#buddieravi

[eddiesilverstar]

#FreeRavi

[weird-goodbyes]

fun thought. Eddie definitely sells the El Paso house at a major profit and Ravi is like, "goooooollllllllly, what CAN'T he do?" and he approaches him with a Property Brothers-esque partnership where Ravi finds the property to buy and deals with the paperwork and Eddie does the actual fixing up. And it's supposed to be a side thing. A way to make extra money and keep busy on days they're not on shift. But they become insanely successful. Like ludicrously successful. Like approached by HGTV (Ravi wants to do it and for them to call the show "From Dire to Fire" by the way) successful because they're two really good-looking guys flipping houses. Meanwhile, Buck's at the firehouse, reading books called "Interior Designing for Dummies" and tilting the cover to face Ravi. He's at home reading articles published on the Sherwin Williams website out loud to Eddie. Just hoping one of them (eddieeddieeddieeddieeddie, he'd settle for ravi) will ask him to help.

[tweetsongs]

also another great thing about the club scene is that it's maybe the first time as far as I can remember that ravi and eddie have had a 1:1 scene together? and ravi's impressions of eddie previously have been second-hand mostly from buck (who makes eddie sound extremely cool and like a saint on earth), and watching eddie on calls and in inner circle social gatherings (where he seems very charming and funny and competent). hell, the last significant time ravi directly interacted with eddie was eddie saving his ass in the s8 finale and him being starry-eyed over it.

and then the club. watching buckandeddie in a social setting outside of the 118 and seeing eddie be just. such a little failmop of a man in a club setting. watching buck with alternatively pining and extremely jealous eyes. grumpily and hornily drinking beer as buck is in his element flirting and being a charmer. truly ravi must've been like. oh fuck they're both losers for each other.

[buckgettingpregnant]

buddieravi bi speed dating episode that exists only in my heart is just soooo juicytasty…. ravi buys all three of them tickets thinking it’ll be a fun boys’ night experience & then finds himself getting progressively more aggressively wooed by extremely hot people all night. meanwhile buck is trying to kill everyone with his mind ESPECIALLY ravi (does not notice, is busy explaining frolf to a dilf) because doesn’t he know that eddie’s straight?? literally it’s so fucked up of him to bring eddie to an event where he’s not going to be comfortable. NOT that eddie’s uncomfortable around bi people OBVIOUSLY but he & chris JUST got back to la & bobby is dead & eddie honestly shouldn’t even be thinking about dating at ALL never mind— hold on. what is eddie giggling at. more importantly WHO is eddie giggling at because it looks an awful lot like eddie is flirting with some guy with a bad perm & terrible fashion sense & buck should really go over there. just to make sure he’s okay. (eddie has been talking about buck for four minutes straight. well. seventeen minutes if you include the first three dates he’s been on.) and also ravi’s mini dates with buck & eddie are extremely weird & awkward ❤️

[buckleysibz]

ravi should use his evil landlord powers for good and tell all the other landlords (i assume they’re connected) that buck would be a terrible renter. like look at the guy’s credit score trust me you don’t want him. and voila. buddie roomate era going strong.

[bucksgreyhairs]

piggybacking off of spec chats with @pettyeddiediaz of buddie hook-up in 9x13 where they Do Not Talk about it after. the episode ends with them awkwardly hitting the road back to LA...

CUT TO NEXT EPISODE: buddie is only in the background continuing to be awkward but if you aren't paying attention you won't notice them because it's a chim and hen episode. but it's there. they're fumbling and nervous around each other, avoiding each other, staring forlorn when the other isn't watching. it's not addressed AT ALL until the very end when buck and eddie are finally the focal point of a scene and they are Weird in front of their coworkers and they scurry away in opposite directions. chim points it out like "is something going on with them?" and ravi explodes "you only notice NOW?!" because he too was in the background the whole episode having to deal with buckandeddie's bullshit.

