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Buck & Eddie: Legal Guardianship Timeline

Before and After Eddie changed his will and After the reveal

Buck & Christopher Before Eddie changed his will

Season 2

2x2 “7.1” Eddie showed Buck a picture of Christopher and Buck said, “Super adorable. I love kids”.

2x3 “Help is Not Coming” Buck drove Eddie to pick up Christopher from school and Buck looked at them like he wanted to be included in their family.

2x4 “Stuck” Buck met Pepa after she called Eddie to tell him Isabel broke her hip. Buck told Pepa, “It must be rough.” And Pepa responded, “Raising any child alone is rough. My nephew is a saint but I pray for him anyway”.

Eddie explained to Bobby that he didn’t have anywhere to take Christopher until his aunt got off work and Bobby said, “Sure you did, right here. Buck gave me a heads up I already cleared it with the chief”.

Buck contacted Carla, a home healthcare aide and introduced her to Eddie.

2x10 “Merry X-Mas” Eddie and Buck took Christopher to see Santa Klaus and Buck told Eddie “I really admire that kid. I love how he wants to do everything on his own”.

2x18 “This Life We Choose” Buck looked at Christopher with a proud dad smile as he walked towards Eddie to give Eddie his helmet.

Season 3

3x1 “Kids Today” During Buck’s welcome back to the 118 party, Christopher gave Buck a card he made for him and he told Buck that was a picture of the two of them on the front of the card.

Eddie took Christopher to Buck’s loft to cheer him up because he was depressed about not being able to go back to work. When Buck asked why Christopher was there, Eddie said, “He’s hanging out with his Buck today because I have to go to work”. Buck asked where Carla was and Christopher said she was in Morongo. Eddie told Buck to take Christopher out, have some fun and he would learn something. After Eddie left, Buck asked Christopher, “So what do you like to do for fun?”

3x1 “Kids Today” - 3x2 “Sink or Swim” Buck took Christopher to the pier and they played games and rode some of the rides. While they were sitting on a bench talking, Buck asked Christopher what he wanted to be when he grew up and Christopher replied, “An astronaut or a pirate” then Buck said, “Those are some good choices. Cool outfits too”. Then Christopher said, “No wait, a firefighter”. Buck replied, “Yeah, me too”.

3x2 “Sink or Swim” Buck told Christopher that he hoped he could find something he loved to do if the career paths he chose didn’t work out because if he did, he would find something he loved and that mattered which would show him the rest of his life. Christopher said, “You’re going to be ok kid” and touched Buck’s chin. Buck looked over his shoulder and noticed all the water was gone and Christopher asked, “Where did all the water go?” Buck picked up Christopher and told everyone to run. He put him in a booth and then jumped in with him as the Tsunami waves crashed into the pier and submerged everything under water.

Buck was submerged in the water but after he emerged, he started calling for Christopher. Christopher responded while he was holding onto a pole and Buck told him to stay there but after he tried to reach him, he missed. Christopher told Buck, “I can’t hold on” and Buck went under water and swam to save Christopher.

Eddie had no idea Christopher and Buck were caught in the Tsunami the entire time they were down there. He showed Hen and Chimney a selfie Buck took of him and Christopher while they were having breakfast. After Buck saved Christopher, he put him on top of the 136’s ladder truck and Buck pulled himself on top of the truck too. Buck said, “You good Chris?” and Christopher said, “Yep. I took surfing lessons” and Buck replied, “Well maybe you could teach me”.

Buck rescued several people and brought them to the ladder truck and while they all waited to be rescued, Buck spent time talking to, playing games with and caring for Christopher. Buck told him, “You amaze me buddy” and Christopher asked “Why?” Buck explained how he got some bad news about his job and how he didn’t want to get out of bed because of it. He then said, “But you, after the day you’ve had, here you are with a big smile and busting a gut. You never gave up. Even when that water came rushing over you back there you just kept on swimming”. Christopher said, “Like Dory?” Buck said, “Like Dory. Not just today but every day. You never say no, you never complain. How do you do that?” Christopher explained how it didn’t work the one time he complained and after Buck asked him what he did, he said he kept on swimming.

Christopher fell off the ladder truck while Buck was trying to help other people when the Tsunami waves started to recede. Buck jumped off the truck while calling for Christopher so that he could search for him.

3x3 “The Searchers” Buck spent the rest of the day and well into the nighttime searching for Christopher. When he made it to the VA, he saw Eddie but he was scared to tell him what happened. Eddie saw him first then Buck told Eddie what happened and while they were talking a woman appeared carrying Christopher. She asked Eddie, “Are you Buck?” and he said, “No, I’m his father Eddie”. She then said, “He was looking for Buck” and Eddie looked at her. He and Buck had a silent conversation while the 118 asked Buck what happened to him. Buck collapsed after he saw that Christopher was safe.

