Forgiveness & Trust - A Buddie Fanfiction

Eddie

I was just walking around looking at those impacted by the tsunami when all of a sudden he was there. He was standing there bloody, injured, and dirty, but why was he here? I thought him and Christopher were going to the movies. I left Christopher with Buck today because I knew what Christopher meant to Buck. Buck was taken off active duty at the 118, and I thought spending time with Christopher would help him get out of bed, out of his apartment, and out of his damn mind. Now, here he stood before me when I thought they were going to be at the movies today.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Eddie.." he responded with his head hung.

"Buck...," I said as the realization that Christopher wasn't with him set in, "Where's Chris?"

"Eddie...," he tried to start again before I cut him off.

"Buck, why are you wearing his glasses," I asked as the worst possible scenarios started racing through my mind. He started talking and removing Chris's glasses from around his neck. I could hear what he was saying, but I didn't want to listen. I could hear the pain in his voice, the self-hatred for what happened. He was still talking when I saw a woman just a few yards behind Buck carrying a child in her arms, and I recognized those clothes as the ones that I watched Chris put on this morning by himself like every morning.

"Chris.." I said as I moved passed Buck towards the woman, "Chris!"

"Daddy," I heard him say.

"You must be Buck," the woman carrying him said as she handed my beautiful little boy over to me.

"No," I said to her, "I'm Eddie, his father."

"Oh," she said, "he said he was looking for someone named Buck."

As she said that, I looked back over at my best friend as he collapsed into the arms of our coworkers. I could see the relief and joy setting into his eyes as the fear and overwhelming guilt of losing my son disappeared from his body. I turned back to my son as I started checking him over for any possible injuries and asking him questions like, "Chris, are you hurt?"

"No daddy," he said to me, "I'm okay. Buck saved me. He saved me daddy."

"Okay buddy," I said hugging him again, "let's get you home."
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Picture is of Buck embracing Christopher after the initial strike of the tsunami. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of my first Buddie fanfic. More to come I promise.