the lucas diaz universe
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There’s a prolonged hush; a murmur too low to make out beneath the thrum of blood rushing through Eddie’s ears; and then, all at once—
Their baby takes a breath beneath the first summer light of June fifth, at five forty-six in the morning, and starts to cry.
the birth of Lucas Buckley Diaz.
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- Part 1 of the lucas diaz universe
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It’s bright and warm and summery. His husband is laughing, soft and open and unburdened. There’s a perfect new baby in his arms and a perfect kid making jokes on the other side of the table and the zing of oranges in the air.
And it’s so, so good that it’s hard to imagine that anything isn’t.
This, of course, is an illusion that nobody is more proficient in shattering than Philip and Margaret Buckley.
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- Part 2 of the lucas diaz universe
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“Why—” Buck shakes his head a little, perplexed. “Why are you calling it Duckie?”
Eddie tilts his head. “Because it’s a duck, Buck.”
“You think that thing is a duck?”
“You don’t?” Eddie asks, equally incredulous.
And so commences the Diaz family war of 2027: Duckie vs Wilma.
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- Part 3 of the lucas diaz universe
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“You have a family, Buck,” Eddie says. “A baby.”
Buck’s eyes flash. “What are you saying, Eddie?” he asks. “What, that I—I’m not thinking about Lucas and Chris? About you? You think I’m not trying to get back home to you?” He shakes his head. “You have a monopoly on that or what?”
“No,” Eddie answers, scrambling. “That’s not— but— I’m not the one coming home an hour late all scraped up.”
Buck rolls his eyes, and something flashes through Eddie’s chest, threatening to climb into his throat.
“Like this couldn’t happen to you just as easily as me,” Buck says.
a fight, a making-up, and a lesson in everything changing for the better
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- Part 4 of the lucas diaz universe
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“It’s a good Christmas,” Eddie whispers, turning a kiss into Buck’s hair.
Buck relaxes impossibly further beneath him. “A perfect Christmas,” he agrees.
This year, Eddie presses his cheek to the top of Buck’s head, and has nothing to wish for at all.
december 6: by the fire
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- Part 5 of the lucas diaz universe
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Christopher holds his hand out to Lucas, and Lucas— preoccupied with a green block this time— doesn’t move in his brother’s direction. And on Christopher’s features, something caves in a little bit. A flash of something young and vulnerable and faintly spearmint bitter in the crease of his brows behind familiar glasses.
And Buck and Eddie— just kind of miss it. Just this once.
Lucas takes his first steps; his big brother Christopher has some complicated feelings about it.
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- Part 6 of the lucas diaz universe
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“I wanted to wait and see how it played out,” Eddie explains. “But I found the perfect secret Santa gift for Josh.”
At this, Buck looks a little concerned. “You did?”
Eddie nods. “I found him a husband,” he says smugly.
december 9: secret santa
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- Part 7 of the lucas diaz universe
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“I have a trust fund,” he says. “And I’ve never touched it because I want to use it to pay for Christopher to go to college.”
For a long time, there was nothing that Buck wanted to use the money for. It felt dirty to him, a meaningless offering passed down to him from a family he didn’t fit into, one that didn’t want him. He felt itchy at the thought of using it for anything, for years.
But then there was a boy and his dad.
or, buck has been keeping a kinda sorta secret, and the parenting highs and lows of the college application process.
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- Part 8 of the lucas diaz universe
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valentine's day with the diazes; or, how long buck and eddie can go without seeing their baby.
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- Part 9 of the lucas diaz universe
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“It’s so big, Daddy.”
Buck glances up at Eddie, who feels better just looking at him.
“The storm,” Eddie clarifies.
No sooner has Buck’s face gone warm with understanding does the thunder come again, roaring and lingering. Lucas tenses, but Buck is there in the space between heartbeats, cradling him with one arm and using the other hand to brush through his curls.
Lucas (and Eddie) are scared of thunderstorms. Buck (as always) makes it better.
