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  1. Public Bookmark 31

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    War wasn’t supposed to change anything. Buck came here to do a job—get in, get out, survive. He didn’t plan on meeting someone like Eddie Diaz.

    Somewhere between the dust and the gunfire, something shifts. And for the first time, Buck wonders if surviving means more than just making it out alive.

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    Or, Buck thought the only person he came here for was the man they sent him to save. Turns out, he was wrong.

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    24 Mar 2025

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    Read when finished

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    After Eddie moves to Texas to be with Christopher, Buck is left alone in an empty house that has him feeling off. With his tether now gone, some old habits start creeping back in.

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    The Buck crash-out fic. Because if there's anyone who deserves a good breakdown right now, it's Evan Buckley.

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    23 Mar 2025

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    Oh my g o d

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    Buck doesn’t think that if he were to say, “I’m in a bad place”, that anyone would turn him away. Really, he doesn’t. The 118 has too many good, kind people for that.

    But every time he wants to open his mouth, to say something, to reach out to Eddie or Bobby or Hen or Chim, he hears Eddie yelling, “you’re exhausting.”

    —you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting—

    So each day he does his job and he laughs and he jokes and he pretends he’s the care-free goofball he’s always been. And each day he packs away his bruises and his worries, takes them home to his empty loft with its quiet rooms, and licks his wounds in silence.

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    12 Sep 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Buck just wants to be loved pls save me

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    Steve's rarely been touched in a way that didn't equate to some kind of hurt. The cold metal of a stethoscope against his frail chest or the sting of a needle drawing yet another blood sample, when he was a sickly child. The bone-shattering punches thrown by the neighborhood bullies on the playground, or by his own father at home, drunk and wild. His mother, weak and clutching at him as she grew more incoherent with the drugs as the cancer ate away at her insides. Touch was something he shied away from, something he told himself he just didn't want.

    Except...he did. He just didn't know how.

    Until he finds a flyer for a local "affection and intimacy services" program.

    In which Steve learns how to become comfortable with touch, and there is one very good dog, and a slow-burn romance.

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    13 May 2018

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Gooood shit. 10/10 would recommend.

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    Charlie’s pretty sure bringing your uncle as a show and tell item isn’t the norm, but he’s willing to do almost anything for his niece, even subject himself to her Year 1 class. And hey, her teacher’s really handsome and funny and sweet… Maybe it won’t be too bad after all.

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    07 Aug 2022