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“Evan, what do you need?”
“Tell me something good?”
Eddie frowned. “Something good?”
Evan sighed. “Yeah,” he said. “About anything.”
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18 Dec 2024
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Buck remembers how proud he was about all of his software updates. 2.0, 3.0. Maybe if he shed 100 skins and improved himself enough, 3.0 to infinity, someone could take a look at him and find something worth keeping. Because that’s what he kept telling himself: nobody is ever gonna want you enough to keep you.
But Eddie had kept him. He’s keeping him, still, he just has to go.
Eddie is moving to Texas. Buck finally figures out what he wants.
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“Everything okay?” Hen asks him when he reascends the stairs, plopping back down on his seat at the table next to Eddie.
Buck puts his head in his hands. “My mother is pimping me out to the women of Los Angeles.”
Chimney snort-coughs whatever’s in the mug he’s been sipping from.
“Come again?”
After another relationship blows up in his face, Buck does himself the generous favor of taking a vow of relationship-celibacy for the greater good of humanity. Then his parents skip back into town with a vengeance, his mother starts meddling in his love life, and Buck elects to find a fake girlfriend to get them off of his case. He's also in love with his best friend, but that's a minor detail.
Meanwhile, Eddie is losing his mind for completely separate reasons. Obviously.
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15 Dec 2024
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He thinks about it, and then he doesn’t think about it because there’s no time to think about it. And he’s only half thinking about it when they’re in the locker room at the end of shift, and he asks if Buck wants to do something that evening. And Buck, honest to God, says to him, “Ah, uh, I have a date.”
It’s said with a head duck and a flutter of eyelashes, that thing Buck does a lot when he’s embarrassed or being coy that makes Eddie’s stomach swoop and plummet like a Tilt-A-Whirl. He sounds almost…sheepish.
But Eddie’s not crazy. Buck and Tommy broke up not even three weeks ago, seriously, unless it was a madness-induced hallucination and not something that actually happened in real life.
“Huh,” Eddie says. He doesn’t mean to say huh, but that’s what happens anyway.
Christopher has been in Texas for too long, and Buck gets back on the hamster wheel. Eddie considers some things.
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15 Dec 2024
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It’s not like Buck needs anyone to tell him what his issues are. They might as well be written on his forehead in bright red marker. He’s not ignoring it or anything; Buck just doesn’t see the point in re-litigating them every time he feels like this, every time he feels like a dog that got sent back to the pound. It’s not like he doesn’t have his friends and family, and Tommy is sleeping right next to him, but there’s a hole in Buck’s chest he’s had since he was born and he still doesn’t know how to fill it.
When the 118 is closed for reconstruction after an earthquake, Buck is a floater for different stations around the city. He tries not to let it get to him. Much.
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15 Dec 2024