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Chapter Four: Finding the Team
Princeton Plainsboro Hospital, New Jersey
"The power has gone out!" exclaimed Dr. Allison Cameron.
"Good job for pointing out the obvious," commented Dr. Robert Chase.
"What are we going to do?" asked Cameron. "All of the medical equipment won't work now, and the computers hold all of our important information…"
"Cameron, you have to relax," said Chase. "There's not much you can do."
"But I can help," she told him.
"We should check in on the patients," Chase suggested. "They'll be the ones we need to help first."
"Okay, I'll take the first floor and you can take the second," said Cameron.
Chase nodded. "I'll find the others to see if they can help."
Dr. Gregory House's Office
House stared at her in horror. "What?"
"A hurricane actually," explained Cuddy. "It'll hit in forty eight hours, so we need to start evacuating."
"Hello, the power is out!" exclaimed Thirteen. "Let's focus on that first!"
"And where will we go once we evacuate?" questioned Taub. "With the floods, it'll be hard to drive anywhere."
"I don't know," Cuddy admitted. She sighed. "Where are Cameron and Chase? We have to make sure they're all right."
"They'll be fine," said Foreman. "They will figure out some plan and find us, I'm sure."
"What about all the patients at the hospital?" Kutner asked. "What will we do about them?"
"At this point, it'll be hard to do anything for them," whispered Cuddy. The room fell silent at that comment. Evacuating the patients would be hard. Some would be able to make it out of the building fine, but the ones who were extremely ill or in a coma, would be hard or more like impossible to get out of the building. They needed to get help, and plenty of it. As Cuddy walked over to the door, she heard Thirteen gasp.
Glass from the windows suddenly broke. "What just happened?" Cuddy asked.
"The glass from the windows just broke," Thirteen said, but that wasn't the answer Cuddy was looking for.
"I know that!" exclaimed Cuddy. "I meant, what caused that to happen?"
"I don't know," said Thirteen. "But what we need to focus on is finding the others, so come on!" Thirteen got up from her chair and hurried out of the room, along with Foreman, Taub, and Kutner.
Cuddy turned around to look at the windows. What had caused that to happen? And most importantly, would they be able to get out of the city before the hurricane hit?
"Cuddy, why are you standing there?" House shouted to her, but he grabbed her hand before she could answer. He was able to get her away from the room, but Cuddy couldn't match House's pace. She ended up letting go of his hand and running farther from him.
Thirteen looked to see Cuddy running toward her. "Where's House?" she asked.
Cuddy nodded behind her to inform Thirteen that House was farther down the hallway.
"Idiot," she mumbled under her breath. "Keep going. I'll go help him."
Cuddy gave her a harsh glance, and then hurried to join the others. She had just called her an idiot, what else did Thirteen not like about her?
Thirteen ran to House and grabbed his hand. "I can walk by myself," House snapped at her.
"How come you're so far behind then?" she retorted back.
"I'm a cripple," he said.
Thirteen looked behind her to see water filling in the hallway. "Forget this cane," she said, taking the cane away from House. "A wheelchair will have to do."
House opened his mouth to protest, but Thirteen silenced him. She quickly found a wheelchair and wheeled House over to the group.
Foreman couldn't help but laugh. "Good thinking, Thirteen."
"Thanks," she said.
"Good, now that House has caught up with the group, we need to get out of the building," Cuddy shouted above the thunder outside.
"How will we do that when there's nothing but water outside?" asked Thirteen. "How are we going to be able to stay here if the water has already started to flood the building?"
First Floor of Princeton Plainsboro Hospital
"Chase!" exclaimed Cameron. "Oh, there's no use!"
She looked to the floor to see water just touching the bottom of her shoes. She ran around frantically searching for a familiar face, but she couldn't find Chase, or anyone she knew. "Chase! Cuddy! House! Wilson! Foreman…where are you guys?" She would look for House's new staff members, but she was unsure of where they would be, so she decided to sit down on one of the couches by the entrance, hoping someone would find her.
"Cameron, why are you sitting there, doing nothing?" a voice questioned.
Cameron looked up to see Chase staring at her. "Oh, thank God it's you!" She hugged him. "Where are the others?"
"I don't know, I never found them," he explained. "We need to do something about evacuating this building."
"Like what?" Cameron asked. "We can't stop the rain, and evacuating would be impossible with the flood, so what can we do?"
Chase took hold of Cameron's hand. "We can get everyone to the top floor of the hospital. Then we can call for help, and from there, we'll have to wait."
"But we can't just wait the storm out," said Cameron. "A hurricane's coming, well I think, it was coming up to the east coast when I last heard the weather report…Chase, do you think the hurricane's hitting now?"
"I don't know," he admitted.
"We should find the others first," Cameron suggested. "Maybe they'll know more about what's happening."
Chase nodded, and with that, they set off to find Cuddy, Wilson, House, and the team.
A/N: Next chapter will be about Cold Case