Zurich, Switzerland

The short drive out of the residential area they were in and towards the main part of Zurich was pretty uneventful. Angela rested one hand on Hanzo's leg and the other hand held her phone as she checked and responded to some emails. Hanzo had one hand on the wheel and the other hand on top of her's unless he needed to shift gears or make a tight maneuver with both hands on the wheel. He opened the sunroof all the way and let the clean, cool, fresh air enter the car, and it felt amazing. Every now and then, Hanzo looked over at Angela and couldn't help but smile a little to himself. She looked so cute, lost in her phone, doing whatever it was that she was doing. But suddenly, a song came on the radio and her head perked up when she heard it, freezing for a second to make sure it was the song she thought it was. She reached to the volume knob and turned it up a little. Once she confirmed that it was, in fact, 'Nie Vergessen' by Glasperlenspiel, she turned it up really high. That made Hanzo jump a little.

"This is my jam right here, babe!" she said.

She began to bounce around in her seat before singing along with the song.

Ich wollte nie,
dass uns das passiert,
Auf dem Weg zu unser'm Glück
haben wir uns verirrt.
Ein kleines Wort,
wurde zum großen Streit,
das hab ich wirklich nicht mit
gib mir mehr Freiheit gemeint.
Nichts ist so, wie es gestern war.
Ich wäre froh, wärst du jetzt noch da.
So hart bereu' ich diesen einen Tag.

Hanzo bobbed his head softly to the beat. Angela actually had a really good singing voice, surprisingly. If she wanted to, she could totally be a singer.

Werd' dich für immer vermissen.
Ich werd' dich nie vergessen.
Jeden goldenen Tag,
werd' ich für immer vermissen.
Egal was wir getan haben,
was wir gesagt haben,
vergess ich nicht,
Ich vergess dich nicht.

(x2)

She looked over at him and placed her hand on his shoulder when she finished the chorus before the next verse kicked in.

"C'mon, baby! Sing this next part with me!" she said.

Hanzo hadn't even heard the song before. When the next verse kicked in when the man began to sing, Angela sang in a deeper voice as she rocked in her seat.

Ich bin Schuld,
hab vieles falsch gemacht,
vielleicht haben Träumereien
uns zu Fall gebracht.
Und wenn ich schlaf',
Seh ich dich im Traum,
Will wieder aufwachen
Und dir in die Augen schaun.
Will nur dich wieder hier bei mir,
nur bei dir kann ich mich verlier'n,
ich frag mich ob's dich noch interessiert.

She then let his shoulder go and then began to dance around in her seat as the chorus kicked back in again. However, Hanzo noted that there was a crowd gathered around just down the street and he thought he heard someone crying. He then turned the volume all the way down for a moment and rolled the window down.

"Hey! What the…!" Angela protested but was silenced when Hanzo held his hand up.

"Hold on a second. I think there's something going on." he said.

She moved her attention over to where he was looking.

"Wait. Pull over. I think I see someone passed out." she said.

He did as asked and then both got out of the car. They made their way over to the crowd and could see a woman crying over an older man. Angela knew there was something very wrong about this picture and her training began to kick in.

"Rufen sie einen krankenwagen." she told one of the people nearby.

He nodded and pulled out his phone to do as asked. Angela and Hanzo pushed their way past people, to get to the center. Angela reached down and gently placed her hand on the girl's shoulder.

"Kannst du mir sagen was passiert ist?" she said to the girl.

She turned to look at her and shook her head.

"I don't fucking understand you!" the girl exclaimed, her accent giving away that she was from America or Canada.

Angela was taken aback a bit by her snappiness but understood that she was under a lot of duress and let it fly over her.

"I'm sorry. Can you please tell me what happened? I'm a doctor, I'm here to help." Angela told her.

"Thank goodness you're here, doctor! My father, he...! He...!" she said hysterically.

Angela held her hands up to her.

