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    “It’s Eddie.” At her expectant look, he scoffs. “Taylor. Even you have to admit. He’s great. He’s funny, he’s a handsome firefighter, and most normal people would find what a wonderful dad he is attractive. He sent me a photo of the sweater he was going to wear tonight, and he looks really hot!” Buck wags his finger. “Claudia is missing out, I’m telling you.”

    Taylor doesn’t reply for a long moment, long enough that Buck starts to worry.

     “What?” he asks.

    “Nothing,” she says, in a way that doesn’t sound like nothing.

    Buck tries to set up Eddie. It goes well for absolutely no-one involved. (a 5+1 fic)

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    29 Apr 2026

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    It’s something about the way Eddie phrases it. Something about the combination of his words and the way he’s staring down at the floor, and the flush in his cheeks and the way he’s fidgeting. Buck thinks, abruptly, he’s going to ask me on a date.

    “Well I - wanted to tell you first, and I need someone to watch Chris, anyways - I know he’s getting old enough now he doesn’t like feeling like he’s got a babysitter, so I was hoping - sorry. Not the point. Uh. I have a date on Saturday.”

    Just as abruptly as his own hopes had come soaring up above the cloud cover of his own unawareness - they go crashing back down to the floor - to the basement, and into the mud. “A date?” Buck rasps out.

    or - the one where eddie decides to start dating again, buck figures out his own feelings just a minute too late, and then he spends a week going through the five stages of grief

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    09 Apr 2026

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    “Was I… satisfied with the sex?”

    “Yes.”

    “The… one time we had sex five years ago?”

    Buck doesn’t seem to pick up in her voice the insinuation that this is a legitimately insane thing to ask, because he says, “I just want you to know that I’m really sorry if you weren’t. I was a different guy back then, and I’ve realised a lot of the sex I was having was probably really phallocentric and only focused on my own pleasure rather than my partner’s—”

    “Oh my God,” Natalie says.

    “I just wanted you to know that I’m really sorry if you felt unsatisfied.”

     

    or, Buck calls various women he's slept with. Eddie is perpetually long-suffering.

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    09 Apr 2026

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    "You wanna go for the title?"

    Eddie sets his beer down in the sink with a quiet clink, his gaze fixed on Buck like he’s made a decision and there’s no going back. His movements are deliberate, slow, almost predatory as he closes the distance between them. The air shifts.

    or the one where they go for the title

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    09 Apr 2026

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    “She was smart, and kind, and good with Chris. And I liked her. God—I liked her so much. But I was never able to make myself love her, and... and I’m starting to think that maybe I’m just not meant to.”

    Buck stared, mouth slightly agape as he recognized a familiar pain that insisted on lingering. And he wasn’t sure whether Eddie had just gotten worse at hiding it, or if Buck had simply gotten better at seeing it. Throat tight, he eventually asked, “Not meant to what?”

    “Fall in love.”

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    The five times Buck and Eddie confide in one another about their failed relationships, and the one time they don’t have to.

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    09 Apr 2026