What Convinced Me Eddie Was In Love With Buck
Out of all the questionably, not very straight things Eddie has done during his 8 years in the fire fam. There is only one thing that truly convinces me that Eddie is head over heels in love with his best friend.
I feel a lot of the other stuff can be seen from a different side and explained away reasonably. Like hating on Buck's love interests or putting Buck in his will to take Christopher. Those could have pretty platonic reasoning behind them, even if those reasonings weren't necessarily logical.
The one thing that's happened, that I feel like can't be walked-back, is Eddie knowing down to the second how long Buck's heart stopped. You don't just count the minutes and seconds that your best friend stops breathing.
This man counted from the moment he flew up the ladder, from the moment he rushed back down it, from the second he got behind the wheel and drove as fast as he could to the hospital, when he rushed to take over compressions from Chimney, while he pressed his fingers to his neck and prayed for a heartbeat and finally got one.
Eddie climbed a ladder in full gear after being struck by the same bolt of electricity that stopped bucks heart, and he didn't stop praying, begging and counting until he felt that heart start beating again.
And that's what truly convinced me that Eddie was in love with Buck.
Everything else is just tasty icing on the cake.