[chronicowboy]

actually more on my buck loves gushing with ravi rather than just to ravi agenda. he's like so relieved not only to have someone who understands but someone who won't accuse him of being in love with eddie if he speaks about him a little too long. ravi never even accused him of that in the first place before he got the whole eddie thing which means it's so totally normal to be so !!!! about eddie and that was never a question to ravi so buck is just enjoying his carefree isn't eddie great time. meanwhile ravi is like i'm not in love with eddie but i'm not not in love with him and the only reason probably is that i don't have a chance when buck's here. and he thinks buck is just really enjoying having someone to vent to about being in love with eddie which is so completely the opposite of what buck thinks is going on. and one day ravi is like desperate for a new story he hasn't heard about eddie before and it doesn't even have to be heroic it could be like that he went out to get orange juice for breakfast because buck really wanted it so he goes buck hey buck when did you realise you were in love with eddie like is there a story behind it. and he's soooo excited to share this with buck who is like actually a really good friend now he thinks and oh. buck just threw up everywhere. huh. weird.

[moonlightbuckleys]

okay jumping on the buddieravi trapped under rubble together bandwagon. consider this, there’s no big love confession, but eddie hasn’t moved back to la yet, the earthquake happens not long after the funeral and hes still there and its an all hands on deck sort of situation, and thus buddieravi ends up trapped, they’re sitting there under the rubble and eddie confesses ‘if we survive this, chris and I are moving home’ and buck whips his head around to stare at Eddie with wide eyes and it’s quite for a moment, and ravi to break the awkwardness and also mistaking buck’s bewilderment as panic says ‘well, buck if you need a place to stay Ihave a pretty decent guest room’ and before buck can even turn to look at ravi eddie’s like ‘don’t be ridiculous, i’m not kicking buck out, we can share’ and buck, still staring bewildered at eddie goes ‘ha ha yeah of course’ and ravi decides to just drop it because he’s so tired of being stuck in Their Bullshit.

(unfortunately for ravi, this is Not the last of this particular bullshit)

cut to the night of eddie and chris moving home, they spent most of the afternoon into the evening unpacking the uhaul, chris has gone to bed and buck and eddie are sitting on the couch together sharing a beer, both utterly exhausted but neither wanting to break from their peaceful little bubble, until eddie yawns big and loud and buck goes ‘you should take the bed tonight—you’ve been driving all day and your back doesn’t need to be more fucked up than it already is’ and eddie looks at him like hes grown two heads and goes ‘don’t be silly, we’ll share the bed. it’s not like we haven’t done it before’ and buck obviously can’t say ‘well that was before i realized i was bisexual. and also maybe am in love with you’ so instead he goes ‘haha, yeah, of course’ and when they get in bed buck ends up lying so stiff that eddie rolls his eyes (which buck doesn’t see because he’s pointedly staring at the ceiling) and goes ‘buck, hey, relax. it’s just me—it’s not like i don’t know about how you snore like a grandpa’ which does get buck to relax a little because he turns to glare at eddie insisting ‘i don’t snore like a grandpa’ and eddie gives him a toothy smile, reaches out to pat him on the cheek (which buck totally doesn’t tense up again because of) and says ‘sure bud, just get some sleep, i’m not gonna kick you out of bed in the middle of the night’ and then rolls over and goes to sleep. the next night when they are once again sitting on the couch together nursing beers, eddie stands up, smacking his thighs and declares that it’s time for bed and before buck can even suggest any kind of sleeping arrangement eddie holds out his hand for buck to use to haul himself off the couch with a ‘c’mon bud’ and eddie, instead of letting go once buck’s on his feet, turns and tugs buck along with him to the bedroom, leaving no room for buck to protest as he declares he’s taking the bathroom first and buck can just get changed in the bedroom while he waits.

cue a montage of the next couple of nights where buck, trying to be normal about it, ends up getting some of the worst sleep of his life because he forces himself to stay awake as long as possible to make sure eddie’s actually fallen asleep and then subsequently makes sure he wakes up in the morning before eddie, nights spent at the firehouse are actually a reprieve for him, at least the ones where they can actually lie down in the bunk room for a little while. which works for a little while until they end up having a particularly grueling shift with back to back calls allowing for little to no rest, buck finds ravi after their shift is done while eddie is still in the showers washing off sewer (he drew the short straw) and asks if he could crash in his guest room that night. ravi raises his eyebrows and responds with a teasing smirk ‘what did eddie finally kick you out?’ and buck, slightly offended on eddies behalf replies ‘no of course not’ to which ravi’s eyebrows manage to raise slightly higher and buck, slightly panicking blurts ‘eddie and chris are having a father-son bonding night and i don’t want to intrude’ and ravi just kinda stares at him for a moment and buck hastily adds on ‘i’ll make dinner?’ and ravi, not one to argue with the offer of free food shrugs and says ‘sure’ and they agree that buck will come by around 6 and its set.

