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Eddie wakes up with someone’s arms wrapped around him. Which is very concerning because he went to bed alone last night, like he’s done every night for over a year now.
He scrambles out of the bed, completely ungracefully, landing flat on his ass in a room that is unmistakably not his own. His heart hammers in his chest as he tries to make sense of it all in his just woken state. He peers over the mattress, to the person that was holding him, and he’s pretty sure his heart gives out all together.
“Maddie?”
She yawns from the bed, not opening her eyes, curling further into the pillow. “It’s too early, Howie, the alarm hasn’t gone off yet.”
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Or, Eddie and Chimney accidentally swap bodies.
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22 May 2026
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Buck.
His name is Buck.
This gorgeous barista is the Buck that Eddie was warned, explicitly, not to flirt with.
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Or: Eddie just wants to order a good cup of coffee. He swears thats all. Really.
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22 May 2026
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“This isn’t about the sleep talking again, is it?”
Buck freezes and his voice raises an octave.
“What? No. Of course not.”
“Buck, it’s just nonsense, okay? I know it’s kind of freaky, but you just gotta ignore it. I already talked to Hen and Frank about it. They both said it’s nothing to be concerned about and that it’ll probably pass soon.”
“Easy for you to say, man. You’re not the one getting woken up about it in the middle of the night by your boyfriend speaking in tongues.”
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or eddie has been talking in his sleep and buck is at the end of his rope about it. shenanigans ensue.
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18 May 2026
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“Did I do something?”
Buck stops and turns his head to look at him, confused. “Huh?”
“Look, I can handle it. I'm a grown man. I'd rather know.”
Buck frowns, holding out his hand to stop Eddie. “What are you talking about?”
“You haven't…” Eddie clears his throat, suddenly feeling his face really, really hot.
Buck’s frown snaps a little bit, his lips barely quirking up at the corners as he takes half step closer to Eddie. “Say it.”
“I…” Eddie’s face is on fire, his mouth is dry, and whatever courage he’d found within him has evaporated and disappeared. “I… can't…”
Buck nods, grinning. “Well, that answers your question.”
Eddie’s eyebrows shoot up. “So you're, what, punishing me?”
There’s a moment of stunned hesitation before Buck laughs brightly, blue eyes glued to Eddie’s annoyed face.
“Is not being kissed by me that much of a punishment?”
Yes. But he doesn't say it.
His face does though.
Or: Buck refuses to kiss Eddie. He's only kind of crashing out about it.
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17 May 2026
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"What are you saying, Eddie?" Buck asks again, soft and patient, and it's so unlike him that Eddie melts into his chair.
"Yeah," Eddie chuckles. "What am I saying?"
"Y-you want to try with me? Figuring out…"
"If we could want the same form of physical intimacy from each other," Eddie finishes for him with a nod, a little more confident now.
"H-how?"
"Uh, I don't know yet," Eddie admits. "Slowly, I suppose. I thought we could, you know, come up with a plan together?"
"A plan," Buck echoes, but he doesn't sound weirded out, more like he's already planning to buy a clipboard. "And it wouldn't be strange? I mean, considering— I'm a man, Eddie."
OR After the attack in the hospital, Eddie finds a letter hidden inside a book that Buck gave him, and reading it unravels him irreparably.
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He looks back at Eddie and Eddie blinks at him like he knows. “What the hell? Fine,” Buck says, throwing a hand into the air and letting it fall to slap against his thigh. “Family trip to Hershey.”
Chris cheers and Eddie grins, like he’s won and hasn’t just signed up to carry boxes around and watch two people he barely knows and probably won’t be particularly welcoming, argue over furniture. He leans in to pepper kisses on Buck’s face, ending with an audible mwah to Buck’s birthmark.
“Don’t get ahead of yourself, Eddie. This isn’t going to be fun.”
or, old wounds are reopened as buck, eddie and christopher travel to hershey to help pack up buck's childhood home.
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17 May 2026
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Eddie interrupts. “Well,” he says, turning fully to their waiter, “today’s kind of a special occasion, you see.”
Sven smiles. “Someone’s birthday?” He looks between Buck and Eddie.
“It’s actually, uh, our anniversary,” Eddie says, reaching out a hand to place over Buck’s.
Buck chokes, even though all the bread is safely in the bread basket.
or, buck wants a free tiramisu. eddie has a tried-and-tested plan to get it.
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Eddie loads the metaphorical gun, cocks it. “I would’ve found my way to you. That I'm even more sure of.”
Buck is burning. That’s the only way he can describe this. Eddie says something like that, and then Buck will end the call, and he’ll crawl into Eddie’s bed in Eddie’s house and stare at the patches in Eddie’s bedroom wall that he helped Eddie patch up, and he’ll pretend like this isn’t going to kill him. He’s entirely convinced he’s going to die before Eddie ever crosses the California state line again.
He digs his own grave. “You sound confident for a guy who doesn’t believe in fate.”
“Nah, it’s not fate. It’s us and pure determination.”
or: eddie moves to texas. buck moves into his place. he holds his breath for the one hundred and twenty one days it takes for eddie to make his way back home.
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Eddie and Theo are at the zoo when a cyclone hits.
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13 May 2026
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Buck texts Chris, from the moment he leaves for El Paso to the moment he decides to come back.
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13 May 2026
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"Cool." Buck says, and he's looking at him. "And, I mean, we are bros, right? You don't mind me calling you that?"
Eddie stares right back. "I don't mind it at all, bro." he replies.
