Taylorm1509
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Buck shifted slightly. “Sorry.”
Eddie frowned. “For what?”
Buck kept his eyes closed. “For making you responsible for me all the time.”
Something inside Eddie cracked quietly. He turned toward him. “You’re not a responsibility.”
Buck’s face tightened immediately. Didn’t believe him.
So Eddie said the truer thing. “You’re someone I love.”This time, when sleep started pulling at him again - he let it. Not because the fear was gone. Not because he trusted himself completely. But because Eddie was there.
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After a crisis changes everything, Buck ends up staying with Eddie and Christopher while he recovers and tries to figure out what life looks like afterwards.
What starts as temporary becomes routine. Routines become habits. Habits become something neither of them really knows how to name.
Buck learns that getting better doesn’t mean becoming who he was before.
Eddie learns that taking care of someone and needing someone might not be the same thing.
Meanwhile Christopher has plans, the 118 has opinions, therapy is deeply annoying, and two people who are absolutely convinced they’re just being normal continue making increasingly questionable friendship decisions.
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- Part 2 of Change is Inevitable
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Eddie swallowed hard. His voice broke slightly when he spoke again. “Thank you,” he said.
Buck’s head snapped up. “What?”
Eddie’s eyes didn’t quite focus on him. “Thank you,” he repeated, softer. “For not letting me die alone.”
Buck went still. Everything in him stalled for a fraction of a second. Like his brain refused to process the words in real time.
Eddie’s grip on him tightened faintly. “Take care of Christopher,” Eddie added.OR
A gunman loose in the hospital forces Buck and Harry into a desperate race to reach Athena while the building descends into chaos.
Three floors below them, Eddie is trapped in a stalled elevator bleeding out alone.
At first Buck ignores the voice calling his name. He has bigger problems. More urgent ones.
Until he realizes the voice belongs to Eddie.
And Eddie sounds terrified.
aka 9x18 rewrite of the elevator section because I didn't like how Eddie was ignored all episode
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Lucky.
The word snagged in his chest.
He’d heard it a lot lately. Lucky the bolt hadn’t stopped his heart for good. Lucky the damage hadn’t been worse. Lucky to be back.
He wasn’t sure it was luck.
It felt more like a clerical error.OR
He had died. Three minutes. And he doesn't know how to deal with that.
Buck had been back with 118 for a month now and he still doesn't feel readjusted. He doesn't feel real, it's like he is an imposter in his own life - watching life happened to him through a wall of glass.Series
- Part 1 of Change is Inevitable
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“You look…” Margaret starts, voice tight with emotion. Buck braces himself. “…better than I expected.”
He almost laughs at that. “High praise,” he says.
She doesn’t smile. Her fingers tighten around the glass in her hands. “When Maddie told us,” she continued quietly, “that you’d been taken -” Her voice wavers.
Buck feels something twist uncomfortably in his chest. “I’m okay,” he says quickly. “Really. They got caught, I’m back at work, everything’s - ”
“Daniel -” Margaret interjected.OR
After a visit from his parents, where his mom accidentally calls him Daniel, Buck struggles with feeling like he’s always been a replacement in everyone’s lives.
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And then Eddie exhales, shaky and uneven, the words spilling out before he can stop them. “I think we should kiss,” he says.
Buck blinks. “What?”
Eddie laughs once - a short, nervous sound - but the words keep coming, unstoppable now. “Just… to see what it’s like. I hadn’t really thought about it before now, not seriously, but - there’s something different about tonight.”OR
It's not about the fire.
It's about what comes after - the quiet, the burgers gone cold, the shared milkshake that always tastes a little too sweet.
Buck talks too much. Eddie doesn't say enough. Somewhere between the laughter and the late nights, something starts to shift - soft, unspoken, inevitable.
Three nights. One confession
And all the things they never meant to say out loud.
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