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With winter comes holidays and with that Steve is alone.
That is until his platonic soulmate calls in a favor with a certain metalhead.
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Steve can’t help himself, he smiles and lets his own little giggle out.
Eddie looks absolutely ridiculous and Steve might know him, like, at all. But he’s definitely someone he’d like to know eventually, being this dramatic over a little comment? That’s someone worth knowing, he thinks.
(aka a meet-cute including bad hair days, complaining, friendships & love)
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Feels Like the World's Gonna End (But I'll Get You Through) by nburkhardt
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jul 2023
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To a regular person, July 4th is a good day. It’s a day to celebrate and enjoy one another.
To Steve Harrington it is everything but.
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It's not the first time Steve looks for him. It’s an unfortunate side effect from nearly dying; insomnia and nightmares.
(A very short and sweet moment between Steve and Eddie)
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He has a bleeding heart, a need to love more and having one more friend is fair game.
He knows the rules now, just maybe he forgot to tell his heart that.
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"Are you married?”
Christopher coughed so hard he nearly dropped his phone.
Buck choked on nothing.
Eddie said, “No.”
Theo turned to Buck. “Why?”
Buck’s mouth opened.
Eddie got there first. “Because you have to ask someone before you marry them.”
Theo considered this.
Then he looked at Buck. “Did you ask?”
“No,” Buck said quickly.
Theo looked at Eddie. “Did you ask?”
“No.”
“Why?”
Christopher whispered, “Great question.”
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05 Jun 2026
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“He’s not,” Christopher interrupted after he swallowed, his eyebrows furrowed, “that’s not- no. Bucks not my uncle.”
His abuela waved a dismissive hand, “Oh, of course not, I know that. Isn’t that a thing you young ones do? Refer to your parents' close friends as aunts or uncles?”
And here’s the thing, yes. He refers to Hen and Karen as his aunties. He’s never blinked at that. He routinely tells people that he and Denny are basically cousins.
Sure, he even calls Maddie and Chim his aunt and uncle without a second thought, but that’s because - well, that’s because..
“He’s not my uncle,” Christopher repeated, “He’s my other dad.”
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OR Five times Christopher Diaz sets the record straight on who Buck is to him and the one time he makes sure Buck knows it too.
(and a buddie confession just for funsies)
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17 May 2026
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Adriana stops dead in her tracks. Suddenly, there’s a figure looking over the railing. A girl, around her own age, with wide eyes, staring down at her and the blood trailing all over her body.
“Oh, my God,” the girl shouts when her eyes meet Adriana’s.
Adriana stares back up at her and stumbles on her already unstable feet, and it’s not because of the blood loss. It’s because of the literal angel staring her down. Her savior, if you will.
And despite it all, Adriana thinks she could be convinced that maybe God does love her after all. He must, if this is what he’s granted her—this divine intervention.
OR: While in Los Angeles for a job interview, unbeknownst to her brother, Adriana Diaz gets hit in the head by fallen space debris and meets a nice girl in a fire station to braid over her wound.
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21 Nov 2025
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why do i fear becoming a river. (which mountain gave me such shame.) by downintheflames
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
13 Nov 2025
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“Fuck it,” Eddie mumbled before unlocking the phone again and opening his text thread with Buck. They hadn’t texted since Buck asked him if he wanted a scone or a danish from their favorite coffee shop before their last shift. Eddie sighed and pressed the corner of the phone against his forehead.
He didn’t want to ask for help. He could spend another hour circling around the city. But he didn’t want to. He wanted this awful horrible day to be done. He wanted to hold his child and pretend for a little bit that everything was still whole. He sighed again before pressing call and pressing the phone to his ear.
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Eddie finally asks for what he needs in the aftermath of the sudden loss of his Abuela. Buck finally stops running from his grief. And then Eddie’s parents show up.
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17 Nov 2025
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“You didn’t know he was doing this?” Taylor asks as she takes her phone back.
“I didn’t know we were dating,” Buck whispers, eyes tracking Eddie as he heads back to the table. Taylor laughs and quickly stops.
“Oh my god, you’re not joking. Well, good luck with uh - that,” Taylor snorts. She’s gone before Eddie sits back down, sliding two gin and sodas across the table towards Buck.or
The one where Buck didn’t know they were dating and Eddie is embracing whimsy (and isn’t as much of a technophobe as we think he is).
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11 Nov 2025