"You know what?" Chim says, "You guys are all my bros! My best bros! Let's cheer to my best bros." he adds, and they all clink their beer bottles together.
Or Buck starts calling Eddie "bro". Eddie is confused. Then he's mad. Then Buck's mad.
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Eddie: I think your brother is flirting with me.
Maddie: He has been doing that for years.
Eddie: Oh.
Maddie: What are your feelings about that?
Eddie: Good. Great, even. Fantastic. Exhilarating.
Maddie: Do you want to elaborate further than just descriptive words?
Eddie: No thanks.
Maddie: You’re two birds of a fucking feather.
Or, a collection of messages between the 118 & co throughout the month of June post the season nine finale.
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13 May 2026
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“Oh, I mean, I guess you guys aren’t married yet, but it still counts,” Harry insists, but the more he talks, the more he realizes he’s making some sort of faux pas. He glances around for some help. Maddie and Chimney are clutching each other’s hands tightly, Hen and Karen are looking pointedly at the floor, Buck and Eddie are staring at Harry, and May and Ravi look like they’re on the verge of exploding with laughter. Well, that’s suspicious. “What am I missing here?” Harry finally asks.
“Buck and I aren’t a couple, bud,” Eddie says gently.
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Harry mistakenly believes that Buck and Eddie are a couple.
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13 May 2026
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From behind his back, Chris reveals his old, ratty Superman logo shirt. It’s way too small for him now, but, for some reason, he’s never thrown it away.
“This shirt has superpowers,” he whispers to Theo. "It keeps all the bad dreams away. It doesn’t fit me anymore, but I don’t want all the superpowers to go to waste. Do you think maybe you could look after it for me?”
Theo nods emphatically. “Yes,” he whispers. He looks up at him, his tiny face sure and determined. “I can do it, Chris.”
Or, Theo has nightmares. Chris works a hand-me-down shirt-shaped miracle.
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Theo needs to make Chris and Eddie stay forever. Just like Ms. Kline said getting married means you get to be together forever and live together. His Buck and his Eddie just need to get married. Simple. What did his teacher say was the name of the person who let's people get married?
He thinks hard for a moment. Think Theo. Justice something. Justice of the Peas! He needs to be a Justice of the Peas.
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Theo learns about the concept of marriage and can think of two perfect candidates -
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The guy leans across the table to hand Buck the card and their fingers touch.
Eddie's vision tunnels.
It's — okay, it's not a touch touch. It's a brush. It's the kind of brush that happens any time two human beings transfer a small object, it is a purely functional hand-to-hand delivery of a business card, and the guy's wife, his lovely wife who Eddie is very grateful for, made the card herself, and Eddie knows all of this, and he’s being totally normal about it.
Eddie yanks on the back of Buck's shirt without meaning to. Buck stumbles back a quarter-step.
"I'm Buck, by the way." Buck recovers, tucks the card into his back pocket, sliding his arm around Eddie's waist. "This is my boyfriend, Eddie."
Boyfriend.
Eddie's whole body loosens another notch.
"Oh, nice to meet you both." The guy sticks his hand out to shake. "I'm Glen."
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Buck is Eddie's boyfriend and Eddie, for one, is over the moon about it.
He's not so sure about this Glen guy, though.a pt. 2 for 'wikihow to be normal about your best friend'
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10 May 2026
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“It’s so cool that your dads are both firefighters! They’ve probably seen a lot of emergencies.”
Chris goes through his memory of the stories told at dinner time: plane crash, earthquake, bombing, tsunami, mudslide, shooting—wow it really is a long list.
“Yeah, they’ve seen lots of—wait, dads?” Chris’ brain suddenly halts, processing Jeremy’s full statement.
“Yeah! Or your dad and stepdad, sorry!”
“Buck’s not my dad—or stepdad.”
Jeremy slumps back into his cafeteria seat, brows furrowed. “Oh? I just—you guys seemed very…close.”
Christopher gets confused about Buck's place in their family, and starts to ask questions—questions that Buck and Eddie don't have answers to.
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09 May 2026
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I’ll love you louder than you’ve ever been loved by paleredheadinascifi
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
29 Oct 2024
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Three things happen as Eddie walks through the door of the dentist’s office:
1. the entire waiting room turns to look at him as if they were expecting a celebrity
2. the flustered receptionist looks up, sees Eddie, and says “oh thank god”
3. what is unmistakably Buck’s voice booms down the hall, slurred, but clear as day
Or, Buck gets his wisdom teeth removed. He loves his family *very* loudly.
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It's week one on the job after Buck and Eddie formally disclose their relationship. After narrowly avoiding a station transfer, they vow to be on their best behavior.
The rest of the 118 has their doubts, particularly about Buck's (lack of) restraint... and, well, they're correct.
What they don't anticipate, however, is the ever-thinning thread of Eddie's restraint. Even if he's able to keep Buck in check, can he keep himself in check when there are freshly-baked muffins and near-death experiences on the job?
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AKA: Buck's bad with having and using restraint. Eddie uses it for him... until he doesn't.
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He pauses and Eddie, newfound lover of juice, decides the best way to solve this sticky situation is to lick the back of his hand. Clean. Like a fucking cat. Cleaning its babies or itself. “-Not so sticky anymore and it tastes pretty good.”
“We can’t lick ourselves clean, Eddie.”
Eddie hums, “We could lick each other’s bodies clean instead.”
“What!?” Buck chokes.
“Hm? What? Who said that?”
or, we waterboard eddie diaz with the fucking juice.
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06 May 2026