I (might) be weak for Eddie Diaz

Okay so I never vote in these things but I saw @imcatchingteardropsinmyhands got an ask about it so I went and tried it and I must be a dumbass because I couldn’t find the actual poll ??

Every single relationship Buck and Eddie have had with another woman was/is overshadowed by their “friendship”.

- Buck, not Shannon, is invited to watch Christopher meet Santa Claus

- Eddie is the one holding Buck’s hand while trapped under the fire truck while Ali played the part of concerned gf from a distance

- After Ali and Buck split, Buck tells Maddie that going to Eddie’s firefighter ceremony is “more important” than staying home to rest his injured leg. (“If I break anything else they can just fix that, too.”)

- The same episode that introduces us to A*a and her ableism ends with Buck helping Eddie find a solution to the skateboard dilemma, AND Buck gets to be there in the park the first time Christopher rides one.

- Abby returns at the end of season three and we see Eddie at his most protective

- Three episodes before A*a makes a comeback we are shown the Buckley-Diaz boys having a game night (The episode was called Future Tense, in case you forgot.)

- Eddie literally came home to Buck and Christopher after a date with A*a and called Buck a miracle worker for getting Christopher in bed

- When Eddie is preoccupied with A*a, Christopher sneaks off to see Buck and is assured that Buck isn’t going anywhere

- A*a does the research on Charlie’s mother, but Eddie never mentions her when telling Buck what he discovered

- Buck is the person who was with Eddie when he got shot. Buck is the person who was covered in Eddie’s blood. Buck is the person Eddie reached for and stared at as he felt himself shutting down.

- While A*a sat by Eddie’s bedside in the hospital, Buck looked after Christopher in the Diaz household

- Buck didn’t chase after T*ylor because Eddie finally woke up

- Eddie’s got a girlfriend and yet doesn’t intend to change his will to give her legal rights to his child

None of this was an accident. None of this qualifies as queerbaiting when they’re literally showing you Buck and Eddie will always choose each other first no matter what.

Is the wait exhausting? Absolutely.

As far as Eddie is concerned, Buck is never going anywhere.

And Buck stepped up and proved that by taking care of Chris before even knowing Eddie would've chosen him to do so.

Oh, Eddie might die? Where is Chris - the single most important thing in the world to Eddie? Being taken care of by Buck.

Buck's insecure in his relationships. We've seen it time and time again. And while he knows (of course he knows) how important Eddie and Chris are to him (and it got shoved down his throat by the possibility of losing Eddie when Eddie was shot and taken to the hospital), he didn't know and understand that Eddie valued him just as much until Eddie confirmed it.

There is literally nothing in the world Eddie could have done to send a stronger message to Buck about how valued Buck is to both he and his son than to legally entrust Chris to him in the event of his death.

Nothing.

And I think for the first time, we might actually get to see Buck feel secure in one of his relationships. And it's his relationship with Eddie.

Even Maddie and he have rocky moments. Where she has said out loud that she knows they're not totally past everything that has happened between them.

People can discuss and debate ships all day, but Eddie and Buck have something special.

And I'll be shocked to hell if they can actually write another relationship for either that can touch it.