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    “Long story short, your kid is too damn smart," Buck began. "Seriously, Eddie, maybe you need to pull him out of that fancy school and send him back to public school. Dumb him down a bit so he’s easier to handle.”

    Buck’s words became so tangled in his anxiety that he couldn’t really process what he was saying. “What the hell are you talking about? Is Chris okay? Is he in trouble?”

    “He’s fine. Safe and sound, happy as a clam, but I’d say he is definitely in trouble.”

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    In which Eddie's parents hate Buck, and Christopher is too damn clever.

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    Once Buck opens the door to the intruder of his date, he finds that it is no intruder at all. This boy has never once intruded anything. He’s as welcome here as though he’s a resident in the loft and not just inside the crevice of Buck’s heart.

    “Christopher,” he breathes out, peeking his head out of the door to scan the hallway. “Are you alone?”

    Chris doesn't answer at first. Buck takes the boy in, feeling an odd sense of deja vu. Notices that the inches he’s grown since he’d last turned up on his doorstep like this have nothing on the young, pained look on his face. If Buck squinted, he could pass for the same ten-year-old who’d run to him all those years ago after shattering a salad bowl.

    But the face he bears now… A salad bowl isn’t going to cut it.

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    OR Christopher runs to Buck after facing his mom’s lookalike and his dad’s betrayal.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    “LA Dispatch to Engine 118, be advised–”

    Eddie’s head snaps up.

    Maddie. Dispatch cadence – clean, clipped, controlled.

    Chimney’s eyes flick to the radio, then to Eddie, before he answers.

    “118, go ahead.”

    Maddie continues, steady as a metronome.

    “We have a reported MVC on the Fletcher Drive Bridge, repeat: multiple-vehicle collision. Units en route have visual confirmation of two cars at the scene.”

    Eddie’s pulse stutters. He leans forward without meaning to, the seatbelt tugging tight across his chest.

    Maddie keeps going, all professionalism, no tremor, until she hits the words that break.

    “One of the vehicles is… a Jeep that went over the railing into the water.”


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    The Jeep nde you didn’t know you needed.

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    Following the grocery store incident, Buck decides everyone is better off without him so he accepts the settlement and disappears.

    When the mudslides hit LA, what happens when Athena is the one who finds him?

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    27 Jun 2026

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    Eddie’s snapped back to the present by a thunderous cackle and a subsequent stupefied splutter. Theo’s just blown flour right into Buck’s face.

    Eddie’s grin only grows when he sees Christopher slap a palm over his mouth, sniggering at Buck’s expense.

    “Morning, gang,” he greets, keen to jump into the mayhem.

    Buck pivots abruptly and drops the whisk with a clank. Eddie thinks he’d be raising two hands in surrender if not for them being occupied with gathering Theo up in both arms, powdered face fish-mouthing as he registers Eddie’s presence.

    Theo’s eyes widen comically. “Teddy!” he screeches, immediately making grabby hands.

    “Shit,” Buck gripes.

    “Swear jar,” Chris contributes smugly, tilting the crown of his head back into Eddie’s sternum as he squeezes his teenager’s shoulders and drops a kiss to his forehead. “Happy birthday, Dad.”

    or: Eddie turns thirty-four.

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