Okay, no, seriously, let's assume Oliver really is talking about season 4 and the will reveal of it all, because that scene is an aborted love confession, plain and simple, and considering the circumstances that conversation happens, the way the shooting is framed, Buck's reactions, everything Eddie is implying, considering the way Eddie's breakdown is structured, the shooting was supposed to be an oh moment. For both of them. Buck running to the familiarity of women because he doesn't know how to handle what he feels for Eddie and adding being in love with Buck to the list of things that makes Eddie crumble is right there. I've read that fic. Multiple times. Multiple people wrote it. They haven't talked about the well, the shooting, the will, the lightning, because they were not allowed to. There's no way to write that scene and not acknowledge that they have feelings for each other. I've been speculating about one or both of them getting hurt or something happening to Chris to force them to talk, because at this point they would need another trigger, so I was just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks, but that makes sense if the shooting had that goal. Because if something happens to Chris, you force Eddie to reinforce who Buck is to Chris and that would spark things, because it would force Eddie to define who Buck is to him, because he never defined who Buck is to him in the show. You hurt Eddie, you force the will to be brought up again, and you do it in front of a Buck who knows he's bi, something's gotta click in that man's brain. And you put them both in a "hopeless" situation, you also force the conversation, because things would be said. The possibilities this opens, dude.
