#136 firehouse

[schrijverr]

I Didn’t Mean to Say I Do, but I Do. I Do. 34

Chapter 34 out of 50

Secret marriage of convenience buddie slow burn AU, where Buck and Eddie have been married for years so Buck could adopt Chris and no one at the 118 knows.

In this chapter, Eddie starts at the 136, settling in there does not go as smoothly for him as it had gone at the 118. Still, he does manage to make one friend. Sort of. At home, the situation doesn’t get any better either.

On AO3.

Ships: Buddie

Warnings: internalized misogyny, internalized homophobia, self loathing

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Chapter 34: Second First Day

Eddie is a ball of nerves. He honestly hasn’t been this nervous since Shannon went into labor, it’s that bad.

Last time he had to report to a firehouse for the first time, it was the 118. He already knew everyone there through Buck and he knew he would have Buck by his side. He knew the unspoken rules they had and what to expect. Now he’s going in blind with no clue how much information about the aftermath of the explosion is known.

He is also running late. There was a cereal bowl mishap at breakfast, which Eddie couldn’t leave for Buck to clean up and Chris had to get changed, then there was traffic between the school and the firehouse, since the route takes him over different, busier roads. So suffice to say, he is not off to a great start.

Fortunately, he already changed into his uniform before he left due to the aforementioned cereal bowl mishap, so he doesn’t have to do that and be even more late.

His stuff will have to be put in a spare locker later – everything had been cleared out of his old locker by Chimney, who gave it to Maddie, who got it to him. Buck’s stuff hasn’t been cleared out yet, which is hopeful – even if Eddie feels awkward with his bag in hand as he quickly makes his way up the stairs.

It’s not like his first day at the 118 where he got greeted downstairs by everyone and introduced, instead he’s walking in on family dinner, though he’ s not sure if that’s universal or if they just happen to be sitting around the table.

Based on uniform, the muscled Afro-American man at the head must be Captain Cooper. To make it easy on himself, he falls into parade rest and gives the man a curt nod as he says: “Probationary Firefigher Eddie Diaz, sir. I was told to report here.”

“No need to be so formal, son. Call me Ronnie, I take it you go by Eddie?” Ronnie replies.

“Yes,” Eddie says, fighting not to add sir to the end of that sentence.

“Welcome aboard, Eddie,” Ronnie smiles. “This here is Bosko, she’ll be your partner while you’re here. That’s Calley, Stover, Logan and Robin. Logan and Robin are in the ambulance, Calley and Stover are with us on the rig.”

The people around the table greet him, waving when they’re introduced. Eddie hopes he can remember all their names as he nods back.

“Bosko will give you a tour and tell you where you can drop your stuff. It’s pretty standard, so nothing you won’t know,” Ronnie tells him.

At his words, Bosko gets up, wordlessly walking by with a little head motion that informs him he needs to follow. Eddie doesn’t know if it’s just her personality or if she doesn’t like him. As to not test the possibility of it being the latter, he quickly follows after her.

The first time she speaks is to point at a locker, saying: “That one’s yours for now. Code is still 0000, so you can input your own.”

Eddie changes the code to Chris’s birthday, it’s standard and easy. And the same code Buck installed on his own locker, his brain reminds him without permission. He tells his brain to shut up and distracts himself by asking: “For now?”

Bosko looks up from where she’s looking at the floor: “Yeah. You’re not going to be here forever, you’re only here because Daisy got hurt. She’s my usual partner. You’re basically a long term floater right now, so don’t get too comfortable.”

“Well, then we have that in common. My partner is laid up too, broken leg,” Eddie says, before remembering he wasn’t going to think of Buck.

Still, his words seem to work, because her body language opens up to him a bit more and she actually smiles. “Broken legs are gnarly. Daisy sprained her shoulder, rope flew, she’s looking at about six weeks of recovery until she’s back. How about your partner?”

He was not supposed to be thinking about Buck, much less talk about him, but he wants to find a place here, even if he’s only going to be here for six weeks. If this is the way, he’ll take it. “He, uh- he’s the firefighter from the explosion three weeks ago. They’re not sure he’s going to work again.”

Bosko’s eyes get big and she whistles: “Oh shit. That was your station? I saw that. Are you guys still not back online again? That why you’ve been placed here?”

“Uhm, no. It’s- it’s a long story,” Eddie says, embarrassed. Clearly she hasn’t heard about them being investigated for fraternization.

She frowns and gives him a dubious look. “You’re not some weirdo asshole, who’s been dumped here, right?”

Great, he immediately ruined whatever report they built up. Since secrets blew up in his face last time, he decides to go a different route: “No, we’re under investigation for workplace relations without informing the brass. Which is not true. I’m not even gay. Neither is he. We got married for practical reasons. Like I said, long story and not something I want everyone to know.”

At his confession, Bosko blinks a few times and Eddie tensely awaits her reaction. After a silence that lasts a beat too long, she clears her throat. “Uh, yeah, that’s- that’s sure something.” Then she gives him a half-smile. “Don’t worry, I can keep a secret. It would even be okay if it were secretly true. I’m a lesbian, I get it.”

Eddie feels a little like a deer in headlights. He wants to vehemently deny, both because it’s not actually true (even if a small part of him wants it to be) and it would be better for the investigation that no rumors start flying, and because he isn’t comfortable with the idea of it being true (which is why he is ignoring that small part of him). However, he doesn’t want to come across as homophobic to Bosko, because he isn’t. It’s totally fine for other people to be gay, just not him.

Now his silence lasts a couple of seconds too long as well, before he stumbles: “Uh, well, thanks. It’s not, but thanks.”

Awkwardly they nod at each other for a moment. Then Bosko asks: “Should I show you where your kit is now?”

“Yeah, yes,” Eddie says a bit too quickly, following after her.

They remain professional and a little stilted through the rest of the tour, neither really knowing what to do with the other. They’re both missing the person that is supposed to be there next to them and Eddie tries not to think about it too deeply.

However, despite their unsure interactions, they work well when they’re out on calls. Eddie has to get used to having to verbally ask for the tools he needs and Bosko has to get used to Eddie not playfully roughhousing with her about stuff, but they make it work. By the time they’re a few hours into their shift, they’ve warmed back up to each other.

Bosko is clearly closest with Ronnie, their Captain, but she’s friendly enough with everyone. Eddie doesn’t really know what to talk about, his life the past few years has mostly just been Chris, Buck and work or recovery. He has things he does, but he does most of that with Buck, which is a topic he’d like to avoid. So, he mostly follows Bosko around, getting semi-included in the group, or keeps to himself.

In the afternoon, he gets a text from Buck, saying tía Pepa picked up Chris and that she handed over the paperwork to add Maddie, just in case, went okay. So there should be no trouble, if it ever comes to that.

He wants to text back that it’s good and to keep him updated on how the first time being alone with Chris after the injury is going. However, when he types it out, it suddenly looks very involved and doting. Feminine. Gay. Revealing. Eddie deletes the message and sends a thumbs up emoji instead, before angrily locking his phone and stuffing it in his pocket.

When he looks up, he meets Bosko’s eyes and she quirks a brow at him. The feeling of being caught comes over him and he looks away, pretending he didn’t see.

Eddie discovers they, in fact, don’t do family dinner here and he has to make himself a sandwich for dinner, while everyone else pulls out tupperware they brought from home. The moment makes him feel like an outsider and he curses himself for not preparing for the eventuality.

It’s just not something he accounted for. Eddie has quite literally never had to make food to take with him to work. The army did it for him, as did Bobby at the 118, before that he was in high school and when he did work or went to the academy, Buck did the food. He only had a few weeks of living with Shannon, then he took leftovers with him.

Now he’s eating a sad sandwich and trying not to feel like a ninth grader eating lunch in a bathroom stall.

After dinner he escapes to the bunkroom, lying on a cot that seemed unclaimed and scrolling through his dimmed phone. He only has a vague notion what meal prepping is, but he should be able to figure it out. He needs to be able to provide for himself, not always count on others to do it for him.

Researching meal prepping the way he is, reminds him of Buck’s research spirals. For a split second he’s fond, before he realizes what he’s thinking. If he wants to suck it up and move on, before anyone can realize how wrong he is, he can’t afford to feel things like that. As if burnt, he puts his phone away, staring at the ceiling by himself in the darkness until a call comes in.

Still, for the most part, Eddie’s first shift goes okay. 24 hours later, he’s leaving the firehouse without anyone there fully hating him and having cemented himself in the work, though not the spare time.

It’s not as if Eddie is being shunned, he’s just clearly not a part of the group yet. Eddie only made half an effort on that front, but he can’t bring himself to care. Bosko said not to get too comfortable and he is more than fine with that, he tried getting close with the 118 and that only sucked in the long run. As long as he works well there, he’s going to try not to lose any sleep about it.

At home, Buck is waiting for him, eager to know how his first day went. Eddie wants to assure him it’s all okay, but he’s also become intimately aware of their every interaction, so his answers are short and stilted.

