#diaz family feels

[pinkponydiaz]

will never get over buck immediately going to chris eddie and abuela after talking to hen in season threes christmas episode and then we see them opening presents as a family too?? in the same episode chris is upset both eddie and buck are working so he can’t spend christmas with them?? background buddie you are so special to meeee diaz family i love you

[eddiestightywhities]

[ a pretty piss-poor christopher diaz pixlr app edit that i'm rather enjoying regardless of its shitty quality that any of you are more than welcome to use if you really wanna ♡ ]

[queerfables]

Okay but we know why Hotshots is Chris' favourite show, right?

[prettyboybuckley]

For the Valentine’s Day prompts, #4 “There are flowers on the doorstep.” [“Who from?” “I think that you have a secret admirer.”]?

Hi!! Thank you for the prompt! 💞 Decided that this was the perfect opportunity for some Diaz father-son feels, I hope you like it! ca. 950 words, continues under the cut

If it weren't for the incessant ads and banners and everything else that pops up in early January, Eddie could probably forget Valentine's Day was even a thing. 

Don't get him wrong, he can appreciate a bit of romance. He likes the idea of wining and dining someone—maybe the fact that there was never the urge to do that with Ana should have tipped him off much earlier on—and isn't all that opposed to things like candlelight and chocolates.

But Valentine's Day is cheesy and a way for companies to con you out of more money, so he doesn't usually pay much attention to it. Shannon never bought into it either, telling him every year that he shouldn't bother getting her anything, and Eddie gladly obliged. 

Of course, now that he's a firefighter, there is also a fair share of grand gestures or preparation thereof gone wrong in the week leading up to Valentine's Day, and it's hard to ignore that it's a thing. 

Still, he doesn't have any plans for the holiday of love, especially not considering it's a school night, and he has a shift in the morning himself. Maybe he'll let Chris stay up a little longer for a movie, make it a father-son night. 

(continues under the cut)

Christopher brings home a card on the day itself, made during arts and crafts time at school, full of glittery pink and red hearts. 

"Didn't you want to make one for a friend or something?" Eddie asks, stressing the 'friend' in a way that makes Christopher groan and hide his face.

Eddie grins as he tucks the card under a magnet on the fridge, turning back to the stove where he'd been making dinner. Secretly, he's kind of glad that even at eleven, his kid hasn't seemingly shown any interest in girls—or boys—and dating. If it can even be called dating at that age. 

"Can't you just say thank you?" Christopher grumbles, though Eddie isn't sure if he's more embarrassed about Eddie's teasing or that he made a card for his dad in the first place.

"Well, I love it very much, kiddo, and I'm happy to be your Valentine." 

He ruffles Christopher's hair as he passes behind him on his way to get something from the fridge, and his son beams brightly. God, he wishes the kid would never grow up.

Eddie's got his hands full when the doorbell rings, stirring in the pot and unable to step away. 

"I'll get it," Christopher declares right away, without Eddie even having to ask, and he's out of the kitchen before Eddie can react. 

He can hear the front door open, but there are no voices, and Eddie pauses his stirring, wondering what is up. A moment later, Christopher shuffles back into the kitchen with wide, excited eyes.

"There are flowers on the doorstep."

Eddie frowns. Flowers?

“Who from?” he asks, racking his brain trying to think of who would buy him flowers in the first place, let alone leave them on his porch. 

Chris bounces a little on his heels, clearly giddy about the whole ordeal, as he replies: “I think that you have a secret admirer.”

For a moment Eddie wonders how his son even knows about something like secret admirers—and yes, he knows that Chris is eleven, not five, he shouldn't underestimate him—before he realizes that it's definitely something out of the telenovela's the kid watches with Abuela.

Eddie pulls the pot off the stove, sighing as he follows Christopher out of the kitchen to the front door.

"Not sure what there is to admire," he mutters under his breath, putting on an innocent expression when Chris looks over his shoulder with a slightly suspicious look on his face. It wouldn't be the first time Eddie gets scolded about negative self-talk by a pre-teen. He's not sure if he's ready for what that kid will be like when he's an actual teenager. 

Sure enough, there is a flower arrangement sitting on the porch. A nice one, too, because while Eddie doesn't know much about flowers, he can see that these are expensive. 

There is a small card sticking only with one corner from the flowers, and Eddie plucks it out of there with two fingers, flipping it open. There, in red ink, is a somehow both neat and chaotic but above all familiar scribble. 

