#bc it'd be such a fucking cool character study and examination of their arcs in season 3

[chronicowboy]

okay ever since that poll i cannot stop thinking about the sheer potential of buck and eddie hooking up between seasons 3 and 4. like whatever your own vote was just hear me out on this because the emotional fallout from season 3 alone would be all-consuming. you have all the leftover lingering emotions from the tsunami and the lawsuit and eddie's fighting and the well and the will and abby's return. all that pent up fear of losing each other, of having lost each other, the anger and the jealousy, the overwhelming relief that they're both still here and they have each other, and all those negative emotions only ever borne of this deep devotion and care for each other that maybe just beginning to realise that it might lead somewhere more than friendship but doing their best to ignore it because of that fear of losing each other. then as well as motive they have the means in chris going away to camp. and on buck's part you have him finding out maddie and chim are pregnant which maybe makes him feel a little left behind and he's wondering why he feels so desolate about chris being away at camp and it's messy and confusing and scary so of course he goes to eddie who's also missing their kid. and then you have the start of covid, the fear, the uncertainty, the separation from chris and the quarantine in buck's apartment. them clinging to each other in amidst all the chaos and confusion, everything from season 3 and now this new scary thing snowballing into them finding some comfort and familiarity in each other if only for one night. like come on, that slaps.