By the look on Buck’s face, he hasn’t assured him of anything, maybe only worried him more. But he doesn’t know what to do about that without feeling like he’s going to vomit from the feelings he’s having. So he retreats to the kitchen for a late breakfast, finding the pantry empty.

Groceries give him an excuse to get out of the house, so he takes it, even if he’s a little tired from his shift.

In the store, he realizes he should have asked Buck what foods are good for meal prepping. He can still text of course, but he stubbornly refuses to do so. He’s a grown man, he can figure out what groceries he needs to get.

Armed with google, he makes his way through the store. It ends up taking longer than it should have and he barely has time to catch a quick nap, before he has to get Chris from school.

Chris has gotten a new science project assigned today and he’s really excited about it. He already has a plan, which he works out with Buck when they get home, the two of them making a list of supplies they need.

Usually, Buck does Chris’s projects with him – and he still is, he just can’t drive yet – but this time Eddie needs to extend a helping hand. For the second time that day, he gets lost in a store.

He’s never even been in the hardware store, since Buck literally worked in construction, thus did most of the stuff at home. Now that he is aware of that, it feels like he shouldn’t have let Buck do that. Eddie is a man, he should know his way around the hardware store, not needing to ask where he can find what he needs to a random teenager.

Luckily, he survives the trip, despite the shame. At home he can happily hand off the supplies to Buck, so he can help Chris, while Eddie does meal prep.

Meal prep, as it turns out, is harder than it seems and Eddie burns half the food. In frustrated anger and embarrassment he punches the burnt courgette, before feeling the slurry all over his hand and realizing what he just did.

With a quick look to the living room, he checks to see if Buck or Chris heard. Thankfully, it seems they’re both too wrapped up in their project.

Eddie sneaks the ruined food out the backdoor to throw away outside, opening all the windows to get rid of the smell best he can. He decides that eating bread for dinner at work is fine actually and makes pasta instead.

That evening, he is happy to collapse on his bed. If he’s honest with himself, returning to work has kind of sucked.

Before the thought is even finished, he can hear his papi’s voice, calling him a kept man. What sort of man is he, that he thinks providing for his family sucks? No man, that’s what. He can just suck it up, it wasn’t that bad anyway, just different. He’ll get used to it. He’ll get used to it and go back to what he is supposed to be. It’ll just blow over.

However, it doesn’t. Working gets marginally better, but the only person he’s managed to built some sort of relation with is Bosko. For the most part he keeps to himself and doesn’t get included with the others.

It probably doesn’t help that he continuously declines to go out with them, but he doesn’t do that on purpose. It’s just that he’s gone from too much spare time to none at all, seemingly overnight without a warning or time to prepare, he just wakes up and it’s his life.

When he’s not working, he’s driving Chris to and from school and Buck to his hospital appointments, or coordinating with the limited people they have in their sphere about how to organize it when he can’t.

On top of that, there are meals every day, piles of dishes and laundry that grow every time he blinks, tripping hazards that need picking up, trash that needs to be taken out, floors that need to be vacuumed, groceries that need to be done, he needs to remember pumping gas, bills and all the other appointments, as well as doing the regular maintenance. Everything.

Eddie feels like he’s drowning on dry land.

Whenever he has time to sit for a moment and breathe, he finds himself wondering how the fuck Buck did this when he was injured. Or when he was in Afghanistan even. It’s so much and Eddie is barely keeping up, but it looked effortless when Buck did it.

He feels hopelessly inadequate. He’s already having shameful thoughts about Buck that he can’t keep a lid on, no matter how hard he tries, and now he’s also failing him as a husband. As the man of the house.

Maybe God is real and he heard Eddie’s thoughts and this is his penance? To be reminded of how intertwined he’s let himself become, how dependent. How he threw away his masculinity for the easy road and now he’s not even a man anymore.

For a moment, he seriously considers divorcing Buck, just to prove to himself that he isn’t irreversibly tied to him.

However, he tosses the thought out as quickly as it came. Not only will divorce be another headache that will only bring more chores and stress, it’ll also serve to prove nothing, bar the fact that Eddie is indeed a horrible husband, who can’t even deal with providing for his family.

It’s honestly no wonder Shannon divorced him, he’s starting to be surprised Buck even put up with him this long in the first place. Maybe he only is, because he’s injured and has no other choice. The thought makes Eddie nauseous and he desperately tries not to think about why that is.

Every day is a new headache. It’s only been two weeks, but it feels like every time he has a grip on things, they slip through his fingers again.

Today he’s on a 48 hour shift when Chris’s school calls. No one even bothers asking him who it is as he retreats downstairs to take the call. As it turns out, the secretary is out sick and her replacement has found a fault in the paperwork and is not letting Maddie sign Chris out.

Impatient, Eddie explains: “I can’t come down there to sign him out, because I am at work and his other parent can’t drive due to an injury. I am confirming I know Maddie and she can sign him out, she has done it before.”

“Paperwork updating a child’s permission form can only be handed over by a legal guardian. It says here it was handed over by a Josephina Diaz, who is not a registered legal guardian of Christoper,” the temp explains.

“Listen here, okay. I have already been working for over 24 hours. We’ve had two big rescues and I am tired and still on the clock. His other legal guardian is injured. Let Chris’s tía sign him out or I will tell Maddie to take him and let you deal with having a child kidnapped from your property. Do I make myself clear?”

The temp stumbles a bit and Eddie is sick of it. “Good, thank you and good day. Don’t bother me with this again.” He hangs up, angrily throwing his phone in his locker, it hits the buckle of his bag, cracking the screen. The sight of his cracked phone screen only enrages him more and he punches his locker for more temporary relief.

“Trouble?” Bosko’s voice is suddenly behind him, making him jump a foot in the air, before he spins around.

She’s leaning against the door of the locker room, curiously observing him. Eddie feels caught not being good enough and tries to make it smaller: “Oh… uh, no, not really. Just some admin nonsense about Chris.”

“The not-husband husband?” Bosko asks curiously. She hasn’t mentioned it since that first day, but she clearly hasn’t forgotten yet.

“No, that’s Buck. Chris is our son,” Eddie answers.

Bosko’s eyes nearly bulge out of her skull in surprise. “You two have a son together? No wonder they think you’re married.”

Eddie had forgotten he hadn’t shared that bit. In his mind, Chris isn’t a secret like Buck was. Now he has only highlighted his incompetence more, not to mention he acted totally married. Which he is, but he also isn’t. He’s not. And he’s definitely not supposed to look it.

Yet here he is, showing things that were never meant to be a part of him, things he’s been trying so hard to cut out, without any success.

Red flares in his cheeks and he looks away, fists balling. “It’s not like that,” he grits. “Buck knows Chris through Shannon, Chris’s mother.”

“Why did he marry you when he’s seeing her then?” Bosko rightfully wonders.

“Shannon left, I have full custody.” Amazing work, Diaz, you’re truly a shining example of what a husband, a father and a man should be, no fucking up here.

Bosko catches on that she’s prodding at sore wounds and pivots the conversation. “So what was the admin nonsense?”

“They wouldn’t let Maddie, Buck’s sister, sign him out at the school. Didn’t want to listen to me either when I said it was fine and I knew who she was,” Eddie says. He digs his phone out of his locker again. He has a text from Maddie that they let her take Chris. “She has him now,” he tells Bosko, before reading the rest of the text. He groans: “But I have to come in tomorrow to straighten this out.”

“Not looking forward to that?” Bosko huffs with amusement.

“It’s fine,” he lies, not wanting to look too much like a frazzled mess. “It’s just another thing on my ever growing to do list.”

“I feel you there, I have two cats and they’re nightmares the both of them. An actual kid? That’s too much,” she says. “No wonder you’re so uptight, Diaz.”

Offended, he frowns: “I’m not uptight.”

Bosko sends him a disbelieving look. “You’re kidding right? I don’t think I’ve seen you relax a singular muscle since the first time you showed up here and I’ve seen you asleep. The fact that all your teeth aren’t stumps with the way you grind them is the real miracle.”

“Yeah, yeah, I get the picture,” Eddie cuts her off, shoulders crawling up. “It’s just a stressful period, okay.”

“Sure,” she acquiesces easily. A little too easily. “All I’m saying is you need to find a way to relax, before you implode or something.”

Eddie sends her a withering look. “When I find the time to think of something, I’ll let you know.” Mentally, he considers finding a Church, maybe confession will make him feel better.

Then he remembers what confession was like and he thinks that it probably won’t. It’s the kind of thing he would have gone to Bobby with and he misses the other like a limb right now. He never thought about having friends like that (beyond Buck, but they all know how that worked out), but now he knows what it is like, only to miss it.

A long boring shift of shooting the shit with Chimney and Hen – and Buck, if he’s honest, but he has Buck at home and he can’t bring himself to be normal around him yet – would probably alleviate most of his stress, but he can’t have that.

His expression must have turned a little sad or wistful at the end there, because Bosko takes pity on him. “Come on, I brought extra wraps to share. You look like you can use something other than a sandwich for dinner for a change.”

