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"Did I tell you about Diaz?"
Buck takes a sip of wine to hide his smile. If anyone had bet on which Buckley sibling would become a librarian and which would become a firefighter, Buck is pretty sure they would have lost their money. But he's happy where he is, and there's something he loves about Maddie as a firefighter. She talks like the guys he lived with after Peru, coworkers referred to by nothing but last names and embarrassing nicknames, and it's kind of perfect, honestly. He hasn't talked to his mom since Maddie enrolled in the academy, but he assumes steam comes out of her ears whenever she thinks about it.
"He's the other probie, right?" Buck asks. Diaz and Maddie went through training together, so the name is more familiar than the others. She was glad to get assigned to the same station as him.
"Yeah. I think he could use someone like Carla, he's having some trouble."
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Buck is a librarian, Maddie is a firefighter, and Eddie is grateful that Buck has an afterschool program that Christopher is excited about.
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23 Sep 2025
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She goes by Arthur because it’s easier, and because she used to get a kick out of people meeting her and realizing that yes, she’s Arthur. The reactions range from grovelling embarrassment to defensive hauteur to what Eames does, which is look her up and down with a smirk and say, “I must confess, you’re not what I imagined.”
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27 Jul 2025
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About a week after starting back at the 118, and about three weeks before he was supposed to start getting a steady check again, Buck quietly moved out of his loft—
—and into his jeep.
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22 Jul 2025
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“It’ll go fine.” Howie advised. “I don’t like the idea of you being there alone,” he joked with a small little smile. “But it’ll be okay.”
“I’m not alone.” Maddie teased with a matching smile of her own.
“You’re right.” Howie conceded. “You have our scary baby girl to hold everyone off.”
Maddie snorted. “I meant -.”
“I know what you meant.” Howie sobered. “I like the idea of him being there even less.”
Maddie’s stomach jolted. “Do you think I made a mistake?” She asked cautiously. “Should I have told him not to come?”
Howie waved a hand to the side. “Nah,” he shrugged. “We both know Buck’s going to Buck.”
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Or, realizing that the family that you need has been beside you all along.
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21 Jul 2025
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“I— I should get out of your hair,” he says.
Eddie turns to look at him, the movement sharp. There’s a look on his face that looks like he thinks Buck might have lost his entire mind.
“Did you hit your head on something?” he asks drily, like he knows that Buck didn’t. Buck hesitates anyway.
“Uh,” he says ineloquently. “I don’t think so.”
“Then why are you saying things that don’t make any sense?”
in other words, the diaz boys take buck home with them after the tsunami.
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29 May 2025