#buddiemedium

Title: i'm here (i’m yours for the taking)

Author:  farfromthstars

Word count: 19,070

Rating: T

Summary: 

“Everyone!” Around forty heads turn, and Buck shifts on his feet uncomfortably at the attention. “This is my old friend Buck and his husband, Eddie.” “Uh,” Buck makes, turning to Eddie with wide eyes. Eddie's looking just as stunned. “Connor, I think you got–” He cuts himself off when Eddie wraps an arm around his waist.

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at the winter wedding of an old friend, buck and eddie pretend to be married to each other. the plan has no weaknesses, obviously, not even mistletoe or anyone’s secret feelings…

Review: Merry Christmas everyone! I thought a Christmas wedding fake dating story would fit well for today. What I really appreciated about the story is that while a lot of fake dating fics are a bit far-fetched and the reason for the fake dating isn’t always logical, this one was not one of them - Eddie has a good reason to pretend to be Buck’s husband. The getting together part of the story also did not happen too suddenly, which is another common problem with this trope. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this fanfic, and I think you will, too!

Title:  california wishing on these stars

Author:  hattalove

Word count:  21,386

Rating: T

Summary: 

She’s been a roadblock for the longest time, a hard stop that cut off so many of Eddie’s thoughts halfway.

What if—but Buck’s with Taylor.

He could’ve sworn—but Buck’s with Taylor.

Sometimes he wonders—but Buck’s with Taylor.

And now he isn’t.

in which 'tis the season, buck is single again, and eddie is being very brave about it.

Review:

Title: right on time

Author:  tuckergreeen

Word count:  21,999

Rating: T 

Summary: 

Eddie’s been back at work for about two weeks—his time after quitting had passed in a seemingly idyllic week of spending time with his son which got rudely interrupted by a full-scale mental breakdown that ended with tears and hugs and Buck lovingly bullying him into going to therapy again. Then therapy had brought even more tears and confusion and slowly ballooning financial concerns that culminated in Eddie undertaking the frankly painful process of reapplying to the LAFD and completing an equally painful remedial training course.

And everything was fine until—Eddie started having a problem.

(summer break, queer awakenings, and learning to let yourself be happy: a story in four acts)

Review: 

This is one of the many great post-5A stories from this fandom. I think the tags “Angst and Humor” and “idiots to lovers” describe this work perfectly. What I particularly loved was that the author uses very common tropes found in many Buddie fanfictions (they even list works they were inspired by), such as the great Eddie confiding in Hen about his sexuality trope - but then, @henwilsonmd completely turned around my expectations on how the story was going to go and created something completely unique and wonderful.