It’s meant to cheer him up, but it doesn’t really. The sandwich now almost seems symbolic for how much he is failing at everything lately. Still, he doesn’t deny her the olive branch. He can use the friend. “Thanks.”

He follows her out the locker room and up the stairs. Now that he’s aware, he can feel how all his muscles are tense. Consciously he tries to relax them, but he isn’t very successful; Bosko is right, he needs to find an outlet, before he implodes.

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A/N:

First off, Bosko should have been a lesbian. Second off, rip Bosko for trying to be nice to this dude that is going to be her partner for a bit, only to get caught up in the shitshow that is his life.

Eddie is going through it TM, this chapter. I would say I tried to add in the catholic guilt and I did, but I didn’t try that hard, because idk what it is like. As someone who grew up in an atheist household that was explicitly anti-church, I have no clue what it is like, so I have likely kind of failed to write Eddie completely true to form and will continue that trend for the rest of this fic <3

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BUDDIE FIC RECS ✴ SECRET RELATIONSHIP ✴ VOL. 1

Fic recs that include Buck and Eddie in a secret relationship.

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Blindspot by AshwinMeird Multichapter || Teen || 10089

Hen was starting to accept that Buck's life would always be a mystery to her and the others. Then the 136 gets a new probie, Eddie Diaz, and Buck doesn't appear to be the guy's biggest fan.

But there's something, some secret, Hen isn't privy to and she was going to get to the bottom of whatever was happening between Buck and Eddie.

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Does Your Firehouse Know? by allyasavedtheday // @littlespoonevan Multichapter || Teen || 7574

In retrospect he thinks he should’ve knocked, which is stupid because it’s a communal space and they all have a bed in there. But for his sanity- yeah, he probably should’ve knocked.

He hadn’t though. He’d opened the door, eyes half on his phone as he’d checked the time to see if Maddie would be feeding Jee, only to stop in his tracks right inside the doorway because-

Because Buck and Eddie were kissing.

No, not even kissing- making out.

“Oh my god,” he blurted out, clapping a hand over his eyes and trying to shield himself from the mental image as he’d stumbled back into the doorframe.

“Oh my god,” Buck exclaimed, sounding horrified.

“Oh my god,” Eddie had added then and the sheer depth of long-suffering exasperation in his voice had been enough to make Chimney peek out from behind his hand. * After Chimney accidentally discovers Buck and Eddie are together they ask him to keep it a secret for a few weeks while they settle into their relationship. It goes about as well as expected.

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Entirely Platonic by evandiazbuckley Oneshot || General || 1266

“It’s not my fault,” Buck began, “that all of you considered the kissing, hand-holding, living together, driving together, raising a child together and Eddie’s undeniable heart eyes as entirely platonic.”

Or the one where Buck and Eddie have been dating for months but everyone just assumed they were just extremely affectionate friends.

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Hiding the Christmas Present (of You and Me) by Princessfbi // @princessfbi Oneshot || General || 7798

But Bobby just stared at him and Buck really didn’t want to be a part of this conversation anymore so he settled.

“Okay then April Fools' Day.”

Bobby blinked.

“If I schedule you off, are you going to come in anyways thinking it was an April Fools' joke?”

“… No.”

Buck thought he was going to spend Christmas alone. His family decides to correct that assumption.

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I found love where it wasn’t supposed to be (Right in front of me) by Finduilas // @finduilasclln Oneshot || Explicit || 13272

It’s such a long time coming and still it takes Buck by surprise. It takes him by surprise even though he is the one that leans in and finally kisses Eddie. His second surprise is that Eddie doesn’t push him away, doesn’t even look at him with confusion. Or worse, rage. No, Eddie kisses him back like Buck is a tall drink of water and Eddie is severely dehydrated. Buck knows the feeling.

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it's golden, like daylight by rarakiplin // @hoediaz Oneshot || Teen || 8736

“Hmm,” Buck hums, and Eddie feels the vibration of it under his mouth. Buck’s nose nudges against the side of his head. “Have you thought about that?”

Eddie laughs against Buck’s shoulder, unwilling to lift his head. “Thinking? Right now?”

“Shut up,” fingers dig into his ribs, “I mean, would you want to? Be married again?” - or, the sun comes up

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Just Tell Better Lies (and Keep Your Mouth to Yourself) by HMSLusitania // @hmslusitania Oneshot || Teen || 3285

Good news: after years of pining, Buck and Eddie have finally gotten together!

Mixed news: being together will require a department investigation of some kind, so

Bad news: they can't tell anyone yet.

Worst news: Buck is the world's least accomplished liar.

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Love Bites by bigfootsmom // @bigfootsmom Oneshot || Teen || 2709

Turns out Eddie can be a little...mouthy. Buck is left to deal with the consequences.

“Damn Buck, did you hook up with a vampire last night? It looks like someone tried to eat you alive!”

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Not Fooling Anyone by NobodyKnows_U Oneshot || Teen || 4531

"Why on earth would you set me up on a date?"

Maddie paused, placing her fork back down before lifting her head to look at him impatiently, almost as if she expected the discussion to be done with already. "Because you're single. And you haven’t been on a date in ages, it will be good for you."

Hen scoffed next to him. "Don't forget the part where he hadn’t gotten laid in forever.

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There’s a rumor going round (about me and you) by justhockey // @everything-i-am Oneshot || Not Rated || 3169

“$100 says he’s not taking a girl home tonight,” Eddie wagers.

All four of them look at him with stunned looks on their faces, as if they can’t possibly believe Eddie is being so stupid. Eddie shrugs, holds his arms out in a take it or leave it kind of gesture. Of course, they all think he’s insane, so -

“Deal,” Athena says.

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to have and to hold (for better or worse) by buckleyblueyes Oneshot || Teen || 7020

“Family of Eddie Diaz?”

Everyone stood up. 

The doctor gave them a sympathetic smile. “That’s sweet, but actual family only right now.” 

“I’m his gi—” 

“I’m his husband,” Buck cut Ana off, ignoring the slack jawed looks from the rest of the waiting room.

OR: Buck and Eddie got married in secret after the well incident

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Wait For Me To Come Home by millionsmais Oneshot || Teen || 7384

Buck joins the 118, but he has a secret none of the other firefighters know about.

He’s got a boyfriend stationed across the world.

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Welcome to the Family by shutupheather Oneshot || Not Rated || 3488

“He kept mumbling about someone named Ev in the ambulance…"

“I was thinking it might be a wife or girlfriend named Evelyn, maybe? But I honestly have no idea…” Hen wondered.

“Me neither,” Bobby added. “I just hope, for his sake, that they’re able to get a hold of whoever it is.”

OR

Eddie gets hurt on the job. The team meets and comforts his husband in the hospital waiting room.

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secret relationship buddie fics

all of these are general audience, teen and up or not rated (no smut) make sure to kudos/comment on these amazing works :)

our love is all we need (to make it through) by: chimneysrebar "buck and eddie decide to hide their relationship from their friends. It goes about as well as you would expect" word count: 3.1k important tags: sleepy cuddles, eddie diaz loves evan buckley, firehouse 118 crew as family, fluff

no thing defines a man like love that makes him soft by: justhockey “i don’t think you need a dad, that’s not how families work, right? like, they all look different,” chris says. “but it’s okay if you want one. there’s nothing wrong with that.” “what’s it like, having two?” denny asks, and buck has to cover his mouth so he doesn’t give himself away. christopher’s laugh is loud, and sweet, and tugs on buck’s heartstrings in the same way that it always has done. he doesn’t even hesitate to say, “it’s fun. i love them.” word count: 4k important tags family fluff, soft eddie diaz, christopher diaz has two dads, firehouse crew as family it's golden, like daylight by: rarakiplin "the sun comes up" word count: 8.7k important tags: getting together, weddings, fluff, first dates when you come home by: 7ate9 "buck was surviving. that was the least he could do. survive with his son, his new position as a probationary firefighter, while his fiance was overseas. it was too painful to talk about. so no one could know." word count: 19k important tags: army!eddie diaz, reunions, firehouse 118 crew as family, engaged!evan buckley/eddie diaz don't tell my husband (he'll kill me) by: coupe_de_foudre all bobby has to say, as buck is hightailing it towards danger, is a low, threatening, “don’t make me call eddie.” and buck will skid to a stop, pause, and eventually turn around and slink back towards the team like a scolded dog with his tail between his legs." word count: 2.6k important tags: army!eddie diaz, hurt/comfort, light angst, married buddie, pov outsider blindspot by ashwinmeird "hen was starting to accept that buck's life would always be a mystery to her and the others. Then the 136 gets a new probie, eddie diaz, and buck doesn't appear to be the guy's biggest fan. but there's something, some secret, hen isn't privy to and she was going to get to the bottom of whatever was happening between buck and eddie." word count: 10k important tags: alternative universe, pov outsider, oblivious, confusion, relationship reveal

