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Eddie's never been much of a dreamer.
When he was a boy, he'd been too preoccupied changing his sisters' nappies and teaching them the ABCs. His shelves carried his ballroom dancing trophies, but he never took the competitions seriously enough to consider dance a career path. His eventual high school baseball ambition, too, was short-lived, with a baby on the horizon.
But maybe it wasn't so much that Eddie had little time to dream, but that his dreams were those of his parents and the Church. He didn't bother making any of his own, happy to follow the advice of those who seemingly knew better what to make of his life.
But now, with his recent realizations at the forefront of his mind, Eddie's learning to dream — writing his own version of a life grander than it is now.
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OR As Buck and Eddie settle into sharing a house in a post-Bobby world, Buck notices that something's up with Eddie. -
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Join Bareback Rider Rodeo Cowboy Eddie as he falls in love with city boy Buck.
When Buck moves into a ranch in Cody, Wyoming, to help his pregnant sister Maddie, he meets the openly gay catholic cowboy Eddie Diaz and immediately makes his way into his life. Follow Eddie’s story as he surrounds himself with the noise he’s been longing for his entire life. Eddie goes on to discover how to be his true self. Allowing himself to just want something with no guilty aftertaste for the first time in his life, Evan Buckley.Or where Maddie has been living with Eddie during her pregnancy in his 40 acre ranch. Eddie is a bareback rider and Buck is a born and raised New Yorker obsessed with matcha and- well now Eddie Diaz. What can go wrong?
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When Eddie turns six, his sister is born.
When Eddie is newly thirteen, he has a birthday party.
When Eddie is sixteen, he watches both of his sisters present in the same year.
When Eddie is eighteen, he spends a summer at the lake.
When Eddie is twenty three, Shannon leaves.
When Eddie is twenty six, he has a fight with his parents.
When Eddie is twenty seven, he becomes a firefighter.
When Eddie is thirty three, he realizes he’s gay.
In that order.
AKA: Glimpses of Eddie Diaz's life through the years as he grows up, presents, moves to LA, and comes to terms with who he is.
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Whatever Tommy said in that interaction seemed to make Buck feel small, and Eddie loathed people who made Buck feel small.
"I just. I talked to Maddie about it already, so I'm not like, shutting people out I just..." Buck shook his head. "It's hard to explain."
Eddie gnawed at the corner of his lip. "Even to me?” he thought selfishly.
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Or, things begin to fall into place for Buck and Eddie once the Diazes are back in Los Angeles for good.
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One thing that eighteen-year-old and thirty-four-year-old Eddie have in common?
Yearning after someone he thinks he can’t have.
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OR Eddie makes the trip from El Paso back to Los Angeles in a moving van he came in, reminiscing about his teenage years one mile at a time. -
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“What do you remember about getting shot?”
He lies then. He's lied a lot in his life; lied to Buck — only once, when it’s directly, when it’s not a thousand little fibs my omission. This is that one time.
“I remember falling. Then everything got dark. Then nothing. Then I woke up at the hospital.”
“And that was it?”
No. No, it wasn’t.
“That was it.”
I remember falling.
He remembers.
He remembers that he started falling long before the bullet got loaded.
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"Want to tell me what happened?"
Eddie doesn't. In fact, he can't think of anything he'd want less. Yet, there's something in her voice that soothes, just a little, the inferno and eases the anguish. He exhales, quivering breath.
"I just got angry. I'm not sure why. He didn't do anything wrong." Eddie is a monstrous creature baring its teeth. A shapeless shadow made from broken bones and despair. He's barely human. He's a child dressed in his father's too big clothes choking on his own words. "I don't know what's wrong with me."
Maddie hums thoughtfully, understandingly, "it happens sometimes. We all have bad days, Buck understands that. I'm sure it'll be all forgiven by tomorrow"
A guttural groan claws its way out of him. Maddie takes it for the what if it isn't that it means.
"Come on, you're Buck-and-Eddie! Nothing could ever pull you guys apart."
OR; Eddie breaks a glass and Buck fixes it: an exploration of Eddie's struggles with anger, joy, and himself.
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eddie's thoughts and feelings during the sniper incident
a.k.a. the during and post sniper fic nobody asked for
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In which Eddie was the one struck by lightning and trapped in a coma in 06x11.
Eddie wakes up in El Paso in an alternate reality where he never left Texas and stayed with Shannon. He knows right away that something isn't quite right.
Once awake, Eddie begins to rediscover what's worth living for, what's worth fighting for, and how to finally accept the joy that he never believed he deserved.
