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“Buck…” she starts. Then she looks at the dish towel still in her hand, folds it twice in half and carefully lays it on the kitchen island. It’s how she always moves. Not like he’s a wild animal she doesn’t want to scare off, but as if he came in a box labeled Handle With Care.
For a while he’d convinced himself he’d grown enough to stop inspiring that particular instinct in her. And if it were anyone else, Buck would probably be offended. He isn’t fragile.
Except Maddie doesn’t need him to prove anything, she just cares because that’s the kind of person she is. Good-hearted and compassionate.
It makes it a little bit easier to accept that he’s probably always going to need her in some way or another.
Sometimes he just wishes she wouldn’t always sniff out all the things he doesn’t want to talk about like a bloodhound. It’s much more admirable when she does it to Jee and Chim, as far as he’s concerned.
He clears his suddenly dry throat and waits for her to continue.
“You know I can hear you on the baby monitor, right?”
Or: Maddie gives Buck a much needed push to start talking to people again. Preferably people who aren’t her baby. He starts with Eddie.
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Meet Me Halfway by magicmelinoe
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
03 Mar 2025
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As it turns out, distance doesn’t always make the heart grow fonder.
But this. This is worse than realizing he hasn’t missed English food.
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Henry likes spicy food. If only he didn’t come to this conclusion at the worst possible time - much to Alex's entertainment.
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How Do You Say I Love You by magicmelinoe for Luminous_Bluebell
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
05 Nov 2024
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As the school librarian, Henry has the wonderful task of picking out a book for story time every day. Kindergarten teacher Alex is sure the books are sending him a message. Or is he just making it all up?
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Feel the Engine Purr by magicmelinoe
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
21 Jul 2024
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His thoughts wander to open Texas highways, the sun burning down on him, the feeling of the gas pedal beneath his foot as he flies, flies, flies faster across the asphalt than strictly allowed. Faster than his thoughts can catch up. He gets it. He just doesn’t imagine a joyride through traffic packed New York City to be quite comparable. But if Henry wants to drive, Alex will find a way.
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When they move to New York together, Alex finds out Henry has an unforeseen hobby.
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Lead the Way by magicmelinoe
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
04 Jul 2024
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No matter whose fault the cake incident was – Henry’s, he’ll die on that hill – it happened and he promised to fix it. So here he is, thousands of miles from home and sleepless.
He tries to call Nora again but it goes to voicemail. With a sigh, Alex throws the phone on the bed and makes his way over to the kitchen. Like a guest of the royal family has ever cooked.
Tap, tap, tap goes his foot against the wooden floor. The cold seeps in even through his socks and if that isn’t a metaphor for this whole godforsaken palace, Alex doesn’t know what is.
He needs a walk. Get this energy out.
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Or Alex wanders off where he isn’t supposed to and ends up overhearing a surprising conversation.
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And I'll Be Damned If I Can't Slow Dance With You by magicmelinoe
Fandom Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
03 Mar 2025
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"Can I try something?"
"Yeah, sure, g-go ahead, man." Buck cringes, and even that is adorable.
"Close your eyes."
"E-Eddie," Buck croaks helplessly.
"I'm not gonna bite, Buckley. Trust me?"
Buck closes his eyes. Squeezes them shut, really.
Eddie tugs his face into the curve of Buck's shoulder before he can lose the nerve, Buck's pulse fluttering wildly against the tip of Eddie's nose.
Buck is struggling after the events in New Mexico. Eddie decides to move in with him about it.
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05 Apr 2026
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“Eddie,” Maddie says. “I know our kids are different ages, and our situations are different, but — it kind of sounds like you need something else besides your kid and work, too.”
Well, I used to have a best friend, Eddie thinks, then pushes the thought away. “I … I have other things. But Chris and the job are definitely the most central right now.”
"You know, you can’t put yourself last all the time, Eddie.” She laughs a little. “Straight from my therapist’s mouth to your ears! Ooh — you know what? I’ve got a great idea.”
“Oh?”
“You should come to book club. It’s something I do with my parent friends. We take turns hosting, and it’s my turn!”
Sometimes the best part about reading is getting to learn more about yourself.
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08 Jan 2026
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When Buck, a Paralympic sprinter, agrees to go on Dancing With the Stars, he wonders if he's just made the worst decision of his life. But his love life is dead, his social life even more dead, and he doesn't know what to do with his life in the aftermath of the Paralympics, so why not jump headfirst into this opportunity?
Eddie has been a professional dancer on the show for years, but after a recent divorce and a disappointing showmance, he's fallen out of love with his job, with dancing, with himself. He has no hope for the next season, until he meets one Buck Buckley.
The pair feel an instant connection, but will it be enough to see them through the trials and tribulations of the next eleven weeks?
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A Buddie Dancing With the Stars AU
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05 Dec 2025
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Before Eddie can think of any more excuses, Buck bursts back through the surface of the water with Eddie’s body in his arms.
Eddie looks down at himself, still kneeling on the dock, and then at what is unmistakably also him in the water. Buck sucks in a great gasp of air, but the Eddie in the water doesn’t. His head slumps limp onto Buck’s shoulder, and the puzzle pieces of the last few minutes suddenly fall into place.
Finding himself back on the dock with no memory of how he got there. Buck unable to see or hear him. Eddie’s hand passing right through him.
Oh. He didn’t make it out of the water. He drowned.
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After an injury on a call, Eddie finds himself something he never expected to be...
A ghost.
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20 Nov 2025
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Buck’s hair is gray at the temples, buzzed neatly on the sides and a bit longer and curlier on top than Chris remembers him wearing it, and there’s a new scar through one of his eyebrows. He looks good, like he’s living a happy life, and the only possible reason Chris can imagine for Buck to be here at Helena Diaz’s funeral in El Paso is that Chris’s father brought him.
“Why would you come?” Chris snaps at him.
Buck blinks. “Why wouldn’t I come?”
“She didn’t mean anything to you.”
“I’m not here for her,” Buck scoffs. “She is dead. I’m here for him.”
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Chris is forced to grapple with the choice he made eleven years ago when his father comes back for Helena’s funeral.
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14 Sep 2025