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Buck cashed out and walked his groceries to his car. He placed them in the trunk and paused seeing someone really struggling with some bags. He locked his jeep and walked over.
“Here let me help you with those.” He picked some up and she smiled.
“Oh thank you so much!” They walked a bit further and Buck looked back to the store.
“Why’d you park so far away?”
“You’d never believe how busy it was when I got here!” He laughed.
“Yeah seems like you were there for awhile.” He looked at the eight bags she had. “Did the shopping cart lock up on you?”
“Yeah, I parked all the way out here and walked over! Ugh damn things.” He laughed as he helped her put the bags in the backseat. “Thank you Evan.” Buck paused looking back at her.
“I never…” he saw a gun pointed at his side and he gulped holding up his hands. “Woah there I don’t want any trouble..”
“Yes but we do. Get in the car Evan. Don’t make me use this.” He held his hands up.
“Lady, you are messing with the wrong guy.”
“Just shut him up.” Buck was hit upside the head and he crashed to the ground. He groaned holding his head. “Dumb bitch.” He blacked out after a foot collided with his face.
~~~~~
Eddie frowned. He looked up from the fridge and then back at Christopher. “Hey kid, we have to go out for a bit why don’t you go throw on your shoes?” He walked away and Eddie glanced at his phone as it flashed with a message from Han.
Han: listen I know we aren’t supposed to be talking to Buck but have you heard from him lately? Maddie tried calling him like fifty times and he hasn’t answered.
Eddie: dude I haven’t spoken to that idiot since the shopping center.
He and Christopher got into the car and drove to the store. Once there Christopher squealed.
“What is it?” Eddie got out and helped him down. Christopher pointed at the jeep.
“Buck!” Eddie groaned. Christopher walked over excited.
“Oh great…” he walked over to the jeep. Christopher looked confused. “What’s wrong?”
“Why did he leave his groceries?” Eddie glanced around confused.
“Maybe he had to run back inside?”
“There’s ice cream in there…” Eddie bit his lip as he pulled out the extra key buck made him for emergencies.
“This is weird…” he opened the door and placed his hand on the cars air conditioner. “Something’s wrong..” Eddie glanced around the parking lot. “Hey Chris, I’m going to come shopping later but I’m going to have someone pick you up so I can find Buck…”
“Okay, keep me updated dad!” They sat by bucks keep for a bit before Hen pulled up.
“Thank you Hen.” She stared at the jeep.
“Isn’t that Bucks?”
“Yeah, and if he’s inside I need to have a word with him.”
“Ah.” She helped Christopher into her car. “See you soon Eddie.” He walked into the store and looked around every isle he could.
“Looking for anything specific?”
“Someone, actually.” Eddie turned to the cashier. “I saw his jeep outside but he left his groceries so I was confused…” Eddie pulled out a photo of Buck. “Evan Buckley, have you seen him?”
“He left hours ago.” She shrugged. “Hasn’t been back in here if that’s what you are asking about.”
“What?” Eddie almost dropped his phone. “He hasn’t been back in? But his jeep is still out-WAIT!?” He paused. “Hours ago!?”
“Yeah, he came for groceries, I checked him out like two hours ago.” Eddie looked outside horrified.
“Oh god..” he ran out to the jeep. He looked around spotting something under the jeep. He got down on his hands and knees to reach and grab it. As soon as he had a hold of it his heart almost stopped beating. He had Bucks cellphone.
~~~~~
“Y-you know nobody cares I’m missing.” Buck looked away from his captures. “I told you this.”
“We will see about that.”
“What do you even want?” Buck looked at them again. “You won’t get any sort of ransom trust me on that one.”
“Just zip it Buckley.” He was gagged and he huffed annoyed. “So, have we been in contact with the crew yet?”
“Yep!” The women giggled as she walked over after fixing her makeup. “We will be live in an hour.”
