You asked for a prompt and I’m here to answer: Eric and Buddy are studying together and there’s a power outage in the middle of a bad Wisconsin snowstorm. Have fun!!
YEESSS, good for these windy days. Have some established relationship fluff!
If there was something that made Eric nervous of the darkness, it was the cold it came with. Not that he was actually feeling chilly at Buddy’s house; the unecessary big room of his boy was packed with too many stuff and they had been lying on too many blankets and cushions before the power went down.
Outside, the snow covered the ground and made a beautiful marshmellow-looking background for any romantic movie Eric has ever seen since he was a kid and sat down with his mother at the TV.
And the smooth lover in him was telling him to take Buddy outside and enjoy a moment alone, if it wasn’t for the storm currently cutting the electricity and interrumpting their studies.
“You have some luck…” Buddy murmured, moving from his position between two of his pillows and closing his notebook. “Although, I don’t think I can prize your use of the Force to provoke this storm.”
His boyfriend (holy fuck) smiled at him with that cute shine of his, Eric’s heart stoped for a second to take a good picture of it in his mind and responded with one of his own, offering his hand to the other boy in the room.
“You never known, I may have more power than I show.”
Buddy rolled his eyes. He’ll follow his Star Wars references most times, but would never lose the chance to mock him a little for it, even if both enjoyed the movie more than anyone else they knew.
Sighing, Buddy took his hand and kissed his fingers before rolling on his back, laying on the floor as he looked up to his seilling.
“I’m going to fall asleep if the light doesn’t return soon.” He said while yawning, Eric crawled over to him, taking his position at his side. Buddy looked at him. “What do you think my parents would think if they find us sleeping when we were supposed to be studying?”
“And what would they say if they find us like this?” Eric took his hand, Buddy interlaced their fingers together and smiled at him, leaning to his face to steal a small peck from his lips. “Or doing that?”
“Not much,” Buddy reminded him, then kissed him again and sighed on his shoulder when his nose nuzled on his neck. “I don’t think they would notice, to be honest.”
Things like this made Eric think about his own parents and wonder if everyone else’s were just plain horrible. It made him realize how fortunate he was, in a way, to have people that actually cared about him, even if Red’s methods were something too out of his mind.
Buddy’s parents worked hard, maybe too hard for their kids’ good. His real parents were basically his siblings and ever since Eric was introduced to them, he was more sure every day of this little hiden fact.
Right now, they were alone in the big house, with only his sister Lydia in her room and their housekeeper in the kitchen with the cook. Whatever they did in this room, would remind only between them.
“Buddy?” He called him softly, his boyfriend made a sound to indicate he was listening but sounded too far away to remind awake for too long. “You know you are not alone, right?”
“Of course.” Buddy answered. “My siblings are too annoying to forget.”
Eric laughed at that, looking down at his face. His eyes were closed and his respiration even. Eric kissed his hair and smiled at the happy hum he was answered with.
“I mean, you have me.”
“You have me, too, Eric.”
“I mean–” He cut himself, thinking about it and the eight months together. Eric licked his lips and continued. “I mean, I love you.”
Like awoken with cold water, Buddy looked down to him as he lifted his upper body, his eyes big and mouth slightly open in wonder. Yet, no words ever left his lips, he slowly relaxed into an adoring grin and leaned down to his lips, kissing Eric lovingly, like if it was the first time.
Eric kissed back, one hand going to the back of his neck as both of Buddy’s craddle his face. It didn’t matter how many times they did this, there was seriously nothing else like this.
“I love you, too.” Buddy finally said, kissing him again without leaving oportunity to speak.
If the show were to have come out in a more "accepting" time (not to say 2017 is all that accepting, just more chill with stuff then 1998) do you think Buddy would have been a recurring character? Maybe even a love interest for Eric? And if he was a love interest, how do you think that would've changed the show? (sorry about the long question)
This is the ebst question ever, thank you so much for it.
Originally, they wanted Buddy to be a regular but it never happened (not much information on to why, but I guess we all know…), so I guess if the show had been more open in those terms, maybe he would had stayed. It would had been such an interesting thing to see.
I would had loved if he had been a love interest for Eric! I know I don’t truly talk about this, and it’s mostly because there isn’t many shippers, but I seriously ship Buddy and Eric, more than Eric with other people, to be honest.
For a start, of course that things would had been veeery different if this would had happened. For a start, I feel like we wouldn’t had that insane and disrespectful arc with the Hyde/Donna/Eric shit.
Instead we could had have arcs about Eric accepting his sexuality, and his father coming into terms with that, that would had been very interesting. Or, Hyde that didn’t seem to like Buddy sitting in his place and becoming Eric’s new best friend, so you have this new dynamic coming also, and how everyone would take the relationship.
Man, so many things could had gone better… even Eric and Donna’s relationship if this wasn’t endgame, you know? M A N.
