Always Forever | Eddie Diaz

Chapter Seventy Eight

S4Ep6-Jinx

Chapter Seventy Eight
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"JINXED?" Eddie questioned the team at their idea that their entire shift was going to be all over the place and never ending, "you guys sound like my abuela's neighbor's curandera."

"You say I jinx things all the time," Eve pointed out to her husband who she was sat across from.

"As a joke," Eddie answered, thinking their freak out was absurd.

"Wait," Buck spoke, moving back go the topic of the neighbor, "does she know to reverse it? Cause if not, we're about to experience the shift from hell."

"Nonstop calls all day long," Chimney added, practically glaring at Eddie who was merely amused.

"Stupid calls," Hen stated.

"Probably tempted fate," Chimney sighed, "now the EMS gods are gonna make us pay."

"Come on," Eddie spoke, "you guys don't really believe that."

Hen chuckled, "so Buck never told you about the last time somebody used that word?"

"The gods took it out of context," Buck explained.

"When Buck was newer to the station," Eve started the story, glaring at her brother as she remembered the shift she had to go through because of him, "he mentioned that the dishwasher wasn't noisy and immediately the bells went off."

"36 calls," Hen stated.

"36?" Eddie questioned,not quite believing the tale,"in one shift?"

"Yeah," Bobby said from the front passenger seat, "it was a house record."

"It was 37," Buck corrected.

"That one doesn't count," Chimney told the man.

"That wasn't even a call," Eve agreed.

"Divine retribution," Hen spoke as the older members of the 118 remembered Buck triggering the fire suppressor system and getting stuck in a room that filled up with lots of foam.

"Well,"Eddie muttered looking out the engine window, "I think you guys are giving the EMS gods a little too much credit."

"And I think you're giving them too little," Eve retorted, "you are going to make our day worse if you don't shush."

The first chaotic call of the shift from hell was what originally seemed like a fender bender but when the team looked up a little further that got the view of a man, who decided taping himself to a billboard he bought, naked.

"See?" Eddie began once everyone was out of the engine while gesturing towards the car accident, "fender bender. Not crazy."

"Uh-huh?" Bobby hummed before he pointed to the taped man screaming from his billboard, "look up."

"Izzy Chainz, everyone!" The man yelled from the middle of a web painted in the billboard, "greatest rapper alive! Download my album okay?"

"Buck," Bobby spoke as he began walking away from Eddie.

"Yep, prepping the ladder," Buck responded knowing the order he was going to be given.