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If anyone asks, buck was not glaring. It doesn’t matter what ravi says. He was just…. observing.
Eddie and Hen had become good friends since becoming a paramedic duo. They had their own inside jokes, knew the others mood on instinct, they even had movie night. Movie Night. That was Buck and eddies best friend thing.
so maybe buck has been glaring
Right now the two of them are draped over each other, laughing over coffee. Eddie knows hens coffee order.
Buck remembers the times when he was included in that. The inside jokes and trust built over years. He longs more than anything to be the one with them.
He stares as eddies mouth as it quirks into a smile. it’s his little half smile that’s mostly a smirk, The one eddie always gets whenever buck is talking about whatever research spiral he found himself in. That smile was supposed to be Bucks smile.
Buck stares at Eddie and Hen and feels his heart flutter in his chest.
oh
oh shit
Bucks in love.
“Maddie we have a problem” Buck bursts into her house immediately after shift
“Hello Maddie, how was your day? It was great, thank you for asking. Your kindness knows no bounds baby brother.” maddie snarks
“Har har I’m serious. I was thinking-“
“oh no”
buck ignores her “Hen and eddie are really close. I’m watching them interact and talk and i just wish i was there with them”
“So do it. I don’t thing eddie would ever complain about more Buck time” maddie muses
“The last time i felt like this, it was with Tommy” Maddie’s leaning forward in her seat now, highly invested. “Now i think i feel the same way”
“You mean in love?” maddie teases
“Yes Mads. I-I think i’m in love with Hen”
“What?”
“And I feel so bad, because she’s gay, and literally married, so she would never feel the same way. I don’t understand why I feel like this. Is it rude? O-or disrespectful or something. How the hell did i manage to fall in love with hen. It’s even worse, and i’m such a shitty friend because this feelings like a million times what i felt with tommy. How the hell did i manage to fall deeper for her than my own boyfriend?”
As Buck finishes his rant, Maddie is staring at him, trying to recalibrate because this is not at all how she expected her night to go.
“Are you sure?” she decides to open with
“Am i- of course i’m sure. Each time i look at them, my heart just bursts out of its chest. It’s practically screaming at me to launch myself over to her”
Maddie sighs, “Are you sure it’s Hen those feelings are for? There’s not another paramedic that could be drawing your eye”
“Like who? Eddie?” buck guffaws
Maddie just responds with a pointed glare
“No. Nononono. Eddies straight”
“And hens a lesbian. You’re still claiming to have a crush on her”
“But- it’s eddie. c’mon he’s just my best friend”
“A best friend who makes your heart burst out of your chest”
“Thats ridiculous. You’re ridiculous. I’m leaving. Going off to my EMPTY house cause my BEST FRIEND is spending the day with my CRUSH” Buck storms off
“you should invite eddie. Pretty sure chim is with hen right now” maddie calls as the door swings closed.
man her brother is stupid.
Buck leaves the Han household with more problems than he came in.
He stews in his thoughts, mindlessly driving around LA. He’ll get home eventually, but for now he’s allowing himself to simmer.
He’s unsure how long he’s driving, but the rest of the world has faded away into a dull grey.
A knock on the car window jolts him back to reality. The source of that knock is the man who makes his chest soar. No hen in sight. Though the man’s presence at his car window was a mystery.
“You’ve been sitting there for a while. You coming in, or just looking? I’m sure the views prettier inside. There’s a cute kid there” The man calls
buck squints in confusion before realization washes through him
He’d driven to eddies house
Buck smiles at eddie through the window. not making a move.
“Could you hurry? It’s kinda cold out here. At least let me in.” Eddie smirks
Won’t be easy. I’m pretty cold
That jerks buck out of the rest of his stupor. Eddie cold? no can do. One of the rules of bucks life is to always make sure that Edmundo Diaz was always at the ideal temperature.
He rushes out the door and practically tackles eddie, covering all his bare skin with his own. Unfair for Eddie to use the cold card, as he is currently warmer than buck but that just increases Bucks drive to shuffle Eddie inside and wrap him in blankets
the man in question, just lets himself be escorted, providing nothing more than a quiet chuckle for his effort.
After Buck shoves a hot chocolate in his arms eddie just sighs contently
“I’ve missed this.”
“It’s fine. I get it. you and hen have been busy. takes some time to get used to working with someone new”
“hen and i have worked together for years” eddie chuckles
“not as partners” buck grumps.
“You do know that we are still partners. No matter how things are set up at work you always have me. And I always will have your back remember?”
Buck feels his heart thump. Once. Twice. Still no hen in sight.
Maybe maddie was onto something.
“What if you had more than my back?” buck blurts
“What do you mean?”
“What if you had my heart?”
Eddie just stares for a long moment, blush spreading across his cheeks
“I would treasure it. For as long as you let me” he whispers
“You can have it forever. This doesn’t change a thing between us. I just thought you should know”
“Like hell it doesn’t” eddie surges forward
And they’re kissing
like actually kissing
It feels great and amazing and like there’s not enough world in the world strong enough to describe what this feels like.
He could do it forever
“Ew gross!” A young voice exclaims