Chapter Text
Buck had a love/hate relationship with going on business trips with his parents. On the one hand he hated it because he’d get dragged across the country for no reason on the other hand he loved exploring new places and being they’d leave him alone the whole time giving him spending money to do with what he wanted.
Buck excelled in school he missed it sometimes but there was no more for them to teach him, he had an IQ of 189 which didn’t matter to his parents unless his grade went slightly down.
He’d graduated high school 6 years ago and graduated college 3 years ago so whenever his parents left on a trip he could either stay home or go with them, most of the time he went with them. They both agreed on the condition that he would care for himself, they pay for where ever he chose to stay but it was up to him. They also liked taking him so whenever they went to a big event they could show him off like a show pony.
He was accepted into all the elite Ivy League colleges with scholarships. He’d graduated Princeton university within 3 years Graduating with 5PHDs from different courses; Computer Science, Geoscience, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, History and Astronomical Science.
He was the talk of the university getting so many PHDS in such little time and of course his age was always talked about, by 15 he was already a Doctor. He’s been offered to guest lecture in classes but declined he was over it so instead he helped his parents from time to time.
He had no idea what he wanted to do with his life hence why he loved to travel with his family, they were boring and kind of old so they let him do what he wanted.
They weren’t bad people just bad parents they never had to hit him to hurt him just the constant comparisons to his older brother who’d died as a child. He missed his sister she left when he was 12 she came to his graduation then moved away, they haven’t spoken since.
This is how he found himself at the beach alone in LA, he could get away with going places alone, although he had a baby face he was 6ft tall and kinda jacked anyone on the outside would expect that he was a football jock but no, he loved his books and studies and also loved to keep in shape.
He’d just come back from going for a swim, the beach was practically empty seeing as it was term time and in the middle of a work day. When he saw a toddler sitting alone in the sand, baby bag next to him under an umbrella, he looked around to see if he could see the little boys parents but no one around.
He approached carefully not to scare the toddler, he was adorable with a pair of red glasses and brown curly hair.
“Hey superman, are you okay where’s your mommy or daddy?” Buck asked unsure if the child could talk or not but he could.
”Gone, mommy left, papí at work, tia Pepa and ‘buela Isabel is on trip. Me all alone, got dinosaur!” The boy sniffled
”Ah that’s a cool dinosaur, is it your favourite? I’m Evan but my friends call me Buck What’s your name?” Buck asked gently sitting next to the boy.
“Yeah it’s the best! Christopher Diaz, my papí is Eddie Diaz. I don’t know where home is Bucky can you help me? I’m hungry.” Chris said
“Of course I’ll help you, I’m gonna pick you up and take you to the cafe over there okay and we’ll see if we can get in touch with your papí okay?” Buck asked gathering the the boy and his stuff in his arms then began walking to the cafe.
He left his stuff in the locker next to the cafe so they went there first then headed in. He got the boy some water then got them a cheese pizza to share himself a bottle of water and a Dr Pepper.
Once Chris was settled in eating his food he decided to try his bag, he found a note that read.
‘Please call my Papí (Eddie Diaz) to get me, my name’s Christopher Diaz, im 2 years old and have CP, tell Eddie that Shannon said she can’t take it anymore’ then there was a phone number. There was an envelope addressed to ‘Eddie’, he didn’t open that one just left it. Did his mother abandon a toddler at a beach! Just for anyone to come and get him.
While Chris was eating he stepped away from the table with Chris in his eye like and called the number below a deep fed up voice answered.
”Who is this?” Eddie asked, wow straight to the point
“Hi sir, my names Evan Buckley, I’m currently at Santa Monica beach where I saw your son I’m presuming at the beach sitting alone. I approached and spoke to him it appears he was left here by his mother, Shannon? I got him to the cafe to cool down and some food as he said he was hungry, I went through his bag and found a note with your number on it from Shannon apologising and requesting to call you. Let me just emphasise that Christopher is okay, he’s happy and fed very tired and was a dehydrated but physically he’s fine. I’m sorry to be so blunt but figured that would be the best approach.” Buck finished saying then he was hit with an angry shout and lots of Spanish words.