“Good.” He smirked at Buck. “We shall see what all of LA thinks of their favorite firefighter when they see him fighting for his life.” Buck rolled his eyes.
“Aww he’s sweet he thinks we mean with fire.” She laughed.
“He will just have to wait to find out.” The two of them left and Buck slammed his head back. Fuck.
~~~~~~
“What do you mean something is going to be sent by a link to be aired live?” Taylor stared confused. “What is going on?”
“It has to do with that firefighter guy or something? That’s gotta be big!”
“I’m sorry, what firefighter guy?”
“Evan Buckley.” Taylor froze.
“What…”
“Yeah, I don’t know someone sent us a message saying he’s got some sort of serious interview to give us or something? so we are being sent a link to a website where we get to interview him live.” Taylor left the room and immediately called Eddie Diaz.
“Diaz.”
“Where’s Evan?”
“what do you mean?”
“Well, my boss said someone was sending him a link to share live online, and it has to do with Evan.”
“Shit…”
“What do you know Diaz?”
“He’s been missing.” Eddie mumbled. “We think he was kidnapped.”
“Oh fuck…” Taylor ran to her boss almost immediately. “You have to send the link to the police! Evan Buckley was kidnapped…” she hung up on Eddie and her boss stared at her.
“We can’t, they said if we did they’d just kill him.” Taylor rolled her eyes.
“Of course you fucking knew.” she walked over and stared at the message. “Fuck…”
“And we have to air whatever this is online….”
“And will you be able to forgive yourself if it’s his murder?”
“We have to do this…” Taylor bit her lip.
“If he dies, I’m going to hate you for the rest of your damn life.” She walked over to the table and sat down. All her coworkers joining around her.
~~~~~
“Ready?”
“Ready.” Buck let his heartbeat pick up as the camera was turned on. He looked directly at it.
“Hello there Los Angeles!” Buck flinched as he held his shoulders. “This here is firefighter Evan Buckley.” He gripped Evan’s chin and forced his eyes to the camera. “Say hi Evan.” Buck looked away. “Grumpy grump. Anyways, he’s going to give you all a show!” He got the gag out and laughed.
“You think they care?” He laughed. “Did you two idiots not do your homework?” Give them enough information. Come on Buckley.
“What are you on about?”
“Wow you and your partner in crime over there really don’t know?” He laughed. “Which of you masterminded this entire thing? I would say the female has the brains but between us? It was probably you.” A hard slap to the face. Evan bit his lip. Fucking hell he’s an idiot.
“What are you up to Evan?” He gagged Evan and then looked back at the camera and laughed. “Oh I see, trying to give them information are we? I thought you said they didn’t care?” He glanced at the camera and then back at the man standing in front of him. “Whatever. Anyways ladies, gentlemen.” He stepped behind him again and held his shoulders. “If any of you try and trace this,” he pulled out a knife and held it to Buck's neck. “He dies right here on camera.”
“Now dear brother, just tell them the game we will be playing!”
“Oh yes, wheel of misfortune!” The camera panned to a wheel that was set up next to them. Buck stared at it in horror. “Each spin has some fun things we will be doing with Evan here.” He laughed. “If whoever we call doesn’t answer the phone, we spin. If they don’t answer a simple question when they do answer, he gets punished because we spin..” He glared at them. At this point everyone in his contacts had him blocked! He looked over at Buck. “You don’t seem to like that too much.” He pulled the gag out.
“You idiots really didn’t do your research?” He rolled his eyes. “Nobody even noticed I was taken nevermind them answering when it’s me calling them. The entire 118, and every station in LA won’t reply. Didn’t you hear? I had opened a lawsuit against them.” Buck glanced at the camera.
“That’s why we left your phone and have an unknown number to call with.” He smirked. “Let’s start with your sister Evan.” Buck started crying. When Maddie did answer he screamed.
“MADDIE DONT--mph!” He was gagged again.
