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“Are you good, man?” The man asks, voice lowered. “You seem panicked.”
Eddie sighs. As if it’s not annoying enough to die via plummeting elevator, now he has Mr Positive in his personal deathtrap, asking why he isn’t smiling while they all get crushed to death.
“Christopher,” Eddie grunts. “Cover your ears.”
Or, Eddie, Chris, and a random man get stuck in an elevator. Eddie panics.
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paleredheadinascifi
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“Are you good, man?” The man asks, voice lowered. “You seem panicked.”Eddie sighs. As if it’s not annoying enough to die via plummeting elevator, now he has Mr Positive in his personal deathtrap, asking why he isn’t smiling while they all get crushed to death.
“Christopher,” Eddie grunts. “Cover your ears.”
Or, Eddie, Chris, and a random man get stuck in an elevator. Eddie panics.
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“They’re not married anymore,” Christopher continues. “My dad only wants to marry a husband.”“Chris,” Eddie chokes.
“Would you marry a husband, Buck?”
Oh dear god. Eddie’s entire body is burning.
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“My dad is single too,” he hears Christopher tell Buck, undeterred.“Christopher,” Eddie begs.
“Oh! Buck!” Christopher chirps. Eddie braces. “Do you think that dogs know that they’re dogs?”
Buck opens his mouth, then closes it. “You know,” he starts. “That’s a great question.”
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Not quite a month later, and almost 24 hours into a 24-hour shift, Eddie finds himself on the other side of an elevator rescue, their third this month already.He’s one broken elevator away from sending out a city-wide PSA to service your building’s elevators please for the love of god he’s begging.
In this particular case of the deathtrap people mover, it’s his turn to pry the doors open — it’s usually the most exciting part of an otherwise typically uneventful call (a fact his logical brain can remember when his body hasn’t decided his kid is in grave peril).
He uses the halligan to force the doors open. The person inside seems relatively chill, leaning on the back wall of the elevator as he works. As the doors finally clank open, he looks up and makes eye contact with the chill elevator person.
The chill elevator person stares back, wide-eyed.
“Eddie?”
“Oh,” he blinks. It’s the man he hasn’t been able to stop thinking about for a month. Very cool. Very chill. “Hey.”
Buck looks behind him at the otherwise empty elevator, then back at Eddie. He looks as surprised as Eddie is to find himself there.
“I swear I don’t do this that often,” Buck insists. “This is only the second time I’ve been trapped in an elevator.”
Eddie grins. He can’t help himself. “Sureee,” he nods. “Likely story.”
“God, I’m so late for work,” Buck groans, climbing out of the deathtrap and back to safety. “Why does this always happen when I’m already late for work?”
“I don’t know if you can use the ‘stuck in an elevator’ excuse twice in the same year, let alone the same month,” Eddie teases. “Seems kinda suss.”
Buck squints, like he’s thinking. “Hey, maybe if you give me your number, I can call you, and you can be my witness,” Buck suggests, a glint in his eye.
Eddie huffs a laugh. “You don’t want me to just send you back with a signed note? Please excuse Buck’s tardiness, he keeps getting stuck in elevators.”
“I mean, I’ll take that too, but I’m mostly interested in your number,” he shrugs, cocky. Eddie likes it.
“Alright,” he agrees — as if he would ever miss an opportunity to get Buck’s number after he fumbled it the first time. Buck’s phone is in his hand before he’s even finished speaking. Eddie chuckles and adds himself as a contact.
His hand brushes Buck’s as he hands it back. It kind of feels like a moment.
“Thanks,” Buck breathes, wide-eyed and blushing. “Uh, I really do have to go. I’ll text you?”
“Yeah,” Eddie nods. “Don’t get fired.”
Buck grins, salutes him, and rushes off.
Three seconds later, a ding rings out from Eddie’s pocket. Followed by a ding, ding, ding, ding.
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And he does. They take the stairs up to the rooftop bar for their first date, and all the way back down again. They even take the stairs up to Buck’s apartment afterwards, stopping every few floors to make out in the stairwell.By the time they make it to his apartment, they’re out of breath for a few reasons.
In the morning, Eddie’s running late. He’s running so late. He doesn’t have time to take the stairs. Buck kisses him towards the elevator, then he kisses him in the elevator, and now they’re in the elevator, where they really shouldn’t be.
The elevator creaks. It groans. They both look up as the lights flicker.
It cl-clunks, and, blessedly, keeps moving.
Eddie lets out a breath of relief.
Buck grins at him from across the elevator, yesterday’s shirt thrown on and hair a mess.
The elevator doesn’t fall, but Eddie sure does.
Notes:
I might just be misremembering, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen Eddie react to Christopher being in active danger. I thought it would be interesting to explore if he handled it very badly. Fwiw I don’t think he’d actually react like this, but it was fun to write.