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Will there be (or had there already been) a Buckley Siblings Week 2023?

There was an initial plan but the Buckley Siblings Week for 2022 was kind of a bust so if we do make another week; it’ll probably be the back end of the year when season seven is less of a dream and hopefully more of a reality. Fandom is extremely quiet right now, understandably with the long hiatus ahead and the fact it’s summer months. But we will put our heads together and maybe put out a poll in a few months to figure out the best time.

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Maddie and Evan Buckley; the fugitive and the settler.

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Thank YOU for all your beautiful contributions 💛

Thank you so much @thebuckleysiblingsweek! It was so great creating content for the Buckleys again! This event challenged me to make gifs and videos and I had an amazing time. Even if I made most my edits almost last minute, it was very fun!

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Marry the Night Gen, 1k Buckley Siblings Week Day Three: “Oh, you think you’re so funny, don’t you?“ “I think I’m hilarious.” and/or a story that takes place in the future.

Buck's watching Eddie and Christopher swaying together on the dancefloor. He knows that he's got a grin so full of sweetness at the scene that his friends are most likely preparing to see a dentist tomorrow because of it but he can't stop and he doesn't care.

He never thought that this was an attainable dream for himself. 

Someone who loves him enough to choose to stay with him, a kid who is now his in every sense of the word, and being surrounded by a family that wants him.

They say weddings make everyone cry. Well, Buck's definitely been shedding the waterworks since before the vows got exchanged. He can feel them gearing up to go again now.

"The whole point of the reception is for you to be out there with them."

Buck's quick to use his napkin to dry his eyes. Maddie takes the chair next to him and passes him an evergrowing Jee to coo at. "Just wanted a minute to myself."

Maddie's smile is soft but her eyes make it clear she sees through him. "That'd be understandable if it hadn't been three songs already."

"If you want to catch the bouquet so badly, Maddie, you can just say so."

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Buckley Siblings Week Day Seven: Free Choice

Maddie glances over at her daughter, grateful that she seems to be too enthralled in watching Toy Story to actually know that anything is going on. The last thing she wants is to cause her daughter an ounce of the distress she’s feeling right now as she paces the floor of the apartment. Calling her brother had been the first thing she had thought to do because she doesn’t know if there’s another person right now who is going to get through her spiralling thoughts.

She’s trembling and she looks down at her phone, biting down on her lip whilst she contemplates listening to the voicemail that Chimney had left for her, only stopped by the sound of a knock on the door. It has to be her brother, she’d called him begging him to come over only half an hour ago and she could hear the sound of him getting Christopher out of the house and into the car before she’d hung up, telling him she needed to leave the line open in case she got a call. She’s terrified but she doesn’t know why . It’s instinct, she thinks, it’s as though every single part of her right now is screaming that something has happened to him. To the man she loves and will never stop loving, even if she’s tried or even if she’s ever thought for a second that she wants to stop feeling that way for him.

She moves slowly to open the door, taking a deep breath in an attempt to at least seem as though she’s relatively okay because scaring an eleven year old isn’t how she wants this day to go. One hand grips tightly onto her phone, staring at her brother the second she swings the door open and she can see the concern on his face already. She’d rambled to him on the phone, hardly making any sense at all as she tried to explain why she was calling him and why she was feeling the way she was feeling. There’s something wrong and she has minimal evidence for that fact but she can feel it in the pit of her stomach, glancing behind her at her daughter. She can’t grow up without her dad, Maddie doesn’t know how to do any of this without him because even if they aren’t together, she’s never had to worry about raising Jee-Yun without him by her side.

Maddie tries to shake herself from those thoughts because she can’t let her mind go there, especially not when she knows absolutely nothing right now. Christopher is grinning up at her and it’s easy to smile back, despite how she’s feeling, resting a hand on top of his head when he follows her brother into the apartment. Eddie is in Texas for a few days and she knows her brother had been more than happy to take care of Chris. The two of them had been playing video games when she had first called her brother, though before she could get out the reason she was calling, he tried to play it off as homework and she knows that would have made her smile if Chimney was missing right now.

