*Trigger warning*
Chapter Five: Your love is my drug.
Luna was invited by Maddie to help her move into her apartment, she found it weird that Maddie even wanted her help, Luna was strong by any means necessary but she wasn't really that close with Maddie, even though they had been texting a bunch. She had asked for her number a while back from Buck and ever since then they had been talking, Luna was coming out of her shell a bit more, she was being more sassy and silly with the crew which they were loving every bit of it. Luna arrived early to help Maddie, the two deciding that the men would do all the heavy lifting, she was currently bringing in the dolly when she was stopped at the door by Eddie and Buck who were contemplating how to get the couch through Maddie's door.
"Maybe we pop the hinges off the door."
"Or we use the Jaws of Life." Buck comments as Eddie points at him Luna giggles quietly, Eddie not noticing her presence behind him, she left for a bit when he arrived, she needed to go retrieve the dolly she had at her place, Jack bought her an emergency Dolly cause you never know when you need to move something heavy, was what he said.
" No, no, no. It has to fit. I measured it twice. Can't you guys just, you know, turn it around the other way?" Maddie demonstrates with her hands.
" And then the pizza will slide off."
" You have pizza on my new sofa?" Maddie scoffs, turning around to see four Pizza boxes propped up on her couch.
" It's on the plastic." Buck shrugs, the sister simply does a double take between her brother and his best friend before humphing and stomping off with the pizza in her hand.
Luna giggles again. "You know you can just turn it to the side a bit, lift it up and then walk it through the door." Luna explains as the two men snap their heads in her direction. She laughs a bit more at them as Eddie's heart skips a beat lately she was the only thing on his mind, of course he had yet to ask her out, he needed too, sooner better than later, he took in the sight of her hair in a messy ponytail, an oversized distressed navy blue t shirt hung off her body with some black leggings and some converse, she was perfection at its finest, he was practically drooling and Buck had to hit him to get his attention and for his tongue to fall back into his mouth.
"I can help if you want?" she asks that twinkle present in her eyes.
"Nope we got it, All right, pivot." Eddie orders as the two men get the couch inside slowly with a lot of grunting.
"Hey, thank you, guys, for helping me on your day off." Maddie says as the pair finally get the couch inside Luna props the dolly up in the corner,
"Happy to help Maddie." Luna smiles, taking the Pizza from Maddie's hand.
"Don't worry about it." Eddie goes to grab the boxes from Luna and she simply moves her hands out of the way.
"Where are your plates?" She ignores the looks from Eddie
" Countertop. Kitchen." Maddie replies as Luna walks to the kitchen, Eddie right behind her as she sits the boxes on the counter. Eddie hands her a plate she smiles at him, she looks at the pizza boxes knowing she wasn't going to eat much, she had this thing, her ex beat it into her head to be skinny and pretty so she didn't eat much, sometimes she wouldn't eat at all and if she ate a lot she would get sick, finding herself head first in the nearest toilet bowl. She was perfectly skinny, and pretty. But she was trying to work on not listening to his voice in her head, to clear her mind every time she saw food, to eat as much as she wanted, it was hard, you get told so many negative things so many times it sticks to you like a new layer of skin, Mac was trying to get her to stop, to forget about the asshole who planted that negative seed in her, uprooting her being.
Chimney comes in grabbing a beer from the fridge handing one to Eddie who hands it to Luna, then he grabs a few slices and leaves the two in the kitchen, Luna walks over to the counter off in the corner to be out of the way, she eats her food thumbing through her phone as Eddie walks up, she smiles letting her hair down and shaking it so it's not so stiff.
"So we meet again? Edmundo." She teases and he can't help the heat that travels through his body at the sound of his name coming from her mouth.
"Yeah we do.." Eddie smiles standing in front of her, she smiles back sipping her beer.
"So is this what you usually do on your day off, help friends move?"
"Only good friends, No usually I go hiking or work at the bookstore down from my house, or watch Kdramas to brush up on my korean." she says simply as Eddie gives her a look she laughs at it. "Dont look at me like that, I am sucker for good love story." she laughs more as Eddie makes a cute face.
"Well maybe we can watch some Kdrama's together?"
"Edmundo Diaz, are you asking me on a date?"
"I think I might be....yeah." he laughs as does she.
She nods. "Okay, then it's a date this Wednesday. I will cook you the best damn dinner you've ever had in your entire life, we will eat and I will entrap you in the world of Kdrama's." she says as he nods.
"Okay."
"All right."
