“Daddy!” Ellie calls for him, and Buck spins around, smile stretching over his face.
“Ellie!” he calls back, opening his arms and crouching a little so he can catch her when she takes a leap. He spins her around once before he sets her back down onto her feet. “Hi, sweetheart, how was school?”
“It was good,” she says, slipping her small hand into his. “But I’m excited to go home.”
“Yeah?” he asks. “Because we’re hanging out with the Diazes?”
She grins up at him. “Yes! And because we’re making lasagna.”
Buck laughs, and, over his shoulder, calls to Eddie and Christopher, “You guys hear that? You’re gonna have to compete with the lasagna for Ellie’s attention.”
“Ohh, lasagna,” Christopher says dreamily, and Buck and Eddie grin at each other.
~
in a world where buck has a daughter christopher’s age, he first meets eddie at their kids’ school. things progress from there.
single dads AU, rated M, 40k
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Whether it's a first kiss, a long-awaited confession, or the moment everything finally clicks into place, getting together stories are a fandom staple for a reason. This week's recs celebrate Buck and Eddie falling in love and choosing each other.
43 fics under the cut:
1. help me piece it all together darling by jjcofeesa (@buckme) (4.6k, Teen)
Warnings: amnesia, migraines
Buck's had a handful of migraines before, when he's really stressed or dehydrated or both. He had another one today--- allegedly, anyway. Because he doesn't remember the last five hours.
Reccer says: This fic is equal parts funny and heartwrenching, and draws from the author's own experience with transient global amnesia. It's very soft, and had me grinning like an idiot by the end of it.
2. drinkin' to call someone by freezethismoment (@freezethismoment) (4k, Mature)
Warnings: grinding
"im not really sure how to describe it other than like drunk shenanigans (118 go out to a bar) and getting together, but this is the fic summary copy and pasted:
Eddie shifts his focus, he had a real reason to call Buck.
“Buck,” he interrupts.
“ — Uh, yeah, Eddie?” Buck replies, a little caught off guard.
“Are we together? Do you wanna be with me, like, for real?”"
Reccer says: it's just super cute and a nice fluff piece, they're so in love :DD
3. If you need a hand, take mine by justhockey (6k, Mature)
Warnings: Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings
"Eddie isn’t dating right now. Eddie probably isn’t dating ever again, actually, given the fact that he had panic attacks over the thought of spending his life with the last woman that he dated.
So if he’s not dating - and he’s not - then it isn’t even relevant.
Until some guy flirts with Buck when they’re on a call, and Eddie briefly considers how likely he is to be acquitted of murder."
Reccer says: this fic features extremely charming unhinged eddie jumping on the box where he's stuffed all his repression, which is. just. delightful. so funny and charming and makes me laugh.
4. How to supreme an orange by paleredheadinascifi (4.9k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Eddie knows his kid, and his kid loves oranges. Buck knows both of them better than Eddie realized. He shows it in various citrus-based ways.
Reccer says: post-texas fic that explore the ways that the buckley-diaz family has changed and stayed the same always hits hard, and this one does so beautifully! at it's core, it's about the ways we love each other, and how easy it is for buck to love eddie and chris, and how easy it is for eddie to choose to love him right back. and the inherent love in oranges, of course.
5. Zing, Zing, Zing (went my heartstrings) by vinkunwildflowerqueen (4.6k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Eddie finally snapped. Over ducks, of all things.
All that pining, waiting, wanting- tiny moments where every time he saw Buck doing something that made Eddie fall a little deeper in love with him, it was complete with a little zing of electricity that flooded his veins like he'd been given a warm saline flush.
And the straw that broke the camels back, in the end, was ducks.
Reccer says: this is buck being the most buck buck can possibly buck, and eddie being obsessed and in love over it. absolutely adorable.
6. Pocketful of Sunshine by kae_118 (4.9k, General)
Warnings: none
Buck didn't think twice when he set a photo of Christopher as his lockscreen. Eddie, however, spirals a little when he finds out.
Reccer says: this is SO cute, and very them. everything is about buddie except for buddie which is about christopher, and all.
7. half a heart without you by fleetinghearts (@shitouttabuck) (8k, Teen)
Warnings: none
buck notices the lack of spanish terms of endearment in eddie’s life since his abuela died. so, he’s armed with what he’s been reliably informed is a totally normal thing to call your buddy. Operation Make My Best Friend Feel Cherished, as he’s named it on a trial basis in the privacy of his own head, is a-go
Reccer says: buck just loves eddie so much and wants him to know it, even if he doesn't quite mean to show it like THAT.
