mmbuddie
(Open, Unmoderated)
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
Suddenly Theo breaks from his pattern and runs towards the front door screeching with excitement.
"Where's he off to now?" Hen asks.
The knot in Buck's chest loosens. "He knows the sound of Eddie's keys."
"Teddy Teddy Teddy!!" Theo chants jumping up and down as the door unlocks.
"Little big man!" Eddie says as he steps in, immediately dropping the groceries so he can pick Theo up with a mighty raaah! "What have you been up to?"
He settles Theo on his hip as he kicks off his shoes, then leans down to pick up all three grocery bags with his remaining free hand. (Buck does not stare at the way his bicep strains under the soft white fabric of his Henley.)
"I saved a picken!!" Theo announces brightly.
Eddie raises a brow at Buck and Hen as he deposites the grocery bags on the counter.
"Don't ask," Buck grumbles.
"Please ask," Hen grins.
"I have it on video!" Chris calls through the open patio door.
or
Eddie keeps picking Theo up and Buck has a lot of feelings about that -
Tags
Summary
“She said she wasn’t worried about us breaking up.”
Oh. Well. That was pretty definitively a thing that people said about partners who were together romantically.
“Say something,” Buck instructed.
“What?”
“Anything,” Buck said, his voice wavering on the word. Which was—it was weird, right? Why was Buck so shaken by a throwaway comment?
Or maybe the better question was why wasn’t Eddie? If either of them was going to get freaked out by the assumption that he was dating a man, it would make more sense for it to be Eddie, who was straight, and not Buck, who had, in fact, already dated men.
“Aren’t you going to be late for your shift?”
-----
Buck and Eddie get shaken up by a comment from Theo’s social worker, and then by a magnitude 7 earthquake; it turns out, some disasters are better than others.
-
Tags
Summary
“What are you asking?”
“I think you already know,” Buck says, smugly.
Eddie stares at him. “I think you should assume I don’t.”
Huffing a laugh through his nose, eyes bright, Buck looks at Eddie with his bottom lip caught between his teeth. The moment drags on long enough to make Eddie’s stomach clench with something that feels dangerously like arousal.
“Okay, then. I’ll spell it out for you.” He leans in, just a fraction, close enough that Eddie can see the flecks of darker blue in his eyes. “I’m asking what you’re doing later.”
“Going home,” Eddie deadpans. “With my son. Who attends high school.”
“After that.”
“I don’t—” Eddie shakes his head, a laugh scraping out of him that sounds more panicked than amused. “How old are you? And don’t bullshit me.”
“How old do you think I am?”
Eddie scans his face, searching for any signs of maturity he can cling to. He could pass for mid-twenties.
Eddie needs him to be mid-twenties.
“Twenty-five,” Eddie says. Hopes. Prays, almost, and Eddie hasn’t prayed in years.
“Twenty-one.”
“Oh my god.”
Or,
Eddie gets more than he bargained for when touring colleges with Chris. -
Tags
Summary
“Theo? Can you tell me what’s wrong?”
“He didn’t come home.” He stutters his way through the sentence, like it’s the scariest thing he’s ever said. Like he’s forcing himself to say it but doesn’t understand why it’s so scary, just that it is. Josh frowns at the screen in response. Tentatively types, possibly abandoned.
Jesus. What the hell is wrong with people these days?
“Who didn’t come home, Theo? Your dad?”
Theo, 5. Child in distress. Possibly abandoned.
The radio crackles with acknowledgment as Theo exhales shakily. It’s wet, like he’s building up all the courage his little body has to offer. “My Buck.”
--
Or, Theo calls 9-1-1 because Buck doesn't come home after he gets hurt on a shift.
-
Tags
Summary
"Are you aware that the healthcare system is deeply broken?"
Buck's eyebrows knit in confusion, "I- I mean, yeah I guess?"
"Great, then stop trying to give them your money by bringing your kid to the hospital. Your insurance bill must be insane."
Buck flushes, "I have pretty good insurance."
Eddie rolls his eyes and scans the room, "And I have at least three people in this waiting room that are contagious."
A Nurse!Eddie AU