The two couldn't hide their shit eating grins even if they wanted too and Luna squeals the minute she gets into her car. She was so extremely happy going home to immediately pick out an outfit.
Athena pulls up to the call the two ducking down immediately as they get out, a helicopter was toppled over the propellers spinning fast, they were at what looked to be a small little league stadium,
" Hey, stay down! Stay down!"
" Get out of here. Keep 'em back." The two partners were waving people off making sure they stayed out of the way, as a few deputies who arrived minutes after they did got to work on word control as they crotched down walking over to the crew of the 118. Bobby pulls Athena behind the rig before doing the same to Luna a few seconds later.
" The pilot radioed that they were having mechanical trouble. Looks like he tried to put it down in the field over there."
"Yeah, it got close." Bobby mutters as Luna is assessing the situation
" Yeah, not close enough. Get down, people, move! Move! Go!" Athena yells, waving people off the two partners run to the back of the rig leaving the crew to get to work. Of course the 118 got everything shut off and the pilot and the passenger pulled out. Safely.
"Pulse/ox is good. We can get rid of this." Hen Takes the oxygen mask off of the woman's face.
" How are you doing?" Athena asks as Luna comes over she had just gotten done with questioning a few bystanders, she tucks her glasses in her chest like her partner, her hands crossed over her.
" I'm not sure. How's Trent? Is he okay?"
" Your pilot's gonna be just fine." Luna assures her with a small smile,
"Hey, do me a favor. Uh, say, "And on the 405 , "speeds are under five miles an hour, making your morning commute a rough one."
"Seriously?" Hen sasses as Luna refrains from laughing.
"I-I-I know that voice. It's, uh, it's Taylor Kelly reporting, right? Right. Skywitness News Eight."
" That's me." Taylor shrugs.
" Wow. Um, it's, uh, it's weird to hear that voice come out of a face."
" Thank you?" Taylor furrows her brows a bit smirking
" Um, you have helped me beat traffic in this city more times than you will ever know."
"Oh, you might want to Uber tomorrow." Buck chuckles and the partners take that as their que to leave. Pulling their glasses up on their faces.
The Melanin Twins got a call about a fight at a toddler beauty pageant, they arrived to see a woman with a high heel shoe embedded in her face.
"This is ridiculous. She's the one who cheated. She and her demon seed. That little girl is 11 if she's a day. I want to see the birth certificate." the blonde woman was yelling, Athena got the crow un control and made room for the Medical unit for when they arrived
" Ma'am, calm down, or I'll charge you with resisting arrest, too."
"For what? This was self-defense. My ex-husband's a lawyer." she growls towards the two women as Luna is adjusting her cuffs.
"Oh, good. 'Cause I'm-a need you to contact him to come and pick up your daughter." Luna sasses as she sees the 118 arrive/
"Victim's over there" Athena nods to the direction where the other woman was. Chimney takes of over there while Buck and Eddie look at small children with wide eyes while Athena and Luna were working on the crowd control and the rowdy woman.
"Please don't arrest me. I-I'll pay for any medical bills if we could just let this slide. I'm so sorry. I stopped birth control because I started menopause, and now my hormones are going crazy." Luna Hands the woman Diane to another officer. " Can I get my shoe back?" she yells behind her as Luna just shakes her head at the woman.
"Yes when they remove it from the other woman's face." she replies
" Can someone please bring me the rest of my gear?" Chimney yells from the back of the room. Buck and Eddie just stand there, Luna and Athena look at one another before looking back at the two men.
" I think he means you, guys."
" Hey, Luna. They're, like, the tiniest ladies I've ever seen." Buck pinches his fingers togher. "Teeny-tiny. Just.."
" Excuse me?"
" So tiny." Eddie whispers.
" Henrietta!" Athena yells at the woman who was staring at herself in the mirror.
" 'Thena. Lulu." She approaches them. "Oh, 'Thena, you smell like love."
" Chimney? Need you over here." Luna yells.
"727-L-30, requesting immediate R.A. backup at Beverly Wilton Hotel, Pacific Ballroom."
" Where the hell is my lido..." Chimney stops in his tracks.
"We have a problem here. Your guys be trippin." Athena points her perfectly manicured nail towards the group.
"Yeah Eddie is hiding in those balloons," Luna stares at Eddie who is crocheting behind some balloons.
" What? Guys, look at me. Do you know where you are?"
" We're everywhere, man." Eddie pops out from behind the balloons.
" They're on drugs."
