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Buck *bringing coffee to a very tired Eddie at the start of a shift*: I passed by that coffee shop you like on Sunset.

Eddie *very tired and in love with that man*: You’re a godsend, Buck! I don’t know how to repay you. Do you want my first born child?

Buck *also in love, snorting*: I already have your first born child.

Hen :

Chim :

Bobby :

Chim : Please tell me they’re hearing themselves. Guys, are you hearing yourself? Have you gotten married without informing us?

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If you're having a private phone conversation with the phone off your ear, no headphones, and the speaker on in public, that's a public conversation now. That's an open invite, and I'm going to chime in if I have an opinion. This is now OUR disagreement about your boyfriend's spending habits.

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Steve loses his hearing, tells no one, and has been ‘faking it until he makes it’ ever since.

He’s kinda hoping that he’ll wake up a lip reading expert one day but it hasn’t happened yet, but it’s fine.

Most of his friends talk at him instead of with him, so it’s okay if he misses some of the finer details. He doesn’t think he’s missing much until -

“Dating?” He asks. “You’re dating someone? Who?”

Eddie pauses and looks at him. His mouth moves to say, “You.”

“Me?”

“I asked you out a month ago,” Eddie says. “You said ‘sounds great.’”

“Oh,” Steve says, realization dawning slowly. “Yeahh, that’s what I say when I can’t figure out what you said.”

Eddie gives him a look like he’s bugging out, “What do you mean? I said it to your face.”

“Well, yeah,” Steve nods. “Lip-reading isn’t like, a science. It’s hard sometimes.”

“Why are you reading my lips?!”

“Because I’m deaf!”

“You’re deaf???” Eddie asks. He looks exasperated. “Since when.”

“Since before I had a boyfriend,” Steve replies, nudging him. “Sorry. I didn’t really tell anyone about it. I still have a boyfriend, right?”

“Yeah. Of course,” Eddie says and then curls his hand into a mimic of a telephone. He holds it to his ear before bringing his hands together into a gesture of a bird.

Steve frowns, “Don’t call Robin.”

Eddie looks directly at him and mouths, “I’m calling Robin.”

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tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse

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shit idek i just needed to do it...

Buck can feel Eddie's fingers tapping against his skin. His palm is hot where it presses against the center of Bucks spine. At first Buck didn't think anything of it, thought the tapping was just part of Eddie's nervous habit when things go overly quiet. They're lazing around after a particularly hot round of morning sex. It's the first morning of a 96 off stretching out before them. After Buck had gotten back from taking Chris to school Eddie had tumbled him down to the bed, his hands and mouth roving Buck's body. It had ended with Buck bringing them both off all over Eddie's pecs while Eddie was two fingers deep making Buck see god. Now those same fingers keep tap tap tapping before pausing and then restarting in the exact same rhythm. It only takes Buck a few seconds of concentration before realizing its Morse Code. And maybe Eddie doesn't realize Buck knows it too. Or maybe he does and this is easier for him. Buck learned it from a HAM radio operator in Montana all those years ago and he's never been more glad for it than right now. He's pretty sure he knows what the words are but to be certain he closes his eyes and concentrates on the longs and shorts, works out what he had already suspected I love you.

They haven't said the words to one another yet, this thing between them is still so raw and new and fragile. Both of them too afraid to shatter the near perfection they've found so far.

But buck feels it. Has felt it for years now if he's honest with himself. Felt it long before Tommy threw it in his face. Long before Maddie looked at him with near disappointment and disbelief.

This immense love he has for Eddie fills up every empty nook and cranny he has. Eddie has carved out his spot inside of Buck's heart so deeply and so thoroughly that he can't remember a time when he didn't carry Eddie around with him everywhere he went.

Buck had never known that loving someone could feel like this. He never knew that just the act of loving someone this much could complete a puzzle he hadn't even realized he was trying to put together. But he knows it now, and there is nothing he won't do to hold onto it.

Feeling Eddie tap it out on his skin repeatedly, like it's a compulsion that he can't stop, fills Buck with so much happiness that it bubbles out of him, his face splitting into a wide grin as his fingers start to tap out a return message.

When Eddie finally catches on to what Buck is doing his movement stutters, he loses the rhythm of the message but it doesn't matter because Buck already heard it loud and clear.

Eddie tips Buck's head up, his eyes searching Buck's face before he starts a new message. His gaze never strays from Buck's as his fingers move

.._. ___ ._. . ..._ . ._.

Buck feels his breath hitch as Eddie's eyes bore into his, the truth of it written in the depths of Eddie's heated stare. The word bounces around in Buck's brain, just like its being written slowly and deliberately across his skin, forever.

All Buck can do is nod and let his eyes slip closed as Eddie pulls him forward into a desperate, needy kiss that starts round two while round one is still cooling on their bodies.

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I love that Eddie said “this doesn’t change a thing between us” after Buck came out to him, and both he and Buck took it as gospel so much so that Buck’s actual boyfriend broke up with him because of it.

Eddie said “so you like men? Cool, you having a boyfriend doesn’t mean we can’t still be husbands. You can just bring him along on our dates, and I’ll make sure to be there during all of your dates too.” And Buck said “Perfect, that makes total sense. You and Tommy were friends first so obviously he will love having you around during all the key moments of our relationship, and he will definitely not feel threatened by your ever constant presence.”

