They keep sayin' that I ain't nothin' like my father
But I'm the furthest thing from choir boys and altars
If you cross me, I'm just like my father
I am colder than Titanic water
Help me, Lord, from these fantasies in my head
prompt: trans buck for @steadfastsaturnsrings đ„° đ
âBut y-you like men.â
âYes I do. Particularly the amazing and gorgeous man in front of me.â
Buck stumbles across his words, all flustered. âBut Eddie, Iâm notâ like I donât have a you know.â He glances down there.
âThat doesnât make you any less of a man, Buck."
or Buck tells Eddie that he's trans and things change between them, but for the better
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Buck, Eddie and Christopher are enjoying their dinner together in comfortable silence.
Christopher finishes his plate of spaghetti and meatballs first and now that heâs not eating, the silence feels weird so he speaks up.
âIâm not the only Christopher in my class anymore.â
Eddie hums. âOh new student?â
âNope. His name used to be Chloe but now itâs Christopher.â
Eddie and Buck look to each other in understanding.
âSo heâsâŠâ
âTrans. Yeah, itâs not a big deal, Dad. Now people just call me Chris and him Christopher.â
âHow did people react?â Buck asks curiously.
âEveryone was cool about it. Some people had questions though so Christopher answered them. Then Mr. Nolan told everyone that he will not tolerate any transphobia or homophobia but heâs happy to tell us more about it. And if we ever have to talk to him about it, we can.â
Buck blinks back tears thinking how happy he is that in school, kids can come out and people will be supportive or at least respectful enough that they wonât say anything negative. He thinks about how bad it would be if he came out in middle school. Heâs so glad Christopher has a teacher like Mr. Nolan.
He should probably tell Eddie that heâs trans. Itâs been over a year since theyâve been friends. He knows Eddie will be accepting and everything but itâs still difficult. He doesnât want anything to change between them.
âBuck?â Eddie and nudges his foot with his own under the table.
âYou okay?â he asks.
Buck quickly nods. âYeah no Iâm good.â
Eddie thankfully doesnât push and instead asks what movie they should watch tonight.
â
They watch Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse and Buck suggests they watch the second one next movie night which Christopher enthusiastically agrees to.
Christopher gets ready for bed reluctantly and Buck reads him a chapter of Percy Jackson. Eddie watches them with a sickening fond smile.
Once the chapterâs done, he and Eddie both hug Christopher and tell him âgood nightâ and Buck yearns for him to have this every night.
They walk into the living room and Buck plops onto the couch with a sigh.
Eddie sits down next to Buck and faces him.
âHey, you know that you can tell me anything, right?â he says earnestly with his stupidly pretty eyes looking him in the eye.
Buck breaks eye contact and nods. âYeah of course, uh thanks.â
Eddie doesnât reply as if heâs hoping Buck will say more.
âJust give me a moment.â he adds and to that Eddie hums and rests his hand on Buckâs thigh. Oh god. This isnât helping his nerves.
Buck takes a deep breath. âIâm trans.â
A second passes.
âThanks for telling me.â Eddie smiles, trying to act like he didnât know this but Buck sees past it.
âYou already knew. How?â
âI saw your testosterone gel thing in the bathroom once. I guess you forgot to put it away like you usually do,â Eddie answers softly.
âYouâre not mad I didnât tell you?â
âOf course not, Buck. You donât owe me anything regarding that.â
âWeâve been best friends for months.â
âYeah well did I come out to you as cis? No. Besides gender is fucking stupid. Am I even a man?â
Buck sighs. He supposes Eddie has a valid point.
âUh, while weâre talking about more serious topics, I have something to tell you,â Eddie admits.
Buck doesnât have enough time to panic before Eddie calmly says âIâm in love with you.â
Is this a fucking dream? Buck doesnât know what to say. âI- What do you mean?â
Eddie continues, âYeah that was one of the factors in the whole me discovering my sexuality process. Hen called me out so many times about my gay panic for you.â
âBut y-you like men.â
âYes I do. Particularly the amazing and gorgeous man in front of me.â
Buck stumbles across his words, all flustered. âBut Eddie, Iâm notâ like I donât have a you know.â He glances down there.
âThat doesnât make you any less of a man, Buck. I know how I feel about you. I love you beyond your body but I mean, I really love your body and I hope I can make you feel safe and comfortable with it.â
Yeah this is a fucking dream come true.
Eddie lifts up the bottom of his shirt. âCan IâŠâ
Buck has no idea what heâs about to do but heâll let Eddie do anything to him. That probably should be concerning but he doesnât care.