Hen starts Laughing and walks into Luna's arms hugging her.
"Uh- Okay, okay." She pats her on the back.
" Oh. Oh, my God, it's the brownies." Chimney snaps his fingers.
"Brownies?" Luna and Athena speak at the same time.
"We got a new batch today. We've been getting a lot of stuff lately, especially since the earthquake."
"You guys eat that stuff? We just throw that stuff right in the trash." Athena furrows her brows at the thought.
" We're firefighters. Everybody loves us." Chimney replies simply as they sigh at the group in front of them.
After getting more officers on the scene to cuff the others Luna was on babysitting duty while Athena made some calls.
" What's going on? I don't like this." Eddie was being Cuffed by Raoul as Luna was trying to calm him down. He was practically crying.
"Ooh, you made him cry." Buck teases as Luna gives him her signature "Be quiet look"
"Eddie, hey it's okay. Remember I told you my friend was gonna put these really nice bracelets on your wrist for safety." Eddie nods like a child as Luna cups his face a bit.
"All right, just breathe, okay? You're gonna be okay. All right? Somebody dosed you with a hallucinogen. We don't want you to hurt yourself or anyone else" Athena explains as Eddie nods.
" Yeah. I like that idea." Eddie says as Luna just shakes her head at him, he was being so cute.
" 'Thena, your head is beating like your heart."
" Is it?" she nods Luna over and she follows.
"Still no answer. Do you know if Bobby ate any of those brownies?" She asks Chimney he thinks for a moment before his eyes grow wide.
"Yeah you go, I'll take over the scene." Luna tosses her the keys as she hurries away leaving Luna in charge.
The things that happened, Happened for a reason, life has a way of pushing people together unexpectedly. Luna had talked with Eddie's family they agreed to watch Chris for a few days so Eddie could get all the drugs out of his system, in the meantime he slept on her couch, getting him there was a bit interesting Mac looked at her confused when he saw a giant man on their not so giant couch it was long but not big by any means.
"I couldn't get him to the guest room, he was so high."
"A firefighter high? Isn't there like a rule about that."
"Yeah its a long story." she laughs a bit as Mac just nods. He kisses her head leaving the house as she decides to get in the shower figuring Eddie would be fine.
Eddie did wakeup a day later, with the world's largest headache, luckily for him a very lovely ex-paramedic left him some Tylenol, on the table next to him, he sits up a bit groaning, he jumps startled by his surrounding before settling himself when he realizes he's in Luna's apartment. He looks at the table in front of him. Seeing a note, scribbled in pretty handwriting the words Take where and an arrow drawn to the Tylenol, he picks them up seeing more writing "Only two" he smirks before looking around the table next to him had a glass of orange juice that said "Drink." On the front he takes the sticky note off drinking the orange juice as Luna walks through the door, in a pool of sweat. She was panting and she pulled out one of her air pods and was trying to catch her breath.
"Hey!" she says seeing Eddie awake. "You're awake." She smiles, closing the door with her foot.
"How long was I out?"
"A day and a half." she replies as his eyes go wide she chuckles a bit walking over to the fridge. She opens her own bottle of Oj and starts chugging. Eddie watches her drink it, her throat swallowing quickly, the sweat on her body wasn't helping not to mention the outfit, bicycle shorts and a matching sports bra. Her skin was sparkly and he honestly still felt like he was high. "You alright Edmundo?" she breaks his trance and he looks her in the eyes,
"Yeah, why am I here?"
"I figured you didn't want Christopher to see you this way, I explained to Pepa. who is a really nice lady by the way, that you were sick and needed a few days and so he's there with her." she says simply as he nods. "You can shower if you want. I managed to grab your duffel from your truck." she nods to the guest room a few feet away. He nods again.
He looks at his phone which was on the table next to him seeing a few text from everyone then he sees the day, Thursday, he had missed their date.
"I missed our date."
"It's totally okay you had a really good excuse so I'll let it slide this time." she teases chuckling Eddie didn't laugh though he felt bad, he was really looking forward to their date. "How about we try again this Saturday. Sound good?" she asks as he nods. "I will not take this mopey attitude." Eddie just gets himself out of his head and smiles and she smiles too.
"Kay go shower you stinky." she pinches her nose as he laughs. "Everything you need is in there."
Saturday came by quicker than everyone thought and of course she was nervous, it wasn't helping that everything in her apartment wasn't working, she had changed clothes a million times before deciding on slick red shorts and a silky red top to match. It hung low, but not too low in the front, her hair in natural waves. Eyeliner and red lipstick, which she was thankful was water and smudge proof because she was two wine glasses deep, the knock at the door made her heart beat a million times faster.
