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    “But he’s Buck,” Theo explains, pushing a small finger into Buck’s chest, as if to show Tommy exactly who Buck was. “Everyone calls him Buck.”

    Tommy’s face relaxes slightly as he answers, “yes, that’s true, but—”

    “Everyone!” Theo cuts Tommy off, holding up his hand as he begins to count on his fingers. “Me, Chris, Auntie Hen and Karen, Uncle Chimney, Ravi—”

    Once he runs out of fingers on his one hand, he looks up at Buck, realization dawning on his face. “Aunt Maddie calls you Evan!” He exclaims, almost shouts in Buck’s face, eyes comically wide at this, apparently very important, piece of information.

    Buck nods. “Yes, she does. Sometimes.”

    “Aunt Maddie does, sometimes.” Theo reiterates to Tommy, his eyes narrowing as he cocks his head to the side, thinking. “Wait— Eddie does too! But only sometimes. Like less sometimes than Aunt Maddie. I think? But Eddie is Eddie, so it’s different.”

    Tommy can’t help the snort he lets out, “you’re right about that, kid.”

    Or, Buck runs into his ex at the grocery store, which forces Buck to confront feelings he's been ignoring for far too long.

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    He has roughly fifteen minutes of soccer left.

    He could just sit here and watch the game like a normal person.

    Or.

    “It’s actually been kind of a rough year for them,” he says, letting his voice drop a little. Sun Hat Lady immediately leans in closer. “Like, they almost didn’t make it.”

    “Oh no,” she breathes. “Oh, honey.”

    “Yeah, it was… I mean, I don’t want to get into it.” He absolutely wants to get into it. “But basically, Theo— my little brother, number seven, the one who keeps—”

    A whistle blows. Theo’s committed another foul. This one might actually be assault — Chris isn’t a legal expert but Theo basically used that kid as a speed bump.

    “—doing that. So, Theo wasn’t planned. And when my dad, the blonde one, told my other dad, it was like…” Chris exhales wearily, having seen too much. “They were struggling. Communication issues. You know how it is.”

    Sun Hat Lady nods gravely. She knows how it is.

    Or,
    Sometimes you have to make up a story and involve some soccer moms to get your stupid dad and his stupid best friend to kiss.

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    It’s a bad idea. Steve knows it’s a bad idea. It’s extraordinarily, astronomically bad. And he isn’t exactly known for his brain, so if he can recognize the idea as categorically not good–

    He’s desperate, is the thing.

    Desperate to escape the knowing stares and the pitying glances and King Steve sneered like an insult or whispered like a prayer. Desperate to find a version of himself that doesn’t have to live a certain way, say certain things, be certain anything.

    He’s just…tired of it. Tired of being the Hair or the King, tired of wearing a jacket that’s too tight in a role that doesn’t fit anymore.

    And he knows that there’s only one person in Hawkins who knows how to defy expectations and shuck an ill-fitting role like he was made to do it.

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    Or, Eddie Munson is a loser. Steve wants in on it.

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    [When Eddie leaves it’s not grandiose or dramatic. Eddie hugs him and Buck hugs him back, of course.
    He hides his face in the curve of Eddie’s neck and breathes in the scent of him, of pinewood and soap.
    Eddie’s fingers dig in his back, and he prays they might leave marks behind, scratch Eddie’s signature right into his skin, prays they might leave bruises on his very bones, let him keep Eddie right here, in his arms, forever.
    But eventually, gone as all good things do, Eddie pulls back. He smiles, and his eyes are a storm, warm honey clouded with lightning and thunder, and the only thing Buck can do is smile back. He’s never been good at goodbyes, he should be used to them. He isn’t.
    And then, just like that, Eddie’s gone, taking with him half of Buck’s heart and all the oxygen in his lungs.]

    OR Eddie leaves, and Buck sinks and sinks and then, eventually, he remembers how to swim

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    It's probably only minutes later when he comes aware of rustle of movement behind him. He thinks, at first—

    Maybe an animal, or another omega.

    But there's something controlled about it, like it was a sound made deliberate enough to make him aware of it. Like he's being stalked through the woods now, and the Alpha who found him is getting impatient with him.

     He grins.

     This is why he was here, and his heart rate ratchets up in the anticipation of it.

    He glances behind him, and can see the shape of a man chasing him through the shadows, his form barely knowable in this low half light, he catches parts of a man through silvered thin fractals of light from the moonlight breaking through the canopy—

     The golden flash of eyes.

     Dark brown hair.

     A large hand, reaching—

     All of it familiar in a way that makes him ache.
     
    RUN.

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