âYeah,â he says with a shaky breath.
Eddie gently takes Buckâs shirt (which actually belonged to Eddie originally) and looks at him with such adoration, it makes Buck want to cry.
He lowers his head and brings his lips to Buckâs top surgery scars. He softly kisses along the two lines, whispering âI love youâ after each kiss.
Now Buck is crying. He is just so overwhelmed with loveâboth his love for Eddie and feeling so loved by Eddie. He manages to say, âI love youâ back before the tears make unable to speak coherently
Of course Eddie understands and doesnât tell him âNo itâs okay donât cry,â instead he embraces him into a hug that makes Buck feel all warm and fuzzy â like all hugs from Eddie do.
They stay there, holding each other and Buck realizes things have changed between them but in the best way possible.
Summary: On a rare, starry summer night, Buck and Eddie discuss what ifs and make decisions about their future.
âDo you,â Buck says very quietly, so quiet Eddie probably wouldnât even be able to hear it were they not inches away from being pressed together. Itâs too hot out to be pressed together. Too sweaty, soggy, smelly, and their skin would chafe and stick together and probably hurt.
Eddieâs not sure he would care though.
âDo you ever think about,â Buck continues, his question also sticky and meandering and not meant to come out in anything but the secluded darkness of midsummer. âAbout you and me?â
Eddie swallows hard and doesnât move. He breathes but thereâs no air, no movement. He knows the question. He knows what Buck is asking. He doesnât stop searching for the stars and all the shapes and figures drawn in connecting lines between them.
There are no lines for real. Itâs all made up by people who have brilliant creative imaginations. People like Chris and Buck and Shannon. Theyâre the kind of people who see the lines, the animals, the heroes, the stories, and invent constellations.
Eddie just sees starlight. Raw, unconnected, faraway stars that were lost a long time ago. âWhat about you and me?â
Buck breathes slowly, soft inhale and exhale that sounds so loud, and why is it the only sound Eddie can hear? The city is hardly quiet even at this time of night. Itâs not that late. But itâs still only the wafting air in and out of Buckâs lungs. The only sound that reaches him. âEddie. You and me. Dating. Being together. Seeing if it works, if it fits. Do you ever think about it?â
Does the ocean think of tides? Does the forest think of collecting rain and sun? Does the fire know what it consumes? Do the stars know theyâre dying, theyâre phantoms, theyâre already dead?
Something was left in a graveyard and it wasnât a body. It wasnât a person. Maybe it was a life though. A life together.
How could he ever believe things left in a graveyard could still be alive?
Buck didnât even know. Buck never knew. They never got that far. Death and lightning have a way of shocking the system. But everything grows quiet afterward and locked back up once danger has passed. Eddie never said anything. Eddie cut out his thoughts, his feelings, and forced himself to move on and forget. Even though nothing could ever compare. Nothing else could ever fit.
Eddie canât move, canât look at him, but he wets his lips and asks, âDo you?â
So last Monday, I posted this little thing. Of course I took the week and went and wrote the rest of said thing. It's complete and all posted now!
Itâs just after midnight and Buck is going to bed. Heâs been saying this for a couple hours but YouTube had too many Am I the A-Hole videos and Instagram had those gorgeously, if deceptively edited food recipe posts and he doesnât even want to talk about the doomscrolling of TikTok.
His phone goes off with a call five seconds after he lies down. A number he doesnât know. So he could ignore it. Or wait until theyâve left a message. But who would call at this hour for no reason? Or for scamming, telemarketing reasons? Long story short, he answers.
âBuckley?â The man on the other end says. He sounds vaguely familiar but not enough that Buck came put a name or face with a voice.
âUh, yeah? Who is this?â
âMehta. Captain Mehta. Of the 133.â
âOh, hey,â Buck says, automatically friendly and smiling. That makes sense now. âWhatâs up? Why theâ why are you calling?â Why would he call in the middle of the night?
Why does anyone call in the middle of the night.
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A helicopter crash leaves the love of Buck's life dying in a hospital, leading him to evaluate the life he has, the life he wants, and where his heart belongs.
A few weeks after the wedding Bobby finds Eddie sitting alone at the kitchen counter when he should be sleeping downstairs alongside his team. He considers leaving him to his thoughts but thereâs something about the quietness of the station at this time of night and the dim lighting that always seems to help difficult conversations so he keeps moving, making enough noise to be noticed and as he passes on his way to the refrigerator they exchange a silent nod, acknowledging each other in the semi darkness.
