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“Usually people’s lives flash before their eyes, but yours has been sad.” A woman’s voice sounds from next to him, gentle and heavy with melancholy.
Buck realises with a sinking feeling that it’s over. He’s dead. He thinks he should be panicking about this, but the acceptance has washed over him in a tidal wave. Water has filled his body. He rocks in time with the tide.
“I know.” He swallows thickly, “But it's still mine. I still loved it.”
Oh, and he did. His chest aches with it. His life had so much pain but there was also so much joy.Or
What if Buck didn't wake up from his coma after being struck by lighting? What if, instead of his coma dream, he got to pick one last day to relive before he went?
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28 Jul 2026
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“Do none of you care about the children? It’s a bachelor auction, and you, my friend, are a bachelor. Abracadabra, put your name on the list.”
“I can’t,” Eddie repeats. He can’t. He cannot. “I’m not.”
“You’re not? Since when?” Chimney frowns. “Who?”
It’s not Eddie’s fault that, at that exact moment, Buck walks in. So it’s not his fault that he opens his mouth and says, “Buck.”
Or, Eddie trips and falls into a lightly fraudulent HR-disclosed "consensual romantic relationship" with his best friend. Really, if you think about it, it's a win-win.
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23 May 2026
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When Eddie finally confesses his love for Buck, instead of bringing them together, it breaks them.
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Eddie turned off the engine of his truck and took a deep breath. He looked toward the house that held so much of his hope and just as much of his fear. He was still unsure if this was the right thing to do, but he knew this was now or never. He was going to tell Buck that he was in love with him. That could never be the wrong thing to say.
What made Eddie doubt himself wasn’t even the fear of rejection, although even thinking about it made his heart sink. What made Eddie second-guess himself was the fact that Buck had a girlfriend.Bookmarked by spacebugs
20 May 2026
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To know Evan Buckley is to love him.
Eddie Diaz is about to meet Evan Buckley.Buck is your average high school graduate. He played football, got decent grades, and is ready to start his life. Eddie Diaz is the whole package: high school valedictorian, star baseball player, ivy league scholarship, gorgeous. At the end of the summer, Eddie is moving from El Paso to Ithaca for college. Buck has three months to get what he wants. What Buck wants is Eddie.
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17 May 2026
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It’s one of the rare occasions where Buck has a day off work that Eddie doesn’t also take off, and Eddie is…. fine with that.
Totally fine.
Buck is spending the day with his boyfriend, allowing them to have a full seventy two hours off shared together, and frankly, Eddie has seen enough of the two of them as a couple. He doesn’t need to be there.
Only, a few hours into the shift, Eddie gets a call from Tommy.
Just Tommy.
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Something’s wrong with Buck.
(A/B/O setting, spoilers in tags!)
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20 Apr 2026
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"So should we start blocking off time in our calendar for dance lessons with Coach Diaz?"
Eddie knows Karen means it as a joke, but the combination of the wine in his system and the joy in his gut make it feel serious, "Yes."
"Wait, really?" Hen asks.
"If she wants to dance, I'll teach her to dance. We had fun today," Eddie finishes his glass and notices he's probably at the point where he's drunk enough to talk about the Buck thing.
"You don't have to do that Eddie. I'm sure we could pay for lessons somewhere," Karen offers.
"Or we could pay you," Hen offers.
"I have an idea for that actually," alright, Eddie, be brave, "I give Mara dance lessons and you both give me gay lessons."
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When Mara becomes obsessed with ballroom dance Eddie becomes her teacher. Along the way he realizes he's in love with Buck, starts receiving "gay lessons" from Hen and Karen, and forms a ragtag dance academy. What could possibly go wrong?
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16 Apr 2026
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Eddie hits his shoulder harder this time. "That's it!"
"What is?" Buck repeats his question from before, rubbing his shoulder like the movement hurt him —it didn't, Eddie is sure.
"You'll go with me! Like, you can act like you're my couple".
Buck looks at him, untethered before cracking the loudest laugh of the night.
