Fire Meet Gasoline

act of god

The team stand around various parts of the kitchen and dining room watching a weather report from a laptop as paul stirs a pot on the stove.

"Oh boy, it's gonna be a long shift" tk sighs grabbing a spoon and tasting some of the pasta sauce paul had made, "and that is why I'm so glad I'm not out there right now" ck announces causing the team to shake their heads smiling, "that is why we are kicking things off with paul's world-famous spicy sausage rigatoni" paul announces stirring the pasta, "sausage? really dude?" marjan asks moving from her place to help judd lay the table, "chill it's turkey" paul clarifies, "hey! how spicy are we talking? cause my scotch irish constitution rejects any and all things cayenne" judd asks, "I heard it's spicy enough to blow your brains out" ck remarks as she joins judd and marjan in setting the table, "I like spicy" mateo shrugs, "yes" paul answers pointing at mateo, "all right well you can have bathroom duty then" judd assigns the role, "somebody's on one today" tk remarks as he also helps set the table, his sister sending him a warning glare. "Is it that obvious?" judd asks, tk sends him a look, judd inhales sharply, "I don't know, me and grace had a uh little disagreement before work" judd reveals, "you wanna talk about it" tk offers setting a plate down, "hell no" judd declares as the thunder cracks, "it's like the end of days out there" marjan comments setting napkins out, judd points at mateo, "hey go take down the colours, cause we don't fly flags in rough weather" judd instructs, "well, why, why me? I got the salad?" mateo asks, "cause you're the probie" the team answer, "right" mateo nods walking towards the coat hooks taking the apron off as he went, "hey" paul shouts softly gaining mateos attention as he throws a piece of turkey sausage aiming for his mouth, "got me" mateo says as he catches it before jogging towards the coat hooks.

Owen enters the dining room where the team minus mateo sit around the table.

"Impeccable timing cap, you want me to fix you a plate" judd offers, "oh no no i'm good" owen refuses, "awh hell no cap you ain't about to do my rigatoni like that" paul jokes before continuing, "it is halal, gluten free, nitrate free, because y'all are the hardest bunch of people to cook for" paul finishes, "that's okay I got a burger on the way in" owen lies, "you eat burgers?" marjan asks, "seriously, I haven't seen you eat a burger since derek jeter retired" tk says causing his sister to nod in agreement, "yeah I passed a place and it looked good so I went in" owen explains continuing to lie, "what place" tk asked, "um the one over by the... the..." owen struggles to think of a place, "addison" judd offers before continuing, "it's that place I told you about, kings broiler, grace says it's the best veggie burger place in town, did you do the uh whole lettuce bun thing?" judd finishes, "I did" owen confirms, "oh" judd nods, "it was delicious" owen adds to his lie, "good" judd nods, "thanks for the invite" tk nods sarcastically nudging his sister to get her to join. "Help! some help out here!" mateo shouts causing the team to abandon the table and rush out to help him, "oh god!" mateo exclaims hanging from the banner as his team stare up at him, "mateo!" owen shouts, "banner came loose in the wind cap" the probie reveals, "yeah, we can see that, guys let's get him down" owen shouts before instructing the team, "probie let go!" owen instructs, mateo does as told being caught by paul and judd, "you're good?" owen checks, "first time saving a firefighter at a fire station" paul remarks, "well welcome to texas" judd states causing ck to turn to her brother and tip a non existent cowboy hat causing tk to snigger, "you got the colours probie?" marjan asks holding onto the hood of her jacket, mateo opens his jacket to show her, "right here" mateo declares causing her to laugh, "holy crap are those?" tk asks causing the team to stop in their tracks, "tornadoes!" owen exclaims before turning to judd, "judd you must have some experience with this? what's the protocol" owen asks, "first step is opcon one, we don't get our asses killed so we can save everybody's ass later!" judd explains, "you heard the man let's get inside!" owen instructs, "I don't need telling twice!" ck exclaims as the team rush back into the firehouse.