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“Holy shit, you’re Buck Buckley!”
Buck glanced at Eddie before looking back at Eddie’s partner. “Yeah?”
The man turned to Eddie in dismay, slapping him frantically on the shoulder. “Edmundo Diaz, you didn’t tell me you were dating Buck Buckley!!”
“Chim,” Eddie sighed, though Buck watched as his face flushed at the attention. It was adorable. Buck wanted to kiss him, see if he tasted different when his face was all warm. “Not the time.”
“Seems like the time,” Chim (?) countered. “We’re here, nothing’s on fire.” He looked back up at Buck. “Nothing’s on fire, right?”
Or an accidental kitchen fire unexpectedly throws Buck, Maddie, Eddie, and Chimney together for the first time.
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- Part 3 of Hockey Player Buck
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“How do you not know about this?” Maddie asked, still confused. “You always know everything.”
“Yes, but he has terrible luck in relationships,” Chim teased. “Buck’s never had to worry about being a couple on Valentine’s before.”
“Rude. A killer would love to try and murder me, I bet.”
“Asking you again to think before you speak, Buck,” Maddie sighed.
Or there's a serial killer targeting couples in LA on Valentine's Day but Buck's more worried about the new guy at work.
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“My Diaz boys!” Buck’s cheery voice came over the speaker. “I’m so happy you called! I hear we need to indulge in some Bake Off.”
“Definitely,” Chris nodded, not that Buck could see him. “Dad got hurt at work last night so we need to cheer him up.”
That wasn’t exactly how Eddie had wanted to inform Buck of his injury, especially when he heard the sharp intake of breath on the other end of the line, but that was the gamble you took when your kid was in the conversation.
“I’m fine,” Eddie promised. “Just a little sore.”
“His arm’s in a sling and he bonked his head!” Chris added cheerfully.
“I see,” Buck replied as neutrally as possible.
Or After weeks of texting, calls, and long distance Bake Off viewings, Eddie and Buck attempt a first date.
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- Part 2 of Hockey Player Buck
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“Daddy, did you see that?!” Chris would ask excitedly from the couch, pointing at the television where big, hulking men skated around with a grace Eddie would never understand in a million lifetimes. “The other guy was offside but then Buck got the puck and he just scored a goal!”
"Wow, bud!” Eddie had no idea what offside was but Buck was Chris’s favorite player and goal was universal. “Good for him!”
“Buck is the coolest,” Chris sighed. “I want to be just like him when I grow up."
Which, you know, Eddie had thought being a firefighter was pretty cool but apparently it had nothing on a hockey player. Whatever.
Or Eddie Diaz takes his hockey super fan son to a game and while the crowd falls in love with Chris, Eddie finally notices Chris's favorite player, Evan "Buck" Buckley.
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- Part 1 of Hockey Player Buck
- Part 2 of Buddie AU Meet Cutes
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Dear Stranger by manicfanfic, MarriedState (passingfair)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
27 May 2025
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One afternoon, a young Ed Teach serendipitously stumbles across a message in a bottle near the waves. Though half a world away, he soon forms an unlikely bond with its sender, a lonely boy named Stede Bonnet.
💌 💌 💌
Dear Stranger is a coming of age story about two long distance penpals and the joys and heartaches of growing up, falling in love, and finding their way to one another.
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Like and Subscribe 'Verse by MarriedState (passingfair), passingfair
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Modern Meet Cutes by MarriedState (passingfair), passingfair
Fandom Our Flag Means Death (TV)
05 Nov 2024
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A series of one shots in which Ed and Stede meet and immediately hit it off, no matter the universe.
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"Eddie?" Shannon picks up on the fourth ring. "Everything okay?"
"I kissed a man," he says.
The silence on the other end stretches for nine thousand years. Eddie can hear Shannon breathing. He can hear his own heartbeat slamming against his ribs. He stares at the apartment building through his windshield, at the lit window on the fourth floor that might belong to E. Buckley, and waits for his ex-wife to say literally anything at all.
"You what?"
"I kissed a man, Shannon. Just now. I was delivering food and he opened the door and I just— I kissed him. On the mouth. And I don't know why."
Another silence. Then a sound Eddie recognizes with dawning horror as Shannon trying very, very hard to suppress a laugh.
"Shannon."
"I'm processing."
"You're laughing."
"I'm processing." She fails spectacularly. "I'm sorry, I just— you kissed a man? Edmundo Diaz? The same Edmundo Diaz who wouldn't watch Brokeback Mountain with me because it made him 'uncomfortable'?"
"It did make me uncomfortable!"
"Yeah, Eddie, I'm starting to understand why."
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Being kissed by your Uber Eats delivery driver? Worse things have happened.- Language:
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Bookmarked by mbuckleydiaz (passingfair)
19 Aug 2026
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Buck.
His name is Buck.
This gorgeous barista is the Buck that Eddie was warned, explicitly, not to flirt with.
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Or: Eddie just wants to order a good cup of coffee. He swears thats all. Really.
Bookmarked by mbuckleydiaz (passingfair)
07 Aug 2026
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He completely pulls the charger from the wall as he fumbles to put in his passcode. He doesn’t know who to call first. Everyone is busy, carrying on with their lives and Buck is stuck here in the loft with the terrifying ghost of his childhood like an omen. Out of the corner of his eye he catches the Crooked Smiled Man now standing in the dark entrance way to his bathroom. He swallows around the taste of blood in his mouth, hands shaking, useless as his list of contacts blur beneath the burn of tears.
Eddie Eddie Eddie
He doesn’t know where the feeling comes from, but it’s sudden and sharp and excruciating. Eddie is the first name at the top of his list, his most recent calls and texts, and he doesn’t hesitate to hit the call button.
[or buck can see ghosts au]
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Bookmarked by mbuckleydiaz (passingfair)
27 May 2026
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When Eddie gets a phone call from his son's science teacher about reasonable accommodations it sets off a series of events that turn his life completely upside down.
"I should probably get going," Buck says. "It's a school night after all."
Eddie appreciates this devotion to duty, but at the same time he's a little disappointed. He's repaid Buck's favor so now there's no need for them to see each other except on parent teacher night. But he doesn't want that. It's been a handful of hours and the thought of Buck never coming by again already seems impossible. "Look," he says, letting the words come out of his mouth before he can overthink them back in again. "I don't know about you, but making friends when you're a single dad with an insane job is hard. I have your number. Is it okay if I use it for non-school purposes?"
Buck's insta-smile is so bright it's practically blinding. "I would love that."
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Bookmarked by mbuckleydiaz (passingfair)
27 Mar 2026
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This series is all about the different ways Buck and Eddie could meet. In different circumstances, universes, etc.
The stories will not be related to one another, you will be able to read them separately.
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Bookmarked by mbuckleydiaz (passingfair)
09 Mar 2026