Eddie was dressed in a nice flannel and blue jeans, flowers in his hand, his hair slicked back but one strand of hair fell in his face. His smile was big and warmed her heart.
"Hi, you can sit those on the counter." She steps to the side letting him inside; he sits the flowers down on the counter. His eyes furrowed at how dark it was in her apartment. "Sorry my breaker box went out, I can't seem to get it working."
"Want me to take a look?"
"Be my guest," she leads him down the hall to the utility room, she holds the flashlight for him and he starts taking a look at the box.''I have to go check on the food.'' She hands him the flashlight, leaving as Eddie fiddles around with it, he sees the power switch was turned to oddd and flips it back on all the lights turn on and he closes the door following the way he came, he sees Luna in the kitchen over the stove.
"You are amazing, thank you I was fiddling with that thing for like three hours,"
"No problem," he smiles before taking in the scent in the room. "Ooh, what is that?"
"Delicious, amazing food that will be ready in ten minutes, I put some snacks on the table and there is also beer in my fridge." she smiles and pulls him out a beer which he happily takes. They move to the touch where they both sit, it was awkward at first but then everything flowed like a gentle breeze.
Before long they had eaten entirely way too much food, Luna's face hurt from all the laughing she was doing, her skin was warm from the alcohol, she felt good but she knew what would happen in a couple hours her body would eventually throw up all the food or at least make an attempt she would try her best not to let it happen.
"So, you drove your dad's truck? Why didn't you just call 9-1-1?"
"I didn't know I was a teenager who didn't know better and was freaking out, I thought I could be the man of the house for a second."
"Well you didn't need to be the man of anything you were still a kid, plus it wasn't your job either, you were just supposed to be a kid, have fun not worry about taking care of anyone.'' She says and Eddie's heart skips several beats no one had ever told him that, or even understood that his parents were not in the right to tell him to man up.
"My Dad...he used to tell me that If I didn't close my eyes a new day wouldn't happen." She chuckles at the thought. "I would always close my eyes really tightly and before long I would wake up and there would be a new day just like he said." she laughs at the memories, before a tear falls from her eye.
"I'm sorry." she sits down her glass turning her head away from Eddie grabbing tissues from the box on the table next to them and dabbing at her eyes.
"How long ago did he pass?"
"He got shot in the line of Duty, when I was six, My older brother took it the worse, he felt like he had to step up be the man of the house, it was just my mom and my sister and him, though he really did turn into dad," She chuckles a bit she stands up moving the blanket from her lap and walking into her room, she slides the door closed and comes back on the couch with a box of photos.
"This is my brother Derek," she shows pictures of him,
"What does he do?"
"He works for the FBI" she laughs at the expression on Eddie's face. "Yeah, treat me good or else." She teases.
"Why don't you work for the FBI?'
"Well one, because that just seems like a really high class job title that I don't want, and two because I dont think I would be good enough, Derek wanted to be a police officer and he was good at it and then he became better joined the FBI I wasn't always a police officer, I use to be a paramedic, he hated the idea of it but I loved it, everything about it and then I lost my partner and My sanity and figured why not Join the police academy as far away from home as I could get and now here I am. Derek calls me everyday, texts me a million times a day, he's overprotective but I love him." she smiles sweetly as Eddie looks up at her. She was prettier in person, sure these photos did her justice but she was breathtaking in person.
"Sorry I was babbling..." She was cut off by Eddie kissing her, his lips were warm, like a fresh cup of coffee, the kiss was sweet and intriguing, filled with lots of passion but not harsh and firm. It was gentle, soon they were moving in sync. That kiss lasted a whole minute and they were done, longing to kiss again, but refraining, they were adults, mature adults who needed to keep it together.
"I'm sorry." he says simply as she smiles, tucking some hair behind her ear.
"Its fine." she replies the night continues as if nothing happened as if they didn't just share the best kiss of their entire existence the night ended quickly and they soon found themselves alone in their separate apartments, falling in love with each other,
Luna's phone dings and she answers it seeing a text from an unsaved number.
"I miss you xoxo-Taylor " she practically feels her heart running a marathon in her chest. It was bad enough that they had dated before in Chicago. But now it was like he was stalking her. Now he suddenly was incident commander in L.A and things were so complicated now it would make anyone's head spin. And just when she thought things were getting good.
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