In The Clouds

Beverly gives me the creeps.

With all that jealousy stuff between Jack, Allison, was King originally supposed to play a much bigger part? I Need to research it a bit although it would make sense.

Yupp, Jo is still my favourite.

What did Henry and King do in Area 51?

Why does no one ever ask pre-time-travel Kevin how to get Nathan back? Put any ideas they've got, including Weinbrenners equations, on a blackboard on the floor and let him do his thing?

Fargo's character growth from season one to season five is huge. He's so different in the pilot.

At the end Cobb asks Jo what she thinks, clearly talking about Jack. She says "we could do worse." Does that mean she approved Jack coming back to Eureka and was still pissed about it? Did she think he'd join them as a deputy?

Shannon and Eddie meet up to commiserate. Beer leads to loosened inhibitions and they end up in bed.

A few weeks later Shannon learns she’s pregnant and they both assume the Baby is Eddie’s.

Pressured by Eddie's parents the two of them get married, but they refuse to tell anyone that the baby could be Buck‘s, too. Only once Christopher is born do they perform a pregnancy test. It confirms that their son is not Eddie's biologically.

They try to contact Buck but his phone number is disconnected and they don't have his Email nor his actual address. They blame is parents, and unbeknownst to them they are right.

Without telling anyone they put Buck’s name on the birth certificate and Eddie applies for step parent adoption. They also make Buck Christopher’s legal guardian if the worst came to be.

Shannon leaves Eddie and Chris to help her ill mother days before Eddie's final tour. She leaves behind a note, an heartbroken toddler, an impossible childcare situation and a deeply distrustful husband.

Unwilling to let his son stay with his parents for his tour he tries again to find and contact Buck, but in the end he has to capitulate. At least he manages to change his living will and makes Buck Chris’ primary legal guardian. He doesn't trust Shannon after her disappearing act and he trusts his parents even less. Much, much later he will be thankful for this decision.

As it happens, Eddie does get shot and ends up in a coma. His parents are way too gleeful about it, they think they have a chance to get Chris to stay with them, permanently. They are not amused when they learn their precious grandson is about to leave for LA, into the care of his biological father they had no idea even existed.

Buck on the other hand has no idea he even has a son, so when he gets the call about his custody he is caught completely unaware in the middle of a shift as a probationary firefighter with the 118.

Safe to say Abby is no longer a priority. He can’t step into someone else’s mess when he has his own to deal with. Not that he would ever dare to call sweet little Christopher a mess.

It takes him about five minutes to fall in love with his son, he only wishes Shannon and Eddie had told him sooner. Then again, after his father had disappeared his phone and with no other means to contact him, he didn't exactly make it easy on them. He even left the country for a while, spending some months bartending in Peru, building up on the few Spanish phrases he’d learned from Eddie here and there.

He has no idea why Shannon isn’t the primary custodian parent or where she is. The only information they can share with him is that Eddie was injured in service. Buck didn't even know Eddie had joined the army after school.

Somehow, with the generous help of the 118, Buck and Christopher make it work. Sure, Chimney cracks dumb jokes every now and again, and Hen and Bobby both don’t seem convinced by his parenting abilities in the begining, but all in all Chris is happy, Carla a great help, and they even manage to find a good school for Chris.

Buck spends nights over and over again researching cerebral palsy and the best schools for kids with disabilities. The living will and with it the clean custody situation makes it easier to get accepted at Durant.

Through it all, he tries to keep up contact with the Diaz parents, but whenever he calls them in El Paso, they criticise his capabilities or try to force him to hand over custody. He reminds them that Shannon would be next in line. The one positive is the new knowledge that Shannon had left Eddie and Chris in the middle of the night.

Sadly, Buck doesn’t have any contact info for Eddie sisters, never mind his Abuela and Tiá that he knows live in LA.

It’s by pure chance that Buck and Chris meet Isabel in the park one day. Both Chris and Isabel recognize each other immediately, Chris has seen many pictures of her and Buck has made a point of putting up all the picture frames a sweet social worker had brought along with Christopher's belongings.

