Post-lawsuit, Eddie and Buck made up and are back together again. Eddie relapses with street fighting.
Eddie comes home after the fight at the ring. Chris is at abuela’s, so he’s not worried for his son seeing him like this. Buck is home though.
Eddie is beat up but not too bad. Buck patches him up quietly, doesn’t talk, even when Eddie tries to say something. The only time he spoke is to tell Eddie harshly to be quiet.
Eddie is sitting in a living room, when he hears Buck crying. He feels so much guilt because he knows he’s the cause of this. Eddie went to Buck, tries to comfort him:
Buck: Don’t-… don’t touch me!
Buck: You promised you’ll stop fighting. You lied to me.
Buck: You looked me in the eye, told me you would stop fighting, for Christopher, for me, and you lied! How could you?
Eddie doesn’t know how to make it better. Buck’s breathing becomes erratic. He’s having a panic attack, then he faints. It all happens so fast.
Eddie is scared, calls 911, they rush him into the hospital.
They don’t know Buck is pregnant.
Because of all of the stress, Buck almost lost the baby. Eddie is devastated, terrified for both Buck and the baby, while doctors checking him up.
Buck calls Pepa to pick him up (they are close, cuz Pepa is awesome). He and Chris are going to stay with her for a few days.
Eddie wants to be close to Buck but knows it’s for the best. He needs to sort his head out if he wants to keep his family together.
A few days later Buck and Eddie sit down and talk everything out. Buck knows that not everything is on Eddie, they have issues, relationship is a two-way street. They need a therapy, which is surprisingly Eddie’s idea.
Buck doesn’t tell Maddie about any of this because as much as he loves her and fire family, he doesn’t trust her not to tell Chimney, who’s in turn gonna tell everyone, and before you know it everyone will have some unwanted opinion and advice about this. They would judge Eddie (he speaks from his own past experience with their attitude towards him when Buck just started at 118), which is the last thing he needs right now. Not to mention that this time he could be fired for good. No, what Eddie needs are help and support and he’s gonna get it (Buck, Chris, Pepa and Abuela will provide it, believe that 💙).
Ramon and Helena somehow found out about Buck and Eddie’s family issues and decided to show up unannounced to take Chris with them because he needs stability (do you see my eyes rolling skywards? 🙄).
They start to berate Eddie like they always do. He’s getting angry and ready to explode on them, when Buck steps out of the kitchen, heavily pregnant (which Diaz parents apparently didn’t know) and in the most menacing voice tell them to butt the fuck out of their business. They are a little bit scared (and who’s not gonna be? Buck is terrifying force of nature when he wants to be, but when he’s pregnant and protects his mate? Double trouble for you). Still, they try to protest (ha! your funeral). When Eddie finally goes off:
"You may be my parents but that’s all you are. You’re not my pack. Buck, Christopher and our unborn child are. Abuela and Pepa are. But you? You are not it. With the way you treated me, Adriana and Sophia? I doubt you ever really were. Half of my fucking problems stems from your whole messed up “suck it up and move on, Edmundo. Real men don’t cry about their feelings, mijo."
And just when you think it can’t get worse (for Ramon and Helena, of course)…
Oh, would you like at that? Christopher heard all of his grandparents’ berating and negativity and told them that he never wants to see them again:
"Did you think I can’t hear how you speak to and about dad all the time? How you spoke about mom? Why do you think I stopped calling you? I might be a kid but I’m not stupid."
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