"I understand you're under a lot of stress, but I need you to calm down and tell me, calmly, what happened."

The girl nodded her head, taking a moment to catch herself. While she was taking care of that, Hanzo checked for vital signs on the man. It wasn't looking good. He was unable to get a pulse and the man's face began to turn purple from lack of oxygen. He began to hastily unbutton the man's shirt. Angela hasn't given the word yet, but he already knew what was coming. They had gone over scenarios like this ad nauseum. Meanwhile…

"We were just walking around and then my father he just...he just collapsed! Like, I don't know what happened or why! You have to help him, doctor! Please! I beg you!" the girl cried as she grabbed Angela's shoulders and shook her.

Angela gently removed the girl's hands from her and then held her out at arm's length.

"I can help your father, but I need you to calm down and collect yourself. Can you do that for me?"

The girl shook her head vigorously at that. Hanzo stood up and leaned up to her ear so the girl wouldn't hear what he was about to say.

"He's unresponsive." Hanzo told her.

She kneeled down and checked for a pulse and didn't find one, also noting his skin beginning to discolor. She leaned down and put her ear next to his mouth to listen for breathing but he was silent.

"Get the defibrillator." she responded just as quietly.

Hanzo nodded his head and then left to grab the defibrillator from the car. Running through the crowd, he made his way back over to the car and opened up the boot to grab the defib. Being a doctor, and also sometimes acting as a first responder if nearby, she had a portable defibrillator/monitor unit that she kept in the boot at all times as well as a large duffle bag which contained not only common first aid items like bandages and such but also had more advanced items you'd find in an ambulance like I.V. lines, bags of saline and ringer's lactate, syringes and a vial bag containing various injectables like epinephrine, diazepam and so on. And that was just some of it; in reality, the amount of equipment she had enabled her to treat all but the most severe of emergencies. To date, she had not responded to an emergency she could not treat.

Back at the scene, Angela knelt down and prepared for CPR. She inspected his mouth further to check for obstructions and noticed that he had swallowed his tongue, so she reached in with her pinky finger and hooked his tongue and removed it from his airway and then listened for breath again but still heard nothing. She then positioned herself to begin chest compressions and looked over at the stunned and bawling woman.

"Everything's going to be okay. What's your name?"

"E-E-E-Eric-c-c-caaa." she stuttered between sobs.

"Where are you from?"

"M-M-M-M-Michig-g-g-gan."

"Alright, Erica. Your father's going to be just fine. You two will be flying back to Michigan together, okay?" Angela reassured.

Erica just burst into even more tears. Angela began CPR. Hanzo returned with the big, heavy bag with the defibrillator unit and manual resuscitator inside. Hanzo began to set up the defib while Angela continued to alternate between chest compressions and using the resuscitator to put air into the man's system. Hanzo attached the two self-adhesive pads and then turned the machine on.

"First shock, set to 200 joules." she instructed.

Hanzo complied, setting the machine to deliver a 200J shock. After it finished charging, Angela pulled away from the man.

"Everyone stand clear! Abstand halten!" she said, waving her hand for people to back up more and looking to make sure no one was touching him.

Once it was confirmed that no one was touching him, she nodded her head to Hanzo and he pressed the button to deliver the shock. Afterwards, she looked at the unit to see if his vitals were coming back. Unfortunately, they were not. She then resumed CPR.

"Up the charge by 100."

Hanzo complied, changing the energy level to 300J. The man's daughter watched in horror as this was all going on. Seeing her father twitch like a dead frog when he got shocked didn't help matters for her, either. Angela looked up at her as she continued compressions.

"Your father's going to be okay. He's just having a little trouble right now."

The defib unit then signaled that it was ready to deliver another shock. Angela withdrew from him.

"Clear!"

Hanzo then pressed the button to deliver the shock. She watched the vitals monitor but still nothing. Angela bit her lower lip. This was not a good situation to be in. She looked over at Hanzo, hesitating before nodding her head at him. It was a tough call to make, but...