“Evan? I don’t have time for this.”
“We understand you are at work Maddie.”
“Who the hell is this?”
“we just want to play a little game.”
“Who are you?”
“Not important. We need you to answer a few questions.”
“I’m not playing this game.” She hung up and Buck started crying hard.
“Wheel time it is.” He clapped his hands. “What form of torture will you have!” He spun the wheel and Buck looked at it terrified. “Ironic.”
use a fire poker to tattoo him
Buck started shaking. He smelt the smoke and he looked to the guy as he walked back over with a fire poker. He screamed as the guy pressed it against his neck. When the poker was pulled away his vision started to blur.
“Who to call next?” The women walked over smirking. “How about Diaz?”
“Oooh yes!” They called Eddie and Buck huffed annoyed.
“Hello?”
“Hello Diaz! Welcome to our game! Now, we are going to ask you a few questions about your relationship with Evan Buckley and we expect you to respond if you don’t? We will hang up and take this as a forfeit.”
“Ask away” Buck stared confused at the phone. Why was Eddie so calm about this?
“First question…”
~~~~~~~
Eddie held the phone to his ear staring at the screen in front of him.
Slut
Was burned clear as day into Bucks neck. He looked confused as to why Eddie even answered the phone. Eddie bit his lip. He so badly wanted to scream.
“Alright so far you are doing wonderfully.” The man laughed. “I take it you are watching then?” Buck looked terrified as he looked at the camera.
“Yes.” Eddie clutched his phone closer to his ear.
“You like what I burned into his neck? You should have seen how bad he was before you! He was such a slut!”
“If I answer this last question, can I talk to him alone?”
“Fine.” He chuckled. “But I don’t think you’ll answer it correctly.”
“Try me.” Buck looked confused at the camera. Eddie laughed a bit at that reaction.
“How long has Evan here had feelings for you?” Bucks eyes widened.
“Well, if you want a detailed response that might take awhile. But a quick one? A little after we met.” He laughed at the memory.
“And you for Evan here?”
“That wasn’t the question.” He smirked.
“Correct. It was a trick.” He reached over and spun the wheel. “Even your crush cant answer simple questions!” Eddie stared horrified as the camera panned to what it landed on. “Well, we will be back on air in an hour.” He blew a kiss and the camera shut off pausing on the wheel. The line went dead and Eddie screamed.
Vibrator torture for an hour
~~~~~~
Hen immediately met up with the others and they drove to Hans. As soon as they got there they knocked. He answered.
“Woah what’s wrong?”
“Have you-did you get a call from a random number claiming they had a game they wanted to play?”
“Maddie?!” Maddie came downstairs. They all sat down and Maddie started sobbing when she was shown the feed from the live stream.
“No…”
“Oh honey, this isn’t on you.” Athena held her hand.
“What are they doing to him…why him?”
“We don’t know.” Athena sighed. “But it’s best we are all together in case a call comes to any of us. We can help each other with the answers.”
“Right…” they all stared at their phones. “Right…”
“They said we can’t track the calls or the live stream or they’ll just kill him.”
“Great…” Maddie sighed. “Why did they end it?” They all stared at the screen. “Should we…”
“Yeah…” Athena clicked play on the screen and they saw the call end between Eddie and the kidnappers. Maddie sobbed.
“Oh Buck…”
“Shit….” Athena got up and called Eddie. Hen looked down at the wheel.
“He’s going to need a lot of therapy.”
~~~~~~
Buck was finally relieved of the damn vibrators. He sobbed in relief.
“Didn’t enjoy that?” He asked. Buck glared at him. “Oh right, you don’t like using vibrators.” He pulled the gag out and Buck took a deep breath in. “That’s okay, maybe next time it’ll land on other things~” he dragged Buck back to the chair and chained him down again. Buck sobbed as the camera went live again.
“Please stop…”
“None of you really like him do you?” He chuckled. “That’s right Evan I did my research. While you had your fun with the vibrators that is.”
