You know what I keep remembering? How Abby never talked to Buck after she left, whether because of time zones or because eventually she just couldn’t. And how Buck was still very much in it with her, still stepped into her life, but had to learn where she was from Instagram and maybe a few texts. Buck didn’t know she’d be on the train. Asked her when she knew she was never coming back.
Meanwhile, Eddie’s in El Paso and not only is Buck very much still in it with him, co-parenting and reassuring Eddie and just listening to him, he’s in constant communication with him. It’s not just phone calls but FaceTime. While Buck’s at work and Eddie’s at home. While Buck is at home and Eddie’s at work. They’re both living their lives but everything is still so entangled. Buck doesn’t have to guess what is happening with Eddie: Eddie calls to make sure he knows. Buck is the first and for a while the only person who knows about the firefighting job falling through, knows about what happens with Chris, knows about his worries and his fears. All the while, Buck can’t ask Eddie when he’s coming back because for all they know, Eddie isn’t. Yet. He doesn’t have to question anything else either.
