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Despite that, everyone seemed to be settling into this new normal like things were going to be okay.
They weren't. They couldn't be.
Buck sighed softly through his nose and swallowed another mouthful of the shitty vodka, pulling a face at the taste. He didn't care, though. The goal wasn't to have a good time, the goal was to shut his mind up and be able to sleep without dreaming. Sleep had been unbearable since the lab. Some nights, it was nightmares and losing Bobby all over again, or the entire team. But worse were the good dreams, the memories of his found family before it was broken.
Almost three months ago, he'd gone for drinks after a shift with Ravi to celebrate a good save. That night was the first decent sleep he'd had in a long time. No dreams. Plus, those few hours of being drunk had felt good in a way not much else had lately. Over time, the habit of just a couple shots to get to sleep had progressed to Buck getting fairly drunk a few days a week.
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Bobby's dead and Buck finds himself searching for peace at the bottom of bottles of liquor.
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- Part 8 of whumptober 2025