Hey all. This is my first crossover and first time being back for personal reasons, so it may be sloppy joe and just not that great. But I loved this idea and it's based off of a problem for Azula that Mandi (Goddess of Lame 2.0) and I did in one of our RP's and I just thought that it fit for a House case so much, that I had to combine the two. Especially since they are both my favorite show.
Title: Lies of the Undeserving
Summary: Sometimes lying means finding the truth...
Genre: Drama/Crossover/Romance
Rating: T
Characters: Greg House, Allison Cameron, Lisa Cuddy, James Wilson, Eric Foreman, and Robert Chase. Azula, Zuko, and Ozai Yurie, Katara and Sokka Waither, Aang Skhyj, Mai Dartarian, Jet Blayneh, Ty Lee Pinnyer, and Toph Bei Fong.
Pairings: House/Cameron, Wilson/Cuddy, Zuko/Mai, Aang/Katara, Sokka/Toph, and Jet/Ty Lee
Note: Although Katara, Sokka, Aang, Jet, Toph, and Ty Lee are mentioned, I do not have a definite plan to enter them into the fic as of now. I am still working on deciding that.
It was hardly believable. Almost too much for his mind to comprehend. That almost months ago she'd come to him in tears and almost hysteric. Especially since he nor his girlfriend had seen in her almost years to come by. The news, though, that she had come with, was what prompted them most. It had almost been enough to make him have a stroke.
Zuko Yurie lived with his girlfriend, Mai Dartarian in an apartment building in uptown New Jersey. They had been together for two years and were engaged to be married soon. Below them, their long-time friends lived in other apartments as well as across the hall from them. Aang Skhyj and Katara Waither lived on the below floor, Sokka Waither and Toph Bei Fong were across from them, and Jet Blayneh and Ty Lee Pinnyer were across from Mai and Zuko. The only ones who were married presently were Jet and Ty Lee. But as their lives went on, Zuko couldn't explain the feeling the day his younger sister, Azula, showed up at their doorstep in tears. It didn't take long for Zuko's brotherly instincts to kick in and he sat her down, trying to calm her while Mai got her some tea. Azula could hardly speak, but with some coaxing from Katara, who'd been up there at the time with her brother, Toph, and Aang, Azula got the nerves to be calm and talk.
Within a moment's time, the ugly fact had been told that her and Zuko's father, Ozai Yurie, had raped his daughter. Azula was, logically, pregnant with her own sister. This news drove Zuko up the wall and was enough to make him lose it. But seeing the situation at hand, he allowed Azula to stay in the extra bedroom with him and Mai until she felt comfortable with leaving.
That had been months ago. Now Azula was six months pregnant with a girl that was biologically her and Zuko's sister. It had taken up to convince his sister to keep the baby and after months of begging, talking, and some nagging, she had agreed to do so, even coming up with a name. Blayze Ashlyn.
Her health had been well, up until this point, to say the least. Bed rest was willed and Azula had twice since been sick with little or no reason why.
Zuko took half-days at work, coming home to watch his sister as much as he could, since Mai worked full-time. Even though Katara had told him not to worry and that there were eight other people in the house to keep an eye on her, Zuko was insistant on coming home to watch her. And this was because of her situation, nightmares, and because of his love for her that he'd long since lost over the years of not seeing her. She was his baby sister and although the years behind them had been rough with no contact and hatred, all was forgiven and mended with this audacity.
"Zuko, you really need to stop worrying and go to work," Azula told him for what seemed like the millionth time. She sat up-right in bed, biting on the cap of her pen and staring almost endlessly at her fifth crossword of the week with her gold eyes.
"I am," Zuko set a glass of water on her bedside table.
Azula looked up, giving him one of her famous glares, her brown/black hair falling over her ear. "Zuko, you know what I mean. All day. Not half-days, you dum dum."
Zuko put his hands in his pockets and stood beside her bed. "Please, my boss understands. He knows. Especially seeing as it is how my boss is JET, lest I remind you." He smirked and she just shook her head.
"Need anything else?"
Azula waved her hand at him as she got up. "No. I'm set. Go on."
"You s--"
"Zuko!" Azula gave him her warning tone through the bathroom door. To this, Zuko quickly took the tone as serious and left.
Azula wiped her mouth not a moment after he left. This would have been the second time today for her alone that she'd vomited. She put a hand on her forehead, suddenly feeling a wave of nausea and dizziness sweep over her. It amazed her how quickly something like this could come by as she looked at her pale complexion. But seeing as how she was six months pregnant, she could only assume that it was normal. Opening the door, she started to walk to her bed before she stopped and put a hand on her head. "Woaah..." she shook her head and blinked a few times. "Zu--Zuko?" She knew her words weren't heard, but the room was spinning so much, that she wasn't sure of anything at that moment.
Suddenly, as if the baby was giving her some sort of warning, Azula gripped her belly and tried to call her brother again. "Zuko!"
