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When Eddie’s abuela gets sick, she mentions how much it’d mean to her, seeing Eddie and Buck get married, ignoring the fact that they are not, actually, together.

Except Buck plays along to comfort her and now Eddie doesn’t know how to deal with his secret feelings for his best friend.

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Disclaimer: Isabel is sick and in the hospital but nothing bad actually happens because I’m not a monster, okay? This has a happy ending for everyone.

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“My only regret,” Isabel starts saying, but a nasty cough stops her. Eddie and Buck are in her hospital room like they’ve been every day after their shift for the past week, trying to stay hopeful when every day the doctor tries to prepare them for the worse. The first day when Eddie received the call, Buck just tagged along and stayed by his side without even being asked, and it felt good, to not be alone in this.

Eddie takes the cup of water on her bedside table and helps her drink. “Slowly, Abuela, it’s okay you don’t have to talk.”
She smiles at him and cups his face. “My sweet angel,” she says. “My only regret is that I won’t be here to see you two get married.” She look back and forth between Eddie and Buck, both furrowing their brows in surprise.

“What?” Eddie’s the first one to get out of his stupor.
“Such an adorable one you found,” she smiles, resting her head back on the pillow. “And good looking too,” she adds grinning at Buck, who just snorts at that.
“Hey,” Eddie turns back towards Buck, “don’t encourage her,” he whispers, glaring. “Abuela, Buck and I, I don’t know why you’d think that we, uh-”
Buck cuts him mid sentence by moving a step closer to the bed and putting a hand on Isabel’s hand, squeezing gently. “This is very nice of you to say,” he smiles at her. “I think this one,” he puts his free hand on Eddie’s shoulder, “is just waiting to find the perfect ring to pop the question, you know,” he adds with a wink.

Eddie can feel his face going bright red now and he’s one lie away from punching Buck in the face. Just because his abuela is on her dying bed doesn’t give Buck the right to mess with her like that. Not that he wouldn’t want to get the guy a ring, if he’s being honest it’s his number two fantasy when thinking about Buck, and he’s never sharing his number one with anyone. Ever.

But he still knows the difference between his fantasy and reality, and in reality they’re best friends, nothing else. What he doesn’t understand is how Buck can be so comfortable about all this. Unless he knows about Eddie’s massive crush on him and he’s just seizing the opportunity to mess with him. That’d make sense.

“Awww yes that’s my Edmundo right there,” Isabel coos and before Eddie realizes it, Buck is leaning towards him and pressing his lips against his mouth. It’s perfect and soft and absolutely everything Eddie ever hoped it’d be. But it’s also very fake.

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