8. standing here (it's all so clear) by lesmiserablol (@lesmiserablol) (3.7k, Teen)
Warnings: none
"Eddie frowns. “What didn’t go away?”
“My math, uh…after the lightning, I was really good at math? That…hasn’t gone away.”
“Oh.” Eddie blinks, then, “What?” Because he could’ve sworn…but looking back on it, there's no reason to think that it went away. No reason except…for the hours he has dedicated to making Eddie's son teach him math."
Reccer says: the romance in teaching someone, the romance of home. this is so homey and sweet and true to the way they quietly love each other!
9. dream vs. reality by wunderbuck (5k, Teen)
Warnings: none
"“I love you.” Eddie reasons, somehow braver here in this hellish dreamrealitymemory than in his own life.
This dead-Buck, not-Buck, smiles indulgently, the expression 3 degrees off from what it should be. His eyes are more glassy than before and the breath he takes rattles against his insides when he speaks. “Go back then. Tell him. I'm already dead here.”
or: dream-buck makes eddie get his shit together."
Reccer says: I liked it!
10. put my heart inside your palms by markofalover (@markofaloveralover) (3k, Teen)
Warnings: none
how an accidental pet name, a thoughtful dinner, and a shared shirt gets their shit together.
Reccer says: a very gentle, beautifully-written fic, where the love feels just. imbued into every word.
11. you said nothing, but i heard it all by Bexism (12.3k, Explicit)
Warnings: Internalized Homophobia
buck fights back during the kitchen scene in 8x17 and it sends eddie spiralling
Reccer says: SUCH a good exploration of the tension between buddie at the end of s8. a wonderful sharp surgical look into the beating heart of what makes both of them tick, and how they might finally fall off that cliff's edge.
12. let the world have its way with you by fleetinghearts (@shitouttabuck) (54.5k, Explicit)
Warnings: Minor Internalized Homophobia
After the lightning strike, Buck makes a bucket list and he and Eddie embark on an adventure to tick them all off and fall in love on the way
Reccer says: I liked it!
13. even though we changed (i'm still here with you) by intotheblue (@hotshotsxyz) (1.7k, General)
Warnings: none
Maddie confronts Buck about living in Eddie's house, Buck goes home and realises that they're basically already married
Reccer says: I like the parallel between madney not realising theyre dating and buck being like couldn't be me, and then immediately going home and being like oH
14. you were unsuspecting, not unwarned by paleredheadinascifi (5.5k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Buck is not in love with his best friend, and Eddie is super straight. For sure. Definitely.
Reccer says: buddie being delusional in their own ways that bump into each other and trap them in their torment nexus is SO funny. i had to take a walk during this.
15. so close you can almost taste it by lightyears (12.9k, Mature)
Warnings: none
Buck starts writing a book, and uses Eddie as his muse. As they act out scenes from the book they fall in love
Reccer says: I liked it!
16. crossed the muddy line by Anonymous (17k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Buck joins Eddie Sophia and Chris on their journey to Ramon's retirement party, through his sister's eyes he realises he's in love
Reccer says: I liked it!
17. In Which Eddie Diaz Works Out That His Books Are a Metaphor by hwaelweg (@the-hwaelweg) (3.3k, Teen)
Warnings: none
An exploration of Eddie Diaz's book collection and how he got them (Buck), and the way they lead him to the truth
Reccer says: This is one of my favourite one-shots of all time, I have re-read it multiple times, it has everything I loved about the S8 texas arc and all the hope we had for the resolution of that storyline. It's Buck in his element and Eddie learning how to understand his own feelings all in a neat little story about books.
18. Something in the Air (Is Giving Me Bad Ideas) by paramountie (@paramountie) (7.5k, General)
Warnings: Light angst, jealousy, mutual pining
Eddie realizes his feelings for Buck, but doesn’t plan to do anything about it because he’s determined to not blow his life up anymore than he already has.
Reccer says: I love a self-loathing Eddie, and I love that the two of them make each other so brave. Also, the last scene in particular is SO beautifully written it’s lived rent free in my head since I bookmarked it back in September 2024.
