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    “Buck?” Eddie said, knocking on the glass. No response.

    He tried the door. Locked.

    “Buck!” he called again, louder this time, panic rising.

    Still nothing.

    Eddie didn’t hesitate. He grabbed the nearest tool from his truck—didn’t think, didn’t care—and shattered the window with one hard strike. The glass fell away, and cold air rushed into the car.

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    Buck starts living in his car after being evicted.

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    23 Feb 2026

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    Hen stares at Buck for a long moment, then turns on her heel to walk upstairs. “Chim! Did you know that Peanut is a human child and not a small animal?”
    “Buck’s Peanut?” Chim calls back, leaning over the railing. “No? Is she not a dog?”
    “No!” Buck replies. “She’s a preschooler!”

     

    OR: At 22, Buck got one of his hookups pregnant and decided to keep the baby himself rather than let her be put up for adoption. At 26, he joined the 118. You know the rest, right?

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    22 Feb 2026

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    “Have you ever been told you’re a carrier?”

    Buck blinks, the words not processing right in his brain.

    He’s not. He knows he’s not.

    “No.” He says eventually. “No, i- i can’t be. I’m not.”

    “Buck-”

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    Or, Buck thinks Eddie made his choice, so when he finds out he's pregnant, he says nothing.

    #KnockBuckUp2025 day 4: Buck conceals his pregnancy from Eddie.

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    14 Feb 2026

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    He knows he could have called Maddie and she would have been there, though the memory of her disappointment last time stopped him. As for everyone else—even if he weren’t prohibited from talking to them by his lawyer, Buck doubts anyone would have come. The last time they talked was when they ran into each other in the grocery store a week back, and, since Buck is not eager for a repeat of that interaction, he doesn’t even consider calling anyone in to hold his hand for what is, he tells himself, probably just another little blip on his road back to the 118.

    He is able to convince himself of this up until the moment Dr. Gutierrez walks into his room and says, “Well, Evan, you just can’t seem to do anything the easy way, can you?”

    Because, as it turns out, there is a circumstance under which a tiny clot that doesn’t cause you to vomit blood in front of all of your friends and family is worse than three big ones that do: that circumstance is called ‘being on blood thinners.’
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    In the midst of the lawsuit, Buck is diagnosed with cancer. Dropping the lawsuit is easy. Finding forgiveness, less so.

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    14 Feb 2026

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    After the tsunami, Buck moves in with Eddie, determined to help Christopher through the nightmares that follow. Somewhere between midnight talks and quiet mornings, they cross the line from friendship to something else—but Buck learns too late that they’re not on the same page.

    One heated argument about what they are, combined with Buck’s discrimination complaint against the LAFD, shatters the fragile thing they’d built. Now they’re not speaking, and Buck’s left wondering if he’s lost Eddie for good.

    But when life-altering news drops into his lap, Buck is forced to decide—will he reach for Eddie, or let the distance between them become permanent?

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    14 Feb 2026