Christmas Shoes- Chapter 3

Wrong Blood

"........................sorry for the delay! some things came up. thanks for all the great reviews! here is the next chapter! please keep the reviews coming!"

Chase looked at the slide containing April's blood. His gloves were starting to bother him, but he didn't bother exchanging them for another pair; he was almost done,anyways.

He looked closer at April's blood,realizing there was something wrong with it. Chase was shocked when he found out what was wrong.

He threw away his gloves on his way out the door. "Wrong blood." he mumbled softly to himself. His hair tossed left to right due to the wind he created as he rushed down the hospital hallways.

Chase walked into House's office, letting the door shut by itself.

''The doctors who gave her a blood transfusion screwed up." Chase announced.

House glared at Chase with his eyebrows arched.

"How?"

Chase rolled his eyes before answering.

"They gave her the wrong blood type. April is blood type A, but they gave her AB.

"She's reacting slowly from it. Her body is numbing,but only temporarily and for a short amount of time at the moment. It's only a matter of time until her whole body goes limp,her bones break,and major organs shut down or collapse.

"The doctors did major damage that's not fixable. The only thing we can do now is slow down the process and make it less painful." Chase sighed, thinking about how badly she was screwed because of doctors not doing their jobs.

"How long do you give her?" Cameron asked, turning her head to Chase.

"I'd give her 'til late December." House answered,limping forward to his cane.

Foreman grabbed the cane and threw it to House.

"What are you waiting for?" he asked,paused at the door with his hand around the door knob's air.

"Start the treatment!

"Cameron gets to go and get the blood, Foreman gets the machine, and Wombat tells the patient." House walked out his door as his lackeys went off to do their job.

House headed to Wilso's office.

When he got to Wilson's door, he let himself in.

"Well come in." Wilson commented sarcastically at House's rudeness.

"How does a doctor give his patient the wrong blood type?" House asked Wilson directly.

"I don't know. Hangover? Stupidity? Mistake?" Wilson twirled around in his chair until he reached House's gaze.

"Why do you ask?" Wilson questioned cautiously.

"April-her doctors screwed up. Not our doctors, not doctors from this hospital. I want to know how they managed to screw that up. Even Wombat isn't that stupid."

"Chase is not stupid He's the only person besides me who'll take your crap." Wilson informed House.

Though Wilson would never tell House this, but sometimes Chase resembled House so much.

It always bothered Wilson when House made fun of Chase. He didn't necessarily like Chase, but Chase was smart. Wilson believed he would make a great doctor of whatever specialty Chase chose,and he knew that House was responsible for that.

Wilson also believed that the young doctor looked up to House as his father-figure.

Chase's father was never a good role model for Chase.

Wilson found it hard to believe how different Chase and his father were.

And it always broke Wilson's heart when he thought about how Rowan treated his son. Their relationship was the most strained father-son relationship Wilson had seen. In fact, their relationship seemed more teacher-student that father-son.

All though Rowan had threated his son like a student all through Chase's life, the boy had turned out okey. Though, sometimes,Wilson worried Chase felt as though the way he was treated by his parents is what he deserved........................

"Are you sticking up for him, Wilson?" I thought you hated Wombat!" House gasped sarcastically.

"I do not hate Chase." Wilson said.

"Yeah, sure."

"Moving on back to the not Chase-related topic?" Wilson suggested.

"I don't think so." House said.

"You know, I think you like Chase." Wilson accused.

"You pick on him more than anyone else,always talk about him,and always single him out. I mean, sure, you talk about Foreman and Cameron. But not like you talk about Chase."

House nodded. "He has more potential. I could see Chase being a solo doctor, but I can see Foreman and Cameron single,too. But I could see Chase solo sooner, more successful,and happier about it,too.

"I push Chase. If I can break him into snapping and screaming at me on day, then I'll have an excuse for firing him." House admitted. "But if you tell anyone about this, then you're dead."

Wilson was shocked into silence about what House just admitted. "So you want Chase to yell at you so you can fire him?" " Wilson paused. "But you'll actually be firing him because there's nothing left for you to teach him." Wilson thought this over for a minute. "Clever."

"Yeah, I thought so, too." House agreed.

"You know, I think Chase has been teaching me more than I've been teaching hi. Not medically, but........." House paused, searching for a word.

"But every other way.

''I think it's all the crosswords he does. Crosswords do make people smarter." House sighed.

"Why are you telling me this? It's not like you at all." Wilson asked.

House sighed, limping toward the door. He paused at the door knob.

"I don't know."

House left Wilson's office; leaving Wilson and himself confused and baffled.......................

House entered his office,immediately getting the attention of his lackeys.

"How's our patient?" he asked, looking at Foreman to answer.

"How should I know? Ask Tall, Blond,and Aussie." he retorted.

House smiled at Chase. "Well, not too keen on the new nick name-it's sorta long. But if that's what you want to be called..............." he teased.

"Physical didn't tell us anything, but her blood work did. The doctors from the other hospital screwed up. Her blood type is A, but they gave her AB. It's weakening her body." Chase answered.

"Poor girl. Wasn't even her fault." Foreman said.

"Well duh! We already know that! I meant how is the treatment working?" House said,annoyed.

"I was getting there." Chase said.

"It's too early to tell. We have to wait until the blood stabilizes in her system. But so far, the blood transfusion seems to be working. After we drained some blood, we added A blood, and we'll slowly switch it all to A. Though the damage in affect can't be stopped now. It's too late."

"Well done Blondy." House encouraged.

"Now I have a new mission for all of you!'' House exclaimed in sarcastic enthusiasm.

"I'm mixing it up a bit. Cameron, clinic duty, Foreman and Chase, go around town. See if anyone knows her. Try to find out where she lives." House ordered.

His team got up and left the office.

Just as Chase was about to leave, House stopped him.

"Chase, let's talk." House said.

Chase was taken aback at first, but obeyed.

"I change my mind, you have a new mission." he said.

"And what would that be?" Chase asked.

House smiled, gesturing for Chase to follow.

"Come with me."

Chase followed House into thew parking lot.

"We're going on a little trip." House informed Chase.

House got on his motorcycle, Chase joining right behind him...............................

".................i hope you enjoyed this! please bear with me on this chapter. it might be a little boring-but i had to add this to build up to the next chapter........................ please r& r!!!!!!!!!"