It's the day Buck learns that Eddie's parents are telling everyone that Chris has been kidnapped. Their family has questioned why there were no police interviews or even an Amber Alert, of course, but in the end they don't have any conflicting information either.

Isabel is grateful to have her bisnieto back and Buck is relieved to finally finally get an update on Eddie’s health. The social worker isn't allowed to give him any information other than Chris will be staying with him for the foreseeable future.

Isabel also starts correcting the Diaz‘ lies and informs the wider family of the real reason their grandson disappeared.

The moment Buck gets word that Eddie is about to wake up Buck, Chris, Isabel and Pepa are on their way to El Paso.

Eddie wakes up to his son snuggled next to him, his best friend and abuela by his bedside and his mother, father and tía fighting over Chris’ custody. Which is a bit funny to his addled mind, as none of the three are even on that list.

The decision for Eddie to join Buck and Chris in LA is made quickly but not without drama. It further proofs that his parents can't care less for his well being if it gives them access to his son. Buck can empathize with this kind of hurt.

In LA Eddie stays in the apartment with Buck and Chris. Carla is there for Chris already and more than happy to add another patient to her roster. It feels more like friendship and warmth.

For the first time Eddie gets confirmation for what he has known all along, Buck is a great father. The best. As the weeks pass he falls back in love with the same person he had once loved in secret. It also gets harder to brush those feelings off as friendship.

The moment Eddie is able to mostly care for himself and Chris on his own, a bomb and a ladder truck crash Bucks leg and with it any plans of moving out. A tiny part of Eddie is relieved he gets to have this just a little longer.

Buck is miserable. His mood is not helped when Eddie starts at the fire academy during his recovery. Sure, he is proud of him and he is exited to work side by side with his best friend and secret crush, but with his leg as it is he is only able to join his training days out from Eddie's graduation.

Eddie starts at the 118, Buck gets his recertification on first try, everything is looking up until it's not. A pulmonary embolism sets Buck back and the plan to get Buck out of the house gets created.

The tsunami nearly breaks Buck. Losing his son after he was already safe is unbearable. Facing Eddie to tell him he failed to protect their boy is the hardest thing he's ever done. He nearly collapses when Christopher is found, alive with minor scratches.

Eddie is barely fast enough to catch Buck when he breaks, the hours of searching and the initial wave have taken their toll. Thinking he could've lost them both is purgatory. He has never been more thankful for having Buck as his co-parent.

The closer they get to Christmas the more she feels like it's necessary to put it all in the open. To avoid temptation Shannon decides to talk to Eddie at the fire station, which doesn't end as calmly as she'd hoped.

Worse, the moment she leaves the room they've been occupying she runs into her former one night stand. It's clear he recognises her but he isn't nearly as shocked as Shannon. Uncomfortable, probably. Guilty, for having slept with his teammates wife. Not knowing that he fathered a child.

Eddie has seen her face drain of color the moment she laid eyes on Buck and confronts her the same evening, leaving her with an impossible choice. Tell him the truth about Beatrice, hoping he'll give her enough time to talk to the man herself or keep the fathers identity secret until she manages to talk to Buck.

In the end, it's a no-brainer. She tells him about her drunken mistake and her second unplanned pregnancy but says she has no contact with the father. It's not a lie, exactly. She's only glad he is too distracted by Beatrice’ existence to question her reaction to seeing his coworker.

She does go back to the firehouse to talk to Buck though, after Christmas. Christmas she spends with her husband and two children, introducing the siblings to each other. Chris is hurt by the fact she left him but stayed with Bee. Eddie is too.

Buck first tries to tell her that Eddie has the day off when Shannon arrives at the 118 but quickly realises this is neither a friendly visit nor a mistake. She's here for him.

After some back and forth Shannon convinces Buck to meet her at a neutral place on his next day off. She tells him everything and doesn't even need to look up to see the shocked disbelief on his face. During their meeting she also learns how much more than a teammate Buck is for her husband and how much he already adores their son.

They decide they both want to take their time to think about the next steps and how to tell Eddie what's going on.

