i wouldn't call it a mission

It’s not commonplace but it’s not unusual either for Buck to wake up in his loft to the sound of Eddie puttering around in the kitchen downstairs. What is unusual is that when he gets close enough to see him, Eddie looks a little... different - his hair’s got a good amount of gray in it and his cheeks are a little rounder and - is that a wedding band on his finger?

“You’re up,” Eddie says, and his voice is pretty much the same, if not the tiniest bit raspier, which is at least a little relieving. Buck looks up from Eddie's left hand to his face and realizes there are more lines around his eyes than there were yesterday. Plainly put, Eddie looks older. Like, quite a bit older. “I uh - I don’t really know how to start this…”

“Uh,” Buck says unhelpfully.

“I’m sure you can probably tell I’m - well, I'm not your Eddie.”