Before opening the fridge Bobby glances towards Eddie, he doesnât notice because heâs too focused on his coffee cup. Eddie looks a little tired, a little sad and a lot lonely. The manâs been looking like that a lot recently especially when he thinks Buck isnât looking.
Fridge handle in his hand Bobby suppresses a sigh as he considers his options. Which juice to choose and what to say to Eddie.
Bobby sees so much of himself in the young man sitting there, slowly rotating a coffee mug in his hands and heâs worried about him.
Eddie acts like heâs ok, but that's been the case with the man before and nothing can convince Bobby that Eddie isnât going through something big, something set off at a wedding or maybe just before that, something he hasnât come to terms with yet.
Having made his choice Bobby returns the cartoon to the shelf and turns, sipping his juice casually. He approaches the topic he wants to address with caution.
âSoooo how you doing, with um âŠâŠ.everything?â
some more trans!buck royalty fic... hoping to actually write it and finish it
tagged by @elvensorceress @bibuckbuckley thank you loves
He gulps, goes to remove his underwear and then pulls it back up. The Prince walks in, the candles lighting up his face. Buck was entirely too nervous at the altar to fully take in how handsome the man is, but here and now, thereâs not much else to occupy his mind with.Â
Buck smiles, tilts his head towards the sheets, and says, âWonât you join me?âÂ
âItâs been quite a long day,â Prince Eddie sighs and clears his throat. He adjusts the collar of his shirt, pulling at it as if it were too tight.Â
âWe should both get some sleep. Goodnight, Princess Evangeline.âÂ
âGoodnight, my prince.âÂ
He then leaves the room, Buck alone on a gigantic bed, wondering what his next move is. Following him after that curt but very polite rejection is one idea. Buck hadnât read anything in the books like that. Eddie was meant to grab his hips, to moan above him, to push his cock into his core until he reached completion. Staying here is the other idea that seems the smartest. A woman with her own mind is dangerous, he remembers. Buck turns his face into the goose feather pillow and prays sleep will take him swiftly.Â
âIâm trying.â Eddie gasps out, the fabric growing damp under his face, he tries to make himself smaller, âIâm trying so hard, Buck.â
I came across the song I'm trying by Alexander Stewart earlier, and it made me nearly burst into tears. I've never had a song capture how I feel so well. I decided to write this story to help me process the emotions instead.
Sending you a hug if you resonate with it as well, or the story.
9-1-1 on ABC | Buddie | 2.1k words | s7 spec, prev bucktommy, getting together, love confessions, love is stored in the kitchen
Eddie wakes up to a surprise visit from Buck and they finally talk about forever.
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Eddie wakes up to the sound of pans clanging in the kitchen and the smell of pancake batter and hot butter. Neither of these things is cause for alarm nor out of the ordinary but he is ninety-eight percent certain he went to sleep in an empty house.Â
He rolls out of bed, shrugging on a sweatshirt and grabbing a pair of soft socks out of his drawer on the way past and to no surprise finds Buck in the kitchen.
âHey! Eddie,â Buck smiles brightly at him as Eddie cautiously perches himself on a kitchen stool. âGood morning.â
Buck is bathed in sunlight from the kitchen window behind him, a halo of gold filtering through his soft curls, gel-free and touseled on the top of Buckâs head in a way that Eddie wishes he would let them be more often. âMorning, Buck. Youâre here early.â
Buck bustles around the kitchen, pulling milk out of the fridge and grabbing a mug from the top cupboard, his body moving around Eddieâs kitchen as if it has been programmed with an innate sense of where to find anything and everything. He could be convinced that Buck knows his way around Eddieâs kitchen better than Eddie does. âYeah, yeah, I know. Iâm sorry. Itâs justâitâs been a while, yeah? And I feel like I havenât seen Chris in agesâI miss the kidâand I figured he was probably, if not missing me, at least missing my pancakes. I hope he hasnât been letting you make them.â
Buck pours coffee from the pot into the mug, tops it off with the precise amount of milk that Eddie prefers, and sets it in front of Eddie before turning to the frying pan and flipping the pancake. âI know youâve been improving in the cooking departmentâI can see it, Eddie, and Iâm proud of you,â Eddieâs heart squeezes in his chest. âBut pancakes are my department.â
âI wouldnât want to steal your thunder.â Eddie quips and Buck whips around to wave the spatula at him.
