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He… forgot. Waking up curled around another person — around Buck — was not an uncommon occurrence. They'd been sharing the bed for a few months now, as they had back during covid, and would wake up tangled together sometimes. It was normal. It was routine. But this morning, he'd forgotten.
Eddie had woken up warm, comfortable, content, smelling that particular smell that came only from the warm skin of a person asleep, and his slowly waking brain had filled in the missing pieces it hadn't processed yet, signalling his motor cortex to lean down and kiss Buck. Routine.
He'd forgotten.
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12 Jun 2026
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“I heard you two were expanding your family! Another little one at Durand. We were so excited when we saw the enrollment paperwork.” She clasps her hands together. “Theo is an absolute joy. Let me show you what he’s been working on.”
Expanding your family.
Buck opens his mouth to redirect — it's a reflex, the correction sitting right there on his tongue. This isn’t the first time they’ve been mistaken for more than two totally platonic best friends who are both men and also raising children together.
It’s right there, polite and practiced: Oh, we’re not actually—
But suddenly Eddie’s hand is on his back. Not his shoulder this time, but lower. A few inches lower than two totally platonic best friends who are both men and also raising children together would justify.
Eddie’s palm presses flat against the base of Buck’s spine, fingers spread wide like he’s anchoring them both to the same spot.
“Thank you so much,” Eddie says. “We’re really proud of him.”
Or: The totally platonic act of raising not just one, but two kids with your straight best friend.
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“Shh, no, don’t talk. I just got a response, finally. From the others. They’re coming, Eddie. You’re going to be okay, just stay awake.”
The elevator hadn’t moved yet. They were still trapped in no man’s land, still stuck too far for them to easily get to Eddie and save him. Buck could try to keep faith, but Eddie knew better, and so Eddie had to say it before he lost the chance.
“Buck, listen, I—”
“Eddie, don’t. No goodbyes, okay? Please?”
“I’m not going to die without saying this, so shut up and listen.” Eddie managed to rasp out.
Buck, to his credit, shut up and listened.
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Buck and Eddie are stuck in the elevator together as Eddie bleeds out from his stabbing. Truths are realised, secrets are spilled.
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04 Jun 2026
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“I think Buck is pregnant.”
Hen slots her glasses back onto her wrinkled nose and says, “What, can you smell it on him?”
That shakes Eddie out of it a little. “What? No, his birthmark.”
The wrinkled nose is paired with an eyebrow raise, and Hen tilts her head a fraction. “What about his birthmark?” she asks slowly, like she’s talking to a child or a mental patient.
“It kind of…glows?”
Hen, his current captain, his former partner, one of his best friends, looks at Eddie like he’s lost his mind.
“Boy, if you don’t get out of my office so we can go home.”
or, Buck is pregnant. Eddie just doesn't know how to tell him.
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03 Jun 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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when the world's not perfect, when the world's not kind. by dylaesthetics
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
13 Jan 2025
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“Your friend Diego. Were you in love with him?”
Not a muscle twitches on Dad’s face.
“Dad, it’s fine. You can tell me.”
Dad gives him a nod so small, he barely notices it.
Christopher figured. But it’s nice to have the confirmation.
Next order of business, then.
“Are you in love with Buck now?”
Dad shuts his eyes, pained.
When he reopens them, he gives him another nod.
Figures.
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OR In the smouldering heat of El Paso, Christopher Diaz learns all about his dad, one old teenage diary entry at a time.
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- Part 1 of buckley-diaz family feels <3
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03 Jun 2026
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Maddie: I will bid on you
Maddie: For a fee
Eddie: What’s your fee?
Maddie: Babysitting for a month
Eddie: Done.
Maddie: AND more importantly
Maddie: You have to talk about what you said at wine night
(or, the text conversations that happened during and after the bachelor auction)
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02 Jun 2026
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“I wanted you to hear it from a friend,” Maddie says.
I don’t want to hear it at all, Eddie thinks, curling into himself as if that can shield him from the words that she has to say. I just saw him, he thinks, remembering the way Buck smiled at him in his dream and wondering if that’s the only way he’ll get to see his smile again.
(or, Maddie calls Eddie to tell him some news. He jumps to conclusions.)
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02 Jun 2026
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It’s not ideal, being dead. He can’t bake, he can’t take a shower, he can’t go to work. And he can’t tell Eddie he loves him.
It occurred to him in the too-fast flash of a second it took to fall 48 feet into the fiery subfloor full of rubble, glass, and rebar.
Oh, Eddie.
Not ideal at all.
or: Buck is haunting Eddie's house. That's not the end of the story.
