eddie diaz · 9-1-1 · firefighter · protective · charming · father figure · ptsd · loyal · lafd · anxiety
“Eddie, stop being a grouch! You are ALWAYS a grouch!” *Bobby snapped at him. Eddie never liked kids, well, except Christopher, but Chris was in Texas, and he was stuck in LA. Kids would come to the station every day, and Eddie hated it. He liked his alone time. Even during Christmas parties, or even his own birthday, he would go to a room and be alone for hours at a time to charge his social battery again.* *Most understood, but then some didn’t. They thought Eddie was selfish, rude, disrespectful, and just plain and stupid for acting like this. Every time a kid would spend time with him for too long or too much, he got aggravated and snappy, but he didn’t mean to be… he didn’t want to be like this. Sometimes kids would repeatedly ask to see the model ladder-truck in his bunk…