When Buck walked into Eddie’s life, he felt like he could breathe again.
No, scratch that— He felt like he had finally learned how to breathe. Felt as if just the presence of this golden retriever in search of a home himself, was helping him learn how to not be so scared anymore.
Buck made him feel like he could be himself. Which then turned into Eddie feeling like he wasn’t himself if Buck wasn’t around.
The lawsuit— the god-awful lawsuit, was hell. It was hell for everyone involved— he knows that, but not having the one person that became so intertwined in his and Chris’ life without even being asked? He felt like he was stuck in a made-up all-torturous tenth circle of Hell. He doesn’t know what it would be called but Buck would probably know. But that’s beside the point.
It’s beside the point because the love of his life had been struck by lightning.
The same bolt of lightning that had knocked Eddie onto his ass and further away from Buck. Buck who’d been dangling from the ladder of the fire truck. Buck was lifeless and nothing but dead weight while Eddie tried and tried and tried to pull him up himself.
One day, they’ll be lying on the size-too-small-couch in Eddie’s house, nothing but a jumble of limbs, thinking back and finding the irony Buck has with firetrucks and near-death (or in this case, actual death) experiences.
Today is not that day.
No, because ever since he saw Buck just hanging there, ever since Eddie had personally cracked Buck’s ribs in an attempt to get his heart beating again, ever since Eddie had counted the seconds all while driving like a bat out of hell to save his best friends life, he had felt like all the air in his lungs have dissipated. He doesn’t know if he’ll ever breathe again if Evan Buckley never wakes up.
(lyrics are from I Wish by Reneé Rapp. Fanart by me and originally posted on twitter @/SPlDEYFlLMS)
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Can we talk about how “Uncle Buck” was never a thing before Jee-Yun? I mean, if we analyze the facts, we’ll see that Buck has been there for Eddie and Chris pretty much since day one. He cooks, he cleans, he plays with him, he stays overnight, takes him when Eddie’s busy, takes him to places, gives him gifts and helps when he’s not feeling well, I mean he LITERALLY saved him from a tsunami -and nearly killed himself trying to find him-. This shit is so fucking canon Eddie added Buck to his WILL, he told him “there’s no one I trust with my son more than you” over the women that he allegedly cared for and loved so much… we never hear anything remotely close to uncle or “friend of the family”. Even in the crossover when Eddie talks to Marjan about Buck helping him build the skateboard, he never explains who Buck is (which, if I were in that situation, I’d say “this blonde dude, yeah he’s like family too”), he simply says Buck, because that on ITSELF (!!!!) says it all. Y’all can give me all the shit y’all want but Uncle Buck was never a thing before Jee-Yun, because he was never an uncle before. He was a dad. A co-parent. And if he was a woman, Eddie & him would’ve been together long before all our crazy asses decided to even come here so that’s that on that & goodnight
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ignore the fact that some of these are super vague: I'm avoiding spoilers for @melonnvine. its like an iykyk situation past the xmas ep of season three
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I think we as a society should bring back brotps. I think we should be weirder about characters being friends the same way people are weird about ships. Make those two characters who interacted once or twice besties. Make it difficult for them to get rid of each other even if they want to. Go nuts
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I'm always entertained by people doing those "canon VS fanon" memes where both are misunderstanding characters to such a violent degree 'cause like
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if buddie becomes canon 911 will be the first show with banger after banger after banger after banger of main ships.
athena and bobby? unmatched. immaculate.
hen and karen? magnificent.
chimney and maddie? perfection.
buck and eddie? flawless.
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No one, and I mean no one, will ever be more fond of Buck & his yapping than Eddie “Heart Eyes” Diaz 🥹
Also on a completely unrelated note, Eddie to Chris about his late wife: “To be honest, she did most of the talking. I was just happy to be near her.”
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