Chapter 10
House entered his office and saw Chase and Foreman around the table in the conference room.
"You really have a talent to put someone in respiratory failure in just a few hours. Great" he said annoyed.
"It's not the Guillain-Barré" Foreman said tired.
"Thanks for the good news" House said sarcastically.
"Cameron?" Chase asked after a while.
"Do you think that I'm her slave?" House asked in disbelief.
"No, but Cuddy said that you'd call her" Chase explained.
Cameron entered in a hurry in that moment. She was a little flushed.
"Did you come running up to here?" Foreman asked jokingly.
"No, I was...jogging when House called me" she said hesitantly.
House smirked while staring at the whiteboard. But Cameron saw his smirk.
"After cinema? At 1:00 a.m.?" Foreman pushed her.
"So? I couldn't sleep" she explained simply.
"Fine, now can we concentrate on more important things? For example, on the 10 years old boy that Foreman tried to kill tonight?" House asked.
"I didn't do anything and you were wrong" Foreman argued.
"Whatever. So, we have to restart everything. He arrived here blind and we gave him steroids; the sight returned but he collapsed; we stopped with the steroids and we gave him coagulants and he colapsed again" House explained frustrated.
"Yes, and the seizure also happended after the lumbar puncture and two TAC" Foreman pointed out.
"Hey, stop pretending to be me with this lack of tact. I already have his parents and Cuddy breathing down my neck. There's something that we're not seeing" he said.
Cuddy entered the office fuming.
"It wasn't me, I wasn't here and If I was here I was sleeping. Hit the black one!" House tried to defend himself.
"I've tried to call you for an hour!" she almost yelled.
"I went out" he explained.
"If there's an emergency, you must answer If I call you!" she yelled this time.
"I thought that you wanted to do that thing with Wilson again" he said smirking.
Cuddy came closer and looked at him disgusted.
"Are you drunk!" she said in disbelief.
He smiled amused.
"Yeah, would you like" he teased her.
"You smell of beer. Have you done a bath of beer?" she asked squinting her eyes.
"Someone spilled it on me. Long story" he said smirking.
Cuddy turned serious.
"If you're drunk, I-" she started.
"I'm not drunk! If I was drunk, believe me, you'd see...the difference" he explained.
"Ok. Now prove it and treat this kid" she warned him.
Cuddy exited and House stared at his team. Then he stared at her and smirked.
"Ok! Go to their home" he ordered.
"It's 1:00 a.m.!" Chase argued.
"There's something hidden, we have examinated everything on him, the medical history was useless. It has to be an extra factor, maybe a tossin" he said thoughtfully.
"We ruled out the tossins" Foreman pointed out.
"Because we believed that was the Guillain-Barré Syndrome, but it's not. So it's an extra factor. So go to their home" he ordered seriously.
They went to the door, Foreman turned to him again.
"Why don't you come with us? You don't have to be in clinic" Foreman said.
"Right, but here I've my very comfortable armchair and my CDs. No, I think that I'm going to stay here. Plus, I'm not so fast to climb over a fence If we'd go away in a hurry. I'm more a type of bank robbery" he answered.
They exited smiling amused.
"HOUSE!" Cuddy yelled.
House was dozing off on his armchair. It was 2:00 a.m.
"What?" he jumped.
"Please, tell me that you haven't sent your team at the Stevens'" she said angrily.
"Ok...I haven't" he said slowly.
"They've got arrested for breaking in their apartment!" she said yelling.
"Oh..." he said thoughtfully.
"Go and get them" she oredered.
"Why me? I can't put all of them on my bike. Choose one of them, and please, choose carefully. Or you can give me an ambulance, I've always wanted to drive one. It has to be funny, I could switch on the sirens...".
"Fine, take my car! But destroy it and you'll pay" she warned him.
House rummaged in his backpack and Cuddy stared at him frustrated.
"What the hell are you doing now?" she asked.
"I'm looking for my camera" he answered absently.
"Why?".
