I know, "Recovery", will be at the Diaz household. How?
Well for one, Buck does not yet have a couch.
Two, I doubt either Eddie or Christopher will want to let Buck out of their sights after everything.
Also, the Madney household is not done, plus there's a sweet but restless toddler running around the house. 😍
And since this storyline is awfully familiar to me (station 19 - Vic, anyone? 👀) Buck is going to be wearing a monitor watch to make sure his heart is not in distress, which also will have to include a lot of rest and require to have someone to watch out over him. (In Station 19, they were Vic's boyfriend and her best friend. - Eddie and Christopher for Buck? 👀😉)
Also, because there is a very big foreshadowing that has announced exactly that earlier in the season.
I am talking about 6x07 "Cursed."
The undefined relationship between Felisa and Alexis (aside from the money thing, obviously) felt very familiar.
Felisa stresses outside the crystal shop (where both she and Alexis are knocked out, btw) that Alexis is all she has.
Eddie's face says it all. He has one of those, and indeed, in the next frame, we see Buck loading Alexis to the second ambulance.
She sits with her in the hospital after she's released and talks to her, suggesting a girls' trip once she's better. - Eddie is a spectator through all of this. And he gets this amazingly tender look on his face when he listens to Felisa as she talks to unconscious Alexis.
Fast forward to the end of the episode, Felisa tells Eddie that Alexis is going to stay with her when she gets out of the hospital.
and eventually tells him that she's going to have the house blessed just in case, before Alexis comes to stay with her.
Another thing she says is that it's easier to believe you're cursed than wrong, and post-therapy Diaz is amused by it.
And yet he still calls his Abuela after Felisa leaves and asks her about his future anyway.
Here, in this frame, everyone thought, at the time, that the focus on Christopher a frame later is because he will be in danger, but the truth is, that the whole of S6a even stretching back to S5b, is about Buck's connection to the Diaz boys.
And as most of you saw the promo pic of 6x11, it also confirms that the Diazes are going to pull Buck even closer to them once he's awake and out of the hospital.
For all his bluster and disbelief of curses in general, when Buck asks Eddie outside the crystal shop if he still thinks Felisa isn't cursed, he answers, "No, but I think I am."
Now, why would he say that? Because Eddie lost his wife, lost his army buddies, nearly lost his son and best friend, and nearly lost himself somewhere along the way.
He also keeps encountering couples in the making that will eventually end up together, there were the ladies from the driver's test in S5, there were Josh and Carson, now Felisa and Alexis, everyone eventually pretty much get over the first encounter and move forward together. - But not Eddie, not with Buck, not yet.
If there was ever a catalyst to get these two to, at least, talk about their shared trauma and living together in the same house, this is it.
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Y'all ever think about that time when Christopher wanted to go see Buck while he was in a coma and Eddie couldn't even refuse the request? He probably couldn't refuse it because he knew how much Chris needed to see Buck himself. But also what's devastating is that Eddie probably did it because he knew there was a very real possibility that Buck wouldn't make it and I don't think Eddie wanted Chris to lose yet another parent without having a last conversation 😭
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Something I haven't seen discussed yet is not only did buck and Tommy kiss, but they JUST kissed. Tommy kissed him once, just communicating that "okay is this what you want us to do?" And then he set up a real romantic date where he's going to pick buck up at 8 and everything.
Buck who has a shit load of trauma from partners wanting him for nothing more than his body. From always having to be the person adding the romance into every relationship to convince people there's more to him then sex.
Baby boy just got asked on a wholesome date and got promised romantic helicopter flying lessons and he won't even have to drive and goddddvdhebusjabsjsjdnxns
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This 👇
And this 👇
Have the same energy. 👀💜
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Eddie was NOT ok with Buck putting his life on the line in that train car, with Buck so easily stating that he knows it's a lot heavier than a firetruck. (911 3x18)
And in 5x16 he was NOT ready to hear about Buck's near death experiences (from 911 2x18 and 3x01 that Buck was referring to in 3x18), not when his mental state is still relatively fragile, we saw them talk about Eddie's old army buddies, but they never talked about Buck or delved into the actual shooting.
It might have been said under the guise of "Don't scare the patient." But Eddie just as easily could have calmed him down by saying that's not the case here or it's just a worst-case scenario.
He didn't, he looked genuinely alarmed, at that moment, his voice was soft, pleading.
As if saying "This is too much, I haven't dealt with this yet, I can't hear this right now, please stop talking." - And that's a lot coming from Eddie, because Eddie never stops Buck when he's talking.
There's always that fond encouraging aura about him whenever Buck goes on a tangent, but not this time.
Eddie told Bobby that he saved his life and his son's, but we don't get the same conversation between Eddie and Buck, because Buck did actively saved Eddie’s life and he was there for Christopher throughout all that time. - And it makes me think that just like Eddie can't listen to Buck’s near death experiences stories just yet, he also can't acknowledge out loud what Buck did and does for him and Christopher - because it's too close to the surface, because the moment he admits it out loud he will have to admit to other truths as well and he's not ready yet.
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