Twelve: Fear-O-Phobia. Part Two.

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An officer met the 118 at the door, walking backwards, staring at the firefighters...

"It's, uh... he's, uh... it's probably best just seeing it for yourselves."

Bobby held a flashlight, and Ashleigh entered the bedroom, standing beside the officer.

"Uh, he's in there, isn't he?" Ashleigh asked, staring at the bed.

"Yeah, he's in there."

"You trying to set the mood, Vargas?" Asked Bobby.

"Oh, wow." Ashleigh mumbled, staring at Lucy.

"He was like that when we found him. Didn't want to touch him till you guys got here."

"That's a lot of webbery." Lucy says.

"Yeah, you don't say, Lucy." Ashleigh murmured, laughing lightly. "Oh, my God, Jonah, give me that."

Ashleigh snatched the machine from Jonah, placing it over the body.

"I am getting a reading. He's still alive under there." Ashleigh says, looking back at Bobby.

"Ash." Bobby said.

"Okay, we need to... we need to cut him out of there to... to assess and treat him." Ashleigh said, grabbing some scissors and cutting the web.

"Lucy, stand by with that CO2 extinguisher. It should knock out whatever cold-blooded creatures might've spun these webs." Bobby says.

Suddenly Ashleigh gasped, backing away from the web as spiders came rushing out of the cut Ashleigh made in the web.

"Lucy!" Ashleigh shouted, screaming loudly.

Lucy sprayed the body with the CO2 extinguisher over the web.

"Okay, I think you guys have got this." Bobby muttered.

"Cap? Bob!" Ashleigh shouted, staring at Bobby's back. "Let's get a gurney in here!"

"Did Cap just run away?"

 "Let's get a gurney in here!" "Did Cap just run away?"

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"More like a fast walk." Ashleigh muttered, staring at Lucy.

"Get ready to transfer." Said Jonah.

Ashleigh had managed to cut Perry free from the web.

"One, two, three." Jonah says.

Ashleigh and Jonah grunted, putting Perry onto a gurney.

"Breathing's shallow; pulse is barely there." Ashleigh murmured.

"Didn't think tarantulas were that poisonous." Jonah said.

"This many bites add up. And they're also known to make webs to store their prey. I think our guy here was on the menu." Ashleigh tells them.

"Seriously, what's your IQ?" Asked Lucy.

"Prepping a steroid injection." Jonah muttered.

Ashleigh was the first to exit Oren's house holding a bag of Perry's clothes.

"I'm just gonna leave the patient's clothes right there for animal control." Ashleigh muttered, walking over to Bobby.

"Well, dispatch said the homeowner explicitly forbade them from entering the home until he got back from vacation. But he is happy we found some of his missing pets." Bobby tells Ashleigh.

"And is that what you were doing out here, Cap? Talking to dispatch? Nothing to do with a little undiagnosed arachnophobia?"

 "And is that what you were doing out here, Cap? Talking to dispatch? Nothing to do with a little undiagnosed arachnophobia?"

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