It had only been a day and Buck and Andy had been texting back and forth non-stop. Buck couldn't help but to wear a big smile on his face. He couldn't remember the last time he'd smiled this much. It felt good to talk with someone other than his team and Maddie. It's not that he didn't trust them enough to talk with them about things anymore it's just that it was good to get a fresh perspective on things. He always loved to meet new people all the time. As he reached the top the stairs to the loft his phone pinged. He stopped to check it and opened up the text to a GIF of someone running out the door as fast as they could. Buck let out a snort as he responded.

Buck: I take it they're finally discharging you?

The response was instant.

Andy: Yup. Finally blowing this popsicle stand! ;)

Buck: That's great news! Wishing you a speedy recovery to get back to work.

Andy: Thanks but, I don't think I'm in that much of a hurry to get back to work. They might be but, I'm not.

Buck: lol. Fine, wishing you a pleasant time off.

Andy: Thank you! :)

Buck was too busy smiling into his phone to even notice that his team was seated at the table just staring at him. He shot her one more text and pocketed his phone. He took a step towards the table but stopped short when he saw four sets of eyes on him.

"What?" Buck asked.

"No, nothing. Just wondering when you'll be able to grace us with your presence at the breakfast table." Bobby stated with a knowing smirk on his face.

"Sorry Cap." Evan responded as he finally sat down and Eddie passed him the bacon, eyeing him curiously.

Mumbling a quite 'Hello', he quickly served himself a couple of slices and placed the plate back on the table. It was then that he looked up and saw that Chimney and Hen were still staring at him with a smirk of their own on their faces. Buck looked at each of them in turn, confused on why they were still staring at him. Instinctively he ran his hands over his face and over his shirt thinking that maybe he had something on them.

"What? Do I have something on my face?"

"So, who's the girl?" Chimney asked.

Buck furrowed his eyebrows at him in confusion. "What girl?"

"The girl that's making you smile like fool again." Hen responded.

Buck was still not getting it. "Are you guys high or something? Because you guys aren't making any sense. What girl are you talking about?"

"The girl that you've been texting with. You've literally had that phone glued to your hand since yesterday. At dinner last night that's all you were doing. And you've been smiling like a dope the whole time." Chimney stated.

The heat instantly moved up to Buck's face, flushing his cheeks a bright pink. He wasn't aware that he had been texting so much. He had just gotten so entranced with talking with Andy that he was completely lost to the outside world. Evan didn't want them to find out about Andy just yet because he knew that they were going to be hounding him about her and right now he just wanted to keep her friendship to himself for now.

"There's no girl. You guys are seeing things. "

"Mmmhmm, sure, and that's why your cheeks are that pretty crimson color?" Hen teased.

"Why don't you bring her over to meet the fam?" Eddie asked, with a teasing glint in his eye.

Buck glared at his best friend. "There is no girl. Well there is, but she's just a friend and it's, its,...it's none of your guy's business. You don't have to know every detail of my life."

Every one shoots him an incredulous look. "Just a friend," Eddie says, using his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. "Doesn't make you smile like that."

At that moment Buck's phone pinged again and everyone just stopped and stared at it where it was resting on the table between Buck and Eddie. Evan glanced at Eddie and saw his fingers twitch on the table. Buck wasn't stupid. He knew that Eddie was going to make an attempt to swipe is phone. In a split second both firefighter's hands went towards the phone, Buck only being a smidge faster. He quickly pocketed his phone in his pants, far from Eddie's reach.

"Not so fast old man."

Eddie looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Old man?"

Buck gave him his own challenging eyebrow raise, with a smirk. Eddie was about to retort when the alarm went off. They all let out a groan as they hustled to their feet and made their way to the fire truck. The day was filled with busy calls, leaving them no room to question Buck about his new found friend.

A few days had passed and the team was responding to a call at the nursing that Andrea worked at. Buck and Eddie where heading back to the truck when Buck noticed Andy standing at the elevator door with a container in her hand. A smile instantly spread across his face. It was really good to see her again. Her arm was still in a sling but all in all she looked good. Buck was about to approach her when a guy in what looked like a maintenance uniform came up to her and placed his arm around her shoulders. Buck's smile instantly fell from his face and was replaced with a glower towards the man.

"Isn't that the aide we helped that dislocated her shoulder?" Eddie asked.

"Yeah, it is." Buck responded in almost a growl.

Eddie picked up on Buck's sudden mood change and turned to him with a questioning look. He was trying to figure out why Evan was trying to murder that poor guy with his eyes. He was giving a whole new meaning to 'If looks could kill'. That man probably would be dead ten times over.

"He probably shouldn't have his arm around her shoulder like that. He could hurt her." Evan stated.

"Yeah,..." Eddie didn't have time to finish is response because Buck was already heading towards the pair.

"Hey Andy."

Andrea looked up and instantly smiled. "Hey Buck. You on a call?"

