You Don't Have to Earn It

Missing/Insert scenes from What's Your Grievance/Buck Begins leading into Jinx. POV Eddie and Bobby, the people who love Buck see him struggling and take what opportunities that present themselves to remind him that he is known, that he is loved.~~~It had taken more patience than Bobby had exerted in several years to not go rushing into Buck’s family drama that week. He had known something was wrong: Buck had been too apprehensive about his parents visit, worried enough to have emergency therapy appointments for de-escalation techniques while in the firehouse. Eddie had looked as confused and concerned as Bobby felt. Chim had known something for days that had literally caused him to flee from them across the loft and down the pole, but Hen was clueless, which was unheard of. Bobby had begun preparing himself for something big. Eddie wished Buck had come to him the night he had screamed “love me anyway” at his parents and stormed out. He had done everything he could, monitoring Buck’s behavior, staying with him at the punching bag, stopping him when he was about to go too far. And then when there was nothing else to do, he had walked away to let Buck finish processing on his own, never too far away.