The orange and white ambulance screamed past the small cafe, one in which Adrien preferred to drink his coffee from. It was just down the street from his fifth floor apartment. The twenty-three year old Emergency Medical Technician sat in the passenger seat as the more experienced, Thornton Osgood negotiated the busy street. Thornton was a ruddy man who quite possibly ate five too many donuts. His fat ass hung off both sides of the driver's seat, his belly pushing into the steering wheel. A receding hairline, strewn with grays bemoaned a man of forty, but he was only thirty-one. Sometimes hard living comes along simply by letting oneself go. In Adrien's opinion, Thornton never had it. The younger dark haired EMT believed, one of these days, he would be carting Thornton off to the hospital, assuming they survived the motor vehicle collision.<br/><br/>But that would not be the case today.<br/><br/>While looking out the window, Adrien spotted Rain, the young girl he met at<span style="font-style: italic">Paws and Hearts animal center</span>. He enjoyed Rain's compassion towards animals. It was an admirable trait. She appeared to have just stumbled into someone. Adrien quickly glanced backward as the ambulance raced on. 'Was that?' he thought to himself, then he righted his head focusing forward. 'Nah, couldn't be.' Adrien dismissed the notion that the young man Rain bumped into was Charlie Quinn.<br/><br/>He liked Charlie, even though he beat him at cards every time they played. Adrien resolved never to gamble with Charlie again. Even though he won every hand and took him for everything he had, there was something about Charlie's personality that impressed Adrien. He considered Mister Quinn as someone in this world, he could trust.<br/><br/>The ambulance pulled up in front of the apartment building, now surrounded by fire apparatus and police cars. Thornton and Adrien stepped from the ambulance. Adrien retrieved the first aid kit and the two EMTs were ushered to the second floor of the apartment building to begin a resuscitation on a victim of what appeared to have been a bombing.