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Buck needs to do something reckless. There's a lawyer's business card in his wallet, but Eddie's shop is right there, so he lets himself make a different choice.
(title from Noah Kahan)
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12 Apr 2025
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Buck and Eddie's conversation in 03x06 'Monsters' ends differently, with Eddie telling Buck he can't fix anything. Buck takes this hard and after already feeling like he was drowning, tries to take his own life. Luckily, Athena arrives in time to save Buck, and slowly pieces start to fall together again. However, Eddie doesn't seem to want to move on.
This is my first fic and I've been working on it for a while!
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18 Feb 2025
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“Wait, you need a sitter?” Chimney says. Eddie nods. “Maddie’s brother got back in town a few nights ago, he’s looking for work.”
Eddie frowns. He doesn’t know much about this mysterious brother of Maddie’s – doesn’t even really know much about Maddie, either, aside from being Chimney’s girlfriend – but he’s pretty sure every time he’s been brought up in conversation it’s not been particularly inspiring. “Is this the brother who flunked out of college because he spent all his tuition on a motorcycle?”
Chimney colours a little. “Um. No?”
or, Buck babysits Christopher and Eddie is—fine about it, actually.
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12 Nov 2024
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Because every day after he woke up still in pain, and he couldn’t even tell his own family (because what if I can’t be a firefighter anymore? what if they don’t let me?). And then he’s hugging Eddie and they’re welcoming him home and maybe, just maybe, for a second he believes that it won’t be so bad.
Because then he was choking on his own blood staring into Bobby’s eyes thinking this is it, isn’t it? And then he woke up because damn, he always wakes up and somehow that’s always worse. And he wants to laugh at himself because how did he think, even for a moment, that anything would ever be ok?
Because then he was on blood thinners and they wouldn’t let him home, and he just wanted to go home (what if I can’t be a firefighter anymore?)
Because then the lawsuit happened and he just lost everything all over again.
Because
“You’re exhausting.”
(Or Buck's always been sad but it's post lawsuit, and Buck just can't handle it anymore)
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02 Nov 2024
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“Are you doing alright?” Eddie asks him with a slight frown and Buck swallows, going back to tying his shoes so he doesn’t have to look at Eddie.
“Of course,” he says simply. “Why wouldn’t I be?”
“I don’t know,” Eddie replies and Buck can feel his eyes on him. “You’ve been quiet lately.”
Buck freezes in his movements for a fraction of a second. He thought that apart from the whole dinner at Bobby’s fiasco he’s been doing a pretty good job at acting like his normal self in front of everyone.
And how has Eddie of all people noticed that something is up with him? It’s not like he pays him any attention anymore.
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Trigger Warning! Please make sure to read the tags.
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20 Oct 2024
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Shortly after the confrontation at the grocery store, Buck drops the lawsuit and leaves LA. He breaks his lease, disconnects his cell phone and disappears.
After almost 2 years with no contact, the 118 has mostly accepted that they'll never see Buck again. All except for Eddie.
His faith is rewarded by a frantic knock on his door the day after his welcome home party after the shooting.
Is Buck there to stay, or is he just stopping by? Why did he leave in the first place? How will his sudden presence affect Eddie & Ana's new relationship?
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16 Oct 2024
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What if there was a universe where Shannon left after Christopher's birth?
After getting the news that his girlfriend does not want to be in their son's life, Eddie Diaz meets Evan Buckley in the hospital cafeteria of all places. They form a bond that neither of them can explain and become very involved in each other's lives. But what happens when Eddie has to ship out for his tour and Buck volunteers to take care of Chris? What happens when the letters Eddie has been sending to them stop coming and Buck instead gets a letter which leaves Eddie's condition unclear? This is a story of love and family and how being strong isn't always easy.
I am terrible at summaries
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12 Oct 2024
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Prompt: The lawsuit is all a front to protect the team but they don’t know so they treat Buck harshly. Buck bares all of it until Eddie or Bobby just breaks whatever hope he has left. By the time the truth comes out Buck is gone. Fast forward to a year or more later Eddie and Christopher are out with the team when Chris sees Buck. He’s got longer hair and cold eyes but most importantly he’s pushing a baby carriage with twin babies. He’s loving to Chris but frosty towards the team. What happened
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12 Sep 2024
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Healing after a truck bombing, breakup, pulmonary embolism, tsunami and lawsuit is a slow process when you're afraid to talk to your team when it feels like the world is crumbling in on you. Finding your way out of the crippling darkness is a lonely process when you're afraid you'll get benched again for something beyond your control. Learning to love again is a terrifying process when you're not sure your best friend will ever truly forgive you.
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05 Sep 2024
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Eddie doesn't realise how badly he's destroyed his friendship with Buck until his former partner has swapped stations, changed phone numbers, and moved homes without warning. It's nearly impossible to track Buck down and it's clear that Chris is suffering too. After Eddie is injured on the job, he has to start piecing together the broken pieces of who he is with the help of family and friends. Under those sorts of circumstances, a chance to repair his fragile friendship with Buck might be possible - but it won't be easy when Buck has a new boyfriend.
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- Part 1 of Buddie Big Bang 2020
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04 Sep 2024
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After his return to work, Buck feels lost and alone due to the way he's been treated by the people he thought were his family. In order to stop the pain, he begins to hurt himself instead.
