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Buck and Eddie have been together for three weeks now. No one knows about it. Not yet. They're keeping it to themselves for now.
At least until Chris comes home for Christmas break, they'll tell him then. Together. In person.
Eddie came out as gay, like super very gay (his words), to Buck once he became okay with it, which was a process after two weeks of tears and just an all-around shitty time. The next week, he danced and cried to his feelings for a bit, and went to confession with Father Brain again. He never came out to him, but the priest very easily suspected it. And he helped Eddie tremendously.
Eddie didn’t shave the mustache because he began to like it on him, not using it to mask himself anymore.
Eddie came out to himself first, in the mirror, and he didn't hate what he saw. He actually loved what he saw. It all just felt right. Then he told Buck. A few days later, he came out to Chris over FaceTime.
He was nervous as hell to come out to them. Chris was so proud and so happy for Eddie. He could see how happy his dad looked, and he had to be happy for his dad. It was definitely a shock...ish...but he's happy and proud of his dad nonetheless. He knows it wasn’t easy for his dad to say it.
Buck was awkward as hell at first, because of his feelings for Eddie—which Eddie of course didn't know about, at the time—but he is very proud of his partner.
Eddie avoided him gradually right afterward. Because he discovered his feelings for him. Very, very strong feelings. Like undeniably in love feelings. Love of his life type of feelings.
Buck stormed into his house, confused as hell, two weeks after Eddie had slowly started to ignore him. He asked if he had done anything wrong. Eddie confessed his feelings, with many, many tears, as did Buck. Buck obviously returned the feelings, and they had one hell of a first kiss that was the start to the rest of their lives. Oh, and afterwards they ended up in bed for hours and hours...
They've kinda been even more inseparable than usual since.
The first forty-eight hours were fine, great, fucking amazing since they had a forty-eight off. Every second was used up wisely. They didn't leave the bed for much at all. Or each other's sides. They didn't—couldn't—leave each other's sides.
At work, which is about the same as it was at home—minus the constant touching and kissing...out in the open anyway—because they didn't leave each other's sides if they didn't have to.
They'd sneak away for a few minutes here and there to make out like a couple of teenagers or rub off a quickie in the showers if no one was around.
They feel like a couple of teenagers with the way they can't keep their hands off each other for more than a couple of minutes, more like seconds, whether it's for sex, cuddling, kissing, holding hands, or just anything. They can't stand to be away from each other for long.
Neither has felt or been this way with anyone they've been with before. Because they are forever. And they both know it.
They’re BuckandEddie.
*****
Eddie is standing behind the couch, watching Chim destroy Hen at Mario Kart.
He is smiling and laughing at the TV until there is a hand that he knows so well, slapping his ass, it startles the hell out of him.
But at least he knows who it is. It would be a lot worse if he didn't.
"Buck?!” He whisper-shouts as he spins around to face him, arms spread out, a sarcastic look on his face.
Eddie returns his arms to his sides after a second. "You okay?" He asks, now concerned for his boyfriend, because he has a straight face, no smile or grin like he usually does when Eddie's being sassy.
Buck nods. "Yeah, I, uh," He clears his throat, not able to meet Eddie's eyes. "Can we talk for a minute?" He whispers, taking a step closer to Eddie to ensure there are no wandering ears, finally looking him in the eyes.
"Yeah...Sure, mi amor." Now he's very concerned.
"Great. See you downstairs." Buck reaches around and gently slaps Eddie's ass again before running downstairs.
"Buckley!" He shouts like he's angry, but he is far from it, sprinting after him, grinning like an idiot.
*****
Hen leans over to Chim, "Have you noticed that Buck and Eddie have been weirder than usual for the past couple of weeks?"
"They're always weird." Chim deadpans, focusing on the game and the fact he's about to win. "Very weird," He mutters.
She rolls her eyes. "Well, yeah, but they've been, I don't know, double weird? More weird? Double Buck and Eddie weird?"
"What?"
Hen elaborates, "They've been giggling more than usual, touchier than usual, I feel like I'm always interrupting something with them when I want to talk to them, they're always in their own little world, communicating telepathically, they're sneaking off a lot, and...oh my God. Bobby!" Hen drops the controller and runs over to Bobby in the kitchen.
Chim sighs, shaking his head. He at least won, though. So that's something.
