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"Did you know I tried out for the Navy SEALS?" he asked to the room at large, knowing full well he only ever talked about his failed endeavor with Bobby and Eddie. It wasn’t so much the failure to go through with it that had kept him silent, it was what it had brought to light.
For once he saw the distaste towards him drop from the Buckley’s faces, they both looked bewildered by his choice of topic. Margaret looked like she was about to interrupt him but he didn’t let her, earning a pointed glare from Phillip for it.
"You probably aren't aware what that entails. Sure, everyone has heard of BUD/s. Hell week. The physical requirements. But there's a step before that. They want to see some documents. Your High School Diploma, your last addresses, things like that… most importantly though, they want your birth certificate."
Or,
There is more than one Buckley Family Secret and Buck is about to reveal the first one.Bookmarked by Zerb03
01 Jul 2026
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When a broken, scar-ridden new recruit named Buck joins the 118, Eddie Diaz—older, wiser, and weary—finds himself drawn to the boy's chaotic energy and oozing sex appeal. Eddie decides to take Buck under his wing, not realizing that fixing Buck’s emotional baggage might mean fixing his own, too.
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29 Jun 2026
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'Eddie, there’s blood on the floor. Are you hurt? Are you sick? I need to check you over—.'
’Buck. Don’t come any closer,’ Eddie pleads and it’s so strange because he’s obviously weak and hurting but that base fear, that terror, it hasn’t gone away, sharpening beneath Buck's breastbone as he inches nearer, crouching down beside Eddie, reaching out his hand.
His fingers close around Eddie’s wrist and Buck is stressed, frantic, he must be seeing things, the light is low and obscuring, a single terrible freeze frame conjured up by his imagination; Eddie’s teeth, already pointed, becoming sharp, elongated, and his eyes shading to black, sclera to sclera, lunging forward, jaws yawning wide. Buck scrambles backwards, landing on his ass, breathing hard but the image is gone as quickly as it came and it’s just Eddie looking at him with eyes bloodshot and fearful.
'Please tell me what’s going on,' Buck says, except he already knows, has known since he stepped through the door and Eddie pinned him in place with that disarming gaze.
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28 Jun 2026
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Evan Buckley can only watch as Eddie Diaz, his best friend and the man he secretly loves, is shot in the street by a sniper's bullet. But Buck can save Eddie, pulling him to safety under a firetruck and keeping him alive till he gets to hospital. While Eddie lies unconscious in his hospital bed, Buck steps up to look after Christopher, to keep the rest of his team safe.
But Buck is struggling. Traumatised by the shooting, he finds it difficult to move forward. Buck was so close to Eddie when he was shot that he was covered in blood. On his face, on his clothes, in his hair. In his mouth. Now, everything he tries to eat or drink tastes of blood.
Eddie's blood.
How long can Buck keep going when he's struggling to eat and drink? How can he be the support Chris needs if he can't function?
And how long can he go on pretending he doesn't have feelings for his best friend, when he can't imagine being able to cope without him.
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Eddie gets shot and Buck struggles in the aftermath, his trauma stopping him eating or drinking till he's well past crisis point. And what will Eddie say when he returns to consciousness?
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25 Jun 2026
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You're the guy who showed up," Eddie said firmly. "The guy who said yes when he needed someone. That's what matters, Buck. The rest? We'll figure it out. All of us."
From the living room came the sound of Chris's voice, patient and warm, explaining something about pigeons. Theo's small laugh—tentative, fragile, but real—drifted back to them.
"Chris is so good with him," Buck said.
"Chris learned from the best." Eddie's hand found Buck's shoulder, squeezing. "You've been showing him how to be patient and kind and present for eight years. Now he gets to pay it forward."
Buck nodded, not trusting his voice. Eddie's hand was still on his shoulder, warm and steady, and Buck let himself lean into that certainty. Into the promise of *we* instead of *I*.
Or Buck fosters Theo and he and Eddie basically co parent together and discover how in love they are.
Mostly canon except Bobby never died as it's my story so I can make that happenBookmarked by Zerb03
24 Jun 2026