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    Eddie always thought his soulmark felt less like a promise and more like a countdown.

    Two lines, dark against his skin.

    He learns to hide them. Learns not to hope. Learns not to imagine the person those words might belong to.

    Then Buck says the first line in the middle of a storm, casual and smiling and impossibly alive, and Eddie’s whole world narrows to one terrible truth.

    Buck is his soulmate.

    or

    What if Eddie realized Buck is his soulmate when he got struck by lightning and is the one to bring him back.

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    04 Jul 2026

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    He completely pulls the charger from the wall as he fumbles to put in his passcode. He doesn’t know who to call first. Everyone is busy, carrying on with their lives and Buck is stuck here in the loft with the terrifying ghost of his childhood like an omen. Out of the corner of his eye he catches the Crooked Smiled Man now standing in the dark entrance way to his bathroom. He swallows around the taste of blood in his mouth, hands shaking, useless as his list of contacts blur beneath the burn of tears.

     

    Eddie Eddie Eddie

     

    He doesn’t know where the feeling comes from, but it’s sudden and sharp and excruciating. Eddie is the first name at the top of his list, his most recent calls and texts, and he doesn’t hesitate to hit the call button.

    [or buck can see ghosts au]

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    03 Jul 2026

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    ???
    Does this mean you will be alone for thanksgiving?

    Evan
    I’ll text my sister, but yeah, probably.
    And my roommates are going out of town and none of them have asked me
    so yeah
    probably.

    ???
    You’re in Los Angeles, then, yes?
    Well, you can have a plate at my table, Evan.
    No one should spend a holiday alone.

    Or: Buck texts Maddie to ask her her plans for thanksgiving, except he puts in the wrong area code and ends up texting a stranger.
    The stranger? Isabel Diaz. She firmly believes that it was fate that had him text her. So what does she do? Invite the stranger over for Thanksgiving, of course!

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    02 Jul 2026

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    “Sorry,” Eddie says suddenly, with a little frown between his eyebrows that makes Buck’s next breath come in a wheeze. “I didn’t even ask if you’re okay. Any anxiety? Shortness of breath, irregular heartbeat?”

    “Not—uh,” Buck coughs, trying so hard to say something normal, but against his best efforts, what comes out is: “Not because of the elevator.”

    Eddie’s eyebrows climb up his forehead.

    “I’m not claustrophobic, is what I mean,” Buck says, but the damage has been done. “Just, you know.”

    or the one in which buck stumbles on the rest of his life in a malfunctioning courthouse elevator.

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    01 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 52

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    Dear Eddie,

    You probably have a lot of questions. I’ll get to answering them later. But first, let me paint you a picture.

    Imagine a little child, growing up in the depths of suburban Pennsylvania. They have no real friends, only their older sister. They have plenty of toys that were once said sister’s, including a collection of Barbies.

    Among these Barbies is a singular Ken. The child pays special attention to him. While their parents are wondering why the child isn’t obsessed with changing the Barbies into a thousand and one dresses, they take a pink marker and draw a birthmark on the side of Ken’s left eye. They keep Ken hidden from everyone else and only bring him out when no one’s around, to look at him long and hard, mesmerized.

    If you haven’t guessed yet, I am that child.
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    OR Buck just wants to finally have an established partner in field at the 118. He doesn't expect the new hire to be the guy he'd dated back in college, before he dropped out and came out.

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    28 Jun 2026