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Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place by reading_is_coping
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
05 Apr 2024
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Buck is still processing last night’s kiss. He tossed and turned all night overthinking all his previous friendships and relationships. Did he really miss all those signs for so long? Did he have feelings for all his male friends or was that just friendship? Did he even like women or was he just performing? No, he definitely likes women too.
This is just a small fic about the aftermath of Buck's first kiss with a dude.
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Buck used to love the rain, until he didn't.
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The first thunderstorm Buck encounters after he moves out of Eddie's house.
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- Part 1 of Three word Buddie prompts
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08 Sep 2025
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“Are you finally proposing?” Buck asks, and the air rushes out of Eddie like he’s been punched in the gut, a swift burst.
Hearing it from Buck makes it real, solidified, no longer a shapeless fantasy in his head.
"Proposing what?”
“Marriage, genius.” Buck snorts. “Duh.”
Buck peels Eddie's pomegranates, carves out the brown spots from his apples, eats the ugly, discolored fruit. Eddie wants to propose, spirals, and crashes a car about it.
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05 Aug 2025
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It's a tale as old as time. You date a woman, break up, date someone else, break up, move in with the best friend you're in love with and then a baby gets left on your doorstep.
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“Eddie, what’s with the weird questions?”
“Uh,” How does Eddie even begin to explain this? “So, funny thing happened to me while I was trying to take a nap.”
“Dude, what does that have to do with Natalia?”
“So it seems that when you broke up with her, you left something behind.”
“I left something behind? What, did she find one of my sweaters and bring it by or something?”
“Or something?”
“Eddie, dude, what is going on?”
“Someone left a little Buckley on our doorstep.”- Language:
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31 Jul 2025
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The First Man That Really Loved Me ( I Saved You A Seat ) by MustacheEddie
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
05 Jul 2025
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“It’s been a year. A full year without your voice in my ear telling me I’m enough when I feel like nothing. Without your lectures. Your guidance. Your… your stupid little reminders to eat something not fried.”
His lip trembles.
“A year, and it hasn’t stopped hurting.”
The wind moves through the trees again, and Buck closes his eyes. It almost feels like an answer.
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OR: Buck visit Bobby's grave one year after his death.Bookmarked by reading_is_coping
31 Jul 2025
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Curling in on himself, Buck coughs in earnest, hacking violently enough that he tastes bits of copper on his tongue. Eyes watering, struggling to breathe, Buck shifts to his hands and knees. The vials roll away, leaving him with a free hand to pound against his sternum. The sensation of something crawling up his neck, choking him, has panic setting in until it’s finally free. Something plops onto the floor with an unsettling wetness.
Looking down, he sees a full grown string of honeysuckle, roots and all, tainted with splatters of blood in the silvery moonlight. Its nectar still lingers on his lips, sugary, delicate, ominous. The message is clear. Buck leans his forehead on the floor, and screams.
Even knowing this love would eventually kill him, for Eddie, he’ll let it.
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Buck's looking death down the barrel, yet again, this time in the form of Hanahaki. Eddie's leaving for Texas, Maddie's struggling in the aftermath of being kidnapped, Bobby has yet another specter of his past coming to haunt him. Buck will let himself strangle on the blossoms of his own unspoken love rather than ruin what little he has left.
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- Part 2 of Under the Hawthorn Trees
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31 Jul 2025