Evan “Buck” Buckley
Mentions of Howard “Chimney” Han
Episode: s05e04: Home and Away
Abusive Buckley Parents
Flashbacks
Angst
Song Fic by Pat Benatar

Hell is For Children

When Chim finished his yelling, as he stood, legs on each side of his lover’s brother’s fetal prone body and gave not a care at what he was doing.
No care of the broken facial bone his “harmless” slap/hit had done, nor that his abuse was feeding on the flashback the man he was attack verbally now was in.
All he cared for was that he released the pent-up frustration and anger he felt, and Buck was always good for that release.
After all no one had cared before about it. Not even Buck’s sister. Hell, half the time they joined in.

The flashbacks were deep now. And all encompassing. Words from his abuser now sometimes flow from his sister’s partner to flow from either of his parents.

Love and pain become one and the same
In the eyes of a wounded child

His own body in the abuse flows to his niece’s and back, with Chim’s words and actions over them.
In the background he heard the door slam.

Its all so confusing, this brutal abusing
They blacken your eyes, and then ‘pologize

Uncurling a bit in the silence outside his mind. Knowing somewhere he had to protect her. Protect his niece.

Because hell
Hell is for children
And you shouldn’t have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh

He listened to the silence that signaled safety. Before calling out to his security system to save the day’s recordings of the bottom floor of his loft and alert the police, he needed help.

He slowly sat up, touching his eye and bleeding cheekbone.

His security system connected him with the area dispatch. And he gave the details of his attacker and the fact that he had an infant with him.

If Han were willing to take his feelings out on someone who never resisted him, what would he do to the infant?

Because hell
Hell is for children
And you shouldn’t have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh

Fini.