Then they hugged and Eddie went home to tell his girlfriend who moved in a day ago that she should move out.

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Do you guys think that maybe the reason Eddie hasn't realized his feelings for Buck yet (that we know of) is because he thinks everyone feels that way around Buck? Because who wouldn't love Buck. He even told Buck that (Tommy) will learn to love him like we ALL do. And if he doesn't then he's an idiot.

But maybe Eddie is actually the idiot here because he doesn't realize he's in love with his best friend

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difference between buck and eddie during the el paso arc is that buck is acting like eddie is his newly dead wife haunting the narrative and eddie is acting like buck is his loving husband of three decades off on a three to five day business trip.

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one evening buck jokes about how funny it is that he and eddie know practically everything about one another (he knows how eddie's blood tastes ffs) yet they don't know how the other kisses. eddie doesn't laugh though, gets a serious look on his face and says, you're right, it's weird there are people out there who know how you kiss, and I don't. we should totally fix that. buck bluescreens and he's helpless to deny eddie anything, so they do. they kiss right there on the couch, eddie pulls back seeming satisfied

except a few days later he grumbles to buck about how there are strangers out there who know what buck is like in bed, and eddie doesn't. and seriously what kind of friend is eddie if he doesn't know? so they pick out a night when they're both off, and they just, have sex. buck fucks him slow and gentle, never braking eye contact the entire time. the next day though eddie is like "well now I know how you feel inside me, I don't know how I feel inside you" and so a couple of days later, they do it again, eddie topping this time. they're barely coming down from their high when eddie says "I still don't know how your mouth feels around me" so they find out. "I don't know how my mouth feels stretched around you" "how you feel riding me" "how you feel bending me over the kitchen table and fucking me" "how cuddling with you feels" "what your morning breath tastes like" "how holding your hand feels"

and that's the story of how buck and eddie stumble their way into a relationship ("I still don't know how you feel like as a boyfriend") and eventually marriage ("okay but I don't know how you feel like as a fiancé" "eddie, no one does." "damn right they don't." "wait are you proposing??")

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Buck, once again in a hospital bed: hey, Cap!

Bobby: what happened?

Buck: you want the long version or the short version?

Bobby: short

Buck: i saw a bus

Bobby:

Bobby: and?

Buck: the bus did not see me

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Bobby: i thought that hiring eddie and letting him work with buck was my biggest mistake, those two are chaos personified

Athena: what changed your mind?

Bobby: ravi

Athena: what did he do?

Bobby: he worships buck

Athena: and thats a bad thing?

Bobby: eddie at least mildly hesitates when buck puts forward a dumb idea

Athena: ravi doesn’t?

Bobby: ravi is already gearing up to follow buck before he’s finished speaking

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*Buck sitting in the kitchen with his head on the table* Buck: I hate this recipe, why do I bother trying? Eddie: You want some moral support? Buck: Yes please. Eddie: Maybe I could cheerlead outside the window. I still remember some of my old cheer routines. Buck: Do you have a skirt and pompoms? Eddie: Sadly no, but I have short shorts and some kitchen towels. Buck: That’ll do the trick.

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Bobby: the chances of catching two of your firefightets hooking up in the station while on shift are low

*looks at cupboard buck and eddie went into 25 minutes ago*

Bobby: *narrows eyes* but never zero

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When Buddie finally starts dating, Chris asks to talk to Eddie in a very serious tone

Eddie thinks the worst, that Chris has a problem with them dating, and starts speed running crisis management in his head

Chris starts with “listen, dad. i like buck. a lot. he helps me with my school projects, and he knows a lot of facts, and he cooks”

Eddie is sweating bullets. Chris leans in, and points a finger right into Eddie’s face

Chris continues. “do. not. mess. this. up”

Cue Eddie going ???

Chris: “let’s be honest, dad, your dating record reads like a ‘how not to keep a partner’ handbook. we like buck, so try to be less of.. whatever happened with the others.”

Eddie: “are- are you giving me dating advice?”

Chris: “im just warning you that if something goes wrong with you two, i will assume it’s your fault and buck gets me in the divorce.”

Eddie: “you’re my son!”

Chris: “not for long if you don’t pull yourself together.”

The day buddie get married (and buck simultaneously adopts Chris) Chris gives his dad a hug and whispers “thanks for not messing it up”

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Bobby: alright, that concludes todays safety briefing. Chris, you’re up

Chris: lets see how much you guys were paying attention

*kahoot music starts playing*

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Ravi: hey bobby, who’s your second favourite firefighter?

Bobby: as captain, i don’t have- what do you mean second favourite?

Hen: well buck’s obviously first

Chim: yeah, that was a given. it’s the second favourite that we’ve got money on

Bobby: there are no favourites at all!

Buck: *comes upstairs* hey bobby, can i eat the last of the lasagna?

Bobby: of course! i’ll heat it up for you, go sit down

Buck: thanks pops! let me just grab my phone *goes back downstairs*

RaviChimHen: *silence*

Bobby: ..i see your point

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*Buck, laying face down on Hen’s living room floor*

Hen: so you told him you loved him

Buck: *muffled* yes

Hen: and he said ‘i love you too man’ and bro slapped you on the shoulder

Buck: *tearing up* yes

Hen: *sighs*

Hen: im about to start saying slurs