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31 May 2026
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“How’re you really feeling?” Eddie asks.
Buck sighs, tips his head back against the pillow. “Sore. Shitty. Kind of hungry.”
“They have mediocre applesauce. I’ll get you some.”
Buck’s hand clamps around Eddie’s wrist so fast Eddie doesn’t see it move. “Don’t leave.” His voice is small, tight, and it burrows between Eddie’s ribs.
or: a moment in the hospital after s9e13
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- Part 24 of Buddie Ficlets
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31 May 2026
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Now, Buck’s backyard and home are bustling with the 118 family – the younger kids running around in various levels of Easter Best, the first generation watching with fond amusement, the parents sitting back with drinks and letting the older kids play unpaid babysitter.
It’s nice. It’s loud and a little chaotic and someone’s probably going to get a skinned knee before the end of the day and it’s nice. Eddie wants for more days like this.
or: a very buddie Easter
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- Part 28 of Buddie Ficlets
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31 May 2026
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all you can take with you is that which you've given away by fruitsdoesnotknow
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
31 Oct 2024
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There’s a nudge at his hand, a careful tap that finally makes him look up for the first time since they got there. Evan wipes his face hastily, trying to sniffle up the water in his eyes before anyone can see. He doesn’t want to cry, but sometimes he just can’t help it.
Because that’s his brother. That’s his big brother, in a hospital bed, with dark smudges under his eyes and a really bad cough that keeps getting worse, but he’s smiling at Evan like it’s all going to be okay.
All Evan heard was the machine. He counted the sounds, hoarded them, and wished he could just sit there and listen to the proof of his brother’s heart beating forever.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep –
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Daniel needed more. More surgeries, more transfusions, more time. Evan couldn't give that to him, but maybe, years later, thanks to Eddie and Christopher and Bobby, he'll realize. He was always enough for Daniel.
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- Part 13 of 911 Gotcha for Gaza Prompts
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On their way back from El Paso, Eddie and Chris get into a car accident. Concussed and confused, Chris calls Buck instead of 911.
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“Buck, I don’t want to upset you,” he said. “But can you feel this?” Eddie’s eyes gestured down at his arm. Buck followed along the bandages, expecting to see some sort of spot of red or maybe an odd-angled turn. Instead his heart rose and fell too fast as he realized that since they’d been talking, Eddie hadn’t just had his hand on his shoulder. His other was delicately wrapped in Buck’s exposed fingers, starkly white even against the bedding. Buck tried to move them, wanting so badly, even with all this and even as much as it could give him away, to curl back.
They didn’t move.
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After a spiral, Buck attempts the unthinkable. Eddie helps him recover, but his lasting injuries present new challenges that jeopardize his career. Now he has to get his mental health in order, face potentially leaving the firehouse, and all while being completely and totally in love with his best friend.Series
- Part 2 of drying of your tears
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The only warning he gets is the catch in Eddie’s breath, before he bursts into tears, dropping his head to the table with an audible sound as sobs wrack his body.
“I’m sorry,” he sobs into his folded arms as Buck blinks in surprise.
— the aftermath of buck and eddies first fight as a couple.
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Eddie wakes up with someone’s arms wrapped around him. Which is very concerning because he went to bed alone last night, like he’s done every night for over a year now.
He scrambles out of the bed, completely ungracefully, landing flat on his ass in a room that is unmistakably not his own. His heart hammers in his chest as he tries to make sense of it all in his just woken state. He peers over the mattress, to the person that was holding him, and he’s pretty sure his heart gives out all together.
“Maddie?”
She yawns from the bed, not opening her eyes, curling further into the pillow. “It’s too early, Howie, the alarm hasn’t gone off yet.”
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Or, Eddie and Chimney accidentally swap bodies.
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22 May 2026
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Buck.
His name is Buck.
This gorgeous barista is the Buck that Eddie was warned, explicitly, not to flirt with.
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Or: Eddie just wants to order a good cup of coffee. He swears thats all. Really.
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22 May 2026
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“This isn’t about the sleep talking again, is it?”
Buck freezes and his voice raises an octave.
“What? No. Of course not.”
“Buck, it’s just nonsense, okay? I know it’s kind of freaky, but you just gotta ignore it. I already talked to Hen and Frank about it. They both said it’s nothing to be concerned about and that it’ll probably pass soon.”
“Easy for you to say, man. You’re not the one getting woken up about it in the middle of the night by your boyfriend speaking in tongues.”
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or eddie has been talking in his sleep and buck is at the end of his rope about it. shenanigans ensue.
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18 May 2026