Hello to all of my reader and reviewers, sorry for all the big gap in my update I had a huge paper to finish and now I'm done so I'm celebrating. Anyway thanks to my reviewers:
LyokoDoReMi- Thanks for the grammar advice I reread it and it was a little confusing that's fixed,
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Ulrich breathed heavily in and out, feeling his lungs crackle each cycle. Yumi and his parents sat by his side, Yumi on one side and Ulrich's mother on another. My people had come into the hospital to wish him luck or goodbye or things of that persuasion. It didn't really matter to him though.
Though, inside the office of a certain crippled doctor, everyone was looking through his case file and medical history. Everybody was looking for something, anything that could possibly explain everything or just even another symptom. "This could be a genetic disorder." Kutner thought optimistically.
"We've tested him for just about every single disease genetic and virus alike." Foreman replied. "There's no way that that's it." All anybody could do was stare at the whiteboard in front of them.
At Kadic, Odd sat there at the cafeteria just playing with his food. Aelita and Jeremie were sitting on the other side of him, he hadn't even noticed it yet. "Come on Odd, you've never been one to just leave food sitting on a tray." Aelita said.
Odd didn't even reply, just kept twirling his food with his fork. He hadn't seen Ulrich since he gave him his little testimony, and he couldn't bear to watch his best friend die before him. Giving up on his food, Odd pushed away the tray and walked up to his dorm room. There sat Kiwi barking for the attention of his owner.
Odd paid him no mind, just stared at the ceiling and tried to keep his mind away from his dying friend. Soon Kiwi's barking became too much for him to bear and he snapped. "KIWI! STOP IT! STOP THE BARKING!" Odd yelled angrily. Kiwi sensed the anger of his master, and quieted down after whining for a moment. Realizing what he'd done, he walked over to Kiwi and scooped him up in his arms. "I'm sorry boy. I'm so so sorry, I didn't mean to do that."
Petting his dog, Odd laid there and sat in discontent. Upon hearing a knock on the door, Odd picked up Kiwi and placed hi inside his wardrobe. "Who is it?" he asked nervously.
"Don't worry Odd, it's Jeremie." Einstein said to Odd's relief. Unlocking the door, Odd watched as he walked in and sat on the chair to his unused desk. "So, you gonna go see Ulrich again? Considering?" Jeremie paused, breathing in deeply.
Odd could only shrug his shoulders. "I honestly don't know right now Einstein." he said truthfully. Jeremie stood up in reaction, he was appalled.
"Odd are you serious? You don't know? I shouldn't even have to ask you that question." he exclaimed.
"Then why did you?"
"Because I was sure I knew what the answer was going to be." he replied. Odd sat back down on his bed, placing his head into his hands.
"It's just... I don't know if I can see him like that. He's inches from death, Jeremie. I'm... I'm not sure if I can handle that." He said stifling a sniffle.
Odd let the rest of his pain flow through, after all that's happened to Ulrich in front of him his catharsis was necessary. The tears dropped and he was breathing heavily. Jeremie sat beside him and joined in his misery. There were no tears from him, but Odd could tell that there was pain. "We all know what you're going through Odd. Even if he isn't gonna make it, don't you think that he'd still wanna see your face before he goes?" Jeremie asked while giving Odd a comfort hug.
Odd thought about it as he tried to regain his composure. He did owe Ulrich that much, one last laugh or one last goodbye or hello or whatever he'd think of to say. "Okay, I'll go." Odd said.
Jeremie was happy to know that Ulrich would have all of his friends. "Okay, let's go then. Aelita's waiting for us down by the gates with Sissi." Odd put the brakes on the moment he heard the she harpy's name.
"Oh No! We are not bringing Sissi along with us. Come on! In Ulrich's condition, there's no way he wants to see Sissi right now." Odd argued. Jeremie wasn't going to argue with Odd about this one, no one would be happy seeing Sissi at this moment.
"That's true, but without her we can't leave campus. She's our pass to get to the hospital and we're her pass to get in to the hospital." Jeremie said. Odd couldn't fight it, if he wanted to see his best friend then he'd have to put up with Sissi.
The boys walked to the gates, where they met Sissi and Aelita. "Alright Sissi, there's only two rules that you have to apply to right now. Rule 1: no calling Ulrich your darling sweetheart or anything like that."
Sissi could comply with that one. "Well then what's the second rule?"
"If anyone, and I do mean anyone in his room asks you to leave, you leave understand?" Jeremie asked her seriously. Sissi didn't really like the rule, but she really wanted to see Ulrich so she chose to abide by them. The group continued to walk towards the hospital.
House sat in his office, playing with the tennis ball like usual. He was trying to think, something that he missed. One symptom, one factor. An environmental cause, a toxin, a pesticide or a genetic component. So far, he had been turning up nothing. His train of thought was interrupted by a Wilson knocking on the door. "Mommy I promise I'll be good." House said in a little girl's voice.