Before she knew what was going on, Azula found herself on all fours, shaking and vomiting uncontrollably. Zuko had ran in with Mai, but before his girlfriend could've called 9-1-1, Azula had passed out on him.
This, he decided, is not good.
"House! House, get up!"
Lisa Cuddy, Dean of Medicine at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, huffed, shaking her head as she tried to wake Doctor Gregory House, Head of Diagnostics.
She was in his office, where he himself was laid very comfortably back in his desk chair, legs crossed on the desk, cane in lap, and headphones on. Cuddy unplugged the headphones after trying several times to turn it off with no avail, which caused House to wake instantly.
"You certainly know how to wake a guy up," he retorted, taking his legs off the desk and eyeing her low-cut top smirking all the while.
Cuddy rolled her eyes. "Yeah, nice call. Where's the rest of your group?" she asked, handling a red folder.
"I gave them the day off!" House reached for the folder, only to have Cuddy pull it away.
"Bet you a hundred dollars if I told you the case, you'd get your team."
Houce clicked his tongue. "I'll settle that bet," he reached in his jeans pocket and pulled out a hundred dollar bill. "Whatcha got for me? The case and maybe a nice lap dance?"
Cuddy ignored the comment and the money. "Six months pregnant twenty-four-year-old female, that's what I got," Cuddy read from the file.
House pretended to be funny. "Gee, Cuddy, I didn't know you were into that. Just doesn't seem like your type."
"Oh would you grow up?" Cuddy snapped, tossing the folder at him.
"Moody today. Must be the cycle's starting," House opened the folder. "What makes this so different from any other case?"
Cuddy lingered for a moment, bit her tongue, then said, spinning on her heels, "Figure it out with your team!"
"What is so special and different about this case?" House questioned, dropping three folders on the table in front of the team.
Doctor Allison Cameron was the first to pick up a copy of the case. "She's young. Her family history says her mother died when she was only eight, her brother was eleven."
"What's that have to do with anything?" Doctor Robert Chase asked, picking up a folder next.
Cameron shrugged. "She remembers the death? Trauma from recent events in her life? She hasn't seen her brother in over ten years, maybe longer. Something's gotta give."
"Yeah, that was a great movie, not a good phrase," House retorted.
"She's pregnant," Doctor Eric Foreman piped up, reading over Chase's shoulder. "Doesn't say anything relevant like boyfriend, husband, fiance...how or anything like that."
House seized the opportunity to make a very smart comment. "Gee, Foreman. I thought a smart criminalized man such as yourself would know such things."
Foreman shook his head. "What I meant was-"
"Yeah, I know what you meant. And Tritter's keeping checks on me." House rolled his eyes and sucked on a cherry flavored lollipop. "What else?"
Chase bit his finger. "She's got a older brother, no mother and the father's unspoken to. Sounds like a messed up family if you ask me."
"Her symptoms were-"
"We know the symptoms," House interruped Cameron. "What we don't know is the cause of the symptoms." House wrote on the board Azula's symptoms and turned back to the other three. "What defines the fevers, vomiting, shakes, blurriness and not to mention she's pregnant?"
Cameron thought. "Her immune system could be shocked. Could weaken because of the pregnancy. Or..it could be something much deeper."
House looked at her. "Absured...yet you could be right. Of course, maybe I'm wrong..." He paused. "Feel free to jump in. Really. Tell me if I'm wrong about this."
Cameron bit back. "I'm just saying, if it's not her immune system, maybe she's got some sort of mental failure, some nightmares, a trauma of sorts, something like--"
"Oh would you stop with the traumas!" House interrupted her again, Chase and Foreman enjoying the show. "What is it with you and the trauma deal?"
Cameron glared and kept her composure. "I'm just saying that what is the pregnancy is reminding her of her mother's death? Or something similar."
Not looking at the others, and staring hard at Cameron, House instructed. "Chase, get a CAT Scane of her brain. When that comes back negative, Foreman will check her blood, Tox Screen and urine. When all that comes back clean, Cameron will sonogram and check to make sure everything's fine 'n' dandy with baby."
After excahnging looks, Chase and Foreman got up and left to do their jobs. Cameron only looked at House and said, "Thank you," before leaving as well. House only smirked as he headed into the direction of Oncologist, James Wilson's office.
What he did know counteracted so differently on what he didn't know. And what he didn't know, was just how interesting this case was going to be.
I can tell you right now that these chapters are going to be long. Hand-writing this was about five to six pages. Typing it was four. I pre-wrote the second chapter and that is really long because I added a story in there that was pretty important to me and lengthy. Understand that I am putting so much into one chapter because of the later chapters. There will be LOTS of stuff going on later on and I want THOSE to be the BEST chapters and parts of the whole story, as dumb as it sounds. But to me, those are the best parts of the whole story later on.
I haven't written House in a while, so their personalities and such may be a little OOC. I'm trying my best, though, and hopefully it will improve and YES, this is Modern-times as you could probably guess and Azula IS probably going to be OCC, because of her situation, she's learned to be more close to Zuko, so she's not as brutal.
Jay