AN: This fic contains major pairing support and maybe some OOC, so BEWARE.

Disclaimer: I don't own Trauma Center…*runs off to find out if Atlus holds any stocks*.

Chapter One

How the Madness Began

It was a stereotypical sweltering summer day, also known as the time when the adults stay at work sweating most of the sodium out of their bodies while the kids out of school get to get fat, lazy, and staying cool while doing so.

One would think that a top-notch hospital such as say, Caduceus, would provide air conditioning to its employees. Contrary to that belief, cold air was a patient-only privilege. The building's director was very picky about "unnecessary" luxuries.

Down in the east wing of the hospital, Derek Stiles collapsed on the floor. Angie Thompson, passing by, witnessed this and pulled the surgeon up by the ear.

"Ow, Ang! Why did you do that!?"

"Derek, although it's hot out, you do not have heat stroke, so stop pretend to." The blond nurse let go of her partner's hearing implement.

Rubbing on the sore body part, Derek fell into a nearby chair. "I wish I did! That way I could go lay in an air-conditioned room instead of staying inside this desert-in-a-hallway."

Finding nothing to object to that theory, Angie sighed. "Alright. But there's an op in seventy-five minutes, so don't get sick until then."

"Don't worry Ang, I'll be on time."

Eighty-five minutes later…

"Honesty, one would think that a world-renowned doctor would be on time for his scheduled operations…" Angie commented, watching Derek barge into the OR.

It took a few seconds for him to catch his breath before replying, "Sorry Ang, but I was sitting in a patient's room and completely lost track of time! I mean, it was so air conditioned…"

His nurse just sighed. "Whatever. Just pay attention to the operation."

Derek readjusted his glasses before standing straight up. "Okay, so what's the operation's objective?"

"The patient, Joe Average, has appendicitis," Angie reported, scanning the charts in front of her. "It hasn't progressed too far, however it's still too late to treat it with antibiotics."

"So we tie, sever, drain, and then remove the appendix, correct?"

"Correct."

He pushed the glasses up his nose, ready to go to business. "Alright, let's begin the operation-"

That's when the AC decided to shut off.

Angie looked up at the piece of machinery, which had stopped blasting out cool air. "What happened?"

The PA system fizzed to life, as if it had heard her question. "Attention all Caduceus doctors, attention all Caduceus doctors. The AC for all of the ORs has experienced some technical difficulties. All scheduled operations today are cancelled. I repeat, all scheduled operations are cancelled. Thank you and have a nice day." Then the speaker person hung up.

Derek and Angie looked at each other, the EKG being the only thing that made a sound. "Well that was unexpected…" Derek glanced at the patient.

"…what are we supposed to do with the patient?"

Derek wiped some of the sweat off his brow using his arm. "So…what do we do?"

That was the question, to do or not to do. The two were sitting in their office with nothing to do but paperwork. Problem is that Derek would rather brush his teeth with nails and lose his Healing Touch than do paperwork (or maybe just the nail-tooth treatment.).

Although Angie would love to force her partner into filling some of the mounds of files on his desk, even she was too hot to write anything. "We could go get ice cream…" she suggested, always willing to get a nice orange cream cone.

"Hm…nah. First, we would have to go outside. Second, Director Kasal would kill us if we sneaked out of Caduceus."

"We could get ice cubes from the cafeteria."

"But we'd have to WALK all the way to the cafeteria!"

"I'm pretty sure you're not that lazy."

"Heat makes me sluggish."

"What about coffee? Will that make you move?"

"Coffee's hot, and it doesn't taste good cold!"

"You're hard to please, you know that."

"You are too…"

Right after that statement was spoken, they both noticed a person lurking behind their office door, who immediately retreated as soon as it felt their eyes.

Derek grinned. "I wonder who that is?"

"I have no idea," Angie replied with a similar smile. "Now, where were we…"

At that moment, Tyler burst into the office and held up a water gun, action-hero style. "Freeze Stiles!" he shouted, also action-hero style.

Luckily, Sidney came walking by. "Dr. Chase, if you don't want to be fired, put that water gun down," he said casually, and then left. The said doctor did as ordered reluctantly.

"So what brings you to our neck of the woods Tyler?" Derek asked, swiveling his chair around.

"Well, I was staying in one of my patient's rooms until Sid kicked me out, so I thought I could help some people cool down!" the blondie replied, inching his hand towards the water gun.

"And who did you already service?" Angie questioned while simultaneously giving him the don't-touch-that-unless-you-want-to-be-flipped-into-the-nearest-garabage-can look.

Tyler seemed to get the message and withdrew his hand. "Victor, Leslie, and Cybil," he announced. "They all got pretty steamed though. Man, I thought I would be a goner back there!"

Flipping through his schedule book in boredom, Derek noticed something written there. "Hey, do you two want to go up with me and go to R&D to help Victor out with something? That entire wing is air conditioned…" he asked while ignoring the glare from Angie which seemed to growl, "You can walk up a flight of stairs and halfway across the building but you can't go downstairs to get a few ice cubes?"

His best friend jumped up. "Sure would! Let's go!"

Then the speaker buzzed and announced, "Attention all Caduceus staff, attention all Caduceus staff. The central air-conditioning system has broken down, so all air conditioners have stopped functioning. Because all air conditioners in stores have been stolen from every store in the area and repair technicians have also been mysteriously kidnapped, all patients will be transferred to another hospital and Caduceus will be closed for the remainder of the week, starting now. I repeat, all patients will be transferred to another hospital and Caduceus will be closed for the remainder of the week, starting now. Thank you and have a nice vacation."

After the click that said the announcement was over, the entire hospital was silent. Then a large wave of cheering rolled through the facility like an audience doing the wave and a steady stream of doctors ran out of the hospital, throwing caps and coats into the air. Pretty soon the building was completely deserted excluding Derek and the gang. (Oh, and Victor.)

"A vacation for five days, hm?" Derek leaned back in his chair.

"How about a group trip to the beach?"

One chapter down, who knows how many to go!

This is for TCGeek 'cause I said I would do a DerekxAngie fic, and I got this idea. (Don't worry, it'll have DxA later on)

And orange cream ice cream FTW!