now that buck has converted ravi to an eddie diaz stan, i'm thinking of a future scenario where buck agrees to mentor the new probies and spends all his time talking about how eddie is the best firefighter ever. slowly, they fall into the ravi pipeline of skeptical -> firm believer when eddie does something especially competent while being super hot. rumors start going around that buckley is leading a mini cult in honor of diaz at the 118, but eddie is none the wiser. when eddie gets offered captaincy at a different station, the probies (and ravi) all try to transfer with him. 118 captains henchim are confused because a quarter of their shift wants to leave. meanwhile buck is bragging that his HUSBAND is going to be such a good CAPTAIN and how he wishes he could transfer so eddie could boss him around too :( (chimney tells him to save it for the bedroom). ravi's transfer request gets approved, and buck sends hourly texts asking for updates during their first shift. eddie makes a new rule that buck is only allowed to text ravi once per shift to check up on him after ravi threatens to block buck for spamming his phone.
ravi does continue the tradition of telling new probies how awesome eddie is, and buck comes to visit the station at least once a month to make sure everyone knows beautiful captain diaz is a happily taken man :) yay
Getting stuck on eddieravi in a real way, I'm wondering if I could please have 60 for them, mayhaps?
“You have no idea how much i want you.”
(Baby's first Ravmundo!)(It's me, I'm baby.)
There's been a push for them to bond as a shift more now that Chimney is training to be their captain for real and they realized they almost lost Buck to a transfer that was extremely warranted. It means that Ravi's spending a lot more time with Eddie, who isn't as perfect as Buck had made him out to be--something Buck also seems to be realizing, thank God. But he's still really cool sometimes and whatever.
They're at one of those bars with axe throwing, and Maddie, Karen, and Tommy join them. So with the other three coupled up, Eddie and Ravi end up on a team and start calling themselves "Ravmundo" and playing up the joking couple shit whenever one of the real couples starts laying it on a little thick. At one point, Eddie bats his eyelashes at Ravi and calls him "babygirl," because they overhear Buck slip up and call Tommy "Daddy." Thankfully, it's only within their earshot. Maddie doesn't need to hear that, Chimney would never let them hear the end of it, and Hen and Karen would give them enough shit for it that Maddie and/or Chimney would find out.
So Eddie hangs all over Ravi, wrapping an arm around his neck and leaning in to smile like they're sharing a secret sometimes.
"Alright, we got this," he says. "We might be able to beat Madney, Henren is barely hanging on by a thread, and Tevan is going to be disqualified if they keep getting distracted and making out when it's their turns."
"Fuck off, Diaz," Tommy says from where he's got both arms wrapped around Buck from behind at the next high top. "Also, why do I only get one letter of representation in our celebrity couple name? What about To-van? Or Kinkley?"
"Because To-van sounds stupid, and I'm not saying 'kink' around Maddie when I'm talking about her little brother," Eddie says, and Maddie shouts a thanks over her shoulder before throwing an axe with terrifying accuracy. She's carrying the Han team. "Alright, honey, you got this."
Ravi walks up to the rack, grabs an axe, takes a deep breath, and throws it. When it ends up in the bullseye, he raises his fists in the air in victory.
"That's my man!" Eddie crows, wrapping his arms around Ravi's waist and shaking him when he gets back to their table. "Fuck yeah, that's hot. Alright, Karen, you're up."
Ravi excuses himself to grab another pitcher of beer. While he's at the bar, he sends a panicked text to his best friend Jes, who doesn't believe the 118 A-shift is actually real despite seeing photographic and news coverage. All she does is tell him that maybe Eddie wants to "experiment" and encourages him to give it a shot. She's seen photos of Eddie and a video of him rappelling down a building that showed off his ass in a rescue harness.
"Fucking fantastic," he mutters, locking his phone and grabbing the pitcher. "Zero help, thank you."
He brings the pitcher back to the table just as Tommy's taking his turn. The guy's actually good, but it probably helps that he can throw a full-size axe like a hatchet.
"Thanks, sweetie," Eddie says, pouring a glass of beer and sliding it over to Ravi before pouring his own. They watch Chimney barely miss the target, and then Eddie's making his way to the rack for his turn.
"Honestly? Do it," Karen mutters. Even though she's drunk, she's still the smartest person in the room, and Ravi needs to stay further away from her right.
