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Regardless, it’s kind of a perfect day. The breeze is crisply cool, the sand silky between his toes, there are beers and pastrami sandwiches waiting for him in the cooler, and Buck is yelping and thrashing in the water thirty feet to his left.
Eddie exhales, slightly forlornly. It was nice while it lasted.
“Buck?” he calls. “What’s wrong?”
“Ow,” Buck says miserably, hobbling out of the ocean. “Ow, ow.”
Eddie jogs over to meet him at the tideline, immediately clocking the translucent, gelatinous glob wrapped around Buck’s left calf. Short tendrils trail behind his ankle, the jellyfish deflated once out of the water.
or, buck gets stung by a jellyfish. eddie probably shouldn’t pee on it
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25 Jul 2026
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“Aw,” Harry says, smiling. “That’s adorable. Is it like—is it a thing? Do all of you keep pictures in your helmets?”
A murmur of general consensus ripples through their group. Harry, apparently delighted by this new knowledge, demands to see everyone’s secret photos.
“They’re kind of private,” Eddie says, crouched down to unlace his boots. He has a smudge of soot over his left cheek, and his hair has come loose from the gel, a lock of it curling over his brow. Buck likes him like this, just a little dishevelled.
or, firefighters sometimes keep photographs of the people they love inside their helmets, to remember who they’re fighting to come home to. eddie’s isn’t what buck expects.
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25 Jul 2026
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“So, what if he kisses me and I have bad breath! There’s no coming back from bad breath on a first date, Eddie!”
Eddie rolls his eyes, clearly not grasping the gravity of the situation.
“Can you check?” Buck asks, a little desperately.
“Check… your breath?” Eddie sounds amused. He’s definitely not grasping the gravity of the situation.
Buck nods. Eddie rolls his eyes again but beckons Buck to lean in. Buck does, slowly, Eddie’s warm brown eyes on his as he does. At a respectable but effective distance, he pauses.
“Do your worst, dragon breath,” Eddie says softly.
or, buck asks eddie to check if he’s got bad breath before a date. eddie checks. thoroughly.
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25 Jul 2026
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“Honey, what’s wrong?” Karen is asking, eyes wide and—yeah, she’s definitely about to start sympathy crying.
Eddie never really has a filter around her, but it’s even worse with a bottle of fancy wine down between the two of them. “Buck would fucking love that planet,” he says, voice wet and miserable and probably a little too loud.
…or, Eddie + Karen + wine + feelings = the most embarrassing confession ever.
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22 Jul 2026
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Buck glances beyond his laptop, over to Eddie. Specifically, the hand Eddie has laid out on the table, between them. He’s so caught up in this world that exists predominantly in his mind — partially on the screen in front of him — that he barely thinks before he’s reaching out to grab a hold of Eddie’s hand. Testing a grip, and thinking of what exactly he can feel.
The warmth of Eddie’s hand, and the ridges of his knuckles, the way he moves just slightly in surprise.
“Um. Buck?”
Buck snaps out of his writing mind-fog, cheeks heating as he looks at the hand he’s got on Eddie’s — thumb tucked under his palm, which is definitely too intimate for this early scene — then up to meet Eddie’s gaze.
He looks mostly amused, but a little confused too, and he’s still lit up by that sun, so beautiful it kind of hurts.
Or: Buck starts writing a book. Eddie helps.
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21 Jul 2026