Empress_of_things
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His grandma and abuelo went to bed about an hour ago. Chris should be sleeping too, he’s got school in the morning. Instead he sits under the covers with his phone flashlight casting harsh shadows across his makeshift cave. The air is stuffy, it makes him sweat a bit. There’s a bag of letters open in front of him.
Chris frowns before pulling one out at random. He runs his fingers across the manila of the envelope, it smells old. The top is already ripped open and when he thumbs at it he finds a folded piece of paper tucked neatly inside.
He takes a sharp breath in, his heart is pounding now. He takes a peek out from the covers like he’s worried someone is watching him. Of course, nobody is there.
He pulls out the paper, unfolds it in his hands. Takes another deep breath before he reads:
December 7th, 2009
Eddie,
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Or, Chris finds a series of old letters written to his dad while he's with his grandparents in Texas. Things spiral from there. Eventually, Chris learns what it means to be at home.
OR, the Texas fic
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01 Jul 2025
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“So, what?” Eddie interrogates. “You’ve been watching my texts pile up while you swipe through Grindr, and then you get someone over here to mark you up and fuck you on my couch?”
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Eddie moves to El Paso. Buck takes his couch.
Things deteriorate from there.
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28 Jun 2025
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Buck punishes himself for having feelings for Eddie with going no-contact and rough hookups while Eddie drives himself progressively further up the wall over not having contact with Buck – the fic!!
Some good scenes of family and individual therapy with Eddie and Chris too -
all i want is christmas eve with you (but you don't want me) by star_bunny
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
18 Jan 2025
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Buck knows he’s being ridiculous, because Eddie isn’t dead, but it feels like he is, like he’s buried under thirty feet of suffocating mud and Buck’s clawing at the earth as though he could dig his own grave to spare Eddie his, like Eddie’s bleeding out beneath Buck’s hands from a bullet that should never have hit him, that should have hit someone who wouldn’t be missed and mourned, that should have hit Buck instead.
It’s ridiculous, because Eddie isn’t Buck’s to miss, not like this.
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With Eddie and Chris in El Paso, Buck faces spending Christmas alone, and he spirals.
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Daryl did not find it easy to adjust to Alexandria, the people here looked down on him, thought he was stupid.
His family were starting to feel the same way, seeing him as a burden rather than an asset. Everything was wrong here.
He had gotten used to being someone who knows how the world works. Someone people trusted, someone people wanted to be around.
That's who he was, outside these walls, out in his world.
But here, In Alexandria, in the old world, he wasn’t anything worth knowing.
AU - Where Deanna decided Daryl wouldn’t be a recruiter and he found himself living in the old world, something he was never good at to begin with.
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That Kid from Vault 101 by katrinajg
Fandom: Fallout (Video Games), Fallout 3, Fallout 4
02 Jun 2025
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That one weird AU where Deacon is really The Lone Wanderer, but doesn't want anyone to know.
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