"Nope, this is not a conversation I'm having around people I work with," he mutters back, and Hen snorts from Karen's other side. "See?"
"All I'm saying is that you got called 'pretty' about five times when you weren't even around to hear it," Karen says under her breath as Hen shrugs off her jacket to take her turn. "So, y'know, go for it."
Ravi really needs to spend more time with his actual friends that he doesn't work with or their spouses/partners.
He automatically slides an arm around Eddie's waist when he gets back, hands him his beer, and pats his stomach. "Good job. We're only going to kind of lose to Maddie."
"Hey, and me!" Chimney protests.
"You're helping," Maddie says, kissing his temple. Fucking savage.
They lose to Maddie by one point, because Chimney really was just there to ride her coattails. She hustled the hell out of them, and Ravi's now actually a little scared of her. From what he's heard, he's not wrong to be.
The couples trickle away bit by bit, because four of them have kids to take care of, and Buck and Tommy are in their honeymoon phase. It's apparently worse than the first one, and Ravi believes it. Eddie excuses himself to check on Chris at his sleepover but says he'll be back.
He pulls up the feed on his phone to check on his cat, clicking through the cameras until he sees her sleeping on her tree.
"What's that?" Eddie asks from over his shoulder.
"My cat, Makal," he says, tilting his phone toward him. "I have one of those cameras so I can talk to her when I'm not there, but mostly it's just a lot of watching her sleep or claw shit she's not supposed to."
"Say her name again?" Eddie asks, tilting his ear toward Ravi, and he repeats it. "What's that mean? I like it."
"'Daughter,'" he admits. "It's because of a joke my mom made when I got her."
He ends up showing Eddie about three dozens pictures and videos of her. At one point, he tears his eyes away from the screen and glances down at Eddie's mouth. Thankfully, Eddie's still watching her chase a crane fly through the dining room.
"You want to meet her?" Ravi asks.
"Yeah, actually," Eddie replies with a grin.
They get in an Uber together, and Eddie breaches the invisible border that is the middle seat five separate times to lean in and say something or joke about something or listen to what Ravi's saying. By the time they get to his house, he's trying to rationalize everything and coming up with a lot of nothing beyond wanting to slam him against a wall and kiss him.
Eddie sits on the floor of his living room, his toes wiggling in his socks, and Ravi scoops up Makal to bring her to meet him. She sniffs Eddie's stretched out hand, butts up against it, and Eddie makes a soft noise when her head makes contact with his hand.
"I wish I could get a cat or a dog," he says, scratching under her chin. "I'm not home enough."
"She's pretty great," Ravi says, smiling. When she flops over on her side and starts purring, he reaches out to scratch the soft fur on her chest. "Cheriya Makal, look at you being cute for Eddie."
"What's--"
"'Little daughter,'" he translates.
"What language?"
"Malayalam. My family's from Kerala, it's kind of near the tip of India," he says, smiling when Makal rolls to her other side and looks back at them with a slow blink.
"I like it," Eddie says, softly repeating the phrase to himself.
Ravi smiles, glances over, corrects his pronunciation. Eddie says it again, actually comes pretty close.
"Not bad," he praises.
"Thanks," Eddie says softly, and then he's leaning in and kissing Ravi.
Ravi grabs the front of Eddie's shirt, kissing him back, and then he tugs him closer.
"You have no idea," Eddie murmurs against his mouth, "how much I want you."
"Think I might have an idea," Ravi says with a pointed look down at where Eddie's hand is high up on his inner thigh.
"Fair point," Eddie concedes with a grin.
They keep kissing until Eddie complains about being too old to do this on a floor, then Ravi leads him to his bedroom, closing the door behind them to keep Makal out. When Eddie kisses him again, he licks into Ravi's mouth in a way that makes him want to drop to his knees and stick his tongue out for him. Instead, he pulls him on top of him on the bed while they tug at each other's clothes.
"I've never done this before," Eddie admits, kissing along Ravi's jaw.
"Slept with a guy or a coworker?" he asks, and Eddie's cheeks go pink. "Or both?"
"Both," Eddie says.
"Well, I used to work at a restaurant, and I had my first boyfriend when I was seventeen," Ravi says, grinning. "So don't worry, I got you. Unless you want to st--"
"No, no, definitely not," Eddie says quickly, and Ravi kisses him for it.
"Alright, then give me, uh, two minutes," he says, hustling into the bathroom.
