#basically just buck getting a new bf and being smitten with him

[warpedpuppeteer]

WIP Wednesday

Completely forgot this in the drafts so its not actually Wednesday but anyways. As always, tagged by the wonderful @scknight05 (go check out his fic on ao3!).

Buck gets a new boyfriend. Eddie reacts to this in a completely normal and sane way.

Buck laughs again and God, Eddie thinks. He sounds so happy, so fond, so in love. Eddie's never heard Buck call anyone baby before. The pear gets crushed in his fist. He doesn't even notice it. He doesn't notice it because Buck is leaning down to kiss Riley. And...Buck is tall. Eddie and him are only a few inches apart and he knows that when they're standing together, it's not that jarring but Buck is objectively taller and bigger. It's just that he's never realized how tall and big he actually is to others until he sees him with Riley now.

Riley is…small. Buck has to duck down low and Riley has to get on his toes, pulling himself up with his hands around Buck's neck to reach him and Buck has to hold him up a bit with his arms around Riley's waist. Buck looks like he could engulf Riley in a hug and the smaller man would disappear. Buck's arms - Eddie's breath hitches- fuck, his arms. Buck is big and Eddie has just realized this and it makes that feeling in his gut return and Eddie wants to throw up. And Buck is kissing him. Riley. He's… Eddie has never been so aware of every single move Buck makes outside of work - where it's needed - until now. Buck is gentle but firm, coaxing Riley to tilt his head back a bit for a better angle. It makes Eddie wonder what it would be like to be kissed by Buck. If his lips are firm or soft and if he'd go all in like he does with everything or he'd hold back. If he'd immediately use his tongue or will slowly get there. Will he take control of the kiss? Of the pace? Eddie is not as short as Riley, so he just would need to tilt his head up a bit to kiss Buck and he's much broader than Riley, so Buck doesn't have to hold him up but it would be nice, Eddie thinks, to have Buck’s thick arms wrapped around his waist to hold him close and for Buck to kiss him like the world is ending. Eddie wants to laugh hysterically, he's thinking about Buck kissing him while he's there kissing his new boyfriend! Chim wolf whistles and Buck and Riley break the kiss, laughing. “Sorry”, Riley says sheepishly. Buck kisses the top of his head before turning to everyone again and Eddie wants to punch something because it's such a soft and adoring thing to do. Such a Buck thing to do.

'I wish he'd kiss me like that', a part of Eddie's unhinged brain supplies and Eddie freezes, rattled for a moment at the thought. At the implication. Eddie would like the ground to open up and swallow him whole actually. Here lies Eddie Diaz, a fucking embarrassment.

The thought process behind this was basically:

Me: i need jealous buck like i need air

My brain: i gotchu *writes jealous eddie instead*

This is an early draft and things can change. It's also definitely not a full on Eddie is jealous kind of fic. He just sees them together and has Realizations™️ but has no ill feelings towards Riley. I also just wanted to give Buck a cute ass boyfriend tbh. And have Eddie have a crisis at seeing Buck being cute with another guy.