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    Later—after he has drifted in and out of consciousness over and over, like rising out of a churning sea, first to the park ranger, who cannot stop crying, then in the back of the ambulance, and finally at the hospital, where the nurses speak to him in gentle voices that make him want to rip his own hair out at the roots and he finally stays awake, the pain too intense to allow him to drift back to the bottom of that warm dark water—Buck’s first clear thought will be, But it was all going so well.

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    Buck is attacked on his day off. In the aftermath of everything that's happened - from Maddie's leaving to Eddie's breakdown - he decides the best way to deal with it is to hide it.

    It goes about as well as one would expect.

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    16 Sep 2025

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    Hen stares at Buck for a long moment, then turns on her heel to walk upstairs. “Chim! Did you know that Peanut is a human child and not a small animal?”
    “Buck’s Peanut?” Chim calls back, leaning over the railing. “No? Is she not a dog?”
    “No!” Buck replies. “She’s a preschooler!”

     

    OR: At 22, Buck got one of his hookups pregnant and decided to keep the baby himself rather than let her be put up for adoption. At 26, he joined the 118. You know the rest, right?

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    15 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 19

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    Bucks not out as transgender to a single soul, that doesn’t exactly make his job easy, though. He works in close quarters with his coworkers, and it becomes even harder as his coworkers turn into family, especially as one grump melds into his life, like he was always there.

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    02 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 40

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    Every morning, Buck said goodbye to Vee, with a pat on the head. Sometimes, he took them around the house with him, during his morning routine. He would look in the mirror after flossing, practising his newfound vocabulary:

    "This is Vee, they go by they/them pronouns."

    Again, dumb.

    It helped some deep, unidentifiable part of him though, so it stayed.

     

    Or: Buck meets a nonbinary person, becomes emotionally attached to a plushie, has a gender crisis, confesses his undying love for his best friend, and remembers he has a family who loves him. Maybe in that order.

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    01 Sep 2025

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    Once he’s safely in the Jeep Buck lets his head fall back against the seat. He’s not having a panic attack, he’s not going to be sick, and he’s certainly not going to cry. Buck just feels lost. Suddenly he’s as much the kid the others think him to be. How is he supposed to cope with this.

    “Why are you still fucking dead?” Buck asks the imaginary Bobby in the passenger seat. “You were supposed to be here for me for this sort of shit. You were supposed to tell me what to do.”

    In the wake of Bobby's death and the birth of his nephew, Buck receives a diagnosis and makes some well meaning, but ultimately ill considered life choices. Will the path he's set himself on break him? Or will it be the making of the next new iteration of Buck?

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    21 Aug 2025

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