Chim scoffed, but nodded, grabbing his keys and heading out the door.
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"I switched my therapist." Chimney said to Buck while he changed into his uniform in the otherwise empty locker room. "I just thought you might want to know."
Buck shot him a look at that. He thought there might've been some progress made, when he saw him for his session yesterday, but he hadn't been expecting this.
"Ok," Buck replied carefully, "Thank you."
He wasn't really sure what else to say, and Chim clearly wasn't either, although he clearly did have something to say anyways. After a few awkward moments of silence, Chim finally found his voice.
"Look, I talked to Hen yesterday, and she pointed out some things that I hadn't picked up on." He explained, shifting his eyes between his locker and Buck, "And I guess what I mean is, sorry."
"What?" Buck startled, he hadn't been expecting an apology, "Chim, you have nothing to be sorry for! I was the one who-"
Chim cut him off before he could continue, "Look the lawsuit was shitty, ok, it was. But I was too angry to really consider both sides of it." He explained, "And yeah, I still think it wasn't a great move on your part, but I can forgive you. I do forgive you. Plus, you've clearly been bending over backwards to help us, even though we've been too stupid to notice that that's what you're doing. So I'm sorry too."
"Wow, ok, uh." Buck stuttered out, not having expected any of that at all, "You still don't have to apologize, but thanks, I guess."
"So we're good?" Chin asked, and Buck couldn't nod quick enough, "Great, cause I'm starving."
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Eddie walked into his next appointment with a spring in his step. He couldn't believe he hadn't thought of this before, he just needed to schedule his appointment for when Buck was at work. He almost couldn't believe it was really this simple, as he checked in at the front desk. He waited his turn patiently in the waiting room, fighting a pleased grin off his face.
He'd never imagined he'd be this excited for a therapy session, after all it wasn't like he was actually going to open up or anything. Just chat about the weather or the latest baseball game or whatever other useless thing he could manage.
He should've expected it wouldn't be that easy though, Evan Buckley was tenacious if anything. So he really shouldn't have been that surprised when he opened the door from the waiting room to the hallway only to find Maddie Buckley standing there.
"Are you fucking kidding me?" He exclaimed, "What are you doing here?"
She met his eyes evenly, "Buck had to work."
"Right, I know that," he responded, frustrated beyond belief, "Hence the reason I scheduled my appointment for today. So what are you doing here?"
"Buck used a sibling card." She shrugged as if that explained everything.
"And what the hell is a sibling card?" He asked, running a frustrated hand through his hair.
"We each get two a year." Maddie explained, "If you use one, you get to ask the other for a favor no questions asked."
"Yeah, of course you two have something like that." Eddie rolled his eyes and moved past her into the office.
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"Yeah, Maddie said he was so pissed." Chim told them.
The three of them, Buck, Hen, and Chim were leaned outside the wall of Dr. Wells' office. Buck had just finished his session and now they were just waiting for Bobby to show up. No Eddie today, seeing as he'd scheduled his while they were working the day before. As ridiculous as this was, Buck couldn't say that he minded the company, or the support the other two were showing him.

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FanfictionBuck wanted to go home. He wanted nothing more than to be back with his family and to go home. Things had been rough this last year though, first his leg got crushed, he had a pulmonary embolism, he was told he couldn't come back to work, and then t...