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    Where happiness goes to die. Then gets revived. Then we maim it.
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    In the seat Maddie was previously in, Eddie’s talking quietly to her brother, their heads bent close over the fire. She can’t really hear what he’s saying over the wind, only catching snippets of gentle syllables. Settled on Buck’s back, Eddie’s hand swipes absently up and down his spine, deft fingers smoothing out the creases of Buck’s robe. He murmurs something, laughing around the words, and Maddie watches as Buck’s cheeks dimple, a small smile tugging his lips upwards. 

    Swallowing, Maddie clears her throat quietly, crossing the last few paces up to them.

    “Hi, you two,” she says, carefully walking around the fire to sit on Buck’s other side.

    Buck smiles at her, eyes slow-blinking and droopy. His knee pushes into Eddie’s as he shifts in his place, pulling his sleeves further over his hands.

    “Hey, Maddie,” Eddie says, face rosy in the dusky light. “You okay?”

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    28 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 63

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    He knew Bobby was going to want to talk to him about this at some point, and Buck just couldn’t handle that. Couldn’t handle Bobby asking why he did it, if he learned nothing from hearing Bobby’s own story. Couldn’t handle hearing the disappointment in his voice.

    So, while he knew he couldn’t avoid Bobby forever, he could surely try.

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    9x15, if Bobby were still alive

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    28 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 20

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    There were no hard and fast rules when it came to soulmarks, but there were a few generally accepted principles:

    1. The marks are echoes of your soulmate’s first waking thoughts, usually in their native language.

    2. The marks last anywhere from a few hours to a full day, depending on the intensity of emotion.

    3. They appear sporadically, not every first thought is focused enough to appear as a mark.

    4. They appear on your body the moment your soulmate wakes, regardless of time zone.

    5. It’s rude to examine or comment on someone else’s marks

    6. Evan “Buck” Buckley doesn’t have a soulmate.

    Okay, maybe that last one was known only to two people, Buck himself and his sister Maddie, and Maddie refused to agree with him on this matter. Buck maintained however, that 28 years was plenty long enough to wait for an echo of his own without finally l accepting that, clearly, he was one of those unlucky few who didn’t get a soulmate. Sure, not everyone found their person- their echo, but most people at least got marks that gave them hope that their soulmate was out there somewhere. Not Buck, though. No, Buck was obviously meant to be alone forever. Or at least between hookups.

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    27 Mar 2026

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    “Buck, hey, what’s wro—”

    Eddie stopped in his tracks.

    Buck was just standing there, fully clothed and on two feet. Just a slight grimace on his face as he rolled his shoulder out.

    “I’m okay,” he said through clenched teeth. He rolled his shoulder again, letting out a loud cry as something didn’t sit right.

    Eddie surged forward, hands touching Buck’s biceps to stop him from moving. “No, you’re not! What happened?”

    A guilty look crossed Buck’s face. Eddie raised a brow as their eyes met, waiting for an answer. Buck looked down, then back up to Eddie’s face.

    “I kinda forgot how difficult it might be to actually take my clothes off and shower without help from a nurse in a hospital.”

    Or; After a traumatising kidnapping, Buck and Eddie take care of each other in the most intimate of ways.

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    26 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 9

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    The buzzing stopped. Something screaming in Buck’s brain tilted and swayed before tipping over and opening his mouth before he could grab a hold of it and set it right.

    “I’m getting a divorce!” Is what spills out.

    Silence. Dead air. All eyes swivel to look at him and Buck is seven, ten, thirteen and jumping in front of his big sister’s bullet.

    So - the thing is, Buck is not getting a divorce. Buck is not married. Buck is not in a relationship. Buck’s mouth is opening again against his will.

    “I’m getting a divorce,” he doubles down.

    [Buck and Eddie get divorced. Kind of]

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    This fic came to me in a flu-curated fever dream inspired by the Adam Sandler rom com Just Go With It. I do not enjoy Adam Sandler films, unless I am feverish when they become the only thing I am willing to watch. I do not understand this phenomenon either.

    Also this is a canon divergence au in the sense that I cannot remember the overarching plot points of the arcs I am playing with. I can’t even remember what season Boston is from. Just go with it?

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    25 Mar 2026