck knows something is wrong.
Will he take the call? Will it become his calling? Does he even have a choice?
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16 May 2026
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What if Buck and Eddie were both taken, and Eddie was used to make sure Buck would be Derek
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16 May 2026
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Eddie licked his dry lips as he reached for his radio, trying to keep his movements slow and delicate to prevent any more damage to himself or Buck. “Diaz to Captain Nash.”
“Go for Nash,” came Bobby’s quick reply. “You two okay? Where are you?”
“We’re in a bit of a sticky situation here…”
“We’re a shish kabob, Cap!” Buck chimed in.
Eddie rolled his eyes.
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16 May 2026
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Eddie moves back to El Paso to get Christopher back and instead of communicating like normal, Buck and Eddie send letters to each other.
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15 May 2026
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He reaches for Buck, their fingers intertwine
And that’s when the whole car lurches.
A violent yank hits his harness as Ravi and Chim’s line system reacts. Buck is ripped backward toward the surface, his hand losing Eddie’s.
“No!”
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“There’s no tension!” Ravi yells. “Cap, there’s nothing on Eddie’s line!”
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After a rescue call leaves Eddie critically injured, Buck finds himself holding together everything Eddie holds dear
Waiting for Eddie to wake up might be the hardest rescue Buck has ever faced.
Featuring Buck vs Eddie's parents in later chapters
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14 May 2026
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Eddie runs into Father Brian outside the gym, but this time, he comes away with a bit more than a choice of beverage.
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- Part 74 of Buddie Short Stuff
- Part 8 of Buddie Inspired by Other Media
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14 May 2026
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Full name: Edmundo Ramon Miguel Diaz
Date of birth: 06/26/1992
Age: 33 years, 10 months“This is wrong,” he mumbled, rereading the words. He cleared his throat, handing back the file. “I’m not 33, I’m 22. The math is wrong, see, I was born in 1992 which makes me 22.”
or Eddie suffers from retrograde amnesia after an accident on the job and naturally comes to the conclusion that he and Buck are in a relationship.. the romantic kind
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14 May 2026
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In which Eddie and Buck are complicated and their childhoods definitely fucked them both up.
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13 May 2026
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“I’m not his husband.”
“Virtually,” Maddie repeats like it changes anything.
“What does that even mean?” Eddie protests weakly, his back to her so he doesn’t see through his lies. “We’re just friends.”
Maddie sighs, so loud that Eddie has no choice but to turn around to face her. When he does, her gaze pierces right through him, telling him lying will not get him anywhere.
“Eddie. If you think no one can see the way you look at him, you’re delusional.”
Or: 9x17: Eddie Begins Again
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13 May 2026
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"So should we start blocking off time in our calendar for dance lessons with Coach Diaz?"
Eddie knows Karen means it as a joke, but the combination of the wine in his system and the joy in his gut make it feel serious, "Yes."
"Wait, really?" Hen asks.
"If she wants to dance, I'll teach her to dance. We had fun today," Eddie finishes his glass and notices he's probably at the point where he's drunk enough to talk about the Buck thing.
"You don't have to do that Eddie. I'm sure we could pay for lessons somewhere," Karen offers.
"Or we could pay you," Hen offers.
"I have an idea for that actually," alright, Eddie, be brave, "I give Mara dance lessons and you both give me gay lessons."
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When Mara becomes obsessed with ballroom dance Eddie becomes her teacher. Along the way he realizes he's in love with Buck, starts receiving "gay lessons" from Hen and Karen, and forms a ragtag dance academy. What could possibly go wrong?
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13 May 2026
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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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13 May 2026