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Buck used to love the rain, until he didn't.
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The first thunderstorm Buck encounters after he moves out of Eddie's house.
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- Part 1 of Three word Buddie prompts
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08 Sep 2025
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“Are you finally proposing?” Buck asks, and the air rushes out of Eddie like he’s been punched in the gut, a swift burst.
Hearing it from Buck makes it real, solidified, no longer a shapeless fantasy in his head.
"Proposing what?”
“Marriage, genius.” Buck snorts. “Duh.”
Buck peels Eddie's pomegranates, carves out the brown spots from his apples, eats the ugly, discolored fruit. Eddie wants to propose, spirals, and crashes a car about it.
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05 Aug 2025
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It's a tale as old as time. You date a woman, break up, date someone else, break up, move in with the best friend you're in love with and then a baby gets left on your doorstep.
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“Eddie, what’s with the weird questions?”
“Uh,” How does Eddie even begin to explain this? “So, funny thing happened to me while I was trying to take a nap.”
“Dude, what does that have to do with Natalia?”
“So it seems that when you broke up with her, you left something behind.”
“I left something behind? What, did she find one of my sweaters and bring it by or something?”
“Or something?”
“Eddie, dude, what is going on?”
“Someone left a little Buckley on our doorstep.”- Language:
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31 Jul 2025
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The First Man That Really Loved Me ( I Saved You A Seat ) by MustacheEddie
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
05 Jul 2025
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“It’s been a year. A full year without your voice in my ear telling me I’m enough when I feel like nothing. Without your lectures. Your guidance. Your… your stupid little reminders to eat something not fried.”
His lip trembles.
“A year, and it hasn’t stopped hurting.”
The wind moves through the trees again, and Buck closes his eyes. It almost feels like an answer.
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OR: Buck visit Bobby's grave one year after his death.Bookmarked by reading_is_coping
31 Jul 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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31 Jul 2025
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Adriana doesn’t tell their parents that she’s going to LA. She doesn’t tell Eddie, either—or ask, for that matter.
She does ask Chris, and he thinks it’s a good idea—says as much, on the phone, and doesn’t say much else.
“Buck will probably be hovering,” is what Chris does volunteer.
It still surprises her when the man who opens the door is not Eddie. It’s—Captain America, is the thing that actually comes to mind—a man close to a foot taller than she is, if not more than that, with blond curls and broad shoulders, and he’s got a question in his very blue eyes that’s probably less friendly than the one he actually asks her.
“Uh,” he says. “Can I help you?”
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Or: Adriana arrives in LA. Maddie has been here the whole time.
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07 Feb 2025
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when i got into the accident (the sight that flashed before me was your face) by buddie_swift
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
18 Jan 2025
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Buck is driving Eddie to the airport for his move to Texas when an accident changes their lives.
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the one where Buck and Eddie get into an argument before they're forced to spill their hearts out when they realize the next moment is truly never promised
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23 Jan 2025
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Only one person may come.
Only one person will die.
The person who loves her most can choose to give their life for her, or choose to let her die.
If the police are called, she will be killed.
If anyone else finds out, she will be killed.
Only the one who loves her most can take her place.
There were instructions. A place to go, alone.
A very clear stipulation that the location was being watched. That if you were bugged, or tracked, or followed, Maddie would die.
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A serial killer kidnaps Maddie and leaves a note for the person who loves her most to trade places with her. Buck is only too willing to be the one to do it. Split POV Buck and Maddie.
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- Part 1 of The Bravery Game
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10 Dec 2024
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Eddie is all fucking over him.
He falls asleep with his body sprawled over the broad expanse of Buck’s chest and wakes up with his face buried into the skin of his neck. They watch a movie together on Eddie’s couch and Eddie practically sits in his lap, head tucked under Buck’s chin as he blinks at the screen. When they’re alone, Eddie can’t stop himself from peppering kisses to Buck’s lips and his cheeks and his forehead as Buck giggles and pretends to try and duck. Under the dinner table every night, Eddie will hook his foot around Buck’s ankle and make Buck duck his head into a flushed smile. And Eddie is always, always holding Buck’s hand—running errands and in their own bed and at the grocery store and across the console while Buck’s driving them to work.
Maybe he’s just in the honeymoon stage. Or maybe this is how he’ll always feel—like every second he’s not touching Buck is a second wasted.
in which eddie is in love and a bit clingy about it.
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02 Dec 2024
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The feeling came late (I'm still glad I met you) by paleredheadinascifi
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
24 Nov 2024
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"Come on, Buck. Let it out. I hate this, too. I hate leaving you. Tell me how much you hate it. Yell at me, Buck. Come on, yell at me,” he begs.
Buck snaps. He pushes off the couch and crowds into Eddie’s space.
“Is this what you wanted?” He spits, pushing hard enough against Eddie’s chest that he takes a step backwards. “Hmm? You want me to lose it on you?”
Or, Eddie cannot handle Buck pretending to be fine about his move to Texas. He, in fact, refuses to let him.
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26 Nov 2024
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everything is wrong, but it's alright by earthtolovers for californias
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
18 Nov 2024
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Buck had once told Eddie the universe was screaming at him. Truthfully, he should have screamed back.
What a cruel joke, Eddie thinks, hysterically. Take me instead, your fight is with me.
Buck & Eddie get stuck. They have a lot of feelings about it.
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18 Nov 2024
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He saw what Tommy must have seen, Buck who was so obviously jealous of them. Buck who always defaulted to Eddie’s side. Buck who asked Tommy to move in despite wanting Eddie to go to the stupid basketball game with him a few hours earlier.
My attention?
You can take Eddie if you want.
I’m not your last.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh no.
Oh fuck.
