Top 15 Buck x Tommy fics I’ve read (Nov-Dec 2025)
A Kinley Christmas Carol by IDontGoHereEither [T]
The universe has decided that Tommy and Buck need some help finding the right path for themselves and so it sends some help…in the form of a bunch of meddling ghosts. (A Christmas Carol AU)
A Soft Place to Land by Irollforinitiative [E]
After losing Bobby, after crying in that hallway as his life is forever changed, Buck desperately needs a soft place to land. Tommy is that soft place. Tommy takes Buck home after the events of Lab Rats and they navigate grief, healing, and figuring out their feelings and what they are as they find comfort in one another in more ways than one. Loosely follows the end of season 8, but also diverges regularly where it makes the story flow better with Tommy in it.
And What You Want Most by TheCarrot [M]
Tears sting Tommy’s eyes as smoke billows around him, clogging his throat and threatening to choke him out. ~~ 118dailydrabble — all drabbles are related and posted in order.
blue and gold by leashy_bebes [M]
Fluffebruary prompt fills following Buck and Tommy through 28 moments of their reconciled lives.
Buck and Tommy's Firsts by Irollforinitiative [E]
A collection of firsts in Buck and Tommy's relationship. Each one a moment that's special, a shared time to experience something for the first time together. Starting with their first meeting and moving to pre-Season 9 getting back together, it spans the whole time they're together and includes first time together, first fight, and first time they say "I love you." Cute little slice of life chapters and very fluffy. HEA guaranteed.
fire and ice (and all that comes between) by jamesandanthony [G]
"It's cold!" "Yeah, it is," a man replies, fondness and warmth in his tone as he laughs. "Told you you'd need your coat." As they near, Tommy looks up to see the most attractive man he's ever seen in his life coming towards him with a toddler in tow, a bright smile on his face that definitely doesn't make Tommy's breath catch in his throat, no sir. "Hi, we're here for the skating class?" the man says, still smiling. "We're a little early."
From Loaves to Love by emquin [G]
Set during 8x07, Eddie sends Tommy a picture of Buck's baked good filled fridge. Fix-it fic. - Tommy receives a picture of a fridge full of baked goods. Mostly, from what he can tell, loaves. The picture comes from Eddie without a caption. It takes a while for him to realize that the fridge is familiar because it belongs to Evan. Eddie texts him a few minutes later: Every time he thinks about calling you, he bakes something instead. Tommy has a little bit of a breakdown about that because maybe in his mind he'd thought that Evan would already be over it, over them. He'd been not hoping for it, but expecting it, even while he knew that he would probably have a few more cries about it and that any reminder of Evan was enough to make his heart hurt.
from the shallows to the deepest end by gaytommykinard [M]
Evan Buckley (an ally) signs up on Grindr looking for a fake boyfriend to take as his plus-one to his parents' wedding anniversary. Tommy Kinard (guy who should know better) agrees to be his date.
green salad by catfud_ohplease [T]
it's the first thanksgiving since bobby died. tommy and buck haven't spoken since the funeral. tommy decides to do something about it.
i'll make a wish on a star (and i'll wish i was home once again) by catfud_ohplease [M]
tommy and evan have big feelings after jee-yun picks the 1983 best of ernie cassette tape as her bathtime soundtrack when they're babysitting. they figure it out. pinkie promise. or: the best thing the buckley parents ever did was bring maddie's old boombox and tapes with them while visiting california.
Relative Value by RC_McLachlan [T]
With a single complaint, Jee-Yun spin kicks Buck's entire world off its axis. Breathless with stratospheric joy, he digs his trembling fingers into his knees like it's going to do anything to keep him grounded, and chokes out, "Who, Jee?" The look Jee turns on him is so confused that Buck isn't sure he was even using real words just then. It could've simply been a jumble of sounds falling from his mouth like aquarium gravel. "Uncle Tommy," Jee says, with the patient air of someone who forgot they were talking to an idiot.
The Only Adventure Left by RC_McLachlan [T]
His mother blinked slowly. "I never should have answered the phone." That didn't make sense, because their phone had been ringing off the hook all week and his mother was always the one to answer. "I knew it was going to be bad," she said softly, slowly, almost like she was talking in her sleep. "I had the most horrible feeling in my gut when the phone rang. I've felt it before—I knew what it was. I should've just let the answering machine take it. I never should have picked up." More than two decades later, when Buck's phone starts vibrating as he's ruining the lamination of another batch of would-be croissants, he understands what his mother had meant that day. Every atom in his body is straining toward the phone, but he can't unlock his hands from the death grip they have on the rolling pin in order to reach for it. Incoming call: T. Kinard
this regrettable game by somnum365 [E]
Eddie's discomfort feels more Catholic than like repressed queer desire, but Tommy doesn’t know him that well yet. He doesn’t know either of them that well yet, not really. All he knows is that Evan has been unaware of his blatant attraction to men for over thirty years and that Eddie has a weird enough relationship with sex to go red at even the mention of anal fingering. He knows that they’re absurdly close. And he knows with startling clarity that no one in their right mind would look at Evan and not want to keep him for themselves. Jealousy burns hot. Tommy clenches and unclenches his fist. Evan is a breath of clean mountain air after a lifetime spent in a series of smoky rooms. He’s not ready to let Evan go so easily. Not yet. Not when this is all so new. Not when Evan makes him feel like this. Or: Five times Tommy saw Eddie as competition, and one time he finally accepted there was no competition.
This Very Simple Phrase by RC_McLachlan [G]
Tommy's never looked forward to Christmas. That's finally changing this year. "What was your best Christmas ever?" Pressing his thumb to hold the crease as tightly as he can, Tommy glances up from the box he's wrapping—inside is something called a "Hatchimal Pufficorn," which can't possibly be actual words in the English language, and yet Jee-yun has talked about nothing else for the last couple of months—and says, "My what?" Evan watches him tape the edge down. His brows furrow. "I-Is Jee even going to be able to unwrap that?" "What do you mean?" "It's got, like, hospital corners. She's going to dislocate an arm trying to get that stupid thing out."
what are your intentions? by screamlet [E]
It's Tommy and Buck—the family they find and the family they make.
