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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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    10 Feb 2025

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    Buck doesn’t think that if he were to say, “I’m in a bad place”, that anyone would turn him away. Really, he doesn’t. The 118 has too many good, kind people for that.

    But every time he wants to open his mouth, to say something, to reach out to Eddie or Bobby or Hen or Chim, he hears Eddie yelling, “you’re exhausting.”

    —you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting—

    So each day he does his job and he laughs and he jokes and he pretends he’s the care-free goofball he’s always been. And each day he packs away his bruises and his worries, takes them home to his empty loft with its quiet rooms, and licks his wounds in silence.

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    25 Jan 2025

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    Going through multiple near death experiences leaves scars. Going back to work was supposed to make everything magically better, yet Buck still finds himself struggling with his mental health. His need to be accepted.

    He struggles alone. Until he can't hide it anymore.

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    17 Dec 2024

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    "Twice a year I gotta listen to him whine about re-qualifying, so I tutor him, and he fails again."

    Reid knew it wasn't true... and yet he didn't, and the part of him that didn't believe it was much stronger than the part that did. He laughed it off because that was the appropriate thing to do, but nearly twelve hours of anxious obsession later, he has to do something.

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    19 Oct 2024

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    Aziraphale had lost track of the days quite some time ago.

    He’d been counting the seconds in his head, before. Heaven was always bright, always lit by perpetual sunlight, and the Room was brighter than the rest of Heaven, too, so it made it quite difficult to keep track of… of…

    Aziraphale had lost track of the days quite some time ago.

     

    Aziraphale is punished by being put in solitary confinement. Eventually, Crowley finds out.

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    07 Aug 2023