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There’s a wall of mirrors in front of him for some reason. He looks up from the snow globe he’s wrapping in bubble wrap. Considers that this is the first time his face has been on a wall of this room. He purses his lips. Tries not to think about it. Tries not to think about how much he looks like her. The same round face. The same light hair. The same blue eyes. Tries not to think about everything else he got from her. That inability to stop feeling–too much all the time–overwhelmed with every emotion that passes through him. Searching for any way, then, to shut the bad ones out. Avoidance as a survival tactic. He understands her, he thinks. He wishes he didn’t.
In this house, he's a child again. Just like every time he saw his mom while she was alive. Small and desperate for a love that, more than ever, he'll never receive. All the work he's done on himself–all the growth–he feels it receding with every second breathing this stuffy, dusty air.
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or; Buck's mom dies, and he goes to her funeral
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23 May 2026
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i always wanted a brother (i still remember my mother) by paramaydic
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
20 May 2026
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When he gets close enough, Chris can see that the paper he is clutching in his tiny hands is a card. A really badly coloured card, with a stick figure drawing of a woman and a much smaller figure with blond hair.
Oh.
Chris gets it before Theo even says the words.
“Mrs. Tina said it’s mother’s day on Sunday. We made cards,” Theo explains, his voice lacking the usual enthusiasm.
Chris has no idea what to say. He might relate, but that only makes it worse because he knows that there isn’t a thing you can say to make a child feel better after losing a parent. It just sucks, and there is no real fix for it.OR,
With Mother's Day coming up, Theo misses his mom. Chris knows a thing or two about that.Bookmarked by malapples
23 May 2026
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you can stay through the night in the palaces of my mind by buckstairs
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
15 May 2026
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“...What I’m trying to say is, we’re best friends, you know? There’s nothing romantic about it. Just best friends.”
“Best friends who live together and raise two kids,” Eddie adds, perplexed.
“Yes!” Buck agrees, nodding, “Exactly.”
“Okay,” Eddie says, but it’s not, not at all. He’ll be demanding answers soon.
(Or, Eddie wakes up without remembering most of his life. He doesn’t freak out, really, he just needs someone to explain why is he not married to Buck.)
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21 May 2026
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Theo plops himself onto the closed toilet seat, drowning in his Spider-Man robe while Eddie blow-dries his hair. He leans his face into Eddie’s stomach, humming to himself and fiddling with one of his bath toys that he’d rescued before being plucked from the water. The tub slowly drains, the bathroom is humid and nice-smelling, and there’s the weight of a toddler against him. Eddie isn’t just falling asleep, he can feel the stress of the day melting away.
He sighs. Theo tips his chin to look at him and sighs back, flaring his nostrils like they’re two tigers communicating in chuffs.
“I’m happy that you’re here, Eddie.”
“Yeah,” Eddie says. He aims the blow dryer down the back of Theo’s robe, making him giggle. “Me too, kiddo.”
or, Buck needs some help putting Theo to bed. Eddie has his back.
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20 May 2026
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Christopher has always secretly loved when people mistook Buck for his dad. He never said it out loud. Not to Eddie. Not to Buck. Definitely not to anyone else.
But every time someone smiled at them at the zoo and said “Your son is adorable,” Every time a teacher assumed Buck was Mr Diaz, every time automatically corrected people with a soft, “Actually, I’m…” before Chris could pretend for a second longer.
Christopher loved it. Because Buck chose him. Every single day. He was his Buck.
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Christopher is struggling to understand where he fits into Buck’s life now he has Theo
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- Part 3 of Welcome Home, Theo
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17 May 2026
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two years in the future.
christopher, theo, and their shared grief.
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15 May 2026
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Buck would rather stab himself in the neck with a fork, thrice, than let Maddie and Eddie say a single word to each other.
His concern is that they will become friends. Allies. Allies United Against Buck. Comrades Who Know Too Much About Buck. A terrifying, powerful joint force that simply cannot ever exist.
He will make sure of it.
Or, so that Maddie and Eddie do not ever mingle, Buck meddles.
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14 May 2026
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“You really did that for me?” he asks in near disbelief.
“Yeah. For you and Theo.”
Or, essentially Season 8 Episode 9 role reversal. When Buck can't adopt Theo, Eddie decides to fix it.
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13 May 2026
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Christopher immediately presses the FaceTime icon in the corner of the screen. It doesn't take Denny long to pick up.
"Did your moms tell you that Buck is adopting a kid?" Chris asks.
"Seriously?"
"Not just a kid, his biological son." Chris tries to keep the disdain out of his voice. He fails.
"Oh, man," Denny replies. "Guess you're not an only child anymore."
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or, Christopher Diaz and the desire to not be forgotten.
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13 May 2026
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Chris remembers, suddenly, the days after his mom died, the feeling of dread that lingered under his skin. The way it slowly bubbled up, over the years, until he couldn’t be this kid anymore, this kid who could look at the world and not see danger in every corner. He wishes that Theo will never be like that. He knows, living with a first responder, that the odds of him turning out any other way are against him.
