It's new years eve and the 118 have planned and all agreed to go out for new years eve. It took eddie some convincing but after buck talked and told him christopher will be alright he finally agreed. Buck doesn't go out much anymore because of cesiah and his job so he thought a night out won't hurt. They plan on going to the karaoke bar.

Buck gets ready and puts on blue jeans and a button up shirt. He greets nicole when she comes over. He grabs his keys and wallet he already put cesiah down for the night. He fills in nicole and then leaves getting in his jeep.

He gets to the bar 30 minutes later because of traffic. He finds eddie and the 118 sitting at a table. He orders a beer then goes over.

Eddie spots buck first as soon as he walks in. He takes his attention off of chimney and maddie talking about some music thing. He is not completely sure what they were talking about to begin with.

Buck gets to the table and eddie is the first to greet him. They say hello than the rest greeting buck.

"So how's christopher?" hen ask eddie with a smile on her face. Eddie turns his head towards hen from staring off at the wall not paying much attention.

" uhh He's fine" eddie says looking at hen.

Chimney looks at maddie and ask "how's cesiah"

Maddie eddie and buck look at each other

"Oh she's great" maddie says smiling just going along with them not knowing.

''Want to play pool?" buck ask the table, changing the conversation.

They all agree and head over to the pool table eddie and buck playing while the others talk. Hen starts talking about denny and harry which leads to eddie talking about christopher.

"How old is cesiah" hen ask looking over at maddie

Maddie looks at buck then smiles and looks towards hen "she turns 3 in march".

"When denny was that age he wanted to believe he could do anything by himself," hen said laughing.

Eddie and buck look at each other. It has been a few weeks since eddie has known about cesiah and she has grown to adore christopher but buck knows he needs to tell the team soon he knows he can't have them thinking she's maddies daughter that's unfair to her and buck knows it. He just hasn't found the time or a opportinuty to tell them. It's not something he can casually bring up knowing that they might be a little upset he didn't tell them, especially chimney.

Mddie looks back over at buck and gives him a stern look. "She hasn't hit the stage yet she's a pretty chill kid as far as it comes to buckleys"

Maddie and chimney get called for their turn to sing. Buck sighs of relief he knows he definitely needs to tell them soon.

Buck and eddie finish their game and bobby takes bucks spot. Buck going over, taking a drink of his beer then sitting down.

After maddie and chimney finishes their song she comes back over and tries to convince buck to sing. Buck doesn't have the worst singing voice he's heard but definitely not a good one either.

After some convincing buck finally agreed to do it only if eddie did it with him maddie gave eddie her best puppy dog eyes so he agreed.

Once their turn was up the team made their way to the closest table while buck and eddie got on the mini stage. Buck jokingly decided on before he cheats by carrie underwood. If he was going to do this he is going all in and mainly to see eddie and maddies reaction.

They grabbed the mics and the music started playing. Buck was a little nervous if he was being honest.

Buck starts "right now he's probably slow dancin with a bleached blond tramp and she's probably getting frisky"

Eddie has an embarrassed look on his face but as buck looks over and buck smiles. Eddie can't lie that did a little something to his heart he joined in.

Maddie has a grin on her face feeling accomplished she convinced her younger brother. The rest of the team watches trying not to laugh.

"Right now he's probably buyin her some fruity little drink cause she can't shoot whiskey". They sing together.

To say maddie was having a blast torturing her baby brother would be a understatement but eddie singing with him made her feel even more excited once eddie joined in on the singing madie was surprised eddie had somewhat of a singing voice.

Once the song ends they hop off the stage and buck takes a swig of his beer. "Don't ever convince me to do that again mads"

Maddie chuckled "it wasn't that bad the song choice could have been better".

"Agreed" eddie said pointing his finger at maddie

"Hey if we were going to do karaoke we are going all in"

Eddie smiles and shakes his head.

It was a few minutes to midnight, maddie noticed. They made their way over to the tv in the bar where everyone was around.

