2x08 “Buck, Actually” -> 7x10 “All Fall Down”

Let's face it... 🥵

So uh Eddie took Buck on a surprise date to a poker game where Buck showed off his math skills and Eddie looked one step away from proposing, they won premium cut steaks, Buck then made a steak dinner for Chris after baking with him for his school's bake sale. All of this was canon in an episode called Mixed Feelings which was about families where Buck's first step after discovering math powers was to sit with Eddie and Chris over Chris doing homework. This happened. In canon.

*Buck and Eddie during another Facetime call*

Buck: Hey, are you ok? Why are you crying?

Eddie: I'm fine Buck, this is clearly just an allergic reaction.

Buck: To what exactly?

Eddie: Life in Texas.

Eddie said "man, I do not know what I'm gonna do without you" and proceeded to Not Do Anything without his man. And I for one think we should respect that.

Incredibly funny that canonly jealous Eddie is passive aggressive and will most likely poison your food and a jealous Buck is aggressive and will more likely break your fucking bones 😭

She was all for disrupting his life when she went unannounced to LA to drag him down with her back to El Paso, wasn't she? But now she suddenly cares about it?

So you're really just disrupting his life right now? I'm not disrupting his life, Mom. I am his life. Because I'm his father. Not Dad. And you, you're not his mother. You're his grandmother. I'm really grateful that you were there for him when he needed you. But now he needs me.

Here is Eddie killing his parents kindly.😏

For the new prompt list - 103 or 152 please. Thank you!

Hello lovely :) Thank you for your kind comments all the time! How about we combine the two?

Eddie squints at the phone screen. It's too bright and it's too late but there's only two people who's texts come through at this hour: Chris and Buck.

Before Eddie even picked up the phone, he knew it would be Buck. Because Chris is a normal human and is asleep at 2:16 in the fucking morning.

Adjusting his brightness, Eddie unlocks his phone and reads the message from Buck.

Okay, I know I love cheese, but even this is ridiculous to me.

Clicking on the link attached to it, Eddie is brought to an article from October 2024, where a man had stolen (or attempted to steal) about $390,000 worth of cheese.

Eddie snorts and goes back to his messaging app, tapping on the call button at the top of his and Buck's chat.

He switches over to speakerphone and drops his phone onto the mattress, yawning as the call rings once.

"Eddie?" Buck answers, sounding worried. Like he hadn't woken Eddie up for an article about cheese.

"Stop texting me weird stuff so late at night." Eddie grumbles in reply, eyes already closed. He won't fall asleep - not yet - but he's comfy and Buck's voice is soothing.

"Well that’s pretty rude of you to say." Buck fires back, "I thought you'd be asleep!"

"I was. Until you texted me."

"Sorry." Buck does genuinely sound apologetic. "We haven't had a call in a couple hours. Everyone is asleep--"

"Like normal people."

"And I couldn't sleep. So I started scrolling."

"You realize that article is from October last year, right?"

There's a beat of silence before Buck answers. "Yes."

Eddie snorts, "Liar."

"I just thought it was funny!"

"I know," Eddie smiles into his pillow, "I love when you send me stupid stuff. I love when you share it with me."

"Oh." Buck goes silent again. "Y-you do?"

"Of course I do, Buck." Eddie would rolls his eyes but they're still closed, and the affect wouldn't be the same with Buck in LA and Eddie in El Paso.

He ignores that pang of hurt.

"Then I'll keep sending them."

"I look forward to what you find next."

"I should let you go back to sleep though..."

"No, I'm awake now. I'll keep you company until a call comes in or someone wakes up."

"Eddie..."

"Come on, Buck, tell me what else you found."

Eddie swears he can hear the smile in Buck's voice as he starts telling Eddie about another article he'd been reading.

In the dark of the room, Eddie can almost pretend he'd in the station with Buck.

send me a prompt!

Oh, this man deserves another medal just for being so fcking polite with her, even after being repeatedly treated like he's the biggest of all failures.

Hen: I think you should change your last name, Buck.

Buck: To- to what??

Hen: Diaz.

Eddie, across the room: Did you just hit on him for me??

Hen: Well you weren't going to and everyone in this firehouse is sick of you making those eyes at each other and not doing a damn thing about it!

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