House season 4 fanfiction
Post-episode(not finale) 13 tests herself for Huntingtons.
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It was late. Usually, at this time, she would be at home in her bed with a good book in the quiet security of her apartment. But not tonight. No, tonight she was tightening a tourniquet around her left bicep in clinic room number 2. This was not the first time she had drawn her own blood to test herself, however, she never had the nerve to go through with it and carry the vial up to the lab to do the actual test. In the end, the yellow biohazard waste containers were always the ones to receive the vial.
But tonight was different. That day, House had purposely switched her decaffeinated coffee to normal coffee. No doubt to screw with her head to satisfy his perverse fascination of her. She was caffiene-sensitive; it brought on tremors and irritability. She thought she was showing the first signs of Hunntington's. It had terrified her. That day she dropped a file, House told her the 'diagnosis' for this was: people drop things. What does he know?
For years as a child she had watched her mother lose who she was as the disease took its fatal course. For years, doctors told her she should get herself tested, that there was at least a 50 chance she could have the disease. But Remy Hadley sought her comfort in a mixture of denial and ignorance. But not tonight. She could no longer be satisfied in ignorance.
After she had drawn the blood, she loosened the tourniquet and pressed a small cotton swab against the inside of her elbow. Tonight she would do it, she would test herself tonight. She was almost certain of it.
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Author's note: This little drabble has been floating around in my head for a while. And if things go well, I might make this more than a one-shot of 13's inner conscience.. If I get good reviews I MIGHT make this into a continuous story.. Interested? Please review!