We Can Help

Chapter Six

Buck started to feel dizzy, his vision slowly turned black and his leg felt like static "uh.............. it was just........ blowing off some steam....." he said before passing out and falling halfway over before Bobby caught him
"BUCK!" Bobby and Athena yelled in unison.

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Beep............ Beep............. Beep

Buck was still asleep, it had been hours and now most of the team was sitting in the waiting room, Bobby, Athena, Chim, Maddie, Hen, and Eddie were all there. Everyone else was too busy to come at such a short notice.
Beep.......... Beep............. Beep
The machine registering his vitals continued beeping.
Buck slowly started waking up, he felt groggy and a little dizzy. He felt the stinging in his thigh dissipating, and in his arm was two IV drips, one for saline, and one for blood.
Beep.............. Beep........... Beep
The rhythmic noise made Buck want to get up and turn it off.
He tried to get up but his legs felt like jello and he stumbled, sitting on the edge of the bed.
The wires on his chest must have came off because instead of the rhythmic beeping, a single loud beep filled the room, but Buck knew he wasn't flatlining.

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep—

It continued while buck blinked several times, still confused, that when several people came running in, a few nurses and a doctor ready to start CPR.
"Oh- Mister Buckley, your awake." The nurse spoke looking relieved while another nurse turned off the beeping sound.
"....... What........?" Buck looked confused, his mind felt fuzzy, he remembered Selfharming, but then it was all fuzzy, had someone walked in on him?
"Ah, I see your confused." The doctor said, "your Mom and Dad brought you here after you passed out, you lost quite a bit of blood from your wounds."

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"My.......... What—?" Buck was confused and scared, no way his parents brought him here.....
"Your parents...? Bobby and Athena Nash-Grant?" The doctor spoke confused
"Oh- oh! Okay- yeah that- that makes sense" buck said his confusion lifting
"Would you like me to go get some of your guests?"
"... some off—? How many people are here...?"
"There's 6 people."
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Buck was released later that day after talking to the hospital therapist, he promised her he would try to go to therapy again but the traumatic experience from his first therapist made him know already he would not be contacting anyone.
The ride to Bobby and Athenas house was quiet. Nobody dared to speak until Bobby did.
"Some things are going to be different from now on.......... We're not doing this to hurt you, or make anything worse, but we can't let anything like this happen again......"

"....... What kinds of things.........." Buck said looking down.
"We're locking up all the sharp things. I understand that you need to Selfharm to stay alive, I get that, so we will give it to you if you ask...... but we're watching to make sure you don't hurt yourself to bad- and to stop you if you do go to far."

"What?! You can't watch me! That- that's......... no! No- how about you- You stay outside the door and look at if after......" buck tried to compromise, knowing he couldn't cut in front of his father figure.
"We can try it.... I suppose...."

Buck spent the night in his room- no- no the guest room. He wanted to hurt himself but he couldn't stand knowing that Bobby and Athena would be watching him, listening to him tear into his flesh.
Buck went to bed early that night.

The next morning when he woke up- the time was 6 AM, he decided to text Eddie, he wasn't allowed to go to work, per Bobby's orders, for another few days, but Eddie would be awake for his shift.

"Good morning Eddie! I hope you slept well, what do you say we go on a second date?" He typed into the bar before deleting it
"GM Eddie! Have a good day- I know I scared you yesterday when you went to the hospital but I'm fine, really!" He typed again, this time deleting it again.
"Hey what's up." Buck finally decided on and sent it.
A few minutes later Eddie texted back
"Hey Buck! Good morning, I'm getting Chris ready for school then I'm going into work."
"That's good! I'm taking a few personal days so I'm off." Buck typed back.
"Yeah Bobby told the team what happened, I'm sorry about it." Eddie texted
Buck froze. Bobby would never betray him like that.... Bobby wouldn't tell the whole team his personal information it goes against HIPAA!
"What?"
"He told us about your dislocated Knee, that's why you were at the hospital yesterday, and you have to take a week off, maybe two even Bobby said."
A........ what...? Well a dislocated Knee is better then the truth at least.
"Oh yeah! Sorry I didn't know what exactly he told you!" Buck wrote next.

Buck and Eddie texted for a bit longer before Eddie went off to take Christopher to school. Once Eddie was on shift that meant he wouldn't necessarily be looking at his phone and Buck wouldn't get any responses.

Buck found himself squealing like a twelve year old girl who got a text from her crush.
After some time he calmed down and decided to text Eddie, he knew the response wouldn't come soon, but he decided to go for it.
"Hey Btw, would you like to go on a second hang out- date thing some time?" He texted, and like he thought, Eddie didn't respond.
Even two hours later there was no response so buck decided to not waste the day, yeah his leg hurt, but who was he to waste the day away? He was better than that!
Okay eventually Buck decided on going on a run, was it the best idea.......? No. But run he did.
He walked to the local park and then started running, he put in headphones and ran until his legs hurt, and then he ran some more. By the end of his run he was exhausted, sweat dripped off his forehead and his legs felt like jello, he hadn't even ran that far, anyone could tell he's not a strong runner, but he ran at his own pace.

"HELP SOMEONE HELP!"
"Hello?!" Buck yelled looking for the source of the yelling. Trouble seems to follow him everywhere he goes.
"HELP!" Some lady said holding a child in her arms.
The child was soaking wet and so was the woman, her hair was matted and she had Alge on her shirt, the child in her arms, a girl in a pink swimsuit, wasn't breathing or conscious, so Buck ran over, using his phone to dial 911.
"What happened!?" He yelled.
"I turned around for one minute! Her brother was watching her, he's 17! I- she- she went under the water please someone help my phone is water damaged!"
"Okay- I'm a fire fighter I'll help, hold on!" Buck said grabbing the child and putting her on the ground, he tilted her head back and started pressing in the middle of her chest. He started CPR while he handed the mother the phone so she could tell the 911 operator about her daughter and thier location.
After a few minutes the little girl finally coughed up water and started breathing
"There you go— there you go..." Buck said patting her back as she continued couching up water. By now he was wet with water and sweat and his arms hurt but he saved a life so he didn't care.
Less than a minute later an engine rolled up with paramedics and they started tending to the girl, after about twenty seconds Buck realized that's his Engine, his team. That's station 118!

"Evan! What happened did you save her?" Eddie said walking up to him and sitting down
"Huh- oh, I was running and heard screaming...."
"Trouble really does follow you everywhere you go...." Eddie said laughing and he checked his phone for a second
".... You texted me...?" He said reading it "....... I- I would love that Buck..... I would love to go out again." Eddie said staring into Bucks eyes.
"Eddie come get info from the mom." Capitan Bobby said before going off to do his own thing.
"... duty calls......" Buck said rubbing the back of his neck.
"I'll text you, I'm free this weekend." Eddie said before running off and speaking with the girls mother.
After the engine left, Buck was bored again, the urge to Cut came back, but he didn't want to be off work more, so he got up and started running again. He ran until he didn't feel the urge to Selfharm anymore.
Even though he had only been running for a few hours in total, Buck could already tell he would be using this running trick to get his mind off of Selfharm.