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1. the cold digs its heels in your head and you ache, ache, ache by thebirchtrees

   Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   03 Dec 2025

   Tags

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   • Evan "Buck" Buckley & Bobby Nash
   • Evan "Buck" Buckley
   • Bobby Nash
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Post-Season/Series 07
   • and/or early season 8
   • Evan "Buck" Buckley Has Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • Mental Breakdown
   • Drugs
   • cass goes insane over comaduo parallels: the fic
   • Bobby Nash is Evan "Buck" Buckley's Parent
   • Worried Bobby Nash
   • there was so much potential for buck becoming who bobby used to be—
   • oh well .
   • Alcohol
   • i'm not tagging this as addiction but maybe be careful?
   • it's defo not just recreational
   • Hugs
   • Sad Bobby Nash
   • Evan "Buck" Buckley Has Abandonment Issues
   • Grief/Mourning
   • bobby's not dead but buck's still grieving something

   Summary

   Athena shows up at his place one evening, demanding an explanation as to why he and Bobby aren’t talking for the first time in years. Why her husband could only go off of hearsay when she asked whether Buck was alright when he hadn’t come over for their long-standing monthly dinner.
   He tells her the truth.
   Bobby had decided to leave, months ago, and he isn’t fine with that, actually, despite whatever he’d said in the immediate aftermath, and he needs some space. Some time to figure out how to move on from that.

   Or; Bobby decides to leave, almost dies, and stays after all. Buck doesn't know what to do with that. Things spiral from there.

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