Eddie and Buck were walking around the station in silence when halfway around the building Buck stopped and turned to look at Eddie who in return stopped as well.
"Why did you say yes?" Buck asked
"What do you mean?" Eddie asked puzzled
"I mean why were you so quick to understand? And why were you so quick to say yes to coming along? Aren't you mad at me?" Buck asked and looked down, afraid to face Eddie, the thoughts were screaming at him that he was a burden, that Eddie only agreed out of duty, that Eddie weren't really his friend
"I don't know man, I guess I knew where you were coming from, why you were asking, last couple of days, ever since Cap told me that I was the one to set you off, I've been exercising to dampen the thoughts in my head. And yeah I was mad at you, but for some reason seeing you today all the anger just vanished and all I could think about was that I needed to do you right again, I needed to mend our friendship if possible" Eddie said, not realising how true his words were before he said them
"But I went and saw Christopher" Buck said and continued to look down
"Yeah, and I was mad about that, but I was more mad at myself for not realising sooner that I was wrong keeping you two apart, it was cruel not only to you but to Christopher as well" Eddie said and now they were both looking down. "Can you ever forgive me for being so cruel to you Evan" Eddie asked and looked at Buck, Buck lifted his head to look at Eddie surprised
"Of course, can you forgive me for running mindlessly in front of your son's school?" Buck asked
"Of course man" Eddie laughed relieved
"Do you think we will ever be okay?" Buck asked nervously
"I hope so" Eddie said and looked at Buck sadly
"You know I don't blame you for what happened to me right?" Buck asked
"Why not?" Eddie asked
"I guess I'm to busy blaming myself" Buck said and smiled sadly
"Buck if I hadn't said those things in anger, you would have never spiraled this far" Eddie said
"I don't know, if I hadn't pushed in the first place you wouldn't have said those things, and if I had just come clean earlier, asked for help, it probably wouldn't have come this far either" Buck said, it was weird how easy it was to be honest when it was just him and Eddie standing out here
"I'm sorry I said those things, and I'm sorry how big an ass I was to you" Eddie said
"I'm sorry to for how I let those words affect me, and I'm sorry I'm not doing better now" Buck said
"Don't be, we'll figure it out, and yeah it'll take time before we're okay, but we'll work on it together. And yeah it's hard to see you struggle like this, but we'll figure it out and you'll get better eventually" Eddie said
"I don't know, maybe it would have been better if I had just died" Buck said and looked down, tears in his eyes
"I don't think you mean that, I think that's just the thoughts talking, so why don't we walk in to the others and we'll all tell you how delicious your baking is and how we all love and care for you, and tonight you can come home with me and that adorable son of mine who has been asking about you for month can finally play with his Buck and you'll see that those thoughts are all wrong?" Eddie said and started walking again, slightly dragging Buck by the arm. Buck smiled and started walking again, tonight he was gonna see Christopher and that was worth anything
