I Give Up. You Win.

And one day when he comes home late he sees two glowing pairs of eyes and knows his boys was up waiting fof him

ok anon you genuinely killed me with this one one of the more irrational reasons I don't want kids is kids are creepy and the thought of waking up in the middle of the night to a 4 year old just standing at the end of the bed makes me shiver lol

Something happens and Buck needs a baby sitter for Theo only every other trusted adult in his life is suddenly busy so in a panic he scrolls down his contact list and calls Tommy. Who, of course, agrees even though his eye brows do that thing. Buck can't see them but he knows they are.

Tommy is sort of like. Wtf do I even do with a kid but when he tells Theo he's a pilot Theo wants to make a helicopter to fly and Tommy looks around and is like. Best I can do is a paper airplane kid. So they spend all day making more and more elaborate paper airplanes ans Tommy even begrudgingly looks on YouTube for suggestions and they through them out of the attic window much to Theo's delight.

Theo of course is enchanted with Tommy and the paper airplanes and then regular toy airplanes and then real life airplanes and as he gets a little older Tommy buys him his first model airplane. He and Theo spend hours in the garage together building it and it's some of the most quiet and focused Buck has ever seen Theo. Tommy and Theo keep building model planes together and one day they build one and when they show it to Buck it has "Evan, will you marry me?" painted along the side and Buck cries so hard he nearly breaks the model.

Theo talks them into an airplane themed wedding and Tommy bemoans how much harder a paper helicopter is to make and how their kid imprinted on the wring kind of air craft and then Buck kisses him and they don't come up for air for a very long time. One day Theo folds up the adoption paperwork into one of the fancy paper planes he and Tommy learned how to make and sails it across the room and when Tommy opens it he cries so hard they have to reprint the paperwork.

Just a pass-by visit to Daddy Buck at the station after picking up Theo from school☺️

A quick snack and an eternal memory that Tommy will now cherish forever🥹

anon and if im crying if im sobbing gently into my lunch what then, what then.

actually wailing sobbing crying because yes!!! and the problem is it's a natural behaviour which sucks for buck because theo just wants to play!!! and he's gotta be the bad guy telling him "no biting!" but I'm picturing one day buck comes home to see tommy in a homemade version one of those police dog training suits and theo is chomped onto one arm and dangling 3 ft in the air as tommy holds it outstretched and buck freezes right inside the doorway and tommy says, "it's... enrichment?"

tommy comes by one day to see both theo and buck wailing on the couch and it takes them like 20 minutes to calm down enough to tell tommy that theo lost his first tooth and when tommy tells them not to worry, that it'll grow back "just as pointy as before. pointy-er, if you're lucky!" theo's like, ok chill is it time for icecream then?

but buck still cries on and off all night because of like. all of it. connor and kameron aren't here to see it, theo's growing up, and buck feels useless because until tommy came over he didn't know how to answer theo's question of "yeah ok teeth grow back but will mine still be pointy?" and he's just so not ready to be a parent!

Chris is the brightest light in Eddie's life.