“¿Quién carajo eres tú? Is this some kind of sick fucking joke?! How do you know my son’s name! Where is his mother! You sons of a bitch! Where the fuck is my son?! Juro por Dios que si le has hecho daño te destruiré!” Eddie screamed down the phone
“Sir, i understand you’re angry and upset but calm down okay? I’m going to face time you so you can see your son okay? But for the love of god tone down your language.” Buck said to the man awaiting a response.
”¿De verdad me dijo este idiota que bajara el tono? ¿No sabe quién soy? ¡Se ha vuelto loco! Fine, just face time me okay?” Eddie seemed calmer but who knows.
He switched face time and when jt went though he was met with the face of the most beautiful man on the planet and a few others in the background.
“Hi as I said before I’m Evan Buckley but most people just call me Buck, here’s Christopher.” He turned the phone to Christopher who had pizza everywhere.
“Chris?! ¡Dios mío! Are you okay?” Eddie asked clearly scares out of his mind for his
“Hi papí! I’m okay! Bucky get me pizza! I was at the beach, mommy left! But Bucky finded me we gonna get ice cream when I finish, you coming. For ice cream papí?” Chris asked his dad in a cheerful tone he heard Eddie let out a breath of relief then he began speaking to Chris
“Oh thank god, did he really thats very nice of him, I’m gonna be there soon okay you stay with Bucky okay.” Eddie said then Buck took the phone and turned it on himself.
“He’s okay, we’ll see you soon okay we’re in the Cafe near closest to the pier ‘Yum in my tum’ sitting toward the back.” Buck said and Eddie nodded saying okay.
”Eres un hombre loco, okay bye.” After Eddie hung up he ordered his men to get the car and do a background check on this ‘Buck’ he wanted them to have everything on him by the time he got back he wanted know everything about him.
After Eddie hung up Buck cleaned up Chris and took him to the bathroom to get him cleaned up and changed his diaper, when they got back Buck went to order Chris ice cream then he saw Eddie walk in. Chris was laughing and giggle in his arms excited about ice cream then he saw his papí.
“Hi papí! We getting ice cream!” Chris shriek out in bucks arms, he saw Eddie give him a decent once over before rushing over taking Chris out of his arms.
“Oh mijo, I’m so glad you’re okay did you have fun with Buck, do you know where your mommy went?” Eddie said kissing his son’s head muttering a few worlds of Spanish almost like a mantra.
“She went away, said she’s done and I not see her again.” Chris said in a sad tone
“Oh mijo, I’m so sorry, let’s get you some ice cream okay?” Eddie said trying to cheer him up
“Yay! Is Bucky staying for ice cream?” Chris had to be the sweetest boy he’d ever met.
“I’m sure if he’s not too busy he would.” Eddie said looking at Buck giving him an out.
”Of course I’m staying for Ice Cream it’s the best part!” Buck smiled at Chris and nodded at Eddie.
They’d ordered their ice cream then walked over to the table Buck had been sitting at with Chris, when Eddie said.
”Dios te quiero conmigo para siempre, honestly I can’t thank you enough for what you’ve done, name your price whatever you want you can have. You saved my son there’s nothing you can ask for that I will do no to.” Eddie informed Buck while Buck looked at him angrily.
“God, I don’t want anything from you okay? I saved your son because I’m a decent person not for a pretty penny. Listen I’m glad he’s okay but I should get going, it was nice to meet you and Christopher.” Buck said offended and went to walk away when Eddie grabbed his wrist.
“Que carajo? Woah, calm down okay? I didn’t mean to upset you, it’s just you basically saved my whole world of course I would offer anything to repay you.” Eddie was really confused by this reaction, everyone wanted money. Didn’t they?
“I’m sorry, it’s fine okay I just don’t like when money thrown around for doing normal human things, I didn’t even know who you were until after we got to the cafe, still don’t have a clue. I’d do the same thing for you even if you were broke which your clearly not. So please don’t offer me money okay?” Buck was a bit more calm now.
