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I’m not 100% sure you’re still taking these, but if you aren’t I hope you’ll maybe save this one for a rainy day?

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I always am! I just update my key when things change.

And thank you so much! Glad you're excited for these.

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“Sorry!” Buck blurts. “Sorry, that’s… That’s not the right way to ask that. I mean, like, are you secretly wanting to be she/her or-”

“No,” Eddie cuts him off, smirking a little. “The opposite direction. I started transitioning as a pretty young teenager.”

“Oh! Okay, cool,” Buck says.

“Cool?” Eddie asks warily.

“Yeah, totally, man,” Buck shrugs. “Does not change a thing for me. Just, uh… I just don’t want to say the wrong thing. But I’ll do research!”

“Research?” Eddie asks.

“Yeah! So you don’t have to answer any questions I have. Like, I don’t want to put that on you. I’ll figure it out, a-and you just… I mean if there’s anything you want me to know, then-”

“Buck,” Eddie raises a hand to cut him off.

Buck shuts his mouth.

“That’s super kind,” Eddie says. “You can ask me questions, though. I think… I mean I have a lot for you.”

“That’s fair,” Buck replies. “Uh, I’ll try to answer them. I’m… I’m new to this mermaid business. I don’t know how it works always.”

“Mermaid?” Eddie asks. “Don’t you mean merman? Or was I right, but in the wrong direction?”

“Oh my god, merman,” Buck gasps. “I forgot that was an option. You’re right. Merman.”

Eddie shivers a little. “Okay, um… Maybe we can exchange questions out of the water?”

“Yeah!” Buck agrees. “Yeah totally. Just, uh… You’ll have to give me a minute. It’s harder to shift back than to shift to.”

Eddie nods. “No worries. I’ve got time.”

🌊

They sit on the stony beach, a few feet of space between them. Eddie is sort of curled tight into himself, sopping wet. Buck is stretched out, leaning back on his hands, tail still fully out. As much as Eddie tries to not - and it’s clear he’s trying not to - he keeps staring at it. At the gills on Buck’s chest and neck. The webbing on his fingers. Buck can’t blame him. He’s an anomaly. Unfortunately - he thought he might not be.

“Who goes first?” Buck asks. “Questions wise?”

“Uh, me?” Eddie asks. “Then we go… Back and forth?”

“Yeah,” Buck nods. “Okay.”

Fair to let Eddie start. There are way more pressing questions. Eddie is just a normal person, after all. Buck is a creature.

“Okay, uh… You said you’re new at this?” Eddie asks. “How did it happen?”

Yeah, Buck sort of figured he’d ask this. Of course he’d be curious. Want to know. Only problem is, Buck hates thinking about that night. The cold. The dark. The sea on fire. Dead people bobbing in the waves. And Bobby… Almost losing Bobby. It makes him sick to think about, even before what happened.

“There was a… A really bad call,” Buck says. “In January. I was only five months on the job. A plane went down in the water. Right off El Segundo Beach.”

“Is this where you almost drowned?” Eddie asks.

Buck raises an eyebrow, confused how he would know that.

“Sorry,” Eddie says. “Hen mentioned that you did.”

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It’s a long, terrifying call. Eddie isn’t often scared on calls. Very few things are as frightening as what he saw in the army. The earthquake was nerve-wracking, mostly because he was worried about his son. The tsunami was horrific for similar reasons. The day of the ladder truck bombing, Eddie had been scared for Buck. Today? Today he’s scared for everyone. Mostly for Bobby, but for everyone.

Radioactive waste is on fire. The air is sort of poison, right? The turnouts and other PPE they have doesn’t feel like enough. Eddie’s skin crawls, even though nothing has happened to him. This would be the worst time ever to get radiation sickness.

Bobby has to stay in the tunnel longer than the rest of them. They’re all sort of freaked out. He has to be officially decontaminated and everything. Eddie and Chim are scared, but it’s nothing compared to the look of horror in Buck’s eyes. Eddie wants to take his hand. Squeeze it reassuringly. Hold and tell him it’ll be okay. But he can’t. Not here. So instead, he makes like he’s clapping Buck on the shoulder, and lets his hand linger for a second.

Buck looks at him. Wide-eyed and tight-jawed.

“He’s going to be okay,” Eddie says.

He’s not sure where the confidence comes from. He doesn’t really feel it. All he knows is, despite everything Bobby and Buck just went through with each other, Buck is the person who will worry for him most. There’s a dynamic there that’s different than with anyone else on the team.

“I hope so,” Buck says weakly. “He has to be.”

They take him to the hospital after. The victims are being transferred by another station’s RA unit. It’s not until Bobby has called Athena and been admitted that any of them bother looking at their phones.

“Whoa,” Chim says. “Lots of missed calls from Maddie.”

“Same,” Buck says. “And from Shannon.”

“Shannon?” Eddie asks, looking at his phone. “Oh, shit. Me too.”

“Aren’t they together today?” Chim asks.

“Yeah,” Eddie says. “Fuck.”

He calls Shannon back as quickly as possible. A billion things are spinning in his head. Is Shannon okay? Is Chris okay? Is the baby okay? Maddie was a nurse. If there is some kind of emergency, Eddie is glad she’s with them. Terrified, but glad.

The call picks up after a few rings.

“Eddie? Oh thank god.”

It’s not Shannon. It’s Maddie. On Shannon’s phone.

“What’s going on?” Eddie asks, panicked. “Is she okay?”

“Yeah, she’s good. You need to get to the hospital, though,” Maddie says. “Shannon-”

“Which hospital? I’m at the hospital.” Eddie blurts.

“Southern California,” Maddie says. “She’s in labor, and it’s progressing quickly, okay? You don’t have a lot of time.”

Labor? She’s in labor? His daughter is… About to be born? Today?

“Eddie?” Maddie asks when he’s silent for a beat.

“I’m coming,” Eddie says. “I’m coming. I’ll be there. Can you tell her I’m on my way?”

He’s at Cedars. Fifteen minutes away if traffic isn’t bad. Traffic is bad, because of the shutdowns the tunnel fires caused. Shit.

“I’ll tell her. And I’ll keep you updated on progress. It’s moving really fast.”

The complete opposite of last time. Shannon must either be elated or completely freaking out. Maybe both?

“Thanks, Maddie.”

They end the call and Eddie explains the situation to Buck and Chim.

“Take the engine,” Chim says. “I’ll stay with Bobby.”

#daisies and briars writes #take what the water gave me fic #buddie shannon throuple fic

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