forever is the sweetest con | buddie | marriage of convenience | 38k
buck is invited to a family reunion and realises that there's a good chunk of money waiting for him. there’s one issue, though: he has to be married to claim it, and right now, he’s painfully single. it’s a good thing he has such a great best friend in eddie, right?
Buck swallows. His mind is racing too fast for him to make sense of his own thoughts, but wading through the messiness, one sentiment pops up, growing more and more vibrant until it’s all he can think about.
It would be nice to be married to your best friend.
“This is a really unromantic proposal,” Buck says, half-joking, hands still shaking. “You didn’t even ask me anything.”
Eddie rolls his eyes, but even as he’s doing so, his hand slides away from Buck’s shoulder, and he sinks to his knees. Like this, Buck gets to see an entirely new angle of him. Huh. Eddie looks pretty good like this. Then again, Buck is pretty sure that Eddie looks good from every angle. He’s attractive like that.
“Buck,” Eddie says, a small smile curving at the edge of his mouth, “wanna get married? For our honeymoon, we’ll scam your parents out of some money and make Ravi’s accountant do our taxes.”
“Well,” Buck says drily, “that sounds like an offer I can’t refuse.”
“I’m sorry,” Eddie says, in his very best – meaning very bad – impression of Buck when he gets his hands on a clipboard. “What was that?”
“Yes, Eddie,” Buck says, putting on an air of suffering despite the butterflies making themselves at home in his stomach. Man, whoever Eddie ends up proposing to for realsies is gonna be so lucky. “I’ll marry you.”
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