âExactly!â
âBuck,â Eddie presses carefully because thereâs a frantic energy fizzing beneath Buckâs skin, he can see it in the way he moves, the line of his shoulders, and the exaggerated way he swings his arms. âChristopher isnât here. Heâs on school camp until Friday.â
âOh, right, I knew that.â Buckâs whole body joints to a stop like a record skipping on a turntable and then just as soon heâs back in motion again. âThatâs okay! I brought lemon juice for on your pancakes, we can save the bacon for the weekend when he gets back.â
Eddieâs heart grows three sizes in his chest, threatening to burst out all over his kitchen and cover Buck and the bench top in a flood of emotions heâs spent the last month and a half trying to fold smaller and smaller until he can safely tuck them away beneath his ribs where it canât hurt anyone but himself.Â
âBuck?â The other man glances at him before turning back to the stove, giving a soft hum in response. âAre you okay?â
âYeah. Yeah, why wouldnât I be?â Buck grins at him again but it doesnât reach his eyes this time.Â
âYouâre buzzing, and not the good kind.â Eddie stands and rounds the counter, he leans against the other side while still giving Buck as much space as he needs. He presses again, softer this time. âBuck? Whatâs going on?â
Buck deflates and turns the stove off, removing the pan from the element and leaning against the other counter opposite Eddie. âTommy and I broke up. I broke up with him, or we broke up with each other, I guess.âÂ
Eddie isnât sure what to say. As far as he knew Buck and Tommyâs relationship had been going smoothly. They were a good fit, even Eddie could tell, as much as it sometimes pained him to admit. But he was happy for them. Seeing them dance together at Maddie and Chimneyâs wedding had filled Eddie with a sense of pride even when it also left him feeling like he was walking with a permanent rock in his shoeâa phenomenon he could finally put a name to after a few long talks with Frank and an enlightening if not nervewracking night at a bar called the Peacock that Hen had suggested he visit for âresearch purposesâ.Â
âI thought you really liked Tommy?â Is what he finally manages to say once he unsticks his tongue from the roof of his mouth.
âI do,â Buck says. His arms are still full of static as he gestures with his hands in that way that Buck does when heâs nervous or overwhelmed and heâs not looking Eddie in the eyes. Buck shakes his head. âI did. I did, and Tommy is wonderful but I think we both realized that it wasnât going to last. He got offered a job, down in Mexico.â Buck pushes away from the bench, pulls two plates out of the drawer, and starts dividing the stack of pancakes between them.
âAfter the whole fiasco with the cruise ship, the LAFD decided they wanted someone on the ground down there as a sort of link between the Los Angeles rescue helicopters and the team down in Mexico City. Theyâre going to put him in charge of his own team and heâs been working towards some sort of promotion for ages so heâs really excited about it.â
âHe didnât ask you to go with him did he?â Eddie canât help but let the question burst out of him. The thought of Buck leaving already feels like tearing out a lung but he also knows heâs in no position to ask Buck to stay, certainly not for Eddieâs sake.Â
âHe did, sort of.â Buck shrugs. âI think he already knew I wouldnât say yes. L.A. is my home, I couldnât leave the 118, I couldnât leave Maddie and Jee-yun. Christopher, the thought of being anywhere that kid isnât is justâand I know heâs notâbut I still couldnât. I wonât. Tommy knows that. He also knew that I wouldnât leave you.â
âMe?â Now Eddie has to swallow down a lump of surprise. Eddie doesn't think that little of himself, he knows heâs important to Buck, they are important to each other, but important enough to be the reason Buck stays in Los Angeles while his boyfriend moves to another country?
Buck turns to place two plates, carefully stacked with fluffy, golden pancakes, each drizzled in lemon juice and sprinkled with sugarâEddieâs favoriteâon the kitchen island, and then heâs facing Eddie again only feet away in all his early morning glory and Eddie dares to hope.
