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  1. Rec 69

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    Buck is afraid of flying, Eddie helps ground him.

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  2. Rec 29

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    The idea comes to him on one of his drives through the mountains.

    He’s driving up, and up, and up until the road has a steep, sheer drop on one side, and nobody’s driving alongside him. He’s headed to the top of a mountain. There’s a gravel pull-off right before a hairpin turn. The turn is protected by a flimsy guardrail. 

    Eddie parks on the pull-off and walks over to look past the guardrail.

    Nothing underneath. Just dry underbrush. A shallow stream right at the bottom. Thin vegetation. If a car missed the curve at a fair speed, it would plummet down the cliff. Next to no chance of survival.

    And Eddie’s known to drive, to clear his own head. He used to do it to find hiking trails for him and Buck, or roadside attractions or activities that Christopher might like. It’s a known hobby of his. He’s a good driver.

    So it’s not convincing if he crashes in good weather. He’ll have to wait for a storm.

    But it’ll work. It has to work.

     

    (Or: Eddie and all the ways you shouldn't love your loved ones.)

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  3. Rec 17

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    Buck can’t get out of bed.

    He wants to. Or he thinks he would If he could muster the energy to want anything through the exhaustion that drags like sandbags on his limbs, heavy and aching, impossible to shed. 

    For as long as he can remember he’s been chased by shadows, lurking in doorways, following him around, watching and waiting, always waiting, until slowly poisoning the very air around him, creeping into his head through his eyes and ears and mouth, muffling everything around him and covering everything in a thin graze haze. 

    It had been bad before- the summer after Maddie left comes to mind, and the month before he left Peru after his friend Laila passed away- but never like this. At least after Maddie left he’d managed to shower and make his way downstairs for meals.

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    10 Oct 2025

  4. Rec 38

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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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    “What’s– what’s wrong with Eddie?” Buck all but collapses next to Eddie, voice panicked. Blinking down at the floor, Eddie can see Buck’s hands hover in front of him, like he’s scared to touch him. 

    “I— I don’t know,” Chim stutters, misery plain in his voice. “I think I broke him.” 

    “What did you say to him?” 

    “I, uh— may have told him you were grievously injured. But I was just—“ 

    “You what?” 

    “Listen, it was a tense situation–” 

    “Jesus, just– go,” Buck says. Pleads, almost. “Go, I’ve– I’ve got this. Please.” 

    Or: Eddie and Buck stop speaking entirely. Chim intervenes.

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