Five: Peer Pressure. Part Two.

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The next morning in the firehouse, Ashleigh was sitting on the couch reading a book...

"Probie! Probie!" Buck shouted.

Ashleigh looked away from her book, frowning softly and hearing Buck shout.

"Ash, have you seen the probie?" Asked Buck.

"So this is what it's come to? He gets a little queasy at a scene, and now it's off with his head?" Ashleigh asked, nodding to the chainsaw.

 "So this is what it's come to? He gets a little queasy at a scene, and now it's off with his head?" Ashleigh asked, nodding to the chainsaw

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"No, I just want to show him how to disassemble one of these." Buck tells her.

"Ah." Ashleigh says.

"Well, if you see him, let him know I'm looking for him." Buck said.

"Mm." Ashleigh mumbled, nodding her head.

"Probie!" Buck shouted, running down the stairs.

Ashleigh put the book down and walked downstairs, opening the door to Bobby's office.

She popped her head in, flipping the lights on.

"Anybody home?" She asked, flipping the lights off and staring at the desk.

She stepped inside.

"Okay." She muttered, closing the door, and found Ravi standing up from under the desk.

"Oh. Hey."

She chuckled.

"Thought I might find you hiding in here." She tells him.

"Hiding? No. Not at all. I finished everyone on your boy... Buck's checklist."

"Mm-hmm." She mumbled, nodding her head slowly.

"So I, you know, started thinking maybe I could earn some extra credit. So I, uh, came in here and, oh, tightened the screws on Cap's old deck chair."

"Mm." She whispered, walking over to the table.

The chair rattled, and he signed.

"Okay, fine. I was hiding from Buck. I needed a break. Please don't tell him I'm in here."

"Don't worry. I'll protect you from Buck and his chainsaw." She said.

"There's a chainsaw?"

"Oh, I think he would call it a teaching tool." She says.

"It's just... in the beginning, he seemed so nice. And now... he's like a drill sergeant from hell."

"Look, Buck's going through a lot right now, and I'm to blame for that. Personal issues." She said.

"So now he's hyper-focused on protecting his family

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"So now he's hyper-focused on protecting his family. The 118. He's teaching you to make sure that you're ready. But, because he's Buck, he also wants to make sure that you're worthy." She tells him.

"Do you think I am? I mean, you're a firefighter and a paramedic... that's a pretty big accomplishment."

"Thanks. And I do. I know Buck; trust me. Don't let him get into your head. If he pushes too far, push back." She muttered, smiling at him.

At Shady Crest, a doctor was putting their pills in front of the old patients...

They were talking, and another worker grabbed the empty cups.

"Lewis, can you, um, check out the basement? People have been complaining about a foul odour coming from down there." Said Beverly.

"I didn't even know we had a basement. Did you, Felix?"

Felix stood up, walking towards the stairs to the basement.

"Oh, careful, Felix. That's a lot of steps. Lewis, go with him, please." Beverly said.

Lewis and Felix reached the basement, and Lewis grabbed his keys.

Felix opened the doors to the chapel and walked inside, stopping.

"Ah, hell. I got this, kid." Felix tells him.

Lewis reached up, switching on the lights, and a spark flew down, hitting the boxes, causing an explosion.

People above the basement yelled, falling off their chairs.

"Felix, what did you do?"

The 118 arrived at the building...

"All right, folks, dispatch said the fire started with an explosion inside the chapel, basement level, bravo side of the building." Said Bobby.

"Chapel? Someone piss off the big guy?" Asked Ashleigh.

"No point of origin. Buck, Ravi, you guys are in the lead. Run a fire hose through the front door and start knocking it down." Bobby says.

Bobby, Ashleigh, and Eddie walked away, and Ravi grabbed a hose.

"Probie, wrong hose. Inch and three quarter." Buck said.

"I'm Beverly. I'm the manager." Beverly says.

"How many unaccounted for?" Bobby asked.

"We're confirming, but as far as I can tell, two. Lewis is one of my orderlies, and Lewis is one of the tenants." Beverley tells them.

"How old is Felix?" Ashleigh asked.

"I want to say 79. He was not supposed to be down there, but he insisted." Beverly said.

"Insisted? Why?" Bobby asked.

"I wish I knew." Said Beverley.

"We'll get them both out of there. Don't you worry." Bobby tells her.

The firefighters made their way down to the basement...

Buck: "Cap, we got a live one over here."

Lewis was lying on the floor, coughing, under a door.

Bobby: "Copy that."

"You must be Lewis." Bobby said.

Buck: "Probie, stay with me! Nozzles on now!"

Buck and Ravi began spraying the fire.

Eddie: "Cap, let's get the door."

"All right, on three, Eddie. One, two, three." Bobby said.

Eddie and Bobby lifted the door from Lewis, and Lewis began groaning.

Ashleigh: "I got this!"

Eddie: "Are you sure?"

Ashleigh: "Yes. Just get me an assist; go find Felix."

"Easy, Lewis. Best if we let the surgeons at the hospital take that out." Ashleigh tells him.

"Cap!" Eddie shouted, finding Felix on the floor.

"Hey, Felix, is that you? Can you hear me?" Asked Bobby.

Felix coughed.

"Let me get this on you, and then we're gonna move this pew and her some morphine in you." Said Eddie.

Bobby and Eddie lifted the object, pinning Felix down.

"You're doing great. You're doing great, Lewis. You're doing great." Ashleigh tells him.

Suddenly, Lewis pulled the wooden piece from his body, and Ashleigh shouted.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Ashleigh shouted, putting her hands on the wound. "Oh! No, no! Now, uh, not doing so great. It's all right. We're all right."

Ashleigh reached behind her, grabbing a bandage.

"I need you to hold pressure." Ashleigh said, putting the bandage against the wound and staring at the other firefighter.

Buck: "That fire is spreading again. More water, Probie! What the hell?!"

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