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- Part 10 of the lucas diaz universe
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one duck, two princesses, a ghostface, a cat, one dad who believes in ghosts and one who doesn't take on trick-or-treating.
aka, lucas diaz is a duck for halloween!
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- Part 11 of the lucas diaz universe
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Kids get sick, Buck tells himself firmly. Eddie is a well trained, excellent, capable paramedic. Lucas is in the safest hands Buck knows. And there’s still the itch of panic beneath his ribs and something nagging in the back of his mind that makes him feel spun out and anxious even if he can’t put his finger on exactly why.
Lucas gets bronchitis; Buck deals with the emotional fallout of seeing his baby in a hospital for the first time.
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- Part 12 of the lucas diaz universe
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Lucas turns, noticing for the first time the skilled skater in the center of the rink, and his eyes light up.
“Wow,” he breathes, looking back up at Bobby. “Can you do that?”
Bobby grins. “Not anymore, kid.”
december 11: ice skating
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- Part 13 of the lucas diaz universe
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“I’m big now, Dad.”
Eddie’s heart squeezes in his chest. Lucas may not have grown inches overnight, but sometimes it does feel like it.
“You’re five now,” he says, instead of what he’s thinking, which is: please slow down.
Lucas holds up one whole hand, little fingers spread wide. “Five!” he repeats, grinning. “That’s big!”
or: all Lucas Diaz wants for his fifth birthday is a dog
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- Part 14 of the lucas diaz universe
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And that’s when he sees it— the Ferris wheel, towering over them with its colorful buckets standing out against the easy blue of the sky.
He doesn’t know why he didn’t get it before. But in this moment, it takes him back to a day just like this one, with perfect warm weather and a cloudless sky and—
And a little boy with sweet curls in a yellow t-shirt, much like the one covering Lucas’ shoulders now. And a Ferris wheel, one that was swept up in the forceful waters of a tsunami and which quickly became a death trap.
—buck and eddie take five-year-old lucas to the carnival; and buck remembers another day, at another ferris wheel
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- Part 15 of the lucas diaz universe
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Lucas turns to look over the railing, where the multicolored lights on the truck are still glowing in the now-dim engine bay.
“Can we sleep there?” he asks. “Please, pretty please?”
Buck and Eddie glance at each other, wordless. And that’s how they end up, five minutes later, spreading blankets and pillows on the top of the engine in the hollowed out empty space.
december 15: power outage
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- Part 16 of the lucas diaz universe
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Eddie hesitates. “We could both come,” he says.
“What, and have Lucas either in a car all night or spending Christmas at someone else’s house?” Chris asks. Both options sound miserable. Worse than being at home and missing one of their family. At least this way, Lucas will have his presents and his dog and his usual Christmas routine to distract him.
It’ll just be without Christopher.
december 18: stranded at the airport
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- Part 17 of the lucas diaz universe
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“How are you feeling, sweetheart?” Buck asks as they settle, shuffling in and wrapping himself warmly around his husband. Eddie shivers and sinks back into Buck’s arms, fluttering his lashes closed.
“Like shit,” Eddie mumbles. Buck’s amused huff reverberates through his chest and Eddie feels the way a small smile tugs at his tired features in spite of himself as Buck kisses the back of his neck softly.
december 17: sick on christmas
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- Part 18 of the lucas diaz universe
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Chris looks between Eddie and the elf— curious— and then she opens her mouth, though to say what Eddie never really finds out.
Instead, Buck’s voice cuts in.
“Hey!” he says. “Wait, I know you!”
or: the diazes re-encounter blair the christmas elf, many years later. for the december 7 prompt: gingerbread house making competition
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- Part 19 of the lucas diaz universe
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Lucas shrugs again, shifting his focus back to the box in front of him. “I found this,” he says, glancing back at Eddie. “What is it?”
Eddie breathes in.
“It’s a medal,” he answers. “It’s called a silver star.”
— lucas finds eddie’s silver star. & the way eddie feels about it
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- Part 20 of the lucas diaz universe