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More photos from my days being across the street from a working farm. What a treat to watch the tractors do their work.

Anyway, I hope you're feeling well and that your health is better.

Hi lovely and oooh, thank you for the question!

Honestly, it's such a good one. If the show did go there, it would be more interesting than putting Buck and Lucy together for sure. It would also be an indirect nod to Buddie, 'coz this is actually something that was quite a common trope in the history of literature for many centuries during which same sex relationships couldn't be explicitly explored. Can't be with your same sex love? Be with someone of the opposite sex who reflects your love as closely as possible. I can date this back to at least 1800 years ago, in rabbinical writing (in the Talmud), when they describe Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish meeting once again, childhood friends who had been torn apart, and now Reish Lakish sees Rabbi Yochanan bathing in the Jordan River and so he jumps right in. They can't be together, so Rabbi Yochanan offers his sister in marriage to Reish Lakish. His selling point? That his sister looks just like him. And Reish Lakish accepts without even having seen her.

They spend the rest of their lives studying the torah together, being known as the two greatest rabbis of their generation and completing each other's rabbinical capacities. When Roman soldiers want to arrest one of them in the middle of the night, they go to the other's house 'coz that's where they know they'd find him. In the middle of the night. And then when the two have a falling out, Reish Lakish is so heartbroken over it, he becomes ill and dies. Rabbi Yochanan's sister, the widow, she's in mourning, but she's not driven mad with sorrow. You know who is? Rabbi Yochanan upon hearing the news. He goes crazy, tearing his clothes off and screaming repeatedly, "Where are you, son of Lakish?" When the rabbis can't see him suffering anymore, they pray for him to be delivered, and he passes away. That's right, these two died of a broken heart over each other. I don't think you can get much gayer than that in the 2nd century Land of Israel.

And it starts by letting us know Rabbi Yochanan's sister is a stand in for the rabbi himself.

This is just an example, I could give more, but I hope I managed to demonstrate that this is actually a trope that has been used for subtextually writing same sex couples for millennia, and if the "female Buck" gets together with Eddie, even for two seconds, my queer, meta-inclined brain will actually stop functioning.

Will they do it? I honestly don't know. They'll have to do something to progress Buck and Eddie's romantic journeys, and they once more have both of them being single at the same time, just like in s3. They also have Madney to bring back together. I would think that if 911 is geared towards making Buddie canon, that won't progress before the Madney reunion. I'd say they can't keep both Buck and Eddie single and uninvolved with anyone for an entire season, but the show has done that in s3, and back then, they were the only romantically available characters on the show. So if the show wanted to, it could do it again. I'm not sure it does want to. But then, I do think that any involvement between Lucy and Eddie would bring us back to the kiss she shared with Buck. I don't think 911 is the kind of show that would endanger the Buddie r/s (whether romantic or as a friendship) for the sake of a love interest, they're clearly as invested in the Buddifer family unit as we are, so that's maybe the biggest reason why, if I absolutely had to take a guess, I'd be more inclined to think Lucy wouldn't be paired up with Eddie.

I hope this answer helps? I really do! Please don't hesitate to let me know. And thank you for the well wishes, I'm doing my best to deal! Sending LOADS of hugs and love your way! xoxox

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