Buck stood shoulder to shoulder with eddie and maddie chimney stood together and hen and bobby stood together.

It was 60 seconds before midnight and everyone started counting down but all eddie could do was stare at buck.

He gave his divorce papers to his lawyer 2 days ago. He would be lying if he says it doesn't hurt but if he was being honest with himself they would have never gotten married if she never got pregnant. He thought about it the night after he gave the papers to his lawyer. Did he ever truly love shannon of course he did but the more he thought about it the more he realized all they did was fight and argue when he was home. Sure he loved her for christopher and being his son's mother and at the beginning he was in love with her, but after Afghanistan and the arguing he realized he lost that feeling and stopped being in love with her. Eddie came to realize.

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Everyone was screaming happy new year and buck looked over at eddie and hugged him. Eddie was not expecting it at the very least. Maybe eddie wanted this hug to be more than a hug, maybe he wanted this friendship to be more. Then that.

No he thought to himself buck is straight as far as he knows they are just 2 single dads who became close.

Buck removed himself from the hug "happy new year eds" buck said while smiling and hand on Eddie's shoulder.

"Happy new year's buck" eddie said, smiling softly.

Buck looked over and saw bobby and hen hugging but what he didn't expect was to see maddie and chimney kissing but before he could even blink they were pulling away and maddie was smiling.

Yeah i really need to tell them buck thought to himself. Now that maddie and chimney are whatever they are he can't have chimney thinking maddie has a daughter that's a big thing.

The rest of them said happy new year when he felt his phone buzzing in his pocket. He flushed his phone out and saw nicole was calling. He grave eddie a confused look then went to the quieter area eddie following.

"Hello nicole is everything alright?"

"Hey buck cesiah woke up crying i tried calming her down but she has a fever and says her stomach hurts"

Buck looks at eddie with a concerned look "okay i'm on my way"

"Okay i'll tell cesiah bye"

Buck hangs up

"Cesiah is sick i need to go"

Eddie gets worried "okay want me to come with" he ask the blonde

"Uh yes follow me in your truck"

"okay " eddie said following buck out.

Buck pulled maddie aside really quick and told her what's going on. She insisted on coming with but told her to stay so the team won't worry and that he will call her with updates and she finally agreed.

Buck paid his tab and left telling the team he needed to get home just saying he has to be up early.

He got home 45 minutes with LA traffic that he definitely cursed to himself about a few times. He un locked his door eddie right behind him

"Cesiah?"

"Her room" nicole called from upstairs

Buck runs upstairs eddie following behind. He makes his way to her room. The door is opens he enters the room seeing a teary and red faced cesiah. He goes over to the bed eddie leaning against the door frame.

"Daddy" cesiah says reaching for her dad

"Hey pumpkin you don't feel good" buck says picking her up and checking her forehead her feeling warm

Cesiah shakes her head

"Okay pumpkin" he looks at nicole "did you give her any tylenol"

Nicole looks up at buck "yeah once i checked she had a temp of 100.4 so i immediately gave her medicine that was right before i called"

"Okay sweetie can i check your temp"

Cesiah nods.

Nicole hands him the thermometer and he checks it eddie and buck giving each other concerned looks

He shakes his head "it went up"

"Do you want to take her the emergency room" eddie ask

"Um yeah" buck says giving cesiah her blanket " her bag is in my room by the dresser can you grab it" buck asks eddie.

Eddie nods "yeah"

Buck goes down stairs and makes sure he has his phone. Eddie comes down stairs

"Here you go" he says, handing the bag to eddie.

"Thanks can you come with i'll be calmer with you there and it's new years so there probably packed"

"Yeah of course do you want to drive" eddie ask

"Can you i need to call maddie" buck says tossing the keys to eddie.

Eddie catches the keys and nods.

They leave buckling cesiah in and sitting in the back while eddie drives the jeep he calls maddie.

"Evan is she okay"

"Uhm she has a fever that went up we're taking her to the hospital i'll text you updates"

"Okay uhm i'm going to head back home is eddie with you?"