19. i’m betting everything on you by ryliversbuddie (@ryliversbuddie) (15.7k, Explicit)
Warnings: none
sexy sexy impulsive kiss during a regular movie night that then leads to a whole shift of awkwardness before love confessions & getting together smut.
Reccer says: felt so realistic and natural and everything buddie is supposed to be… the love bled through the screen!!!
20. stupid for you by thebloodysmut (@princessedmundo) (39.8k, Explicit)
Warnings: Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings
fake engaged buck and eddie leads to them not realizing they’re just in an actual relationship. then leads to friends to fiancés and love confessions!!
Reccer says: admittedly is a self-admission - one of my proudest works and though she is not perfect, i am fond of her :)
21. make me love myself (so that I might love you) by Sintari (@sintari) (11k, Explicit)
Warnings: none
Buck explores his bisexuality. Eddie suffers.
Reccer says: This fic is SO well-written, funny, clever, and has all of my favorite tropes.
22. I Bet You Do by facewithoutheart (@facewithoutheart ) (14.4k, Explicit)
Warnings: none
Buck and Eddie make a bet:
- Can Buck prove he’s ready to find a new partner by going one month without sex or orgasms?
- Can Eddie prove he doesn’t want to keep punishing himself by committing to having one orgasm a day?
Reccer says: Very fun twist on the celibacy bet trope. And they have sex in the Prius.
23. quod erat demonstrandum by madforyou (16.3k, Explicit)
Warnings: Under-negotiated Kink
Eddie asks Buck to fuck him to prove he's straight. Things go about as well as you'd think.
Reccer says: this fic lives in my head rent-free. it makes me feel insane. eddie being the most unhinged one can possibly be, and also so eddie it hurts. buck trying SO HARD to keep it together but also doing anything for eddie and trying to tamp down on his own wants. they are so them and the sequel is also. yay. also shockingly incredible prose and smut i can talk for hours about it.
24. Easy by cathcer1984 (@cathcer1984) (7.5k, Mature)
Warnings: Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings
Eddie confesses to Buck, Buck turns him down, angst ensues (with a happy ending and a getting together).
Reccer says: The angst is delicious! It's messy feelings in messy situation. The OCs are so sweet too!
25. Diaz Drinks the Juice by youretheworstperson (@youretheworstperson) (41.9k, Mature)
Warnings: none
Buck reassures Eddie that he's not in love with him. Eddie feels some type of way about that.
Reccer says: This fic has it all... buddie roommates, domestic fluff, a wet dream, feeling realizations, miscommunication, pining, obliviousness, NDEs, humour...the whole package!! Both fun and heartfelt and very well written too😍
26. the fruit that leaves a stain by unreckless (@stickpuck) (62.7k, Explicit)
Warnings: transphobia, mpreg
One year, two funerals, one LAFD gala, and approximately a dozen times Eddie had to sigh and say “Yes, it’s Buck’s.”
Reccer says: I'm not usually an mpreg reader but this fic handles it so beautifully. Eddie is trans, so there's no handwavy anatomy stuff. The sex is hot and relentless, and the pregnancy stuff is all really well written.
27. how to peel oranges by iphigenias (@bakugeorge) (3.4k, Teen)
Warnings: none
5+1 conversations buck and eddie have over the phone, set (and written) post s4
Reccer says: incredibly soft and sweet fic!
28. a picture of what life could be by farfromthstars (@doeeyeseddie ) (29.2k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Buck wins a trip for two to a romantic wellness retreat, and when none of the actual couples can go he brings his best friend Eddie. Surely this will not be weird even though people will assume they're a couple.
Reccer says: A classic romcom style setting with mutual pining, bed sharing, acting like a couple in public, and simply so so sweet!
29. you've got the antidote by hattalove (@hattalove) (4.2k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Eddie is picking Buck up after a minor medical procedure. While Buck is still high on pain meds Eddie tells him there's someone who'd love to be his husband one day, and promises to tell him tomorrow.
Reccer says: So sweet you can feel your teeth aching as you read.
30. Parents’ Night by paleredheadinascifi (2.3k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Buck joins Eddie for Parents’ Night at Christopher’s school and discovers Christopher has been sharing some… interesting details about their lives.
Reccer says: This fic makes me laugh every time I read it! It’s short but captures the sweetness of a Buddie relationship I enjoy.
31. i get so sick (of myself) by oceanofchaos (@islandoforder) (11.5k, General)
Warnings: jealousy, abandonment issues
Episode tag to 9x5 Día de los Muertos, in which Buck really truly is jealous of Eddie, not Hen.
