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    When Maddie comes home for winter break her sophomore year of college, she's expecting to leave to live with Doug and follow him to med school when he goes. Instead, she leaves with her brother.

    In which Maddie raises a child, Evan spends time traveling and goes through El Paso on his way, Eddie gets a divorce and builds a family, and Buck comes to terms with everything that came before.

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    02 Mar 2026

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    The thing was, the 118 was full of gossips.

    Eddie had been at the station less than a week before Hen and Chim wrangled details about his “hot young thing” from him (“Buck is only 4 years younger than me, he is not a ‘hot young thing’!” Eddie complained.)

    And Bobby was open about his worries for his son’s lack of direction and the secrets he appears to be keeping (“I just wish I could help Evan find the thing that gives him purpose,” Bobby lamented.)

    It just made it all the more ridiculous (and horrifying) when Eddie realizes he’s been dating his Captain’s son this whole time (“Defiling his baby,” Chimney cackled, because he clearly wanted Eddie murdered.)
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    Or, the AU where miscommunication abounds as Eddie seeks advice about his new relationship, Bobby despairs over his adopted son's career prospects and his refusal to talk about it, and Evan Buckley-Nash juggles training at the fire academy, building a family with his new boyfriend, and trying to work out how to tell his overprotective dad that he's already chosen the life he wants, actually.

    It takes a goddamn tsunami, of all things, to get the story straight.

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    11 Feb 2026

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    “She hates me,” Eddie tells him, refusing at this juncture to provide any further explanation. Buck will understand. He always does.

    Buck snorts. “Eddie, the cat does not hate you. She’s just weird around men. You know that.” Buck seems to stop whatever task he’s doing, the whirring of what he assumes is Buck’s stand mixer coming to a pause. He hears shuffling as Buck drops himself into a chair, a soft huff escaping him. “What’s going on?”

    Eddie sighs, pushing his chair back and standing—admitting defeat. “I was drinking my coffee at the table, and then she jumped up and got mad that I was there. It’s my table, Buck.” 

    He hears Buck trying to smother a laugh, and he does not appreciate it.

    “She’s a cat, Eddie. She’s settling in—maybe a little bit asserting dominance.”

    Dominance? Buck, it’s my house. She’s a guest.

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    Eddie babysits a cat.

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    03 Nov 2025

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    There had always been a thread connecting Buck and Eddie together.

    From the moment they met, it was just BuckandEddie. No space between them. Through every disaster, every close call, every time the world tilted sideways—they felt it. Just an invisible string keeping the two tethered as one.

    Neither of them ever expected that line to break.

    And they certainly never thought it breaking would end with Buck getting swallowed whole by hundreds of pounds of rubble.

    Or a rewrite of 8x18 where the zip line breaks and Buck gets trapped beneath the rubble.

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    23 Oct 2025

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    “It has been exactly 44 hours since Buck was informed that he is in love with Eddie, and things are going just peachy.

    For example, he’s about to spend the following 24 hours attached at the hip with Eddie at their shared place of employment. Contractually obligated to be in the same room, same engine, same burning building as him and not be weird about it.

    You might even say he’s contractually fucked.”

     

    Or, Buck realizes he’s in love with Eddie and tries not to be weird about it. He does a terrible job.

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