#he doesnt even tell you he just tells his dad and they work on it together hehe

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Christopher needs to be the one to fix Eddie. He needs to recognize that Eddie has forsaken all his joy in life (except for the proximity of his son) to be there for him. He should get MAD at Eddie, and shake him up inside with the same advice Eddie got from the priest, but sharper, more specific. Eddie is sad all the time, he pretends he isn't but it's written all over his face. And Christopher remembers when he was working at Dispatch, remembers the last time Eddie was away from his 118 family - from Buck. He remembers Eddie's destroyed room. And he remembers who he called to reach down and pull his dad up from the depths of that despair last time. It's so obvious that Eddie needs Buck in his life, why is his Dad such an IDIOT?

He needs his dad to stop being a martyr on his behalf when he never asked him to, and try to LIVE, try to be HAPPY again. Because that's why Christopher left, it was less about the Eddie cheating with a Shannon clone and more about how deeply unhappy he had been leading up to it all. He was so sick of the fake smiles and pretending everything was okay. He was sick of his Dad getting new girlfriends that he didn't even like, just because he thought it was what CHRISTOPHER needed. Christopher didn't need anyone else, as long as his Dad was whole. Plus, he had Buck.

But as usual, Eddie doesn't get that. Doesn't see how his own unhappiness affects those around him. He thinks that if he can just dig down and sacrifice more of himself, that he can fix this. He thinks that he can rip the beating heart out of his own chest and give it to Christopher and that will somehow make this entire mess better. But all it does is make it bloodier.

So YEAH, Christopher is pissed off that Eddie moved to El Paso, and it's not because he didn't miss being around him. It's because he's not FIGHTING for himself, he's just laying down to die. He didn't go to Texas to bring Christopher home, he went there to GIVE UP. And Christopher is 14 now, he's not a kidand he's not standing for this bullshit anymore. So he pushes and pushes his Dad to leave but Eddie isn't getting the message, isnt understanding that it's not that Christopher doesn't want him here, it's that he knows Eddie needs to be THERE.

So what else can he do? Who else could swoop in and rescue Eddie from himself as he tried to break down the walls around him and bury himself alive under the rubble of his life?

He calls Buck. He calls Buck and he begs him to save Eddie, just like he did last time. Just like he's done EVERY time.

And Buck has been doing his own wallowing, Buck's life isn't looking much better. He has been self destructive and in his own pit of despair. He wouldn't do it, just for himself. He's so convinced Eddie doesnt want him like that that he would NEVER.

Except this is CHRISTOPHER, we're talking about. So OFC he would drop everything (including the pretenses of his platonic friendship with Eddie) and come to Texas. Fuck, he'd go to Antarctica if Christopher asked him to. If he told Buck he needed his help.

I'm telling you, Christopher needs to be the one to fix this. It's a lot of pressure to put on a 14 year old, but that kid survived a Tsunami. And this time, he needs to be the storm.