love isn’t something weak people do

marriage of convenience buddie you are so dear to me and now you're almost canonically within my reach... eddie is not a step dad, he's the dad who stepped up -> married his best friend, platonically, because buck's odds of adopting theo the orphan would be way higher if he's coupled up. hence, the marriage. teamwork! i don't know how the american legal system works. anyway, they all move in together. chris allows it to happen because his room at buck's house is bigger than his old one. theo is delighted (even though his parents are dead) because he thinks eddie is the best thing since strawberry sour patch kids. buck has to share his bed with his pretend husband who's actually his real husband and he dies a thousand deaths every night. eddie's the happiest he's ever been because he got to lock buck down without having to confess ANYTHING. life is beautiful