”Okay, how about this, if you ever need something in the future let’s call it a favoir or any help you can call me. No matter what, no questions asked, save my number to your phone. I’m indebted to you whether you did the right thing or not. Eres el hombre más dulce que he conocido.” Eddie offered.
”Fine, I doubt I’ll ever need it but okay. Sorry for blowing up infront of Chris, moneys kind of a sore subject.” Buck admitted.
“Mind if I ask why, you seem quite young to be having financial problems, are you having financial problem? How old are you?” Eddie was so intrigued by him, Buck laughed slightly while sitting back down.
“Aha nope, no financial problems here, quite the opposite. My parents uh they like to throw money at their problems thinking it will make everything better, by problems I mean me. Don’t get me wrong I’m glad we’re comfortable it means they’re busy all the time, so no problems for me. If they weren’t think my childhood would’ve been a lot worse. Not sure you’d even believe me if I told you.” Buck admitted.
“Try me dios, te deseo tanto..” Eddie challenged
“18, i Graduated high school at 12, went to Princeton for 3 years got a couple of doctorates, then left now I’m just kinda tagging along when my parents go somewhere I wanna while they go about for their business if I’m not with them I just stay home.” Buck informed him and Eddie looked shocked.
“Wow you’re right I hardly believe you, I’m 26, are you some kind of genius? Why not hang out with your friends? Or a girlfriend, you’re good looking guy you must have one.” Eddie intrigued, Buck blushed at that.
“Uh thank you, no girlfriend I uh bat for my own team.” Buck said hesitantly.
“Bat for your own te-? Oh you’re gay. Mmm boyfriend then? Dios eres perfecto si tienes novio lo mataré” Eddie asked, Buck was gay this was perfect.
“Nope” Buck said popping the ‘p’ eating more ice cream, Chris was covered in his giggling at eddies phone that he put infront of him.
“Hmm, so what you gonna do for the rest of the day?” Eddie asked.
“Go back to my hotel, take a nap then get ready then go out drinking in the bar downstairs. What I’ve been doing since I got here. Wake up after a night out, get breakfast then come down to the beach, then I’d nap get ready repeat.” Buck told Eddie.
“A bar? You’re 18 how do you even get in don’t you get carded, Si otro hombre te toca le haré daño.” Eddie asked
“Nope, like I said my parents have money people don’t care. As long as the money is green the turn a blind eye.” Buck shrugged
”Anyways I should go, I’ve got napping and drinking to do it was nice to meet you.” Buck stood up from the table then so did Eddie.
“Right, you too, again if you ever need help just call okay? I mean it anything, or if anything causes your trouble while you’re here.” Eddie said
“Hey! Don’t jinx it, I’ll be fine I always am even when I’m not don’t worry about me just look after Chris, also one more thing I don’t speak Spanish I wasn’t sure if you knew that or not.” Buck said.
Then Eddie pulled in for a hug, god he smelt amazing, he melted right into his arms, it felt safe and homely.
“Haría lo que fuera para tenerte a mi lado por el resto de mi vida.Thank you again Buck, i seriously mean it you’re a Ángel custodio, I’ll always be thankful for you, take care hopefully I’ll see you again. Also please do call me if you get into trouble. Yeah I know you don’t speak Spanish ” Eddie whispered in his ear hugging him tighter, this made Buck shiver.
Buck reluctantly pulled away then gave Chris a quick hug and kissed his forehead, then he left.
Once Buck left Eddie pulled together Chris’ things then pulled out his phone and called Chimney.
“Christopher is safe and secure, Evan Buckley is perfect, I want everything on him it better be ready. Because he will be mine, I refuse to not know anything about him. I want a man on him at all times he is to be protected.” Then Eddie hung up the phone after chimney confirmed.
It’d been a few hours since Buck had met Eddie, he couldn’t stop thinking about him. His touch, his smell, his voice or how warm and welcoming his hugs were. But he had to forget about him he’d never see him again, maybe he saved his number just for emergencies.
His parents were god knows where he didn’t really care either. He always stayed longer wherever they went, he’d always come home eventually.
