A/N: Wahooo! I finally wrote something around Chimney and not Maddie looking at him lol. Sorry, it took so long but it was a different type of challenge for me. Enjoy Mariah
When Buck had first asked Howie if he would help set up his sister's security system he had said no rather quickly, and it wasn't just because he didn't like Buck all that much on a personal level.
It was because he was expecting to meet a female version of him and Chimney wasn't sure he wanted to meet that person. He didn't want to see the macho, most-likely beautiful and wouldn't shut up about it, and bull-headed Buckley sister unless he had to.
All throughout their evening shift together Buck went around asking different members of the 118 to see if they would volunteer to help him on their day off. Almost everyone had said no, but Eddie had quickly said he would.
Hen had said she was occupied with taking Denny to a friend's birthday party and Bobby was having a date night with Athena, so Howie realized Buck was going to have to come around and ask him again if he truly wanted extra hands.
He had been planning to say no, but when Eddie came up instead of Buck he was surprised.
"I know you don't have anything planned tomorrow," Eddie said, crossing his arms. "Will you help? You're the smart one here. I don't think Buck could set up the security cameras and we have a couch and mattress to bring in."
He sighed and shrugged. He didn't have anything planned, but he hadn't intended on spending any of that time with Buck. "I guess. I'm just not looking forward to meeting the all-mighty older Buckley sibling. I fear she will be Buck 2.0."
Eddie made a face that told him to think otherwise about that before smiling. "Thanks, bud. Buck will appreciate it. Maddie will too."
"What have you met the mysterious Buckley sibling already?" He asked.
"Of course. She and Buck helped me get in contact with Carla to look after Christopher." Eddie said as the alarm went off and they all went running to get in their gear. "And you shouldn't go off what Buck said about his sister."
"I agree," Hen said, appearing from off to the side. "A simple google search would tell you that, Chim."
"Did you google her?" He asked as they climbed into the ambulance together.
Hen shrugged, a smile that definitely said she did on her face, but he could never truly tell with her sometimes.
Everything that Chimney had thought Maddie Buckley was wrong. Except that she was beautiful, that was most definitely the only thing he had gotten right about his judgments of her.
Maddie was kind and funny, and a little on edge by how many security cameras she had him put up, but he wasn't going to pass any more judgments on her. If she wanted to feel safe that was her right, and he knew there had to be a reason for why she put so many up.
But he was in no place to ask her those kinds of questions. He'd only just met her but he already wanted to ask Buck for her phone number. He wanted to go by and make up an excuse to see her, just to get to know her better.
He already knew she had never seen Mission Impossible and while that seemed crazy to him, that meant he could share that with her. If she wanted him to.
Chimney had taken an extra step and on his next day off he'd gone to Target and bought a copy for her. He'd even gotten some wrapping paper to make it look nice, and one of the bows too.
Then he'd gone over to her condo on an impulse. When he parked his car, he sat there for a few minutes before he even got out. Was he really going to do this?
By the time he rang the doorbell it was too late to turn back, and he smiled up at the camera in the corner, making sure to hide the DVD behind his back as he waved with his other free hand.
"Uhh… just a minute I'll be right there." He heard Maddie say before she opened the door and instead of closing it in his face like he almost expected her to do for him coming over unannounced, but instead invited him in. "Hi. Come on in."
He smiled and walked inside, glancing around at the decorating she'd done in the last few days since he'd been over here. It looked nice, and he took in an easy breath before he turned around to face her again.
"So I was just out and I saw this," he said, holding out the wrapped DVD in his hand. He may have forgotten to add that that wasn't the most truthful answer, but in ten years maybe he'd tell her truth if this all worked out. "I thought of you so I bought it."
"What?" She looked surprised and almost didn't take it, offering it back to him. "I can't—"
He shook his head. He wanted her to have it. "It's just a housewarming gift," he reassured her and pushed the DVD back toward her.
She shook it excitedly and smiled bigger when she heard the rattle of the disc inside. "Not a book," she giggled.
"No, a DVD," he said, hoping it would be smooth to have bought the movie they were talking about the time before. "Mission Impossible?"
She laughed again, and it was a sound he never wanted to stop hearing. She was so beautiful.
But then he remembered that she had just moved into town and might not even be able to watch a movie at her house yet. "You do have a DVD player right?" He asked, knowing if she said he would definitely go buy her one just to watch this movie with her.
But she had one better. "Yeah, and a popcorn maker." She said, glancing back down at the DVD case in her hand. Almost like she was contemplating something, but before he could ask her what's wrong she looked up again. "Would you like to hang out and watch a movie?"
There was not a doubt in his mind. "I would love to."
When Buck went to pull into his usual parking space outside Maddie's condo there was another car there. One he knew was Chimney's and that struck him as odd. Why was he over at Maddie's?
Buck hopped out of his Jeep and locked it as he walked through the front garden that leads to the door on the side of the condo. Taylor was still on his mind when he walked through the door and he could still feel the taste of her lips on his.
He regretted it. Every single minute he'd let her kiss him and run her hands all over his body. He hadn't cared about it at the time. It felt great to let off some steam, and even better to do it while having sex in the backseat of his car with a hot redhead.
The minute one of her cameramen had suggested they get a room she had slyly asked him to bring her to the gas station a couple blocks up, and before he even pulled out of the parking lot Taylor had pulled his zipper open.
Buck held onto the steering wheel as he drove, and had even told her that probably wasn't the safest thing for her to be doing to him while he was driving, but she'd only laughed. He parked a half a block down and moved things to the backseat.
It had only escalated from there, and he hadn't even worn a condom. This was not going to be good for the progress he'd made on having random sexual encounters. Especially one without protection. Now he was regretting it all as he locked the front door behind him, and even more so regretting coming home.
When he turned around the last thing he'd expected to see was his sister on the couch with Chimney. They were sitting close, but not close enough to be touching except for the fact that Maddie's head was resting on his shoulder.
The Mission Impossible DVD menu was on the screen and he shut the tv off before he tried to wake his colleague. Maddie hadn't stirred when he tried her either and decided to just put a blanket over them.
Whenever they decided to wake up was on them, but he wasn't sure how he felt about the picture of those two sorts of snuggled up on the couch. That was an odd picture to him.