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“How can you be so okay with giving up like this? I don’t understand it, after everything that we’ve been through, how can you give up on this so easily?”
It’s a cruel thing to say, so wholly unfair to Buck, and Eddie is aware of that fact as the words slip into the open air. The guilt he feels at the words is tenfold when Buck finally whips his head to meet Eddie’s eyes—glimmering with hurt and anger.
“Easy?!” He raises his voice, startling Eddie back a step. The sponge and dish clatter as they splash back into the sink, “You think this has been easy on me? You’re so—” he shakes his head and Eddie has a front row to the show of emotions that play out over his face. “God, Eddie, you’re so selfish sometimes” Buck drops his eyes to the floor.
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Buck, in true Buck fashion, starts planning for Eddie's move to Texas and it shakes Eddie so roughly that he finally starts thinking straight
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26 Sep 2026
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Buck keeps leaving himself off the list. It takes Eddie eight years, a viral video, a fifteen-year-old, and a witness stand to be ready to see it, and about ninety seconds on a courthouse step to do something about it.
or: five things Buck did without ever mentioning them, and the one thing Eddie refuses to let slide.
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26 Sep 2026
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Eddie’s terrified. The weight lodged in his chest has shifted to complete and utter panic. His skin is hot. His eyes are burning. There was once a time when he’d say, I do not panic, but even that was a lie. Eddie panics a lot, actually. But he’s been taught how to manage it, how to make himself Jello, how to bring himself back to reality.
But this reality is what’s panic-inducing, and he can’t Jello himself out of this one.
Because he’s not scared for himself. Eddie’s killed men before. More than four at a time. Eddie’s, objectively, been in worse situations than this. Eddie’s been shot and stabbed and buried.
But he’s never been in a situation like this, with a four-year-old who means the world to him, a four-year-old who’s Buck’s son.
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Or - Eddie takes Theo to the mall. The trip does NOT go as planned, when robbers infiltrate and they’re forced into a hostage situation.
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26 Sep 2026
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Buck quickly grabbed the phone and was about to double click to end the call when he noticed.
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“Eddie?” Buck called from the kitchen, eyes glued to screen as the name disappeared and turned into a missed call notification.
“Did you find it?”
“Yeah,” Buck responded, just loud enough to be heard. He stalked out of the kitchen, phone clutched in his hand as it hung loosely at his side. “I found it.”
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Buck finds out Eddie's kept his contact the same for their entire friendship and feels a certain way about it.
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26 Sep 2026
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"Okay, so this was the only box I could find," he said, stepping up into the the rig and placing the box down on the gurney.
"Thanks, I'll get to those in a minute," Eddie replied.
"I'm already here, might as well help out. It's the right door, right?"
"Yeah, but just make sure—"
Eddie heard the clicking noise of the door shutting before he was able to finish his sentence.
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Buck and Eddie get stuck in an ambulance together during a thunderstorm, and conversations ensue.
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22 Sep 2026