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“Go!” There was movement around him. He rushed into the room and immediately made contact with the glass. His hands pressed against it as he looked for Eddie.
His body froze. Buck tried to get himself to move, but he couldn’t. His legs felt like they were made of jelly. What was going on? He couldn’t get himself to understand why his body was so scared. Why his heart was pounding outside of his chest. Why there was a cold sweat slowly trickling down his back.
Something in his brain snapped. His hand was on the radio. Blue green light flooded around him.
Suddenly, he wasn’t looking at Eddie anymore. There weren't any firefighters around him or any sort of competition going on. All he could see was the glass in front of him. The glass he couldn’t break through.
As Bobby pulled his mask off his head.-or-
What if the last game wasn’t a race? What if it was something different? What if it reminds Buck of the lab? What if Buck had a PTSD attack in the middle of the competition and Eddie had no way to get to him?
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24 Mar 2026
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"Eddie?" Shannon picks up on the fourth ring. "Everything okay?"
"I kissed a man," he says.
The silence on the other end stretches for nine thousand years. Eddie can hear Shannon breathing. He can hear his own heartbeat slamming against his ribs. He stares at the apartment building through his windshield, at the lit window on the fourth floor that might belong to E. Buckley, and waits for his ex-wife to say literally anything at all.
"You what?"
"I kissed a man, Shannon. Just now. I was delivering food and he opened the door and I just— I kissed him. On the mouth. And I don't know why."
Another silence. Then a sound Eddie recognizes with dawning horror as Shannon trying very, very hard to suppress a laugh.
"Shannon."
"I'm processing."
"You're laughing."
"I'm processing." She fails spectacularly. "I'm sorry, I just— you kissed a man? Edmundo Diaz? The same Edmundo Diaz who wouldn't watch Brokeback Mountain with me because it made him 'uncomfortable'?"
"It did make me uncomfortable!"
"Yeah, Eddie, I'm starting to understand why."
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Being kissed by your Uber Eats delivery driver? Worse things have happened.Bookmarked by grumpbear1978
23 Mar 2026
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It’s the worst thing about me (and it’s always around) by lonesomeday
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
15 Mar 2026
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It starts with aches and pains that Eddie tells himself are nothing—just aging and occupational hazard.
But it’s not nothing. And (un)fortunately for Eddie, being married to Evan Buckley means it won’t be downplayed.
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23 Mar 2026
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“But… you’re straight.”
Eddie snorts, taking a sip of his beer. “I am well aware of that, Buck.”
“So why do you want to take me on dates?” Buck asks incredulously. “Won’t that make you uncomfortable?”
That makes Eddie sit up straighter, a frown playing on his lips. “I already told you that you being into men changes nothing between us. I meant that.”
“Okay, fine, great. That doesn’t mean you have to start buying me romantic dinners.”
“I don’t have to do anything,” Eddie points out. “I want to. At the very least so that you understand what romance really looks like and don’t settle for a dickwad like Tommy ever again.”
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OR: After his breakup with Tommy, Buck tells Eddie all the ‘romantic’ things Tommy did for him. Eddie is not impressed and takes matters into his own hands.
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AKA: The Buddie Romcom Fic
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22 Mar 2026
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Buck is dealing with the breakup just fine, thank you very much. Losing Tommy hurt like hell, but he would be okay like he always was after heartbreak. Even as he starts to talk about the relationship, things that went wrong, the things that just never seemed to click, things that make him angry and panicked, he tells himself that those feelings are normal after a serious relationship ends. It's normal to feel resentful, and mad, and betrayed, and horribly disgusted.
Except according to his friends and family, that is all very, very NOT normal.
Or a messy vent fic based on the song Body Back by Brye, where Buck has to slowly realize being coerced and pressured into sex by your partner isn't normal and is very much sexual assault. With a side of protective and enraged Eddie who wants nothing more than to heal all of Buck's hurt.
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Obviously, this is not canon or anywhere near it. I don't hate Tommy's character and I don't think he'd ever do this, this is simply a vent fic that I could easily slot him into.
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22 Mar 2026