do i look like i play bingo?

That's hot. Where was Buck to hear her say this. I wanted to see his face.

That's hot.

Chapters: 20/20 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV) Characters: Evan “Buck” Buckley, Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Christopher Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Theo (9-1-1 TV), Howie “Chimney” Han, Harry Grant (9-1-1 TV), Henrietta “Hen” Wilson, Ravi Panikkar, Maddie Buckley, Tommy Kinard, Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: Evan “Buck” Buckley is Christopher Diaz’s Parent, Parent Evan “Buck” Buckley, Christopher Diaz is a National Treasure, Soft Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Soft Evan “Buck” Buckley, The Buckley Siblings Have Bad Parents (9-1-1 TV), Gay Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Demisexual Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Sperm Donor Evan “Buck” Buckley, Eddie Diaz Gets Therapy (9-1-1 TV), Platonic Co-Parenting, Slow Burn, what’s slower than slow burn?, SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWW burn sorry, seriously this will take so goddamn long whoops, Post Season 9, tommy kinard jumpscare for the haters, Evan “Buck” Buckley Gets Therapy, everyone gets therapy, blatant disregard for how firefighting works, blatant disregard for how california building codes work, no beta we hit post then go oops and edit five thousand punctuation errors like IDJITS, Domestic Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Kid Fic Summary:

Eddie is working hard on figuring himself out, getting a life, and also reestablishing contact with Buck after worrying about them drifting apart and their friendship changing. Realizing that sometimes people misunderstand his relationship with Buck should not be the shock it is. Also, if Chris could stop launching verbal sneak attacks on him, he’d appreciate it.

Meanwhile, Buck’s learning to parent a toddler while not at all being insecure about something said by one Margaret Buckley. He’s just studiously avoiding the word ‘Parent’ like the plague, and otherwise doing his damn best.

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Feeling pressured into dating someone of the opposite gender to fulfil traditional family structures only to realise that he felt severe panic at the idea of a future with her and only ever thought the idea of them would work

His first relationship going south because he’d internalised all these ideas about what it meant to be a tough man

Directly linking his Catholic guilt to his inability to let himself feel joy and his unwillingness to have sex with a woman, respectively

Being constantly pressured into dating someone of the opposite gender despite being extremely unwilling to because it “feels like he has to perform”

Being a romantic rival in a relationship between two men