“Alright, honey who do we call next?” Buck laughed.
“You should call Athena Grant. I’m sure she’d love for me to just fucking die at this point.”
“Oh good idea! Call the Sargent.” Buck held his breath as he looked at the camera.
“What do you want?” She asked.
“You know who we are don’t you?”
“Let me speak to him.”
“Only if you win this round Sargent.”
“Fine. Ask the damn questions.” Buck took a deep breath as they reached the final question.
“Final question Sargent.” Buck looked at the camera and nodded his head slightly. He knew that they were going to do exactly what they did to Eddie to her. “How long have you considered Evan here as your son?” She laughed.
“I hated him for the longest of times but I considered him a son to me as soon as I started seeing him as a man who would do anything to protect the people he cared about and not some reckless idiot”
“So even after he sued your husband you still consider him a son?” Buck rolled his eyes.
“Yes, I do.” His kidnapper seemed shocked she even answered.
“Fine. I promised you a phone call.” He took the gag out and unchained bucks wrist. “I’m watching you Evan.” He left and Buck started sobbing as he held the phone to his ear. He watched as the camera shut off.
“Athena…hey…”
“Evan…” she shuffled around and he heard her say something before he heard a click. “We wanted you to know we are all here. We are helping each other out as much as we can.” He sobbed.
“I’m scared Athena.”
“We will find you Evan.” Maddie said. Buck sobbed even harder as he held the phone.
“Maddie I’m so sorry.”
“I’m sorry! I didn’t know.”
“I’m going to be okay.”
“You are being tortured on live television and you call that okay?” Hen asked. “What the fuck Buck?”
“I mean can’t be worse than the tsunami right?”
“Evan Buckley…” Buck wiped the tears from his eyes. “Don’t you dare pretend to be okay.”
“H-Hey cap.”
“We want to make sure you know we have your back Evan. You just need to survive and we’ll help you through everything after this. But you have to promise us you’ll fight them?”
“I promise, Bobby. I promise.”
“Good, we’ll see you soon yeah?” Buck laughed.
“Yeah, yeah.” He sobbed as he got a few more encouraging words from the others.
“Buck?” He heard the phone be taken off speaker and a door close.
“E-Eddie?”
“I’m so fucking sorry.” Eddie sounded like he was sobbing. “I didn't think he’d pull that on me! I-I didn’t think…”
“I’m going to come back to you and Chris I promise.” He sobbed. “I will not let this be the last we ever talk. I will be making it home. I-I love you.” He hung up just as the door opened and he was chained back up.
~~~~~
They all stared at the screen as bucks kidnappers disappeared and left Buck to stare at the camera confused. When they walked back in they smirked at the camera.
“We decided to call someone we know will answer but hang up as soon as they know it’s about you.” Maddie immediately ran to call her parents. The kidnapper pulled out his phone and called bucks parents who, thanks to Maddie, picked up. “Hello Buckley parents!”
“Who is this?” Buck looked at the ground and closed his eyes.
“This is about your son, Evan Buckley.”
“What’s wrong? Did something happen at work?” His mother asked. Maddie nodded as she walked back into the room her parents on speaker.
“No, but we have a few things to ask of you.” They watched as his kidnapper snatched the gag out of bucks mouth. “Isn’t that right Evan?”
“D-Don’t….dont bring them into this!” He was shaking.
“Keep going. Keep them talking please dad?”
“Evan?” His father asked. “Is this a prank?”
“N-no! Dad, please do me a favor? Just please don’t-.” The gag went back in.
“Will you answer a few questions?”
“Of course.” His mother replied. Maddie glanced at the screen seeing Buck glaring at it.
“Question one…” this continued until the kidnapper got frustrated that they kept answering honestly. “Fine! Fine! How about this!” Buck shook his head. “Oh father of the year,” Maddie held her breath. “We did our research for this one!”
