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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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    13 Jul 2026

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    “It’s Bobby.” Buck’s voice shakes. That isn’t unusual, it shakes often. Most of the time, it’s because he’s too excited and the words stutter and start like a scratched record, but almost as frequently, the cause is more emotional. Maddie kidnapped, Chris lost in the water, Chimney missing. There’s no mistaking this for excitement. “He’s dead.”

    Or: Eddie processes the immediate aftermath of the tragedy.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    “Aw,” Harry says, smiling. “That’s adorable. Is it like—is it a thing? Do all of you keep pictures in your helmets?”

    A murmur of general consensus ripples through their group. Harry, apparently delighted by this new knowledge, demands to see everyone’s secret photos.

    “They’re kind of private,” Eddie says, crouched down to unlace his boots. He has a smudge of soot over his left cheek, and his hair has come loose from the gel, a lock of it curling over his brow. Buck likes him like this, just a little dishevelled.

     

    or, firefighters sometimes keep photographs of the people they love inside their helmets, to remember who they’re fighting to come home to. eddie’s isn’t what buck expects.

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    02 Jul 2026

  4. Rec 24

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    “A rose bouquet?” Eddie's eyebrow lifted up. “1, 2, 3, are there-”
    “34, yes. 34 roses for your 34th birthday.” Buck smiled brightly, eyes shining as he picked up and pushed it into Eddie's chest.
    “34, that's- so thoughtful Buck thank you.” Eddie grasped the bouquet firmly. Then he looked up at Buck in alert. His cheeks were already turning bright red. “But- Why are they- red?”
    “Because it's your favorite color?” Buck looked at him a little puzzled, his smile still big.
    “Oh, OMG! yes! Red! My favorite color! Of course! Haha silly me, how could I forget.”
    OR: Evan Buckley gives Eddie the princess treatment for his birthday, cause he deserves it.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    No. Whatever it is, no. Eddie would like Buck to stop chasing whatever that thing is. Would like to grab the thought out of Buck’s concussed head and throw it out a window.

    Buck’s face drops into something serious, eyes wide. “You called me baby.”

    There it is. Out the window it did not go.

    “No, I didn’t,” Eddie says.

    Very smooth. Convincing.

    “You did.” Buck points at him, floppy and triumphant. “At the— the thing. With the— you said it. You called me baby.”

    “I didn’t say that.”

    “Eddie.” Buck is delighted. “I heard you. I was concussed, not deaf.”

    “I didn’t call you baby,” Eddie scoffs. “I called you a baby. Because you got a bump on the head and were crying about it.”

    “That’s not—” Buck starts.

    “You were being a baby,” Eddie continues, standing now, because a moving target is harder to hit. “I’m gonna go tell the others you’re awake.”

    “Eddie.”

    “Rest your head, bud.”

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    Eddie calls Buck baby by accident.

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    29 Jun 2026