He’d only been 18 for a couple of months it didn’t feel any different to 17 he did the same thing apart from his parents would check in, nowadays they didn’t, they filled his bank account with money every month so he didn’t bother them, he also had a trust fund so he could do anything he wanted.
Buck just didn’t know where his place was in the world yet, he was planning on moving out and finding somewhere to live. Buck wanted to get away from his parents but he just didn’t know where to go yet.
After napping and getting ready buck headed downstairs to the bar, it was a club within the hotel as long as you were over 18 they didn’t care and to check in you had to be over 18 no one under was even allowed on the premises so he was never carded.
As he was drinking he thought he felt someone watching him but it was a club everyone watched everyone, when he went to get another drink a man approached him.
“Hey cutie can I buy you a drink?” The man offered he was pretty good looking. he was no Eddie, but he was pretty.
“Hmm maybe another time, I’ve already got one.” He went to grab his drink when the man ‘accidentally’ knocked it over.
“Now you don’t” the man ordered him the same thing and gave it to him, Buck tipped his glass at him as a thanks the down it walking away.
He was sitting in one of the other chairs at the bar he could still feel the man watching him but he felt weird, very drunk. Too drunk, fuck.. He’d been roofied he’d been too busy trying to get away from the guy to realise what he had done.
Buck knew he had to leave but he knew he wouldn’t be able to get to his room, so he ran to the bathroom locking the door. He couldn’t call 911 as he was underage drinking, he couldn’t call his parents because who was he kidding they wouldn’t answer. There was only one other person to call.
Eddie had read everything about back learnt his file back to front, in the last couple of hours. Chris was with his Tia and Abuela, Eddie thought about going to the club buck was at because these what it was he’d had a look at where Buck was staying. He decided against it as he didn’t want Buck to think he was stalking him, which he totally was. One of his men would be watching Buck from tomorrow, he was about to call ans see if they could get eyes on Buck tonight when his phone rang. It was Buck he answered instantly.
“Hey Buck, surprised you called thought you was going out tonight.” Eddie said with a slight bit of jealousy he heard the slight muffles of the club music and then Buck spoke.
“E-ddie, ‘member, when uh, y-ou s-said to, c-call, I-if n-need h-he-help.” Buck was slurring and Eddie was immediately on alert.
“BUCK?! What’s wrong, talk to me cariño what happened destruiré a cualquiera que te haya hecho daño.?” Eddie was up and out of his office he was waving down one of his men to get the car so he could get to Buck.
“y-ou, ‘append, j-jin-jinxed m-me, roo-roofied, h-iding, s-so t-tired. Pl-please, h-help d-don-don’t wa-want h-him.” Buck was barely coherent, Eddie was cursing himself for not getting someone on Buck tonight.
”Dios mío, esta noche se derramará sangre, yo te salvaré. I’m on my way okay, hold on baby, I’m nearly there. It’s gonna be okay.” Then Eddie heard banging.
“H-he’s tr-ying, t-to c-come in, n-not ‘llowed ‘ight?”
“That’s right baby he’s not allowed in there, I’m here okay I’ll tell you when to open the door, ese hombre se arrepentirá del día en que nació intentando hacerte daño.” Eddie told Buck.
Buck could hear scuffling at the end of the phone and someone apologising he was so confused nothing made sense. Then he heard eddies voice.
“Buck? Baby open the door it’s me, it’s Eddie I’m here amor .”
Buck crawled to the door and opened it.
“Oh baby, come here it’s okay, I’ve got you. Oh cariño, ¿qué te ha hecho? Eddie said picking Buck up off the floor, then carrying him out the door.
“ ‘on’t, ‘eave me, p’ease, E-Ed’s.” Buck said snuggling into eddies hold
Eddie carried Buck out of the hotel to his car, his men had informed the hotel staff what occurred and told them they’d handle it. The hotel knew who he was so they immediately let Eddie do whatever the hell he wanted the apologied profusely.
