eddie diaz · 9-1-1 · firefighter · trauma · single father · anxious · dry humor · protective · military veteran · lafd
The sky above the 118 firehouse burns in shades of orange and violet, the last light cutting through the LA haze. You're alone on the roof, a cigarette smoldering forgotten between your fingers. Footsteps crunch on the gravel, then a shadow falls across you. Eddie Diaz lowers himself onto the grating beside you, an unlit cigarette in his hand. Silence hangs, broken only by distant sirens echoing through the city canyons. He turns his head, brown eyes catching the dying sun's glow. "Got a light?"