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“First, you pack up at the house and don’t tell me, and now you just sneak in here and hope no one sees you?” Eddie asked, hurt. Buck felt himself tense up at the pain he caused his best friend.
“It’s tragic, isn’t it? I can’t even face the people who matter to me,” Buck told him. He turned to look at Eddie.
Eddie was leaning against the door frame, and Ravi started to walk out. “No, you stay,” Eddie said sternly as he looked at Ravi.
Ravi looked between them and didn’t know what to do. He leaned back against the locker. Buck let out a frustrated sigh. “What, now?” Buck asked angrily.
“You think that no one wants to say goodbye? You just left the group chat like it was nothing. You gave your transfer request to the interim Captain after Gerrard left, like it was nothing. No one knows how to talk to you, Buck. You just cut everyone off.” Eddie said. But Buck didn’t cut everyone off, no, he just started talking less, he just hoped no one noticed, but of course Eddie did. Eddie always noticed when Buck self-isolated.
Or, what happens when Buck moves out, leaves the 118, and ghosts Eddie Diaz?
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- Part 1 of It's Just a Number
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24 Jul 2026
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This isn’t the first time something’s gone horribly, catastrophically wrong for Buck, but it’s okay. It’ll work out in the end. It always has so far.
This is just a temporary setback. He pinkie promises.
Or, Buck loses his leg, falls in love, and gets his job back. Not necessarily in that order.
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24 Jul 2026
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“Thank you.”
Eddie shakes his head, letting go of the glass and reaching out to tuck the edges of the blanket in around Buck’s hips. Something for him to do. If his hands are busy he doesn’t have to think about how he failed him. He’s here. They both are. That’s what matters.
“You don’t need to thank me,” he says, quietly. “Not for this. Never for this.”
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Buck and Eddie have a moment.
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18 Jul 2026
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"Chim told me to go home," Buck murmurs.
Eddie swallows, gaze dipping down over the sight of him — Buck knows he’s a mess. Knows his hair must be all over the place, and the bags under his eyes definitely haven’t disappeared in the last couple hours. His clothes are wrinkled and he’s wearing two different shoes. Eddie’s gaze comes back up, slow, exacting, and then he asks, "So you came here?"
And Buck hears the question behind the question clearer than the question itself.
This is home?
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Or, Buck goes home.
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18 Jul 2026
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Buck’s loft floods, leaving him temporarily homeless and moving into Eddie’s house while Christopher is away at camp.
It should be simple. They’ve shared beds before. Buck practically lives there already. Nothing has to change.
Then Eddie kisses him against the refrigerator, Buck discovers he is apparently incapable of being quiet when Eddie is touching him, and their first night together ends with a neighbour knocking on the door to make sure no one is being murdered.
Buck is mortified.
Eddie is unbearably smug.Bookmarked by almostloverx
17 Jul 2026