Cameron left House's office, and ran to catch up with Stokes.
"You okay?"
"Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?"
"I don't know. Maybe the fact that you stormed out of House's office and now you're trying to get away from me?"
"I'm not trying to get away from you - I'm trying to get to the patient. Not everything is about you."
Before Cameron had a chance to respond, Stokes stormed off in the direction of the ICU. Cameron was left standing, open-mouthed in the hallway, unsure of where to go next.
Stokes arrived at the patient's room just as Chase and Foreman were finishing up. They went over her charts, then left, leaving Stokes to deal with the patient.
"Are you okay?"
She turned around from where she was adjusting the IV, and saw the patient looking at her worriedly.
"I'm fine. Why do you care?"
"Your hands are shaking."
She looked down at her hands to see that her fingers were trembling rapidly.
"Oh, it's no big deal. I'm just tired."
She continued in silence for a few minutes, then turned to leave. As she did, she reached out to grab the end of the bed, her breathing heavy.
"Are you sure you're okay?"
"I told you, I'm fine."
She walked away from the bed, her feet unsteady, and her heart racing.
Just as she got to the sliding door, her vision went black, and she collapsed.
"Nurse! NURSE!"
Two nurses in pink scrubs rushed into the room, almost tripping over Stokes in the process. They were expecting the sick person to be the actual sick person, instead of the person trying to make everyone better.
They knelt down next to Stokes and checked her breathing and pulse, then looked up at the patient.
"What happened?"
Before she could reply, a voice came from outside the room.
"She collapsed due to lack of energy. She's been starving herself."
The nurses looked in the direction of the voice, and saw House standing just beyond the doorway.
"How can you know that? You only just got here."
"Yes, that may be true, but has it occurred to you that I see her everyday? Or that I've got my whole team looking out for her and reporting back to me? Get her in a bed. She needs fluids and nutrients asap, and then she'll be fine."
He left the room without saying a word to his actual patient, and the three women were left staring at each other.
"Okay team. What symptoms have we got?"
"Why are we doing this? We all know what's wrong with her."
"Yes I know. But where's the fun in skipping the diagnosis? I am a diagnostician after all."
"Yeah, but she's-"
"Can someone who isn't Cameron please tell me what our darling Stokes' symptoms are?"
Silence descended on the room, and the team avoided eye contact with House.
"No reply? Okay. Foreman, go. Give us a list."
"Uhh, dizziness, fainting, shaking-" House wrote the symptoms as theywere listed.
"Great. Now go see her."
"I wasn't-"
"Yes I know. Cameron, Chase, go check on the other patient."
They all stood up and went their separate ways, and House was left in the office by himself.