give me a sign, i want you next to me by: 42hrb the 118 knows buck has a really cute kid and a partner he loves, they just think that partner is his husbands ex. word count: 7k important tags: army!eddie diaz, different first meeting au, married buddie, evan buckley and shannon diaz friendship, family fluff and the winner is.... by: heartsdalliances "when maddie convinces buck to join her and the rest of the couples of the 118 on a couples game-show with eddie as his partner, he does so hesitantly, if only because he knows that by the end of it -- the rest of the team will realize he and Eddie are way more than best friends." word count: 18k important tags: game show, fluff, angst, 118 team as family

there's a rumor going around (about me and you) by: justhockey “$100 says he’s not taking a girl home tonight,” eddie wagers. all four of them look at him with stunned looks on their faces, as if they can’t possibly believe eddie is being so stupid. eddie shrugs, holds his arms out in a take it or leave it kind of gesture. of course, they all think he’s insane, so -- “deal,” athena says." word count: 3.1k important tags bets and wagers, drinking, clingy!eddie diaz, karaoke, coming out, flirting welcome to the family by: shutupheather "eddie gets hurt on the job. the team meets and comforts his husband in the hospital waiting room." word count: 3.4k important tags: married buddie, alternative universe, hurt!eddie diaz, worried!evan buckley finally found it right here by: justhockey "he just wants to sleep. but then eddie is placing a gentle hand on his shoulder and shaking. - “buck, what did you just say?” - buck huffs out a sigh. “i said maddie is in lab-“ - Oh fuck. word count: 3.4k important tags: coming out, babies, fluff

explicit rated secret relationship fics mature rated secret relationship fics

[kyoteugly]

Don't feed the animal - Chapter 17 (Buddie AU)

The early morning air was crisp and cool. The streets were still wet from the overnight rain. Buck was waiting outside the dispatch center for his sister. Whenever he could, he would pick her up after her night shift and they would go for breakfast at this little neighborhood cafe that Sue had recommended. Then he would take Maddie home and go on with his day with peace of mind, knowing that she was safe. 

After the whole thing with Doug, Buck felt the need to make small gestures like this - a reassurance to both of them that they could count on each other.

Maddie greeted him with a warm sisterly hug and they began their routine. They even had their favorite table and order. They talked for a while about the weather and the approaching spring. Of course, Buck wanted to know how Maddie's shift was going, because that often had an impact on what his day at work would be like.

“Josh got a few tough calls, I actually had an easy night.” Maddie licked the frosting from her fingers before reaching for her cup of coffee. “Mostly drunk people doing before Saint Patrick’s parties. Oh, and one ‘ choking on glitter ’ thing.”

“A what now?” Buck blinked a few times and Maddie laughed lightly.

“A bachelorette party. A girl wanted to blow glitter on a stripper…” Maddie lifted a closed fist to her mouth and blew into it, opening her fingers, “...like that, I think. But instead of taking a breath earlier, she did it through her hand and along with the air she inhaled a lot of pink glitter.” Her shoulders were shaking from holding back laughter. “I know it was dangerous but it’s also funny.”

Buck was the last person to control himself when the calls were particularly funny, so he didn't try to pretend, even for a moment, that he wasn't enjoying the story. 

“I’m telling this to everyone at the firehouse today. It’s hilarious.”

They both burst into laughter, drawing the attention of several people in the cafe but neither of the siblings cared.

Buck loved it when Maddie laughed, he was glad that she could. He always cared about the well-being of everyone around him but after what Maddie went through, her mood was especially important to him. She deserved happiness and it looked like she was heading towards it. She was happy at work and was thriving in her relationship with Chim. Buck suspected that soon one of them would want to take the next step and they would finally move in together. He kept his fingers crossed for them.

Buck's phone vibrated and he couldn't help but check the notification. He smiled broadly when he saw who wrote back.

“If you want more details on how it played out you should ask someone from 136, they answered the call.”

He partially registered what Maddie was saying, reflexively responding to her with "Yeah, okay," when he started replying to the message.

“Who are you texting to?” 

The question was asked so innocently that Buck answered without thinking, reflexively. “Eddie.” 

“Having a little crush, are we?” There was a lot of sisterly teasing in that statement but nothing more, so Buck gave Maddie a condescending look and replied briefly.

“Ha-ha, cute.”

“How is he by the way?”

Maddie didn't pursue the topic of their relationship and her next question only confirmed Buck's belief that she was taking advantage of the opportunity to learn more about Eddie. After karaoke, she asked a lot of questions about him. Questions that Buck couldn't answer without revealing how he met Eddie. He didn't want to lie to his sister, so he used many evasive excuses. Ultimately, he managed to convince her that Eddie was not the victim of some unpleasant event, and that the bruises on his body came from intense training and sparring. It wasn't entirely true, but it wasn't a blatant lie either, so Buck's conscience was clear.

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[diazheartsbuckley]

Inspiration Saturday ✨

Y’all I just landed myself a new job and I’m so excited yet so nervous about it. And I wrote a scene for the second chance fic, so today is a good day 🥳

Find the idea here 💘

(Snippet and tags below cut)

With a deep sigh, Eddie gets up and joins the rest of the 136, still not sure how to act around them. Because it lingers in his mind that this is just temporary, this is just until he and Buck can work things out. Being separated from the love of his life, from his team, from his family, it’s all just temporary. It has to be.

The routine of polishing the engine is engrained in him, circular motions hypnotizing him as the white numbers plastered on the side reminds him that he isn’t where he belongs.

A civilian walks into the station, dressed in black jeans and a grey hoodie, clearly searching for someone or something. His movements are slow yet determined as he walks up to the nearest firefighter who points him in Eddie’s direction, frowning at the man.

“Edmundo Diaz?” The dark haired stranger questions as he steps close to Eddie, a little too close for comfort and Eddie immediately leans away, military instincts kicking in because he doesn’t know the man or his intentions. It could be a reporter but he also doesn’t trust those in any way, shape or form.

“You found him” Eddie barely even turns his head to look at the stranger, eyes focused on a stubborn piece of dirt stuck on the engine. When the man doesn’t say anything after that, Eddie drops his hands to his sides, a bit defeated and turns to look at the man whose eyes feel like they’re digging into Eddie’s skin.

“You’ve been served” are the only words out of the strangers mouth as he hands Eddie a stack of papers, turning on his heel before Eddie has a chance to respond, almost forced to drop the cloth in his hand.

“I-… What?” Eddie frowns at the papers and the people around him let express their sympathy by letting out an almost collective grumble.

Eddie looks at the first page and his eyes are immediately drawn to the bold and capitalized letters that appear at the top of the paper:

DIVORCE AGREEMENT

His hands begin to tremble as he scans he page again and again, hoping that the contents might magically disappear or change. Disbelief starts to give way for a wave of raw emotion - anger, hurt and betrayal welling up inside of his chest. The realization that Buck has initiated divorce proceedings without even talking to him about it, hit him like a psychical blow and shatters the last bit of hope that he’d been clinging onto.

Soon, his chest starts to tighten with a mixture of rage and despair as he struggles to comprehend the implications of this moment. Tears threaten to fall as he stares at the papers, blurring the lines where his and Buck’s names are clearly written. He wants to crumble every single page, he wants to act like he has never seen them before but the heaviness filling his mind makes it impossible, locking him in place for a moment.

Eddie creates some distance between himself and the crew but Lena follows closely on his heels, not willing to let him out of her sight. He can’t stop her from reading over his shoulder, his arms feeling like they were made of a ton of bricks as he carefully holds the fragile papers in his hands.

“Shit, man. I’m sorry. I didn’t know you were getting divorced” Lena frowns, patting Eddie’s shoulder and gives it a firm squeeze, feeling his body trembling as she does. The rustling of papers in his hand fade in with the busy sounds of the firehouse, allowing him to hide what he’s feeling. Expect he doesn’t do a very good job because Lena continues talking.

“And neither did you, it seems” She says but her voice is far away, Eddie’s ears ringing at the heavy thumping of his heart against his ribs.

A whirlwind of thoughts and emotions sweep through Eddie, leaving him soaked in disbelief and disappointment. He clenches his jaw, his knuckles turning white as he tries to contain the storm brewing inside of him.

But beneath the anger and the hurt, a seed of doubt takes root. An abundance of unanswered questions and unresolved feelings start to emerge from the corners of his mind, refusing to be ignored.

A few deep breaths later, Eddie realize that Lena is still talking to him or at least he thinks so because her lips are moving and she’s making what looks like big angry gestures. “No, I didn’t know that we were getting divorced. I didn’t know that we had given up on fighting” Eddie mumbles, mostly to himself, wanting to curse at the world but refraining from doing so because he already feels out of place.

