Eddie Diaz?
Evelyn could tell this was going to be a tough day as she walked into the station. She woke up with a headache, nightmares of her last mission, plaguing her sleep, had a panic attack before it was even 6 A.M. and needed to call Hando to help her out. There’s something in her gut telling her this wasn’t going to be an easy day. At all.
“Have you told Buck yet?”
Evelyn raised an eyebrow as she walked up behind Bobby, “Told me what?” She asked making the three of them jump “God Woman. We need to put a bell on you” Chimney muttered making Evelyn glare at him. Hen smacks him upside the head, while Bobby shakes his head knowing the only reason, they didn’t know she was behind them was because she didn’t want to. He was the only one on the team who knew about her past in the Navy, and she would like it to stay that way
“Uh, we have a new probie. He’s going to be your new partner” Bobby told her making Evelyn give him a look. He gives one right back
He gets that Evelyn has some trust issues, I mean, how could she not with that happened? But he also knows that she needs a partner to watch her back out there in case anything happens. Evelyn huffs crossing her arms “And where is this new partner” Bobby motioned to the locker room. Chim and Hen looked over “Wow, that is one good looking man” Chim whistled “Where’s the lie. And I like girls” Hen agrees
Evelyn turned to look at her new partner. Suddenly she stared at a familiar back, one she hasn’t seen in 3 years. She tunes out Bobby explaining who he was, already knowing everything there is to her new partner. Evelyn looked away just as the man turned to them, looking at her Captain, the only one she fully trusts in this station. Yes, she trusts her teammates; to get her home but she didn’t trust them with her past
“Bobby” She muttered
Bobby looked at the woman and frowned confused and worried seeing the hunted look in her eyes and her pale skin “Evie, you, okay?” He whispered touching her shoulder slowly, allowing her to back up if the touch wasn’t wanted at the moment “I just... need a moment” She muttered making sure her eyes didn’t stray to the locker room. Bobby looked between the locker room and the girl he thinks of as a daughter and nodded knowing something had to be really bothering Evelyn for her to react like this “Yeah go, I’ll put your bag away”
Evelyn nodded letting him take her back before she walked out the station
Bobby looked at her worriedly as she turned a corner “Everything okay, with Buck?” Chim asked when he saw Evelyn wasn’t with Bobby anymore. Bobby nodded turning back to his team members “Yeah, she just had an important phone call to make” He lied knowing Evelyn wouldn’t want them knowing something was wrong. He hopes with time and love, Evelyn could start to trust the two, like she trusted him, but he knows that would be a long road
Evelyn leaned against the brick wall, pushing her nails into her skin as she tried to stop the memories of her and Eddie from suffocating her. Everything she spent 3 years forcing away, memories, feelings, pain, everything came rushing to the front of her mind once she saw Eddie. God, she thought she was safe in LA, far enough from El Paso to never cross paths with the one who took her heart and crushed it, but now he’s here. Here in her workplace. Here in her new home. Here to be her partner. To watch her back and make sure she stays alive
Fate must really hate her. Pulling out her phone she quickly called the one person who could talk her out of a panic attack before it truly starts. Fumbling for a moment, Evie finds the number and press calls, waiting for it to connect as she tried to even her breathing on her own
“Hey pup”
“Steve”
She heard something fall to the ground “Hey, pup what’s wrong?” Evie tries to tell him, but her breaths come out in pants “Okay, pup. I need you to follow my breathing okay. Just follow” Evie didn’t say anything as deep breathing came across the phone. She followed it as best she could calm down more and more when she could see clearly as tears stopped blurring her eyes. When did that happen? She thinks to herself “You okay pup?”
“Uh, yeah” Evie scrubs her tears away “Yeah, sorry for calling you this early”
“It’s fine pup. I was already awake” Evie sighed sliding down the wall “Care to tell me what’s got you worked up, that you had a panic attack”
“Uh. Diaz is here” Evie huffed “Here as in my town. In my station and is my new partner” The line was silent for a moment worrying Evie, as she knew how protective Steve could get “I’m sorry, what?” Steve asked needing to make sure he didn’t here that wrong “Diaz, the man who broke your heart, like a little dog, is now your partner!”
“Uh huh. Bobby picked him because he’s army and hopes we could work together. Which I will”
“Pup-”
“Steve listen to me. I will work with him; I can be professional with him. That’s my job and If I can’t then people will be in danger, but just because I’m going to be professional with him, doesn’t mean I will ever trust him the same. Okay? So don’t worry, I’m not letting him back in. Not now, not ever”
On the other side Steve sighed, while he wanted to believe that he knows that Evie and Eddie, were it for each other. Both him and Hondo weren’t blind, they know that Evie would never move past Eddie, no matter how hard she’s trying, if he believed in soulmates, he would think Eddie was Evie’s. He also knows that if Evie ever did get together with Eddie, she would have his and Hondo backing her up every step of the way
“Alright” Steve sighed “You will be professional. But don’t hurt yourself either. Okay, pup”
“Yes, papa bear” Evie laughed feeling better already before she sighed “I need to go back. Been out here long enough” She didn’t want to face her team yet, but she knew the longer she was out here, the more likely someone would come and find her “Alright, call me if you need anything. I mean it pup, no matter the time”
“I will. Bye Steve”
“Bye Evie”
Evie hung up the phone and stuffed it back in her pocket. Wiping her face again, Evie stood up taking a deep breath and walked back into the station. Looking around the bay, she didn’t see any of her teammates before she heard them upstairs in the loft “Your new partner, should be here soon. She just had an important call to take” She heard Bobby
With one more steadying breath, Evie walked up the stairs, footsteps light, and head held high. She wouldn’t let Ed-No. Diaz. He was Diaz. She wouldn’t let Diaz see that she was affected, she wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of seeing her struggle to be near him. He doesn’t get the privileged of seeing her vulnerable anymore
“I’m here Cap” Bobby, Hen and Chim jumped at the sudden voice while Eddie froze. When he heard of his new partner ‘Buck’, he didn’t think it would be the woman who got away. The woman he never stopped loving, the woman he let go. Seeing her in front of him, blond hair that always looked lighter in the light, blue eyes that reminded him of the ocean, a smile that made you think an angle was looking at you, it brought back everything he tried to forget
Evie took a deep breath as she looked at the man in front of her. His dark hair, and dark brown eyes, that always reminded her of the earth, keeping her grounded, the little smirks he would throw at her, the notes he would leave, everything came back, and she had to force herself not to turn around and walk out the station
Hen and Chim looked between the two, feeling the tension between them and wondered what was going on while Bobby looked at Evie worried as the hunted look was back in her eyes before she blinked, and it was like it wasn’t there at all
“Evelyn Buckley. Everyone calls me Buck” Evie held out her hand. The four blinked at her slightly cold tone, but Hen and Chim didn’t put too much thought into it, knowing she was cold to new people. It took them weeks to get anything out of her. Bobby and Eddie on the other hand, couldn’t help but be shocked for a different reason
Bobby thought she would get along with Eddie because of his background in the army, but he could tell something else was at play. He would leave it be for now, watch them to see if they could handle working together. Eddie, though couldn’t help but be taken back by her cold tone, but he knows he deserve it, after what he did, he would be surprised if Evelyn didn’t hate him
“Eddie Diaz. It would be nice to work with you Buck” Eddie shook her hand. Evie didn’t say anything as she turned on her heels and made her way to the kitchen leaving the four standing there. Eddie sighed “This is going to be hard” He muttered to himself not knowing Bobby heard him
