Mike Brown was sitting in math class trying to concentrate on the work, but it all looked Greek to him. He was dizzy, and focusing was next to impossible.
"Mike, do you want to come up to the chalkboard and write the answer to question 3?" Ms. Feldman asked. He put his head down, signifying he wanted nothing to do with math, but she ignored him. "Come up and write."
Tripping and almost falling on thin air, Mike staggered towards the board. Someone whistled and laughed in seemingly good nature. "Way to go, Mike!" But he barely heard or noticed. Walking was taking up all of his brain power right now. The classroom seemed to be getting bigger, darker. He couldn't see where he was walking and everything was fuzzy. He fell to the ground.
"Mike, you're not going to be able to get out of this by pretending to be sick, so you can stop pretending anytime," Ms. Feldman said. Her voice was warped and low like in a slow motion movie. Mike looked up and tried to ask for help, but instead he found Ms. Feldman laughing hysterically brandishing a butcher knife. "Ask for help I dare you. You know what happens to children who don't know the answers, don't you?" She started pantomiming stabbing motions and laughing even harder. Then in one excruciatingly slow motion, she raised the knife and lowered it in his thigh.
"AGH!!!" Mike cried out in pain. He started writhing on the floor, twitching convulsing.
Ms. Feldman yelled, "Oh my God, he's having a seizure. Jen, go get the school nurse immediately."
"It's your fault! Didn't you know he has seizures? Why did you think he was faking?" Someone said. Presumably the same person who had whistled when he tripped, the voice was the same.
Mike continued to seize on the floor.
"Thirteen year old male, suffering from seizures since the age of 4 and now having hallucinations. What do you think?" Thirteen asked sitting in House's office flipping through the file.
"What about Sturge-Weber Syndrome?" Kutner asked.
Thirteen eyes scanned the file with seeming disinterest. "He was diagnosed with it shortly after the seizures began, but I'm not so sure. It usually starts earlier and there was no facial staining, and it doesn't explain…"
"I still can't believe you and Wilson are going to couples counseling. Why exactly is that?" Dr. Taub asked.
Dr. Foreman was supervising and sitting at the table with House's employees. "Wait, you guys are going to couples counseling?" He let out a small laugh and a wide smile. "That's definitely interesting."
"People, can't you hear?" House asked. "We're talking about medicine! What could cause seizures and hallucinations? Think people!"
"Drugs, it's the most obvious cause," Thirteen suggested.
Foreman still hadn't gotten over the couples counseling thing. "So what kind of things do you talk about at couples counseling? And do you and Wilson have an interesting love life?"
"Wrong! The kid's been having seizures since he was four! Unless the parents have been slipping him cocaine since he was a toddler, that's off the table. And our love live is far more interesting than yours, Foreman." House said, hobbling over to the whiteboard and writing hallucinations and seizures on the board.
Taub had another question in mind. "So are you two seriously a couple then?"
"Are you and your wife seriously a couple if you're cheating on her?"
"I'll take that as a yes, then," Kutner said.
Thirteen threw the folder down on the table. "Can we please focus on the medicine?"
"If whatever he has, has been there since he was four, it can't be an infection or environmental." Kutner said. "How about genetic or neurological?"
"Why can't it just be the epilepsy? What's wrong with that diagnosis?" Taub asked.
House sat down and propped his head up on his cane. "Because that doesn't explain the hallucinations."
"Well then epilepsy and drugs. He may have been having seizures when he was four, but the hallucinations just started now. It explains everything," Thirteen said.
"Not everyone is on drugs," Kutner said with a glare in Thirteen's direction.
House smiled. "Feeling catty today are we Kutner?"
"Could be neurological. We should scan his brain," Foreman said.
"Foreman, go get an MRI of his brain. Thirteen test for drugs. Taub and Kutner, think of anything else it could be."
Kutner replied, "It could be any number of mental conditions combined with Sturge-Weber Syndrome or any other kind of epilepsy. Depression, schizophrenia, dementia, anything. Why are we taking this case anyway? Usually there's some sick reason for why you pick cases."
"I said think about it, not talk about it!" House said. "Now I'm going to talk to the love of my life!" And with that he walked out of his office.
A/N: Okay so not a lot of House/Wilson in this part, I know. I'm sorry, unless you aren't. I really wanted to incorporate the medical aspect of the show. Everyone loves a good puzzle! Also I am not a doctor so I am sorry if any of my medical facts are inaccurate (I'm sure it's not all right.) I did a lot of research, but I mean you can only learn so much without going to med school. Also if any of my references to things that happened in the actual show are wrong, it will because I watch too much House and don't remember what happened in what episode. Thanks for reading, and I think I'll do the next chapter soon!