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[satelliterayne]

Eddie is so ‘dad shaped’ as May likes to remind him and he denies it until the day that Hen leaves the station and they have a new probie and the new kid starts and she’s barely 21 and graduated from highschool a year early and has a degree in conservation and biology of all things and Eddie looks at her and immediately picks up on the small rainbow tattooed on her hand. He’s spent 30 years of his life repressed, sue him if he likes knowing that the generations after him are safer to be out and proud about it. He also can see that shes anxiously pulling her long sleeves down as if to cover it and so he goes over and shows her his home screen which is of course him and Buck and Chris at LA pride last year and the watery smile she gives him makes it worth it when he notices at lunch that her sleeves are pulled up to her elbows. After that it just accidentally becomes a ThingTM anytime someone enters the firehouse thats even a little bit gay Eddie just… adopts them (Ravi insists he was the first queer that Eddie adopted but Buck maintains that its just misplaced Stockholm syndrome from when Eddie saved Ravi from a chainsaw wielding Buck). He doesn’t do it on purpose, he just aches sometimes, imagining them coming into the firehouse and not knowing for sure if they will be accepted or just tolerated.

Jay comes into the firehouse just after Cora and they immediately gravitate towards Eddie, soon his weekends off are filled with wine nights at Karen and Hen’s that have grown to include Cora and her girlfriend and Jay complaining about their crush on Dylan who works at the 136 with Lena and then May starts coming and then it just spirals from there. There is a groupchat used to coordinate babysitting for date nights and wine nights and memes. so so so many memes.(Eddie is out of his comfort zone and why the fuck does Cora keep sending raccoon memes that are mildly concerning) 

Jay’s little brother who’s Christophers age hangs out at the firehouse to do his homework ONE TIME and Eddie learns that Jay was “asked to find another place to live” after coming out and that their little brother followed after announcing he was bisexual. Eddie aches for them and on his next 48 off he ropes Buck into making dinner and he invites Jay and Blake over for a family dinner and pretends to not notice when Jay thanks Buck for their first real homecooked meal in years, from that day forward there is a standing invitation for the siblings and Buck teaches them both how to cook.  Cora ends up spending the night on his couch after her first real fight with her girlfriend, he wakes up the following morning to the sound of Chris practicing his speech for his sophomore AP english class and Cora listening so intently and giving such good pointers that it makes Eddie joke about her being the big sister Chris has always wanted before pulling her into a hug before she leaves (he also ends up officiating her wedding and cries. Buck has proof). May comes over before she introduces her girlfriend to Athena and Bobby for the first time and Ravi just comes over whenever he wants to complain about how gay panic inducing it is for hot guys to live in his apartment complex and work out at the same time as him. 

Eddie has moved on from being nicknamed 8-pack and is now dubbed mother duck because “Eddie you adopted us like fucked up trauma ducklings and now we follow you around” said by a very deadpan Jay. (Eddie does NOT cry when Chris and Blake go to senior prom together.) Even farther into the future, when he becomes captain of the 118 he prides himself on having the queerest shift in the LAFD, he keeps a pride flag in his office, next a framed picture of him and Buck on their wedding day, Chris and Blake’s wedding invitations and 7 rubber ducks, all signed by his original crew of adopted ducklings.

Idk man I just really need to see Eddie cope with Chris growing up by adopting traumatized queer firefighters on accident. 

[bekkachaos]

Hiiii Bekka 💕💕💕💕

I am so intrigued by all your wips!

Please tell me all about (or maybe even share a snippet of 🥰):

-soulmate AU

-Truman show AU

-addict Buck/spiraling Eddie AU

-❤️🪐

Hi darling!! Thank you so much for asking, I love talking about my wips (instead of writing them 😅 teehee).

Here's a bit of info about these wips and a snippet from one 🥰

Soulmate AU

You can't lie to your soulmate, so from a very young age Eddie decides that he's just never going to lie, because he doesn't want to know. He thinks the odds are against finding your soulmate in the millions of people in the world anyway, so why ruin a chance to be happy with someone else?

Buck on the other hand, has always dreamed about finding his soulmate, he's kind of a romantic like that. Such a romantic that he practically lies to every woman he meets, and every time he does he gets that pang of disappointment when it works so easily.

Truman Show AU

This is way more of a vibe than an on track fic just yet! But I had the idea that Buck was given up as a baby to a reality show set to follow a boy in every moment of his life from infancy through adulthood, and baby Buck soon becomes the heart of everyone's home, from the TV. The Evan Show is the most popular tv program ever, with peak audiences for his milestone events like his first day of school, his first kiss, even the day he tragically lost his father in a freak tsunami.

Now, Buck is nearly 30, with a beautiful redheaded fiance (😏) and a perfectly routine life. Only, it's too routine, too perfect. Things are starting to feel weird...

And then there's Eddie, who moves to LA with his son and gets a job as an extra in "The Dome" playing some part out of the way just filling up the world and making it seem real, he never even has to interact with Buck, at least not until he comes running panicked and looking for a place to hide as he questions the world around him. Eddie feels just as panicked, but somehow manages to talk him down and gets him to go home.

The next day Buck comes to visit Eddie and thanks him for what he did, asks him if he would let him buy him a beer to thank him. Eddie says he has to think about it, but that night after work Eddie gets called in with the director who said that his exchange with Buck the day before sent the ratings up, and they want to promote him, want to add him into Buck's friend circle. Eddie gets the impression it's either say yes or he's immediately out of a job, so he agrees.

What he didn't expect was to start falling for the most talked about man in America, and the more he falls, the worse he feels about the life Buck's forced to live, and he wonders if there's anything he could ever do to get him out.

Addict Buck / Spiralling Eddie AU

(this is one I've been thinking thinking about a lot and have so many ideas for, it was supposed to be smaller and for last year's angstfest buuut the idea got away from me and I didn't want to rush it!)

Eddie is at his lowest. His parents took him to court to take Chris away, and won. So they forced him back to Texas with them, leaving Eddie alone in LA. They won't even let Eddie talk to Christopher, telling him that he needs to let him adjust first so he doesn't confuse him. Eddie starts getting angry, so Lena (from his firehouse at the 136) suggests taking out his anger constructively by fighting. It's too good an outlet for Eddie, and he quickly ends up fighting in an illegal underground ring for money, leading to him getting suspended from his job at the fire department. The fighting ring starts to feel like the only thing Eddie has left, even though he knows how destructive it is, he doesn't care. He doesn't care about anything.

That thought is weighing on his mind when he's walking to the edge of a bridge and staring out over the river by some abandoned workshops, wondering what the hell the point is anymore when he can't even talk to his son.

That's when he bumps into a stranger in the dark, clearly high on something. They have a tense exchange and Eddie leaves, but for some reason he revisits that spot again a few days later and the stranger, Buck, is still hanging around.

They build up a kind of friendship, and it soon becomes clear that they are exactly what the other needs to pick themselves up out of their low spots (even if they're a little reluctant to do it).

here's a snip x

He closed his eyes and sucked the biting air into his lungs, filling him with cold, fanning the fiery anger that consumed him and escaping back through his split lips in a heavy cloud. "You know most people think your breath doesn't do that until below freezing." Eddie flinched, turning back to see a tall man approaching slowly from behind, hands shoved into his front pockets and eyeing him with a tilt of his head. "Excuse me?" was all he managed in reply. "When you can see your breath in the air, doesn't have to be freezing, hell, only needs to get to about 45," he said, making an 'o' with his lips until his condensated breath came out in a long thin line.  Eddie eyed him warily. He hadn't seen him when he arrived at the bridge, there's not much around save for a few derelict buildings and a foot path leading towards the overpass. On top of that, he could see the way his pupils were dilated, he was high on something, or maybe coming down.  "I'd say sorry, that I didn't mean to interrupt, but I guess I did," he said, keeping his distance from Eddie but not taking his eyes or his curious gaze from him. Eddie just grunted back at him, not sure that he should turn his back on him. He could probably take him in a fight, as long as he doesn't have a knife, but he doesn't really want things to come to that. His knuckles were still cut and bruised from his fight earlier and his brow throbbed from the left hook he'd been too slow to dodge. "Want to tell me what you're doing out here?" the stranger asked, and this time Eddie really didn't care what happened next, so he turned his attention back to the black over the bridge. "Could ask you the same thing. You always sneak up on people? Start conversations about the air, how cold it is?" he said roughly. "Only when they're holding as tightly to the bridge rail as you are."

[stabbyfoxandrew]

Arsonist Neil / Firefighter Andrew AU- Page 2

Two years after Neil’s father almost cut him to bits in a dank basement, he’s free of it all. The trials for the remainder of his men are done. The FBI have cut the leash and let him go. And the first thing Neil does is burn down his father’s house. The only problem is… He gets a taste for arson. Andrew is a firefighter and he starts to see a very attractive man at work. Not at the firehouse. No, this little freak of a man watches the fires burn. Eventually, Andrew figures this guy must be bad news. But he’s not hurting anyone really. And… He’s nice to look at…

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[texasbama]

There's a BTS pic of 136 engine and that's Lena's firehouse, so people were speculating she might be back.

Ooooooh. My mind didn’t even go there when I saw the 136 truck. Huh. Well.🥴

[schrijverr]

I Didn’t Mean to Say I Do, but I Do. I Do. 35

Chapter 35 out of 50

Secret marriage of convenience buddie slow burn AU, where Buck and Eddie have been married for years so Buck could adopt Chris and no one at the 118 knows.