except eddie and chris don’t have any kind of father-son bonding night planned, and buck has to come up with an excuse for why he’s heading out for the evening and, again panicking slightly, tells eddie that he had a date. to which eddie raises his eyebrows and goes ‘you’re dating again?’ and buck, already set in the lie, responds ‘just, uh, just casually. i’m not—not looking for anything serious right now, just trying to, y’know, get back on that horse?’ and eddie is quiet for a moment just looking at buck and then says ‘right, sure.’ and buck turns to leave but pauses again, ‘uh, don’t wait up? i don’t know how late i’ll be’ and eddie, voice going slightly funny replies ‘right, uh, i guess—have fun?’ and buck nods, pleased with himself for his on the spot improvisational skills, and heads out the front door.

the night spent at ravi’s rejuvenates buck and he is able to fall back into the routine he crafted for himself to be able to share the bed with eddie for about another week until the lack of sleep catches up with him again and he finds himself reaching out to ravi again, this time claiming ‘chris is having a sleepover and it’d be kinda hard to crash on the couch when theres a whole bunch of teenagers camped out in the living room determined to stay awake as long as possible’ and offers to bring ravi some of his latest batch of baked goods and ravi once again is like. sure man. because who turns down buck’s blueberry surprise muffins? and anyway everything is once again set. except for the fact that there isn’t any actual sleepover happening at the diaz house that night, so buck once again makes up a date, and once again tells eddie ‘not to wait up’ and eddie doesn’t ask how the date went the next morning when he wakes up to buck making breakfast.

and it continues on like that for a few weeks, buck making up some kind of reason he needs to be out of the diaz house for a night to ravi and then telling eddie he’s got another date and not to wait up and buck foolishly thinks he’s hacked the system.

until the fifth time it happens, buck comes home from ravi’s place to find eddie already awake, sitting on the couch, waiting for him. eddie doesn’t meet buck’s eyes when he says ‘this is your fifth date this month’ and buck, confused replies ‘uh, yeah, guess so’ ‘same person? seems like it could be getting a little bit serious’ and buck rubs at the back of his neck ‘oh, no, uh, different—different people’ and eddie, still not looking at buck goes ‘really? i mean—you haven’t felt a spark with any of them?’ and buck chuckles nervously, entirely unprepared for this conversation and replies ‘uh, no, guess not’ and eddie finally, finally looks at buck and goes ‘why are you lying to me?’ he holds up his own phone like a piece of evidence ‘we have location sharing on, remember? i know you’ve been going to ravi’s’ and buck, deer in the headlights, completely panics and blurts out ‘i’m sleeping with him’ and eddie, looking suddenly very confused, eyes squinting slightly says ‘what?’ and buck, already climbing into the hole he’s dug for himself goes, ‘we’re having sex. me and ravi' and eddie is once again staring at him like he's grown a second head and buck decides to make a stealthy retreat (read: goes to the kitchen and makes a bit of an extravagant breakfast) and then chris is awake and the conversation doesn’t get brought back up.

except, they have a shift that same day, and while buck initially is grateful for this, about 4 hours into their 24, ravi comes up to buck while he’s doing inventory in the supply closet and goes ‘hey, uh, did—did i do something to make eddie mad at me? because i feel like he’s mad at me.’ and buck replies ‘what? no. eddie isn’t mad at you’ and ravi goes ‘are you sure? because he’s been acting…a little weird? but like, specifically to me?’ and buck is like ‘pshh, what? no he isnt. hes just being—regular eddie.’ and then in comedic timing eddie appears, does a slight double take at buck and ravi standing together in the supply closet, makes a weird face ‘sorry, didn’t mean to, uh, interrupt anything.’ and he says it like the words are sour in his mouth, still looking between buck and ravi, and then he seemingly remembers why he came looking for them in the first place and says ‘food’s ready’ and then promptly spins on his heel and leaves before buck or ravi can say anything.

and ravi just, fixes buck with a Look and buck goes all sheepish and says ‘uh, so maybe eddie’s acting a little weird.’