When you know, you know

Later, none of the team would remember what the call was even about. What they would remember however was how Buck, in a (possibly misguided) attempt to distract the young and visibly uncomfortable sex worker they were rescuing, blurted out: "Did you know that one of the most popular songs in Germany in the 80s was a song about a prostitute?"

Bobby might have scolded the young firefighter for the tactless approach, had it not worked or had the woman shown some other emotion than just pure confusion. "It was?" He motioned their colleagues to keep working.

Buck continued explaining. "Well, you see, the phone wasn't as well-established then as it is now and this prostitute they are singing about, she was the only one that had a number you could call."
"And they made a song about that?"
"A really popular song, it seems", Buck shrugged.

Hen and Chimney slid her into the back of the truck, the rest of the team following suit shortly after.

"How does he even know that?", Bobby asked when he passed Eddie.

The other man laughed. "Buck helped Christopher with a school project last week. They are talking about different musical decades in class and Christopher got the 80s. Don't ask me how they ended up at European hit charts though."
Bobby shook his head and followed his team into the truck.

---

On Friday, the team was deployed to help out on standby duty at a climate strike. So far, not much has happened to demand their attention, leading them to be able to observe the protesting teens.

"Do you think they are successful?", Chimney asked Hen curiously.

"Hard to say", the woman replied, "They are definitely getting the attention they want, that is for sure. I don't know enough about it though. Denny is still too young to have an interest in it." She shrugged.

"Chris has also yet to voice an interest", Eddie chimed in, "how long do you think we still have until they start to lecture us on politics?" Hen laughed about it.

"I think they might be successful", Buck voiced, "considering renewable energy sources already make up a third of the energy produced on earth, there is a good chance that with a push from these kids these numbers will increase."

"A third?", Chim pondered, "I would have thought it'd be less. Good for the planet though."
"Yeah, I thought so too", Buck agreed with a smile.

Expectedly, they did get some work to do, meaning right now, causing the paramedics to rush to help while Buck and Eddie stayed behind until they were needed.

"Did you learn that when researching with Christopher for that science project of his?", Eddie asked the other man teasingly, bumping their shoulders softly.

"Maybe." A cheeky grin accompanied Buck's reply. Eddie shook his head fondly.

---

"A cat? In a tree?", Eddie asked, "could it be more cliche?"

Buck only laughed and readied himself to climb the ladder.

Bobby approached the younger man to supervise the ordeal. "If he wasn't so excited, I'm sure he'd tell you that the more cats get stuck in trees that we have to rescue, the more we get to cuddle with cute cats. Which", he bobbed his head as if to think, all the while looking fondly up at the man reaching for the animal, "is not entirely untrue if you count holding a cat already as cuddling."

"He'll probably make the most of it on his way down", Eddie jokingly replied the captain.
Both men followed Buck with their eyes as he was descending, the cat clutched tight and, in fact, keeping it as close to cuddling as the descent allowed.