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    An accident at the job lands Buck in hospital after falling through a 4-story building. His loved ones are by his bedside when Buck is placed in an induced coma to help his recovery in hopes he will eventually wake up.

    Eddie is completely heartbroken after watching the love of his life stay in hospital for weeks. With Buck's condition being unclear, Eddie tries to remain strong while he's terrified that things will never be the same.

    But things end up being different when Buck wakes up one day, missing years of his memories, and has forgotten the family he loves with all his heart.

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    11 Jan 2025

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    “Eds,” Buck sounds half exasperated with him, and half interested and that’s enough to make Eddie want to push on with the plan.  “It would have to be someone who knew me so well that everyone would believe we were married.  No one could know the truth and who would be willing to do that?  I couldn’t ask anyone and I…”

    “You don’t have to ask,” Eddie says it quickly, before Buck can say anything to make his tenuous grasp of his self confidence vanish.  “I’ll do it.”

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    Buck needs help; to get his inheritance money he has to be married. Eddie offers to help, because that’s what best friends do, right? He can pretend he’s not woefully in love with Buck, surely?

    Or the fake marriage AU that no one asked for but got in my head.

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    08 Jan 2025

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    5 years ago Evan Buckley disappeared from his sisters life without a trace or word. Maddie has moved on with her life. She has moved to L..A, has a wonderful boyfriend, and a new found family here. She's never forgotten her brother though. She's surprised when she discovers her brother has been working as a nurse in L.A. General's Emergency Room. The sibling's relationship is going to need a lot of mending, but maybe Buck will find his equilibrium along the way.

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    07 Jan 2025

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    "Hear me out," Buck said. "Clearly, both of us are sick of dating other people. And we're a good fit, in pretty much every way that matters. So what if we're not in love? We don't need to be in love to be happy together."

    Eddie frowned. "So basically, we'd be boyfriends, without benefits?"

    "Yes!" Buck snapped his fingers. "Like platonic boyfriends! We'd get all the benefits of a relationship and none of the heartbreak."

    And maybe Eddie had finally lost his mind, or maybe it was from all the alcohol clouding his judgment, but the idea of it didn't sound half as crazy as it should have.

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    After Buck’s and Eddie’s dates both end with disasters – proving once again that maybe dating just wasn’t meant for them – they decide to simply settle for each other. If there was one person in the world they'd ever trust with their hearts, it was each other. And who was a better person to date other than your very own best friend?

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    06 Jan 2025

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    What if Buck had moved in with Eddie and Christopher after 4x07?

    Buck has been struggling with the loss of his safe space since Albert started dating Veronica. So Eddie suggests that he crash at his house for a couple of weeks to get some distance. No big deal right? So Buck takes him up on the offer, and it only comes as a surprise to them how perfectly he adapts to life with the Diaz boys. But when feelings make themselves known, it complicates everything...

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    03 Jan 2025