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“It didn’t mean anything! I swear!” The random man Eddie has never seen before cries suddenly, somewhat stilted, looking directly at Eddie. “Please take me back!”
Eddie has no fucking idea what’s happening. It’s like he had a stroke and woke up in the middle of a telenovela.
Or, Buck needs a fake boyfriend. Eddie loses his mind and offers to play the part.
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11 Aug 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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Bookmarked by starlit_wanderer123
08 Aug 2025
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Eddie's an affectionate guy, is the thing. But he's not usually like this, at least not in the middle of a crowded bar where other people can see them.
Buck doesn't think anything of it, at first.
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- Part 28 of 9-1-1 Prompt Fills and Ficlets
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06 Aug 2025
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So maybe Buck actually is in love with his straight best friend. It's cool, though. He knows Eddie gets it, even if Maddie doesn't.
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Bookmarked by starlit_wanderer123
30 Jul 2025
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It's only when Eddie's touching Buck that he feels alive again.
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Buck can’t tell if Eddie is asleep on the couch. He’s tempted to go look, to see if he can find the catlike gleam of Eddie’s eyes in the shadows and know he’s not the only one still reeling—not just from Bobby’s death, but from that argument in the kitchen. Buck knows what he would have done in the past, were Eddie alone in his grief. Were it not Bobby who had died but someone Buck only tangentially knew, or hardly knew at all. He’d have cracked the shell Eddie always builds around himself, made Eddie talk about his feelings. Demanded to be let in and allowed to carry some of the load.
But they’re still standing at opposite ends of this damn tunnel. He doesn’t know how to meet in the middle, where the dark is thick with things they can’t say.
There’s a shift from the couch, a creak of leather. Then silence.
Buck steps into his bedroom but leaves the door cracked open, as he’s taken to doing since Eddie came back from El Paso. It’s an unspoken invitation he doesn’t actually expect Eddie to take. Before, because that’s not what they do. Now, because Buck can’t be what Eddie needs him to be right now.
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22 Jul 2025