Friday afternoon at Black wall Fire station was hectic; the night before their had been a flood due to the bathroom flooding in the night thanks to Rambo leaving the sink running. Both he and Vaseline were mopping the kitchen while Bayleaf and Josie cleaned up the fire truck area. Ethnic and Charisma were standing in the doorway awaiting orders from Hallam when Vaseline called out;

"That's right you leave us to it. Don't move a mussle. "

"Hey Vaseline who was that bloke you were speaking too last night?! " Ethnic called back, Vaseline stopped mopping.

"Mind your business its nothing to do with you! "

"What bloke is this Vaseline? " Bayleaf said as he came into the kitchen to cook the dinner. Vaseline gave Ethnic the death stare,

"Nobody Bayleaf, see what you've done Dairybox! "

"I was only asking you looked pissed off at him and he was drunk! "

"I said shut up I don't want to talk about it! "

"Alright alright I'll say no more. "

Bayleaf popped his head through the window and shouted,

"If you two carry on arguing you won't get any dinner now shut up! "

There was silence; today it was chicken stew, everyone's favourite. Josie came in and wiped her forehead and sat down, Rambo continued mopping up whistling "Take on me" just as Hallam came in with a folder.

"Right you lot gather round. "

Charisma and Ethnic sat at the table while Bayleaf popped his head through the window.

"Now then, Tate has decided that we all need a refresher course in fire prevention and fire safety. So next Wednesday till Friday we will be doing the refresher. "

"But we don't need a refresher! Why does Tate want us to refresh?! " moaned Rambo.

"No arguments, we need a refresher just to bring us up to date with everything that's all."

"Does Tate have any faith in us? " Charisma asked as Bayleaf began dishing up the stew onto the plates.

"You know that he thinks alot of you all."

"Enough. Let's eat. I'm starving, I don't know about you lot. " Bayleaf called out as he handed out the plates and the loaf of bread. Everyone started eating their dinner and chatting amongst themselves when Hallam realized that Sicknote was not there.

"Does anyone know where Sicknote is? "

"He's at the doctors sir, his back is playing up again. " said Vaseline. Hallam rolled his eyes and muttered,

"God he's such an hypochondriac its unbelievable. "

The squad ate their dinner in silence knowing that Sicknote could be in for it when he arrived as this was the third unauthorized absence this month.

Vaseline stood back and admired the work he had done, he was proud of himself and hoped that Patricia would agree. Their previous encounter seemed to be forgotten and that suited him to the ground. He knew that she had other men share her bed. He sat on the step and began to smoke. He wasn't proud of the fact that he had a reputation as being the womaniser of blue watch, he had quite a few relationships in the past not to mention two marriages and he was only twenty five. The running gag was the fact that they had the same name which was mere coincidence, he wanted to forget about them, it was a time in his life he would never get back.

"You have done a fantastic job! " Patricia called out as she came into the garden. Vaseline smiled proudly then asked seriously,

"I'm sorry to ask but when will I receive payment? "

"As soon as possible, my husband will give you the rest, he will also give you extra, he's quite impressed with you. He says he will call on you again. "

"Thank you. I have to go now, my mum is coming out of hospital today. "

He rushed out as quickly as possible and made his way home.

Ethnic and his band were having a practice when a group of men came in, the housing estate where ethnic lived was rough and those who lived on there looked down on anyone who worked in authority. Ethnic knew that this gang were known drug smugglers, he had seen on the local police stations twitter page that they had already been interrogated but were released due to lack of evidence. He knew that they were suspicious of him due to a police officer searching him a few days earlier.

"You alright Andreas? " one member asked, Ethinic nodded,

"You alright mate, how you been? "

"Well we could be better but there is a problem. We may have a grass on our hands. You don't know anything do you? "

"No nothing. I told you before, I sweep up for a living. I've got no reason to grass you up."

Another gang member was admiring the equipment and was clearly off his head, the leader of the gang walked up to Ethnic,

"Just as well cause we don't like a grass do we? "

"I have just told you, I don't grass on people. If you don't mind I'm practicing for an event that's coming up. "

The gang gave him a deathly stare before they walked out together , Ethnic breathed a sigh of relief but he knew he wasn't out of the woods.

Monday morning came and blue watch were going to a local primary school, the school itself brought back memories for Bayleaf as his daughter attended the school, he had vivid memories of going to the meetings, seeing her sing in the school play and collecting her at the gates. As he watched the children sing "Londons burning" he wished that he could see Melanie sing in the crowd.

Ethnic watched the children sing and he smiled, he remembered attending the school as a child and experiencing equality that he had not seen in a long time. He had been thankful to not have received prejudice for the colour of his skin but this was all experienced at secondary school. Thankfully he had the privilege of being able to stand up for himself, it hadn't stopped Desdemona from panicking.

As the watch left to return to the station, they were unaware that someone was watching them.