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He could almost feel Eddie’s hand on his shoulder, a finger pointed at him held in the small space between their faces.
Eddie had told him he wasn’t the only one hurting – that Buck only ever thought of himself. So maybe, Buck thought, it was time to be selfless.
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After everything they’ve been through – earthquakes, bullets, breakups, and Bobby – Buck thought he’d finally found his place in the Diaz household. But when grief tightens its grip and the walls start closing in, Buck makes a decision he thinks is selfless: to give Eddie and Chris some space.
Only, neither of them are ready to let him go.
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11 Jan 2026
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Buck 1.0 is all raw nerve and desperate heart, convinced love is something he has to earn.
Season 9 Eddie is quieter, steadier, but still bleeding in the places no one sees.
A call gone wrong forces their walls down; a quiet confession sets something burning; and a soft, terrified kiss changes everything.
As they navigate grief, trauma, fatherhood, and the fear of wanting too much, they discover that choosing each other isn’t a single moment—
it’s a thousand small ones.Bookmarked by sliceoflifelover95
10 Jan 2026
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A routine apartment fire turns into another almost-tragedy when a rotting balcony collapses above the second-floor landing—right where Eddie is supposed to be. Buck watches it fall, hears silence on the radio, and feels the world tilt on its axis.
They get Eddie out. It’s “just” a sprain, “just” a few stitches, “just” another near-miss. But Buck can’t shake the feeling that he’s running out of almosts. Every close call, every quiet radio, every second Eddie is out of sight tightens a rope inside his chest that feels ready to snap.
Hen’s done watching him spiral, Ravi’s already figured it out, and Bobby keeps gently nudging Buck toward the truth he’s been avoiding for years: this isn’t just about a partner getting hurt on a call. It’s about Eddie.
Back on Eddie’s couch, with adrenaline fading and fear still humming, Buck finally breaks and says the one thing he’s never let himself say out loud. What he doesn’t expect is that Eddie’s been just as scared, just as in love, and just as tired of almosts.
A balcony falls, no one dies, and for once the thing that finally happens isn’t a disaster—it’s the confession they’ve both been running from.
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09 Jan 2026
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The 118 heads out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate Chimney’s promotion to captain, but what everyone else sees as a simple team dinner turns into a turning point for Buck.
When Eddie steps away to the bar and ends up chatting with another guy, Buck finds himself blindsided by a wave of jealousy he can’t explain away as “just being protective.” Ravi, tired of watching Buck orbit Eddie in denial, finally calls him out and forces Buck to confront what everyone else already seems to know: he’s in love with Eddie.
Shaken but unable to keep ignoring it, Buck walks out of the night with more than he expected—a hard conversation on a dark street, a confession that’s been years in the making, and the realization that Eddie’s been right there with him all along. As they quietly shift from best friends to boyfriends, they learn that maybe they don’t have to risk losing their family to be honest about what they’ve become.
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08 Jan 2026
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And, here, looking at his best friend, he can see that something’s broken inside him, too. And, maybe it’s the therapy he’s had over the years, his sessions with Frank, but Eddie wants to talk to Buck. He wants Buck to talk to him. Buck, who just looks so fucking sad, still in his dress blues, one hand drinking the beer, the other coming up to loosen his tie.
This morning, Eddie had noticed Buck tying, untying, retying the tie with breaths of frustration, fingers shaking. “Eddie,” he’d said lowly from across the room, and Eddie wouldn’t have even heard him if he hadn’t been watching. “I, uh, can never – I can never get this right.”
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In the aftermath of Bobby’s death, Buck and Eddie need to learn to embrace change, settle into a new normal - a life without Bobby, and life navigating feelings for each other. A vision of what season 9 could be.
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