"Increase to 360 joules." she said.

She then resumed CPR as he made the adjustments. Not only was that the maximum shock capacity, but people very seldom survived after 3 unsuccessful shocks unless a proper hospital was less than a block away. And where they were, there wasn't a hospital close enough; not to mention that he'd technically been clinically dead for the past 5 minutes that she was there and who knows how long he was out before the she arrived. If he didn't wake up after this one, she would have to pronounce him dead. She was also hesitant because given his age, a 360J shock? His heart was about to take one hell of a beating. But it was either that or pronounce him dead and she wasn't about to make that call. Not when they still had one more chance. Angela began praying to every deity she could think of. Even though she was not religious whatsoever, in times like this, she couldn't help it.

'Please, please, don't let this girl go back home alone.'

The defib signaled that it was ready to deliver a charge. Angela sucked in a breath and then let it out.

"Clear!"

Hanzo delivered one final shock. And that's what it took to bring him back as after that shock, his vitals began to light up and his chest began to rise and fall. Angela placed her fingers on his neck to check for a pulse to make sure he actually had one and it wasn't a unit malfunction and luckily, he did. His face even began to flush and looked alive rather than recently-deceased. His eyes fluttered and his pupils began to focus.

"He's coming back. He's getting stronger." Hanzo said.

Angela placed her fingers up to his neck to feel for a pulse and noted that it was there.

"Daddy!" Erica cried.

Angela was quick to jump up and hold her back from smothering him.

"Wait. Don't touch him yet." she told her.

The man began to groan and move around a little. He tried to sit up but Hanzo held him down.

"Just lay down and relax. You're going to be alright." he said to him.

"Uuuugggghhhhh...what...where...what happened...where am I…?" he groaned.

Angela let go of Erica and kneeled down at his side again.

"You had a little bit of an accident, but you're going to be alright." she told him.

"Can you tell me your name?"

"F...Frank…"

"Okay Frank, and can you tell me how many fingers I'm holding up?" she asked as she held up 3 fingers.

"Th...three…"

"Alright, good, and what's one plus one?"

She got no response.

"Frank, can you tell me what one plus one is?" she asked again as she looked at the life signs monitor on the defib unit.

"Frank, can you...?"

"Two…"

"Good. You just relax now, okay? You're going to be just fine." she told him.

She then scooted towards his legs.

"Alright, get him onto his side." she told Hanzo.

The two pushed him onto his side on a one-two count and then moved his limbs so he was in the recovery position. Angela looked over to Erica and then motioned her to come over. She wasted no time complying.

"Alright, you can be with him now. He's going to be okay." she told her.

"Thank you, doctor! Thank you!" she cried.

She kneeled down to her father's level and began to sob and cry to him. Angela let out a breath as she stood up. Hanzo followed suit and stood next to her, pulling her into him.

"Good job, sweetheart."

Angela didn't reply, she just let out a long, exasperated sigh and held onto him and buried her face into his chest. They held each other for about another minute before they heard the ambulance making its way towards them. He then let go of her as she turned to face the ambulance and wave them down. The paramedics came out with the stretcher and Angela took a moment to fill them in on the situation. They thanked her for her service and then moved to get Frank onto the stretcher. She disconnected the pads from her defib unit so that they could plug it into theirs. She grabbed her defib and then the two made their way back to the car, letting the paramedics take over. She stuffed the defib back into the boot and then got into the car, letting out another long breath as she leaned back into her chair. Hanzo got into the driver's side and then looked over at her when he closed the door. He placed his hand on her thigh.

"You alright?" he asked.

"I'm fine. I'm just...a little exhausted. I just need to take a breather for a moment." she told him.

"Alright, that's fine. Take your time."

Hanzo retracted his hand and then started the car back up and they were off to the airport.

"Are we going to be late?" she asked.

"Yeah."

"Scheisse…"