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“I don’t know, she’s cute. Nice.” Eddie shrugs again, and Buck has to refrain from snapping 'that’s the spirit!' He can be supportive. He can.
He can try.
“That’s it?” Buck tilts his head, huffing a breath that he thinks sounds enough like a chuckle.
“I don’t know. She’s a nurse, I think. She loves kids and science, I think Chris’d really like her.”
It only takes a second. Something in Buck cracks open and magma pours out, scorching heat that spreads and burns through every inch of his flesh. He doesn’t have time to rein it in; he scoffs against his better judgment, mumbling barely under his breath, “You gotta be fucking kidding me.”
Or : Eddie is about to repeat past mistakes, and Buck finally snaps.
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And maybe it’s exhaustion from hours upon hours on the road, and patchwork sleep that never got deep enough to even matter, or too much shitty coffee and gas station food. Or maybe it’s the fact that they didn’t bother to turn on the lights when they walked in, and the shadows are always kinder, combined with Buck sounding so earnest, and maybe a little bit heartbroken. But no matter the reason, Eddie can feel his anger draw back slowly, like the ocean pulled by the tide.
“I know, okay?” Buck breaks the silence again, cutting Eddie off before he can open his mouth. “I know it’s stupid. We had a good time, we had fun, that’s – that’s all it was supposed to be, right? A getaway. I know this last year changed things. We can’t just go back. I–I–I know that. It’s just sometimes I –”
His voice breaks. Eddie can almost picture the fragments of it hitting the floor.
“Sometimes I’m wondering if I still even have a best friend or –”
Eddie winces. “Of course you still – Jesus Christ, Buck.”
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Forced into a hundred and thirty cubic feet of space for a thirty-hour drive – something’s gotta give.
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- Part 1 of the long way home
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18 Feb 2026
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A decent crowd is gathered in the corner, overlapping cheers and laughter and whooping doing a great job at replacing the banjo playing in his ears. Too many people are obfuscating his view of whatever attraction that is, until Eddie spots a head swiftly appearing and disappearing over the crowd. Again. And again. No.
His gaze slowly drags towards Buck, who is already looking at him with a mischievous glint in his eyes and a self-satisfied grin splitting his face in half. Eddie starts shaking his head before Buck even utters a word.
“Absolutely not.”
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Buck rides a mechanical bull in Nashville. Eddie has an appropriate reaction to it.Bookmarked by thenecklace
17 Feb 2026
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stay (i would even wait all night) by sunflowerbuckleys (flashhwing)
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
13 Feb 2026
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"It's not about … not wanting a relationship."
"Oh." Something about the way Eddie said it, hushed and hesitant, felt dangerous. A precipice loomed before them, and Eddie danced on tiptoe towards it. Buck wasn't sure what they'd find over the ledge, but he knew he'd hurl himself over, if only Eddie asked. "No?"
In the privacy of the desert, miles away from anything they know, Eddie opens up to Buck.
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“You know,” Maddie says, waving a hand in a how silly! gesture before Buck can get the word out. “The competition.”
Eddie redirects his gaze to Maddie. “Competition?”
He could drop his glass on the concrete. Or yell fire! convincingly enough to buy him enough time to run. He could make himself throw up, or pretend to faint, or just make a break for his truck and drive it directly into the ocean.