"If anyone asks," House muttered seriously, "you're a family member."
"You really don't believe I'm your daughter do you?" Talia frowned, following him from the elevator.
"I don't believe in 'believing'," House told her, opening the glass door to the consulting room. Sitting there was Foreman, Chase and Cameron.
"Morning," he saluted them casually, Talia following in timidly.
"Who's the chick?" Cameron asked.
"Family member...Talia," House said dismissively.
"Oh?" Foreman raised an eyebrow. "And how are you related may I ask?"
"Does it matter?" Talia asked swiftly, cocking her head to one side. Everyone looked a bit taken aback. House especially, who was impressed. He didn't even feel like he needed to take those DNA tests - this must be his daughter, no doubt about it.
"Patient's scared of blinking," Cameron interrupted as Foreman stared at Talia. "She's having stomach bugs and muscle spasms in her thigh. We've given her antibiotics but no effect yet-"
"She doesn't need antibiotics anymore, she just needs antigens. The antibiotics won't work unless there's something to actually fight off," Talia said quietly, staring at all of them.
"So you're suggesting to inject an illness that she doesn't actually have?" Foreman asked, looking incredibly disbelieving.
"Yeah, if you do that then the antibiotics have to treat everything at once, so you're killing all your demons in one day," Talia said simply, roughing out her curly blonde hair.
"That makes sense," Cameron blinked.
"Sounds good to me!" House pitched in, walking out. Talia smiled slightly as the rest of the team walked out again, Foreman giving her a dirty look, Cameron smiling and Chase not doing anything. What a strange bunch.
"You like her," Cameron told Chase.
"Excuse me?" Chase asked as they walked down the corridor together.
"You kept quiet, you like her," Cameron smirked.
"Shut up," Chase shook his head.
"I don't like her," Foreman burst out with it.
"Why? Because she's just a female version of House?" Cameron laughed slightly.
"That's exactly why," Foreman nodded. "Which means, Chase, you wouldn't be able to get within a mile of her."
"Who said I wanted to?" Chase grumbled, waking ahead. Foreman and Cameron gave each other knowing looks.
Talia was flicking through the large book and saw that there was literally so much information that she wanted to know. She got a degree already, she went to Uni from 16 and was so advanced that she finished in two years. Chase suddenly walked in and when he saw Talia he slowed down slightly. She glanced up. "Hey," she smiled slightly, turning back to the book. Chase swallowed and went to the coffee machine, suddenly dropping the cups. "You alright there?" Talia laughed lightly, turning a page without looking up.
"Y-yeah. Uh do you want one?" Chase offered, starting the coffee machine.
"No thanks, I'm allergic to the granules," Talia declined politely, her eyes fixed on the text.
"Well that's the unfortunate," Chase nodded slowly, before Cameron, Foreman and House all walked/hobbled in.
"Well your antigen idea worked," Foreman began, sitting down opposite Talia.
"Good," Talia shrugged.
"But now she's puking blood," Foreman finished, giving her a knowing look. Talia cocked her head to the side, confused.
"That's a shame," she frowned, going back to the book. "But her original problem is gone?"
"Well yeah," Cameron nodded. "But what is the issue?"
"Mexophilia?" Chase considered, sipping the coffee.
"I don't think so," Talia bit her lip. "It's probably-"
"With all due respect, and I don't have much for you right now, we're the doctors, so could you just?" Foreman snapped. Talia didn't look taken aback at all.
"Fine, but I'm gonna write down what I think it is," she muttered, scribbling something down and folding the paper.
"Have you given her an endoscopy?" House asked.
"She's being prepped for it now," Cameron nodded.
"Do you think it's severe gastro-oesophageal disease?" Chase suggested.
"No, there was literally no hydrochloric acid at all in her vomit," Foreman shrugged.
"But she did say that she was bulimic before this," Cameron reminded then, chewing her pen.
"So..it's just a torn lining in the oesophagus," Foreman concluded.
"There you go. Prepare her for surgery," House told them. Talia rolled her eyes and got up, sliding the paper toward Foreman.
"Open it," she said shortly, before leaving. Even House came round to see what it said
'torn lining in the oesophagus'
"She's good," Cameron nodded, as even House looked impressed. Foreman just rolled his eyes and crumpled the paper.
Talia walked up and down the lengths of the hospital, peering through windows of the little wards. She saw Chase in there, talking to a little girl who had cancer and smiled slightly. The little girl, Athena, saw Talia peer through. "Who's that?" Athena asked Chase croakily. Chase glanced up from where he was changing then IV drip and saw Talia looking through the class.
"That's Talia," Chase murmured, turning his attention back to the IV.
"She's pretty," Athena muttered, as Talia walked away. "Really pretty."
"Mmmm," Chase shrugged. Athena frowned.
"Don't you think she's pretty?" she mumbled, looking a bit disappointed. Chase glanced up, confused to where these questions were coming from.
"I mean, yeah, she's very pretty. But what has that got to do with-"
"Will you date her?" Athena asked excitedly. "You two would be so CUTE!"
Chase found himself blushing slightly.
"Thanks, but I've only know her for a few hours," he dismissed quickly.
"So?" Athena blinked innocently.
"So it's too soon and I hardly know her! It's fine, I'll just watch from afar," smirked Chase, desperate to get out of this conversation.
"But will you ask her out one day?" Athena pressured Chase, who began to look very uncomfortable.
"I barely know her name," he sighed heavily. "I don't know anything about her-"
"Dr Chase, I'm going to die soon. So can you promise me that you'll ask her out one day? You look like a prince and she's like a princess," Athena gushed, her eyes sparkling. "Promise?" Dr Chase chewed the inside of his bottom lip and nodded reluctantly.
"Fine. I'm gonna go and take your results okay?" Dr Chase muttered, giving a small smile and then leaving.
"Wait, can I meet her?" Athena perked up eagerly. She was clearly very taken with Talia just from her 'princess looks'. Chase frowned in confusion but nodded anyway.
"Talia?" Chase muttered, walking into the consulting room where Talia sat sipping orange juice and reading a medical mag. She glanced up at the mention of her name in that beautiful Australian accent of his.
"Dr Chase?" she said in the same uncertain tone.
"Um, a patient has required to see you," Chase mumbled. "Athena in room 21."
"The little cancer patient?" Talia blinked, pushing the magazine to one side.
"Yes - and anything she tells you may just be because the medication is kicking in," Chase quickly added, now understanding why Athena wanted her there.
"Gotcha," Talia smiled, heaving herself up and walking to Athena's ward.
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