“Hey,” It’s harder than she thought it would be to hold it all when she’s standing in front of a child but she does, she has to because she doesn’t want to pour her worry onto him. He loves Chimney, too and he’s already having a hard time with everything right now, the last thing she wants is to pile another thing onto his little shoulders. “Hey, Christopher, it’s really nice to see you.” He’s grown so much since the last time she had seen him, she can’t remember when that was; she’s seen photographs during the pandemic but it was probably May’s graduation party that she had seen him in person. She bites down on her lip to stop herself from bursting into tears when he wraps both of his arms around her waist, his crutches gently hitting against the back of her legs before she rests both of her hands on the back of his head, brushing her fingers through his curls. The hug and his joy is a momentary relief in what had been the beginning of a panic attack that she’s been trying to prevent since listening to Chimney’s voicemail in the first place.

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As part of Day 7 of @thebuckleysiblingsweek, with a big thanks to @fireinyourkiss for giving me the perfect song, for Buck's love towards Maddie

Phoolon ka taaron ka sab ka kehna hai Ek hazaaron mein meri behna hai The flowers, and the stars, all of them say the same thing My sister is one in a million

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BUCKLEY SIBLINGS WEEK DAY SIX: What if something different had happened?

What if Buck had been home when Doug stabbed Chimney and came for Maddie? | Word Count: 7.8K

“What are you going to do?” Buck finally manages to ask, even though he feels nauseous himself, watching his sister pace in front of him, the mood having changed drastically because just a few minutes ago she had been nervously examining herself in the mirror and asking her brother whether she looked fine. It had been a long time since she’d been on a date with someone other than the man that she had married, and he had had to reassure her that she looked beautiful and Chimney wouldn’t be able to take his eyes off of her. It had been confusing at first for him to see two of the closest people in his life as anything more than just friends, but after hearing to Chimney chatter on and on about Maddie during their twenty four hour shifts and hearing nothing but praises from Maddie about how patient ands sweet he was with her, Buck supported their relationship whole-heartedly because as long as they made each other happy, what more could he want? Both Maddie and Chimney had been through their fair share of pain in their lifetimes, and it was high time that they got the kind of happiness that both of them deserved, because Chim had never had a serious relationship with someone who accepted him for who he was and Maddie, well … her husband had broken her in all sorts of ways, and Buck was proud of the person that she was becoming away from Doug’s shadow and she deserved to know what it was like to be loved by someone who didn’t see her flaws as something inherently bad but as part of who she was at her core, and Chimney was doing that. When Maddie had come to the fire station and asked Chimney out on a date after showing him the divorce papers that she had filed, taking the final step to be free from her husband and removing that final link between them that was holding her back from living her life, Buck had been proud because she was moving forward with her life and that’s all he wanted for her.

“If he’s not in Hershey, where the hell is he?” Maddie asks, chewing on her fingernails nervously as she looks at him, the panic starting to seep into her expression, and he wishes that there was something he could say to calm her down, but he knows that this isn’t good and the question that she’s asking is an entirely valid one. Doug’s encounter with her old boss had been months ago, and no one had seen him since, so what was he up to? Buck hated to admit it, but he could slowly start to see the conclusion that Maddie was reaching, one that he couldn’t contradict or disagree with because where else would her husband go? He didn’t delude himself thinking that Doug would never be able to find out where his sister was, but he had tried to believe that when the time came he would be able to protect her, but preparing for something and it actually happening are two completely different things. But he had meant what he had said to Maddie, that he would stand between her and anyone who even thought about hurting her, and if Doug came after her Buck would be ready. He doesn’t think that’s going to provide his sister any comfort in this moment, if anything it might do the opposite considering how worried she’d been about dragging him into her abusive marriage and him becoming collateral damage.

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Buckley Siblings Week Day Six: an exploration of “what if” something different happened from a canon storyline/scene

It’s been two weeks since Maddie had left LA, two weeks since she had sat next to him and told him the truth about her marriage, two weeks since she had taken her stuff and walked out of the apartment, despite him begging her to stay. He wanted to be able to protect his sister, he tried to tell her that she didn’t have to be alone but she wouldn’t even look him in the eyes as she told him that he wouldn’t be safe around her.

