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Buck makes it safely to the other side where Ravi, the patient, and… and Eddie are waiting for him. Eddie’s not on a plane. He’s here. He’s so dizzy from the thought that he doesn’t realize Ravi and Eddie are talking until he hears his name.
“…Buck for pulling.”
“No, you’re here. This one was all you.”
Eddie smirks at him before his eyebrows crease and he frowns.
“Yeah well, I wasn’t going to find out one of you was hurt or dead from a phone call again. Plus… with Chris here, the 118, you.”
He’s looking right at Buck when he says, “Everything that matters is in LA.”
Eddie came back. Eddie’s staying. Eddie’s smiling at him and they share a fist bump, like they have a thousand times before. A way to say I’m here, we’re both okay.
There are people working all around him to get him off of the line, Ravi in the corner of his eye catching his breath, but it’s all a blur to Buck. All he can see is Eddie. He knows he’s staring. He can feel his face warming, his eyelashes fluttering. All he can hear is the thud, thud, thud of his heartbeat and faintly, Maddie’s voice saying “it wouldn’t be so crazy.”
Oh.
Oh no.