"We're searching the donor banks right now... The transplant committee has already approved the surgery," Foremen informed Emily and the team.

"Can't one of us give her a piece of our liver?" Morgan asked.

"Well, the chances that one of you is a match is unlikely, but anyone who has A positive blood should be tested."

"I'm A positive," Hotch volunteered.

"So am I," Morgan added. Foreman gestured that they should follow him, as he lead them to have their blood tested.

Looking down at Emily, JJ squeezed her hand and brushed a lock of hair away from her jaundiced face. "See? Everything's going to be alright," she reassured her. But as she looked up at Reid who stood on the other side of the bed, it was clear that she was struggling to believe her own words.

******

Chase was once again drawing blood and was being bombarded with questions from the worried agents. "What are you testing for now?" Reid asked.

"We're just looking to make sure that she doesn't have any viruses that may infect the donor liver, such as Epstein-Barr or cytomegalovirus."

"So have you found a new liver?" Rossi asked.

"We're still waiting on the tests," Chase replied, "But we need to be ready the second we find one."

"Em, are you okay?" Morgan asked, noticing that she was rasping for breath. She shook her head, but was unable to say anything, still struggling to breathe. The monitors started to sound as her oxygen saturation plummeted.

Reading the monitors, Chase called for a nurse, "Pulmonary edema, stage two hypertensive crisis!" When two nurses came sprinting in, he continued, "Start her on oxygen and a sodium nitroprusside drip." The team was made to leave the room to pace nervously in the waiting room and hope that she would last long enough to have the transplant.

******

"She's in ICU, systolic is around 180, we're lowering it slowly to avoid hypoperfusing her organs," Chase said, jogging to catch up to House.

"Yeah, that sounds much worse than letting her high blood pressure cause stroke, myocardial infarction, or blindness..."

"Well, what would you suggest then?" Chase asked exasperatedly.

"How about, oh I don't know... solving the case..."

Foreman joined them as they entered the office. Giving Chase a superior look, he said, "Emily tested positive for von Willenbrand's... She does have a bleeding disorder."

"This is ridiculous," Chase said, "If she has vWD, how could she possibly clot on her own half the time?"

"What if it's related to her hypertensive crises?" Cameron asked. "She's clotting now and she's hypertensive..."

"Hypertensive crisis can active clotting factors, even in someone low on von Willenbrand's," House reasoned.

"That would explain why she clotted after lacerating her temple," Chase said.

"I know I get hypertensive when playing hide-and-seek with my brain," House said.

******

They had forgotten about Emily's promise to Garcia to keep her updated on her condition until the moment Morgan's phone rang.

"Why is Emily's name on the liver transplant list?" she asked, slightly frantically.

"What?" Morgan asked, a little taken aback. "How did you know... Have you flagged Emily's medical records?"

"No," she answered, a little too quickly. Changing the subject suddenly, she asked, "Why didn't someone tell me? You promised to keep me updated on her condition..."

"I'm sorry," he said sheepishly, "I guess we forgot... Everything just happened so quickly... She's in acute liver failure, they have two days to find her a new liver..."

Sighing, she asked, "Can I talk to her?"

Morgan hesitated, biting his lip, knowing that she would take this badly, "She's in ICU, unconscious... They're trying to get her blood pressure under control..." There was a crackling silence on the other end of the line for several moments. "Garcia?" he asked, hesitantly.

"Um..." she struggled to find her voice again. "I have to go," she said abruptly and a second later the call went dead.

******

Foreman quietly entered Emily's room where Hotch and Reid were keeping vigil, the others having gone to get something to eat. "I need to speak with you," he said to Hotch. Hotch nodded to Reid and followed Foreman outside the ICU. "You're a match for Emily's liver..."

Before he could say anything further, Hotch interrupted resolutely, "I want to give her half."

"Usually, before someone can donate part of their liver extensive testing and counselling is done... You need time to be able to change your mind," Foreman warned.

"She doesn't have time..." Hotch said matter-of-factly.

"There's a very real chance you could die during the procedure," he cautioned.

"I face that chance everyday... This is easy."

Foreman nodded, having had a feeling he would react that way. "We need an EKG, chest x-ray, and abdominal ultrasound. Surgery's scheduled for tomorrow morning."