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Eddie never let himself say the words. Not when he was fourteen. Not when he met Buck. Not even when love began to feel like home. He spent a lifetime pretending he didn’t feel what he felt, didn’t want what he wanted.
But when years of buried trauma finally unravel and the silence breaks, Eddie is forced to face the truths he’s long avoided.
This time, though, he’s not alone. Buck is there to hold him, to listen, to stay. And maybe, just maybe, to be the reason Eddie finally lets go of the guilt and begins to live, and love, without shame.
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Buck and Eddie realize that they love each other. They are a culmination of their past, weaving together til the moment they realize that their future is each other.
Buck thinks it could never happen, and he is okay with that as long as Eddie is still in his life.
Eddie realizes how much he has hidden— even from himself. He just needs to overcome his fear to tell Buck how he feels.
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a 5+1 fic of five times Eddie goes to his spot outside of town to escape his life in El Paso, and the one time he brings someone there with him.
Eddie’s sixteen and pulling into the driveway of his family home, thinking about six years ago when Adriana was born and he tried to drive his dad’s truck. A couple months before, Ramon had pulled Eddie aside and told him it was time for him to ‘be the man of the house’. Eddie, at ten years old, didn’t think to call someone to come help or drive Helena to the hospital when her water broke because that’s not what the man of the house would do. Eddie, at ten years old, didn’t know how to drive the truck, so he ended up scraping the paint off one side and a punishment that was less about teaching and more about making sure he remembered.
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“Oh, ehm… this says, ‘kiss the cheek of the person to your left ’. I must have grabbed one of the… boring ones,” Chim's brow furrow in confusion, looking at the card's designation attentively.
Eddie doesn't get to hear if it's a boring one or not, because he straightens up and looks to his left and ah, he almost forgot. That is Buck to his left. His head has been on his shoulder for the past, what, five minutes? Yes, it’s been. There he is, Buck, who is far less drunk, looking at him with big blue eyes, birthday boy. Slightly open-mouthed, almost smiling, and Eddie looks at his lips, and they seem… nice. Buck has such nice lips, that is… that's…
“Oh, well, Eddie, you can do that, right?” He vaguely hears Maddie saying. “It's just a kiss on the cheek.”
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There are a couple of fresh shirts on the dresser, the ones Buck had packed in LA the previous morning. One black tank top and a deep green one stretched on the shoulders, he picks the second one and walks his way to the bathroom on the other end of the hallway.
Grandma’s room has been shut, but even if it wasn’t, Eddie would have been okay. It is out of his system.
Always the same, these kinda things. He blows it out of the park with a stellar pity party, Buck has to get him back in one piece and then Eddie is good to go. Riled up and ready to compartmentalize and forget.
So, clearly, he’s okay now.
Eddie is forced to go back to Texas; this time, everything might turn out okay.
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“Was the psychiatrist nice? Did you two click?”
“He wasn’t…awful? A normal dude,” Eddie replies.
Buck lets out a disembodied grunt.
“Oh, I’m so sorry this isn’t more exciting for you,” he carries on, playfully rolling his eyes. “Did you want the journey to my mental wellbeing to be one of those cheesy dramas you like so much? Because I assure you, Buck, real-life therapy isn’t all that mind-blowing.”
“How do you know? You’ve never given it a proper chance,” Buck argues. “I’ll be patiently— Impatiently waiting for the day you come out of a session as a new man, desperate to tell me all about what you learned.”
“Good luck with that,” Eddie fires back.
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OR Eddie fixes things with Christopher, goes to a day rehab, and gets himself a hot firefighter boyfriend. Not necessarily in that order. -
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Evan Buckley was just a man. He’d broken a bone fifteen separate times. He’d survived car wrecks, bombs, earthquakes, tsunamis. He’d been struck by lightning, dangling in the air like a fish on a line. Eventually, his luck had to run out. He was just one man, but if it ended like this, using everything he’d learned and all the strength he’d fought for to get his friends to safety, then he’d die a happy man.
He heard Ravi’s yell of confirmation that they’d made it out the other side, and he shifted back. He let the weight fall once more, and then he watched as the entire world caved in on top of him.
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Buck risks his life. Eddie is there this time. A finale spec fic.
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After Bobby's funeral, Eddie buys a plane ticket back to El Paso. Back home. Whatever, he's figuring it out.
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Buck didn’t reply to any text and calls from Eddie and Eddie heard the news about all the 18i being trap inside a Lab.
Eddie doesn’t know what to do until his son already knew what is best for his dad.
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Eddie hates Texas and misses home. He also accepts a 2 AM Lyft request from Freddie Fakeman.
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Just a little fic post 08x13 about Buck surprising Eddie in Texas.