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“Eddie! Eddie, hey, hi. Sorry. Theo, don’t touch that! Don’t touch that! Ah, frick. He’s - - he’s touching it.”
“Is everything okay?”
“No. No. I’m - - locked out. Theo is locked in. Well - - he locked himself in. Accidentally. I think. I’m pretty sure. Anyway, I need your key. I need your key really fast. Theo! Buddy. Please. Don’t eat that. That’s not for eating. Theo. Theo. Don’t - -” Buck lets out a loaded, patient breath. “Ideally as fast as you can.”
Or, Theo locks Buck out. Eddie comes to the rescue.
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11 Sep 2026
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Chimney sat down across from them and leaned forward, elbows on knees. "Theo. Buddy. What's Eddie do when Buck says something dumb?"
"Chim,” Eddie groaned.
Theo thought about it. Theo took it seriously; he tipped his head back and squinted, doing real cognitive labor, and then he turned to the room at large, dropped his chin, let his shoulders fall about an inch, and said, with a long-suffering exhale that came all the way up from his tiny diaphragm:
"Buck."
The loft went insane.
It was perfect. That was the horrifying part. It wasn't a kid saying a name. It had the whole shape of it: the little drop at the end, the fondness sanded down into exhaustion so nobody would notice the fondness. Eddie had been saying that man's name that exact way since 2019 and had never once heard it from the outside, and now it was coming out of a preschooler in a costume, in front of everyone he worked with.
Or, Theo copies Eddie
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11 Sep 2026
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But... Buck had thought they were on a date.
Eddie had asked him. He’d said the words, “Hey, you want to go on a date?” Eddie had picked him up dressed nicely in a pair of jeans that hugged his hips and a Henley that left little to the imagination. He smelled nice too. Going on a date nice smelling.
And he was still holding Buck’s hand.
“I— I’m confused,” Buck admitted finally when Eddie didn’t seem like he had any plans on elaborating.
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06 Sep 2026
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Eddie throws his bag on the bench and opens his locker with more force than necessary. He can feel Hen and Chim’s matching looks of scrutiny, and doesn’t even give them time to ask before falling onto the bench and saying, “I think Buck’s mad at me.”
“I was wondering where he was.”
“What’d you do?”
Eddie shrugs, sparing a glance at Hen because he knows Chin’s not going to offer any sympathy. “I don’t even know.”
She winces. “Not a good start.”
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Or, Eddie's dramatic, and Buck's dramatic(ally in love).
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02 Sep 2026
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“We’ll be filming a special edition of American Ninja Warrior,” Troy announces after the introduction to the current contestant ends, “focused on our brave first responders. Go to our website to find out more details and how to submit your videos.”
Oh.
“Buddy,” Eddie says, “I don’t really know if that’s my thing.”
Christopher looks at him, then down at his feet and mumbles something.
“Didn’t catch that, kiddo,” Eddie says, reaching out and pressing two fingers under Chris’ chin to tilt his face back up.
“I said,” Christopher says, “I want to nominate Buck.”
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