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keep waiting for the heartbreak music | buck/eddie | ~30k (1/2)
The traffic moves. Buck contemplates pulling over on the side of the road and running off into the distance.
This is none of his fucking business, and he doesn't understand why the memory of Eddie looking up at this man makes him feel like there's a ball of snakes writhing in his stomach, why his face is burning.
“I,” Eddie says, and in his periphery, Buck catches him stretching his legs out in the footwell, “wasn't interested.”
Buck swallows his first response, which is didn't look like it, because he's an asshole on a good day, but he's not that bad.
It's okay for Eddie to be interested. It's okay for him to date, and Buck wants that for him, except—
or: christopher is becoming his own person, eddie doesn't want to date until he suddenly does, buck is just trying to get his best friend out of the house, and the whole shivering, chest-aching-knees-knocking thing that keeps happening to him whenever eddie smiles real wide is nothing to worry about.
chapter one: maybe if i'd reined it in (13k) chapter two: baby, you were meant to follow me
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it has officially been a year since i first haunted the buddie ao3 tag! half a million words later, i wanted to write something to celebrate, and what better way to celebrate than buck pining. thank you so much to everyone who's read my silly little words over the past year and so very generously welcomed me into the fandom. here's to another year of being unhinged about the gay firefighters 💕
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