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Buck hated the unpredictability of it all—the way his brain could speed up until it felt like he was running a marathon on a treadmill no one else could see. There were days his own thoughts scared him, spiraling out of control with no brakes in sight. And then there were the tic attacks—those overwhelming episodes that left him exhausted, nauseous, and often physically ill.
He hated it.
Hated having ADHD. Hated having Tourette’s.
There was no quirky upside. No magical, misunderstood genius buried under the chaos. Just exhaustion. Shame. A desperate need to feel normal for once.
It wasn’t fun.
It wasn’t interesting.
It was fucking hell.
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Evan Buckley has spent years hiding his Tourette’s from his team, from his friends, and especially from Eddie. Bobby’s the only one who knows, and Buck intends to keep it that way. He can’t risk losing what he’s finally found—family, belonging… and maybe something more with the man who’s become the center of it all. But when a severe tic attack hits the station, Buck’s secret unravels.—
Written by a girl with Tourette’s who knows what it’s like to live in fear of being too much! For Tourette's awareness month!Series
- Part 3 of Tourette's stories
- Part 1 of Buck Buckley Has Tourette’s
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17 Jun 2025
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- Part 1 of Wait for me to come home
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14 Jun 2025
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When Buck overhears Eddie choose to stay—too late, and not for him.
“You heard him,” Buck says. “But you didn’t hear me.”
From that moment on, something in him begins to crack. Grief grows louder and that maybe, just maybe, love will arrive seconds before the trigger is pulled.
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07 Jun 2025
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They thought they knew Buck.
The funny one. The reckless one. The golden retriever in turnout gear who ran into fires and fought with his heart on his sleeve.
Then one phone call changed everything.
Five moments when the 118 family uncover pieces of Buck’s past—his scars, his secrets, and the soldier buried beneath the surface—and the one time they watch him step back into that world, fully and without apology.
Call sign: Smoke.
Rank: Lieutenant Commander.
And no matter what the Navy or the battlefield tried to take from him, he’s still the man they love.
He’s not one or the other.
He’s always been both.
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aka. A five times the 118 learned a little bit more about Buck's past as a Navy SEAL and the one time they see it in action
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05 Jun 2025
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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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05 Jun 2025
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When a building collapse finds Buck lost in a maze of rubble and pain, he thinks he's reliving the day he saved all of the 118 – including Bobby. Disoriented and haunted, Buck fights to hold onto what’s real as he searches for his Captain. For the man he loves like a father. The man he can’t bear to lose.
This time, he’s not going to fail. Even if it kills him.
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31 May 2025
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Buck survived the lightning strike. He healed, he recovered, he went back to work—stronger, steadier, ready to move on.
Or so he thought.
When the symptoms return—quiet at first, then impossible to ignore—Buck’s world begins to tilt all over again. But he doesn’t face it alone.
With Eddie by his side, and the full weight of the 118 behind him, Buck begins the hardest part of surviving: learning to live again.
A story about resilience, fear, found family, and the quiet, fierce kind of love that waits with you in the dark.
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30 May 2025
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In Season 6, after Buck’s lightning strike, Bobby shouts to hospital staff that Buck’s allergic to naproxen. But how did they find that out? This is the story of the time everything went sideways — and the moment Buck’s found family made sure he’d never go through anything like it alone again.
Set during Season 2
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30 May 2025
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Buck isn’t a masochist. He’s not. He’s reckless and impulsive, borderline unnecessarily foolhardy at times, but he’s not a masochist. Not anymore. Not, well, he’s…
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30 May 2025
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Buck leaves the 118 to go isolate himself in Kansas. He ghosts everyone. Struggles with addiction. Eddie comes back to LA while Buck is still in Lawrence, Kansas.
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26 May 2025
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the way you move is like a full on rainstorm (and i'm a house of cards) by madddi13
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16 May 2025
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Eddie’s here, but he's not, and isn't that worse? At least Bobby is truly gone. At least he's not next to Buck, the closeness haunting him more than the distance would. At least Bobby's death wasn't Buck's fault, unlike this thing with Eddie, and Buck can't change who he is and Eddie hates him for it and that can't be fixed and-
Buck is drowning.
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or, the night of the kitchen fight, buck has a panic attack instead of sleeping.
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17 May 2025
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All he could do was watch and hope.
Of course, hope is a terrible thing. He should’ve learned that lesson by now.
Eddie could only watch in horror, in helplessness, as one final boom released into the air.
The line snapped.
Buck’s eyes widened in horror at Eddie, before quickly changing to sadness. To acceptance.
Buck disappeared under the concrete that came raining down.
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What if Buck didn't jump in time during 8x18
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17 May 2025
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a collection of my (unconnected) 9-1-1 chat fics!
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10 May 2025
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Buck had always been the guy who could bounce back. The one who laughed the loudest, ran into danger without hesitation, and carried everyone else's weight like it was nothing. But for the past year and a half, Buck’s world had been unraveling-slowly, then all at once.
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10 May 2025
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Evan Buckley grew up with one understanding; he wasn’t of value unless he was hurt. That belief fueled all his actions, and turned him into the reckless firefighter he is today. But it had also been festering into something more, turning into this ugly monster deep inside him.
When that belief system begins to feed Bucks low self esteem, and lead to mental health issues he is not equipped to deal with, he doesn’t know what to do. But he’s definitely not going to tell anyone.
He can’t be another thing for people to worry about.
But the team begins to suspect anyways, despite how hard he tried to keep them away. And Buck has no clue how to handle it when they begin to break down the walls he worked so hard to put up.
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09 May 2025
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28 Apr 2025
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His parents both looked shaken, but he couldn’t understand why. He was the one whose entire world got turned upside down, not theirs.
“So, uh,” Buck didn’t know how to do this. He and his parents never talked, “What are you doing here?”
“We came to apologize,” Philip said, “We should have told you about Daniel much sooner. We were lost in our grief, but that wasn’t fair to you. None of it was.”
His parents actually owning up to their mistakes? That was a new one.
“Uh, thank you,” Buck said. He knew he should say more, but he just didn’t know what. This was a positive thing, but that just made it even harder for him to navigate somehow.
“There’s one more thing,” Margaret said, “One more family secret that not even Maddie knows.”
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25 Apr 2025
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Buck is missing, presumed dead after Eddie moves to Texas.
Everybody has to deal with their grief while Buck is trying to find his way back to them.- Language:
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24 Apr 2025
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He realizes, as Eddie's asking a Texas realtor about bathroom accessibility, that he's in love with Eddie. That he's probably been in love with Eddie.
And there's nothing he can do about it.
Eddie has to leave.
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24 Apr 2025