Dear Eddie, 

Forgive me for choosing to do this the easy way, but it's the only way I'll ever dare to take this chance. You've had my back ever since the day we met, and I'm hoping you'll let me have yours in every way possible in the future, because I want to have and do everything with you. 

So I guess this is me asking, Eddie Diaz, if you will be my Valentine?

Love, Buck

Eddie is pretty sure his heart rate doubles as he reads the card, and he hopes that he's not blushing, though Christopher's scrutinizing gaze suggests that something must be visible. 

Buck is asking him out. No, Buck bought an expensive arrangement of flowers and put it on Eddie's doorstep with a card asking him out because apparently he was scared that Eddie would say no. As if Eddie would ever say no. 

 "Who sent it?" Christopher asks, putting his hand on Eddie's shoulder so he can lean in closer to get a peek at the card. 

"You were right, it's a secret admirer," Eddie replies, closing the card quickly before his son can see Buck's name, and he gets up, picking up the flowers and giving Christopher a subtle nudge to herd him back inside. 

It seems that he's got a very important call to make. He doesn't want to keep Buck waiting, after all. 

From the Valentine's Day prompts list

[deedo2313]

I probably should have avoided any spoilers or trailers and never mind anything else going on with this show, but tbh if this absolutely senseless ill-thought out increasingly ooc Eddie & Chris storyline is dragged out much longer, I'll just have to cut my losses and move on. I've endured just about all the heartbreak I'm willing to put up with at this point.

[ambernotember]

Day 16: Treasure

“Found it!” Christopher called, holding the plastic egg aloft. Shannon clapped for him. She’d probably have to go ‘find’ a few eggs later after Christopher got bored, but for now he was perfectly content to search the living room for plastic eggs. Chris was still adapting to new crutches and she thought being inside for the Easter egg hunt would be easier on him. He was mostly concerned about the chocolate. 

Half an hour later they were collapsed on the floor in front of the couch as Christopher counted his treasure and sweetly divided his chocolates with her — though her pile was much smaller, which seemed fair since he’d found the eggs.

“Love you, mommy.” Christopher said sleepily.

(@118dailydrabble)

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[cinematicnomad]

#they crammed stupid vertigo and kim into a couple episodes and made chris up and leave within like two days #but THIS is the part they're dragging out? #he's just gone for like five months and barely acknowledges eddie? #we better get some serious emotional payoff from this #it won't make it worth it and i'll still be annoyed forever#but at least there will be a reason #'eddie needs to figure himself out and fix what he broke' SHE GOT BANGS (via @andavs)

i'm actually like So insanely mad about the chris plot like it is fucking deranged that he's been gone for so long. like i don't talk about it much but that is Such bullshit i'm sorry no teenager is so mad at their dad that they literally abandon their entire life overnight and fucking transfer schools to another state. no adult just Lets that happen. that is So deeply stupid. i just have to pretend that shit isn't happening it pisses me off so bad

[swiftiesbuddie]

[kenneth-black]

I think Eddie feels the most comfortable and at home with his abuela because growing up, she was probably the only person in his family who allowed him to be a child while everyone else expected him to be the man of the house. She let him be her little Eddito… 🥺🙃

[gif made by the talented @housewifebuck 🤍]

[warpedpuppeteer]

The Buckley-Diaz Family ♡

[emolionsrawr]

*the 118 doing trauma salad*

chimney: hey, my named howard, i go by chimney, and after i proposed to my ex, she broked up with me, which lead me to being in a car accident which caused a rebar go through my head, and i brought the bowl

buck: hi, my names buck, and before i was born my brother developed cancer, which caused my parents to create me to be a perfect genetic match, they took my bone marrow and he died a week later, and i bought the nerds

eddie: my names eddie, my ex wife left me and our son after i went through something traumatic, and i bought the sweedish fish

buck: hey, my names buck, and when i was a child i used to have to hurt myself to get my parents attention, and even then it didn't work, and i bought the war heads

hen: hey! my names hen, and my ex wife got out of prison and used my emotions against me which lead me to cheating in my wife, then used that against me to try to take our son away from me, and i bought the nerds clusters

buck: hey! buck again, my first real girlfriend ghosted me after she left for dublin, and then came back three years later with a fiancee, she never broke up with me, and i bought the twizzlers

