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“That’s the fifth time I’ve hit my hip on the table,” he says, rubbing his side as if it’ll stop the sting. “Your kitchen is too small.”
“I know.” Eddie grabs for the butterknife and starts the precarious process of raking away the black streak without fucking up his masterpiece beneath. “We’ll look for a house with a bigger kitchen on Zillow after the bake sale.”
Buck makes a funny noise, like a raccoon caught in the trash. “What?”
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Eddie buys a new house, battles with the homeowner's association, omits the truth, almost dies, and during the process realizes yeah, he's a little bit in love with his best friend.
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30 Nov 2025
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Buck tries to commit the frame to memory, wills himself not to forget the important details—Eddie on his knees in front of him, his nails seeking purchase along Buck's thighs as he drinks him down, his drawn-out gasps when Buck returns the favor.
After, when Buck reaches out for quiet confirmation in the dark, asks him, "Good?"
Eddie tells him, earnest and hard-won, "Everything is good with you," and Buck can bask in the illusion of a world where he almost believes it.
Buck is trying to leave the past where it belongs. Then he wins an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy, convinces Eddie to join him, and falls headfirst into (not so) casual sex with his best friend.
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24 Nov 2025
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In 2019, Buck drops the lawsuit, leaves Los Angeles and stops all contact with his old team (and Eddie). In 2021, after Maddie gives birth to her daughter, he comes back to meet his niece. Eddie offers him to see Christopher again and finds himself sharing custody with a man he had never even been together with.
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15 Nov 2025
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“You don’t have to do that,” Eddie says.
Buck shrugs. “You also don’t have to smile at every person who says ‘she’s in a better place’ like that helps, but here we are.”
The joke is soft, an opening. Eddie almost steps into it. “You’ve already done a lot,” Eddie says instead, faster than he means. “Go sit. Or eat. It’s—”
He hears it lining up and can’t stop it.
“—this is family stuff. I’ve got it.” The words are wrong the second they’re out; he hears them like Buck must. Buck’s hands still on the plate.
Or, Eddie is taking things day by day. Buck has a bit of a breakdown, then a bit of a breakthrough. Chris sees dead people.
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11 Nov 2025
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The night started out lovely. Maddie wanted a fun night, not one in a loud bar with rowdy twenty-somethings, nor one that was spent watching Bluey until her eyes glazed over. She wanted everyone she knew and loved to dress up for the evening, drink fancy wine, and not worry about children or dead father figures or fires in spaceships or about how much they wanted to kiss their best friend.
or, i couldn't figure out which line to put here for the summary, but this is just silly buckandeddie kissing in the rain moment<3
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07 Nov 2025