"Bobby." Hen calls, approaching him.
"Everything okay?" He turns around, fear and worry in his eyes.
"Yes..." She met his eyes, very serious. "Bobby, I think they finally figured it out."
"Who?"
"Buck and Eddie. They've been weirder than usual lately. And very giddy."
Especially considering that not too long ago, Eddie was very down in the dumps until a few weeks ago. And the fact that Chris is coming home soon definitely has a part in it. BUT Buck is the same amount of giddy at the same time Eddie is, after being ALSO down in the dumps because Eddie was going to move over 800 miles away, so yeah. It's very suspicious. And the fact Eddie came out to them two weeks ago...all signs point to the two oblivious idiots finally pulling their hands out of their asses, finally getting together.
Something's definitely up.
"I thought I was seeing things," Bobby confesses.
"So you agree with me?" She leans against the kitchen island.
Bobby nods. "Yup. I believe they finally figured it out."
"Who finally figured what out?" Ravi asks, walking towards them, intrigued.
"Buck and Eddie," Hen answers.
Chim practically leaps from the couch and runs over to them. "You think so? Because I've got a lot of money riding on this."
"Oh, so now you're invested?" Hen teases.
Chimney swats a hand through the air. "Shut up, Hen, and elaborate, please. Enlighten us on your theory."
She shakes her head, unamused. "Think about how they've been acting the past couple of weeks. And the fact that it gets worse every shift, their giddiness and closeness. All of it."
"Oh. My. God! They figured it out!" Chim exclaims.
"All I have to say is, it took them way too long," Ravi says. "I honestly thought they were together when I first started."
Everyone chuckles at that.
"Well, what do we do?" Ravi asks after the laughter dies down.
"Wait and see how this plays out," Hen says. "And tease them more than we already do. Maybe try to get a confession out of them."
"This'll be fun," Chim says, with a devilish glint in his eyes.
"Make sure this doesn't affect your ability to do your job or theirs. And I'll make sure to have the paperwork for them to fill out once they confess." Bobby says.
"Come on, Cap! Don't ruin the moment!" Chim shouts.
Everyone laughs again, except Bobby, who's very unamused.
"I didn't ruin anything." He says, once everyone stops laughing. "But you almost missed the good part."
"Huh?" Chim asks, dumbfounded.
"Which is?" Hen interjects.
"The fact that I've had these papers for years, and now they can finally be fully filled out." He says, with a smile.
Everyone laughs their asses off.
"It's about damn time," Hen adds.
"Agreed," Bobby adds, still smiling. He is so glad to finally see them happy. But the sneaking off and PDA will have to be controlled. At least to a point. They'll have a long talk about it once they tell everyone.
As the father figure he is to Buck, he's really fucking happy for him. He deserves the world, and he knows Eddie will give him just that. And Buck will do the same right back.
It’s been a long time coming.
*****
"Buck!" Eddie shouts, reaching the bottom of the stairs, looking for him.
"Over here!" Buck yells right outside the locker room, waving his hand to get Eddie's attention, grinning like the idiot in love he is.
Eddie spots him, smiles at him, and runs over to him, and when he gets close, Buck slides into the locker room, trying to be cheeky.
Eddie stops for a moment and sighs, shaking his head with a smile, then he runs into the locker room after about half a second, unable to resist the temptation.
"Buck!" Eddie calls as soon as he enters the locker room.
"I'm here, no need to shout,” Buck jokes as he emerges from the shower room with a goofy smile on his face.
"What're you doing?" Eddie cocks his head to the side, bewildered and amused, hands on his hips, sassily.
Buck shrugs. "I dunno what you're talking about."
He then walks closer to Eddie, pulls him into his arms, and kisses him, hard.
They are far enough back in the glass locker room for people not to be able to see them unless they really, really looked.
Eddie kisses him right back, moaning into Buck's mouth.
Buck wraps his arms around Eddie's little waist, holding him close. Eddie wraps his arms around Buck's neck, pulling him even closer. They hate having even a centimeter of space between them.
(Codependent freaks.)
Buck pulls back to take a breath and shoves Eddie into the wall by the shower room entrance.
"What was that for?" Eddie rasps, looking into Buck's eyes with a smile. "Not that I'm complaining."