bobby: hey, my names bobby, and i watched my father lose himself to alcholol which later killed him, which caused me to start drinking at the sweet sweet age of 9, and i bought the gummy bears

buck: sup, its buck, and after i lost the first person on the job i went to a therapist who used my trauma to get laid, which i later realised was assault, and i bought the reece's pieces

eddie: hey, my names eddie, and my wife came back into my life, came back into my sons life, only to die in front of us, and i bought the malteasers

buck: you know the drill, and when my father figure was suspended pending investigation a teenage bomber who had it out for him put a bomb in the ladder truck, which caused the truck to land on me when it blew up, crushing my leg and leaving me with phantom pain, and i bought the hershey kisses

chimney: hey, my names chimney, and my dad prefers my younger brother, and i bought the tangfastics

buck: me again, after i got blown up i had a P.E in front of my whole family at my welcome back barbeque which caused my father figure to have a panic attack and not want to let me back onto the team! and i bought the nerd clusters

bobby: hey, my names bobby, and i was in an accident which gave me extreme back pain which lead me to a drug addiction, and one night after a bender i fell asleep and left the space heater on which caused my whole apartment building to burn down, killing my wife and kids as well as over 150 people, and i bought the marshmallows

buck: hey! me again, after the P.E my best friend asked me to look after his son, so i took him to the pier where we was hit by a tsunami, i found him but then we were separated for eight hours and the whole time i thought he was dead, and i bought the nerd ropes

buck: oh! me again, after the tsunami and finding out my captian was holding me back i sued the city, ruining my friendships along the way, and i bought the toffee

eddie: hey, my names eddie, after my wife died i got into an illegal fight club and got addicted, and i bought the strawberry hearts

buck: hey! me again! hi! my ex girlfriend almost got two of my friends killed because she decided a news article was more important than their lives! and i bought the toxic wastes

chimney: fuck taylor kelly

hen: fuck taylor kelly

buck: hey! me again-

bobby: okay we're down the bowls full

buck: BUT I HAVENT EVEN GOT TO THE-

bobby: no.

eddie: I also have more. My childhood trauma. My son leaving. The time I got shot. My time in the army. How I received my purple star. And so on.

chimney: Oh! I also have more. Kevin dying in front of me. My mother dying. Jonah. I could go on.

hen: I have more too! Everything with Mara. My own childhood trauma. That time my son nearly died and I was the paramedic working on him. Jonah. I can still continue.

bobby: I also have more BUT THE BOWLS FULL!

athena: what are you doing?

buck: trauma salad

athena: oh! well then my name is-

bobby: the bowl is FULL

athena: BUT I HAVENT EVEN SAID ANY OF MINE AND I HAVE A LOT

athena: Hi, I’m Athena and when I was 9 a girl in my neighbourhood went missing and then years later, we found her remains in the concrete of the conservatory of my parents house after my father had a stroke and he was them framed for her death and I BOUGHT A GOD DAMNED NEW BOWL!

buck: YAY NEW BOWL! hi it's me again your favourite traumatised firefighter, one time i got struck by lightning and died, and ended up in a weird coma dream where my dead brother was alive but my father figure was dead and i didn't know anyone i loved and i was fighting for my life, and i bought the sherbert lemons

Bobby: I was dead you didn’t tell me I was FUCKING DEAD?!

buck:... OH LOOK THE BELL IS GOING BYE-

bobby: THE BELL ISNT RINGING GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT-

ravi: *sighs* didn't even get to my childhood cancer

athena, placing new bowl down: they’ll be back. We have a new bowl to fill.

[mazzystar24]

Okay but picture this a couple of eps into s8 Eddie shows up at bucks all happy I mean downright giddy and just BLABBING but we the audience can see buck looks sad but we don’t know what about (and Eddie doesn’t notice at first cos yapping) then Eddie reveals the reason he’s so happy is cos Chris wants to come back and basically being like pack your bags we are driving to Texas (according to Google it’s an 11hr and 49 minute drive and also Eddie canonically just assumes buck would be involved cos why wouldn’t he) and obviously when he says the Chris coming back thing we see buck instantly brighten up

But then Eddie’s brain catches up and he’s like wait a minute what was up with his vibe before I said that and he looks around realising the loft is in ‘buck is sad’ mode and then buck drops that him and Tommy just broke up and before he asks that he doesn’t wanna talk about it (and we the audience hadn’t seen this so we spend the ep as much in the dark as Eddie is) so Eddie (while concealing his conflicted happy bt are done but concerned for buck emotions) is like even better we’ll take your mind off it with the road trip! 🤩

