(Odd) Bonding Rituals: Double dd(ispatch)
Fics featuring bonding moments between Eddie Diaz & Maddie Buckley (occasionally one or other of them & other characters)
(Occasionally Buck & Ravi, non-sibling Buck & May)
(More or less just non-core firefam relationships)
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Eddie & May’s friendship, as seen through five moments and one text conversation. Featuring background Buddie, college woes, and a long-running mission to find the best iced coffee in Los Angeles.
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(Written for 9-1-1 Gotcha for Gaza.)
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He’s not jealous. He’s not, because that would be ridiculous. Buck is still his best friend and he’s at the Diaz household at least five out of seven nights of the week. He is still a very permanent fixture of their lives, helping Christopher with his homework and making dinner for them and driving them around town in Eddie’s truck. Eddie has nothing to be jealous of.
Now if only Eddie’s brain could get with the program.
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Or, after returning to the 118, Eddie becomes a full-time paramedic and Ravi becomes Buck's partner. Eddie absolutely doesn't feel anything about that, not at all. -
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18 Aug 2025
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Only one person may come.
Only one person will die.
The person who loves her most can choose to give their life for her, or choose to let her die.
If the police are called, she will be killed.
If anyone else finds out, she will be killed.
Only the one who loves her most can take her place.
There were instructions. A place to go, alone.
A very clear stipulation that the location was being watched. That if you were bugged, or tracked, or followed, Maddie would die.
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A serial killer kidnaps Maddie and leaves a note for the person who loves her most to trade places with her. Buck is only too willing to be the one to do it.
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----(M=injury, torture, (attempted/serial) murder)
(E=?! Pretty sure the first fic has more details)
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Now, as an adult with a greater understanding, he saw [the jeep] for what it was. While he needed companionship, Maddie needed freedom. Maddie needed a way out. Maddie needed a new life.
She had given it all away to Buck.
They had tried, in their own flawed ways, to give each other what they each needed.
Buck needed love and companionship and loyalty and he gave it to Maddie.
Maddie needed freedom and safety and a lifeline and she gave it to Buck.
The great tragedy was that they each could have had both, if they had been able to communicate better.
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07 Jul 2025
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Eddie stands, stupefied, in the centre of his home and not a single possession is out of place. No furniture upturned, the windows still intact in their frames. Every photo and drawing and lamp still in one piece.
But there should be damage right? Catastrophic, irreversible damage.
It feels like there should be.
Because Eddie had just pulled out the pin and thrown a grenade into his life that had carelessly, brutally obliterated all his carefully controlled peace.
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Missing Chris is less of an emotion these days and more of a physical entity. He’s sure everyone can see that he’s slowly hollowing himself out, that he can’t do much of anything else.
But when Jee laughs at him trying to get his tongue to touch his nose, and Mara loops one of her arms through his to keep him from tossing the rest of his cup in the garbage, Eddie feels solid again.
Maybe he likes yellow birthday cake ice cream after all.
(or, gerrard messes with the team's schedules and eddie 'i just drove my son to flee the state' diaz is the only option to watch mara and jee-yun after school on tuesdays, which, shouldn't be a problem at all, right?)