He emerges a few minutes later, naked and clean. Eddie's laying on the bed without any clothes on either, and he looks like he's having a minor crisis right up until he sees Ravi. Then he sits up and starts kissing his stomach until he tugs Ravi on top of him.
"You ever try anal?" he asks between kisses, and Eddie shakes his head shyly. He reaches for his nightstand and slaps a bottle of lube into Eddie's hand. "Use this, more than you think you need, and go slow."
"I am a paramedic," Eddie reminds him. "I've seen my fair share of, uh, I guess 'anal mishaps'? So I'll be careful."
"Yeah, there's definitely a better way to phrase that," Ravi says, and Eddie snickers.
Eddie's actually kind of sweet about it, going slow and checking that Ravi's doing okay. When he rolls the condom on, Ravi pushes him back on the mattress and sinks down on him slowly.
"H-holy shit, that's so tight," Eddie gasps, arching slightly under him and gripping the tops of his thighs hard. Ravi smiles and shifts a little to get comfortable.
"Let me know when I can move," he says, and Eddie squeezes his eyes shut, taking a deep breath before opening his eyes and nodding. Ravi bends forward to kiss him before raising his ass, enjoying the stretch and friction and the way Eddie looks like he's about to lose it at any moment.
When he slides back down, Eddie swears and breathes through it. It's cute. Ravi keeps kissing him to try to distract him a little, riding him slowly while he scratches his nails through Eddie's chest hair and shamelessly gropes him.
"Fuck, baby, you feel amazing," Eddie breathes, thrusting up into him and shocking a moan out of Ravi. He sits up, pressing his mouth to Ravi's chest and collarbone and neck as they rock together.
Ravi gets lost in the humidity that's building around them, the way the sweat slicks their skin and makes them slide against each other, how Eddie feels inside him, the way he keeps looking at Ravi like he's the Eighth Wonder.
"'S good?" Eddie asks, and Ravi nods, shivering when Eddie's grip on his waist tightens and he thrusts up into Ravi hard. "Fuck, Rav, I c-can't--"
"Then don't," Ravi begs. "Just--fuck, just fuck me."
He has to wrap his legs around Eddie tight when Eddie starts raising himself onto his knees, and then Ravi is being tipped onto his back while Eddie covers him and kisses him, fucking into him hard. But now the angle's perfect, and Ravi feels like his bones are going to leak out of his body.
Eddie murmurs encouragement against his neck, and Ravi gets a hand between them to jerk himself off. A hand wraps around his, and then Eddie's the one controlling the speed of it. It's way hotter than it has any right to be.
"Fuck, Rav, baby, I ca--I'm gonna cum," Eddie gasps, and Ravi digs his heels into his ass to encourage him to fuck deep through his orgasm. Teeth graze over his jaw, and then Eddie's kissing him deep while his cock pulses inside, and Ravi moans through his own orgasm.
They end up laying next to each other, sweating and panting.
"You wanna stay over?" Ravi asks.
"Do we get to do that again?"
"If you can get it up. You're older than--mm!" Ravi's cut off by a pillow on his face, and then when it gets lifted away, Eddie's grinning at him like a maniac before he kisses him.
Weirdly, the most endearing thing is when Eddie asks if the door should be open so Makal can come in and sleep with them. When Ravi nods sleepily, Eddie gets up and opens the door, greeting her in murmured Spanish until she mews her displeasure at being sexiled.
"Calm down, hermanita, there's a nice big bed for you with your daddy already in it," Eddie says, bending to pet her before getting back in bed. "'Night, Rav."
Ravi hides his smile in his pillow. "'Night, Eddie."
Hear me out . Ravi and Buck are hanging out and getting closer and Eddie goes crazy and gay panics and invites himself to the bar with them and then accidentally pushes a glass onto the floor which shatters onto Buck's leg and he's bleeding and Eddie's panicking and just leaves . And Eddie's sitting on the couch by himself later that night and then the door bell rings . It's Ravi . They talk and .. Eddie just says he was wanting . His attention and Ravi's like .. my attention ? And they KISS and Eddie is GAY yayyyy <3
Idk but this is kinda giving Buck ran into his ex (again) at a bar (again) and they’re trying to act like they don’t want to rip each other to shreds while Eddie and Ravi make bets on how fast they end up in a bathroom stall fucking nasty or making out in an uber on their way home to fuck nasty
