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You need to get out here, Buck. It’s not safe.
Maddie’s voice echoes in his mind, her panicked words swirling over and over again.
It’s not safe.
It’s been him and Maddie against the world for as long as he can remember, his whole life really. She raised him, she protected him from their parents for as long as she could, and when she couldn’t anymore, she took him and ran. Even after they ran, she continued to protect him, keeping him sheltered from what she was doing until he had built his own skills and confidence to work alongside her. Even on those jobs…he knew she was always keeping an eye on him, and was the first to step in if she didn’t like something.
Maddie has always been the one person in his corner, the one person who’s looked out for him and kept him safe. So, for her to send her away…he’s confused.
He’s confused, and he’s angry.
Or: Buck makes his way to safety following Maddie's instructions and finds himself at Element.
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- Part 2 of The 118 Job
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“Hey buddy,” Chimney bends down, reaching eye level with the excitable dog. It bounces around him, letting him pat it on the head before bouncing away, like a game. “Where’s your owner?”
Glancing around, he doesn’t find anyone heading in his direction with the dog. It’s not unusual for dogs to be off their leash here, but normally there’s someone at least in the vicinity.
The dog eventually comes to a stop, sitting on Chimney’s feet as he stands again. He laughs, and reaches down to scratch behind the dog’s ears. The dog flicks it’s head up to stare at him, tongue lazily flopping from it’s mouth as it pants.
“What’s your name, huh?”
Or Chimney meets a dog on his morning walk, and it leads him to meeting Maddie
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- Part 3 of Meet Cutes
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“So.” He starts, putting his fork down and leaning forward slightly. Here he goes, whatever plan he has up his sleeve is about to come out. She matches his movement, placing her fork down and pushing her plate slightly away. “Would you be up for a little adventure?”
Her eyebrows raise, the thought of leaving the safety of her brother’s apartment enough to send her heart rate skyrocketing. Before she gets the chance to respond, he senses her fear and continues.
“It’s nothing crazy! Just at my work, no one else in my team is there.”
She nods slowly, taking in the information. Curiously bites at her. “What is it for?”
He grins, the question considered a win in his book. He’s got her on the hook, and he knows it. “I want to put up the Christmas decorations!” He sounds like a child when he says it, like the baby brother she raised, his genuine excitement for decorating for Christmas infectious.
Or: In an attempt to cheer Maddie up, Buck encourages her to come to the station to decorate for Christmas.
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- Part 2 of Meet Cutes
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Maddie exhales deeply, sinking back into the chair as the screens all flip to black, Karen having turned off the feed. She slowly moves to the table, very aware of the eyes on her. Sitting down, she looks at Bobby and Athena, who are both looking at her with a shared expression of mischief.
“What?” She asks innocently, “I like making sure they’re safe, is all.”
“Maddie, that was the easiest job they’ve both done in months. They could have done it blindfolded, with their hands tied behind their backs in broad daylight and have been fine,” Athena’s quick response is sharp, but teasing.
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Or: The 118 are a team who operate on the wrong side of the law. Heists and chaos are all part of the fun until the stakes are raised when one of their own becomes leverage.
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- Part 1 of The 118 Job
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Please hold the door. Please hold the door.
Maddie begs silently, manifesting that the stranger she can just about make out in the elevator will sense her desperation and hold the door for her. She could call out to him, but she’s too concentrated on juggling the cardboard box in her arms and trying to make it to in time to think about that.
Fortunately, the kind stranger seems to read her mind, reaching his hand out to hold the door while she breaks out into an awkward jog, barely peeking out over the chopping board that’s sticking out of the box.
She slips into the elevator with the grace of a giraffe on roller skates, catching her breath for a moment before looking at the man opposite her.
Or, while moving into her new apartment, Maddie ends up stuck in the elevator with Chimney.
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- Part 1 of Meet Cutes
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He left, and when he told Maddie she cried and Buck held her until she stopped shaking. He stayed for a dinner he made, and then well past Jee-Yun's bedtime and Chim had told him, seriously, when he was gathering his things and Maddie had fallen asleep on the couch, to do something that should have been simple. "Call Eddie."
"Sure," Buck said with a half smile and a bubbling in his gut.
He wasn't going to call Eddie. Eddie was busy, and Buck was an adult, and, in the grand scheme of things, his mother dying wasn't anything for anyone to worry about. She was dead, Eddie Diaz could stubbornly restart Buck's heart, but Margaret Buckley was well past the ressusitation point. Eddie was a lot of things (smart, capable, funny, handsome, adorable, so, so, so kind), but he wasn't a necromancer.
Besides, what had sent him back to Texas was much more important than Buck dead mother.
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Or a story about grief, and love, and all of the complicated emotions in between.
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28 Sep 2025
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Buck cautiously peers into the small opening, catching a glimpse of Eddie staring at himself in the mirror, fingers gripping the edge of the porcelain sink as he shakes his head and says, “I can’t believe I’m in love with a Buckley.”
It's a miracle Buck doesn’t pass out on the spot.
He takes a stumbling step back into Eddie’s room, somehow managing to close the door quietly in his haze. Although it’s entirely possible that he just slammed it because he can’t hear anything over the whooshing in his ears.
He doesn’t know how he didn’t see it before.
Eddie is in love with Maddie.
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Or, 5 times Buck thinks Eddie is in love with Maddie, +1 time he's sure he's not.
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18 Sep 2025
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Everyone is moving on, or at least trying to. Athena is now living with May temporarily. Buck is staying in Bobby and Athena's home. Hen is trying to support Chim as he steps into the captain role. Eddie is back to Los Angeles but how does it also not feel like home? Bobby's passing still being the thread that ties everyone together.
However, when Maddie get's a flagged call from another dispatcher things take a turn.
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08 Aug 2025
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The conversation moves on. Buck orders another shot and laughs on cue and remains silent. He might as well be invisible. Nobody has asked him a question in forty-five minutes—
“So, what do you do?” The Hot Priest turns to Buck, gentle brown eyes filled with curiosity. The table falls silent.
“Uh–” Buck stammers, disarmed, “I run a store. Or, well–a coffee shop. A cafe.”
“Cool,” he says like he means it, and Buck kind of believes he does.
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Or, the Fleabag au.
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05 Aug 2025
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The woman laughs, a real laugh. And Chimney finally gets to see her real smile. Sweet lord, it is stunning. It lights her up in a way he wasn't prepared for.
“Oh my god! That is such a line!” She says on a laugh, he can’t help but laugh back. It is so easy to get caught up with her.
“No I swear it’s not!”
She fixes him with an unimpressed look. Chimney can feel the blush painting his cheeks as he continues
“Well ok, it’s a bit of a line. But not one that I’ve ever said before. Just an incredibly cheesy way of saying what I can’t quite put into words. Give a guy a break!”
Her smile softens but the light stays in her eyes this time.
“Does this guy have a name?”
“Chimney”
Or: Maddie comes to LA early, and Buck can't convince her to stay. So months later, Chimney meets a mystery woman in a smoky bar in the middle of nowhere, and the universe finds a way to bring them together anyway.
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15 Jul 2025