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i’m just a girl, standing in front of a fandom with a poorly made canva wedding invite, asking if they like the sound of marriage of convenience may.

due to overwhelming real life grief i both cannot engage with this show rn and need a fun distraction, and as a girl who loves a silly thematic hook and a bit of alliteration: i bring u ✨ marriage of convenience may ✨

truly the only criteria is buck and eddie deciding a marriage of convenience is the most sensible thing they can do for each other and then silliness and romance ensue. the details are up to you clever lovely people.

i even made an ao3 collection for it here. so if you also need a distraction and a reason to write a marriage of convenience fic for buddie, please take this as your sign. it would make me very happy.

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Buddie wedding, Buck opens his vows by saying “and this is my favorite time, bc I get to yap about Eddie & you all have to sit there & listen” and everybody kind of sighs bc like. He does this all the time but they can’t make fun of him for this time in particular bc it’s his WEDDING day.

We hear Ravi groan in the distance tho bc he doesn’t give a fuck lol.

And then Buck unfolds a 2-inch thick stack of papers & everybody groans anyway but Eddie just stands there w his cute little pink cheeks & a big ass grin on his face bc yay, his fav guy is going to yap, he loves when that happens 🥰🥰🥰

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What the fuck 9-1-1?? What do you MEAN Chim has Super Ebola and Hen has a collapsed lung and Ravi’s gonna be arrested by the army for domestic terrorism and Eddie Diaz is an Uber driver

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4.06 › 5.02 › 8.14

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The rest of B-Shift hearing about Ravi committing domestic terrorism for the sake of Chimney even after Bobby offered to take the fall and just thinking, “Oh God, they finally got him. They roped Ravi into their sick little co-dependent work family. We’re never getting him back.”

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"Hey, Buck, guess you're out on a call. Should've known. Bell probably rang the moment I dropped my last fare off. Anyway, just calling to check in. Hope it's an easy one! Call me back when you get a chance."

"Hey, Buck. You would not believe the ride I just had. Had to take them all the way up to Mesquite. Dead silence the whole time. And they weren't even on their phone! Whatever. It was an extortionate fee, thank God. And they tipped pretty well, but I was bored out of my mind. Hope you're having more fun than me. Call me back."

"Goddamn, you're busy today. Ravi say quiet again? Go easy on the kid. He can't be blamed for your crazy superstitions. Be safe. And call me!"

"Hey, Buck, hope you're doing okay. You've been MIA for hours, and I'm not above admitting I'm a little worried. Got my fingers crossed it's a bunch of fender benders. Nothing big. Just let me know you're good, okay? Even if it's just texting me an emoji from the back of the truck."

"Buck, come on, man. Jesus, I feel crazy. I don't think we've gone this long without speaking since I got out here. Chris has been making fun of me all night for being glued to my phone. Says I'm worse than his friend Jason waiting for Miley to text him back. Like I'm some lovesick teenager. Um. Anyway... Please just let me know you're okay. I'm worried sick over here."

"So many fucking voicemails and I just realised you won't even be able to listen to them if you're that busy. I feel like an idiot. I'm gonna hang up and text you. Please ignore my spiralling when you get home. God, you probably think something's wrong. Fuck. Idiot. We're fine. Everything's fine. I just miss you. Anyway."

Hey, Buck, ignore my voicemails. Nothing's wrong! Everything's fine, I'm just worried about you.

Send me some proof of life?

And call me back when you get the chance.

Be safe out there :)

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EVAN BUCKLEY ▸8x14, sick day

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Guys, what's happening?

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i do Not know how to articulate this coherently but I’m thinking about buddie and points of view again and how it impacts which one of them we think is most likely to have a feelings realisation first. bc they both react to each other so differently and depending on whose perspective we get it can be hard to really know what the other person is thinking

and it's like, for buck every single thought he has about eddie is so loud so when you're in it with him, and you see the grand gestures and his reactions to eddie (whether it's when he's hurt or just existing) and you hear him talking everyone's ear off about eddie you think, ofc it's gonna hit him like a freight train one day when he realises what all of this really means!!!!! so it's season 2 or it's season 3 or it's season 7 or it's 8x11 and you're thinking buck has to be the one to figure it out first. he's so full up with everything he feels for eddie he's about to burst!!!

but then eddie's pov is so Quiet. it's lingering looks in buck's direction and observing him when buck isn't paying attention and these declarations of devotion that are, again, so quiet but so devastating. and everything about the way he views buck is so sure and settled and you watch season 4 or season 5 or 6b or 8x13 and think, eddie has to know on some level. it's there, in the corner of his mind, and he might not be ready to interrogate it yet but it's there.

and because we rarely, if ever, get both of their perspectives side by side in one episode it's impossible to truly know which one of them is closer to figuring it out or if in fact they both do have that thought in the back of their head. or, moreover, if they could ever believe the other person might feel the same way

and anyway i am clawing at the ground at the thought of an episode or a scene that allows us to see both. that lets us see them both react in real time to each other. especially now. especially with everything between them in the past 5 episodes. plant them in front of each other and linger on both of their faces. show me both of their reactions if they touch or hug or say something that potentially means more than they're letting on. it might make my heart stop beating but damn what a way to go that would be

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“What’s that saying? You got the family you’re born into and the one you choose? Well, that’s what the 118 is. The family we chose...”

A portrait of the 118 (in celebration of the 118th episode last week, and yesterdays s9 renewal announcement, yay!! 🥳)

Buck, Eddie, Hen, Chim & Bobby || digital sketch || on ao3 here!

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9-1-1 AISHA HINDS as Hen Wilson -> 8x13 | Invisible

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like a river runs

epilogue, 644 words read on ao3 | read from the beginning

It's a Thursday when he finds it. One of those regular, unremarkable sort of days that you may not even recall specifically to look back on, just something that fades into the background of your life. Eddie is in the kitchen cooking while Buck moves some things around in the bedroom closet—their bedroom closet—to free up some space, and it's all new and familiar at the same time. 

It’s three weeks to the day since he and Eddie found each other again, on the porch in the rain, all broken pieces and jagged edges, but somehow cut perfectly for one another all the same. Coming back together felt as much like coming home as anything could. He's still got that little bead of anxiety in his chest telling him it could still disappear at any moment, Eddie could still change his mind, but he's doing his best not to listen to it.

Something falls to the floor at his feet with a soft thud as he pulls a box from the shelf, dislodged by his rummaging. He looks down and his stomach leaps—resting there on the carpet is a little velvet box, midnight blue. He just stares at it for a moment. Then he sets the box he’s holding down on top of the dresser and bends over to pick it up.

It’s soft in his hand, and has a bit of weight to it. He turns it over once, then perches on the edge of the bed and opens it up. Inside is a beautiful silver ring with tiny crystals inlaid all along the centre that sparkle in the light. He swipes his thumb across the top, and it’s cold to the touch. 

“Oh,” Eddie says. Buck looks up to find him standing in the doorway, staring at the little box in his hand. 

"Was this…?" Buck starts.

"Yeah," he says.

"You kept it?"

“I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of it, you know? It was supposed to be our forever.”

“Hm.” Buck nods and looks at the ring again. Our forever. Somehow it’s within reach again. He takes a deep breath. “Ask me,” he says.

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8.06 | 8.13 insp ♡ @chronicowboy

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S08E13 : Invisible | dir. Brenna Malloy

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Ryan Guzman as Eddie Díaz 9-1-1, S08E13 - Invisible