“Where are you?” It’s Buck’s voice in Eddie’s ear, crackly from poor signal and thready with…something like panic?
Eddie feels an answering anxiety stir in his stomach, because—Buck doesn’t know, right? He can’t know. Eddie shoots Christopher a look, and Christopher looks back at him, eyebrows raised. When he mouths Buck, Chris’s eyes widen and he makes a cutting motion with his hand across his neck, like Eddie needs to be told not to blab.
“What do you mean, where am I?” Eddie asks. He cranes his neck to look out the front window of the Uber—a Prius, as luck would have it—but the traffic still stretches interminably ahead of them, cars inching forward at the customary crawl. Eddie almost picked the 5 am flight for exactly this reason—so they could avoid rush hour—but he’s pretty sure waking a teenager up before dawn is against the Geneva Conventions, so. Here they are. Stuck in traffic. The anticipation of surprising Buck fizzing under his skin, making him jittery.
But now Buck has called him, is asking where he is. Does he know? How can he know?
“I’m, uh.” Buck pauses, clears his throat. “I’m at your house,” he says.
“I know that, Buck,” Eddie says slowly.
“No, I mean. I’m at your house. In Texas. Right now.” Each word drops like an ice cube into Eddie’s stomach. “But you weren’t answering the door, and—and I looked in the front window and there’s no furniture here?”
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I always thought that when Eddie and Buck get married, Buck is going to take Diaz just like Maddie did with Chim because those two boys are the people he loves most in the world and just as he chose Buck as his name and for the people who love him, how could he not take the last name of his two favorite people in the universe, the two people who make him feel loved and who mean permanence in his life.
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Exactly!! Tbh I feel like there’s a chance the show just won’t have him change his name, but he SHOULD take Diaz, because yes! This is the family he chose and who chose him!! Especially if he ends up adopting Chris (and I hope he does!!).
oh my god. when buddie is canonically married and changing their last name, their ao3 tag will be updated too 😭 be it diaz-buckley or buckley-diaz or diaz they are gonna have the same last name in canon and ao3 🥺 (i'm not in the fandom but i think this happened to the gay couple in Shameless?? the ao3 changing)
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Omg!! I’ve never even considered that, but you’re right!!!! What a wonderful world we live in!!! I personally think Buck will take Diaz primarily because of Christopher, but I’ll be happy no matter what happens because they’ll all be a FAMILY. A family with a new AO3 tag. 🥹🥹🥹
They could drive over to one of their houses and hang out, but that seems worse somehow, leaving work where they spent all day together to go somewhere and spend even more time together. That would be—something Buck and Eddie would do.
