#Christopher Diaz Has Two Dads

[cinematics123]

Eddie: I’m moving back to El Paso to be near Chris.

Buck: EDDIE. I’m gonna be supportive but do you know HOW MUCH MORE BAKING I’m gonna need to do now.

Eddie: uh.. so…

Buck: I think Maddie needs a second wedding cake.

Eddie: what?

Buck: (manic) Do you have a copy of the Guinness book of world records?

Days later, Eddie and Chris watching tv in El Paso

TV Announcer: Again, our top story is that a strange bisexual man has built a full size replica of the Eiffel Tower- made entirely of lemon tort. Six people have died. And it has drawn back the swarm of killer bees from before.

Chris: Dad… is Buck ok?

Eddie: Chris, I can’t be honest about that and still stay here in El Paso.

Chris: oh.

[kenneth-black]

Does it ever drive you crazy…

…just how fast the night changes? 🥹

[i wonder if Buck misses baking with his Chris 🙂]

[imakatperson22]

Eddie: Kicks the 3rd woman he’s dated out of his house because of repressed catholic guilt after avoiding having sex with her.

Buck: absolutely flailing as a baby disaster bisexual and sending his date running for the hills before they even finish their meal.

Chris, “out of town” somewhere, sitting on a curb and smoking a cigarette: Jesus Christ, these two fucking idiots…

[pangrams-n-palindromes]

3x03 / 7x10

do you ever think about the glasses & the backpack? because I do

[purgatory-jar]

What's the best way to celebrate when (not if!!!!) Chris finally comes back?? But the LA Aquarium of couse!

(Chris loves them, but damn, are they really this oblivious?)

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[yourbestbuddie]

Everytime I remember that Eddie motherfucking Diaz decided to make this guy who he’s known for less than two years the LEGAL GUARDIAN TO HIS CHILD, and THEN doesn’t say a word to him about it for another year, and only does when said guy says it should’ve been him who was shot in Eddie’s place, and has been entirely reckless ever since Eddie was shot repeatedly risking his life so he doesn’t lose the people he cares about, JUST SO THAT HE MAKES SURE THE GUY DOESNT DO SOMETHING STUPID AND RECKLESS AGAIN … well I’m entirely normal about that.

“No one will ever fight for my son as hard as you.” OKAY OKAY OKAY OKAY

[groupielove21]

The saddest part of this ending is that Christopher became exactly like his parents: a person who runs away from his problems.

Eddie and Shannon did it in their own ways (the army and Los Angeles) and they had to deal with the consequences of their actions for the rest of their lives and they wanted to prevent Christopher from going through that at all costs and they didn't succeed.

Now Christopher is just like his parents, a person who runs away from his problems and doesn't want to talk about them, who breaks things when he gets angry and tries to hurt the person who hurt him even when he loves him.

And the worst of all is that Christopher is also like his other dad.

Christopher just wants to be loved, just like Buck, he just wants people to stop leaving, but people always leave.

So now we have Christopher Diaz, following in the same footsteps as his three parents, running away because he's angry and he's angry because people always leave him.

The difference between Christopher and all of them? It's just that Chris is loved either way.

Christopher has something that neither Eddie, nor Shannon, nor Buck had and it is a home that loves him, where Buck and Eddie are waiting for him to come back, and that even if he doesn't come back, even if he can never forgive his father, his two dads are going to love him for the rest of their lives. Because Christopher is worth being loved, and being waited for as long as necessary.

[lordherondaie]

[ahellalottafandoms]

Tim said something about storylines coming in full circle in the midseason finale...

What if this time, at the end of the episode... Chris reaches out to Eddie via Zoom, and instead of being behind the sofa hiding, Buck is sat there with Eddie this time, wide smiles and happy at seeing his little (no so little anymore) buddy?!

[annieontheside]

i feel like, in a daily, chris rushes into any room and screams "buck, the floor is lava!" and buck instantly jumps (and with instantly i mean chris screams floor and he's already standing) and picks him up and throws him into the couch or any soft surface.

this "tradition" started when he was a little younger and he did scream the floor is lava thinking buck would jump to save himself, but instead buck crossed the whole room to grab him and put both of them on the sofa, looking around scared like there actually was lava. chris laughed and told him he was too slow and his feet were burned by now and buck scoffed and said "i had to get you to safety first. how are we supposed to sail through the lava without our captain?" and chris absolutely loved it.

eddie loved it too but was too busy laying down crying on the lava to say anything.

edit: twenty years later, during christmas, Christopher crouches next to his son and softly whispers "tell grandpa the floor is lava". his son is confused but he does anyway, and buck jumps from his place, a big smile on his face as he grabs his two grandchildren and carries them to the couch, ignoring Eddie's screams of "you're not thirty anymore, evan, stop it!"

[rosstrytobe]

THE BUCKLEY DIAZ FAMILY IS BACK 😫💗

[kenneth-black]

Buck canonically having photos of his Diaz boys on the fridge just made my day 🥹🥹🥹

[imakatperson22]

Buddie fics this and tevan fics that.

Where are all the fics about what Chris is doing “out of town”? I need people to start writing about Chris being on his own little side quest or something. Where is he? What’s he doing? Why’d he go there? Make it happen people!

[gibuckaroo]

if buck gives christopher dating advice and it somehow goes to chris asking, “well how do you know that it’s right, that they’re the one?” and buck thinks of how chris is impossibly too young to know and that buck’s not even sure because has he found the one? doesn’t everyone feel like the one at some point? don’t you hope that it’s right, that this person is it?

and that’s his first initial thought, to say that, at this point the important thing is to have fun, to enjoy it, to make sure that he’s nice, that he’s also being treated nicely. but somehow in that thought process wouldn’t the one also feel like that? that you’re having fun with them, that you’re enjoying, that you love them and they love you back.

does the one make you feel like they have your back and you have theirs? do they make laughter come to you like nature intended, how easy it is for smiles to come? does the one make you want to start over recipes just to perfect it and see the satisfaction on their faces? does the one make you all warm and glowy inside when they say something that makes you want to crawl back to a younger version of yourself and hug that kid? does the one make you want to be better without even saying anything, with just the intention of being yourself with them? does the one think you’re worth it? do you think there ever needs to be pretending with the one?

and he’s silent but there are thoughts in his head and all he can choke out is, “you’ll know” and chris is curious see and he wants to know so he asks “how did you know? how do they make you feel?” and it’s not like they’re talking about a specific person and it’s not like specific person may be eavesdropping but buck’s voice comes out very soft and quiet and just, he didn’t even know it five minutes earlier but somehow he’s certain, “like i have a home.”

and it’s chris smiling up at him and it’s the somebody outside his door and yeah buck has found the one

[buddiedaydreamer911]

eddie: i just don’t want him to… you know.

buck: end up like me.

eddie: you didn’t end up like you.

CRYING. LITERAL FUCKING TEARS.

[moonylouwho]

me when i’m reading a buddie fic from christopher’s pov and it gives me the most profound internal dialogue, coupled with a nuanced outsider’s perspective on buddie from someone who is so deeply intertwined with them both and has such love for them individually and together: