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    “How did you get home from the hospital?”

    “Took an uber.”

    “Does Maddie know?” Silence. “Does anyone?” More silence. More of Buck refusing to meet his gaze, staring at the door like he thought he could entice Eddie to leave by the power of suggestion. Well, good fucking luck, Eddie thought. Wild horses, and all that. “Why didn’t you call anyone?” he demanded. “Why didn’t you call me?”

    “I did!” Buck snarled. The momentum of his indignation carried him into a sitting position, and Eddie could see him flinch with the pain of it. His unnaturally stoic front was gone, and something raw and wrenching took its place; it occurred to Eddie that he’d never heard Buck raise his voice before. “I did call you, Eddie! As I was bleeding out on my kitchen floor. You. Didn’t. Answer.”

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    The squatter in Buck's attic has a knife. Buck has a bit of a breakdown. Eddie has a plan to make everything right.

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    04 Apr 2026

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    “Are you homophobic?”

    “What?”

    “Will you be my boyfriend?”

    “Yes,” Eddie answered, automatically, even though his mind had volunteered several other pressing questions, like what are you talking about and what is happening and did I recently sustain brain damage.

    “Thanks,” said Buckley, and then he pushed Eddie back against the side of the firetruck and kissed him.

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    It's the 63rd Annual Los Angeles Fire Muster & Firefighter’s Family Day, and inter-station relations are about to get real friendly between fire houses 6 and 118.

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    04 Apr 2026

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    "It's fine, Jee," Eddie says. "Buck doesn't have to kiss me."

    "Yes he does." Jee crosses her arms and looks sternly at Buck. "Daddy and Mommy kiss every time when they go away from each other."

    "Yeah, okay." Buck sucks in a breath and steps towards Eddie. He ducks his head down and presses the most fleeting kiss to Eddie's cheek.

    "Not like that," Jee scolds.

    "What? Why not?" Buck squawks.

    "Because," she sighs and gives him a long, disapproving look. "Mommy and Daddy always kiss on the lips."

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    or, buddie babysit Jee while being pretend boyfriends

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    03 Apr 2026

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    And look, he’s a first responder. He’s seen his fair share of victims of that wretched disease, some getting wheeled into emergency surgery, some denying care because they’d rather choke to death on their love than to lose it; it’s a devastating, heartbreaking thing.

    So hypothetically, he knows. What it is, where it quite literally stems from. What it means.

    It’s just. That this doesn’t make any fucking sense.

    He has a boyfriend. He’s in a happy relationship.

    How the hell can he have Hanahaki?

    Or: Buck starts coughing up flowers. It doesn’t make sense to him, until it does.

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    01 Apr 2026

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    During their first fight, Tommy calls Buck exhausting, bringing to the surface a wound that Buck had pushed down when Eddie finally forgave him. Naturally, he spirals.

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    "Buck feels like he’s been slapped. Actually, being slapped might have hurt less than hearing those words come out of Tommy’s mouth. But they’re out there now, and suddenly Buck is right back in that grocery store- his best friends, his family, looking at him like they don’t know who he is. Like he could be any other civilian buying produce and cleaning supplies. All except Eddie, of course, who’s letting Buck know exactly how he feels.

     

    “Because you’re exhausting,” Eddie bites. Buck’s never heard him sound so angry before. He’s breathing heavily, pointing at Buck accusingly. If Buck really considers it, he can also recognize a sadness in his voice. The kind that makes someone bitter, that makes them lash out."

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    01 Apr 2026