Eddie took Christopher back to Buck’s loft so that he could care for him again while Eddie went to work. Buck told Eddie that he failed them because he lost Christopher but Eddie told him that he saved Christopher and that’s how Christopher remembered it. Eddie told Buck, “There’s nobody in this world I trust with my son more than you” after he explained how he knew Buck loved Christopher enough to never stop trying just like he does. He then told Buck to take Christopher to the zoo that day because it was located inland.

3x5 “Rage” Eddie yelled at Buck in the grocery store because the lawsuit Buck filed prevented them from being able to talk to each other. Eddie said, “Do you know how much Christopher misses you? How could you, you’re not around”. Buck replied, “I didn’t realize that. Maybe I could come and visit Christopher, the lawsuit doesn’t prevent that”.

3x9 “Fallout” Buck apologized to Eddie for not being there for Eddie and Christopher when they needed him. He said, “I’m sorry I wasn’t there Eddie. You and Chris needed me and I had my head so far up my own behind with that stupid lawsuit”. After they were done talking, Eddie, Buck and Christopher played video games and Eddie said, “This is my kind of therapy”.

3x10 “Christmas Spirit” Eddie looked at Buck with heart eyes as he watched Buck build gingerbread houses with Christopher and Denny. Then Christopher asked Buck, “Can I spend Christmas with you?”

Buck worked with Athena to organize the Christmas party at the firehouse so that Eddie and Christopher could spend the holiday together.

3x11 “Seize the Day” Eddie told Chimney about the family he chose while Buck and Christopher horse played on the couch. Buck told Maddie, “This is Eddie’s house I’m not really a guest”.

3x12 “Fools” Buck and Eddie discussed Christopher’s skateboarding incident and they built him an adaptable one. Buck and Eddie helped Christopher ride the skateboard at the park.

3x15 “Eddie Begins” Eddie got trapped in The Well, Buck screamed, cried and tried to dig him up with his bare hands. Eddie’s flashbacks included a lot of Christopher and Buck.

Eddie changed his will after The Well and named Buck to be Christopher’s legal guardian but he didn’t tell anyone.

Buck & Christopher After Eddie changed his will

3x18 “What’s Next?” Buck stressed over Christopher going to summer camp for two weeks. Eddie said, “It’s only two weeks” and Buck said, “Woah! Two weeks away from home? What if he gets homesick?” Buck, Eddie and Christopher along with the rest of the 118 attended May’s graduation party.

Season 4

4x3 “Future Tense” Buck and Christopher played video games while Eddie stressed out over Hildy’s technological advancements. Christopher asked Buck if they could go to his house and play video games while Eddie gave Buck the ‘you’re supposed to back me up face’. Afterwards Buck and Christopher pranked Eddie with a Hildy coffeemaker.

4x8 “Breaking Point” Eddie told Christopher he started dating again but Christopher got upset, ran away and took an Uber to Buck’s loft. Buck and Christopher talked and Buck promised Christopher that he wasn’t going anywhere.

4x10 “Parenthood” Buck and Eddie said “No!” in unison when Chimney asked a victim’s parents if they both could be good cops. Buck said children shouldn’t be on the receiving end of too much discipline and Eddie said, “I’d like to know what your idea of too much discipline is.”

4x13 “Suspicion” Eddie got shot by a sniper and Buck saved his life. In 4x14 “Survivors” Buck went to talk to Christopher about Eddie and he cried after he received Bobby’s text message that Eddie had made it through surgery. Christopher said, “It’s going to be ok Buck” and they cried and consoled each other.

Buck stayed at Eddie’s house with Christopher and took care of him.

After Eddie woke up from his coma, Buck called Christopher on Facetime so that Eddie could talk to him and after the call ended, Eddie asked Buck how Christopher was doing and Buck said, “Better than me. I kind of lost it when I told him you got shot. I’m sorry, I know I should have kept it together”. Eddie replied, “You were there for him when I couldn’t be and that’s what matters”. Buck then said, “Still. I think it would have been better for him if I was the one who got shot”.

One year later and Eddie finally told Buck about the change he made to his will

Before Eddie was discharged from the hospital, he told Buck about the change he made to his will. He told him, “No one will ever fight for my son as hard as you and that’s what I want for him”. When Buck asked Eddie why he waited a year to tell him about it, Eddie said, “Because Evan, you came in here the other day and said it would have been better if it were you who had been shot. You act like you’re expendable but you’re wrong”.

Buck & Christopher After the reveal

Season 5

5x2 “Desperate Times” Christopher and Ana visited the firehouse to bring Eddie three types of salads. Eddie picked up and hugged Christopher then walked him down past the firetruck. Buck and Ravi joined them but Buck picked up and hugged Christopher the exact same way Eddie had done a few seconds earlier. While enroute to a call, Eddie told the 118 that Buck takes Christopher to the zoo all the time and that he had the whole place memorized.

5x3 “Desperate Measures” Buck asked Eddie if he told Christopher he was coming home. Eddie broke up with Ana once he made it home.

