on fire | robby & auggie
Robby had gotten a lot of fairly ridiculous calls in his day. Paramedics often got the brunt of a lot of the work that didn’t fall on the cops or the doctors and on-field work usually ranged from deadly and serious to completely batshit crazy. He thought he had seen crazy. There was a lady who used to call in daily because she was afraid that her cat was out to get her. There was a guy who had been so drunk that he had called 911 because he thought someone had stole all of his shit, but it turned out he was just in the wrong fucking house. Someone had actually called for help for getting lost in a corn maze. But something had changed in the last year, and Robby could pinpoint the change exactly; the Paynes moved to town. Well, one in particular did. The oldest one was usually never around, the girls made fairly passive comments that ranged from ridiculous to endearing, but the oddest, by miles, was Auggie. Robby shed off his suspenders for the day (??? idk what firemen do oops) and grabbed his stuff out of his locker, intent on setting out for a drink at the endo of a ten hour shift, but he passed the office on his way out where he heard the station’s receptionist sighing at someone on the other end of the phone. “Cats in trees are very serious and we do take all of our calls seriously, I can assure you Mr. Payne, but you call almost everyday and our squad can get very busy...” Robby should have just walked out... He stopped in the doorway and waved at Marie on the line with who he could only assume was Auggie. “I got it, Marie -- tell him I’ll be there shortly.” Heart of fucking gold or a possible death wish -- Robby wasn’t quite sure what he would call himself, especially after finding himself parked outside the Payne residence twenty minutes later. Auggie was still under that damn tree, throwing sticks at Ella’s ugly naked mole rat as it mewed in their oak tree. Robby sighed and got out of the car. “You know, I don’t think Ella should be letting a cat like that outside... And I’ve seen you climb this tree before,” he pointed out, walking up to Auggie with a smirk. “Couldn’t climb up and get him down?”