"What's so funny?" Eddie asks with a half-showing smile as Buck keeps laughing and although he didn't mean to, he's happy to see him joyful again.
"Oh, you're being serious". He stops laughing slowly, shaking his head, showing that he's not really believing anything that his friend says. "What do you want us to do? To pretend we're together like in some teenage romcom?"
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Eddie has an empty plus one for a destination wedding. Not wanting to meet his entire family by himself and being setted up, Buck and he make a deal: Buck can pretend to be his boyfriend and he would help him to get his happy ending after.
Eddie doesn't expect how loud his mind gets when he's alone with Buck, in a nice beach, while the lines of their friendship are blurred.Bookmarked by spacebugs
01 Apr 2026
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He's going back to the aquarium.
Not for Buck. Obviously, categorically, definitively not for Buck.
For Christopher, who loved it.
For a new sticker, because the old one is gone and he needs a replacement the way you'd replace a toothbrush or a phone charger, because it's a functional object that serves a functional purpose in his life.
If Buck happens to be there, then fine, great. Eddie can say hi, because there's nothing weird about wanting to see someone again. People revisit people. That's a normal thing to do. It doesn't have to mean anything. Besides, Chris loved Buck, so really, he only hopes Buck is there so Chris can see him again.
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Eddie and his totally normal obsession with the aquarium. Which definitely has nothing to do with a certain employee named Buck.Part 2 to 'i'll take sexuality crisis at the aquarium for $108, Alex'
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- Part 2 of remnants of ordinary days
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30 Mar 2026
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Buck and Eddie run into each other while sitting outside First Presbyterian Hospital. It's been years since they've seen each other.
Based on "A Couple Minutes" by Olivia Dean
"Only have a couple minutes, guess we're going back to real life."
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- Part 1 of Ramsey's Song Fics
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03 Mar 2026
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“Eddie,” Maddie says. “I know our kids are different ages, and our situations are different, but — it kind of sounds like you need something else besides your kid and work, too.”
Well, I used to have a best friend, Eddie thinks, then pushes the thought away. “I … I have other things. But Chris and the job are definitely the most central right now.”
"You know, you can’t put yourself last all the time, Eddie.” She laughs a little. “Straight from my therapist’s mouth to your ears! Ooh — you know what? I’ve got a great idea.”
“Oh?”
“You should come to book club. It’s something I do with my parent friends. We take turns hosting, and it’s my turn!”
Sometimes the best part about reading is getting to learn more about yourself.
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18 Feb 2026
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Eddie should be there. But he’s not. And if he can’t be, then…
“It’s me,” Buck says, his voice cracking over the words.
When a call gone awry results in Eddie missing, presumed drowned and dead, Buck has to keep fighting. For what matters most. For Christopher.
Or: A dive into what the consequences of Eddie's Will might look like in Season 9.
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02 Feb 2026
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If anybody asked him for an explanation, Buck had none.
He looked inside the gift box, making sure the mistletoe was safe and looking good, then closed it before leaving the box on the passenger seat, closing the door behind him.
Buck reminded himself to text Maddie only after leaving the city or else, his sister may talk some sense into him and he was tired of it. He was tired of being a functional adult that doesn’t do unpredictable and risky things anymore—he needed some of that edge Buck 1.0 used to have, for a good cause this time.
Last night, around eleven, Eddie had joked about mistletoe during the almost-daily facecall as Christopher had told him the plant had been prohibited at school for the holidays. It would all been laughs and giggles if it wasn’t for the fact that—
Eddie has never kissed anyone under the mistletoe.
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Or, Buck goes on a improvised road trip to kiss Eddie under the mistletoe because he's very normal about his best friend coming out as gay and being interested in kissing men that aren't him.
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29 Jan 2026
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Evan Buckley was intimately familiar with death. It hung in the air around him, lived under his skin.
It was the reason he'd been born in the first place.
Maybe it had seemed like some awful cosmic joke to his parents when they'd found out the source of his magic. It could have been anything.