Once Eddie got Buck to the car he was out cold, Hen had came with Eddie when he told her Buck had been roofied. She checked Buck over and told Eddie that he was fine and he just needed someone to watching him while he slept it off. Once Buck was cleared by Hen they started driving to Eddies house.
“The man who did this to Buck is called James Harris he’s at the house, waiting to meet with you.” Hen informed him.
“Good, will you watch him for a little while, so I can ‘talk’ to James. I think he need a little lesson taught in manners. He roofied mi corazón, make sure the word is spread buck is not to be touched.” Eddie said still while cradling bucks unconscious body in his arms.
Once they arrived home Eddie got out of the car Buck still in his arms, carrying him to Eddies room. He got changed out his clothes and into bed, once he was sure Buck was settled into bed he left him alone in the room with Hen to go settle his problem.
Eddie made his way down to the basement and there was he, James Harris, tied to a chair ready and awaiting for Eddies arrival.
Once Eddie came to face to face with the man who tried to hurt his tesoro he was immediately filled with anger and hatred. He had an array of instruments at his disposal and he blamed to use them all at least once.
”You tried to take advantage of something that belongs to me.” This was the first thing Eddie said to the man while holding a mallet.
“I didn’t know he was yours! I’m sorry have mercy please!” James pleaded
“That doesn’t make it any better, you still went to hurt an innocent person who wasn’t interested in you. Now that in itself is not okay.” Eddie swung the mallet hitting his knees, James just screamed.
“Please! I w-won’t d-do it ag-ain!” James begged, he’d barely begun god this was going to be fun.
He went though all his instruments; pliers to pull out his teeth and finger nails, a battery attached to his nipples sending electric shocks randomly, knives to cut at his nerves making the pain unbearable, a nail gun just to shoot at him for fun, cattle prod, ironing rod to burn his face, a cleaver to chop of his cock which he then fed to him.
The torture went on for hours until Eddie lost ways to continue without killing him, James was going to die. But not today, he was going to have all his wounds tended to enough that they won’t kill him instantly. Eddie wanted him to die slowly and painfully.
The psychological torture Buck was going to endure because of this deemed it the right punishment. He left James in a mess and called someone from his clean up crew and told them what he’d decided to be James’ fate. When he left the room he was covered in blood and sweat, he used the shower that was installed in the basement for exactly this reason. It enclosed and private, when Eddie was cleaned and dressed in a T-shirt and sleep pants he went back to his room back to Buck.
Immediately as he entered the room he saw that Hen had hooked Buck up to an ive that’s finished, she was unhooking Buck when Eddie walked in.
“He’s doing okay, I’ve given him some fluids to help flush his system he’ll be waking up soon so stay close.” With that Hen left the room.
Eddie got on the bed and pulled Buck into his side, bucks head was resting on his shoulder snuggled into Eddie side, while Eddie had his arms wrapped around him. They stayed like that for about 25 minutes then Buck started wake up.
“Huh, wha- no, no, no..” Buck was panicking he was getting over the effect of the roofie, so was clearly scared and confused. So Eddie comforted him as best as he could.
“Hey, shhh it’s me, Eddie you’re safe now mi precioso amor, it’s okay, I won’t hurt you.” Eddie told Buck holding him tight, thus seemed to stop bucks battle.
“E-Ed’s? H-how, I don’t re-member much, I uh kn-know i called you, th-that’s about it after th-that guy…” Buck was trembling in Eddies arms, trying to get closer so Eddie turned to his side allowing Buck to bury himself in Eddies chest. Allowing himself to melt into the tight embrace.
“Oh cariño, it’s okay, yeah you called me you were so out of it you managed to tell me where you were, so I came I told you I’d always come no questions asked. How you feeling?” Eddie asked running his fingers through bucks curls.
“Mmm better you’re warm and safe. Thank you for coming to get me, stay with me please.” Buck confessed.
“Of course, I will always come for you, no matter what. Get some sleep cariño, I’ll be here when you wake up don’t worry okay. I’m not going anywhere, I’ll always be here for you okay?” Eddie stated, Buck just nodded and fell back to sleep.
Buck was his there was no question