"Are you kidding me? It's been 3 years since I'm trying to get them arrested sending them in the patients' apartments. This is the right time finally! I'm going to blackmail them forever" he said smirking.
House exited with Cuddy's keys in hand.
House arrived to the desert police station. He rang few times and then rang no-stop until he saw two men come closer.
"Do you have to confess a crime or to report someone?" one of the officers asked.
House looked at him astonished.
"How do you know that I have committed a robbery?" he asked with a smirk.
The officer looked at him surprised.
"Come on, I'm joking. I'm Gregory House, my puppies have run away from home. I know that you found them" he said hopefully.
"Have you lost your dogs?" the officer asked after a while.
"In a way. One of them is a Rottvailer, one is a...bastard, I think...Their names are Eric Foreman, Robert Chase and Allison Cameron. The last one is not a dog" he said smirking.
"Oh, the guys that say that they're doctors. Wait a moment...are you the doctor who sent them in that apartment?" the officer asked.
"Here I'm!" he answered triumphantly.
"But you're cripple".
"You have to be a detective, I can say that you've some good skill. Now, my doctors?" he asked still smirking.
"The bail bond is 1500$" the officer informed him.
"I'm not paying..." House answered.
House gave him a check signed by Cuddy.
House saw them coming, very embarassed.
"Smile!" he said.
House took a picture. He was delighted about their expressions.
"It's incredible, after three years you're still three idiots. I had no hopes for you two. But you, Foreman, what'd say your gang?" he asked astonished.
"I wasn't in a gang and there was an alarm system" Foreman said annoyed.
"And a big dog" Chase pointed out.
"A small Fort Nox" House said smirking.
House got in the car. Foreman opened the front passenger door but House stopped him and he let Cameron to take that seat. Foreman shook his head.
"Can I ask you why?" Foreman said annoyed.
"If they see us, they'll think that we want to steal something. If they see me with Chase, well, I don't want to be seen with Chase" he said disgusted.
Cameron smiled. House passed the hospital.
"Where are we going?" Chase asked.
"There's a rave not so far away" House said.
"Are we going at the Stevens'?" she asked astonished.
"Nooo. I'm going at Mike's house, I want to see the scary dog" he said excited.
House parked in front of the apartment. They got out from and House opened the front door with ease.
"Ok, snoop around. I'm going to keep a lookout for the dog" he pointed out.
House stared at Chase who walked toward the kitchen. From the couch, jumped out a big dog and started to growl at House.
"Down!" House said seriously.
The dog stopped immediately and laid down.
"Is this the scary dog? You're pathetic".
"I just said that there was a dog, not that it was scary" Chase argued.
"Beautiful apartment, too much stairs for me but still good. Where's the kid's room?" House asked after a while.
"Upstairs" Cameron said.
"Great" he said defeated.
Cameron smiled. House started to go upstairs followed by them. He entered the room.
"Ok, Cameron here, you two in the parents' room" he oredered.
Foreman and Chase went away and House stayed there staring at her.
"Are you planning to help me somehow?" she asked annoyed.
"I don't think so. There's a better view from here" he said smirking.
Cameron, who was bent down, straightened immediately.
"Stop it, Greg. There are Foreman and Chase in the other room" she whispered. House grabbed her arm and kissed her. She pushed him away.
"I said stop. We're in a 10 years old kid's room that is now in a hospital bed" she pointed out.
"So what? I didn't put him there" he answered simply.
Cameron smiled and exited, taking off her gloves.
"There's nothing here" she said to Foreman and Chase.
"Neither here! There's nothing in this house" Chase said frustrated.
House was staring at some papers on the kid's desk.
"This kid can't write..." he said thoughtfully.
"It's quite impossible...he's 10 years old" Cameron answered confused.
House started to rummage in the shelfs. The team stared at him confused.
"What are you doing?" Foreman asked.
"He must have some exercise book" House answered.
House found one and opened it.
"We have to go to the hospital. Now!" he said quickly.
TBC...