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Bobby Nash wasn’t sure what he had expected from his first foster child. Maybe he thought Evan would be some sort of teenage delinquent. Maybe the kid would think he was too old to be parented or be mean to May and Harry. Maybe he would run away or try to get moved to a different home. Maybe he would be nothing but trouble and make Bobby and Athena regret fostering in the first place. They should have just stuck to the plan and gotten a younger kid like Athena had wanted.
But what Bobby didn’t expect was for the social worker to show up at their house at nine o’clock at night. He didn’t expect for the kid by her side to simultaneously look way too young for 14 and at the same time so much older. Evan was curled in on himself, making him seem far smaller than he should be but the fear and wariness in his eyes was something far too mature for him. Bobby didn’t expect for his first foster child to stand there on his porch, shivering in the pouring rain with nothing but a sweatshirt and a blooming black eye on his face. But what he certainly didn’t expect was for the kid to worm his way into his heart so quickly.
______________________A series of one-shots of Bobby and Athena fostering a teenage Buck
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Lessons in Sleuthing and Seductions (Intentionally and Very Much Romantically) by shrimprangoon
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
15 Jun 2026
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Buck needs to know what’s in that box.
“Oh no. I know that face,” Eddie sighs. “You’re about to become weird about this, aren’t you?”
“Aren’t you curious about what’s in the box Eddie??”
“Not curious enough to get stabbed.”
Buck ponders the downsides of getting stabbed versus getting answers.
“Buck.”
“No, I know! I know!” he concedes. “I, Even Buck Buckley, promise not to get myself stabbed in the noble pursuit of knowledge.”
meanwhile...
Wife City 💅
Eddie: How do I get Buck to look at me disrespectfully?
Maddie: no
Or: the one where Buck is living in a mystery romcom while Eddie is stuck in horny jail hell.
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- Part 2 of Lessons in Dumbassery
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Eddie meets Evan in the summer of 2010 by a lake in El Paso. Both of them still teenagers, lost in life, and a little lonely. It only takes a smile and a sympathetic ear for the two to become inseparable and promise each other forever.
Eddie meets Buck in the fall of 2018 at a fire station in Los Angeles. It takes more than a smile and an explanation to forgive broken promises, fix broken hearts, rebuild trust and find a way to be a family again.
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Bobby is now in front of him introducing him to some of the other firefighters, but Eddie can hardly hear whatever it is they’re saying because he can’t take his eyes off the man standing like a statue a few feet away, with wide deer-caught-in-the-headlights-eyes, open mouth, and white as a sheet of paper. The man who abandoned him and his son three years ago. The man who is still the love of his goddamn life. Captain Nash is waving him over, and Evan finally starts moving, slow and clumsy, like a zombie.
“Eddie, this is Buck. Buck meet Eddie Diaz,” Bobby says.
“Buck?” Eddie asks dumbfounded, still not believing what is happening.
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Evan Buckley is five years old when he realizes that he doesn’t feel pain.
Evan is five and a half when he learns how to pretend.
Over the years, Buck gets really, really good at pretending.
That is, until the day Eddie gets shot right in front of him.
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06 Jul 2026
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“You’re not my dad Buck so stop acting like it!,” Chris yelled, chest heaving at the admission.
Buck felt his whole life flash before his eyes before he corrected his posture, stance tall, shoulders back, face neutral.
“You’re right, I’m not your dad, but I’m still in charge of you until he gets home. He said you weren’t allowed to go to the party on a school night, and I passed along the message. If you have a problem with it, take it up with him when he gets home in twenty minutes,” Buck said calmly, leaving Chris’s room, closing the door behind him.
Or. Buck gets into an argument with Chris and flees to visit Bobby’s grave. Eddie follows him to bring the man that he loves back home.
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05 Jul 2026