"Not here to scold you. I checked on the kid, his kidney's are gonna give out in another 45 minutes or so."
"And your point is?" House asked twirling his cane.
"My point is that you should at least see the kid off." House stood up and walked to the whiteboard part of the room.
"Show him off to what? The morgue? There's no point to see him off if I'm gonna see him at the autopsy now is there?"
Wilson took his cane from him. "You know exactly what I meant!" he yelled pointing his cane at him. "No matter what happens to this kid, it sucks but you should at least be there. Your his doctor, it's the least that you can do."
"No, I'm his doctor. The least I can do is cure him." House said back while staring at the board.
Wilson gave up, he figured House would get the message sooner or later. "Well I'm going to try and fix the relationship with the blonde woman that you told I was gay."
House picked up his cane and walked back to him. "Oh come on now Jimminy. You know that that would never..." House stopped in mid thought. He thought back, remembering the bruise. What if his dad didn't strangle him. That meant another symptom was there, easy bruising. Wilson knew what came next, he would have a revelation of some sort and rush towards the patient's room. And he was right, House left the office and looked for his team, guessing they were in the patient's room.
Odd, Aelita, Jeremie, and Sissi all stood watching Ulrich. Feeling as though they should just put him out of his misery. Yumi clasped Ulrich's hand in her own, feeling his hand weaken a little. Within seconds, House entered the room along with his team. "I hope I wasn't interrupting anything. If so, oops."
"What did you figure out what's wrong with him? Is he gonna die now? Are you gonna kill him?" Ulrich's father said gripping his wife's hand.
"Well, I can't really tell you until you shut up... Now that we've gotten that out of the way, yes I've figured it out. At least that's the plan. But I can't be sure, since I need two things to make sure. Number one, you ms. I swallow Helium for breakfast leave the room."
Sissi was about to argue, but then she remembered the deal she made with Odd, Jeremie and Aelita before she got here. So she left, watching from the glass.
House walked over to Ulrich's open hand and rolled up the sleeve and put a needle in to collect the blood. "She really didn't have to leave. I figured if I'm right that she's not the first person you want your I'm gonna live hug and smooch from."
"Why do you always assume that you're right?" Mr. Stern asked impatiently.
"It's hard to diagnose if you assume on the wrong end of the spectrum. You, the three musketeers. Come with me." House said as he pointed to the team. Kutner, Taub, and 13 followed him to the lab.
Handing him the equipment, House took the blood and examined it.
"Mind telling us what you're doing?" Foreman asked
"I'm doing an ANA." House replied.
"There's no way it can possibly be an autoimmune disease. Besides, we tested for that already." Taub told him. Ignoring them, like usual, House ran the test.
About 5 minutes later, the test beeped. "Just as I suspected. Lupus is our culprit." House said as though he were Holmes.
"It can't be Lupus, the ANA was negative." Kutner argued.
"Yes, it was. But we tested him the same time we gave him levothyroxine. It was swimming inside his blood and clouded the results. So go hit the kid with cytoxan, corticosteroids, and methotrexate. And hook him up to a dialysis right after, he'll be fine."
The team did just that. The guys ran to get the meds and the machine, while Thirteen went to the room to tell him what his diagnosis was. "Your son has Lupus. It's an autoimmune disease, the soccer practice along with the occasional virus going around school threw his immune system into overdrive and it attacked itself."
"How does someone get one of these diseases?" his mother asked nervously.
"Sometimes it's genetic, but in this case it was just a freak accident some bad luck. We're gonna start him on some meds and dialysis until his kidneys are better and he'll be fine." Ulrich smiled a big smile as Yumi gave him a great kiss on the lips. The entire group was crying, looking around they noticed that Sissi was nowhere to be found.
The guys hooked him up to dialysis and started the meds, saying he'd be out in about a week or two. House saw the cheering and walked away. "You did it, solved another one." Wilson said congratulating him.
"Go celebrate with the kid not me." House huffed as he walked out of the hospital. Upstairs, Ulrich's parents were talking to him about his grades and everything. They soon stepped out, saying goodbye to everyone. Yumi was the first to walk in.
"What was that about?" scared of what they answer was.
"My dad and I reached a conclusion. I just need to start getting Bs. Oh and they said they want you to come home with me next holiday." Yumi couldn't help but smile as she gave her boyfriend a peckon the cheek.
The gang piled in and gave Ulrich a big hug. "And they all lived happily ever after." Odd chuckled, which Ulrich punched him in response.
This is probably one of the most grueling stories I've ever made, and definitely the most popular. Thank you to everyone who reviewed and liked the story. Kudos to CupcakeCutie for guessing Lupus. Anyway, everyone please R&R I enjoy hearing your thoughts. Please check out some of my other stories. I'm also open to suggestions if anybody wants me to make something.