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When single dad Buck is caught wrestling his screaming six-year-old daughter Charlie through a grocery store parking lot, he blurts out a defensive explanation to a handsome stranger: "She's mine, I'm not stealing her. And if I was gonna take one, it definitely wouldn't be this demon."
That stranger is Eddie Diaz, a fellow firefighter and single dad who immediately understands. A friendship sparks between the two exhausted fathers.
What starts with playdates and parenting solidarity slowly blossoms into something more, until one quiet evening, Charlie looks up at Buck and Eddie and asks if they're "married now." By then, the answer is obvious: they already are, in every way that counts.
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19 Jul 2026
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when i got into the accident (the sight that flashed before me was your face) by buddie_swift
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
18 Jan 2025
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Buck is driving Eddie to the airport for his move to Texas when an accident changes their lives.
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the one where Buck and Eddie get into an argument before they're forced to spill their hearts out when they realize the next moment is truly never promised
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13 Jul 2026
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He’s not stupid. It took him some time — years — but Eddie’s half certain that, should his patience snap one day, should he lean in across the way one night when it’s just the two of them, should he palm at Buck’s jaw to bring his face closer and kiss him on the mouth, Buck would kiss him back. That’s not the problem.
The problem is that Eddie’s gonna ruin it.
He’s ruined every other romantic relationship in his life. If it happens with Buck, Eddie knows neither of them will come back from it.
These days, he’s content with having Buck the way he does now. He may succumb to weakness, sometimes, like he just did in the kitchen, holding Buck like that, but Eddie’s willpower is the stuff of legend. He’s happy with his place in Buck’s life. He can play the part of codependent best friend, dad who stepped up, platonic soulmate.
The main issue here, really, hindsight twenty-twenty and all, is that Eddie really misses being a husband.
or: five times eddie, willing and knowing, acts like buck's husband, and one time he. well. you can guess where this is going.
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04 Jul 2026
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“Where are you driving from?” Eddie asked, his mouth moving before he could stop it, his brain deciding that awkward small talk was infinitely safer than just standing there vibrating with nervous energy.
“East,” the guy replied with a casual, fluid roll of his broad shoulders. “Farther than I wanted to be, honestly. And definitely longer than I originally planned.”
Before the army, before Los Angeles, and long before the 118, there was a dusty gas station on the edge of El Paso, a broken-down Jeep with Pennsylvania plates, and a stranger named Evan.
For years, they were each other's entire world, surviving basic training, AIT, and a grueling deployment side-by-side. But a devastating wave of silence and a massive misunderstanding tore them apart, leaving behind a deep, soul-cutting ache and a history neither of them ever truly moved on from.
Now, the past has finally caught up to the present. Standing under the harsh fluorescent lights of Station 118, Eddie and Evan are forced to navigate the wreckage of the life they left behind—and the terrifying truth of everything they never stopped running from.
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- Part 1 of The Gravity of Us
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03 Jul 2026
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Afraid of Losing you, and I get Rageful by kidkasora (Pdeter_Pdarker)
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
14 Nov 2025
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There's an insistent tapping on Buck's face, and Buck's eyes drift open back up towards-
"Eddie," he says, maybe slurring through his name. It doesn't feel right, as if the words are buffering somewhere between his brain and mouth.
"Eyes on me," Eddie says, except it splits somewhere down the middle.
He has a determined look on his face, the one he wears when he's trying to make sense of a bad call, mouth set and ticked down at the corner. Buck knows that look as surely as he knows how to breathe, the same way his heart knows how to beat. Eddie is gravity, the pull at the center of Buck's world, and even now, when Buck can't find his footing, he can't help but be drawn toward him.
Behind Eddie's eyes, Buck sees fear.
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On the way to a routine call, the 118 engine is involved in a major lateral impact collision. It's confronting for Buck and Eddie, in more ways than one.
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30 Jun 2026