Buck looks up at eddie "yeah he is"

"Okay text me"

"Okay i will we are pulling in"

"Okay bye evan" maddie says hanging up.

They get in a room within 5 minutes the doctor comes in

"Hello, I'm dr. manning what seems to be going on"

Bucks looks at cesiah rubbing his hand through her curls. "I was out and my nanny called saying she had a fever so i rushed home but her fever went up and she was complaining about her stomach she was fine when i put her bed i don't know what happened"

The doctor nods putting on hand sanitizer "okay do you mind if i check her out"

"Yeah whatever you need" buck says eddie putting a hand on bucks shoulder. Buck looks up at eddie and gives him a sad smile. Eddie smiles back.

"Okay so she does have a temp. It is flu season but we are going to run a few tests to rule out anything. Is she in day care?"

Buck nods and swallows "yeah whenever i'm on shift than her nanny picks her up and stays with her overnight they haven't told me about anything going around at daycare tho"

"Okay well we do the tests and try to get them back as soon as possible" dr.manning says pulling down cesiahs shirt "i will be back as soon as possible dads"

Buck nods then realizes she said dads referring to eddie and him he looks at eddie and he gives a soft smile

"She will be okay, buck" eddie says christopher has been sick a handful of times but he remembers him being little and always being extra worried.

Buck nods "yeah i know she just has never been this sick she was a healthy baby" buck says running his fingers through cesiahs hair.

Cesiah sits up and looks at eddie and reaches for him.

Buck looks at eddie than cesiah "you want to go to eddie" cesiah nods and buck looks back at eddie giving him a look. Eddie nods "okay her you go" buck says passing cesiah over to eddie

"Oh hey sweet girl" eddie says, rubbing her back. Cesiah lays against him holding her blanket.

The doctor comes in a bit later. Buck and eddie both stop their conversation about something chimney did at work.

"Okay all the test came back clear it's just a bug she should be good within a few days i will give her something for the fever it should help i will get your discharge papers ready"

"Okay umm she was around christopher he's 7 is there a chance of him getting it"

"I would keep an eye on him. It is a seasonal flu so really anybody could get it. She could have got it at daycare christopher is?"

"My brother" cesiah said waking up

Buck chuckles and looks at eddie than at the doctor "chris is his son" referring to eddie "but they are together all the time almost"

"Okay well just keep a eye on him"

Eddie nods.

They get discharged a bit later and they head home Texting maddie filling her in.

They get home. Cesiah still not feeling well asked to watch a movie on the couch with buck and eddie.

Eddie agreed he doesn't have to get chris till 10 tomorrow so he can stay over.

Buck changed and grabbed a few blankets by cesiahs request turning on toy story.

Not even 35 minutes later they were all passed out on the couch buck laying his head on eddie and cesiah laying on buck.

Buck wakes up at 7 am him on Eddie and cesiah on buck. Buck has never been more thankful for his couch being big and comfortable.

Cesiah opens her eyes and buck sits up

"Good morning pumpkin you feel better" he says putting his hand to her forehead

Cesiah nods "yeah hungry daddy"

Buck chuckles "okay how about banana pancakes"

Cesiah nods

Buck stands up "okay first let's change you"

"Okay" the 2 year old says while her father picks her up.

Buck changes her into a footed sleeper not planning on doing anything this morning, he makes coffee and gives cesiah some juice.

In the middle of cooking eddie sleepy walks over with bed head

"Morning coffee?' the blonde ask

" morning yes please"

Buck chuckles purring eddie his coffee. He gives it to eddie. "About last night thank you for staying with me i was worried and yo- just thank you"

"Hey no need to thank me you would have done the same if it were christopher i'm just happy she's okay"

Buck smiles "still thank you and me too anyways pancakes they have bananas"

Eddie chuckles "yes please"

They eat and eddie leaves to get christopher. Eddie was glad to be ther for buck and cesiah god he loves that kid he thought leaving bucks house.

