Five: Peer Pressure.

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The members of the 118 face an awkward rescue call when they arrive on the scene of a man who has over-exerted himself exercising. The team also must save the life of a groundskeeper whose chainsaw cut into him and race to an explosion at a retirement community. Meanwhile, Athena has an extreme reaction to Ashleigh's new behaviour. Then, Ashleigh and Eddie, as well as Buck and Ravi, have rocky starts to their new partnership la, and May receives an emergency call from a suicidal teen, while continuing her uneasy work relationship with Claudette. Athena slaps Ashleigh...

Ashleigh walked downstairs, seeing Buck in the kitchen...

Buck and Ashleigh had managed to speak things through.

"Hey. Thought you were gonna get some sleep."

"I, uh, I forgot my phone." She says.

"Is Chimney still not texting you back?"

"Uh, no, no, he... he did." She mumbled, grabbing her phone and unlocking it.

"That's great. What'd he say?"

"Uh, "Stop texting me, Gilbert." She said.

"Well, that's... progress. I mean, come on, I forgave you, and so will Chimney."

"I haven't heard from Maddie since I told her about Chimney leaving. I guess no one is speaking to me." She tells him.

"That's two people. Not quite everyone."

"No, it's, uh, it's weird at work, too." She says.

"Weird how? Everyone missing Chimney?"

"It's like no one is even talking about him. You know, you're all just avoiding the subject. Avoiding me. Hen is being weird. Eddie is being weird. You're being weird. Everything is just off. You think they blame me for him leaving town?" She asked.

"Come on, Ash, probably not as much as you do."

"Okay, so what... what can I do to make it right?" She asked.

"Nothing. Maybe you want to consider that not everything is about you."

"Yeah." She muttered, signing loudly.

A guy was asleep on the couch, and he woke up hearing his TV playing...

TV: "Do you feel like you're wasting your life? Wasting your potential?"

"No."

TV: "Do you dream about becoming the more perfect you? Meet Narcissus."

He grabbed the remote, shutting the TV off, and then grabbed himself a bowl of cereal.

He walked down dressed and grabbed his mail, seeing a leaflet in the mail for Narcissus, and threw it into the bin.

The next morning, he was asleep on the couch, turning over and leaning onto the remote, switching the TV back on, and the channel for Narcissus came on.

"Oh, shut up."

He switched the TV off, putting the remote on the table.

A few days later, he was walking down the street holding two boxes of takeout pizza...

A car beeped, and he stopped staring up at the billboard for Narcissus.

He saw a taxi driver driving past him, seeing it yet again. He dropped the pizzas.

The next morning, he tied his shoes and got started on the Narcissus exercise at home.

After a while, he held his stomach, and he ran into the bathroom.

He was sitting on the toilet, sliding through his phone, and he went to set it down on the sink, dropping the toilet roll.

"Damn it."

He bent down to pick the tissue up, and his back cracked.

"Oh, no. I can't move."

The 118 pulled up outside the man's house

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The 118 pulled up outside the man's house...

"Okay. Buck, Eddie is with Ash, so you and Ravi grab the forcible entry tools. Hen's off today." Bobby says.

"Follow my lead and try not to step on my toes." Ashleigh muttered, walking towards the house.

"Lucky for you, I'm an excellent dancer." Eddie murmured, following Ashleigh.

"Same goes for you, probie." Buck says.

"LAFD." Bobby said, banging his hand on the door. "We got a call from this address."

"For security reasons, most residential doors open inward, which is why the hinges aren't on the outside, and you can't just saw them off." Buck said.

Ashleigh slowly turned her head, looking at Buck, and she frowned slightly.

"Why don't you do the honours?" Buck asked, muttering lowly and handing Ravi the object.

Ravi put the box down, grabbing the object from Buck, and Bobby stepped back from the foot. Ravi stared back at them, smashing the door open.

"Craig? LAFD here." Bobby said, looking around and finding him in the bathroom.

"Help me."

"Oh." Eddie mumbled.

Ashleigh and Eddie walked into the bathroom, and Buck pulled some wood off the door.

"Uh, nice swing. I have some notes." Buck muttered, barging his shoulder into Ravi, and he walked away from the house.

"All right, sir, we're here." Ashleigh says.

"I can't move."

"Okay, did... did you hurt your head or your neck in any way?" Asked Ashleigh.

"No."

"We're gonna help you sit up so you can breathe a little easier." Ashleigh tells him.

Eddie squeezed past Ashleigh, putting the bag down and going to lift Craig, and Ashleigh stared at him.

"What are you doing?" Ashleigh asked.

"Getting into position to lift the patient." Eddie said.

"On my side?" Ashleigh asked, staring at him.

Eddie lifted his hands, stepping away from her.

"Let's get him upright and relieve the pressure." Ashleigh said, placing her hands on Craig's arms.

As Ashleigh lifted him, Eddie placed a blanket on his lower half.

"I'm just gonna..." Eddie mumbled, flushing the toilet.

"Stabilise your neck." Ashleigh muttered, putting a neck brace around his neck.

"Did I have a stroke or something?"

"Based on the lack of facial drooping, your speech, there's no impairment; I'd rule that out." Ashleigh tells him.

"Then why can't I move?"

"I'm gonna try and figure that out. No sign of trauma. Airways patent." Ashleigh says, placing her fingers on his wrist. "Pulse feels strong."

"BP's 110/70. Oxygen is 93." Eddie tells her.

"I'm gonna lift your arm for you, and then you keep it raised as long as you can after I let go." Ashleigh said, picking up his arm.

Suddenly, his arm flopped down as soon as she let go.

"Oh, God, what's happening to me?"

Ashleigh looked over at Bobby.

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