Finding out that Buck hooked up with Tommy the other night has filled Eddie with some kind of sick, possessive heat. It's thorny, jagged, edged like a knife, and it's been controlling most of his thoughts and actions for the last day and a half.

Chimney asks, "Who are you texting?" "Eddie." "Really? He's only been gone… what—? Two hours?" "Two hours and thirty-one minutes." "Not that anyone's counting." (Or, Buck and Eddie in the the first 24 hours after Eddie leaves.

"Don't ask me to give you the next three weeks and then let you go." "I wouldn't." "Yes, you would." Eddie huffs out a laugh. "Yeah, I would. And you wouldn't say no." "No, I wouldn't," Buck admits. "So don't ask."

He realizes, as Eddie's asking a Texas realtor about bathroom accessibility, that he's in love with Eddie. That he's probably been in love with Eddie. And there's nothing he can do about it. Eddie has to leave.

"And now, in as much as you, Evan Buckley and Edmundo Diaz, have given and pledged your love and faithfulness, each to the other, and have declared the same by joining hands, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the State of California as Deputy Marriage Commissioner, I now pronounce you spouses for life." "You're crying." "You're crying." Christopher sighs under his breath. "You're both crying."

"Eddie," Buck pleads. The water's lapping at his chin. "Go." "Shut up," Eddie snaps. He rips off his gloves so he can get a better grip on the steering wheel. "I'm not leaving you here." Buck slides his hand up to Eddie's shoulder and hooks his thumb in the collar of Eddie's turnout coat. He presses it to Eddie's skin as he says, "Please. Don't make me watch you drown." "You," Eddie croaks. His eyes are stinging. He can't fucking breathe. "You think I could stand watching you drown? You think that wouldn't kill me?"

As soon as they kissed, a thousand things had fallen into place—jokes and shoulder bumps and wordless exchanges, movies and zoo trips and engine rides spend thigh to thigh. In that moment, Buck had realized with absolute clarity what Tommy meant when he said he wouldn't be Buck's last. Because Buck's last is Eddie. It was always going to be Eddie.

Live and (Don't) Let Die: Buck/Eddie, 29.5K, adult basically what happens when you're down so bad you have your "best friend" brought back from the dead