AU where early season one Buck puts a random number on his emergency contact list because he doesn’t have anyone/doesn’t think he’s close enough with Bobby to not be seen as a nuisance. So when he’s hospitalized on Valentine’s Day, he wakes up to a random man in his hospital room who introduces himself as Eddie, his emergency contact.
Buck asks why he came if he didn’t know him, and Eddie shrugs and quips, “I just moved here and thought I should make a friend.”
“With the guy who made up a number - your number - because he had no one else to call?”
“Seems like someone who also needs a friend,” Eddie replies, but when Buck stares at him understandably confused, he explains, “Felt like the right thing to do.”
Buck perks up, as much as he can for someone who recently got cut open by a steak knife, and asks, “Like fate?”
Eddie scoffs, “I don’t believe in fate.”
“But the random number I put down forever ago just happened to live in the area and happened to show up in my hour of need,” Buck replies smugly. “Sounds like fate to me.”
And despite himself, Eddie sits down in the chair next to Buck and says, “Yeah, maybe.”
A few hours later, Buck is one hundred percent convinced fate is very real, and Eddie, ever the skeptic, is just glad that Buck happened to put down a random assortment of numbers leading him to Eddie.