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After Buck gets dumped, he remembers he agreed to go to Abby's wedding with a date. Eddie steps up and pretends to be his boyfriend. All hell breaks loose.
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10 Nov 2024
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Christopher peered at him, his eyes bigger through his lenses. “Why?”
Buck nearly choked. “Why? Why… what? I mean, I’m bisexual, if that’s what you’re—”
“Oh, no.” Christopher shook his head, “I just meant, if you’re dating men, why aren’t you dating Dad?” Which simply did not help Buck’s choking problem.
Buck really, truly had never pictured Eddie’s son asking him these questions, specifically why he wasn’t dating Eddie.
“Uh— your Dad isn’t— we’re not—”
“Oh.” A pause.
“I don’t want you to date Dad.”
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A 7x10 rewrite wherein which Christopher does NOT leave and Buck offers his apartment to Bobby and Athena.
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26 Oct 2024
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“Eddie? What’s wrong? There’s no way I missed something, look, we went over everything thrice—”
Oh, god, Buck has retrieved his clipboard from wherever in Eddie’s house he’d stashed it last time. He’s waving it around as he speaks.
“Information about my spouse,” Eddie says blankly.
Buck looks confused. He flips through the pages on his clipboard. “No, look, we definitely-”
“Not Shannon,” Eddie interrupts. “My current spouse.”
Buck, understandably, looks even more confused. Then he seems to actually comprehend what Eddie is saying, and he shoots him a devastated look. “You’re- you’re married? When? To whom?”
“I… I didn’t know I was married. I don’t. I don’t think I am? But they seem to think I am. And they think…” Eddie pauses. Wets his lips. “I think… I think they think I’m married to you.”
Buck and Eddie get married the night of Chimney's bachelor party. Buck and Eddie do not know they got married the night of Chimney's birthday party. At least, they don't until months later, when Chris' new school asks Eddie for documentation of his spouse: one Mr. Buck Diaz.
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24 Oct 2024
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“I didn’t know you were coming over,” Maddie says, holding back a laugh. “Is everything okay?”
“I thought I was pretty clear.” Buck throws himself down on the couch, hugging a throw pillow against his chest. “Everything is in fact not okay. I’m going insane, Maddie.”
“You said that already,” Maddie says as she joins him on the couch. “Is this about Eddie?”
Buck rolls his eyes. “Who else would it be about?”
“That’s… actually a good point,” Maddie concedes, trying to hide her amusement and failing. “What’s he done now?”
Oh, a fantastic question.
“What hasn’t he done?”
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(What do you do when your best friend keeps taking you on dates without calling them dates? Talk to him, right? Right?)
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26 Sep 2024
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“Look,” Chimney’s back to a frantic whisper and Eddie can hear the sound of metal clanking together in the ambulance. “You gotta promise you’re not going to tell anyone I told you this. Promise me, Eddie.”
“Tell anyone what?”
He’s used to Chimney’s typical weird behavior. But this feels different.
“Buckisgoingtogowithhim."
“What? Chim, I can’t understand you.”
“Eddie,” he groans into the phone, dropping his voice low. “Buck is going to go with Tommy. To New York.”
or, amidst his son leaving for Texas, a sexuality crisis in his 30s, and the possibility of losing his best friend, Eddie can’t seem to catch a break.
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25 Sep 2024
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“He baby-trapped you,” the man said with a misplaced confidence that was almost impressive, “that’s fucked up, man.”
Buck blinked. Then blinked again. Then, “Uh... no. No, that’s not—”
“Shut it, Benji, that’s not what happened,” the other robber scowled, no longer trying to pretend he wasn’t eavesdropping. “They’re both dudes. A dude can’t baby-trap another dude.”
“Of course they can. Equal rights and shit! That’s what the parades are for.”
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There's a hostage situation at the bank and Buck is forced to reevaluate his relationship with Eddie (and vice versa).
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22 Sep 2024
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Missing Chris is less of an emotion these days and more of a physical entity. He’s sure everyone can see that he’s slowly hollowing himself out, that he can’t do much of anything else.
But when Jee laughs at him trying to get his tongue to touch his nose, and Mara loops one of her arms through his to keep him from tossing the rest of his cup in the garbage, Eddie feels solid again.
Maybe he likes yellow birthday cake ice cream after all.
(or, gerrard messes with the team's schedules and eddie 'i just drove my son to flee the state' diaz is the only option to watch mara and jee-yun after school on tuesdays, which, shouldn't be a problem at all, right?)
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12 Sep 2024
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I'll Feel You Forget Me Like I Used to Feel You Breathe by turningthepages
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
22 Mar 2023
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A car accident leaves Eddie without ten years of memories. He forgets meeting Buck, falling in love, getting married, and bringing two more kids into their life. As Eddie struggles to adjust to this new life, Buck struggles with being in love with someone who doesn't want to remember him.
Oh, and they have really cute kids.
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Just another Hollywood Amnesia story the fandom probably didn't need but lived in my head rent free for too long.
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- Part 1 of I'll Feel You Forget Me
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26 Aug 2024
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“Is that what the problem is?” Eddie asks, slightly too abruptly. “The shooting? Because I don’t know how many times I have to tell people that I’m fine. I don’t even think about it anymore.”
“Eddie-”
“Like, it makes sense that Ana doesn’t believe me, because she’s not used to me yet, but you should know better. You’re such a worrier, Buck. Don’t you think you would’ve noticed if I was horribly traumatised by the whole thing?”
He has no idea what the fuck he’s supposed to say about it.
How do you tell your best friend that him not being traumatised is what’s slowly killing you?
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Eddie is the one who gets shot. Buck is the one who has no idea how to live with it.
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22 Aug 2024