you can headcanon a character as queer. that's fine, we all do it. but you can not get mad when said character isn't included in posts about canonically queer characters. because they are not queer in canon. if they come out, they'll be included.
Buck bakes and whatever is leftover, he leaves for Tommy's shift. Tommy is the only one who ever leaves a thank you note.
One day, Buck leaves a note (on Tommy's locker? in the kitchen? idk) asking Tommy if he has any dessert requests (Buck has already made something special for everyone on his shift and he's out of ideas).
A few days later, in the drawer with all the recipe books, Buck finds a recipe card for blueberry turnovers. On the back, is an anecdote from Tommy, about spending childhood summers with his grandmother and making blueberry turnovers together (though his grandmother did most of the work; Tommy could never quite get the pastry to stick). It's obviously just recently written and Buck realizes Tommy's addressing this to him, he wanted Buck to know this story.
Buck makes the blueberry turnovers and sets half of them aside for Tommy with a note, thanking him for the recipe and the story.
Buck takes the card home and laminates it.
This continues on, recipe after recipe, story after story. Buck starts finding the ingredients he needs already stocked in the pantry.
They leave notes for each other.
Tommy leaves Buck breakfast sandwiches and cut-up fruit and pitchers of iced coffee.
Buck buys a polaroid camera. He takes photos of their exchanged foods and scribbles a caption on the photo, leaves it for Tommy to find.
They're always gone the next shift, so maybe Tommy has started his own collection (Tommy's recipe cards are stored in a small cedar box with blueberries painted on the side that Buck found at an antique store).
Buck's feeling...bold, maybe. He takes a selfie. Captions it, simply: Evan
That, too, is gone next shift.
One of the firefighters on Buck's shift transfers houses to be closer to home and there's a new transfer in and some shuffling between shifts.
There was no new recipe card in the drawer, so Buck's making blueberry turnovers.
Everybody knows to stay out of Buck's way when he's baking (they also know if they linger too long, he'll try to convince them to wash the dishes he's dirtied with his baking experiments), but the footsteps crossing the loft are unfamiliar.
He turns around, sees a man around his age with blue eyes and brown hair, a strong jawline and a cleft in his chin. When their eyes meet, when the man smiles and his eyes crinkle, even though Buck has never seen him before, he is familiar.
"So this is where the magic happens."
Buck ducks his head as his face flushes and he laughs quietly when Tommy stands next to him and gently bumps their shoulders.
Buck gestures to the pastry and the blueberry filling laid out. "I could teach you, if you want."
so ABC is on his ass for buddie baiting?? lol. lmao even.
again with the chemistry excuse (which feels like a lie to me). and if that was really the reason... do a better job at casting, then. do chemistry reads! plan shit ahead of time!!
btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here
It will never not be endearing to me that Buck has only ever been flustered when he’s with Tommy. Any other love interest, casual or not, woman or man, it’s Buck being a combination of confident and cheeky. Tommy is the only one who has ever reduced him to just soft smiles and this awshucks me? feeling.
Actually knowing that Oliver answered bucktommy questions at the con and talked about his favorite scene and working with Lou... this has been a big morning for me
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