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the stolen hearts of things

alex is a philanthropist. he’s also, technically, a thief. but he only ever steals to help others; he's never taken a thing for himself. that is, at least, until now. or, the royal wedding serves as the perfect cover for a heist, but what alex ends up stealing is a kiss from prince henry instead. or, a happy birthday fic for zoë. 6.5k. modern au. rated e.

The job itself is not the issue.

Scoring the invite to the royal wedding might have been a challenge, if Alex hadn’t called in a last-minute favor from their contacts at the Okonjo Foundation. But they have blueprints, and rotating guard schedules, and access to security cameras courtesy of Nora and June’s combined hacking skills. Everything else should be a cakewalk in comparison.

Everything, that is, except for one not-so-small problem. That problem happens to be standing by an actual eight-tier wedding cake at the moment, smiling stiffly at heads of state and various other members of royalty.

Alex can’t help it. Nothing derails him quite like that flash of blond hair through the crowd, those shoulders and those blue, blue eyes that are now gliding right past him, pretending not to have noticed him there.

Well. He has something he’d like to say about that. He—

Please focus, Alejandro, he can hear Nora sigh in his ear. Literally.

Alex resists the urge to side-eye her from across the room. She’s chatting up Princess Bea, snippets of conversation filtering in through Alex’s earpiece. It’s not that he’s bitter about Nora getting time to flirt while he’s here to do all the grunt work. Except that he totally is.

The thing is, though, that she’s not wrong. He doesn’t have time for distractions.

And yet—and yet.

There are two things he’s never been able to resist, even while knee-deep in a job. The first is making a list. The second—

“Your Royal Highness,” Alex drawls, sauntering over to join him.

Sorry, I need to get out my red pen for a moment.

It's spelled SOLE, not 'soul'.

And it's rather interesting that Tommy had to stick around for two seasons to live out his purpose to prove Buck's bisexuality. You'd think that he'd have been gone by the end of season 7 and yet, he got Bobby's seal of approval.

That drives you nuts, doesn't it?

Bobby's gave his seal of approval to a plot device.

Buck wanted to move in with the plot device.

Buck was thinking about marriage with the plot device.

He pined over the plot device for half of a season.

He fucked and was fucked by the plot device on bare mattress on the freaking floor.

He knew the plot device would still come to help when the 118 got stuck in the lab.

The plot device risked his life and his career and showed off some really cool helicopter tricks.

The plot device watched "the love of his life" collapse in grief for his dead father figure on the monitors.

The plot device was emotional at the sight of Buck collapsing.

The plot device was more present in the Bobby flashback then Hen and Chim were.

The plot device saved Bobby's life when Bobby was suicidal.

The plot device was a pallbearer at Bobby's funeral.

The plot device walked with the present members of the 118 in the procession.

Buck was thinking about marriage with the plot device.

In which episode and scene did Buck think about marriage?

The plot device watched "the love of his life" collapse in grief for his dead father figure on the monitors.

Eddie: "I don't know. I wasn't there."

But I can't stop thinking as why they would send the only two peoplw who aren't a couple onscreen (yet 🤞🏻) to do promo if something big wasn't happening with them and their characters in the next two episodes...

Ok to both of these nonnies and many others who follow me and are thinking the same way, I just wanted to answer once and for all bc I won’t be speaking about this any more. I’ve been watching the show and following it since the beginning. They have never had to do “damage control” after a finale especially one in which required two cast members to go on a press tour. Even after season 6, which was supposed to be a series finale and was the finale to ever exist, they didn’t have anyone do a press tour after the finale. A few interviews post mortem came out but nothing to this extreme.

So I say this, why would they need to have Oliver and Ryan do “damage control” for a season that did relatively well until a few episodes ago where the showrunner decided to kill off a main character for shock value? If they really wanted to do damage control, they’d sent in JLH or Angela Bassett who are bigger names to go on a press tour and try to repair whatever damage that was done. This is not what it is. Not at all.

The reason they’re having Oliver and Ryan go on a joint press tour has got to be bc whatever is happening to both their characters’ storylines must be big to garner this kind of promotion. They’re not going to queer bait us and give us these two promoting the finale to get us to tune in for the next season. Oliver himself never wants to be accused of queer baiting so he wouldn’t be as open with sharing all that Ryan content from yesterday if it was for nothing more than damage control. That’s not what’s happening here.

Also the kind of press they’re doing is significantly different than a regular post mortem interview. They’re doing thirst tweets that directly involve their ship Buddie. They’re doing the Spill the tea which is a segment that’s done with platonic and sometimes romantic partners. I don’t mean partners irl but on the show. This is not your average interviews. And why would they need to promote the finale??? Unless something big happens and we’re left wondering wtf is awaiting us for next season.

I can’t imagine all this is happening all for nothing with no inkling for Buddie canon. I can’t at all. I really believe it’s happening and we’re getting a legit confirmation of that in the finale. Which is whyyyy we can then expect these two in many interviews afterward.

I know we’ve been burned many times before. I get it bc trust me I’ve been here holding on nonstop since s2. I haven’t given up even when they were dating two diff women. It’s everyone’s decision to keep holding onto hope or give up on it. I can’t tell you one way or another. But let’s please finish the season and see what actually happens after this season is over before we jump to accusations on what these joint interviews mean ok?

BuckTaylor // EddieAna // EddieSol // EddieShannon …

… But the couple that is queer can’t just be BuckTommy. Because Tommy is the first REAL “obstacle” for the ship they want.

None of the other ships listed (besides maybe Eddiesol) have a real ship name and I'm not sure why BuckTommy fans would want BuckTommy to be like them. They didn't have a large enough contingent of shippers to care about wanting a name.

It would be like calling Buddie BuckEddie.