“Just ask it.” Their father replied.
“How old was Evan here when you decided you didn’t want him anymore?”
~~~~
Buck rolled his eyes and stared at the camera. His father laughed.
“I’m waiting. I’m sure we all are Mr. Buckley.”
“Not even a year old.” Buck raised an eyebrow. Why was his parents actually answering these questions? And truthfully?
“Wow, you actually answered just like that…” Buck froze when he reached over and spun the wheel. “Anyways nighty night.” He hung up and Buck squirmed in the chair. “What? Didn’t think I knew about your little plan Maddie?” He leaned forward so his arms were draped over bucks shoulders. He heard the wheel spinning and he started to cry. “You all cheated on that one. Which means Evan here, gets punished.” He pulled away and watched the wheel. Buck heard the wheel stop and he held his breath.
“Oh I like this one!” The women stepped forward and grabbed Bucks' hair tightly. He winced. “Let’s see how long you suffer for.” The camera shut off and they lifted him to his feet. He glanced at the wheel and he shook his head trying to get away from them. The gag fell out.
“Please you don’t-you cant!”
“Where’s the fun in that?” They dragged him over to a tank and opened the door. They chained his ankles to the bottom and his wrist together, then walked out, locking the exit. He stood.
“Please!” He begged. Water started pouring in around him. He sobbed. “Please don’t!” The camera was turned back on and pointed back at him.
“See you later Buckley.” The two blew kisses as they walked out of the building they had him trapped in. Buck couldn’t catch his breath as the water slowly flowed in. He looked at the camera.
“Just turn the stream off. Please god turn it off.” He sobbed as the water picked up the pace. He struggled against the chains. He huffed annoyed when he couldn’t get them off. “Please don’t watch. Turn it off.” His legs gave out and he collapsed into the pool of water. He coughed and looked up at the ceiling as more water pooled in around him. “I’m so sorry.” He looked back at the camera. “For everything. I know you won’t-you won’t be able to forgive me.” He sobbed even harder as the water cascaded around him faster than before. Water was now pouring from above him as well as from the sides. He shakily got to his feet. The water was almost chest level now. “Please don’t watch the rest. Just-just leave it at this. I’m sorry.” He sobbed when the water reached his neck. “G-goodbye.” He took a deep breath as the water went over his head. He closed his eyes and sunk down to the bottom. The water finished filling up the tank. Buck released his breath.
~~~~~
Eddie held Buck's hand. Maddie walked in and sat down beside him.
“Think he’ll wake?”
“Even if he does, think he’ll forgive us for not ending that stream?”
“We got his location and brought him home. He’s about to be so pissed.”
“Oh definitely.” She laughed. “But that’s the best part isn’t it?” She looked down at his hand holding bucks. “He’s safe.”
“And he’s home.”
~~~~~~~~
A few weeks later
Buck laughed as he helped Christopher up the stairs. “Hey Superman.” He set the kid down in the kitchen and he giggled.
“I came here to see you!”
“I can see that.” He chuckled. “Your dad just dropped you off?”
“No he’s coming up, he had to park.” Buck rolled his eyes.
“Of course he is.” Buck put his dishes away.
“Can we watch a movie?”
“Why don’t you go pick it and we’ll be in as soon as your dad gets here?”
“Okay!” He went to the living room and Buck looked towards the door. It opened and he smiled.
“Hey Ed’s.”
“Hi Buck.” He stepped into the loft and smiled awkwardly. “I brought chips, and a lot of soda.”
“Come here.” He pulled Eddie into a hug and laughed. “I will never be mad you saved my life by the way.”
“Good, because I also ordered pizza.” He walked into the living room and Buck chuckled as he closed the door.
“Of course you did.” He followed Eddie into the room and sat down leaning into his arms. He smiled at Christopher as he sat down. The movie started and Buck sighed happily. He was safe. He was home.