On AO3.

Ships: Buddie

Warnings: ableism, internalized misogyny, internalized homophobia, self loathing

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Chapter 35: Eddie Implodes

Eddie implodes much like Bosko predicted a few days after their conversation in the locker room. It isn’t a planned thing, or something he saw coming. He’s been feeling like a pressure cooker ever since he returned to work and apparently the pressure got to be too much.

He has just dropped Chris off at a sleepover birthday party, which has been a stressful thing. He always gets anxious when Chris is at a sleepover, which means informing the other parent of Chris’s needs and stressing about whether he’s going to be okay. Not to mention having to go to the store with Chris to buy his friend a gift and ensuring he is available to pick up Chris all the time, should it go wrong.

Usually he’d share this with Buck, but that isn’t possible. Buck will be compassionate and nice about it, which Eddie doesn’t deserve. Nor does he want it.

Eddie doesn’t need comfort from Buck, doesn’t need to be treated like some nervous house wife about his kid being out of sight for a night. And especially not from another man. Eddie can manage just fine on his own.

The thought of needing it makes his chest feel weird, which only makes him angry. A lot of things make him angry, which also makes him angry. However, anger is at least an emotion he can stand to feel right now, everything else is too much.

Buck is the main thing that makes him angry. The easy camaraderie they shared before the… revelation is gone. Because Buck is just great. He’s great and Eddie keeps feeling things about it and that pisses him off. He wants this to be over. He wants the feelings to be gone. He wants for everything to be normal again, so he doesn’t have to walk on eggshells in his own home to prevent more anger and upset from being piled on.

Most of these days, he feels like a ghost in his own home, trying to make himself invisible without being able to move on.

He has picked up as many shift as he could to avoid being home and to pad up the savings they lost when he was suspended. Carla is soon making a return to helping them because of it, which will be great for returning to normality and giving Eddie a chance to breathe, but horrible because it will give him more free time again.

If he has free time, he’ll have time to spend with Buck, even when Chris isn’t there to act as a buffer.

It’s not as if he’s ignoring Buck. He’s still taking him to his appointments, grabbing him stuff to drink, watching movies together with him and Chris if there is time. However, he can’t deny that he’s been more distant. That he’s avoiding Buck to avoid dealing with all his emotions.

Suffice to say, dropping off Chris has him in a bad mood. A worse mood than he’d ever thought, because when that asshole comes in and starts talking shit about him being in the disabled parking spot, the anger that’s been under the surface lingering there for weeks, surges up.

The guy is just plain in the wrong. Eddie has been parking in enough disabled parking spots for years to know that. He parks there so Chris can walk on his own to their destination, he doesn’t park there when he’s getting groceries on his own.

And even if he did, he has a registered card and that guy knows nothing about him. For all he knows, Eddie has an invisible disability that makes it difficult to walk, which would mean he needs that card. This guy has no right to question him.

Eddie is just living his life, he’s not bothering anyone, not doing anything he isn’t supposed to do. He is trying so hard to not do anything he’s not supposed to do. Yet here he is, getting stopped and harassed as if there is something about him that marks him as wrong.

Before he knows it, he’s punching him in the face. All the boxing he’s done in his spare time as a work out, all the sparring matches he’s had in the army, it all comes out in one punch.

For a moment, the punch feels great. There is nothing for him to think about. In that moment, he is the one with the power, the one in control. There are no people he should have been able to count on that disappeared, no stupid feelings ruining the one thing he still has, no endless lists of tasks that he can never seem to complete. There is just him, his fist, and the asshole’s face.

Then the moment is over and he realizes he’s just punched a guy in the face. He stands there horrified as the guy clutches his nose, cursing him out. Before he can even begin to process, there is police taking him away. As he’s put in the back of a cruiser, he hopes Athena isn’t at work today or this will get awkward.

At the police station, they press a phone in his hand, telling him he’s allowed to call one person. He starts dialing Buck automatically, but before he can finish putting in the number, his hands pause. He can’t call Buck.

First of all, Buck isn’t cleared to drive yet, so it won’t do him much good. However, more importantly, Buck can’t know Eddie got arrested. He’s the man of the house, the provider. He already feels like he’s fucking this up so much, he can’t let Buck know that by calling him from jail of all places.

Besides, how selfish would it be of him to call Buck about this? When Buck was in hospital jail, he told him that he couldn’t explain to Chris why he had to visit his papi through a glass window if he ended up in actual jail, yet here he might be on the other side of the equation, putting Buck in the position to explain to Chris why daddy is behind the glass.

He doesn’t doubt that Buck will do a fine job explaining Eddie’s stupidity to their son, but the thought makes him crumple inside anyway. He always does this, always saddles Buck with the hard jobs he can’t do, just like he did when he left for the army and came back injured. It’s unfair of him and he refuses to do it again.

With Buck out of the question, he considers calling Maddie, but that is practically the same as calling Buck. And tía Pepa would almost be worse than calling Buck or Maddie with the disappointment and lecture that he’ll get.

The 118 has made their position on him and Buck pretty clear and if Eddie is honest, they can choke on it. They couldn’t even come visit Buck in the hospital, he’s not going to crawl to them for help so they’ll have another thing to hold against him.

Eddie realizes that he doesn’t really have anyone else to call.

Well, except Bosko. Eddie has no clue if they’re bailing each other out of jail level friends yet – if they’re even friends at all – but he’s pretty sure she won’t leave him hanging, so he calls her on a hope and a prayer.

Over the phone, she sounds as if she can’t believe it when he tells her. However, she says she’ll be there as soon as she can. He doesn’t know how long that will be and she doesn’t tell him before she hangs up, so he has no clue how long he’ll be there as he’s lead to a cell.

He just sits there and stares when he’s in his cell. He can’t seem to forget that punch, the moment where it felt good running through his mind, followed immediately by the horror. He knows punching the guy was never the right call, but a part of him wants to do it again, hoping that maybe if he relives it enough times, that peaceful quiet place will come back to him.

When Bosko comes to break him out, he has no clue how much time has passed. However, he is grateful to be released. He hopes Chris didn’t need him to come pick him up in the time he was stuck there and that Buck doesn’t ask too many questions when he gets home so late.

Bosko is silent all through the paperwork required to get him out. He has no clue if that’s a good or bad thing, so he stands quietly beside her.

Once they’re outside, Eddie starts feeling awkward about the still air between them. The last thing he wants is to ruin another relationship. “Thanks for coming to bail me out.”

Confirming what he already thought, she replies: “I was surprised to get your call. I didn’t realize we reached the bail each other out of jail phase of our friendship.”

Me neither, Eddie thinks, but doesn’t say. “Well, there was no way I was going to call my tía or anyone from my old station.”

“What about your husband?” Bosko pointedly asks.

Eddie feels a flush creep up his neck and anger flood his veins. He clenches his fists, but reigns himself in. “It’s not like that,” he grits. “Besides, Buck’s not even cleared to drive yet, his leg is in a cast, remember?”

Bosko studies him for another second, then says: “Look, I don’t mind the bailing out part, but I’m a little concerned about the bailing out part.”

Fantastic, Eddie can’t escape the lecture no matter who he calls. Grouchily he looks at the ground, shoulders next to his ears. “I guess I just snapped.”

“You punched a disabled guy,” Bosko reminds him.

“He wasn’t disabled. He had a bad- he had a bad knee, there’s a difference,” Eddie defends himself, realizing how that sounds as he says it. “It won’t happen again. Lesson learned.”

“Hope so,” Bosko says. “I also hope this guy doesn’t have a lawyer.”

“Don’t remind me,” Eddie groans, the last thing he needs is to get sued. Or for the department to hear about it, he’s only half out of hot water. With that reminder, he shoots her a wary look. “You- you’re not going to report this to Ronnie, right?”

She studies him for a moment, then says: “Let me guess, this another one of those things you don’t want everyone to know?”

He’s not sure if that means she’ll keep it or not, so he just stumbles: “Uhm, yeah, that. If that’s okay?”

“Sure,” she sighs. “I’ll keep your secrets, as long as you don’t go around punching another unsuspecting bystander. I won’t always be there to bail you out, if you make it a habit.”

“No more punching bystanders. Promise.”

“Good.” She gives a curt nod. “Now do you need a ride back to your car?”

“Yeah, that’d be great.”

They don’t talk much more on the drive back to Eddie’s car. Bosko puts on some music and Eddie doesn’t protest her taste.

As she drives he checks his messages, his cracked phone screen staring up at him accusingly. There is none from Chris, thank god, but there is one from Buck, clearly worried as he wonders where he is. Eddie texts back that he’ll be there in 30, before staring out of the window and ignoring any texts that come in after.

The goodbye is a little awkward, but overall it doesn’t feel like he fucked it up entirely. Somehow Bosko is working with him. If he didn’t know what working with Buck was like, he would have thought she’d make a great work partner. It’s another one of those annoying thoughts that he can’t seem to rid himself off and the anger under his skin is right back.

