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Chris is having nightmares. Eddie's living a nightmare. The 118 picks up the slack.
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“Hen,” he starts.“Eddie,” she returns, uncaring or unheeding of the look he sends her way. “You’re exhausted. Your kid is sick. The least we can do as your friends is make sure you get home safe to take care of him.”
“I– thank you.” He takes a sip and feels it warm him from the inside out. “Really. You and Chim have been amazing through all this.”
“We’re just picking up the slack. If I had my way, we’d be playing second to your usual shadow, and we’d all be a lot happier for it,” she says, with this melancholy quirk to her smile. The look in her eyes is unfathomably sad, in a way that hurts to look at.
Sometimes Eddie forgets how much longer the rest of the team has known Buck. He just fit so well in between him and Chris that the year in the 118 before Eddie feels almost inconsequential. But then Hen will say something like this, and he’ll remember that she, Chim, and Bobby spent twelve months watching Buck grow into the man that Eddie knows.
They’re all unsteady right now, not just him and Chris, and like Carla said, they all need something else to focus on other than their missing piece.
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Ch. 2