Reccer says: I liked it!
32. the periodic table and the twisted pigeon by themisally (@themisally) (14.1k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Buck and Eddie do a little amateur detective work to uncover their neighbourhood meth lab
Reccer says: It's fun and flirty, and the dialogue is chef's kiss
33. a very common crisis by oneofthesirens (5k, Mature)
Warnings: none
Maddie tells Eddie that Buck isn't in love with him, Eddie spirals hard.
Reccer says: It's short and sweet, a truly delightful premise
34. i want to feel you from the inside by xylodemon (@xylodemon) (11k, Explicit)
Warning: none
When Eddie says he's leaving for Texas, Buck realises that they're in love with each other just that moment too late
Reccer says: They're both so obsessed with each other and hurting and in love
35. you might as well swim by theparadigmshifts (@theparadigmshifts) (7.2k, Mature)
Warnings: none
Buck and Eddie hook up, and then don't talk about it. But can they be normal about it?
Reccer says: Great Buck and Eddie voices, great tension
36. at every table i'll save you a seat by sibylsleaves (@thirdwheelravi) (10.1k, Teen)
Warnings: none
5 times other people tell Buck he's in love with Eddie, and one time he tells Eddie
Reccer says: The obliviousness in this is chef's kiss!!
37. however i can have you by Anonymous (27.2k, Explicit)
Warnings: Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings
It's really good sex. Buck might be addicted. He does wish things were a little different—but alas, the tricky circumstances of having sex with your straight best friend to cure the unexplained appearance of a vagina.
Or, Buck finds himself in possession of a vagina. Eddie, because he's such a good friend, volunteers to help Buck--first to relax, and then to get his dick back. Because he is so nice, and a good friend, and straight!
Reccer says: One of the best Buckussy fics out there! I love friends with benefits, I love freak4freak, and I love sex as a premise for getting together. This is set pre-Texas, Buck POV.
38. cohabitating by waterlanding (@exhausteddiaz) (14.6k, Explicit)
Warnings: Proxy Sex
During Roommates Era, Buddie gets together in the most unhinged and psychosexual way possible (and it involves a modern version of the old socks on the door system)
Reccer says: It's hysterical and unhinged and everything I love about a Buddie getting together
39. I'll Pyroclastic Your Flow by ZinnyDark (@zinnydark) (5.6k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Buddie drunkenly play the floor is lava in Buck's new house and end up kissing about it
Reccer says: It's absolutely hysterical
40. stitch my soul by r_holland (@onward-upward) (30k, Mature)
Warnings: none
"Eddie Diaz has never really put much stock into the concept of "fate". But after his marriage falls apart, he swears that he's not going to go against the universe again. He's going to find his soulmate. He's going to find Evan.
But then he meets Buck, and all of his careful plans start coming apart at the seams."
Reccer says: This is an unconventional soulmates fic that really lets the two of them fall in love with each other without the universe's interference.
41. nobody knows you, baby, the way i do by allyasavedtheday (@littlespoonevan) (3,7k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Buck and Eddie bet Hen and Chimney that they know each other better than they do and a rivalry ensues. Featuring one-upmanship, codependency, Ravi as reluctant quizmaster and Eddie believing his will is the ultimate trump card.
Reccer says: Hilarious and cute!
42. failing up by derryfacts2 (@winchysteria) (10.7k, Teen)
Warnings: none
Eddie casually tells Buck he's in love with him to prove to him that he's lovable. They stay as best friends, but really, Buck's world got turned upside down. He breaks up with Tommy in secret and obsesses over the confession. They get together eventually, in the most roundabout way possible (LOL)
Reccer says: Fantastic characterization, funny dialogue, cute interactions, and overall heartwrenching sweetness. I love it so much!! 💕
43. burn the straw house down by rarakiplin (@hoediaz) (40.2k, Mature)
Warnings: "content warnings for like, the buckley parents generally, a lot of time loop typical death mainly involving car accidents, and buck's passive suicidal tendencies"
Buck (and SPOILER ALERT: Eddie) get stuck in time loop where there are calls that hit too close to home, a pretend relationship between them for Buck's parents, far too many fights, and a car crash that resets everything. Buck has a breakdown and then, relatedly, a breakthrough (feelings realizations and finally becoming something more)
Reccer says: This tore my heart in two with cutting words AND THEN SOME, but gave it back whole with such tenderness that I can't help but cry in gratitude. Get prepared for angst and the inner turmoil of Buck and Eddie. It is all worth it in the end 💕
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Do you expect to be paid back if you pay for something for your friend while you’re hanging out? (I.E. a ride, a meal, a trinket.)