5x6 “Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1” Buck and Eddie were held hostage by two escaped convicts, Mitchell and Dom. Mitchell threatened Buck, Eddie and Christopher’s lives and after he read off Eddie’s home address from his driver’s license, Buck stepped up and he got whacked over the head with the butt of Dom’s gun for it. After they arrived at the hospital, Mitchell said he would shoot Buck, Eddie and then go to Eddie’s house and shoot Christopher. Eddie said, “Buck!” so that Buck would exit the ambulance.

5x10 “Wrapped in Red” Buck and Eddie had a conversation about Christopher’s nightmares.

5x11 “Outside Looking In” Buck, Eddie, Christopher and Taylor had dinner at Eddie’s house. During dinner, Christopher and Buck joked about Eddie’s cooking because he had just learned how to cook.

5x13 “Fear-O-Phobia” Christopher called Buck after he heard Eddie smashing the furniture in his room. Buck rushed over and when he arrived, he asked Christopher “Are you ok?’ and Christopher said, “He won’t come out. I keep calling him but he won’t answer”. After Buck broke down Eddie’s bedroom door, he talked with Eddie then put Christopher to bed. He met Eddie in the dining room so that they could continue talking.

5x14 “Dumb Luck” Buck took Christopher to school while Bobby stayed at Eddie’s house so that he wouldn’t wake up alone. Buck took care of Christopher while Eddie was at therapy. Buck and Christopher drew hearts while Eddie was gone but the heart Buck drew was a Valentine’s Day type of heart that he drew specifically for Eddie.

Buck took Eddie and Christopher to Equine Therapy so that Christopher could work with and ride the horses while Buck helped Eddie realize their jobs as firefighters were worth it.

5x17 “Hero Complex” Buck and Eddie had a conversation, while inside of Christopher’s bedroom, about Eddie and Christopher going to El Paso for Eddie’s dad’s retirement party.

After Buck stepped into Eddie’s and Christopher’s lives in 2x4 “Stuck”, Buck and Eddie started building The Buckley-Diaz Family. Buck started co-parenting Christopher with Eddie not long after they became work partners and Buck assumed that role before Eddie’s estranged wife returned in 2x7 “Haunted”. He was still in that role in 2x10 “Merry X-mas” when he told Eddie how much he admired Christopher and that’s also when one of Santa’s elves told Buck he and Eddie had an adorable son. Buck had been in the role of co-parent for almost two years before Eddie changed his will and his relationship with Christopher got stronger. In 3x1 “Kids Today” Eddie told Buck he might learn something while he spent the day with Christopher and he was right because Buck did learn something. Buck and Christopher were already close but the Tsunami strengthened their relationship even more because they learned a lot from each other while they sat together on the firetruck waiting to be rescued. Buck learned how to never give up from Christopher and Buck told Christopher that he amazed him. Christopher witnessed Buck being a hero as he saved more than 20 people after the Tsunami hit and he reminded Buck of the way he saved them all before the water started to recede.

After Eddie survived being trapped in The Well, he updated his will and named Buck to be Christopher’s legal guardian but he didn’t tell Buck about it until after he got shot one year later. Buck was already acting as Christopher’s co-parent and Christopher viewed Buck as a father figure even before the will reveal. Christopher turning to Buck in 4x3 “Future Tense” and asking him if they could go to his house to play video games provides an example of how Christopher views Buck like he is his dad. Also Christopher running away to Buck’s loft in 4x8 “Breaking Point” proved how much Christopher trusts Buck and how he wants Buck to be there for him when he can’t go to Eddie. Eddie probably wasn’t planning to tell Buck about his will but when Buck said it would have been better for Christopher if he had been shot instead of Eddie, that’s what prompted Eddie to tell him about it. Buck was acting in the role of Christopher’s legal guardian after Eddie got shot by staying with him at Eddie’s house and that happened before Eddie revealed the change he made to his will. The update Eddie made to his will simply legalized everything that was already happening (read blog posts: “Buck & Eddie: The Will & Legal Guardianship” and “Buck & Eddie: Christopher Diaz has 2 dads” for more information on Eddie’s will and how Buck and Eddie identically parent Christopher). Buck loves Christopher just like Eddie does and he will do anything for him. He dropped everything when Christopher called him in 5x13 “Fear-O-Phobia” and rushed over to Eddie’s house. Not only did Buck take care of Christopher, he took care of Eddie too. When Buck planned to take Eddie to Equine Therapy, he made sure it would be advantageous for both Eddie and Christopher. He loves Christopher and he literally put his own life in danger during the Tsunami to save him. He plays games with Christopher and he helps Eddie make decisions about activities like skateboarding that Christopher wants to participate in. Buck’s role in Christopher’s life is practically that of a second father.

Was Eddie planning for something more permanent and long-term when he included Buck in his will? Will Buck and Eddie become a CANON couple in season 6 so that Eddie’s will could be replaced with a marriage license and a set of adoption papers? Only the showrunners, writers and producers know the answer to that question.

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