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02 Sep 2024
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my soul looks forward to loving you by strawberryspence
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Nov 2022
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"I don't shake hands." Eddie gives him a look. Steve can't decipher what it is. Fascination? Curiosity? Interest?
"Soulmate non-believer?" Eddie challenges.
Steve raises an eyebrow at him before answering, "Romantic soulmate non-believer."
"Shake my hand. Nothing's going to happen, love. Not ever.”
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Or: In their next life, a universe where if you hold your soulmate's hand, you will see visions of a past life lived together, Stephen Buckley and Edward Munson both don't believe in soulmates.
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26 Aug 2024
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"Eddie Munson was pissed off.
He’d overslept, missed first period, had a customer flake on him so he spent his entire lunch period waiting by the picnic table in the woods, and he left his Hellfire notes at home.
So, when he saw Steve Harrington pushing some kid around in the parking lot, Eddie was gearing up for a fight."
Eddie thinks Steve is bullying a kid, so he steps in. Turns out, the kid had punched Dustin in the face, so Steve was defending Dustin. Featuring some light enemies to reluctant friends to lovers.
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21 Aug 2024
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If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of Hell's Kitchen by allthecleverusernamesaretaken
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
22 Jun 2024
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Karen’s long-overdue heat complicates everything. Not only does she have to take medical leave from Nelson & Murdock, her heat is going to be unusually long and painful. The kind of heat that is a lot easier when it’s spent with an alpha. An alpha like Matt.
Karen is sure she’ll be fine handling her heat alone. But when Matt’s super-senses pick up on her distress during his nightly Daredeviling, he can’t bear to let her suffer. And they thought their relationship was complicated before…
[Set sometime after a Season 1 where Matt wasn’t a dumbass and just told Karen that he was Daredevil.]
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13 Aug 2024
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"Hey, let go! What are you doing? That's my son!"
Call 9-1-1, suspected kidnapping in progress.
Chris is upset. They were supposed to have a nice day at the park. Plans change.
Eddie and Chris stop at a store and when onlookers become concerned, they intervene. They are convinced that Eddie is not his father.
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01 Aug 2024
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“So, a witch, huh?”
Buck froze for half a second before the irritation took over and made him grit his teeth. What was with this dude? Buck clenched his fist at his side as he turned to Eddie, who was perfectly coiffed with his stupid perfect dangerous hair and stupid pretty un-trustable smirk. Eddie waved his hand in front of him with a twist of his wrist, motioning between them.
“I figured that’s what got you all riled up about me being here.”
Witch!Buck Vampire!Eddie
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01 Aug 2024
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Buck realized at young age that he had something no-one else seemed to have. It's something he holds close to his heart, guarding it and treating it with care, and not many people knows his secret. He uses it carefully, sneaking it in when necessary and lets it simmer underneath the surface, hidden away from prying eyes.
Until one day it isn't.
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“What can I do to fix this?” He whispers, staring at Buck with pleading eyes. And suddenly all energy drains from him.
“I don’t know, Eddie.”
“Buck-” The man takes a step closer but stops abruptly when Buck tenses up, looking away from him.
“I think-” He feels tears burning behind his eyelids, his heart clenching. “This time, it's me who’s gonna need a minute.”
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29 Jul 2024
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Eddie’s life had gone to shit in roughly every possible way.
He felt about two seconds away from breaking every hour of every day, like someone had stepped up in front of him, shoved him down, smashed the life he’d been working on, and left him to rebuild from the ground up.
And so, really, the last thing he needed when he got home at the end of a long shift was to find a massive, weird-ass dog curled up on his front porch. And yet, there it was.
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29 Jul 2024
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"All his notions about how the day would go came crashing down as he walked out of the locker room. The locker room had been empty the entire time he was changing, but he knew that the rest of the team was there already, so he figured that he would walk out to hear them talking in the loft, but nothing could have prepared him to hear the booming voice he thought he would never hear again.
Buck froze, his veins turning to ice, and he fought the urge to run. He hoped and prayed that he was wrong, that the voice didn’t belong to who he thought it did. But once he finally managed to force himself to move, he made his way to the loft, where his worst fear was confirmed."
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A person from Buck's past shows up at the firehouse as a visiting Captain, forcing Buck to revisit old wounds and let his family know a version of him they had never met before.
Inspired by the song Dear John(TV) by Taylor SwiftTW: Mentions of gr**ming, toxic/abusive relationships, age gap relationships, and homophobia
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18 Jul 2024
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“Buck, Karen, and Eddie stayed on the couch and talked while the kids settled on the floor to draw. It all felt so wonderfully normal that Eddie found himself forgetting that he hadn’t just closed his eyes in serenity as he leaned against Buck.
That’s what made the spell breaking so painful.
“Dad! Look! I drew the firetru- Oh, wait, it’s okay you can see it when you’re all better!” Christopher said it so cheerfully, not even hesitating before going back to swapping out pens with Denny.
But Eddie felt it like a shot to the chest.
He couldn’t see his son’s drawings.
Buck and Karen had barely paused in the conversation, but Eddie could hear how strained it became, both of them obviously knowing exactly how heartbreaking the moment had been. Buck’s arm wrapped more tightly around Eddie’s waist, chin resting on his shoulder.”
losing your sight for a week sucks but at least eddie has buck to guide him through his healing or at least through his own house
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17 Jul 2024