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    Buck knows what he’s doing might be constituted as ‘a bit creepy,’ but he can’t really help it. He has a book in his lap, so it’s not like he’s just staring at Eddie, but—ok, so he hasn’t actually read a page in over twenty minutes, and in the meantime he has watched his best friend chop like six different kinds of vegetables to go in Bobby’s ragu.

    “How’s it going, Buck?” Hen asks, flinging herself into the adjacent arm chair.

    “Fine,” Buck says, barely looking at her. “But something’s up with Eddie.”

    or, Eddie flirts. Buck worries.

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    05 May 2025

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    “I just—I don’t want you to be alone,” said Eddie, softly, like an admission.

    Join the fucking club, Buck thought. It was funny, but none of his laughs were coming out right tonight. “I am alone, Eddie.”

    “Buck, I—”

    “She wants my kidney.” There it went; Buck never could keep anything inside. Could never keep the feelings contained, could never stop them from spilling out over the people nearest him. “That’s what fucking happened, okay? My dad needs a kidney donor and they remembered why they bothered having me in the first place. Is that what you wanted to hear? That my parents finally found a use for me after all these years?”

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    A request from his mom tears open old wounds for Buck. From 800 miles away, Eddie tries to stitch him back together.

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    06 Apr 2025

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    “Shit, shit, shit,” he cursed as he gripped the wrist of his injured hand, holding it above his heart. The cut wasn’t massive and, by design, not something you could stitch, but that didn’t make it any less messy or risky.

    The blood thinners were not his friend right now.

    A singular river of red trailed down his forearm to his elbow, then dripped onto the floor, leaving little splatters that his shoes soon smeared against the tile.

    “Towel, towel, towel,” he said, spinning on his heel, gaze raking the room frantically. “Fuck—shit, there you are.”


    Buck wanted fajitas, so he went to the store for the sweet onions he needed, but he got the wrong kind because he unexpectedly ran into the team, which had nothing to do with why he was crying in his kitchen--obviously, the shitty onions were to blame.

    And his day just gets worse from there--as he ends up fileting off a strip of skin, bleeding everywhere, then accidentally hitting his talk-to-text and sending a ramble he never meant anyone to hear to the last person on earth to care: Eddie.

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    06 Mar 2025

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    Eddie listens to the voicemail later. Buck sounds like he’s at a grocery store, absentmindedly talking into the phone. “Oh, I guess you’re with your sisters. Sorry to miss you. I just wanted to tell you about this call we had last night, but I gotta hear your reactions, so, later. Okay, uh, I guess I’ll just call back. Or text.”

    It ends abruptly, without a goodbye. Eddie replays it a second time, closes his eyes as he sits in the truck. For a moment, he can pretend Buck is sitting in the passenger seat next to him. For a moment, Eddie is back in Los Angeles and his best friend is dragging him through the grocery store.

    The voicemail ends, Eddie opens his eyes, and the fantasy breaks. Eddie is still in El Paso, parked in front of the house he’s renting, and there’s no one in the passenger seat with him.

    Eddie moves to Texas. Buck moves into his house. There's a love story somewhere in here.

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    25 Feb 2025

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    “And you know what I want?” Eddie cuts him off, his arms crossing over his chest in defiance, a challenge burning in his eyes.

    Buck freezes. The words he’d been about to say catch in his throat, evaporating into the thick, charged air between them. He hadn’t expected Eddie to turn it around like this, to pin him with a question so sharp it slices through his resolve.

    Eddie doesn’t let up. He stares at Buck, his gaze unwavering, his voice dropping to something quieter but no less intense. “Go ahead, Buck. If you’re so sure, tell me. What do I want?”

    “I think you want me,” Buck says, the words tumbling out on a single, ragged breath.

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    The day before Eddie leaves for Texas it all falls apart.

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    17 Feb 2025