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Eddie was on the couch with a notebook in his lap, one arm draped around Buck’s shoulders while they half-watched some rom-com and half-planned their wedding guest list.
“Okay,” Eddie said, tapping his pen against the paper. “So I added the guys from my old unit. Plus Ana, because we’re adults now or whatever.”
Buck smirked. “Very mature of you.”
Eddie rolled his eyes playfully. “And I’m gonna go ahead and add Tommy.”
Buck choked on his sip of water.
“You’re gonna what now?”
Eddie glanced over, calm as anything. “Add Tommy. You know. To the invite list.”
Buck blinked. “Tommy Kinard? My ex-fiancé?”
“Yeah,” Eddie said, like it was no big deal. “Why not? I mean… he’s technically part of the past that got you to me. It feels appropriate. Symbolic. Poetic justice.”
Buck narrowed his eyes. “You just want to rub it in his face that you won.”
Eddie didn’t even try to deny it. “A little. Yeah.”
Buck set down his water. “Eddie.”
“What?” Eddie said, barely hiding the grin curling on his lips. “He taunted me for months. Kept telling me you’d always choose him. And now I get to stand at the altar and watch you walk toward me. Can’t I have that moment?”
Buck laughed. “You are going to have that moment. Without him standing in the background being all smug and ex-y.”
Eddie sighed dramatically. “Fine. But you’re ruining my revenge arc.”
“Good,” Buck said, nudging him with a smile. “You already got the guy. That’s the win.”
Eddie looked at him for a long beat, gaze softening. “Yeah. I did.”
Buck leaned in and kissed him, slow and warm. “Besides… I don’t want anything about that day to feel like the past. I want it to be ours. Fresh start. Clean slate. Just us and the people who got us here.”
Eddie ran a hand through Buck’s hair and nodded. “Okay. You’re right.”
“Wait, can you say that again?” Buck teased. “I want to record it.”
Eddie snorted. “Don’t push it.”
They crossed Tommy’s name off the list, and Buck curled into Eddie’s side, already feeling lighter.
There was nothing left to prove.
Eddie didn’t need to flaunt it.
He was the one Buck chose.
And he always would be.