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My Top Posts in 2021
#5
in which, Eddie and Chris actually talk to each other and our boy does not pull punches. technically speculation for 5x03
“Hey, can we talk for a second?”
Chris looks up from his book, the camp light beside him throwing weird shadows across his face that make him look so much older than eleven. If Eddie thinks about that too hard, it’s going to break him.
Well.
Break him more.
“What’s wrong?” Chris asks.
“Nothing’s—” But that’s just not true, is it. Eddie sighs and sits down on the foot of Chris’s bed. “It’s about Ana.”
Chris just stares at him, waiting for Eddie to continue.
“I’ve been thinking,” Eddie starts, slow while he tries to put the words together in a way that’ll make sense to an eleven-year-old. “I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. And I have to break up with her.”
He braces himself for the explosion, the broken salad bowl all over again, the running away.
He doesn’t know what to do with himself when Chris’s response is a level, even, “Oh. Okay.”
He keeps talking before he’s really processed Chris’s non-reaction, because it had taken him so long to get the words right in his own head.
“Because I don’t love her, and I don’t think I’m ever going to, and it’s not fair to her to do that to her. And I know you’ve liked having her around, and that you like spending time with her, and if you want to be friends with her, that’s—you—what do you mean ‘okay’?”
Chris shrugs.
“No, no shrugging,” Eddie says. He squeezes Chris’s foot under the bedsheet and gets the tiniest hint of a grin in response. It fades just as quickly. “What do you mean ‘okay’? I thought you liked Ana.”
“She was my favourite teacher,” Chris confirms. “And it’s been nice having her around sometimes since I didn’t get to see any of my friends during quarantine.”
The unsaid “but” echoes in Chris’s bedroom. Eddie waits for him to say it, and when he doesn’t, he squeezes Christopher’s foot again.
“But?” Eddie prompts.
Chris shrugs again.
“Chris—”
“I didn’t want to say anything because she’s nice and I thought you liked having her around,” Christopher says, completely avoiding Eddie’s eyes. “But sometimes, some of the stuff she says reminds me of Grandma.”
Before Eddie can even begin to process the instant bile that goes along with the “oh god I’ve been dating my mother” of it all, Chris continues.
“And I love Grandma! And I know she loves me! But, I don’t know, sometimes it feels like she thinks I can’t do anything,” he says. “And sometimes it feels like that with Ana too.”
“Why didn’t you say anything?” Eddie asks. He doesn’t know how successful he is at choking down his horror. He hasn’t been very good at swallowing back any emotions these days.
“Because I thought you liked her,” Chris says. “And I want you to be happy, Dad.”
“I thought me dating her made you happy,” Eddie replies.
“It doesn’t make me unhappy,” Chris says, which is at least something of a relief. “But I don’t understand why you can’t date someone who makes both of us happy. Like Buck.”
Eddie’s pretty sure he’s going to need 5-7 business days to recover from this conversation.
“Buck dating Taylor makes you happy?” Eddie asks.
Chris rolls his eyes and looks so much like a teenager, Eddie kind of wants to run and find a way to time travel so he can make his kid be a little kid again.
It would get him out of this conversation at least.
“No,” Chris says. “I mean, you could date someone who makes you happy and makes me happy. Someone like Buck.”
Eddie doesn’t know how long he sits there, slack-jawed, but it’s long enough Christopher has to lean over and tap him on the shoulder to break him out of it.
“Buddy, that’s not — Buck and I aren’t — I’m not—”
“It would be okay if you were,” Chris says, and if Eddie has to hear an entire it’s okay to be gay speech from his child, he might have to check himself back into the cardiology ward. “And I always like having Buck around, so you wouldn’t have to worry about that part.”
“That’s—”
It feels a little like his life flashing before his eyes.
Dropping Christopher off at Buck’s loft before the tsunami.
After, telling him there’s no one in the world Eddie trusts more with his son.
This is my kind of therapy.
Putting Buck in the will.
This is what I want for him.
All the time Buck had spent with Christopher while Eddie was recovering. Hell, all the time he’d spent with Eddie.
Of course he can’t handle a pre-fab, just-add-water, ready-made family with Ana. How the hell is she supposed to fit when he’s already built an entire family, a real one, an unbreakable one, with Buck?
“Too bad he has a girlfriend,” Chris says, and there’s something just a little teasing about it, like he might have noticed the disgust on Eddie’s face when he mentioned Buck and Taylor.
“Yeah, well, right now so do I,” Eddie replies, and when Chris grins at him, Eddie thinks that he might, somehow, have just followed all of Eddie’s internal processing. Or, at least, the broad strokes of it. “One problem at a time, okay?”
And now, he’s just got to rip the bandaid off. That part, at least, should be easy.