Buck just spends the day at home maddie stopping by and eddie calling to check in.It's new years eve and the 118 have planned and all agreed to go out for new years eve. It took eddie some convincing but after buck talked and told him christopher will be alright he finally agreed. Buck doesn't go out much anymore because of cesiah and his job so he thought a night out won't hurt. They plan on going to the karaoke bar.

Buck gets ready and puts on blue jeans and a button up shirt. He greets nicole when she comes over. He grabs his keys and wallet he already put cesiah down for the night. He fills in nicole and then leaves getting in his jeep.

He gets to the bar 30 minutes later because of traffic. He finds eddie and the 118 sitting at a table. He orders a beer then goes over.

Eddie spots buck first as soon as he walks in. He takes his attention off of chimney and maddie talking about some music thing. He is not completely sure what they were talking about to begin with.

Buck gets to the table and eddie is the first to greet him. They say hello than the rest greeting buck.

"So how's christopher?" hen ask eddie with a smile on her face. Eddie turns his head towards hen from staring off at the wall not paying much attention.

" uhh He's fine" eddie says looking at hen.

Chimney looks at maddie and ask "how's cesiah"

Maddie eddie and buck look at each other

"Oh she's great" maddie says smiling just going along with them not knowing.

''Want to play pool?" buck ask the table, changing the conversation.

They all agree and head over to the pool table eddie and buck playing while the others talk. Hen starts talking about denny and harry which leads to eddie talking about christopher.

"How old is cesiah" hen ask looking over at maddie

Maddie looks at buck then smiles and looks towards hen "she turns 3 in march".

"When denny was that age he wanted to believe he could do anything by himself," hen said laughing.

Eddie and buck look at each other. It has been a few weeks since eddie has known about cesiah and she has grown to adore christopher but buck knows he needs to tell the team soon he knows he can't have them thinking she's maddies daughter that's unfair to her and buck knows it. He just hasn't found the time or a opportinuty to tell them. It's not something he can casually bring up knowing that they might be a little upset he didn't tell them, especially chimney.

Mddie looks back over at buck and gives him a stern look. "She hasn't hit the stage yet she's a pretty chill kid as far as it comes to buckleys"

Maddie and chimney get called for their turn to sing. Buck sighs of relief he knows he definitely needs to tell them soon.

Buck and eddie finish their game and bobby takes bucks spot. Buck going over, taking a drink of his beer then sitting down.

After maddie and chimney finishes their song she comes back over and tries to convince buck to sing. Buck doesn't have the worst singing voice he's heard but definitely not a good one either.

After some convincing buck finally agreed to do it only if eddie did it with him maddie gave eddie her best puppy dog eyes so he agreed.

Once their turn was up the team made their way to the closest table while buck and eddie got on the mini stage. Buck jokingly decided on before he cheats by carrie underwood. If he was going to do this he is going all in and mainly to see eddie and maddies reaction.

They grabbed the mics and the music started playing. Buck was a little nervous if he was being honest.

Buck starts "right now he's probably slow dancin with a bleached blond tramp and she's probably getting frisky"

Eddie has an embarrassed look on his face but as buck looks over and buck smiles. Eddie can't lie that did a little something to his heart he joined in.

Maddie has a grin on her face feeling accomplished she convinced her younger brother. The rest of the team watches trying not to laugh.

"Right now he's probably buyin her some fruity little drink cause she can't shoot whiskey". They sing together.

To say maddie was having a blast torturing her baby brother would be a understatement but eddie singing with him made her feel even more excited once eddie joined in on the singing madie was surprised eddie had somewhat of a singing voice.

Once the song ends they hop off the stage and buck takes a swig of his beer. "Don't ever convince me to do that again mads"

Maddie chuckled "it wasn't that bad the song choice could have been better".

"Agreed" eddie said pointing his finger at maddie

"Hey if we were going to do karaoke we are going all in"

Eddie smiles and shakes his head.

It was a few minutes to midnight, maddie noticed. They made their way over to the tv in the bar where everyone was around.

