Hay-389 - Welcome! Here’s A Cookie 🍪

This woman owns my heart look at her 😭

Imagine Eddie asking Bobby for cooking lessons. He’s vague about the request, just says that he wants to be better at cooking so Christopher doesn’t always ask for takeout. Bobby starts with the simple stuff which Eddie appreciates, but after two “lessons” he asks Bobby how to make a particular dish, one that everybody knows is Buck’s favorite. Bobby doesn’t say anything, but invites Eddie over to his house to teach him how to make it. Eddie pointedly ignores the knowing looks Bobby and Athena share the entire time.

A week later he calls Bobby in a panic because he’s overcooked the meat and undercooked the veggies, but it’s Athena that answers the phone because Bobby is asleep. She tells him to calm down and wait fifteen minutes before hanging up the phone without another word. He doesn’t calm down because Buck is supposed to arrive in 20 minutes.

A knock on the door 10 minutes later sends him spiraling and he throws the door open with a weird apology he hasn’t even thought through, but stops short at seeing Athena standing there holding a warm pizza from Buck’s favorite place with a knowing smirk on her face.

“You’re overthinking it,” Athena says, passing over the pizza. “Feed him junk food and tell him you love him.”

Bobby lives the life of the unexpected. He lives the life of both Miracles and tragedies, has seen what type of magic and consequences a firefighter can both work and cause; he wouldn’t trade any of it for anything though...well, almost anything.

Bobby loves his job as a firefighter, he loves going out into the unknown everyday and getting to help families stay with each other, especially after he couldn’t keep his own family together in the end. Los Angeles was exactly the type of clean fresh air he needed to restart his life after living under a constant dark cloud for years. He can feel it even all this time later as he sits at the dinner table surrounded by something he never thought he would have again—a family, his family.

Bobby got a second chance to be married to another amazing woman and have kids running around the yard as he chased after them, and while it could never replace his life back in Minnesota, he is still grateful every single day for it. Really he should have had this life with his wife before and his own kids, and it will always be a mystery on why god caused him the pain he did, still does, because while he has a new life with a bunch of people he loves and who love him, it will never quite get rid of the gaping hole in his heart.