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VICTORIA SAT IN THE FIRETRUCK AS SHE RESTED HER HEAD BACK AGAINST THE SEAT. It was her first shift back after the earthquake and boy was she excited. She couldn't take another day sitting around her apartment. Especially when the doctor was only keeping her home as a precaution the last few days. But now she was back and she couldn't be more happy. She didn't realize how much she missed the job and the people around her until she physically couldn't do it.
"Glad to be back?" She hears from beside her and Victoria turns her head to see Hen smiling toward her. Victoria laughs as she nods her head, a sigh leaving her lips.
"Oh, yeah. Definitely." Victoria responds to her as she brushes a hand through her hair. "I've been at home for far too long." She admits and Eddie just chuckles as he leans forward, placing one of his hands on her knee.
"Well, now you're back to the action." Eddie tells her and Victoria smiles brightly back at him.
"Hell yeah." She says with a laugh before her eyes move to Buck. He had been silent the whole ride so far and had an unhappy look on his face. Victoria nudges him with her foot and he just glances at her. "You okay?" Victoria asks curiously.
"What?" Buck asks, looking confused for a moment. Victoria gestures toward the window where he had been looking out of.
"Staring off into the distance." She points out. Buck blinks a few times before shaking his head.
"Oh, I'm fine." He replies causing Victoria to furrow her eyebrows. She goes to respond but the firetruck came to a halt and Buck all but rushed out. Victoria followed him out, not knowing what was suddenly wrong with him.
He had been fine the past few weeks, visiting her whenever he could, even more than Athena and Hen. Buck practically couldn't leave her alone and was constantly blowing up her phone and now, he was like a ghost. Ever since she had stepped foot into the station this morning, he was the only one not happy to see her. And he had barely said a word to her but would converse with everyone else just fine.
"Grab a creeper and some blocks." Bobby tells them, cutting through her thoughts, before making his way through the crowd of people. Victoria tries to navigate her way in order to follow behind him.
"She's over here." One of the girls say as she walks over to them before her eyes widen slightly. "Holy crap, you are hot." She tells them with a smirk on her face. Victoria resists the urge to roll her eyes as she continues to move through the crowd.
"Okay, guys. The strippers are here." She announces with a laugh. Victoria shares a glance with Hen.
"That's original." Victoria mumbles and it seemed Hen agreed with her disdain.
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"Excuse me, clear a path! Coming through!" Buck calls out as all of them were blocking the victim. When they got through, they saw a woman with her head in a tail pipe. Victoria raises an eyebrow, she can't say she's seen this one before.
"Hi, what's her name?" Chimney asks curiously as he looks around the group. The guy who was standing next to the truck spoke up.
"Betty."
"Jennifer."
They all look at him confused as they heard the girl correct him. "Sorry, I thought you meant my truck." He tells them. Victoria had to resist the urge to just face palm herself because seriously, one man could not be this stupid.
"Why would we-- you know what? Nevermind." She stops herself, really just wanting to call this guy a complete idiot.
"This is your truck?" Bobby asks him, looking toward the man.
"Yeah, but it's not like I backed into her. She did this out of her own free will." He responds and one of the girls let out a scoff.
"You dared her to." She corrects him and the guy only shrugs.
"We were flirting."
"Your idea of flirting with a girl is daring her to stick her head in your tailpipe?" Eddie asks him, confused and also a bit annoyed by his behaviour.
"Men are such charmers." Victoria responds with a sarcastic smile on her face. Eddie just raises an eyebrow at her, chuckling under his breath.
"Hi, Jennifer. LAFD how are you feeling?" Chimney asks as he leans down beside her.
"Uh, pretty good actually. Except for this whole, you know, ginormous tailpipe on my head."
"Hey Jennifer, you're gonna feel me poking around. We're just checking on you, okay?" Hen tells her as she tries to get a good reading of how the girl was doing physically.
"Why is this tailpipe so large?" Chimney asks curiously.
"It's custom." The man says with a smirk on his face. Victoria looked at him with disgust, mainly because he was bragging and obviously just trying to show off.
"Where'd she get these bruises on her arm?" Bobby asks as he points toward them in an accusatory manner.
"That wasn't me." The man denies but no one seems to believe him.
"It's from the bull, she rode it like five times." The girl tells them as she gestures inside.
"There's no way we're gonna get a collar on her." Chimney says with a sigh as he shakes his head.
"Get me out of this thing." Jennifer pleads to them, not wanting to be stuck forever.
"These things are meant to increase the power to the engine." Buck says as he looks to the owner of the truck who nods his head.
"Yup." His smirk grows more and Victoria seriously just wanted to punch him.
"TSA 230 saw should do the job." Bobby says as he looks at Buck who smiles, laughing a bit.