Maybe Buck tries to be like oh I’m not gonna be good company or oh I don’t wanna impose and Eddie’s just looking at him like he grew two heads and is like what are you on about you dumbass (affectionate) I literally always want your company and you never impose

And boom it’s a Texas road trip episode

Shenanigans ensue on the way to get there maybe, flat tires, people needing help,etc

Maybe they stop at motel on the way cos it’s a long drive or cos of one of the little things that happen (and there is only one bed <- damn who said that???) and they go to a bar (preferably cowboy bar for cowboy hat Eddie reasons- and when I say cowboy bar I use that loosely because the vibes we want is save a horse, ride a cowboy not be gay, get shot - we are a pink pony club not republican club) and buck is acting weird the whole trip but they’re still their drunk affectionate selves but there is a vibe that we and Eddie are both meant to think is cos of the breakup, maybe buck even gets hit on and drunk buck is a yapper and starts talking abt loving a guy who’s never gonna love him, etc, etc and Eddie overhears and thinks it’s tommy and hello complicated feelings again

As the trip goes on buck starts getting more at ease

Eddie is still concerned tho

Buckley Diaz family reunion and all the feels

And this is when you guys get to choose your story:

Either once buck and Eddie go home and they have a moment that’s like their usual ones (very romantic but gaslighting is saying it’s platonic) and when buck is alone we get a flashback to the bt breakup and its revealed that buck has feelings for Eddie (whether that is realised during the breakup or he broke up with tommy cos he realised etc)

Orrr

Diaz parents being dickheads, we get a will mention AND an Eddie confession that is overheard by buck, (then either buck acts on it before the ep is over or we are left on a question mark) AND THEN we get the flashback

[texasbama]

It’s the way I love you to the core isn’t inherently romantic (although for them it totally is). It’s so much deeper than that. This is Eddie having his person. Someone he would do anything for and vice versa. He trusts Buck unconditionally. Not just with himself but with his son. This relationship-this family-is something they have built with blood, sweat and tears. their relationship is love in its purest form. I love you. I love you for who you are. I love you for who I am with you. I love you for how you love my son. I love you to the core.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Strength of their relationship you say??!!!

Difficulties coming up??!!!

Tested in different ways??!!!

before the break you say??!!!

[jdorian]

Buck comparing his own emotions to Christopher's about Eddie's distress 4x14 // 5x13

[elvensorceress]

fic: Father's Day

buck/eddie | 11K | rated: G | AO3

The breakfast tray has buttered waffles and syrup, scrambled eggs mixed with ham, onions, cheese, and peppers, a stack of bacon, a bowl of sliced strawberries tossed with blueberries and blackberries and peaches, a steamy cup of coffee that looks like it has cream and spices stirred into it. And a heart made of two chives curled around each other and resting on top of Eddie’s favorite way of eating eggs. 

He pushes himself up and leans against the headboard, and Chris isn’t here. But Buck is here. Even if Buck doesn’t belong to them. He’s still here. 

“Thank you,” Eddie says even if it’s still hoarse and doesn’t come out right. He means it. He’s just broken. And it’s harder to pretend that he isn’t broken. 

Has he ever been happy? Was it only ever pretending? Why does everything feel like faking, play acting, words that seem like they should be said, things that should be true, but nothing ever being true? Why is everything smoke and mirrors and losses and performing? 

Is anything about Eddie real?

Buck rests a hand on Eddie’s forearm. “Hey. I— I know— I know it’s not. I know. But. I’m here? I’m here and we’re going to have a fun day. Okay? You and me. We’re going to have fun.”

Eddie bites his lip and shoves it to the side of his face. “We are?”

Buck nods and smiles sweetly, beautifully even though it echoes the sorrow embedded in Eddie’s whole being. It’s in Buck, too. “Yeah. We are. I have a whole plan. You’ll see. But you’re going to need fuel. So, eat up.” 

Eddie breathes deeply, and he trusts Buck. With his life, his heart and soul, his everything. He picks up a fork and digs into their breakfast and they share everything down to the very last bite. 

~

With Chris in Texas, Eddie faces a sad Father's Day all alone until Buck shows up to celebrate and bring fun, love, and family.

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