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"This Life We Choose"
Season 2, Episode 18

"All right, everyone, as close and as tight to the truck as you can be." Buck shouted as he and the rest of the team guided students and teachers to the firetrucks.

"Teacher spotted it out there after recess." Athena told them. "Nobody claimed it."

"Yeah, but it's not a package." Buck said. "I thought this guy sent his bombs through the mail."

"Maybe he changed his M.O." Chim suggested.

"Or inspired some other crazy." Athena said as a man from bomb squad made his way over to the backpack on the ground.

"All units be advised." a man shouted over the radio, the team immediately went to make sure the kids and teachers were tucked in behind the firetrucks. "Fire in the hole! On my mark."

"Three. Two. One."

Looking over at where the backpack used to be, there was some type of gray paste on the trees nearby.

"It's tuna fish." a tiny voice said behind Rylin.

"Emily." a teacher said. "Was that your lunch?"

"Yes."

"Why didn't you say something?" Athena asked.

"I don't like tuna fish." the girl said. "Am I under arrest?"

"These false alarms are almost more nerve-racking than the real thing." Chim said.

"Don't even think that." Hen said.

"Maybe the whole thing is a false alarm." Buck said. "Maybe it's over."

"I hope so." Rylin said, stepping inside the truck.

"Help." a woman on the floor said as the team entered the room. "Over here. My arm."

"I can feel it, but I can't move it. Like, it really hurts my shoulder." she said as Chim and Hen checked her out. Buck, Eddie and Rylin put the furniture that had been tipped over, back into place.

"Uh, distpatch said something about an animal?" Chim questioned.

"Yeah, it, uhm, came out of my face."

Rylin and Buck looked at each other with the same confused expression on their faces. "What are we looking for, exactly?" Eddie asked.

"It was like a little worm. Or like a grub, maybe."

"Like a maggot?" Hen asked.

"Oh, don't say maggot."

"Maggot." Buck said happily. Rylin looked over and saw he found the maggot. She scrunched her nose in disgust before grabbing tweezers and handing them to him.

"You been out of the country lately?" Hen asked.

"Uh, yeah, I actually do a lot of traveling for work."