whisperingcherries
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- 9-1-1 (TV) (32)
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For months, Buck has been professionally harassed over dispatch by one infuriatingly calm operator with a smug voice, a superiority complex, and a deeply concerning habit of calling him sweetheart over an active emergency line.
Buck hates him.
Obviously.
Then he meets Eddie Diaz in person and unfortunately discovers that the smug voice comes with stupidly nice hands, unfair eye contact, and a thirteen-year-old son who immediately decides Buck is his problem now.
Worse, Eddie gets weirdly possessive every time someone else looks at Buck too long.
Worse than that, Buck likes it.
And when a bad call turns into a building collapse and Eddie has to listen to Buck trapped beneath it over an open dispatch line, suddenly none of it feels like a joke anymore.
Or: Buck and Eddie fall in love while arguing over city emergency communications, and literally everyone is tired of them.
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Evan Buckley starts writing to himself before he knows why.
At first, the letters are small. Apologies. Explanations. Rules for how to be good, how to be quiet, how to make things easier for everyone else. As he grows, the letters change — darker, flatter, more tired — following him through years of numb survival, reckless choices, and a life lived on the edge of disappearing.
The timeline stretches from childhood to adulthood, from a house that never quite wanted him to a firehouse that teaches him what staying might mean. And somewhere along the way, Buck has to confront the most frightening possibility of all:
that he was never meant to be easy to lose.
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Love doesn’t arrive all at once.
It settles.After adoption, Buck learns that being a father isn’t about fixing what was broken — it’s about staying long enough for safety to take root. As Adeline’s world expands to include the firehouse, the firefam, and the quiet certainty of being chosen every day, Eddie begins to realize the family he’s been standing inside all along.
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- Part 2 of the choosing to stay
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A Never-Ending Midnight Sun (And Other Crimes Against Heterosexuality) by whisperingcherries
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
03 Feb 2026
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Eddie Diaz is just driving home. That’s it. That’s the plan.
Then a Zara Larsson song comes on the radio and suddenly it feels like summer in his chest, like the windows are down inside his soul, and like maybe—hypothetically—he has been in love with his best friend Evan Buckley for years and simply did not notice.
Eddie Diaz did not mean to come out to himself via pop music.
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The last call of a normal shift changes everything.
When Evan Buckley opens his home to a seven-year-old foster child who has learned that silence is safer than asking for anything, he doesn’t try to save her. He learns how to kneel. How to wait. How to be quiet.
Love comes slowly — in shared space, in steady presence, in the choice to stay even when nothing is promised.
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- Part 1 of the choosing to stay
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Down The Barrel Of My Gun, For You I'll Pull The Trigger Again by marry_rites
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
19 Mar 2026
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Eddie’s heart stuttered in his chest as he heard Chris call for Buck and the silence that followed his gut-wrenching cry made Eddie want to kill every single man standing around them—starting with the man standing above him like his personal hell curated around his worst fears.
“Do you feel helpless?” Charlie asked as his eyebrows scrunched and his voice dropped in sympathy that was so painfully false it made Eddie’s gut turn.
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“Eddie, listen—” Athena started but stopped when he ignored her.Eddie grabbed Charlie by the collar and started dragging him back to the shed where they’d hurt Buck—where they were planning to hurt him more just because Eddie loved him. That was all.
Eddie threw Charlie to the ground and he screeched holding his leg. He crouched in front of the man. “I had four bullets with your name on them.”
OR How far can they go to protect each other? Buck and Chris are taken right in front of Eddie's eyes, so it is only natural he hunts down the kidnappers and shows them the exact reason why you don't mess with Eddie Diaz and the two most important people in his life.
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- Part 10 of Buddie - Whump
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Eddie watches Buck riding a mechanic bull and makes a show to take him home giving him his cowboy hat, wanting to be the one riding next.
based in midnight cowboy by jade
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“Oh my God,” the girl says.
It’s not the oddest exclamation Eddie’s heard from a person who’s just crashed their car into a telephone pole, but more the way it’s said: something dizzied and a little resigned, as though she is both concussed and mostly just inconvenienced by it. It’s enough for Eddie to peer into the window as Buck heaves at the car door with the jaws of life, armed with a penlight. “Ma’am, can you tell me your name?”
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” the girl says, which doesn’t quite sound like a name to Eddie. He’s just about to tell her as much until she goes, “You’re LAFD Updates man.”
or, five times someone recognises Eddie as the LAFD Updates man.
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- Part 2 of Mr LAFD Updates Man