"It had been ten hours, eleven minutes, and thirty-six seconds since I kissed you," Buck states, still trying to catch his breath. "It feels so wrong to go that long without kissing you."
Eddie grins. "I can't agree with you more, cariño." Then Eddie grabs Buck's face, pulls him down, and closes the gap once again.
After a few minutes of making out with each other like starved animals, they pull back, breathless, once again.
Once Eddie can breathe and talk again, he asks, "What did you want to talk about, baby?"
"I don't remember." Buck shakes his head and goes back in for a kiss, "Let's kiss some more." He pulls back, but only a centimeter, with a cocky grin. "Or better yet, come to the shower with me."
Eddie pushes Buck back a little bit.
Buck makes his pouty face, the one that Eddie can't resist.
He can't resist Buck in general, but especially not when he makes that face.
Eddie groans, pointing an accusing finger at him, "Don't make that face at me. You know I can resist that face."
Buck flashes Eddie a big smile.
"Talk to me, mi corazón." Eddie looks into Buck's eyes, running his hands up and down Buck's very muscular arms to comfort him and tell Buck that it's okay and that whatever it is, they'll get through it—and he just wanted to touch his boyfriend's big biceps, okay?
"Ugh, fine." Buck steps back a bit and leans against a pole in the center of the locker room. Eddie follows, not getting too close. "I was, uh, wondering...these past three weeks have been, like, some of the best weeks of my life...and I've been wondering when we'd tell other people about us. Not that I mind the sneaking around, at all."
Eddie tilts his head to the side, smiling widely. "Yeah, it has been for me too. But uh, if it's okay with you, can we wait two more weeks? Until Chris is home? I know I came out to him already over FaceTime, but for this part, I want it to be in person. With you there with me." He gives Buck a heart-stopping smile.
Buck grins. "It sounds perfect." A mischievous glint flashes in his ocean-blue eyes as he takes one step closer to Eddie. "Plus, sneaking around is hot. And really, really fun."
Eddie smirks. "It is. We don't have to tell the team even after we tell Chris. At least for a little bit anyway, maybe?"
"Oh my God,” Buck breathes out. “I love you so much." Then he takes a few steps closer to his boyfriend, closing the distance.
"I love you more, mi alma."
Eddie then puts a hand up to stop Buck from walking any closer.
"Eddddieeee." Buck pleads, putting on the adorable pouty face again. "I wanna kiss you again."
"I know. Me too." He flashes Buck a playful smile. "But, uh, is it too late to accept the shower offer?"
Buck shakes his head. "Hell. No."
Eddie grabs Buck's face to pull him close as Buck grabs Eddie’s hips and pulls the brunette in to kiss him.
They make out stupidly, again, as they back up to the shower room.
They've done this multiple times, they've got a whole routine, and they know the route from the locker room to the shower room like the back of their heads.
Buck closes the curtain behind him and then leans back against the far wall while Eddie turns on the water to muffle their sounds, because they are not silent by any means.
Buck has always been pretty loud in bed, and Eddie always has a pretty q-word in bed, until Buck.
Eddie turns around, grins, and walks over to his sexy and naked boyfriend.
"Hey, gorgeous,” Buck flirts.
"Hi, cosas calientes." Eddie flirts back. (cosas calientes: hot stuff).
Eddie Diaz has never been much of a flirt, either, until Buck.
Yes, there is a trend here.
When Eddie is standing right in front of him, Buck reaches behind Eddie’s knees and picks him up, spins them around, and then slams him into the shower wall as he smashes his lips against Eddie's.
"Te amo, mi amor," Eddie rasps into Buck's mouth between kisses.
Buck smiles into the kiss, almost gasping for air. "I love you too, baby."
Then he dives right back in.
After making out for a while, Buck moves a hand down to his belt to unbuckle his pants and get his cock out.
“Unlock from me and pull your pants down, baby. Take off your shirt, too. I got you,” Buck says against Eddie’s lips, pushing his pants down to his feet because they get stopped by his work boots, grabbing his fully-hard cock, pulling it out of his boxers.
Eddie unwraps his arms from around Buck’s neck and throws his shirt off, then he places a hand on Buck’s shoulder, unlocks his ankles and reaches his free hand down to the button of his pants and the zipper, pulling his pants down, kicking his shoes off, and letting his pants and tightie whities hit the ground, then he throws his bare legs around Buck’s torso, locking his ankles again.
