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Buck child proofed everything he could and put everything breakable in storage, and the kid still managed to break stuff. How he did that Buck didn’t know. At least the kid was determined.

“H-hey, Theo,” Buck called out, not even trying to chase the kid anymore. How was it that he was a literal firefighter and he couldn’t catch a single four year old?

“Mr. Poop!!!” Theo screamed from somewhere that sounded stationary—yup, Buck checked the living room and there he was, jumping on the couch.

“God you really have your work cut out for you, don’t you?” Eddie asked from his seat in the living room, calmly watching the kid bounce up and down on Buck’s brand new craigslist furniture.

“Stop acting like you get out of this Eddie,” Buck said, pointing an accusatory finger in Eddie’s direction. “You said you’d help me out, and I don’t see you doing much chasing,” he continued, slightly out of breath just standing in the living room entrance watching Theo jump. (Seriously, how was the kid still going?)

“Hey, Theo?” Eddie asked with a slightly conniving smile on his face.

Theo snapped to attention and stilled when Eddie said his name. His eyes got wide and he looked like he was listening. What was happening?

“Yes Mr. Eddie?” Theo politely asked.

“Let’s settle down a bit, howabout?” Eddie suggested.

Buck stood there in shock as Theo nodded and crept over to the chair Eddie was sitting in. He watched as Theo climbed on top of Eddie’s lap, laid on Eddie’s chest, and closed his eyes as Eddie put his arms around him.

“There we go,” Eddie murmured as he pressed a soft kiss to Theo’s hair and looked up at Buck to give him a smug smile.

Buck just sighed and plopped down next to them. “You are such a little traitor,” he said quietly as he ruffled Theo’s hair.

“Leave the kid alone, he can’t help it if I’ve got the magic touch,” Eddie teased.

“Oh the magic touch now?” Buck teased back, raising his eyebrows challengingly.

buck is absolutely speechless as he sits down, and he looks at eddie, "how the hell did you do that"

to which eddie just grins and says, "i know how to handle a buckley"

But Theo stubbornly shakes his head. His mouth is clamped so tight that his whole face scrunches up. Buck would call it adorable if he wasn’t at his wits’ end.

“Hey, Theo,” Eddie says as he walks out of Buck's kitchen, previously busy washing the dishes since Buck cooked dinner. He dries his hands on a dish towel he throws over his shoulder as he crouches down to meet Theo's height on the chair. “Would you try the broccoli for me?”

Theo stares at Eddie for a moment, probably mirroring Buck's expression of wide-eyed confusion and slight awe. It doesn’t take him long to debate his options before he nods and says, “Okay,” while grabbing the fork from Buck’s outstretched hand and shovels the broccoli into his mouth.

Eddie beams. “Good job, buddy.”

Theo cheeses a big grin, proud when he opens his empty mouth to reveal he ate it all and it’s not hidden under his tongue.

Buck’s own mouth falls open. What the hell? Theo folds immediately after Eddie asks nicely? Do you know how many times Buck has asked Theo nicely to finish his dinner? “Traitors, both of you,” he mumbles, mostly to Eddie, “That’s just not fair.”

Ruffling Theo’s hair, Eddie laughs as he turns his attention onto Buck, eyes gleaming—fully and completely unaware of Buck’s heart skipping a beat. “Maybe next time, bud.”

Buck really can’t fault Theo at all. Who wouldn’t do anything because Eddie asked? Peas in a pod is what they are and Eddie knows it too well.

Healthy relationship for them

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