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heatwave country

buddie | 16k | explicit | post-s8, premarital divorce, codependency, getting together

“Buck, I told you, there’s no rush. You being here for however long you need is not a problem.” Buck rubs at his brow to do something with his hands, Eddie’s eyes tracking his every move like a hawk. “I know that, Eddie. I heard you.” “Did you?” Eddie asks. “Hear me?”

Eddie comes back home. Buck runs away.

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tailspinning

buddie | explicit | 15k | feelings realization, some condepedency, a little light stalking etc, true love and romance

He’s already here. There’s no harm in staying. Just for a couple minutes. Something could happen. Something could go terribly wrong. There could be, like, a robbery or something. Something could catch on fire, and Buck is a firefighter! An asteroid could even descend cinematically from the heavens ready to wipe out all of humanity. Accidents happen, Buck is intimately acquainted with this fact of life. Buck really wishes he had that coffee right about now. But he’s not gonna leave.

Or, Eddie tells Buck he’s moving to Texas. In response—as the world’s most supportive, caring and well-adjusted best friend—these are three things Buck absolutely does not do:

Keep tabs on Eddie, his calendar activity and his iPhone location so that he can spend as much time with Eddie as humanly possible before he leaves.

Almost violate California Penal Code 646.9.

Lose his entire fucking mind.

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beating the horse

buddie | post-8a | 14.4k words

Buck remembers how proud he was about all of his software updates. 2.0, 3.0. Maybe if he shed 100 skins and improved himself enough, 3.0 to infinity, someone could take a look at him and find something worth keeping. Because that’s what he kept telling himself: nobody is ever gonna want you enough to keep you. But Eddie had kept him. He’s keeping him, still, he just has to go.

Eddie is moving to Texas. Buck finally figures out what he wants.

Tags: Post-Episode: s08e08 Wannabes, Feelings Realization, #letbuckfuck, GONE VERY WRONG!, what if your friend was moving away and you blew up your whole life, a normal platonic reaction to have to that information, Codependency, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Love Confessions

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let me out, i'm starving

buddie | season 8 | w/c: 5.5k

He thinks about it, and then he doesn’t think about it because there’s no time to think about it. And he’s only half thinking about it when they’re in the locker room at the end of shift, and he asks if Buck wants to do something that evening. And Buck, honest to God, says to him, “Ah, uh, I have a date.” It’s said with a head duck and a flutter of eyelashes, that thing Buck does a lot when he’s embarrassed or being coy that makes Eddie’s stomach swoop and plummet like a Tilt-A-Whirl. He sounds almost…sheepish. But Eddie’s not crazy. Buck and Tommy broke up not even three weeks ago, seriously, unless it was a madness-induced hallucination and not something that actually happened in real life. “Huh,” Eddie says. He doesn’t mean to say huh, but that’s what happens anyway.

Christopher has been in Texas for too long, and Buck gets back on the hamster wheel. Eddie considers some things.

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my buddie pony 🐎

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glass on the pavement under my shoe

buddie | post-season 7 | w/c: 9.4k

Buck doesn’t know what he’s going to say next. All he hears is the awful sound of splintering wood, a beam emancipating itself from above them. Without another thought, Buck lunges forward and pushes Eddie out of its path. When Buck falls through the unstable give of the floor, he feels a bone chilling terror. But it’s okay, because Eddie was knocked away. The beam missed him. Then, a terrible noise like thunder, a mammoth of sound, and Eddie is falling too. Why is Eddie falling too?

Buck takes a great big tumble. Like always, Eddie is right behind him.

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🚨🚨➡️i am now @doitbuckley ⬅️🚨🚨

for reasons explained in the tags, to all the people following me here i’ll be posting on @doitbuckley from now on! thank you peace and love

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wait for me out there

buck/eddie | 23k words | post-season seven

“Everything okay?” Hen asks him when he reascends the stairs, plopping back down on his seat at the table next to Eddie. Buck puts his head in his hands. “My mother is pimping me out to the women of Los Angeles.” Chimney snort-coughs whatever’s in the mug he’s been sipping from. “Come again?”

After another relationship blows up in his face, Buck does himself the generous favor of taking a vow of relationship-celibacy for the greater good of humanity. Then his parents skip back into town with a vengeance, his mother starts meddling in his love life, and Buck elects to find a fake girlfriend to get them off of his case. He's also in love with his best friend, but that's a minor detail.

Meanwhile, Eddie is losing his mind for completely separate reasons. Obviously.

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