She’s been protecting him his entire life and a part of him wanted to wrap his arms around her as tightly as he could and convince her not to leave, another part of him wanted to lock her in the apartment and somehow manage to convince her that what is safe for him, isn’t safe for her. But she has spent sixteen years with Doug and she wouldn’t go into details but he could see how terrified she was of the man finding her and as time continues to pass, he’s starting to see things he never saw before. The time her wrist was broken, the black eye she had a few times (she’d muttered something about patients in the ER and he had believed her), the time she never showed up for breakfast at the diner and then called him a few hours later, sounding as though she had only just woken up as she’d given several different excuses that didn’t line up with each other.

It’s with a sigh that he shakes his head, trying to rid himself of the memories that seem to pour in one after the other. That look in her eyes when he asked her to come with him, the fact she hadn’t even said goodbye to him in person, how he was never allowed inside the Kendall house. He feels guilty for leaving, for not seeing it, for not pushing her into telling him the truth and for not just leaving LA to go to Hershey when she stopped replying to him. And now he feels guilty for letting her walk out of that door. She’s all alone now, Doug is going to find her and he doesn’t know what he’s going to do to her for leaving. He’s researched domestic violence so much since she had left, trying to figure it out, trying to understand why she wouldn’t tell him sooner or why she wouldn’t leave or why leaving was the most dangerous time for anyone walking away from an abusive relationship. And now he’s more scared than ever; he doesn’t know what Doug is capable of but the thought of getting a call from some police officer in some random city whilst his sister seems to move from one state to the next, it’s overwhelming.

Bobby was the one to suggest that he go after her, the last time he heard from her had been a day ago, telling him that she had just gotten to Seattle and that she was okay. It wasn’t much, a few lines in an email, asking him to delete it as soon as he had read it, that she would stay in contact when she got to the next place. He can feel her paranoia through the screen, consuming him, too, as he looks in his rearview mirror for the fourth time, relieved to see the car he had thought was following him has gone. He doesn’t know how long it will take for Doug to find Maddie, he doesn’t even know how long she had been running for before she got to LA; he presumes it’s days rather than weeks but now her husband is going to be hunting her down. He’s imagining the worst of the situation because he doesn’t know the truth; he think about every conversation he ever had with the man or the way Maddie was trembling on her wedding day, he thinks about how Doug wouldn’t leave her side at all that night and maybe it had felt normal at the time. Annoying, but normal but he wouldn’t even let him dance with his own sister and every single time he was around him, it was as though Doug wanted him to be anywhere else. He thought the problem was him, that Doug hated him and maybe he does, maybe he hates the only other person that Maddie loves but it was so much more than that.

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Buckley Siblings Week

Day 7: Free Choice

I learned from you

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BUCKLEY SIBLINGS WEEK ➤ Day 7: free choice ★ favorite outfits

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Buckley Siblings Week ➤ Day Six: Love Language

Gif 1: Season 4, Episode 5 “Buck Begins.” In the hospital wing, Buck looks up at an off-screen Maddie as she rests a hand on his cheek.

Gif 2: Season 2, Episode 13 “Fight or Flight.”  An injured Maddie lies in an ambulance while an off-screen Buck lays his hand on her cheek.

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A List of Things that Ease the Hurt

Day Five of Buckley Siblings Week, with the prompt “does it ever stop hurting?” link to the fic on ao3 if you so choose

“Does it ever stop hurting?” Maddie asked, her voice soft and barely audible. Buck turned to look at his sister, “the depression, anxiety. Does it ever stop being so painful?”

“I’ll report to you when it stops,” Buck said, “it never completely stops. Sometimes it feels less painful, sometimes it hurts more. You have to find the things that make it feel less, and find things that help the days where it’s painful,”

“What helps you?”

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Buckley Siblings Week Day Five: “Does it ever stop hurting?”