Buck and Eddie connect their lips for sloppy, wet kisses as Buck stretches Eddie open, using Eddie’s saliva as lube to open the man up.
Eddie has to keep kissing Buck, or his sounds would be too loud, and people would be able to hear him and what they are doing.
Once Eddie knows he’s ready, he demands against Buck’s lips, “Get in me, baby.”
Buck nods, pulling his fingers out, wetting his cock with what’s left on his fingers, then he slides inside of Eddie, making them one.
*****
Buck lets Eddie down carefully, both of them panting frantically, smiling like two idiots in love—because they are.
"You okay, baby?" Buck asks, breathless, resting his forehead on Eddie's, closing his eyes, soaking in the beautiful afterglow.
Eddie nods, still trying to catch his breath. "I'm good, mi sol. Just...I can't...think. You...uh...screwed my brains out." He giggles, his face flushed bright red.
Buck chuckles, then kisses Eddie's small mole under his eye, which he's not so secretly obsessed with. Just like Eddie totally isn't with Buck's birthmark.
"Wash up, Eds. We need to get outta here before the bell rings."
"Just...gimme a second." Eddie chuckles, swaying slightly, still dazed.
Buck chortles, then kisses Eddie’s mole again. "I love you so much, Eddie Diaz." Sue him. Every time he has super hot sex with his boyfriend makes him sappy. It does for both of them.
Eddie takes a breath, then says with a sappy smile, "I love you more, Evan Buckley."
They share a short, sweet kiss.
"Okay, I can breathe now. I need to wash up. I feel...sticky." They...uh...don't use condoms. They prefer it this way. They like to feel each other without anything in between. Especially not a silly piece of plastic.
(Again, codependent freaks).
They both chuckle.
"Okay, baby." Buck kisses Eddie’s forehead, then moves back so he's no longer pinning Eddie against the shower wall.
Eddie steps under the water stream, leans his head back, and runs his hands through his hair. He hums, relaxing into the pleasant feeling.
After Buck wipes Eddie’s come off of him with a towel, he walks back into the shower, holds Eddie in his arms, and kisses along his neck.
"Mi amor, I love you very, very much, and I would love for this to continue...again. Buuut you need to get outta here."
Buck groans in protest. "Fine." He pulls back, sadly. "As soon as we're home, though, we're so going again."
Eddie chuckles. "Sounds like a plan, mi alma."
"See you soon, baby. Oh, and I love you too." Buck kisses Eddie once more before he walks out of the shower, closes the curtain behind him, and dries himself off. He got a little wet from not being able to resist his sexy boyfriend under the shower stream.
Then he puts the same clothes back on. He tosses Eddie's clothes in Eddie's work bag to wash once they're home. They're soaking wet.
He does leave Eddie a clean pair of boxers for once he gets out. (They always plan that for situations like this.)
Buck's freshening up in the locker room when he hears footsteps behind him.
"So, Buckaroo, whatcha doin'?"
Chimney.
Buck rolls his eyes and turns around. "I'm freshening up, Chim. I felt all sweaty and gross from the last call." Buck gives him a curious look, squinting his ocean eyes. "What did you think I was doing?"
"Oh, uh, nothing." Chim rushes out, not able to look at Buck when saying so.
"Do you think I'm lying about what I said I was doing?" He was. But Chim doesn't need to know that. Not yet anyway.
"No." And it's not believable at all, for either of them.
Buck fake gasps. "Oh. My. God. I'm offended, Chim. You don't believe me, how rude. How dare you think I'd ever lie to you, my dear brother-in-law?"
Chim crosses his arms over his chest; he's not amused.
"Who's lying to whom about what?" Eddie asks, sassily, from the doorway to the shower room, a towel around his waist, covering the boxers Buck so generously left for him. He has the best boyfriend ever.
"I told Chim that I'd been freshening up from the last call, and he thinks I'm lying."
"Wow, Chim." He snarks, walking past Chimney to his locker. "If you need an outsider to confirm. I'm your guy." Eddie grabs a spare shirt from his locker and puts it on, then turns to face Chim. "Yes, he was 'freshening' up just like me. I just had the decency to shower."
"Wow." Buck jokes. "I'm being bullied."
