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“Buck…” she starts. Then she looks at the dish towel still in her hand, folds it twice in half and carefully lays it on the kitchen island. It’s how she always moves. Not like he’s a wild animal she doesn’t want to scare off, but as if he came in a box labeled Handle With Care.
For a while he’d convinced himself he’d grown enough to stop inspiring that particular instinct in her. And if it were anyone else, Buck would probably be offended. He isn’t fragile.
Except Maddie doesn’t need him to prove anything, she just cares because that’s the kind of person she is. Good-hearted and compassionate.
It makes it a little bit easier to accept that he’s probably always going to need her in some way or another.
Sometimes he just wishes she wouldn’t always sniff out all the things he doesn’t want to talk about like a bloodhound. It’s much more admirable when she does it to Jee and Chim, as far as he’s concerned.
He clears his suddenly dry throat and waits for her to continue.
“You know I can hear you on the baby monitor, right?”
Or: Maddie gives Buck a much needed push to start talking to people again. Preferably people who aren’t her baby. He starts with Eddie.
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Meet Me Halfway by magicmelinoe
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
03 Mar 2025
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As it turns out, distance doesn’t always make the heart grow fonder.
But this. This is worse than realizing he hasn’t missed English food.
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Henry likes spicy food. If only he didn’t come to this conclusion at the worst possible time - much to Alex's entertainment.
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How Do You Say I Love You by magicmelinoe for Luminous_Bluebell
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
05 Nov 2024
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As the school librarian, Henry has the wonderful task of picking out a book for story time every day. Kindergarten teacher Alex is sure the books are sending him a message. Or is he just making it all up?
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Feel the Engine Purr by magicmelinoe
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
21 Jul 2024
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His thoughts wander to open Texas highways, the sun burning down on him, the feeling of the gas pedal beneath his foot as he flies, flies, flies faster across the asphalt than strictly allowed. Faster than his thoughts can catch up. He gets it. He just doesn’t imagine a joyride through traffic packed New York City to be quite comparable. But if Henry wants to drive, Alex will find a way.
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When they move to New York together, Alex finds out Henry has an unforeseen hobby.
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Lead the Way by magicmelinoe
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
04 Jul 2024
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No matter whose fault the cake incident was – Henry’s, he’ll die on that hill – it happened and he promised to fix it. So here he is, thousands of miles from home and sleepless.
He tries to call Nora again but it goes to voicemail. With a sigh, Alex throws the phone on the bed and makes his way over to the kitchen. Like a guest of the royal family has ever cooked.
Tap, tap, tap goes his foot against the wooden floor. The cold seeps in even through his socks and if that isn’t a metaphor for this whole godforsaken palace, Alex doesn’t know what is.
He needs a walk. Get this energy out.
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Or Alex wanders off where he isn’t supposed to and ends up overhearing a surprising conversation.
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And I'll Be Damned If I Can't Slow Dance With You by magicmelinoe
Fandom Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
03 Mar 2025
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A patient is flirting with Buck. The good news is, Buck seems to be enjoying himself immensely judging by his tilted grin and the fact that he’s lingering while Hen and Eddie actually try to do their jobs. The bad news is… all of the above.
“Alright, Buck,” Chim swoops in like Eddie’s knight in shining armor. “Stop distracting your husband and let him do his job.”
Buck’s face drops, gawking at Chimney as he continues on his way to the truck.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t realize…” their patient begins, her shoulders bunching to her ears.
“No!” Buck waves his hands, whipping his head down to look at her. “No. Soon to be ex-husband, actually.”
She makes a face. Eddie tries not to. “That sounds… complicated,” she says.
“Nope. Not complicated at all,” Buck insists. “We got married as a joke in Vegas. It didn’t mean anything. Drunken mistake.”
Eddie clenches his jaw, praying for the ground to open up and drag him under.
Eddie has come to the decision that a forever love is not for him. He plans to remain happily single for the rest of his life. That is, until a drunken night in Vegas changes everything.
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29 Sep 2026
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Buck is living in a house that's not his, sleeping next to a man that's not his, raising kids that aren't his, and everyone he used to date just has to keep showing up to tell him how happy they are for him.
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Eddie buys a house. Buck and Theo move in. Everyone jumps to conclusions.
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08 Sep 2026
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“This isn’t my life!” Buck exclaims. “This is not how it’s supposed to be. Abby is supposed to be gone. She’s supposed to have left. As in, left Los Angeles, not left me to marry Bobby. Bobby’s supposed to marry Athena.”
“Cap and Athena? But she’s—”
“Married. Yeah,” Buck huffs. “Like I said, that doesn’t work out.”
“Because Real Michael is gay?” Eddie asks skeptically.
“Real Michael is gay,” Buck confirms.
OR: After his break up with Tommy, Buck falls asleep on Eddie’s couch and wakes up in a world where Bobby is married to Abby, Hen and Karen are divorced, Athena and Michael are faking a happy marriage, Chim has a daughter that is not Buck's niece, and—just to really, personally fuck with him—Eddie and Maddie are engaged to be married.
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02 Sep 2026
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It's a Thursday evening, at the end of a 24-hour shift, and Eddie is in the bathroom at the house brushing his teeth when Buck leans in the doorway behind him and says, "I'm going to take a shower."
It's such an ordinary thing to say–Buck says it five times a week, minimum–except that Eddie's brain snags on the tik tok video from a few days ago, and his mouth moves before he thinks better of it.
"Information or invitation?"
He says it in the exact tone of someone delivering a punchline, light and a little teasing, clearly expecting Buck to groan at the callback and go shower alone. It is a joke. It is absolutely, entirely a joke, and the correct response from Buck would be a tired chuckle.
Buck doesn't laugh.
He meets Eddie's eyes in the mirror, something shifting behind his face, and says, "Invitation."There is a silence.
It's the kind of silence that Eddie can feel on his skin, that is doing something specific to the air between them, and he watches his own face in the mirror very carefully and does not turn around.
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Or: A buddie fic inspired by the tiktok "information or invitation?" shower trend.
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21 Aug 2026
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"Can I try something?"
"Yeah, sure, g-go ahead, man." Buck cringes, and even that is adorable.
"Close your eyes."
"E-Eddie," Buck croaks helplessly.
"I'm not gonna bite, Buckley. Trust me?"
Buck closes his eyes. Squeezes them shut, really.
Eddie tugs his face into the curve of Buck's shoulder before he can lose the nerve, Buck's pulse fluttering wildly against the tip of Eddie's nose.
Buck is struggling after the events in New Mexico. Eddie decides to move in with him about it.
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05 Apr 2026