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    hammer price [noun]: the price at which an item is sold at auction

    (Or, Buck volunteers for the LAFD Bachelor Auction and Eddie is extremely normal about it.)

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  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    A decent crowd is gathered in the corner, overlapping cheers and laughter and whooping doing a great job at replacing the banjo playing in his ears. Too many people are obfuscating his view of whatever attraction that is, until Eddie spots a head swiftly appearing and disappearing over the crowd. Again. And again. No.

    His gaze slowly drags towards Buck, who is already looking at him with a mischievous glint in his eyes and a self-satisfied grin splitting his face in half. Eddie starts shaking his head before Buck even utters a word.

    “Absolutely not.”

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    Buck rides a mechanical bull in Nashville. Eddie has an appropriate reaction to it.

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    “You know,” Maddie says, waving a hand in a how silly! gesture before Buck can get the word out. “The competition.”

    Eddie redirects his gaze to Maddie. “Competition?”

    He could drop his glass on the concrete. Or yell fire! convincingly enough to buy him enough time to run. He could make himself throw up, or pretend to faint, or just make a break for his truck and drive it directly into the ocean.

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    15 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 27

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    “You’re not. You’re straight.” 

    “I’m not straight. Who told you I was straight?” 

    “Eddie. Stop—Stop fucking with me, man. This isn’t funny.” 

    “I’m not. I don’t know what I am, but I’m definitely not straight. And I’m definitely in love with you.” 

    “You’re not!” 

    Buck. I am.” 

    “You’re—You’re confused. You love me, like best friends do. Platonically. Not—Not romantically.” 

    “Jesus Christ.” 

    —sharing a twin sized bed in a shitty motel has a funny way of making you spill all your secrets.

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    Coming back to LA was supposed to feel like coming home again. Eddie’s heart belongs here - belongs to this place, and these people who reminded him of what it meant to truly live. To be alive. Coming back with Christopher alongside him was supposed to be the answer to all of his problems, as if the second they passed the Welcome to Los Angeles sign, his bones would settle. His lungs would remember how to breathe.

    But, even weeks after their return, something still doesn’t feel quite right. Not wrong, exactly. Just. Just not quite whole, like there’s still a piece of the jigsaw puzzle that’s missing. There’s still one final brick to lay before the house is complete.

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