Buck glances over at his sister when he hears her sigh, watching her wiggle her toes into the sand before she wraps her arms around her knees and brings them to her chest. There’s something peaceful about the beach and the sound of the ocean, there’s something even more peaceful about being here as the sun is rising and his sister looks the most content than he’s seen her in a long time. This had been her idea; waking him up at four in the morning, telling him that they needed to get out of the apartment and out of their heads. Both of them are running on two hours sleep and he’s entirely certain that they are both still drunk but this is nice. It’s just the two of them and she hasn’t said a word since they got here but she’s in her own head. He can see that distant look in her eyes as she stares out at the ocean and he wonders what she’s thinking about, biting down on his lip in an attempt to stop himself from asking and breaking the silence.

Last night had been a lot for both of them. The breakdown of his relationship with Taylor had finally accumulated in her moving all of her stuff out and he had found himself alone in the loft once more. Until his sister knocked his door and he had to stop himself from asking her to move in with him because he knows she’s been putting off finding an apartment, constantly telling him how nothing feels right because he knows, and he thinks that she might know, too, that nowhere will feel like home because her home is with Chimney and Jee. He doesn’t want to push her into a relationship she might not be ready for yet but he also doesn’t want to give her a reason to stop herself from being in that relationship, by giving her somewhere to stay.

They had gone out, they had sung karaoke and done too many shots, they had danced and drunk some more before the two of them had stumbled into his apartment and practically passed out on the couch, halfway through the pizza they thought would be a great idea on the way home. He can’t celebrate breaking someone’s heart, but he knows that both he and Taylor had been clinging to their relationship for too long, refusing to see that it wasn’t meant to be, even if they wanted it. It scares him, the more he thinks about his long line of failed relationships and how much time he feels he wasted going from one person to the next before he ever learned how to settle down, he wonders if he’s meant to ever find that. Maddie has it, she might not want nor need it right now because she’s still healing from those six months she had spent away from Chimney and their daughter and the months before that they had spent in denial of the amount of pain she was in. She’s found something that he craves, and a small part of him feels a little bitter, perhaps even angry; not at her or Chimney but at the situation itself. Because they have something so beautiful, they have a love so intense, it’s everything he has ever wanted and so much more and yet, they aren’t together in any conventional sense.

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BUCKLEY SIBLINGS WEEK ➤ Day 4 ★ colors

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Buckley Siblings Week ➤ Day Five: Family ➤ Daniel’s Legacy 

Description: 5 gifs with Maddie and Evan “Buck” Buckley from 9-1-1, with lyrics from “Birthday Cake” by Dylan Conrique (from the ‘his version’ edition) Gif 1: Close-up on the photo of Daniel Buckley sitting on his bike in Season 4, Episode 4 “9-1-1, What’s your Grievance?” This is merged with the clip of Maddie helping Buck learn how to ride a bike, in Season 4, Episode 5 “Buck Begins.” The lyrics in the center say, “It’s hard to know what he would say but I think he’d.” Gif 2: On the left, Buck stands in his apartment, smiling at an offscreen Christopher, in Season 3, Episode 3 “The Searchers.” Blended together, on the right, is Maddie smiling at an offscreen Jee-Yun, in Season 5, Episode 12, “Boston.” The lyrics say, “Want you to live like the world’s on fire.” Gif 3: On the right, Maddie stands in the doorway of Buck’s apartment, she smiles, in Season 5, Episode 13 “Fear-O-Phobia.” On the left, blended together, is Buck comforting Maddie with a hug, in Season 2, Episode 13 “Fight or Flight.”  The lyrics say, “Want you to love like hearts don’t break.” Gif 4:  On the right, an injured Maddie lies in an ambulance while an off-screen Buck lays his hand on her cheek., from Season 2, Episode 13. On the left, blended together, Buck looks up at an off-screen Maddie as she rests a hand on his cheek, from “Buck Begins.” The lyrics say, “Nevеr look down when you walk the wire.”  Gif 5: On the right, a close-up of the photo of Daniel Buckley sitting on his bike, in “Buck Begins.” On the left, Maddie and Buck share a half-hug in her apartment. The lyrics say, “Like he made it to his big day.”

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Buckley Siblings Week

Day 6: Maddie & Buck -Love Language

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BUCKLEY SIBLINGS WEEK DAY FIVE: FAMILY - Buckley-Han family