His knuckles are white on the drive back home and he is silent when he enters the house. His hope had been that he could just go to his room without running into Buck, but no such luck.

Buck is waiting by the entrance, worry marring his handsome face. “Did everything go okay? You were gone for a long time, was there an issue with the place? You sent her the email with the information right?”

“Yes, Buck, I sent the email,” Eddie says, more annoyed than he should be sounding. He just can’t help but become defensive under the perceived interrogation about his parenting skills, especially after today, when he fucked up. Again. “It went fine, just ran into Bosko. We got caught up talking, that’s all. Not that it’s your business.”

It’s a partial lie, but Eddie thinks he can get away with it. He’s never actually lied to Buck about anything, so it’s not as if he’ll suspect it. Eddie probably also wouldn’t think Buck was lying to him, even without him being a horrible liar.

Buck shrinks in on himself slightly and Eddie feels guilt gripping his throat. “Yeah, you’re right. It’s not my business, I just got worried for a second. Silly me. Bosko is your partner at work right?”

Eddie resentfully turns the guilt into annoyance, Buck has no reason to be so upset. Eddie doesn’t have to justify his where and when to him like some unruly teenager, he’s already gotten enough of that in his life. So he says: “Yeah,” without providing more information.

The air between them is uncomfortable for a moment and Buck gives him an awkward not-smile as he nods a few times. “Well, uhm, hope that was fun,” he says, before using his crutches to get back to his usual seat.

He watches Buck go for a moment, wondering if he should say something more, but not knowing what. It’s stupid anyway, he doesn’t need to cheer Buck up and he doesn’t want to, no matter what that part of his brain says. Frustrated, he turns on his heel and walks to his room, closing the door behind him with a little more force than he should.

In the end, he shouldn’t have been worried about spending the night alone with Buck. They end up ordering pizza, which they eat in awkward half-silence filled with bursts of small talk, before they both retreat to their rooms.

The following morning, he picks up Chris without issue and drops him off back at home, before rushing to work.

Bosko doesn’t act any differently than she’d done their last shift, beyond a knowing nod as greeting when he arrives. Eddie appreciates her discretion.

Eddie wants to leave the whole thing behind him as fast as he can. It’s not a viable thing to cope and he shouldn’t get hung up on it. The fact that he let that happen was bad enough, having Bosko as a reminder is even worse. No need to add to that by thinking about it.

As if to grant him mercy, the shift they have is quiet, something Calley says without fear, which gets a look from Eddie. The way Buck spoke about the quiet curse made it seem as if it was universal blasphemy.

When Bosko catches his look, she snort: “The 118 have the quiet curse?”

He nods. “I think it’s superstitious nonsense, but I adjusted, I suppose.”

“Well, if you want to adjust here don’t call the shift the b-word for not interesting,” she says.

“I’ll keep it in mind,” Eddie says with amusement.

“You better. Robin gets viscous if you mess with our quiet shifts,” Logan laughs, earning an elbow in the side for his comment from Robin herself.

For the first time since he came there three weeks ago, Eddie feels like he’s becoming a part of the team. It’s one of the things he likes most about this job and he’s going to miss having moments like this when he’ll become a proper floater once his time here is up.

This gets further cemented when Bosko calls out to him when their shift it over. “Oi, Diaz. You got anything going on tonight?”

“Nah, not really,” he says, a little confused, because most of the others have already gone, so it can’t be team drinks. He checks his watch. “Chris has his bedtime soon, but that’s it.”

“Buck’s home, right?”

“I mean, yeah.”

“Good, then you’re coming with me tonight. Let’s go, I’ll drive.”

Eddie knows it’s not a date or something, since she is a lesbian. That makes him feel better about the whole thing, but he’s still unsure as he follows after her. He feels like he shouldn’t be doing this, he has a responsibility to be home. He doesn’t want to become his own father, distant and never home, always gone for things like bedtime.

However, he argues with himself as he gets in the car, it’s just one night. It’s not like he’s doing this every time, he’ll be there next bedtime. He’s allowed to have friends. It might even be good for everyone in the long run to find new people, since they’ve been abandoned by their old ones.

Still, he feels guilty and knows he’ll feel even worse if Buck asks about it. Besides, he doesn’t even know where Bosko is taking him. So, he texts that work is taking longer than expected, so he’ll probably be home late.

The place Bosko ends up taking him is to some sort of fight club. He doesn’t know what she is thinking and he doesn’t think it’s a good idea for him to be there. He feels awkward and out of place, so he keeps checking his phone to see if Chris or Buck texted that they want him home, knowing he would ditch this place in a heartbeat if they called.

Bosko disagrees with his stance, because when he checks his phone again, she says: “Stock market is closed you don’t need to check your portfolio.”

“I’m making sure Christopher didn’t text.”

“He’s not going to text.” She gives him an eye roll. “He’s at home sleeping like always with a trusted adult in the vicinity. He’s fine. You, on the other hand, are so amped up you can’t see straight.”

“What am I missing anyway, besides fake fight club?” he fires back, annoyed with her attitude and feeling defensive as he gestures at the two guys beating each other up. “This is your idea of helping me?”

“You’re powder keg. You beat up a guy over a parking space,” she informs him bluntly and with judgment. Then a little gentler, she adds: “But a place like this could be a healthy outlet for your issues.”

“What? Are you my therapist now?” Eddie says, not liking what she’s implying. He’s fine, the guy with the parking space was a one off, he doesn’t need coping.

“Just the chick who bailed you out of jail.”

“I thought we weren’t talking about that,” he says, slightly embarrassed and uncomfortable.

Before she can respond, the organizer calls out: “Bosko! You’re up.”

Bosko starts shrugging out of her jacket and Eddie lets out a laugh that is half delighted and half disbelieving. “Wait, wait. You’re fighting?”

“You’re not the only one with stuff to work out,” she shrugs easily. “Hold my beer.”

Eddie watches with interest as she goes to town on her fight, easily dodging the guy left and right, landing great punches and kicks when there’s an opening. Eddie can’t deny that it looks fun and it seems like she’s having a blast. Same goes for her opponent.

It’s violence, sure, but it’s not uncontrolled violence. It’s not like Eddie punching that guy in the parking lot.

As he watches, he mulls over what Bosko told him. How she made him promise not to punch any unsuspecting bystanders, but took him here to have an outlet. She probably understands how punching that guy made Eddie feel, the good moment, before reality set in.

He gets her understanding now. How she came to bail him out and didn’t judge him. She’s the same in this. Not a gentle giant like Buck, who had to learn to punch when sparring, instead unafraid to punch back when life hits first.

When Bosko comes back, high on her win, Eddie congratulates her with a grin. Beaming, she responds: “Thanks. You want a go?”

“They let first timers in the ring?”

“Course, otherwise you don’t come back,” Bosko laughs. “I’ll talk to the organizer, get you on the list. What’d you say your skill is?”

“I know how to throw a punch,” Eddie says cockily.

“We’ll see,” Bosko grins, disappearing for a moment, before popping up again with fresh beers so they have something to drink while they watch and wait.

After a bit, Eddie’s name is called and he takes off his own jacket so he’s just in a jeans and tshirt, not ideal fighting clothes, but nothing too bad either. They lay down some ground rules for safety to him, since it’s his first time there, then the fight is on.

His opponent is a pretty big guy and Eddie is rusty. He takes some hits, but none too bad, nearly goes down at one point too, but manages to bring it back. When he finds himself with his hand raised up after a minute or two of running on pure adrenaline, he feels free. Settled.

He comes back to Bosko smiling. When she sees him, she smugly says: “See.”

“Yeah, yeah, you had a point. Coming here was nice,” Eddie gives in, not even upset about being wrong.

“It’s good to be right,” she grins, before stretching. “Now let’s go. It’s getting late and they’re gonna wind down here pretty soon. You need to get some sleep if you don’t wanna fall asleep behind the wheel at school drop off tomorrow.”

Bosko drives him back to the station so he can pick up his car. She puts on her music as she drives just like she’d done when they came back from the police station, but Eddie now finds himself bopping his head along to some of the songs and playfully making fun for others.

Their goodbye is less awkward too and his good mood follows him all the way home.

When he unlocks the door, he finds Buck in front of the TV, watching the news. Instead of giving him a short greeting, before claiming exhaustion so he can flee, he throws his bag on the floor and flops down next to him, asking: “What are you doing still awake?”

Buck looks surprised at the action, but delighted too. Eddie forces himself not to let it impact him too much. “Oh, I was trying to see if I could catch your call on the news. You stayed out pretty long, figured it might be on, but nothing.”

“Oh, yeah,” Eddie flounders for a second at the reminder of his lie. “It was more annoying than big, if I’m honest. Few teens stuck, got the call right before clocking out. Was more finicky than expected, so we ran long. Before that it was actually a pretty quiet shift.”

“Hope you didn’t say that out loud or I can tell you why that call sucked like that,” Buck tentatively jokes, just like Eddie had hoped when he threw out the last bit.