It just had to be death.Eddie Diaz doesn't know how to be a werewolf.
Which is unfortunate, given he's been one all his life. He brought his son to LA to get away from it all, but he couldn't run from what he was.Or:
Death Mage Buck and Werewolf Eddie find one another at the 118.- Language:
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28 Jan 2026
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Public Bookmark 345
Mystery Work
Part of literally just editing the works
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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12 Jan 2026
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“Yeah,” Chim said. “Yeah, Maddie’ll be glad to see you. Where’ve you been lately?”
“Yeah,” Eddie said. His tone was pointed. “Been wondering that myself.”
“Oh,” Buck said. “You know.”
“I don’t,” Eddie said. “Actually.”
“At my new place, mostly,” Buck said. Eddie raised his eyebrows.
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OR: in the months after bobby dies, buck gets a new apartment, starts volunteering at the NICU, and going for long walks in the middle of the night. he's dealing. he thinks. probably.
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22 Dec 2025
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Seriously, this isn’t how Buck wants to spend Eddie’s last days in town; he’s really content to swallow it down again, keep the peace. He’s going to tell him he put in the notice on the loft, and they’re going to head to the bar with their family, and they’re both going to smile while Eddie drives away, even if it kills them. That is, until Eddie says it.
“If you're going to make this about me having to choose between you or my son, you’re going to lose. Every time.”
In hindsight, he really wishes he could have taken a deep breath, said no, c’mon, of course—that’s, that’s not even a question. He would prefer to take back the angry laugh, too.
But, it is what it is.
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17 Dec 2025
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Maddie says, “What's this about a meth lab?”
“Buck has a crackpot theory,” says Eddie, and he can’t keep the fondness out of his voice.
“No, no, okay, listen,” says Buck, grinning at Eddie. “The guy down the street from Eddie is definitely running a meth lab.”
“This is the fourth meth lab he’s uncovered this week,” Eddie interjects. “Since he did that toxic substances training.”
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In which Buck and Eddie do a little off-the-books detective work, a science project, and a lot of flirting.
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08 Dec 2025
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“You don’t have to do that,” Eddie says.
Buck shrugs. “You also don’t have to smile at every person who says ‘she’s in a better place’ like that helps, but here we are.”
The joke is soft, an opening. Eddie almost steps into it. “You’ve already done a lot,” Eddie says instead, faster than he means. “Go sit. Or eat. It’s—”
He hears it lining up and can’t stop it.
“—this is family stuff. I’ve got it.” The words are wrong the second they’re out; he hears them like Buck must. Buck’s hands still on the plate.
Or, Eddie is taking things day by day. Buck has a bit of a breakdown, then a bit of a breakthrough. Chris sees dead people.
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04 Dec 2025
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“I can’t just—oh, holy shit,” Buck says through a laugh.
“What?” Eddie asks, contorting himself to try and follow Buck’s line of sight. “What is it?”
Buck physically manhandles him so that he’s looking in the right direction and discreetly points towards the aisle.
“Are those little helicopters hanging off the pews,” Buck asks in horror.
Eddie is equally horrified, for the record.
“We’d never have something that trashy at our wedding,” he says without thinking.
Buck freezes next to him. “At our wedding?”
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(Eddie accidentally makes a comment about his and Buck’s future wedding. Buck doesn’t even know Eddie’s gay.)
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17 Nov 2025
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Buck and Eddie meet on a dating show where you get engaged before ever seeing the person. They become fast friends — while Buck flourishes and falls fast, Eddie struggles to make a romantic connection.
The night before the engagements, in the heat of the moment, Eddie kisses Buck. He leaves the show and falls head first into a sexuality crisis. Buck continues, gets engaged to Taylor but can’t stop thinking about Eddie.
When producers encourage Eddie to return for group parties it gets messier and more confusing than ever — and by the time the show is airing, and the world have their own opinions they’re more than willing to share, everything has changed.
Or Buck and Eddie meet on Love Is Blind
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15 Nov 2025