I was glad you weren't there.

“I just wish they truly wanted me to be there, you know? Hen is busy with Karen and the kids, Chim is having a hard time with being a captain, Maddie's got you, and Eddie...” he stopped, eyes tracing the filtered light bleeding through the curtains. “Eddie is busy settling into his new role. Everything changed so fast, and somehow I’m the one left dizzy with it. But don’t tell anyone—they’ll just think I’m being dramatic.”

Since Bobby’s death, the team's dynamic had shifted. And he should've been used to turning around on the calls and seeing Ravi beside him—handing him tools, helping with the tasks—but it still left him unsettled. Because every time he turned around, he expected to see Eddie. But he was somewhere else, with Hen at his side, sharing inside jokes, moving in a weirdly terrifying sync. It used to be them.

-or Buck struggles to adjust to all the changes and finds himself talking to the baby. Somehow, piece by piece, everything falls back into place.