"Yeah." He responded. He then turned to look at the man next to her, narrowing his eyes. "You know you could hurt her shoulder, with your arm around her like that."

Eddie was on the sidelines watching the interaction with a smirk on his face. The maintenance man instantly looked horrified and quickly removed his arm from around Andrea, she in turned narrowed her eyes at Buck.

"Oh man, I'm so sorry Andy. I didn't mean to hurt you if I did."

"It's fine Adam. Don't worry you didn't hurt me. Buck is just being over dramatic." Andrea said while looking at Buck with a pointed look.

Evan opened his mouth to say that he wasn't being over dramatic when Adam's radio blared asking him to respond. Adam quickly responded and the answering voice was sending him to a residents room to take care of a T.V. problem.

"Alright I got to go." Adam said. He then turned and placed a quick kiss to Andy's cheek. "I'm glad to see that you're doing better. Thanks for the muffin. I'll text you later, ok. Love you."

"Bye. Love you." Andy responded with a smile.

The brunette turned her attention to the firefighter before her and quirked her eyebrow. "What the hell was that?"

"What was what?" Evan responded.

"You were being rude." Andy said.

"No I wasn't. I just didn't want him to hurt your shoulder, it can deter healing."

"Mmmhmm, sure, healing right. He wasn't hurting me."

Buck put his arms up in surrender. "Ok, ok, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be rude." Evan looked at her sheepishly.

Andrea let out a slow breath throw her nose and gave the blonde a warm smile. "Ok. How are you Buck?"

The smile returned to Evan's face. "I'm doing well. And I see that you're doing better as well. I Hope you didn't drive here, it'd probably be difficult with arm. Not to mention that concussion."

Andy giggled. "No, I didn't drive. My sister is waiting for me in the car. I came to see a couple of my residents and drop off these muffins to my co-workers."

"Mmmm, those look good." The firefighter's hand was heading towards the Tupperware only stopping short when Andrea lightly slapped it away.

"Ouch!" Buck exclaimed.

"First off, are your hands clean?"

Buck opened his mouth to respond but was quickly cut off. "I don't think so. You just responded to a call for God knows what and touched who knows what. Secondly these are not for you. They're for my co-workers."

"That maintenance guy isn't your co-worker and he got one."

"Does he work here?"

"Yes."

"Then he's my co-worker."

"Looked a little more than a co-worker." Evan points out.

Andy looked at him quizzically. "As a matter of fact he is."

Buck felt his heart stop in chest. He didn't know why the fact that Andrea could have a boyfriend bothered him so much. She was only just a friend after all and he'd only known her for a few days.

"He's one of my best friends. He was one of the first persons to befriend me when I first moved to L.A. and started working here. Him and his boyfriend are the sweetest and I don't know what I'd do without them." Andy says with a fond smile on her face.

"Boyfriend?"

"Yes. Boyfriend."

Evan's smile came back tenfold after that little fact. So he wasn't her boyfriend and there was no possibility that he ever would be. Andrea smiled just as brightly back at him. Eddie was still off to the sides watching the two interact with a soft smile. They looked so cute. They were getting along like they have known each other for years now not days. Eddie looked at her and then at Buck. They were both sporting the same stupid dopey smile. And then it was like a light bulb went off in his head. That was the same smile that Buck had the other day at breakfast when they were quizzing him about who he was texting. Andrea is the girl he has been texting with. Hen and Chimney were going to love this.

"Buckley. Diaz." Bobby's voice rang through their radios. "What's the hold up? We have to get going."

"Copy that, Cap." Eddie responded. "We're heading out now."

The firefighter walked over to the pair. "Come on lover boy. We gotta go."

Andrea let out a snort while Buck leveled his best friend with a glare. Eddie just responded with a smug smile on his face. Evan rolled his eyes at Edmundo and looked back at Andy and smiled again.

"Sorry, I have to go but, it was good to see you."

"You too Buck." Andrea responded.

"And I still want some of those muffins." Buck said as he started to walk away.

"I'll make a batch just for you."

Buck smiled even brighter at her as he waved one last time before turning and walking to the front door. He looked over at Eddie and found him looking at him with a knowing smile on his face.

"What?"

"She's the girl you've been texting with."

It wasn't a question because Eddie knew he was right even if Buck denied it, and judging by the panicked look on his friends face it seemed that he was correct.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Buck tries to deflect.

"Sure you don't ." Eddie retorts as he walked ahead of Buck and going through the front door. Buck could hear him shout through the doors. "Hey Hen, Chim, I know who the girl is."

Evan let out a groan and buried his face in his hands. So much for a private friendship. The team was going to give him so much grief for this. They were going to tease him without mercy and Cap may question him on it because of her being a former patient. Buck turned and smiled as he saw Andy slip through the elevator doors. Yeah there will be teasing, but right now he could care less.