AU where Chim and Maddie own a coffee shop and Buck’s just there to study for his fire academy exam or something. Tommy, a regular and Chim’s bestie comes in for much needed caffeine while on call, one day. He mistakes Buck for an employee and instead of clarifying that he doesn’t work there, attempts to make Tommy’s coffee. What comes out is an abomination and maybe Tommy’s a little grumpy, running on fumes so he says something snarky. And see the thing is, Buck is intrigued, mesmerized even so he hangs around the shop and every time Tommy comes in, he’s there. The next attempt at making his coffee isn’t much better. They both make snarky comments and over the weeks, it turns into flirting. One day, Tommy “complains” to Chim about his new employee and Chim’s all, what new employee??
“The guy with the curls and the birthmark? Adorable pout.” Tommy blushes at the slip.
“Ohh yeah that’s my brother in law. He doesn’t work here though. I was wondering why he kept making your order and why you continued to drink such ghastly coffee. Thought it was some weird flirting, to be honest.”
Tommy’s mortified because he’d been kind of rude to Buck at the beginning, a little bitchy, if he’s honest.
Chim laughs at his predicament, shaking his head. “You know he’s been mooning over you too. Just ask him out already! He’ll say yes.”
Buck blushes adorably when Tommy tells him he knows he doesn’t actually work there, and then he asks him on a date-not coffee though!
A year later, Buck proposes at the shop, makes Tommy’s coffee just the way he likes it and tells him, “I want to spend the rest of my life making your coffee.”
