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    When the firefighter walks into Eddie's coffeeshop, Eddie immediately knows two things about him: he's not human, and he's the love of Eddie's life.

    Oh, he knows a bunch of other things too, obviously. He's about thirty, a few months younger than Eddie himself. He has a scar on his throat, like he got stabbed there, and one of his legs has some metal rods in it that must have come from a bad injury. The guy doesn't know he's not human, which is a tricky thing to figure out, but Eddie's almost positive. Most of the non-humans he knows have always known they aren't people, but there are exceptions, and they tend to carry themselves differently. Ana before her first full moon as a werewolf had a very different vibe from Ana after.

    The firefighter moves like he knows he doesn't belong, but not like he knows why. Like he's afraid of taking up space, afraid of being noticed.

    As if Eddie is even capable of not noticing him.

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    13 Dec 2024

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    “Alright, Buckley. Tell me about yourself.” Diaz has just the slightest twang in his accent, something southern and warm and Evan wants to listen to this guy talk all day forever, maybe. “You’ve been with us a week, but none of us even know your first name.”

    “Uh, Evan.” Evan’s on a cot, an IV with fluids stuck in his arm, while he cradles the bag he’s been yaking into in the other. “I’m from Hershey, Pennsylvania. I’ve got an older sister named Maddie, she’s a nurse and the coolest person I know. My favourite colour is pink.”

    Or, Evan Buckley enlists in the army fresh out of high school and falls in love with his best friend. Things spiral from there. From the prompt “Secretly Married”

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    04 Dec 2024

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    Eddie’s life had gone to shit in roughly every possible way.

    He felt about two seconds away from breaking every hour of every day, like someone had stepped up in front of him, shoved him down, smashed the life he’d been working on, and left him to rebuild from the ground up.

    And so, really, the last thing he needed when he got home at the end of a long shift was to find a massive, weird-ass dog curled up on his front porch. And yet, there it was.

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    18 Nov 2024

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    Eddie thinks, as he munches on a fry, that he’s angry. He’s angry that Buck was ever wronged, that Buck even felt he had to give him that look. He’s angry that he can’t just fix it, that he’s not good at fixing things but he’s really good at messing things up. He’s angry because he’s afraid of failing when Buck needs him.

    He’s angry at Buck because he’s not here, and he’s angry because it’s easier than grief, because Eddie thinks this might be a type of grief. Because he misses Buck when he’s right there, because Eddie thinks this might be another thing like all the other things he needs to deal with, the things he pushes down so deep because just letting them sit around is enough to hurt.

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    or Buck gets turned into a kid. Eddie misses him like crazy.

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    17 Nov 2024

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    “Name any friends you have outside of the 118.”
    “Well that’s not fair. All your friends are from the 118, too.”
    “Exactly.”
    “You guys are old and friendless. Maybe you would make more friends if you didn’t spend so much time with each other. It scares people.”

    or 5 times eddie called buck a nickname and 1 time buck called him one

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    17 Nov 2024