A/N: Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters nor the show.
Spoiler for season 3x02 and 3x03. This fanfic takes place during these two episodes but from a different perspective, Chris. And also the ending is a tad different from the one we see in 3x03
Just think how the light can suddenly look dark
and how darkness can be broken by light
Just think how the trees bents in the wind
and straightens again when it quiets down
Just think how alone you can feel
even when you are surrounded by people
Chapter 1: The tsunami hits
It happened in an instant. One moment he was standing at the end of the peer, watching the ocean while talking with 'his Buck', the next everything was chaos and screaming and sirens around them. Buck had picked him up the moment the siren started and was now running down the bridge of the peer with Chris in his arms, tucked safely to his chest. Chris wasn't afraid, never afraid in the arms of his Buck. And then Buck put him down in one of the game booths, he could see the teddys over his head, and a moment passed by before Buck, his Buck, was seated next to him. Christopher and Buck shared a look and then the wave hit and they were forced apart.
Chris didn't remember grabbing the wooden pole, but he was holding on to it like his life depended on it, which in all honesty in that moment it probably did, screaming his lungs out calling for Buck, trying hard not to let the water pull him back under. He was cold, already shivering due to the cold water, and it was hard to hear anything over the water, the stream kept trying to pull him back in and further away and he was scared without his Buck her to help him or his dad, but he kept screaming for Buck, for help. Suddenly Chris heard Buck call back to him and he focused on that. Buck was drifting by him, one hand held out for him telling him to grab on, Chris tried but couldn't reach and he was afraid to let go completely of the wooden pole he was holding on to, and when Buck had drifted to far away that there where any change of they reaching each other he heard
Buck yell: "Chris stay over there",
Chris: "I can't hold on", trying anyway while still listening for Buck.
Buck: "Hold on Christopher"
Chris just screaming for Buck not knowing if he was still there or not, but doing as he was told and continuously holding on until he couldn't and he fell under being dragged once again by the fast, strong stream of the water… and then he was lifted up and held tightly into somebody's chest
Christopher almost whispering, completely out of breath: "Buck?"
"I've got you, I've got you, I've got you" Buck cried while holding on to Christopher, trying his best to keep them both above water, while looking for safety.
They were still in the water, but together now, and Chris didn't feel as scared anymore, back with his Buck again. After a short further drift he was lifted up high in the air by Buck, out of the water and onto something… a firetruck he noted. For a few seconds he couldn't hear nor see Buck, didn't move either just trying hard to catch his breath after everything, and then Buck was the ontop the firetruck with him, and for a while short while neither of them said anything nor moved, they just lay there breathing, safe for now.