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    "Yeah, Dad, the curse was so taken out of context!" Chris agrees enthusiastically with Buck and finally Eddie's laughter started to subside.

    "Oh, please tell me you did not get our kid to start believing in curses," Eddie spoke and Buck could hear both the incredulous stare and fond smile through the phone.

    "Well, of course curses are real," Buck started to defend.

    "Evan," Eddie chastised.

    "Look, all I'm saying is-"

    "Buck," Eddie chastised again and this time Buck felt a rosy blush blooming on his cheeks. The name caught him so off guard that he allowed enough silence for Eddie to speak again, "Chris, mijo?"

    Chris spoke up between his giggles, "Yeah, Dad?"

    "Please tell me you still know curses aren't real," Eddie almost seemed to be pleading.

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    When Buck becomes a probationary firefighter at the 118, he doesn't mean to keep his family a secret. It's just hard to talk about his husband and son when Eddie's deployed overseas. At least if he can't talk to the 118 about Eddie and Chris, he can still talk to Eddie and Chris about the 118.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    This time last year Eddie was preparing to support Chris through another winter solstice without his mom. Now, packless and unsure of the path ahead, every crisp breeze washes over him as an urgent reminder that he still has no plan for his and his pup’s winter shelter.

    The past few weeks in their current lodgings have been peaceful. So unnervingly peaceful that Eddie isn’t remotely surprised when the other shoe finally drops.

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    Or, Eddie leaves the Diaz pack in search of a better life for him and his son. In the woods somewhere, he finds exactly that.

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    31 May 2026

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    “How long have you two been together?” a voice asks next to him. Eddie startles at the low British tones, almost forgetting that he walked over to the bar with Henry.

    Eddie shakes his head and looks away, his cheeks flushing at the fact that he had been caught staring. “We’re not.”

    Henry looks down at Eddie, confused. “No?” He pauses for a moment, looks in Buck’s direction and then back to Eddie, reassessing. “But you’re in love with him?” he asks gently.

    Eddie thought about lying, but there is something about Henry that makes it almost easy to tell him the truth. Eddie also had a feeling that had he tried to lie, Henry wouldn’t believe him anyway.

    Eddie’s gaze finds its way back to Buck. Taking in his curls, the look on his face, the way he seems so relaxed and at peace. Buck hasn’t looked this happy in a long time. “How did you know,” is all Eddie responds.

    “Because you look at him the same way I used to look at Alex.”

    OR Eddie takes Buck along with him and Christopher to Austin, Texas for a Diaz Family Reunion™ at his uncle’s LBJ lake house, where Eddie’s cousin’s new fiancé, Henry, decides to play cupid for Buck and Eddie

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    09 May 2026

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    The voice had always been around, Eddie remembers it, like a stream of consciousness that babbled incoherently to the point where Eddie just tuned it out. 

    But then the voice started speaking directly to him. Conversing like he was a whole person standing right in front of him. Like he could see what was happening around Eddie.

    Eddie shook his head. No one was talking to him, and Eddie most certainly was not talking back.

    He wouldn’t talk to the boy in his head ever again. There was no boy in his head. 

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    06 May 2026

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    Evan Buckley is living out his childhood dream as the star hitter for the Philadelphia Phillies. He’s climbing the ranks, improving his stats with every single game – he’s unstoppable.

    That is, until the Los Angeles Angels get a new pitcher seemingly out of nowhere. Known for his strong arm and tricky curve balls, Eddie Diaz is one of the few pitchers in the nation who consistently makes Buck strike out, and its infuriating. Even from the sixty feet that separate them between the batter’s box and the pitcher’s mound, the weight of Diaz’s gaze is enough to make Buck’s blood boil.

    Because Buck doesn’t get nervous on game day, he never feels calmer than when he steps up to the plate with the bat in his hand – it’s where he belongs. But when he sees Eddie Diaz standing on that mound, his stomach flips and nerves spark across his skin.

    Because if there is one thing Buck knows for sure, it is that he hates Eddie Diaz.

    … Until he doesn’t.

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    01 May 2026