To make matters indefinitely worse, Shannon has yet another pregnancy scare. Learning she isn't pregnant is a relief, for Eddie as well, she thinks. She tells him over dinner and asks for a divorce, citing the broken trust between them and her priorities as a mother of two.

The very next day she finally introduces Buck to his daughter in a café. Outside, she's nearly hit by a car, only Bucks quick reflexes save her from certain death.

Lucky for Shannon, less so for Buck. Seeing Buck and Bee next to each other seems to be enough for Eddie to connect the dots and his hurt is plain to see for everyone, even for the rest of the 118 , who don't have any idea what's going on. And Eddie is in no mood to listen to Buck or Shannon. The only reason he still talks to her is because she's his son's mother.

It takes a bomb explosion for Eddie to forgive Buck and Shannon once more learns how close the two men are. Chris spends every possible minute on the phone with Buck, Carla and Chris even manage to sneak into his hospital room at some point.

In all fairness, Shannon doesn't expect a warm welcome at the hospital when she brings Buck's daughter in to visit him. She's wrong though. Everyone seems to be warm and patient with her, no anger or disgust in sight. Maddie Buckley, her daughter's aunt, even offers to take her niece whenever necessary.

One of those occasions arises weeks later, after Bucks recertification and the following embolism. Operation Buck up Buck is what they call it. Eddie asks Shannon to spend the day with Chris and Buck. Buck needs to leave his loft and Chris needs to know that he's still a priority for his mother and that she is not only there for Bee.

No one could've known about the tsunami. This simple fact doesn't change the horror of the day. Shannon is grateful for Buck's fast reactions and hero qualities. First he gets her, Chris and several other survivors on a firetruck, then he jumps after Chris into dangerous water when he looses balance on the truck. Shannon herself is frozen in shock and by the time she's able to move she's already convinced her son is dead. She doesn't have much hope for Buck either.

Hours later she finds Christopher in the arms of a stranger. They walk to the VA Hospital and reunite with Buck and Eddie. She can't believe they all survived the day and looking at Eddie she is not the only one who thinks of Buck as their guardian angel.

The lawsuit is a phenomenally stupid idea, yet Shannon understands why Buck goes for it. Other than her and Christopher he doesn't get many visitors, even Maddie barely checks in or if she does, she tries to talk him out of coming back to work.

After an apparent fight in a grocery store, of all places, she gets a call from Bosko, telling her to keeping a closer eye on her men. She visits Buck and vents to him about her idiot ex-husband before she notices he's gone quiet. That's how she finds out her ex hasn't told anyone about their divorce.

Later she learns that Eddie misinterpreted the whole situation between her and Buck. He thinks they are starting a relationship and she's sure his obvious jealousy is not for her. She does feel bad about overlooking his custody related fears. Buck and her have found an agreement that works for his shifts and her 9 to 5, leaving them with a ratio of 60/40 with Shannon as the primary custodian parent. She never meant to do the same with Chris.

In the past months she'd seen how great Eddie is with him and she doesn't want to take up too much space. It's important to find time for both her children and for her children to have time with each other, that's all. She feels guilty about it, but sometimes she doesn't know how to handle Chris's CP with the same ease as Buck and Eddie do.

Apparently, Eddie decides against talking to either of them and joins a fight club instead. Shannon faults his catholic repression and his parents. The day Buck tells her he's been forgiven is the best one in ages, she thinks.

Then there is the well. Eddie finds her the day after and asks about her will. In the case that one of them dies, the other gets custody of Chris but that isn't enough for him. And yes, she doesn't want her son with Helena and Ramon either.

She agrees and reveals that after Buck, Maddie would become Bee's legal guardian. He suggests Buck as a guardian for Chris. Shannon tells him they can't just decide that without ever talking to Buck about it.

In the following meeting they agree on Buck's role as a guardian and Buck sheepishly asks Eddie to take in Beatrice in case something happened to him. He wants the siblings to have each other. He says it would be better for her than living with Chim and Maddie. Shannon doesn't comment on the sparks between the two men.

When she learns that Eddie has started dating Ana, Shannon is exasperated. Buck is down, Chris is angry and Helena and Ramon butt in where they're not needed. Again.