As Cameron, 13, House, Booth, Parker, Angela, Bones, and Zack rush into the Princeton Plainsboro teaching hospital they are met by Cuddy, Foreman, Taub, Chase, and Wilson meet them at the front door.
"House, I want to know what's going on right now. You can't just come into my hospital and tell my doctors and nurses what they are going to do." Cuddy says following behind House.
"Just go take care of Rachel, and leave me alone with this patient." House said as he walked into the elevator leaving everybody else down on the first floor.
"Cameron... What's going on?" Cuddy demands.
"Parker Booth collapsed while we were at the Jeffersonian, and we brought him back to the hospital because we know that he will get the care he needs here." Cameron replies.
"Who is a parent to this child?" Cuddy asks.
"I am his father." Booth says. Cuddy looks at Booth, and just sighs as if apologizing for House.
"Do you consent to anything that Dr. House and his team will ask to do to him?" Cuddy asks.
" I will be consulting with Dr. Brennen here to make sure everything you do is right, and that it can be justified." Booth says.
"Then you might as well take the boy now. Not everything House does has a reason. Some things may seem unreasonable, but he does get it right... eventually." Cuddy says.
"That's fine. As long as he can make my son better. I saw him taking some pills at the Jeffersonian, what is that all about?"
"Let's not get into that." Cuddy says.
"I want to know Doctor. I work for the FBI and if he is doing something illegal I should know about it."
"Dr. House only takes the pills because he has pain in his thigh muscle. They are vicodin, and they help him cope with the pain, and he works fine. Don't worry, the hospital has him on a reasonable dosage, and you won't have to worry about it affecting your son. I have the best doctors in my hospital working on him. We have a neurologist, plastic surgeon, ER doctors, oncologist, and just non specified doctors working on him. He will have 24 hour care. Now I can't have you all in here while he is in intensive care, so I need to know who you all are." Cuddy replies with a sigh.
"I am Agent Booth, this is Zack Addy, Bones, Angela Montenegro, and my son Parker. He's 5."
"Okay, are you his father? Where is his mother?"
"She is back in D.C. We are divorced, and I have him for the weekend so I would rather her not know that I can't take care of our son for 2 days without him ending up in a hospital hours away from home."
"Well if he is your son we won't need her consent as long as you consent to what I or one of the other doctors ask. But I would be leary about House." Cuddy says.
"Wait, why would you leave my son with a man you don't think you can trust?" Booth asks suspiciously.
"He is a good doctor, and even though some of his ideas are a little ridiculous he has done a lot for this hospital in the years that he has been here, and I think he will continue to do more as he is resides here."
"Have any of his patients ever died?" Booth asks.
"I won't say he hasn't lost patients because everybody dies, and every doctor in this world has lost a patient at one time or another, but other than that I think you are fine." Cuddy says.
"My son could die and you say he's okay! Are you insane to think I would keep my son at this hospital!" Booth yells as Cameron walks over to Cuddy.
"House has contaminated the entire clinic."
"How in the world did he do that?" Cuddy asks with an exasperated sigh.
"He gave one of his vicodin's to a kid with a headache, and I think he is giving out morphine in shots to people." Cameron says. Cuddy screams out and then walks into the clinic almost unwillingly. Cameron acts all happy, and like nothing is going on.
"Hi!" Cameron says in a nonchalant way, "should we go to your room?"
"My son isn't staying here." Booth says.
"I actually have to agree with Booth on this factor, I think this hospital is ridiculous in the ways it is run. Who runs this hospital anyway? I want to have a talk with him." Brennan says. Foreman walks up behind Booth and Brennan.
"Well, Dr. Cuddy is the owner of the hospital." Foreman says.
"Then I want a second oppinion." Taub comes over and looks at the boy.
"I don't agree with House. I can be your second oppinion sir." Taub says.
"Don't you work for that Dr. House character?" Brennan asks him.
"We all work for him, well 13, Taub, and I do. Cameron and Chase used to work on his team with me, and then Cuddy is just the boss of the hospital." Foreman says.
"That's fine, but I don't want my son being treated by some doctor who doesn't work by the book."
"Daddy, I don't feel very good. My tummy hurts." Parker says sitting up and throws up blood on the stretcher that he is sitting on.
"Code cart!" Foreman yells out to one of the nurses, "You can either let us take care of him and try to figure out what he has or you can take him back to D.C. and he may not make it."
To Be Continued.