“I didn’t, but Calley did,” Eddie says.

“Ha, knew it,” Buck exclaims. “You can’t deny the curse now.”

“I can just fine. They say it all the time, it’s actually not a cursed word,” Eddie informs him gleefully.

“What? Are you serious?”

“Uh-huh, their banned word is boring.”

“Thank god, there is some sense there. I was starting to fear for them.”

“Superstition is not an indicator of sense,” Eddie rolls his eyes, but he’s smiling too. It feels nice to be able to talk to Buck normally again. Sure, he is maybe focusing a little too hard on the happy sparkle in Buck’s eye, but whenever he catches himself, he can focus on the ache in his bones and distract himself.

He ends up falling asleep on the couch and wakes up the next morning to Chris shaking him awake and a crick in the neck. Chris doesn’t seem upset about Eddie not being there last night, which is good, just demanding breakfast as usual.

They eat cereal together and Eddie drives him to school without any issues. When he comes back home, Buck is awake and they play video games like they used to do, before Eddie got weird.

It’s good. Nice. Eddie finally feels a little okay again. Agreeing to come along with Bosko feels like a great choice. He’s still not proud of punching that guy, but no one truly has to know and he gained something from it anyway. So, half a win.

~~

A/N:

Yes, that’s right, underground fight club Eddie arc! (as a lot of people already guessed). It’s so angsty and it fits pretty well within this verse. I’m reorganizing events from season 3A slightly, so don’t worry, there will be a tsunami xp

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forever means forever [ hen wilson ]

⋯ SUMMARY ; you and hen have always been there for each other through thick and thin -- and one night, athena makes a comment about your friendship, and you couldn’t agree more

⋯ PROMPT ; [ platonic soulmates ] there are different types of soulmates, some are romantic, some are platonic, some are familial

⋯ WARNINGS ; gn!reader -- mentioned to identity as non-binary, tw [ mention of homophobia // intentional misuse of pronouns ], platonic soulmates + general fluff [ platonic love, hugs + sweet moments ]

you had first met hen wilson after athena had invited her to join your group for dinner -- something you could tell that she had been apprehensive about doing, until athena had explained those at the table were all deemed ‘misfits’ in their respective fields.

and from the moment you introduced yourself, shaking her hand with a friendly smile, something told you that the two of you were going to be the best of friends. you were a firefighter just as her, stationed over at the 136, and had explained that the reason you had become the outcast in your house was due to how you identified. and it seemed your fellow firefighters weren’t willing to address you by the pronouns you used to identify with.

the two of you had instantly bonded, much to the happiness of athena, who was hoping the two of you would form a bond as she knew you had very little friends and family to relay on. 

after meeting, the two of you kept in touch, often running into one another when both of your houses would be called to the same scene. and you both were each others rock and shoulder to cry on when things would get difficult during both your work and personal lives.

there was something about the way you had both picked up on each others pet peeves, had been able to open up and go to the other for support, how quickly you both had accepted the other into your life, and how there never seemed to be an end to your conversations or shared humor. there was just something so homey and comfortable about your relationship with hen that it just made sense.

eventually, things slowly began to look up as hen’s captain was eventually replaced and your firehouse began to address you by your pronouns and bridging a friendship with you. that didn’t stop either of you from still reaching out and being there for one another.

your bond only strengthened over the years, the turning point when hen had asked you to be her bridesmate during her wedding to a wonderful woman named karen. you had also been a key figure in helping the both of them adopt the baby of hen’s previous girlfriend. in which you had later been named the godparent of the little boy.

and soon enough, once hen’s firehouse had finally secured a captain that was more than amazing, she had managed to convince both you and her captain that you needed to transfer over. your first day at the 118 had been nothing but amazing as hen was more than excited to have you closer to her.

the rest of the house could see the connection the two of you had, and there was no denying that both of you were made for each other, and put on this earth to make the other’s life just that more substantial and perfect. and that was something you both had felt as well.

you had been asked at one point by athena if you loved hen, to which you responded, “of course i do, but not in a romantic way. hen is my best friend, and the one person on this earth who’s been able to understand and love me for who i am. it’s a little hard to explain, but she’s everything to me, just like how i know i’m everything to her. guess you could say our souls are joined.”

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Firehouses in 911

There are several recurring firehouses in the show that work alongside the 118. Something about Lucy being from the 147 got me thinking about when/how the show uses certain firehouses in their storytelling. Mind you I’m using the word “storytelling” loosely because I read both of the ill-fated interviews released ahead of ep 511 and my doubts are sky high in terms of romantic buddie ever becoming canon. I won’t get into that in this post though. Back to my actual point. 

The 147

I think the 147 is first mentioned in Jinx when Brian impersonates one of the firefighters that worked there. Remember that the 147 was washed out in season 4′s mudslide. 

The mudslide arc (caused by a dam break) always struck me as a combo of the watery doom of the tsunami in season 3 and the ground breaking beneath everyone in the earthquake from season 2. S2 had themes of gaining and regaining footing after upheavals in the characters’ lives. S3 had themes of emotional overwhelm and trying to navigate choppy emotional waters to find a sense of safety/security/home. S4 themes continued the themes that were laid out in s2 and s3.

So, it’s interesting that Lucy comes from the 147. That house was buried and washed out but it’s making a reappearance now. Why? My guess is that it’s symbolic of the old buried and washed out issues that are resurfacing or that never left but were repressed or ignored by the characters. In 511 we saw Lucy linked to Buck 1.0 and his old ways - the cavalier daredevil searching for the hero’s spotlight and for warmth worth and validation in every questionable place and embrace, even if it only lasted for a moment. During his 1.0 days, Buck was disconnected from himself and others in many ways and unhappy, despite the smile on his face. He upgraded as he healed but as we all know, things have gotten deeply emotional and overwhelming again (read: serious trauma) so 1.0 tendencies are coming back for his character and are being sparked and encouraged by Lucy’s character. He’s clawing at the muddy rubble of the past.

The 133

The 133 and Mehta first appear in Buck Begins (the ep before Jinx) and serve as the IC while Buck struggles with the emotionally destabilizing news that his family lied to him his whole life and he learns that he’s been living in the shadow of Daniel’s death. The 133 makes its second appearance in Jinx. They are at the five alarm fire that Brian brings the 118′s gear to after first stealing it and the truck. That was after Eddie gave Brian a speech about getting unstuck and moving on. A*a returns in Jinx and T*ylor returns again not too long after that. And we all know those relationships are over and on their way to being over, respectively. The end of EddieA*a was a big deal and the end of BuckT*ylor will be too. We know that Eddie likes to speed past issues and ignore them. But he’s running out of road as of 511. The 133 is also present in Survivors when Mehta et al help Buck get Eddie to the hospital after Buck rescues him from the sniper. That situation was huge in every way and cannot be overlooked or bypassed.

The 133 is the firehouse in the story that seems to be in the thick of key emotional and/or traumatic moments, especially the buck/eddie/buddie-flavored ones.

The 136

This firehouse only appears in s3 from what I can tell but they pop up quite a bit in one form or another at key points. They underscore Buck’s “outside looking in” energy while he tries to cheer up with Chris at the pier. This is the team he sees rescuing the costumed man on the pier. Lena, his replacement, is from this firehouse of course. It’s also this firehouse's truck that Buck and Chris take shelter on top of during the tsumani, and the one Chris falls from and gets swept away by the water. The team responded to the call at the cage fight too where Eddie almost killed a man and it was their captain that told Bobby what Eddie had done.

The 136 seems to mark or highlight losses or the things swept away i.e., a beloved child, an ex-wife, a work/life partner, a sense of self/life control, a job and the need for some act/change/rescue.

I don’t know if these firehouse observations make a whole lot of sense or are even important but I was thinking so I thought I’d share.

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Miko: WHAT?! YOUR DAD DOESN'T LET YOU LISTEN ROCK MUSIC?!

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I did platonic stuff with them

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Lookit these two being adorable

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“This is Ray, he’s like a literal ball of sunshine and he likes to build things. Don’t ask him about cartoons unless you want to be there for six hours.”

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136. Some Requests Should Not Be Granted

Eric writes an article for the paper in his reporter outfit. He loves that outfit. If he and Donna had their own double bed, he’d make love with her in this outfit, including the hat. 

Hyde sleeps at the firehouse. He has to do the work of three people, and going home will just make his job more difficult right now.

In the morning, he performs maintenance on the firetruck.

He tries to convince his coworker, Brandy, to take a more active role at the firehouse, but the alarm goes off. She gets on her radio, appearing busy but probably talking to no one, while Hyde rushes into the truck.

Kelso has become a renowned VIP for befriending Matty Crewe on the computer. He thinks that’s cool, but he still hasn’t seen any aliens in space. Just some crummy stars. He requested to the navigator of his ship that he map out their next mission. The navigator rejected his request.

A wise choice. With Kelso at the helm, he might bring them all out of the Milky Way Galaxy, never to return.

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