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screaming-universe · 2 months ago

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Yes please.

Eddie/Terry | Gen | 589 words | ao3

written for @eddiediaz-week Day 3: Rare Pair and "Yes please."

Of course Terry noticed Diaz—Eddie; it is hard to miss a new colleague when a team is as close-knit as that of Metro Dispatch. It is also hard to miss Eddie Diaz—in Terry’s humble opinion—when you happen to be into men. Sure, taste and preferences differ but here’s a tall, strong firefighter with a beautiful face and big brown eyes. What’s not to like? Terry has seen a lot of his colleagues take a look at Eddie Diaz and he’s right there with them.

All of this may have stayed what it was: attraction. And maybe a harmless little crush. But definitely not what Terry is feeling now. What, though, are you supposed to do when there’s an emergency at work—a fire; the irony of that—you wake up from unconsciousness to those big brown eyes looking right at you, and then the big strong firefighter is carrying you to safety as if you weighed nothing?

Yeah, Terry’s harmless little crush on Eddie Diaz has developed into a fully-fledged crush that makes his heart beat faster when he thinks about the firefighter. Terry is totally fucked.

Terry's crush has gotten so out of hand that it makes his mind go blank every time he even just sees Eddie. Thankfully that doesn't happen often now, since Eddie has gone back to the 118. Or you'd think so; Terry certainly did. But no, Eddie comes back fairly regularly to catch up with the dispatchers, to swap recipes with Linda, to engage in barbed, affectionate banter with Josh. And strangely enough: to give Terry a heart attack when he somehow always manages to find Terry to say hi. Often enough it's just that: Eddie says hi, then lingers for a moment and disappears just as quickly as he appeared.

Then Maddie catches one of their interactions, when Terry's in the breakroom. And he doesn't need to see her amused expression to know what she's thinking; what else is there to think? Terry keeps pouring himself a coffee for the whole time that this exchange takes place and it may be quick but by the time he turns back to his mug, the coffee is dripping down to the floor. Or rather creating a waterfall—a coffeefall? Maddie doesn't even need to say anything, Terry knows.

But what she says does surprise him. "Despite all that," she says and puts down her lunch to make a vague gesture at Terry's coffee situation, "he was blushing. One of you should probably say something."

Terry doesn't know what to say to that, so he doesn't say anything. Instead he turns around to clean up all the coffee that has left his mug and tries to not let Maddie's words get his hopes up.

It doesn't work. The next time Terry sees Eddie at Metro Dispatch, he has thought of roughly two-hundred-and-fifty-four ways to ask Eddie Diaz out. On a date. Romantically. So when Eddie gives him a heart attack when he once again sneaks up to where Terry is working in the server room, he can't stop himself.

"Go out on a date with me, please?" he blurts out. He immediately feels all the blood in his body rise into his head, making his cheeks burn. He feels like he is on the verge of passing out, like he's on the verge of sinking into the floor, like he's on the–

"Yes," Eddie says quietly and his beautiful eyes are so so big, so so hopeful, Terry cannot look away, "please."

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buffaluff · 6 months ago

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