Buck stood shoulder to shoulder with eddie and maddie chimney stood together and hen and bobby stood together.

It was 60 seconds before midnight and everyone started counting down but all eddie could do was stare at buck.

He gave his divorce papers to his lawyer 2 days ago. He would be lying if he says it doesn't hurt but if he was being honest with himself they would have never gotten married if she never got pregnant. He thought about it the night after he gave the papers to his lawyer. Did he ever truly love shannon of course he did but the more he thought about it the more he realized all they did was fight and argue when he was home. Sure he loved her for christopher and being his son's mother and at the beginning he was in love with her, but after Afghanistan and the arguing he realized he lost that feeling and stopped being in love with her. Eddie came to realize.

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Everyone was screaming happy new year and buck looked over at eddie and hugged him. Eddie was not expecting it at the very least. Maybe eddie wanted this hug to be more than a hug, maybe he wanted this friendship to be more. Then that.

No he thought to himself buck is straight as far as he knows they are just 2 single dads who became close.

Buck removed himself from the hug "happy new year eds" buck said while smiling and hand on Eddie's shoulder.

"Happy new year's buck" eddie said, smiling softly.

Buck looked over and saw bobby and hen hugging but what he didn't expect was to see maddie and chimney kissing but before he could even blink they were pulling away and maddie was smiling.

Yeah i really need to tell them buck thought to himself. Now that maddie and chimney are whatever they are he can't have chimney thinking maddie has a daughter that's a big thing.

The rest of them said happy new year when he felt his phone buzzing in his pocket. He flushed his phone out and saw nicole was calling. He grave eddie a confused look then went to the quieter area eddie following.

"Hello nicole is everything alright?"

"Hey buck cesiah woke up crying i tried calming her down but she has a fever and says her stomach hurts"

Buck looks at eddie with a concerned look "okay i'm on my way"

"Okay i'll tell cesiah bye"

Buck hangs up

"Cesiah is sick i need to go"

Eddie gets worried "okay want me to come with" he ask the blonde

"Uh yes follow me in your truck"

"okay " eddie said following buck out.

Buck pulled maddie aside really quick and told her what's going on. She insisted on coming with but told her to stay so the team won't worry and that he will call her with updates and she finally agreed.

Buck paid his tab and left telling the team he needed to get home just saying he has to be up early.

He got home 45 minutes with LA traffic that he definitely cursed to himself about a few times. He un locked his door eddie right behind him

"Cesiah?"

"Her room" nicole called from upstairs

Buck runs upstairs eddie following behind. He makes his way to her room. The door is opens he enters the room seeing a teary and red faced cesiah. He goes over to the bed eddie leaning against the door frame.

"Daddy" cesiah says reaching for her dad

"Hey pumpkin you don't feel good" buck says picking her up and checking her forehead her feeling warm

Cesiah shakes her head

"Okay pumpkin" he looks at nicole "did you give her any tylenol"

Nicole looks up at buck "yeah once i checked she had a temp of 100.4 so i immediately gave her medicine that was right before i called"

"Okay sweetie can i check your temp"

Cesiah nods.

Nicole hands him the thermometer and he checks it eddie and buck giving each other concerned looks

He shakes his head "it went up"

"Do you want to take her the emergency room" eddie ask

"Um yeah" buck says giving cesiah her blanket " her bag is in my room by the dresser can you grab it" buck asks eddie.

Eddie nods "yeah"

Buck goes down stairs and makes sure he has his phone. Eddie comes down stairs

"Here you go" he says, handing the bag to eddie.

"Thanks can you come with i'll be calmer with you there and it's new years so there probably packed"

"Yeah of course do you want to drive" eddie ask

"Can you i need to call maddie" buck says tossing the keys to eddie.

Eddie catches the keys and nods.

They leave buckling cesiah in and sitting in the back while eddie drives the jeep he calls maddie.

"Evan is she okay"

"Uhm she has a fever that went up we're taking her to the hospital i'll text you updates"

"Okay uhm i'm going to head back home is eddie with you?"

