Title: Keeping Our Promises (I’ve Got Your Back) Chapter 12 of 13

Fandom: 911

Pairings: Evan Buckley/Eddie Diaz

Summary:  Eddie had made a promise—one he intends to keep.  He’s failed on a lot of other promises he’s made, but he won’t fail Buck when Buck needs him. 

Tags/warnings: fix it—as in, this is how it should have gone! Get together.  First time.  Eddie Diaz has Evan Buckley’s back. Friends to lovers. Lawsuit Era. Eventual explicit sex.  Panic attacks. Marriage proposals.  Baby trapping. 

The drive home is filled with anticipation. Neither of them speaks much, but Buck’s fingers stroke suggestively along the underside of Eddie’s wrist and palm, making him twitch. The urgency between his legs grows, and he has to slide down the seat a bit more to spread his legs. 

He’d call Buck a tease, but he knows that Buck isn’t planning on withholding anything tonight, given the heated, hooded gaze that is fastened on Eddie more than on the early evening traffic. 

When they pull up into the driveway, they remain in their seats as the engine cools. Eddie is oddly hesitant to take the first step since he’d have to let go of Buck’s hand to do so. 

“We don’t have to do anything—if you don’t want to,” Buck says finally. 

Eddie startles. “What?”

“We’re still out here,” Buck points out, his voice cracking as he squeezes Eddie’s hand. “Instead of ripping our clothes off.”

“I..,” Eddie licks his lips, visualizing doing just that, “I’d be up for that.”

“Then what are we waiting for?” 

“I don’t want to release your hand,” Eddie confesses, squeezing back. “I’d miss you.”

“Eds,” Buck says in exasperation, “I’m right here. Come here.”

This is how Eddie ends up scrambling over the center console to climb into the driver’s seat and Buck’s lap to make out dirtily with his brand-new husband in their driveway. 

Read chapter 12 here on AO3