"What is going on here?" Zed said as the doctor and Kay came into his office, both looking extremely upset. Suddenly he had a horrible thought. "Elle isn't..."
"She's lost her mind!" The doctor cried.
"What's going on?" Zed asked again. At least it didn't seem like Elle was dead yet.
"There's a treatment that might save her. Elle wants it but the doctor won't agree," Kay explained.
"It's too risky. She would never survive the procedure. Why put her through that?"
"She's dying. Doesn't she deserve a chance?"
"What's going on? What is this treatment?" Zed asked as he glared at the two men.
"An exchange blood transfusion. It would involve draining all of her blood and replacing it with clean blood. It would cure the poisoning but her heart would have to be stopped while we worked on her and in her condition, we most likely couldn't bring her back again. There's no way that I could agree to a treatment like that. We would be murdering her."
"She's dying anyway!" Kay shouted. "Do you have any other options to save her?"
"That's what I want to know," Zed asked before the doctor could start yelling at Kay. "Is there anything else that could be done? Anything that wouldn't be as risky?"
"No," the doctor said. "but I still can't agree with attempting this. The odds that she could be revived after her heart was stopped are a million to one and even if she was she would suffer severe brain damage. Why put her through that? The humane thing to do would be to give her sedatives and painkillers and allow her to die with some dignity."
"Elle doesn't want to die. She deserves a chance to live no matter how risky," Kay said. "Zed, come and talk to her. Give her a chance."