You have a good start to your fic, although I must admit that I’m having a hard time seeing Dr. Vogel become Medic (I’m assuming he’s the future Medic, since he’s German and a doctor, but I don’t think you state explicitly if this is your intention – an idea of which pairing(s) to expect would also be nice). To me, Dr. Vogel’s mental pathologies are just too severe to fit my image of Medic as we know him from Meet the Medic. This is a purely personal preference, though. I haven’t read the original piece you’ve based this story on, so I can’t comment on possible similarities, but I can certainly sense the squick in potentia and I’ll be keeping my eyes on this thread. I do have a single concrit-ish comment: Your use of past and present tense is inconsistent in the second paragraph of first part. And also a bit of nitpicking: I’m afraid your autopsy scene was pretty unrealistic. Patients must be declared dead before undergoing autopsy, and no amount of meditation or drugs could fool an experienced pathologist – your Dr. Vogel would not have exhibited any of the definite signs of death such as fixed pupils or post-mortem lividity and therefore wouldn’t have been declared dead, since these are prerequisite criteria for filling out the death certificate. Furthermore, if his core temperature was 32 degrees Celsius (EXTREMELY unlikely if he’s not actually dead or has been exposed to low temperatures for a substantial length of time, but cookie points for remembering that Germans use the centigrade temperature scale!) he should have been – quick calculation – five hours dead. Not only is it extremely uncommon to perform an autopsy on someone less than six hours dead unless a crime is suspected (and it is not in this case, you stated so specifically), but he should also be in a noticeable state of rigor mortis at this point and he is obviously not. Any pathologist would notice this inconsistency and wonder. Also, the core temperature is measured by punching an oversized cooking thermometer through the skin and into the patient’s liver. This would have been severely inconvenient and probably very fatal to him. A few stitches and band-aids wouldn’t have stopped the resulting intra-abdominal haemorrhage. Declaring a person dead also includes listening for a heartbeat for a full minute, and Dr. Vogel couldn’t have fooled this test by slowing his heart, as a heart rate slower than 1 bpm would cause insufficient perfusion of his brain and kill him in minutes. And finally, if you cut someone who isn’t actually dead, they will bleed. Even if Dr. Vogel managed to pull off everything else, it’s physically impossible to stop bleeding when cut. I have heard of ONE case, years ago, where a person was erroneously declared dead and taken to autopsy, and he was discovered on the autopsy table at the first incision. So there's no way a mortician would have made a full first incision on Dr. Vogel and not stopped in shock the minute the scalpel touched his skin. Of course, you’d need an above-average knowledge of autopsy procedures to spot the errors in your fic, so I can suspend disbelief for a little while and enjoy the drama of the scene as you intended. Waking up during your own autopsy is a staple of horror fiction and I very much liked how casual Dr. Vogel was about the whole deal. For that, I’ll be willing to overlook the issue of realism. I just thought I’d mention it, in case others here find inspiration in your story for autopsy fics of their own. Keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to reading more.