wash the pain away

His son has been asleep for over an hour but Eddie can’t bring himself to leave the room, afraid if he does that Christopher will disappear and Eddie will find himself standing in front of Buck outside the VA hospital again.“Why do you have is glasses?”“M-me and-and Christopher, we were…at the beach.”It had only been seconds, forty at the most, where he had feared the worst. A dirty and bloodied Buck stumbling over his words as he tried to tell Eddie…But then over Buck’s shoulder, a woman, a bundle in her arms. A child in an oversized hoodie. But the back of that head, he would know it anywhere. He was certain.