“Hey, Theo,” he says suddenly, the words spilling from his lips without permission. “Do you think Buck is your dad?”
Christopher isn't sure how he feels about Theo, or what he means for him and Buck. When they're caught up in a disaster alone, he has plenty of time to figure it out.
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13 May 2026
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The solution seemed obvious. Glaringly so.
Eddie could tell Buck knew it too—in the way he wouldn't quite look at him directly for more than a few seconds at a time.
The enormity of it was already sitting heavily on Buck's shoulders.
Eddie stayed quiet for a moment, watching him carefully.
It would've been easy to ask the obvious question. Have you considered taking him in?
But that wasn't really the question here. Eddie didn't think Buck was struggling with whether he wanted Theo.
"What part of this is scaring you?" Eddie asked softly.
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9x18 Coda: Eddie talks to Buck about taking Theo in.
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12 May 2026
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“Hey, Buck?” Christopher says. “How do you know you’re not in love with my dad?”
Buck freezes. A full body clench. “Uh,” he says. “Could you - - I think I - - sorry,” he laughs uncomfortably. “Could you repeat the question?”
“I asked Dad, but now I’m more confused. And you date men, right? But you don’t date Dad. So how do you know you don’t want to date Dad?”
Or, Christopher has some questions. He asks the two worst possible people.
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11 May 2026
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“Do none of you care about the children? It’s a bachelor auction, and you, my friend, are a bachelor. Abracadabra, put your name on the list.”
“I can’t,” Eddie repeats. He can’t. He cannot. “I’m not.”
“You’re not? Since when?” Chimney frowns. “Who?”
It’s not Eddie’s fault that, at that exact moment, Buck walks in. So it’s not his fault that he opens his mouth and says, “Buck.”
Or, Eddie trips and falls into a lightly fraudulent HR-disclosed "consensual romantic relationship" with his best friend. Really, if you think about it, it's a win-win.
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11 May 2026
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From behind his back, Chris reveals his old, ratty Superman logo shirt. It’s way too small for him now, but, for some reason, he’s never thrown it away.
“This shirt has superpowers,” he whispers to Theo. "It keeps all the bad dreams away. It doesn’t fit me anymore, but I don’t want all the superpowers to go to waste. Do you think maybe you could look after it for me?”
Theo nods emphatically. “Yes,” he whispers. He looks up at him, his tiny face sure and determined. “I can do it, Chris.”
Or, Theo has nightmares. Chris works a hand-me-down shirt-shaped miracle.
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11 May 2026
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Buck helps Theo out of his truck, crouching down to zip up his hoodie properly. Theo leans into the touch for a second. Then Buck notices the paper banner hanging across the front entrance.
Father’s Day Breakfast!
Theo sees it too. And stills beside him.
“Oh,” Buck says softly.
Theo’s eyes drop immediately to the ground. His curls falling in front of his face.
“I forgot.”
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It’s Theo’s first father’s day without Connor and Kameron. Buck tries to navigate this to the best of his abilities.
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- Part 5 of Welcome Home, Theo
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10 May 2026
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Eddie overhears a conversation between Christopher and Theo, and he daydreams.
Some 9x18 spec, based on spoilers. A coda (sort of).
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03 May 2026
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Something’s shifted.
Eddie feels it in the way he carries himself, with a weightlessness that didn’t use to be there. He sees it in the carefree smile reflected in the mirror. He catches it in the way Chris looks at him sometimes, when he thinks that Eddie isn’t paying attention and that he can get away with dropping the mask of his teenage indifference.
He notices it in the way he is around Buck. In the looks that he lets linger, in the orbital pull towards him that he doesn’t try to resist, in the tug in his chest whenever he’s out of sight, and in the luminous warmth that replaces it whenever he comes back.
Eddie finally lets himself think about it.
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03 May 2026
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go home, loser.
She doesn’t feel like giving him a hard time right now, truly, but she’s hoping if she’s casual, maybe he’ll magically think everything is okay and actually go the fuck home.
A ding.
u send her out to me and i’ll put in my fucking two weeks notice.
She stares at her phone helplessly, then looks back to Robby.
“Fuck,” he barks out. “Fuck. Fine, I’ll…I’ll go figure something out.”
He turns on his heel and starts walking towards the cops.
Her phone dings one more time.
where’s mel.
(or, mel gets taken hostage in the ed. it changes trinity santos' entire worldview.)
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26 Apr 2026
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It was probably a good thing that no one assumed that Mel and Frank could possibly be dating. They had agreed to keep it a secret, after all.
But, come on. Not one rumor? Really?
It was starting to piss Frank off.
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26 Apr 2026
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it’s 1AM when langdon brings mel into the ER
or: a sex injury melangdon fic from abbot’s pov
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24 Apr 2026