The fire at the hand sanitizer complex was officially put out really early in the morning, so that was really their last call of their shift. Buck was taken to the hospital to be further evaluated and was brought back to the station by Bobby just after sunrise, which was coincidentally less than an hour away from their shift end. "Clean bill of health for Buckley."

"Of course this psycho went through all of that and left scot-free." Anastasia commented from beside Eddie, who was waiting with her on the side of the building when they found out Buck and Bobby were close.

Buck closed the car door behind him, jokingly putting his arms out since he was now fully out of the car. "I, Evan Buckley, am simply indestructible." He told the two.  "I'm like Mr. Incredible, honestly."

"Well, Mr. Incredible, you have visitors upstairs and you need to shower."  Anastasia told him, which confused him.  The visitors part, not the shower. Since Anastasia was waiting with Eddie the whole time, she needed to wash up herself, but she thought she could do that while Buck was talking to his parents upstairs in the kitchen. 

"Visitors?  Is it people who saw us on the news again?"

Neither Anastasia or Eddie gave him an answer, instead letting him go upstairs alone to figure it out for himself.  Eddie went to go do whatever Eddie does downstairs, and Anastasia went to wash up in the locker rooms.  "Geez Valdez, is there a fire?"  Hen asked when she walked in.

"I'm not sure yet.  Buck's parents are here, so it's either going to end the same way the dinner ended or really well."  Anastasia explained to her.  "It's hit or miss, so I'm preparing to run out in case their conversation ends like the dinner, because Buckley is my ride home."

Hen watched as Anastasia started brushing through her hair, trying to fix it since she now had a bunch of fly aways from running around with a helmet on.  "Hey, why do you guys carpool anyways?"

They were one of the few girls in the whole station, so they had a private bathroom to do their "girl things", so the chances of one of the guys walking in were 0, at least they should be since this was where the girls showered and changed.  "To save gas since my house is on his way here.  Why?"

Hen simply shrugged her shoulders at the younger firefighter while continuing to watch her do her hair. "No reason."

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As if they haven't been together for the past 24 hours, Buck was over at Anastasia's house with a stack of postcards and letters. He was sitting on the floor with Tatum while Anastasia was laying on the couch he was leaning against, making fun of all his pictures that he had sent to Maddie during his time traveling everywhere he could. "Why are you smiling in this? You just broke your bones." She teased, holding up a childhood picture from when he fell out of a tree.

"I don't know, memories? Leave me alone." Buck attempted to take the pictures back, no longer wanting to suffer from her teasing, but Anastasia's reflexes were just as fast. "You're making fun of a child."

"No, I'm making fun of you." She smiled. "You know, you could make a scrapbook with these. So you don't have to worry as much about them getting messed up. Or a simple photo album."

Anastasia had the pile next to her, between her and the couch since she didn't have want Buck taking them back, one had holding a picture and the other now mindlessly running through Buck's hair.  "That seems like a lot of work.  I already have this ziploc bag to carry it around." He stated as he held up said plastic bag.

For a while, like another half hour, they remained in that position.  At some point, Anastasia had run out of pictures and postcards to look at and make of, so she laid still as she played with Buck's hair and stared at the back of his head. She didn't really know what he was doing, he could've fallen asleep for all she knew, but he didn't move away from his spot on the floor once. When she finally retracted her hand, and stopped twirling the ends of his hair and running her nails along his scalp, Buck turned around with a mixture of a scowl and a pout on his face.

"Why'd you do that for?"

Anastasia sat up, her legs moving to Indian style as she looked at Buck still. "I'm hungry, I need to go cook."

"And that constitutes for no more head scratching?" Buck asked her, as if he was offended by what she just said and done. "What if I cook? Will you keep scratching?" He asked her seriously. He also adjusted, now facing her as he sat on the rug.

With him below her and having to look up, it almost looked like he was begging from where he sat. With that thought now in mind, Anastasia couldn't help herself as she leaned down to him with a smile, just to kiss him. "You're so cute." She told him, her smile becoming infectious as he looked up at her, not wanting to pull away from the closeness that remained between them after their kiss. "Can we take a nap after you cook? We've been up forever."

Buck nodded his head with a smile, because of his victory, and started making his way to standing up. "Anything for you, my love."

im truly just waiting for the right time for the team to find out theyre dating 🤭 idk if i wanna make it a big thing or just make it like the scene where everyone "found out" bobby and athena were together

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