"Oookay then." Chim doesn't know what else to say here; he's gonna just slip away now. But then Eddie drops the towel from his waist, exposing his boxers, turns around, bends down, and picks up his pants from the floor that fell, and definitely not on purpose. Buck stares at him. "Whoa! You were just staring at his ass! Why are you staring at Eddie's ass?"
Eddie stands up and spins around quickly, pants in his hands. "Excuse me?! Who was staring at my ass?"
Buck is quick to defend. "What? He has a nice ass." He gives Chim a look. "Come on, Chim. Agree with me here. You have been tempted to look before, I know you have. And I know I have." Buck smirks at Eddie. "Many, many times."
"I mean," Chim scratches behind his neck, looking to the floor. "You're not wrong. And I'm very happily married. But still, stare when other people aren't around to notice, geez."
"Whoa!” Eddie yells. “Why are we talking about my ass like this? I have a completely average, normal ass."
"Sure, Eddie." Chim takes that as his cue to slip away, finally.
Eddie slips on his pants now, shaking his head and laughing a little.
"You know," Buck shuts his locker, giving Eddie a mischievous look. "Damn well, your ass is way beyond average and norma, babyl."
Eddie cocks his head, confused, slamming his locker shut, not looking away from his boyfriend. "What?"
Buck takes a step closer to Eddie. "You have a very nice ass, that is far beyond a normal ass. And you know it."
Eddie smirks, an eyebrow raised. "Soooo, you're an ass guy?" He is, too. And Buck knows it.
Buck has always been an ass guy. And the fact that his boyfriend has the best ass in the universe makes it all the better.
They share a quick, smily kiss.
"Yeah, always have been." He whispers in Eddie's ear, when they pull back from the kiss, "But especially for yours, baby." He looks into Eddie's glistening honey-brown eyes and grins.
Eddie laughs and rolls his eyes. "You're a dork."
"Your dork,” Buck corrects. “And you love me."
Eddie hums, nodding in agreement. "You are. And yeah, you got me there, babe."
They kiss once more, then exit the locker room and head upstairs. No one is looking at them weirdly, no one even notices their presence.
*****
Everyone has left the bunk room, the following morning, to get some breakfast, Buck and Eddie among the group. But not for much longer, though.
Once they finish breakfast, Eddie slips downstairs. Buck helps with clean-up and then heads downstairs himself to join Eddie in the bunk room.
Eddie's sitting at the end of the bunk in the farthest corner, looking down at his phone.
Buck quickly spots him, smiles, and walks—runs—over to him, after shutting the door.
"Hey," Buck rasps with a silly, lovesick grin.
Eddie looks up from his phone and grins. "Hey, cariño."
"C'mere,” Buck demands, reaching his arms out, taking Eddie's hands in his.
The phone became long forgotten in the bunk somewhere.
They wrap their arms around each other, no space in between them, and kiss and kiss and kiss.
Eddie takes control, spins them around, and pushes Buck down onto the small bed.
They each remove their shoes next, throwing them in a pile next to the bunk.
Buck slides up the bed and rests his head on the pillow, his legs go under the covers, and Eddie crawls on top of him, straddling his thighs. Eddie's legs go under the covers, too.
They lock eyes. Blue meeting brown.
"I missed you so much, princess," Buck says, in a voice sweet like honey, grabbing Eddie's spectacular hips.
Eddie smiles, his cheeks turning bright red from the damned nickname, but God, does he love it.
And Eddie knows exactly what he means. 'I miss being able to touch you, hold you, and kiss you.' They've been by each other's sides since the locker room and shower, just not in the way they prefer. Actually having physical contact. Whether it was intimate or not. They both just need it 24/7.
"I missed you, too, cariño." Eddie then runs his hands up and down Buck's big, muscular arms.
Buck looks at Eddie like he held up the fucking sun, looking at Eddie like he always does.
"I love you."
Eddie's face flushes even more than it already was. "Hmm. I love you, too." Eddie then closes the gap before any more words can be exchanged.
There's plenty of time for that later. When they're not in a rush.
Eddie's tongue licks across Buck's bottom lip, asking to be let in.
Buck easily lets him in, like, as soon as he feels Eddie’s tongue lick all the way across his bottom lip.
Eddie's quick and frivolous with his tongue, making Buck squirm and moan beneath him, holding Eddie like a lifeline.
