I know we’re all about Buck and Eddie making each other their emergency contact and the rest of the 118 finding out when one of them gets seriously injured, but for your consideration:
At some point after the will revelation, Buck makes Eddie his emergency contact and just…. doesn’t tell him. That’s just how they do life changing events now—why talk about your feelings when you can just hold them close to your chest until you die, right?
BUT updating his emergency contact involves updating paperwork for the 118 as well, and it’s only fair that Buck tell Bobby anyway since he was the previous emergency contact (see various canon evidence, but especially the tracheotomy incident and Monsters). So Bobby knows. Bobby is probably the only person who knows. And Buck is never really clear about why he’s doing this, but Bobby is pretty sure he has that figured out too.
What Bobby does not know is that he is the only person aware that Eddie is Buck’s emergency contact. He assumes that Eddie is also aware of this, that they had some meaningful conversation about it or even a quick ‘hey do you mind if I put you down for this?’ (you know like normal people do).
And then: Buck gets hurt. Nothing too serious, but he ends up at the hospital, and the hospital calls Eddie—and then Eddie is calling Bobby going “hey what the fuck why is a stranger calling to tell me Buck is injured??” and Bobby is like “oh my bad you’re right I should have called myself” and Eddie is like “no no what I don’t get is why I’m getting this phone call at all???”
To which Bobby’s response is something along the lines of, “Well you’re dating, aren’t you? It must be getting pretty serious.”
Eddie’s brain is just *static, dial tone noises, I’m sorry a a coherent thought could not be reached, please try again later* and the first thing he manages to blurt out is, “He told you about the will, didn’t he?*
Bobby does not know about the will so inevitably the whole thing comes out and Bobby nods along because yes of course that makes sense and then right at the end he’s like, “……so you aren’t dating?”
And Eddie’s like, “ha I wish.”
Silence.
More silence.
Then, “Well…. have you asked him?”
Some more silence, quiet and contemplative (you know the kind), before:
“What if he says no?”
“What if he says yes?”
It’s another long moment before Eddie speaks again, and then it’s only to say, “Thanks, Bobby. I gotta go.”
“If I die, you become Christopher’s legal guardian… no one will ever fight for my son as hard as you.” // “…why are you just telling me now?” // “Because, Evan… you act like you’re expendable. But you’re wrong.”
