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It's cold, where they buried them. It's something Hen's always silently complained about. Whether it's night or day, summer or fall; when Hen visits Green Hill Cemetery, she pulls a jacket tightly around herself, and she still always feels—cold.
On the hottest day of the summer, Hen stands at the space between Eddie and Buck's graves, and she is freezing. The jacket does nothing to help, but if she's being honest with herself, she didn't expect it to.
It didn't help when it was only Buck's grave that she was visiting, and it doesn't help now that she has to buy two bouquets and clean two headstones and grieve two brothers.
(Or, eventually, everyone has to move on.)
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- Part 11 of my bones decide my home
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Sequel to "With a Friend in the Dark.”
It's been weeks since Buck's cancer diagnosis, and in most ways, things are looking up. The idea of resuming chemo still frightens him, but not nearly as much as it did last time. This time, he has people on his side. But Buck is about to learn that treatment is just the first challenge. Money troubles, identity crises, learning what real love means for the first time at twenty-seven... who knew cancer would be so complicated?
Eddie, meanwhile, is still wrestling with his guilt and anger over how he handled things the first time. Being there for Buck? That's a given. Figuring out what it means to be Buck's friend through his cancer treatments, in the wake of all that's happened between them? That seems a lot trickier. Even more so when Eddie starts to realize that anger and guilt might not be the only feelings he's having.
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- Part 2 of Love is a Place
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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.Series
- Part 1 of Love is a Place
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Now he sits in the room, waiting for Dr. Lyra to come back. They did a CT scan for some reason. But Buck didn't think too much of it, thinking they just wanted to be cautious. But when she came back into the room, he could tell something was wrong.
"Hello again, Buck." Buck didn't let her finish, knowing she was just gonna best around the bush about it.
"What is it?"
"What do you mean?" Buck scoffs.
"I know that look. That's the look people get when they have to tell me yet another thing is wrong with me, so what is it?" Dr. Lyra sighs. She always hated giving news like this to patients.
"We did a CT scan as you know. And we found something that we originally thought was a blood clot in your brain." Buck nodded waiting for her to continue. He had a feeling he knew where this was going.
"I'm sorry Buck. We found cancerous tumors in the temporal and occipital lobe in your brain." Buck closes his eyes and turns away. In a way he feels like he's known for a while. But he never thought it was serious. It's like, you know when your brain tries to trick you into thinking you have cancer, or internal bleeding or something, but you never actually believe it.
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Post Lawsuit
Buck returns to work
On the outs with the 118
Buck learns he has a teenage daughterSeries
- Part 3 of All Based In The Lawsuit Era