Eddie's hands slowly roll up Buck's shirt, ending at Buck's massive pecs. Eddie pulls back the slightest bit and looks down at Buck through his long, pretty lashes, with his big, brown, beautiful doe eyes.
Buck's cheeks flush firetruck red.
As Eddie is about to pull Buck's shirt off, the door to the bunk room clicks open, a tiny sliver of light being let into the very dark room.
They pause what they're doing completely and divert their attention immediately to that.
*****
Fedz art. LOVE HER STUFF SO MUCH OMG.
*****
Whoever it is doesn't fully open the door.
Buck and Eddie both flash a nervous and curious glance at each other. Then they hear Bobby's voice. Seems he was calling whoever it was that was trying to enter the bunk room; that's why it didn't open any further.
Whoever it is, closes the door back. So they're safe.
For now.
They decide against sex and just have a hot as fuck make-out session instead. Buck's shirt was still cupped under his ginormous pecs, though.
Neither is complaining about any of it, especially Eddie.
Eddie eventually and sadly has to pull Buck's shirt back down the correct way instead of under his tits. Which Eddie definitely doesn't have a thing for...
"No, wait," Buck whines when Eddie starts to rise from the bed.
"What is it, baby?" Eddie asks out of concern, lowering himself back down to Buck.
"One more?" Buck even adds in the adorable pouty face, as if Eddie wasn't already gonna give him what he requested. (They can't say no to each other.)
It's never one more for them. But fuck it. Who is Eddie to deny his boyfriend what he wants when he wants it just as much?
About ten minutes later, Buck has to sadly let Eddie go so he can get up and out of the bunk room.
Buck waits a few minutes before exiting the bunk room, walking upstairs, where he suspects Eddie is to return his phone that got lost in the mess of the sheets he so kindly made up.
"Eddie!"
Eddie spins around swiftly. "Hm?"
"Your phone. I finally found it!" He holds it up in the air like he won the fucking lottery.
Eddie smiles at him. "Thank you," Amor. He almost says. It's just so easy to say, but he remembers where they are and keeps it to himself.
"You're welcome," Princess. Buck winks at Eddie before walking into the kitchen to get some coffee.
Only twelve hours to go before they can go home and be able to freely have their hands on each other without having to sneak off and do it.
They can't fucking wait.
*****
Only a couple of hours are left of their forty-eight-hour shift, and Eddie is currently washing the front of the firetruck after a call.
Buck comes up behind him, smiling like the dork he is, and squeezes Eddie's sweet ass.
Eddie jerks back and spins around. Buck lets him go and takes a step back, still smiling.
"Buck, baby, really?" Eddie sighs. "You've got to get a handle on yourself. Because you know that if you can't, then I can't. And then we'll end up having sex in the firetruck or something."
"Are you complaining?" Buck's face is red, imagining having sex in the firetruck with Eddie. It would be a gazillion better than those two times he stole the truck to have sex with those two women all those years ago. (And got fired for. Eddie would be worth it, though. Eddie's the best he's ever had.)
Eddie's face flushes. And it's a beautiful sight.
"Is that an offer?" Buck teases, taking a step toward Eddie, one hand on his hip, checking Eddie out.
"What?"
Buck flashes him a playful smirk. "Is that a yes?"
"Oh, my God. You're insatiable, Buck,” Eddie groans.
"For you." He wiggles his eyebrows.
"Again I say, you are a dork."
"Your dork." He points at Eddie.
"My dork, indeed." Eddie smiles and kisses Buck's cheek before he walks off.
Buck, of course, has to check out Eddie's ass as he's walking away.
*****
Chris is beyond ecstatic when they tell him that they’re together when he returns home two weeks later.
He shouts, "Finally!" To them, and they all get a good laugh out of it.
Let's just say it's not much longer before Buck moves in.
Two months into the relationship, they break it to everyone at the 118, when Athena and Maddie were there too for a big 118 meal. All the kiddos were on the couch playing video games. They all clapped and cheered at the announcement.
Maddie was only slightly furious that Buck didn't tell her they were together. Buck was going to. But he decided against it.
They got engaged two and a half months later, and Eddie proposed. Buck also had a ring and proposed to Eddie afterward. They both said yes.
Then the whole announcement to their parents did not go well. But neither cared.
They got married three months later.
(Hen won the bet, of course.)