Lisa Cuddy watched as the person stood before her played the violin. It was a beautiful sound that she really could not stop listening to. She was transfixed as the music washed over her. She smiled as she dropped a handful of loose change into his violin case. In all honesty she wished she could give more. He looked skinny, malnourished but despite all that he was clean and well presented. She looked at the time and realized she had to hurry is she did not want to be late for work. She wiped her eyes and turned away from the young man. She wished she could have done so much more to help him. She was not looking forward to having to put up with House today.
The young man looked over at something from the corner of his eye when suddenly he had someone grab him into the shadows. He was scared and confused. He had never had someone get the better of him like that before. The last thing he saw before he blacked out was someone stealing his violin. He knew he had screwed up. He was dreading the fact that he could die without apologising to his brother. That he could have abandoned his family to run away to america all because of one person. One horrible person whom ruined his life.
Sherlock limped into the lobby of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. He was bruised and beaten, but really he was dreading his brother finding out. He could not believe that he let himself get distracted like that. It nearly cost him his life. He stumbled before collapsing on the floor. A swarm of nurses rushed toward him to place him on a gurney. He was quickly rushed to the O.R. He was fighting and struggling against the nurses to let him go. They had dealt with their fair share of aggressive patients and this did not affect them.
"We need 50mg of demerol." The medication was fast acting. He instantly calmed when the medication was injected in his leg. He let the world rush around him as he fell into a drug induced sleep. Lisa Cuddy the Dean of medicine recognized the young face as he was being carted away. She was horrified to see him in pain. She could not believe that anyone would want to harm the talented young man. There may be a lot of people treated in the hospital every day but she still struggled at times to see people so brutally beaten. She desperately tried to keep her emotions reined in as she started to walk back towards her office. Of course she had to have walked into her office to see one Dr House sitting in her office. That was the last thing that she needed that day. She sighed before asking him why he was there.
"Well that idiot of a Doctor Bailey is refusing to operate on my patient until I have signed consent." Cuddy internally screamed. She did not want to have to deal with this today. Well she never really wanted to deal with House but today she was really struggling to keep her cool. She could not take her mind off of the young man currently in the operating room. She was worried about him. She had never really felt this emotional about a patient before. She hated it. She hated how her emotions got the best of her like that. It was hard enough to get people to respect her but when she was this emotional people liked to make judgmental comments about a woman in a man's world. She hated how sexist people in medicine could be. There really needed to be a change.
"Well how horrible is that he wants to make sure this isn't another one of your crazy experiments. Especially after last time when you had a patient's stomach explode on him. I'm really not surprised he did not want to work with you again. " She winced remembering how often she would get complaints from Dr Bailey telling her how hard it was to get rid of the smell of stomach acid and other horrible unknown substances. She took the file from out his hand signed it and tried to steer him towards the door. She knew that he could tell that she was upset. He still left the room though. She sat at her desk knowing that this was going to be a long day and she was not looking forward to it. Hopefully Wilson would be able to keep House occupied. If not then she had no clue how she was going to make it through the day.