Buddie One-Shots
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Wrong place, wrong time.
Most of their calls, if he thinks about it, are a symptom of wrong place, wrong time. Barring the idiot kids and the arsonists and the would-be-murderous husbands.
For example, that girl on her way to her cello concert that Hen accidentally hit with the ambulance. The people in the soccer stadium when the blimp crashed.
Eddie Diaz at a grocery store at nine at night.
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or: Eddie goes missing after shift one day, and Buck is left to pick up the pieces.
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- Part 1 of Buddie One-Shots
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Buck is late.
The wait staff is giving Eddie sympathetic looks. They’re whispering to each other on the other side of the door to the kitchen thinking he can’t hear. “He’s been stood up,” one of them whispers. “Should we give him a dessert?”
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Buck doesn't show for his and Eddie's one year anniversary, and Eddie enlists Athena’s help to find him.
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- Part 2 of Buddie One-Shots
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Literally 1,000 words of Eddie and Buck being cute and soft with each other.
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- Part 3 of Buddie One-Shots
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Buck has wondered before what it was like underground when Eddie was buried alive, and the idea of being buried alive gives him the fucking willies for sure, but he's never been afraid of tight spaces.
He's an object, a piece of a collection yet to be harvested. The sound of the dirt being piled above him grows more and more muffled until it's gone completely and he lays in silence.
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Buck is buried alive and it's a damn good thing Eddie stalks him on Find My Friends.
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- Part 4 of Buddie One-Shots
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There’s no sunshine without Buck. There’s no breath. There’s no life.
For three minutes and seventeen seconds, Eddie once knew what the world would be like without Buck. It was unbearable, soul-crushing, but he knew that there was a chance that Hen and Chim, the best of the best, could bring him back. And then Eddie laid his hands in the center of Buck’s chest and shocked his heart into beating again, and the world was almost right.
The world was only right when Buck woke up. But the world will never be right again. There’s no coming back from a headshot.
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Buck dies, and Eddie makes a deal with a supernatural being to bring him back.
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- Part 5 of Buddie One-Shots
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"This is Eddie. I'm pinned. Buck's hurt. Stand by."
"Hurt how?" Bobby asks.
"Impaled. Stand by."
"I need details, Eddie!" Bobby's voice is strained, even through the radio. Buck thinks of Springsteen tickets and rosary beads and dinners at the Grant-Nash house.
"I'll give you details when I have them," Eddie practically snaps.
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- Part 6 of Buddie One-Shots
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He's drunk. He's in bed. He had a bad date. Buck is somewhere in the house.
It's a horrible time to open Hinge.
He passes profile after profile, no one catching his eye. He can't even be sure why he's on there until he finds it. Him. He finds him.
Buck.
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Or Eddie and Buck match on a dating app.
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- Part 7 of Buddie One-Shots
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Planes give Eddie anxiety.
Chris makes it better. He holds Eddie's hand and assures him he doesn't need to be afraid. He never makes fun of him for his fear.
His son isn't here right now. His son is safely on the ground in LA, living it up with Buck while Eddie flies to El Paso for a high school friend's wife's funeral.
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- Part 8 of Buddie One-Shots
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dirty school teacher buck 1.0 meets angry season 3 firefighter eddie diaz
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- Part 9 of Buddie One-Shots
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"Go for Buck."
"Hi, Buck," Eddie says, and then his brain spits out, "First-time listener, long-time caller." He feels a sense of accomplishment when Buck coughs out a laugh.
"I can honestly say I've never heard that one before."
"Glad to be of service."
"Alright, funny guy, what's your name?"
Buck has an audible smile in his voice. "Eddie."
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Late night radio host!Buck x Insomniac listener!Eddie falling in love over the radio. Eddie started listening to a new radio station to help him through his sleeping nights. Starts calling in to chat with the host with the soothing voice. Often falls asleep in the middle of the call. Buck's voice might bve the best sleep aid Eddie's ever had.
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- Part 10 of Buddie One-Shots
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Buck's gotten pretty used to answering the phone at all hours to talk Eddie down.
Post-season 7, Eddie's having a hard time coping with Chris's absence.
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- Part 11 of Buddie One-Shots
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It's only happened a few times.
The first time he was thirteen, sleeping in his bed at home after another ER visit. Maddie had just left and he felt more alone than he ever had, and he woke up unable to move. At first he thought he'd hurt himself worse than the doctors had said, that he'd been paralyzed. He could still move his eyes and look around him in the dark room and he could still feel his sheets pressed against him as he was curled on his side. But he couldn't move a muscle.
He thought he would be stuck like that forever, staring into the darkness.
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Buck has sleep paralysis. He's gotten used to handling it on his own.
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- Part 12 of Buddie One-Shots
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Then the earth quakes, and Eddie feels his foot shift where it rests on the ground. He's standing too close to the edge, and Buck is standing too close to him. If the last thing he does in this life is protect Buck, he would be fine. He plants his hands on Buck's chest and shoves him back.
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No, Tommy will never measure up, because Buck's bar is so high it's out in space. Eddie climbed right on up and put it there himself. And it's not fair to anyone to treat Tommy like some consolation prize.
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- Part 13 of Buddie One-Shots
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Buck is done talking. He reaches behind him until his fingers wrap around the doorknob.
Tommy doesn't let him get far.
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Buck breaks up with Tommy and briefly goes missing. Eddie (obviously) freaks out about it.
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- Part 14 of Buddie One-Shots
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He certainly won't say anything to jinx it, but as he drives through LA toward the firehouse that morning and sees exactly zero angry drivers and surprisingly clear traffic, he braces himself for two possible days: busy as hell or completely, utterly, mind-numbingly slow.
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The 118 has a very, very slow day and go a little crazy about it.
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- Part 15 of Buddie One-Shots
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My best friend and his son are the most important people to me, right up there with my sister. My best friend and I have been there for each other and helped each other through genuinely unimaginable things. Horrible, tragic things. He's been my shoulder to lean on through everything. We promised when we first met to always have each other's backs and we've never broken that promise.
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Honey, I mean this in the gentlest way possible: have you considered you might like him as more than a friend?---
Buck is confused and goes to Reddit for advice (and it somehow doesn't end horribly)
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- Part 16 of Buddie One-Shots
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Buck never got around to making a sourdough starter. But when he got home after Eddie's first shift back, he suddenly felt the urge to do so.
Nothing was going well. Everything was slightly wrong.
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Buck makes a sourdough starter as a coping mechanism.
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- Part 17 of Buddie One-Shots
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Eddie can't quite get past the crippling fear he'd felt over the past 36-ish hours. Every pickup truck that comes too close, any bump in the road, any moment he so much as looks to the left and Buck is out of his field of vision. He can't lose anyone else, much less Buck. His Buck. Chris's Buck. The first person who saw him for who he really is, not just for his mistakes or his potential. The first person who helped him without even needing to ask while asking for nothing in return.
His Buck.
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Eddie and Buck drive home from New Mexico.
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- Part 18 of Buddie One-Shots