Yes, always
Yes, but only if it’s above a limit of money
No, never
I don’t buy things for my friends.
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I know it didn’t happen because Eddie didn’t leave that man alone for one second after moving to Texas but there’s a world where that U-Haul rain scene was Buck accepting that he was in love with Eddie and it was unrequited and deciding to move on, no matter how much it might have hurt. But since Eddie is just as crazygirl as Buck he probably got his man on FaceTime the first time he stopped for gas and never hung up. Meanwhile Buck is living in his house so Eddie has to be straight and a renter. So you see. Bucks torment nexus is never ending
imagining a mixture of both where buck watches eddie's car drive around the corner and he blinks the rain out of his eyes and touches his cheek that was pressed to eddie's shoulder and realizes that he's crying. oh. at least it's raining, so eddie couldn't tell. so he wouldn't have to worry about buck when he should be worrying about chris. and thinking about eddie going to chris another tear rolls down his face and another and eddie's leaving, maybe forever, so it doesn't matter now, does it? if buck knows or not. so buck knows. he lets himself know that he's in love with eddie.
so he waits until he can't hear eddie's car engine anymore because he's in love with eddie and he opens eddie's door with the spare key he's always had because he's in love with eddie and he walks into eddie's house because he's in love with eddie and he sits on eddie's couch because he's in love with eddie and buck is allowed to think that, now, because eddie has gone from the person buck can't risk losing to the person buck has already lost.
and around the time he thinks this, his phone starts ringing.
he thinks it's maddie for a second, because maddie knew when eddie was leaving and maddie is. well, maddie shouldn't be worried about him right now, given her own situation, but maddie will be maddie. and then he remembers that maddie wouldn't call because she can't speak right now and doesn't that just make everything worse. and buck pulls out his phone and the little picture on the screen isn't maddie, isn't bobby or hen or anyone else that he half-expects. it's worse. it's eddie. of course it's eddie.
it's eddie, who's facetiming, the absolute idiot.
buck scrubs an arm over his face and hopes that any red around the rims of his eyes can be attributed to rainwater. picks up eddie's call. "don't facetime and drive, are you insane?"
a huff that sounds like static, painfully familiar but terrible nonetheless, now that it's the only way to feel eddie's breath. "i know how to drive, buck," eddie says, like he's just picking up a conversation from the station. like nothing has changed at all.
"do you?" buck retorts, falling into their banter easily. he watches eddie on his phone screen, the pixelated blur of him, connection wonky because of the weather and distance.
eddie rolls his eyes. buck traces a rivulet of rainwater down the curve of his jaw (because he's in love with him). "oh, he's got jokes."
"did you forget something?" buck asks, looking at eddie (because he's in love with him). eddie glances at the phone screen, and buck smiles reflexively (because he's in love with him).
"no," eddie says, simply.
buck forces a smirk onto his face, a lightness into his voice. "miss me already, then?"
a pause. rain pattering down outside, through the phone. it's raining outside of eddie's car, and outside of buck's (eddie's) house, because they are still, in this moment, in the same state, the same world. buck holds onto the moment like a dying bird cupped in his palms, precious and temporary.
"yeah," eddie says. a long huff of air, a challenge in his voice. "maybe i do."
the screen is too small for buck to trace the exact shades of his skin but he knows that his cheeks are a little pink, his lips pursed in the way he does when he's annoyed about having an emotion. buck knows these things, about eddie (because he's in love with him, you see).
buck feels the air stutter out of him, tripping into eddie's living room, diffusing through the cracks of the walls, the door. he hopes that some particle of it will make its way to eddie's car, into his lungs. he hopes that he can sit inside eddie in some way. he thinks, suddenly, that even if it's not quite in the same way, that maybe eddie, this eddie, eddie who misses him five minutes into a thirteen hour drive, might want buck sharing the same spaces as him, too.
"oh," he says. eddie doesn't look at his phone screen, buck does. because buck is in love with eddie, and he wishes he hadn't allowed himself to know.
but he does, and he is, so with rainwater and nothing else on his face and a dying bird in his ribcage, he says: "i miss you already, too."
