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Five times Bobby was there for Buck’s firsts and the one time he walked him down toward his only one.
(In between, the moment believed to be their last.)
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What Bobby could never understand was how the lightning could keep him on the hook, and yet didn’t seem to do the same with the Buckleys.
Bobby’s hands had calluses from how firmly they had held and played with the rosary, his back had bent under the pain of an injury from years before for how many times he had gone to the hospital chapel to kneel for a prayer. He had almost forgotten how to put words together to form sentences that weren't questions about Buck’s condition and drawn-out information about his health. He had taken his first, real breath with Buck’s when they removed the tube, and yet…
And yet the kid’s parents had decided to leave anyway, only a week after his discharge.
“And thank you Captain, for taking care of our son.”
Our son, Phillip had said; as if the kid had ever been theirs.
Bobby can't seem to move on after Buck's coma. They have a late-night talk about nothing at all and the kid might, or might have not, called him "Pops" once more.
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And there, Phillip's voice echoed in his head:“When you lose a child, you… you see him everywhere, in all the people he could have become, in all the lives he could have lived. It’s something you can never recover from, someone who can never be replaced!"
Because that was the point, wasn't it?
Buck didn't know how to be a son because he was never anyone's baby; just a reminder of what his parents had lost.
He knew that, but what scratched the walls of his brain was the annoying thought that crept under his skin and whispered the fateful question: did Bobby also see him as nothing more than what his kids could have been?
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Or, If being someone's son meant living as a fallback, Buck was destined to die in someone else's shadow.
Bobby won't allow that.
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Fly on your own by rcvenly
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
13 Dec 2024
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Five times Dabi accidentally courted Hawks, by imitating bird courtship rituals without realising it, and one time Hawks courted him as a human would.
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Hummingbird by rcvenly
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
30 Nov 2024
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The first and the last time Touya talks to Shoto, before meeting him again as Dabi.
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Or, the story of how Shoto started liking soba, except he doesn't remember it.
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21 Jun 2026
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“What happened? Is he – was it a blood clot?”
Bobby was parsing through every moment he had seen Buck during their shift – had he missed Buck favouring his leg in some way? Or rubbing his chest? Coughing?
Damn it, he’d known the risk was too high, why was Buck always so stubborn?
His entire body was pulsing with fear-fuelled adrenaline as he considered all of the worst case scenarios. He was so focused on his own imaginings that he almost missed the nurse’s hurried reassurance.
“No, no, not a blood clot. Mr Buckley was brought in by paramedics after cutting himself.”
Bobby froze.
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Or, the episode tag to 3x06 Monsters, wherein Bobby makes an entirely incorrect assumption about what Buck ‘cutting himself’ means but at least it actually forces them to have a conversation and resolve some things.
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16 Jun 2026
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May realised a very long time ago that Buck was basically her stepbrother. So, when the lightning strike finally provided the impetus for Bobby to admit that he also brought a kid into their family, she had every intention of seizing the opportunity to properly integrate Buck into the Grant-Nash family.
And, look, if in the process she also gains a brother-in-law… clearly the universe was just waiting for the opportunity to make that happen.
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Or, the one where May ensures Buck is enfolded properly into the Grant-Nash clan, which means Bobby (and by extension the firefam, because gossip) suddenly gets significantly more insight into the inner workings of the Buckley-Diaz family, and all roads lead to Buddie…
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15 Feb 2026
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“When I was little, maybe six or seven, I remember my mom saying that she ‘had to live with a reminder of her loss, staring her in the face every day.’ That’s all I ever was to them. Their grief was a cage, a gilded one, but still. And they locked me and Maddie in there with them. Maybe, doing this, asking them to sign away any claim they have to me? It-it sets them free, sets us all free.”
Bobby’s not thrilled about the metaphor, and even less thrilled about the anecdote.
Stories like that remind Bobby why simply telling the whole truth – that Bobby and Athena were pursuing an adult adoption of Buck – is out of the question. Margaret and Phillip are manipulative at best, abusive at worst; and their reaction to such an announcement would be wholly unpredictable. Keeping the adoption out of things is the best course of action, Bobby knows that. But God does he want to rub it in their faces that, for the rest of his life, he gets to be Buck’s dad and claim him as his son.
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01 Nov 2025
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There were footprints she didn’t recognize leading up to the house.
For a moment, Ellie couldn’t breathe, choking on the frigid morning air, and she had a horrible vision of her dying here, outside, mere yards from where Joel – where Joel –
He’s not dead, she told herself firmly. And he won’t be if I have anything to say about it.
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What if David and his men beat Ellie back to Joel in episode 8, and she never got a chance to warn him they were coming?
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06 Dec 2024