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from their hands.
     
                  Kaylee tore her eyes from Bill's lifeless chest, sought out that innocent looking fence. She let out an involuntary scream. There was a man, his gait steady and sure, crossing the meadow and headed towards them. The sun was not sunk behind the field yet, but it was getting closer, and it silhouetted him so that Kaylee could only make out that he was tall and lanky and nothing more. Jack and her father followed her line of sight and pulled their rifles from their shoulders, positioning themselves behind two pines.
     
                  "Clear!" Anna called out in a strong voice and Kaylee looked down to watch Emma and Quinton's hands fly from Bill. There were two white pads stuck to his chest and after Anna pressed a button labeled "shock" his body rose off the ground for a second before falling back.
     
                  Kaylee felt grief choke her. It was surreal and terrible, to be standing here, immobilized, as Andrew's father, a man she had known since birth, lay still and quite possibly dead.
     
                  What would she do? What would Andrew do? Bill couldn't leave his son alone. He couldn't.
     
                  "Resume CPR," Anna spoke, watching the tiny machine attached to the white pads. Quinton got in tripod position, the heel of his hands on Bill's chest. He counted softly while Emma watched. When Quinton told her to, she compressed a blue rubbery looking bag that was attached to a mouth piece that she had sealed over Bill's face. His chest rose each time Emma squeezed the blue bag.
     
                  Anna was ripping vials out of her bag. She settled a few on the forest floor in front of her and drew out a syringe. Kaylee watched as she plunged the long metal needle into a vial, extracting the medicine when she pulled back on the plunger. She thrust it at Kaylee. "Hold this, don't touch the tip."
     
                  The plastic felt foreign in her hand, clean and smooth. She held it gingerly, her eyes locked on prone man on the forest floor.
     
                  Anna was telling Quinton to move, setting a small piece of plastic in Bill's arm. Blood leaked from the tip before Anna could secure a short piece of tubing to the plastic nub and Kaylee saw red.
     
                  "Kay!"
     
                  Anna had her hand out and Kaylee placed the syringe in her waiting fingers. Anna shot the medicine into the small, plastic port at the end of the tubing followed by another vial of liquid. "Clear," she murmured again, stopping Quinton and Emma and hitting buttons on the defibrillator again.
     
                  "You have about two minutes before we have company," Jack warned. He and Nick had their rifles pressed to their shoulders and were leaning around the trees, the still advancing lanky stranger firm in their sights.
     
                  Bill jolted from the ground again as Anna shocked him and the world seemed to go into slow motion as Anna leaned over to check his pulse.
     
                  Please, please, please...
     
                  Kaylee pleaded weakly. Hoping.
                 
                  "It's weak," Anna finally said, "but he has a pulse."
     
                  Kaylee clutched her fingers over her mouth as she sobbed aloud in relief. Andrew wilted at his father's head, whispering "Dad" over and over. She went to move towards him, but her sister beat her to it. Emma reached over and gripped his hand. Andrew's knuckles went white with how hard he gripped her fingers in return.
     
                  "I need to get him somewhere safe," Anna said, not moving to disconnect him from any of the tubing or the defibrillator. "He needs to be watched."
     
                  "This guy's almost on us," Jack said, not taking his eyes from the