Shane invites Ilya to his lakeside cottage for two quiet weeks in the off-season. It's supposed to be uncomplicated. No teams, no press, no pretending. Instead, it turns into slow mornings, shared meals, negotiated control, and the kind of closeness that's a lot harder to walk away from than either of them expected.

The show was supposed to be a small Canadian production. Then TikTok happened. Now they're global icons, their every glance dissected by millions, and the "are they or aren't they" speculation is driving ratings through the roof. The network wants them to keep the mystery alive. The problem? There's no mystery. There's just two idiots who fell in love while pretending to fall in love, and can't figure out how to stop acting long enough to admit it's real.

Shane hollander × ilya rozanov A Forbidden love. A cruel war. Two souls holding onto each other in a world trying to tear them apart.

In the wake of fire and chaos, Buck and Eddie find something neither of them expected-each other. From long shifts at Station 118 to quiet breakfasts with Christopher, their bond deepens in the in-between moments. But love isn't always simple, especially when it's built in the ashes of trauma, loss, and second chances. This slow-burn romance traces the journey of two best friends navigating fatherhood, fire calls, and the blurred lines between brotherhood and something more. As they finally admit the truth buried under years of loyalty and longing, they begin to build a life filled with healing, laughter, and love-brick by brick, kiss by kiss. From shared glances at the firehouse to heartfelt vows under a canopy of wildflowers, this is a story of choosing love every single day-through fear, through fire, and forever.

"Highway to the danger zone, take it right into the danger zone." ~ "Danger Zone," Kenny Loggins In which Owen Strand gets the clearance for a new rig, brings his son along for the ride, and finds out said son adopted two siblings under his nose. AKA Owen suddenly has two dumbass sons and one daughter who has their single braincell. AKA the Austin 126 gets a new set of Three Musketeers when a firefighter from the Los Angeles 118 and a paramedic from the Chicago 51 join forces with the Austin 126's captain's son. Follows Season 2 of 9-1-1: Lone Star, Season 4 of 9-1-1, and Season 9 of Chicago Fire. First in The First Responders Files. Cover by DarkAngelGraphics

When Christopher asks to do "25 Days 'Til Christmas" this year, Buck says yes before he even knows what that means. Soon, there's a calendar on the fridge, glitter in the grout, hot cocoa permanently on the stove, and Eddie Diaz quietly realizing that somehow, somewhere between paper snowflakes and late-night movie marathons, Evan Buckley became his favorite holiday tradition. Twenty-five days. One house. A kid with a plan. Two idiots in love. By Christmas morning, something has to give.

After a bad fall on a call, Eddie Diaz wakes up in a hospital bed with a pounding headache, a foggy timeline... and one thing he's sure of: The man sitting at his side, fingers laced tight with his, is his husband. Evan Buckley knows that's not true. They're best friends, partners on and off the truck, tangled up in each other's lives but never quite brave enough to cross that last line. But when Eddie looks at him with raw, terrified eyes and whispers, "Buck?" like he's home, the correction dies on Buck's tongue. The doctors call it retrograde amnesia. Buck calls it a second chance he was never supposed to have. As Eddie pieces his life back together, his son, his job, the 118, he leans on the memories he thinks he has: late-night talks, shared vows, rings that never existed. Buck tries to hold the lie together without breaking under the weight of it, knowing every borrowed moment will hurt more when the truth finally comes out. Because Eddie may have forgotten everything else... but somehow, he never stopped loving Buck.

A stray dog's unexpected arrival brings Buck closer to Eddie and Christopher than ever before, and somewhere between shared walks, quiet nights, and unspoken glances, friendship turns into something that feels a lot like forever.

After surviving a lightning strike that stopped his heart, firefighter Evan "Buck" Buckley wakes to a strange new ability. He can hear the last thought of anyone he touches. But when a near-fatal rescue links him to Eddie Diaz's mind, Buck is haunted by the one thing louder than the thunder: Eddie's unspoken love for him.

After Bobby Nash's death, Buck inherits the tin of recipe cards that once kept the 118 fed and whole. Cooking his way through them becomes his grief therapy. Eddie keeps "forgetting" to leave before dinner, sometimes with Chris, other times without, and one meal at a time, they learn how to be a family.