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why do i fear becoming a river. (which mountain gave me such shame.) by downintheflames
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
13 Nov 2025
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“Fuck it,” Eddie mumbled before unlocking the phone again and opening his text thread with Buck. They hadn’t texted since Buck asked him if he wanted a scone or a danish from their favorite coffee shop before their last shift. Eddie sighed and pressed the corner of the phone against his forehead.
He didn’t want to ask for help. He could spend another hour circling around the city. But he didn’t want to. He wanted this awful horrible day to be done. He wanted to hold his child and pretend for a little bit that everything was still whole. He sighed again before pressing call and pressing the phone to his ear.
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Eddie finally asks for what he needs in the aftermath of the sudden loss of his Abuela. Buck finally stops running from his grief. And then Eddie’s parents show up.
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The world was a cruel, twisted thing but there were always three truths. The sun would always return, he was Abram (son of the wicked and son of the would-be righteous), and death would always be there to welcome him when he was tired of being a pain in the ass.
Death would not come to him now; he was having too much fun. Every time Riko and his knives tried to break him, Nathaniel became sharper. Soon he would break Riko.AFTG Re-Telling beginning with Mary and Nathaniel being caught by The Butcher of Baltimore and Nathaniel taking his place in the Ravens lineup.
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“You can do whatever you want, I’m still not letting you wake Camille up,” Raphael said, quietly proud of how well he was resisting Simon’s pleas. Simon licked up Raphael’s neck causing Raphael to shiver before he connected their mouths. Raphael pulled on Simon’s bottom lip with his teeth and Simon pressed his chest to Raphael’s.
From floors below, Raphael heard a vampire yelling “STOP!” Raphael untangled his limbs from Simon and stepped away. Simon stepped after him blinking slowly.
“What’s wrong?” Simon asked when Raphael pushed his hands away.
“Was this all a ploy?” Raphael yelled at Simon as a crash echoed from below.
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what happens when Simon distracts Raphael instead of Izzy and things get too real for all parties involved. Can they find the Book of the White, wake Jocelyn, and maybe even fix the alliance with the vampire clan?
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Looking down at the bottle’s label like he’s reading the countdown clock on a bomb, Eddie says, “Buck.”
“Eddie.”
Said Eddie huffs. Buck suspects he also had to fight back the urge to stomp his foot with that one. “I don’t need… I’m fine. It’ll go away in a couple of days; it’s only when I stretch weird, anyway, so—”
“Or, hear me out,” Buck interrupts coolly, “you could, I don’t know—relax? A few bubbles won’t bite, Eddie.” Then, softer: “It’s a muscle soak. It’ll help, I swear.”
Eddie holds out the bottle and points at it despairingly. “Citrus jamboree,” he whines.
“It’s a party,” Buck shrugs.
Or: 5 innocuous stops along Buck and Eddie’s cozy journey to forever, +1 destination
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"Leave it," Eddie says, his voice pulled taut like a wire about to snap, tight enough to hum.
Buck looks at him, and Eddie’s whole body has gone so rigid he looks carved from stone, but Buck will ruminate on that later. But he can't exactly leave his phone under the seat for the next eight hundred miles, it's got his whole life on it, every stupid photo he's ever taken of Christopher and Eddie and Eddie and Christopher and, embarrassingly, just Eddie, so many just-Eddies, an entire hidden album of candids he'll never admit to because they constitute evidence of something he's been pretending he doesn't feel.
"I can't leave it, it's my phone. It's got— hold on, I think it slid under your seat."
“Buck, don’t.”
It’s as if Eddie doesn’t even know him, because Buck has never once heard the word don’t and responded with anything resembling obedience. So now he’s stretching across the center console with one hand braced on Eddie’s thigh for leverage, the other reaching blindly into the dark gap beneath the driver’s seat, and he’s aware on some level that his positioning is— that he’s essentially— that his head is—
He’s in Eddie’s lap.
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ret·ro·grade ˈre-trə-ˌgrād
- being in motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies
- affecting memories of a period prior to a precipitating event (such as brain injury or disease)
- to go back
After an accident leaves Eddie with amnesia, Buck takes him home to recover, and in the absence of his memories, Eddie reveals parts of himself he’s kept hidden for years.
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Bookmarked by downintheflames
15 Feb 2026
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oh my GOD so fantastic so moving so great. keep forever.
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ravi: the concept of ruin the friendship
Chimney: What?????
Hen: Hi Ravi.
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12 Feb 2026
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Okay, so Eddie isn’t a hundred percent sure Buck feels the same. But sometimes when Buck looks at him Eddie feels loved, like Buck is capable of making his love a solid thing with weight and density, that he places around Eddie’s shoulders like a cloak of Evan Buckley’s devotion.
The first problem with being in love with your best friend (who may love you back), who doesn’t know that you’re even an option—is that it means you have to make yourself an option, and the only way Eddie can be an option, is by telling Buck he is an option.
And the Buckley-Han New Year’s party, probably isn’t the time for The Big Gay Reveal™; queue jazz hands and confetti.
Or; It’s New Year’s Eve, and Eddie accidentally comes out to all of his friends throughout the night.
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26 Dec 2025
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cutie pie story omg (nye party and eddie has gay shoes on)