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    Buck is fucking frozen. His mouth is dry, and his brain is blank except for oh no, oh fuck reverberating in his frontal lobe. He can’t answer. He feels the pressure against the metaphorical closet door, the hinges creaking against the weight of the boxes crashing down.

    “Are those… hearing aids?” He registers Eddie's voice through the ringing in his ears.

    It takes him a moment before he can finally whisper it out. He feels his head nod against his will.

    “Yeah.”

    The door gives out.

    or: how a conversation about tardigrades results in buck grappling with a disability he's suppressed, getting hearing aids, and realizing that the family he craves has been there for him all along. in that order.

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    30 Jul 2024

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    They both know this is it. That beyond this barren landscape, whatever they found here will cease to exist.

    It was born here and it’ll die here, and Eddie will spend the rest of his life missing it, but he’s not allowed to take it with him. They have to bury it - dig six feet down and submerge it in the sun-scorched earth so she can remember it for them. So she can cradle it and keep it safe, where no one can ever touch it. Where no one can ever taint it.

     

    (Buck and Eddie meet in Afghanistan. It changes everything.)

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    22 Apr 2024

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    “Well, we’re doing a fancy dinner and mini golf and karaoke,” Buck says, “and those are kinda date activities anyway, right?”

    “Right,” Eddie says slowly. “Except it’s Chim’s bachelor party, so we can hardly bring dates along, even if we could find them. That’d be weird.”

    “Well,” Buck says, “I was thinking… what if we were each other’s dates?”

    Eddie’s brain bluescreens for a moment.

    Buck must take his total lack of reaction for disagreement, because he hurriedly says, “Like, a pretend date. That way we could test out our, like you said, moves on each other. And then be totally truthful about whether they worked or not. So we get honest feedback and we don’t have to worry about finding someone to try them out on and we can still make it to Chim’s party. And then give Chris some advice before Sunday. Right? Does that make sense?”

     

    or, chris wants dating advice and it turns out taking your best friend on a pretend date to practice being as romantic as possible is not a good idea in theory or in practice, considering the pesky being-in-unrequited-love of it all

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    18 Apr 2024

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    The worst part, Eddie thinks, is that he doesn’t realize until it’s already too late.

     

    No, that’s not it. The worst part is that it’s not too late, it’s never too late, he could say something but he’s not going to. Because he’s not going to fuck up the good thing his best friend has going on, as much as he wants to, as much as he wants to grab Buck by the shoulders and shake him and say I’m in love with you, damnit! I’m in love with you and I’m sorry I didn’t know until now, but I know now, I know now, I can have this now-

     

    He can have this now. That’s the worst part, actually. If Eddie told Buck that he was in love with him, Buck would drop everything in a heartbeat. Buck would apologize to Tommy and he would be there for Eddie because he’s always there for Eddie, and Eddie, selfishly, always lets him.

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    05 Apr 2024

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    In a world where there was no leak, Ellen Claremont won the reelection, and they get to love each other on their own terms and no one else’s… Or 5 times Alex soft launched his relationship with Henry on Instagram +1 time they hard launched together.

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    27 Mar 2024