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When Bobby enters the hospital room, he’s expecting chaos. Chaos, crying, nurses and doctors running around, monitors beeping. He’s expecting to see Buck with a clipboard and Eddie pacing. They’ve been waiting for this day for nine months now – longer, if you count the planning, and even longer still if you count the time Bobby was waiting for Buck and Eddie to pull themselves together – and it almost doesn’t seem real now that it’s here.
So, yes, Bobby expects chaos, as he usually does when Buck or Eddie or any others from their little family are involved.
Instead, what he finds is peace.
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Eddie feels his own eyes prickling as Buck’s cries turn into heavier sobs, his breath gasping between each as if there’s not enough oxygen in the world.
“Eddie,” his fingers are clenching at Eddie’s shirt now, holding him tighter, closer. “Eddie, why – why –”
“I don’t know,” Eddie whispers into his hair, lips grazing along Buck’s hairline with every word. “I don’t know. I’m so sorry.”
“And – and you –” Buck trails off, even though Eddie desperately wants to hear what Buck has to say. He wants Buck to yell at him and tell him off for leaving, wants him to scream at him for being a terrible friend just so Eddie can feel – something. Anything. “You came back.”
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Eddie’s eyes are wide, and the instant Buck looks over at him, pointing right at Eddie as he sings the lyric, he feels his cheeks turning red and hot. He looks everywhere but at Buck because – because what is Buck doing?
He makes the mistake of looking at Hen, and her eyebrow is raised right at him. He’s not sure if she’s even glanced at Buck a single time since he started singing. Eddie can’t look at her, and he can’t look at Buck, especially when Buck is singing a song about loving himself – which is great, really, because Buck deserves to actually like himself for once – but Eddie can guarantee that Buck is probably doing some hip movements that will send him to the floor.
“Um,” Eddie stammers, and then he’s bolting out of the booth, up and over Chimney’s lap in a very ungraceful manner, and shooting to the bathroom without another word.
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Because Buck thinks he could build something with Tommy. He could love Tommy, if he put his mind to it. Tommy is fun, and serious, and competent and good at his job and he is really good in bed and with his mouth. He could love him.
He could. And maybe he even would, if he didn’t already –
He screeches to a halt at the next red light, almost missing it as the images race through his mind. An image of Buck himself digging through the mud, calling and calling the name of a man buried beneath feet of dirt, the name of a man that couldn’t hear him. He feels his heart breaking as Bobby grabs him, as Buck sobs into the sky.
Buck blinks and realizes that he could love Tommy, if he didn't already love Eddie.
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Eddie has not stopped talking since they left the restaurant. He thinks that he kind of blacked out during the actual dinner, because he’s not really sure what actually was discussed or how they even ended up sitting next to Buck and Tommy. But as soon as they got back into the truck, it was like the dam breaking loose.
“I mean, it’s so great,” Eddie says once they’re back in his bedroom, as he takes his shirt off in the closet. He’s not even paying attention as Marisol perches on the edge of his bed. “They’re two of my friends, it’s awesome.”
He’s happy for Buck, because Buck deserves to be with someone who gets him and will love him like he deserves. He just . . .
“Is Tommy too tall for him?” Eddie asks. “Like, they’re the same height.”
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Despite its appearance, Dalton is actually a school for assassins. A spin on the events starting with Blaine's arrival in season 2.
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Kurt and Blaine Anderson-Hummel are married, live in New York suburbs, have successful careers, and, most importantly, are raising three beautiful children.
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Eddie's life post-clown is different. There's a wheelchair by his bed and a Richie by his side.
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“You’re very talented at being bad at flirting.”
“Who says I was flirting? It would be inappropriate to flirt with my son’s teacher.”
Buck pulls out the chair across from Eddie and drops down into it. “Would it?”
Eddie shrugs. “Could be. Probably.”
Or, Eddie goes on a date with his kid's teacher. And sure, fine. It's also the guy he's been sexting with for months. By accident.
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- Part 2 of T is for Texas
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20 Jan 2026
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romancingtheuniform.com (a terrible idea, allegedly) by buckmeetsboy
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30 Dec 2025
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Eddie Diaz joins a dating site. Eddie Diaz meets a firefighter. Eddie Diaz reports for duty at the 118.
OR Eddie meets Buck on romancingtheuniform.com before his first day at the 118
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18 Jan 2026
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Buck yelled back, “I’ve always liked him!”
Chim yelled, “That’s not the question!”
Buck yelled, “IT’S MY ANSWER!”
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Or newly dating Buck and Eddie invite the 118 over for a dinner party.
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17 Jan 2026
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“Chim is gonna be at the hospital for awhile. He asked me to handle shift transfer,” Eddie says casually.
Buck pauses mid-whisk. “He asked you?”
Eddie levels him with a stare. “I’m gonna pretend you don’t sound surprised before I get offended,” he says, voice flat.
“I’m not surprised!” Buck holds his hands up in surrender, the whisk dripping a traitorous stream of beaten egg onto the counter. “I just–y’know. Kinda figured he’d ask me.”
or: Chimney asking Eddie to handle shift transfer effectively makes him Interim Captain Diaz, and he is going to use his newfound power to annoy the shit out of Buck for as long as he possibly can.
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15 Jan 2026
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He left, and when he told Maddie she cried and Buck held her until she stopped shaking. He stayed for a dinner he made, and then well past Jee-Yun's bedtime and Chim had told him, seriously, when he was gathering his things and Maddie had fallen asleep on the couch, to do something that should have been simple. "Call Eddie."
"Sure," Buck said with a half smile and a bubbling in his gut.
He wasn't going to call Eddie. Eddie was busy, and Buck was an adult, and, in the grand scheme of things, his mother dying wasn't anything for anyone to worry about. She was dead, Eddie Diaz could stubbornly restart Buck's heart, but Margaret Buckley was well past the ressusitation point. Eddie was a lot of things (smart, capable, funny, handsome, adorable, so, so, so kind), but he wasn't a necromancer.
Besides, what had sent him back to Texas was much more important than Buck dead mother.
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Or a story about grief, and love, and all of the complicated emotions in between.
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31 Dec 2025