âYou.â Buck rests one hip against the counter and turns the full power of those bright blue eyes on Eddie as he finally makes eye contact for the first time all morning. âYes, you, Eddie. Tommy is lovely and sweet and he has been so, so good to me for the last two months, weâve been good for each other, I think.â
Eddie breaks the eye contact, heâs heard all about how wonderful and lovely Tommy is for the last two months and while he has been so happy for Buck, truly, it has also been agony. But then Buck is stepping up into Eddieâs space and gripping his elbow. Buck ducks his head until he can catch Eddieâs eyes again and follows his gaze until Eddie gives up on trying to hide from him.Â
âBut it was never going to work long-term, I donât think it was ever meant to. Heâs very sweet and we get along well but it never got any deeper than that. We made better friends than anything else.â
âOkay, so you ended it on mutual terms and heâs moving to Mexico?â
âNot for a few months but eventually he is yes.â
âA few months?â
âNext February.â
âFebruary? Next year? Buck that ages away, why break up now if heâs not leaving untilâ.â
âBecause it was time.â
âTime for what?â
âTo stop lying to myself, to you.â
Eddie almost bites his tongue. âLying to me? Buck, I am so confused right now. Did you hit your head? You do remember coming out to me right? Youâve been dating a man for the last two months. You brought a man to your sisterâs wedding. Honestly, I am still living off of the high that I got from seeing your motherâs face when you kissed Tommy on the dance floor, that wasâ.â
âEddie!â Buck laughs around his name and itâs the sweetest sound Eddie has ever heard. âWould you let me finish talking? Please?â
Eddie nods. âRight, yes. Sorry. Proceed.â He swings his arm out dramatically and Buck pinches the skin on the back of Eddieâs arm and rolls his eyes.Â
âEddie,â Thereâs a seriousness to Buckâs tone that Eddie doesnât hear often. âI donât want to presume anything okay, so if Iâve been reading this wrong then please tell me because I donât want to make this weird, the last thing I want to do is hurt you or make you uncomfortable butâ.â Eddie watches the tick in Buck's jaw tighten. âThereâs something here, right? You and me?â
âDo you think there is?â Eddie whispers into the space between them, barely getting the words out past where his heart sits in his throat.Â
âI dare to hope there is,â Buck whispers back. âI would like there to be. Eddie, youâre my best friend, youâve been my rock for years and I love you more than anything but I alsoâI also think I might be in love with you, and I think I have been for a long time.â
âYou think?â
âLike pretty God damn certain actually.âÂ
âGood, good.â Eddie nods, barely keeping the grin from breaking across his face. He can feel his lips twitching with the effort to suppress it. âThatâs good.â
âYeah?â
âYeah.â He steps into Buckâs space and leans forward until he can press their foreheads together. Buckâs arm slides from Eddieâs elbow to around his waist and Eddie rests his palm against Buckâs chest, sliding it up until he can wrap his fingers over the swell of Buckâs shoulder and press his thumb into that divet in Buckâs throat where Eddie can feel the heat of him and the pulse of his heartbeat beneath the pad of his thumb. âBecause I am definitely in love with you.â
âYou never said anything.â
âI didnât know and then I did but you were with Tommy and you were happy. I was happy for you.â
Buck breathes deeply and Eddie reveals in the way it rushes past his cheek. âWhat about you?â
âIâm happy now,â Eddie says and itâs true, and realizing that only multiples the happiness tenfold. âIâm so happy I could burst.â
âHappy that I got dumped again?â
âYou didnât get dumped, you said it was mutual.â Eddie squeezes his shoulder. âBut yes, happy that you might finally be mine, that I might finally get to be yours.â
Buck leans back and when Eddie opens his eyes he finds Buckâs eyes glassy and brimming with tears.
âThatâs all Iâve ever wanted,â Buck says and Eddie pulls him into his arms until they are chest to chest, chins hooked over each otherâs shoulders and wrapped up in each other so completely that Eddie could not tell you where one of them ends and the other begins and it feels so right, so right to have Buck so close to him, for them to be one and the same. They breathe together for a long time, squeezing each other closer whenever the micro fraction of an inch between them begins to field like football fields of distance.
âWe take this slow, we do it right,â Eddie says carefully, pulling back just far enough to cup his hand around Buckâs cheek and hold his gaze. A niggly part of his brain tries to remind him of everything that could go wrong, of everything they have to lose, but a bigger part of him can only hope for everything that could go so beautifully right.Â
âWe have the rest of forever, after all.â Buckâs smile is soft at the edges and it smoothes the jagged parts of Eddieâs worry.Â
Eddie leans up and presses one gentle kiss to the corner of Buckâs mouth, allowing himself that much for now. The rest will come, he is in no rush for the rest of his life. On Friday Christopher will be home and they can make pancakes again. At the end of the month, Buckâs lease will expire and Eddie will finally have an excuse to never let Buck leave his house again. In February they will wave Tommy off at the airport and Eddie will get the chance to thank him properly. Soon enough they might get to dance at another wedding, maybe their own, definitely together, for the rest of forever.Â