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He’d almost gone to Peru.
Buck thinks that - well, actually, he thinks that a lot since his Jeep broke down in Chicago and delayed his trip four years ago. He’d enjoyed bartending, but the kind of joy he got from being an emergency department technician is irreplaceable, Buck is sure.
And besides that - being a bartender never allowed him to get this close and personal with hot doctors. Well, at least not when they were sober, anyway.
But never has Buck thought I can’t believe I almost went to Peru quite as incredulously as he thinks it as Mark fumbles with his bottom scrubs on the way to Buck’s apartment bedroom.
Someday he should really invest in a couch. The last boyfriend had taken his couch with him - which, really, was rude.
“Need help with those scrubs, Dr. Greene?” Buck murmurs into the crook of Mark’s neck.
Because, after all, Buck is a very good emergency department technician and his job is to be helpful. He’s a very helpful teammate.
“It’s been a minute,” Mark says, and he flushes a little.
God, Buck thinks, he’s adorable when he blushes.
Doug Ross had said once that the only person Mark ever had sex with was his ex-wife, which means that Buck is about to go somewhere that no man has ever gone before (that wasn’t the nicest thing for Doug to tell Buck, but in fairness, Buck’s mouth had been doing truly delightful things to Doug’s cock at the time in the western most pediatric supply closet, so Doug had been inspired to tell Buck all sorts of County secrets).
“That’s okay,” Buck says, and his hands cover Mark’s as he tugs the scrubs down. “See? We make a great team outside of the ER, too.”
Mark grins, and nods his head a little.
Buck wonders if the glasses are going to come off.
But then Mark reaches for the stethoscope, and there’s a much more pressing problem.
“Keep the stethoscope on,” Buck says impulsively. “… Maybe the glasses too.”
He expects some pushback. Instead, Mark says, “… You want the stethoscope around the neck?”
In reply, Buck reaches for it and loops one end around each side of Mark’s neck - the way Mark wears them every day at work. It’s the same way that teases Buck so thoroughly every day, the same way that Buck has jerked off to furiously in the shower multiple mornings (and evenings, after long, long shifts).
The stethoscope stays in place, even as the rest of their clothes fall in various heaps on the way to Buck’s bedroom.