I wanna know what’s the proposal about👀
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classic situation where they’re planning on proposing to the other. Bobby, Chim, Maddie are in on Buck’s side but are sworn to secrecy. Hen, Karen, Athena are on Eddie’s side and are sworn to secrecy.
He wonders if Buck would think it was a premature decision. Maybe, that it was far too early in their relationship to propose; but the truth is that Eddie would have done it years ago. Long before they first kissed; certainly long before they ever admitted having feelings.
Eddie has been in love with Buck for almost the same amount of time that he’s known him. That afternoon he woke up after being shot, Eddie wanted to ask him to marry him right then, hospital gown and all. If not for fear that he’d ruin their relationship, he would have told him.
The fact that he was in a relationship with Ana at the time is neither here nor there. Eddie is mature enough to admit that he was far more absent in that relationship than she deserved; also that she was far less than he needed. He needed Buck. He wanted Buck.
They’ve been together (in an actual, clearly defined relationship) for seven months (and four days, but who’s counting?). It was an inconsequential Tuesday; Christopher had just gone to bed and the two of them were in the kitchen cleaning the dishes together. It was a routine, of sorts, because they often spent their free evenings in the same way. Buck would cook, they’d help Christopher with his homework, they’d watch a movie or some TV, then they’d get Chris to sleep. Then: dishes, tidying the living room, preparing the couch for Buck to sleep in.
It was always the same. It was always comfortable. It was so domestic, they could have been the family in a Hallmark movie.
Buck and Natalia had just broken up not long ago. Eddie suspected that the man was slightly bothered by the whole thing, but not so much so that spent his time woefully sad about it. The fact is, Natalia did not, in fact, see Buck the way he wanted to be seen.
She saw his trauma and accepted it. But, what’s more, is that she was obsessed with it. She didn’t leave well enough alone, she was always reopening old wounds. She didn’t let him heal.
Buck spent many nights at Eddie’s, pretending that he had to be there for reasons he couldn’t explain. And Eddie, always up for time with Buck, would back him up. It became a problem when she, half-heartedly, made a comment about him cheating on her with Eddie. Buck couldn’t believe his ears and was offended that she’d even insinuate it. Their relationship was a boat on rocky waters for several weeks after that; the final straw was when he’d gotten hurt at work (it was a superficial wound, really, and hardly worrisome), and she’d joked, “at least it wasn’t lightning”.
She practically ended it herself, then.
Days later, that’s when Eddie kissed Buck.