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"You weren't supposed to he-" Chim started, but Buck put his hand up.

"Oh, too late for that!" He pointed at Maddie. "Spill it."

"Well..." Maddie started.

"Maddie, we promised." Chim warned.

"No, you promised." She corrected. "I said he should talk to Buck."

"It's not our pl-" Again Chim was cut off.

"If someone doesn't start talking, I'm going to have an aneurysm!" Desperation crept into his voice.

Maddie gave Chim one final look before sighing. "Eddie's going out with some guy he met at the club a few weeks ago."

"Some guy." Buck clarified. Maddie just nodded. So he did hear right.

"He wants to tell you-"

"Maddie!" Chim stopped her again. I'm dying to say something too, but this isn't-"

"Enough! Just tell me!" Buck insisted, tired of the interruptions.

"He's in love with you!" Chim yell back, surprising even himself.

"H-He's in love with...?" Buck trailed off, too shocked to repeat it, and pointed at himself. He looked between the two and they just nodded.

A warmth spread through him as his heart sped up, but he knitted his eyebrows together. A pang of hurt stabbing through his happiness. "Wait...then why is he out with some random dude?"

"H-he thinks he needed some experience actually dating a man. So..." Maddie looked to Chim, who picked up the conversation.

"So, he thought he'd just go get it?"

"So, let me get this straight?" Buck deadpanned. "He thinks I want him to have experience before I'd go out with him?

"More like, he didn't want to mess up and ruin his chance with you?"

Buck's jaw tightened and his eyes hardened.

Maddie threw her hands up. "I tried to tell him it was stupid!"

"Probably the stupidest thing I ever-!" He didnt bother finishing his sentence, just stormed out of the room. Maddie and Chimney followed him.

A new feeling flooded him. It was blinding jealousy. He just found out the man he's secretly loved for years feels the same way, and he goes out with some nobody?

Because he feels like he isn't good enough as he is?

Buck scoffed. He was about to correct all of that nonsense right now.

"Wh-what are you going to do?" Chim asked.

"I'm going to crash his date, that's what I'm going to do." He snapped, angrily swinging the front door open.

"Maybe you should wait for him to come back? Then you two can talk." Maddie reasoned.

"And let club guy do god knows what?" Buck gave a harsh laugh. "Over my dead body." He was in his car in seconds, speeding out of the driveway.

Then when Buck is asleep and it's just Tommy and Eddie they get into it. Tommy flat out tells Eddie he is painfully and obviously in love with Buck.

Eddie gets flustered but denies.

"Because an omega could never be a firefighter?" Eddie snapped, crossing his arms over his chest and refusing to look at Buck. Instead, he focused on a small crack on the floor. He hated that his status came out this way. Now the whole 118 was going to look at him like some sort of disease. He wasn't looking forward to seeing that on Buck. "It doesn't change anything, I'm still the same person, but I guess an alpha wouldn't believe that, huh?" He waited for the brunette to agree, or just leave.

Eddie could feel a stinging behind his eyes, but he'd be damned if he cried. So what if Buck didn't look at him the same. He knew this would happen eventually.

"Eddie..." It was hard to read Buck from his voice, he'd kept it annoyingly neutral. A spike of fear shot through him. It took everything in him to not whine and tilt his head in submission. An embarrassing part of him wanted to do anything to not disappoint the alpha, and he hated himself for it.

He'd lied.

He wasn't ready to take Buck's rejection or submit to him like some mindless bitch in heat. He had to get out of here.

"Don't even worry about it!" He scoffed, turning his back to the other to hide the contortion of pain that clawed its way onto his face. "I'll just ask Bobby to pair me with someone else on shif-"

"Whoa, hey, wait a-!" A hand on his shoulder startled him and Eddie jerked away on instinct. He turned to give Buck his best glare, expecting one back. He faltered when confused and worried blue eyes met his. They were glassy, like tears were just moments from welling up.

Buck still had his hand in the air where Eddie had pulled away. Slowly he lowered it. "I don't care that you're an omega!" Buck started with conviction, rubbing his eyes quickly. "Why would you even think that? I've never actually met an omega before. I was just surprised." He swallowed and his cheeks tinted a light pink as he struggled to continue, not wanting to sound as idiotic as he was about to. "I-I thought all Omegas were female- Not that a female omega couldn't be a firefighter either!" He quickly added, putting his hands up in defense. Eddie just pinched his eyebrows together in disbelief. Buck sighed, rubbing his neck. "They didn't really cover the subject where I'm from and the decline in Alphas and Omegas made me think I'd never have to learn about it because I'd never meet one." Buck sounded apologetic and ashamed. "So, I probably sound like such a jerk to you right now, but I swear, I don't think it makes you any less. I just..." He gave a shrug, knowing he was making himself sound even more ignorant. "I don't really know anything about them, ah, you."

Eddie watched him a bit longer. He knew Buck was telling the truth, they could read each other pretty well by now. He was just having trouble with the idea that an alpha could be so open minded and understanding. He expected this from Betas, but his past left him traumatized.

Then again, this is Bobby's son after all. The Alpha that allowed an omega on his team; that still surprises Eddie. The fact that Eddie being upset with him made the taller man want to cry instead of act like an arrogant prick was also something he'd never seen in an Alpha.

"Thanks." He finally said, his shoulders relaxed as relief hit him like a brick wall. "I didn't know much about Alphas until I was older, so I get what you're saying... I might still be a little wary of them." He shifted uncomfortably. His only experiences with them until recently was Shannon; and that was not a point in their favor.

"That's understandable." Buck smiled and Eddie completely relaxed. "I've run into a few of them and I gotta say, we're dickheads." He said it so surely that Eddie let out a laugh and Buck returned it.

Just like that they were back to normal, Buck stepping closer to playfully bump Eddie's shoulder. "Hey, maybe I can come over and make dinner tonight and you can answer my questions about Omegas and I can answer yours about Alphas?" Buck offered.

"...I'd like that. Chris has been begging for you to cook again." Eddie nodded, absently rubbing where Buck had touched him.

"Well it's hard to go back to burnt pizza and pop tarts after you've tasted my cooking." He amped up the cockiness, even puffing his chest out. The look of exasperation in Eddie's reaction was worth it.

"You're never gonna let that go, are you?" He turned to walk to the exit again, Buck in toe this time.

"It was a brick, Eddie."

"I forgot to set the timer." He huffed.

"You maxed out the ove-"

"I thought it would cook faster!"

"Well, it did!" Buck laughed and Eddie joined in. "I guess cooking isn't natural to all omegas?"

Eddie: Why are you threatening me? *serious tone*

Buck: W-what, I'm not? I just said I need a hair cut? The curls are getting out of hand.

Eddie: Definitely a threat. I feel threatened. *still serious sounding, but you can see a mischievous glint in his eyes and the smallest of smiles on his face*

Buck: *laughs* Eddie, stop being ridiculous, I'm serious here!

Eddie: Uh, so am I.

Buck: *Rolls his eyes, still smiling* So, I take it you are against a cut?

Eddie: I'm against all threats.