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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    Eventually, Eddie clears his throat. “How aren’t you okay exactly?” he asks, voice steady.

    “I’m just…” He waves a hand in the air. “I’m just not,” he settles on. “You know, I wanted to be. I really tried. But nothing is helping.” He thinks about what it was like to sit on that floor and know Bobby was going to die. He thinks about what it was like to know he couldn’t do anything about it. “Don’t think I ever really got off that floor.”

    Eddie hums. “That sounds rough,” he says, voice strained. Buck can tell he’s holding himself back, and of course he is. They haven’t talked like this before. This was the only way for Eddie to get Buck to open up—and why did it have to be? Why couldn’t Buck just talk to him? “Do you feel stuck there?” he asks. He’s looking down at the clipboard he brought with him. “On that floor?” he clarifies a moment later.

    Eddie acts as Buck’s therapist.

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    03 Dec 2025

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    Buck's plan for the evening is simple: eat calzones with Eddie, pretend he's not in love with his best friend, and absolutely never think about one desperate night he hooked up with Tommy in Eddie's house, and the conversation they had the morning after in Eddie's kitchen while Eddie was in El Paso.

    Then Eddie mentions a missed call. And a voicemail. And a text from Tommy asking if Eddie thinks he's "competition."

    Before Buck can spiral, Eddie holds out his hand for Buck's phone, finds Tommy's still-blocked number, and calls him back himself. What follows is ten minutes of calm, surgical destruction: Eddie dismantling Tommy's ego, burning every bridge, and saying things like "You call that competition? You were never in the fucking race," and "I left him behind and he was still fucking mine."

    Buck's pressed against the corner of the kitchen, half-hard and fully in shock, because they aren't even dating.

    Yet.

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    24 Nov 2025

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    ???
    Does this mean you will be alone for thanksgiving?

    Evan
    I’ll text my sister, but yeah, probably.
    And my roommates are going out of town and none of them have asked me
    so yeah
    probably.

    ???
    You’re in Los Angeles, then, yes?
    Well, you can have a plate at my table, Evan.
    No one should spend a holiday alone.

    Or: Buck texts Maddie to ask her her plans for thanksgiving, except he puts in the wrong area code and ends up texting a stranger.
    The stranger? Isabel Diaz. She firmly believes that it was fate that had him text her. So what does she do? Invite the stranger over for Thanksgiving, of course!

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    24 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 19

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    Beatrice looped her arm around Eddie’s, smiling up at him innocently. “Hello dear. Would you like to see the rose garden? Buck has done such a wonderful job starting its renovations.”

    Martha stepped up to his other side, smirking. “Yes, we really ought to show you it.”

    The man felt a bead of sweat roll down the back of his neck, frantically looking for anything that could get him out of the conversation.

    With no such luck, he plastered on a smile and nodded, allowing himself to be pulled outside.

    “It looks lovely,” he croaked, “very… green.”

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    Buck takes his Diaz boys to family day at the nursing home, Eddie gets a shovel talk, Chris finds someone to info-dump about dinosaurs to, and Buck? Buck is starting to believe that he deserves happiness.

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    22 Nov 2025

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    Seriously, this isn’t how Buck wants to spend Eddie’s last days in town; he’s really content to swallow it down again, keep the peace. He’s going to tell him he put in the notice on the loft, and they’re going to head to the bar with their family, and they’re both going to smile while Eddie drives away, even if it kills them. That is, until Eddie says it.

    “If you're going to make this about me having to choose between you or my son, you’re going to lose. Every time.”

    In hindsight, he really wishes he could have taken a deep breath, said no, c’mon, of course—that’s, that’s not even a question. He would prefer to take back the angry laugh, too.

    But, it is what it is.

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    21 Nov 2025