Buck looks up at eddie "yeah he is"

"Okay text me"

"Okay i will we are pulling in"

"Okay bye evan" maddie says hanging up.

They get in a room within 5 minutes the doctor comes in

"Hello, I'm dr. manning what seems to be going on"

Bucks looks at cesiah rubbing his hand through her curls. "I was out and my nanny called saying she had a fever so i rushed home but her fever went up and she was complaining about her stomach she was fine when i put her bed i don't know what happened"

The doctor nods putting on hand sanitizer "okay do you mind if i check her out"

"Yeah whatever you need" buck says eddie putting a hand on bucks shoulder. Buck looks up at eddie and gives him a sad smile. Eddie smiles back.

"Okay so she does have a temp. It is flu season but we are going to run a few tests to rule out anything. Is she in day care?"

Buck nods and swallows "yeah whenever i'm on shift than her nanny picks her up and stays with her overnight they haven't told me about anything going around at daycare tho"

"Okay well we do the tests and try to get them back as soon as possible" dr.manning says pulling down cesiahs shirt "i will be back as soon as possible dads"

Buck nods then realizes she said dads referring to eddie and him he looks at eddie and he gives a soft smile

"She will be okay, buck" eddie says christopher has been sick a handful of times but he remembers him being little and always being extra worried.

Buck nods "yeah i know she just has never been this sick she was a healthy baby" buck says running his fingers through cesiahs hair.

Cesiah sits up and looks at eddie and reaches for him.

Buck looks at eddie than cesiah "you want to go to eddie" cesiah nods and buck looks back at eddie giving him a look. Eddie nods "okay her you go" buck says passing cesiah over to eddie

"Oh hey sweet girl" eddie says, rubbing her back. Cesiah lays against him holding her blanket.

The doctor comes in a bit later. Buck and eddie both stop their conversation about something chimney did at work.

"Okay all the test came back clear it's just a bug she should be good within a few days i will give her something for the fever it should help i will get your discharge papers ready"

"Okay umm she was around christopher he's 7 is there a chance of him getting it"

"I would keep an eye on him. It is a seasonal flu so really anybody could get it. She could have got it at daycare christopher is?"

"My brother" cesiah said waking up

Buck chuckles and looks at eddie than at the doctor "chris is his son" referring to eddie "but they are together all the time almost"

"Okay well just keep a eye on him"

Eddie nods.

They get discharged a bit later and they head home Texting maddie filling her in.

They get home. Cesiah still not feeling well asked to watch a movie on the couch with buck and eddie.

Eddie agreed he doesn't have to get chris till 10 tomorrow so he can stay over.

Buck changed and grabbed a few blankets by cesiahs request turning on toy story.

Not even 35 minutes later they were all passed out on the couch buck laying his head on eddie and cesiah laying on buck.

Buck wakes up at 7 am him on Eddie and cesiah on buck. Buck has never been more thankful for his couch being big and comfortable.

Cesiah opens her eyes and buck sits up

"Good morning pumpkin you feel better" he says putting his hand to her forehead

Cesiah nods "yeah hungry daddy"

Buck chuckles "okay how about banana pancakes"

Cesiah nods

Buck stands up "okay first let's change you"

"Okay" the 2 year old says while her father picks her up.

Buck changes her into a footed sleeper not planning on doing anything this morning, he makes coffee and gives cesiah some juice.

In the middle of cooking eddie sleepy walks over with bed head

"Morning coffee?' the blonde ask

" morning yes please"

Buck chuckles purring eddie his coffee. He gives it to eddie. "About last night thank you for staying with me i was worried and yo- just thank you"

"Hey no need to thank me you would have done the same if it were christopher i'm just happy she's okay"

Buck smiles "still thank you and me too anyways pancakes they have bananas"

Eddie chuckles "yes please"

They eat and eddie leaves to get christopher. Eddie was glad to be ther for buck and cesiah god he loves that kid he thought leaving bucks house.

Buck just spends the day at home maddie stopping by and eddie calling to check in.