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Everyone knows Buck and Maddie Buckley are unusually close; devoted siblings who always try to be there for each other. It’s admirable in many ways. They survived the same childhood, learned to rely on each other long before anyone else, and built their lives around one unbreakable rule: no matter what happens, they come first. No exceptions.
Pinky promises sworn in blood. Rarely their own.
Evan Buckley is the big hearted, if reckless firefighter who throws himself into danger for strangers. Maddie is the calm, gentle dispatcher with kind eyes and a voice that can talk anyone through the worst day of their life. They've been known to save lives. The opposite is also true.
Maddie builds a life with Chimney, and Buck falls quietly in love with Eddie Diaz, the family they both never dared imagine begins to take shape around them.
And that could be a problem. Loving someone new is easy, as long as no one asks them to choose.
Because what no one understands is that the Buckley siblings' strength, their unconditional love for each other exists in a dark, absolute space. A space that has few moral boundaries.
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15 Jul 2026
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He’s not stupid. It took him some time — years — but Eddie’s half certain that, should his patience snap one day, should he lean in across the way one night when it’s just the two of them, should he palm at Buck’s jaw to bring his face closer and kiss him on the mouth, Buck would kiss him back. That’s not the problem.
The problem is that Eddie’s gonna ruin it.
He’s ruined every other romantic relationship in his life. If it happens with Buck, Eddie knows neither of them will come back from it.
These days, he’s content with having Buck the way he does now. He may succumb to weakness, sometimes, like he just did in the kitchen, holding Buck like that, but Eddie’s willpower is the stuff of legend. He’s happy with his place in Buck’s life. He can play the part of codependent best friend, dad who stepped up, platonic soulmate.
The main issue here, really, hindsight twenty-twenty and all, is that Eddie really misses being a husband.
or: five times eddie, willing and knowing, acts like buck's husband, and one time he. well. you can guess where this is going.
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06 Jul 2026