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    About a week after starting back at the 118, and about three weeks before he was supposed to start getting a steady check again, Buck quietly moved out of his loft—

    —and into his jeep.

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    11 Nov 2025

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    This isn’t the first time something’s gone horribly, catastrophically wrong for Buck, but it’s okay. It’ll work out in the end. It always has so far.

    This is just a temporary setback. He pinkie promises.

     

    Or, Buck loses his leg, falls in love, and gets his job back. Not necessarily in that order.

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    27 Oct 2025

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    “Just say it, Chim,” Eddie replies, his tone clipped.

    Chimney winces but presses on. “Eddie…” He hesitates, glancing at Karen like he’s begging her for an out. She nods firmly. No turning back now. “Buck is dead.”

    The line goes silent. A heavy, eerie silence that settles over the room like a shroud. She knows what Eddie must be feeling right now—the cold shock, the hollow ache, the frantic disbelief. She remembers how it felt when Chim had told her Hen was dead, how her world had stopped spinning for one agonizing moment. Her hands curl into fists against the table. This is fine. This is part of the plan.

    But then there’s a screech through the phone, followed by an extended, blaring honk.

    Karen’s stomach drops. Her eyes dart to Hen’s, wide with alarm.

    Fuck.

    OR: When Eddie leaves for Texas on bad terms with Buck, their friends can't help but meddle.

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    15 Oct 2025

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    “I am trying to be normal!” Buck shouts, and then almost bites through his tongue.

    “Normal about what?”

    You! I’m trying—I’m doing what normal best friends do, and—and this is what they do!”

    Normal best friends—what?” 

    — buck tries to act normal around eddie. eddie hates every second of it. ravi's unwittingly caused the whole scandal.

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    buck (tries) to act normal about eddie after reading an article, and it goes well for absolutely nobody involved.

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    13 Jul 2025

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    "I don’t like oranges.”
    “Since when?” Eddie frowns. “You used to love oranges.”
    Christopher shrugs. “I don’t like them anymore.”
    And that’s fine, really. Tastes change. Christopher doesn’t have to like oranges.
    It’s just that he does. Christopher loves oranges. Christopher has loved oranges since the first time he tasted one, Eddie watching on over a shaky video call from the desert.

     

    Or, Eddie knows his kid, and his kid loves oranges. Buck knows both of them better than Eddie realized. He shows it in various citrus-based ways.

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    13 May 2025