676 notes • Posted 2021-09-28 17:36:06 GMT
#4
I know a lot of us think that Hen, Chim, and Bobby (or some combination) know and are waiting for Buck and Eddie to figure it out. But what if they don't because they've just been there the whole time for this and so Buck and Eddie have always been buckandeddie to them. So then Ravi comes in and is like "what's up with these two?" and everyone else is just like "what do you mean?" and he gives example after example and they say "oh that's just buckandeddie means nothing" and Ravi is just like???
There's definitely a text post like that going around somewhere and I for one find it hilarious as a concept.
Ravi just -- okay, so he starts as the B shift probie, gets scolded for using the dreaded q word by the one hot guy on A shift who may or may not be Cap's son (???), and then manages to avoid A shift for a while, until there's the city wide treasure hunt, right, and he thinks he's having fun with this, until Hot A Shift Guy and his partner, Even Hotter A Shift Guy, gang up on him in the locker room to pick his brain for information and there's something in the way they exchange looks that's very -- well, it's just really something, right? And then the next time he sees them, they've shown up together at the final treasure location because they...live together???
And then, Even Hotter A Shift Guy gets shot, and so Ravi gets bumped up to A shift to cover for him, except how the fuck is he supposed to cover Hot A Shift Guy's back -- not Cap's son, at least not technically, as it turns out -- when he's so torn up by grief at the loss of his partner and while he has to go home alone to take care of their son that he's throwing himself into really stupid danger all the time?
Anyway, Ravi avoids taking shift trades to A shift as soon as Even Hotter A Shift Guy gets back, because all of that nonsense is deeply chaotic and he just wants to get through his probational term in one piece, right?
But he stupidly covers for McKinney one night, because she was like "oh it's just a half shift so that I can go to the opera with my parents who are visiting from out of town!" and he's a probie so he's doing what he can to get all the hours under his belt possible and, y'know, time and a half doesn't hurt, and so he's with A shift when all the GPS systems start telling people to literally drive their cars into the canal??? He still doesn't know how Buck and Eddie work together like this when they're married and have a son, like, wouldn't they be constantly worried about this?
And then the blackout hits.
He learns on day one of the blackout that Buck and Eddie actually are not married to each other, that Buck is dating some reporter or something, that Eddie has a serious relationship, but like? They're still Buck and Eddie, except Eddie's avoiding Buck for some reason while they're all locked into the station and so Ravi ends up being assigned as Buck's assistant and Buck is a little power mad with the clipboard and okay like it's not awakening anything because like he knows where he stands on that particular scale but it isn't helping and RIP to Eddie who's avoiding Buck but if Buck had that clipboard and asked Ravi to tell him anything or do anything Ravi would do it, RIP but he's different, whatever it's fine, he's not going to because apparently Buck and Eddie both have girlfriends but that's also super confusing because they're clearly married to each other or --
He figures out they must be divorced about halfway through the blackout when Eddie's not wife who he doesn't introduce shows up with Eddie and Buck's kid and yeah, Ravi gets it, that must be super awkward because like. New girlfriend, ex-husband, kid clearly very attached to both his dads.
He asks Hen about it the next time he pulls a day with the A shift, if things have been awkward on the shift since Buck and Eddie got divorced and started dating other people. He's not expecting the blank, "Since they what?"
He does his best to elaborate, pointing out that the way they clearly still care about each other -- and now Eddie's broken up with his girlfriend again so like maybe Buck and Eddie are just separated? Maybe there's still a chance they can salvage their marriage? -- and the longer he talks, the wider Hen's eyes get. Because it's that metaphor about frogs in boiling water, right, Hen and Chim and Bobby have been sitting in the pan while the water heats up around them, not noticing until it's too late that the water is boiling now, but Ravi's new and he'd just jumped in when it was already scalding, and also, yeah, Buck and Eddie are extremely in love and Hen's kicking herself for not seeing it sooner.
The real question, of course, is if Buck and Eddie know, and well. Boiling water slowly heating around them etc.
899 notes • Posted 2021-10-11 15:31:30 GMT
#3
Ravi: he’s like the drill sergeant from hell! How did you put up with that?!
Eddie:
953 notes • Posted 2021-10-18 16:46:34 GMT
#2
I figured out what’s gonna get Bobby to finally retire.
It’s gonna be looking down the line of turnouts in their racks and reading A. Han, H. Han, E. Buckley-Diaz and E. Buckley-Diaz and deciding that this is someone else’s (Chimney’s) problem
1252 notes • Posted 2021-06-01 19:08:56 GMT
#1
ESRB: rated E for Everyone!
AO3: rated E for Everyone Gets Railed
2255 notes • Posted 2021-07-14 14:45:58 GMT
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