I've got the next chapter, and it's hopefully better than the last one. Sorry about that, needed a little filler and I had to bring Ulrich's dad in sometime so... yeah. On that note, special thanks to my reviewers: DragonFly996, Samurai02008. Especially, to LyokoDoReMi I got a couple of extra plot ideas from you, that whole Milly and Tamiya thing I might spin something outta that thanks. Now then, I dont own Code Lyoko or House blah blah blah... on with the show.
Leaning onto his cane, House walked through the hallway to his office. Sadly, he also ran into a Mr. Derick Stern.(Ulrich's Father: translates into ruler of all people or something along those lines.) "Are you Dr. House?" Ulrich's father said angrily.
"Well, I guess that depends on who wants to know." He said as he opened the door.
"I'm Derick Stern, Ulrich's father." He stated.
"You say that as if I'm supposed to know what that means." he mentioned honestly. Ulrich's father was getting redder and redder with anger by the second. Calming himself, Derick breathed in deeply.
"He's the one with the brunette hair in the ICU!" he screamed. House decided to answer him with acknowledgment, since he seemed to be ready to punch him out.
"Oh, so that's your brooding German kid. That's a relief, and here I thought he came from an orphanage. Good to know his father's such a hothead, I was wondering where the raw emotion came from. I was guessing it was the mom." Derick gripped his fists tightly, ready to punch out the crippled doctor that stood in front of him. Lucky for House, it was cut short by his wife intervening.
"Derick, let him do his job. Slugging him won't solve anything, except a lawsuit." She argued.
Ulrich's father fought his inner anger towards the world renowned doctor and unclenched his fists.
"Now was that so hard?" House again egging him on as he walked to his other office. Ulrich's mother seemed to keep control of his father as they went back to his hospital room. Meanwhile, House walked into the office as the rest of the team continued to do the differential.
Foreman gave House a look as he walked to his seat. "What?" House asked.
"The kid's dad was about to knock your lights out, that's what."
"Oh please, he's German that's just their way of saying hi. Well... either that or swigging back a shot of Jager."
"Believe me I know Germans, and the Jager is more likely." Thirteen replied.
"I'll bet you know Germans." House said with a chuckle. "Okay, we've got joint and muscle pain, depression, respiratory distress and now unexplained fever. Differential diagnosis."
"Looks like Hashimoto's." Taub said as he scanned the chart.
"For one thing, he's a boy. And two, he has no swelling, and he'd be gaining weight not losing it. There's Crohn's Disease." Foreman replied.
"Nah, his stool is clean and he doesn't have any abdominal pain. Could be sarcoidosis." Kutner said.
"Nope, no swelling and that would be his only symptom." Taub countered. The team of doctors sat there scratching their heads, and playing guessing games. After about a silence of 10 minutes, it was broken by House.
"Okay then. Well get him off the Rheumatic fever meds. Legionella sounds most likely. Explains the muscle and joint pain, his weight loss, and his fever."
"But not his depression." Kutner said
"People call me depressed and they don't see me around a lot of people, ergo people assume that I'm depressed because I'm lonely. The kid can just be depressed, come on have you seen the dad? Check him for syphilis too."
"You think the kid's had sex, come on he doesn't even have a girlfriend." Thirteen complained.
"Now, he doesn't have a girlfriend now. He's from Germany, could've had a girlfriend and gotten it from her there." House replied.
"Treat him for syphilis and get a blood culture for Legionnaire's." The rest of them wouldn't move, only stare at him. "Fine! Test him for Syphilis too, even ask him if you want. That is, if you must."
(Ulrich's Room)
All of them went to the room where they noticed Ulrich's father on another rant. 'This obviously isn't going to be good.' Taub thought.
"Ulrich, Delmas has sent me some of your test grades. You need to pull those up! How do you expect to get into a good college if you can't apply yourself!" Derick screamed.
"Derick. Not now, not while he's in the hospital." His mother begged. But he refused to let it go.
Sighing he sat down and noticed the presence of the doctors behind him. "I'm Dr. Foreman, we're gonna take your son off of the meds. It seems a new symptom has given us a different diagnosis."
Taub preparing a needle again, Yumi leaned over to Ulrich to give hima little comfort. "We think it's possible that you have a disease called Legionella. It's a type of bacteria. We're gonna run another blood culture to check."
"What if that comes back negative?" Ulrich asked curiously.
"Then we have a few more different tests to try." Thirteen answered. Noticing Ulrich wasn't as tense as when his dad came into the room. "Mr. and Mrs. Stern? Would you mind leaving the room please?"
"Why, what are you going to do?" Ulrich's father demanded.
"There are just some things that we need to go over with him. Something that involves his room at Kadic." She explained.
"I'm his father, I need to be around for this." Derick demanded. Thirteen knew that this would go the wrong way, but unfortunately there was no way out of it.
She sighed, giving a cue to Taub. Taub was better at asking the questions that the parents were sure to overreact to. "We need to know if you've had any sexual contact of any kind." Immediately, Ulrich's father shot up.
"EXCUSE ME! You think my son has an STD?"
Between the two of them arguing, joining in by Ulrich's mom and his other doctors. Not one person had heard Ulrich shout no, except for Yumi.
"Sir, he said NO!" Yumi exclaimed. The crowd turned over to look at him. Ulrich's father wouldn't take it lying down, believing that he was lying.
"Tell me the truth son! Have you had sex?" His father demanded.
"NO! I haven't had sex dad!" Ulrich screamed back.
"That's enough of that Derick." His wife said.
"NO, HE NEEDS TO BE AWARE!" Grabbing Ulrich's arm lightly. Cringing, Ulrich screamed in pain. All three of the doctors noticed, his father was barely even gripping him and it hurt. After a couple of seconds more of his son's pain, his father released his grip. The spot where it was led to a major bruise. "You saw me, I barely touched him."
"What... what does that mean?" Ulrich asked cringing in pain.
Sighing Thirteen examined the bruise. "It means it's not syphilis. We're gonna double check on the Legionnaire's Disease though."
"We're gonna have to scratch that off the list too."
"Why?"
Lifting up the catheter, Taub showed it to everyone.
"What's that?" Yumi asked.
"That's the catheter with his urine." Foreman explained. "Your kidneys are shutting down, which means this isn't Legionnaire's Disease either."
"What else can it be?" Yumi asked nervously.
"We aren't sure yet. For now, we're gonna hook Ulrich up to dialysis and flush the waste out of his system."
"Mr. Stern?" Foreman asked. Turning his head towards the door, Foreman led him out of the room. "Due to the stress that you seem to be putting on your son... I'm sorry but you're gonna have to stay out of the room for a little while."
"You can't do that to me, he's my son." Mr. Stern argued.
"Yes, and you obviously have a few issues with anger. Either you keep your anger under control or we're gonna have to do that. We can only give this one warning, one more bruise from you and the nurses will make sure he doesn't see you for the remainder of his stay." Foreman stated with authority.
So... Who thinks that Ulrich's dad will actually be able to control himself? Anyone, and who's killing me to actually make Ulrich and Yumi spill their guts about each other? Don't worry, I'm getting to it. There's only about 1 or 2 chapter of this left, maybe 3 if I can squeeze in a little somethin else. Anyway, y'all know the drill R&R.
