A/N: I... Am SO sorry! No, I haven't disappeared or died, school was more insane than I thought! (A new term and my math mark is less than favourable) Anyway, this is almost complete. I still plan on doing a series this summer, all the stories will be much shorter, or else I get carried away like this! XD

"I'm Doctor House, the attending on your daughters case." House said as he shifted his cane uncomfortably and wondered if he made a break for it, how far would he get before they caught him. "This is Sam..."

"Spencer." The young man corrected.

"Right, Spencer Something,"

"Spencer Taylor," The young man corrected again, a little miffed by House's attitude.

"Right, he's a friend of your daughters."

"When can we see her?" Olivia Kendall hung onto her husbands' arm like a fragile flower, afraid to be blown away in the wind, which really was the most appropriate way to describe the way she looked.

"There have been some complications," House said slowly, knowing that he'd have to talk in simplified sentences just to get through to these parents. "It appears your daughter is in a coma."

"W-what does that mean?" Richard Kendall asked quietly.

"It means that somewhere in the process of getting your daughter better, we missed something."

"What... what can you do for her?" Olivia asked.

"Run tests." House said bluntly, "And watch her, other than that, very little. She's sick, her immune system has been compromised twice before this, we've taken enough blood from her to start our own bank, we'll have to wait before we can take any more."

"Do you have any good news for us?" Richard Kendall asked with a slightly defensive stance.

"Yeah," House said as he turned his back to them, "You're here now, at least she won't die alone."

"Mister Kendall?" Cameron stepped out of the room, a pained look on her face.

"Yes? Doctor Cameron?"

Allison nodded and smiled grimly, "I didn't expect you here so soon..."

"We took the first flight we could." Richard Kendall explained, "Doctor Cameron, what's going on? This Doctor-..." He turned to motion where House had been standing but was no longer. "House, he said our Jenny is in... Please, what's going on?"

Cameron lowered her eyes and tried to think of what would be appropriate to say to the Kendall's, they had come here expecting to see their missing daughter, only to find that she was in a coma and not looking particularly good.

"Your daughter is very sick. When I called you... we thought we had everything sorted out. She arrived with Aspergillosis, a fungal disease. It aggravated her Addison's disease, which has been caused by her tuberculosis from thirteen years ago, this sent her into Addisonian crisis. We began treating her and her symptoms were improving but now... It appears that we were either wrong in the Addison diagnosis or... something else has sent your daughter into a coma."

"Oh my god." Olivia Kendall buried her head onto her husbands' shoulder as tears streaked down her face. No one had noticed that Spencer had moved away from the doctor and parents and was now standing in front of the glass window. He was looking in at Jenny as Chase and Foreman desperately tried to figure out what exactly was wrong.

"Please wake up." He whispered as he rested his hand against the glass, "Wake up Jenny..."

xXx

"I don't get it," House muttered to himself, "What did we miss?" He sat in his office and stared up at the walls and tossed his cane lightly from hand to hand, Cuddy was coming up to his office, so was Wilson. Never in his entire career had a case provided such a challenging case, it was so unfair. Just as her parents arrived she had to go off and slip into a coma.

"Why me?" House muttered over and over again, "Why? Why? Why?"

"Because you make god cry?" Wilson suggested as he walked into the office followed closely by Cuddy.

"That's nice." House replied as he turned to look at his friend, "I thought I was god."

"We'll you're doing a pretty crappy job at running things." Cuddy pointed out, "Why is she in a coma?"

"I don't know." House admitted, "All her tests show Addison's, unless there's a third thing that's wrong with her."

"We'd have to give her some kind of award." Wilson said with a sigh, "Patient who successfully manages to confuse the most doctors."

"The police are coming to talk to the Kendall's." Cuddy said slowly, "They're probably going to want to talk to you as well."

"Why me?" House asked.

"Because you talked to her, she admitted the abuse to you..."

"Not really."

"Well it doesn't matter, the fact remains that you know her best out of any of the doctors."

"Daniel Corbin's still in jail isn't he?" Wilson asked, "Because this could be his fault."

"What could he do? Poison her?" Cuddy demanded, "No way, he's locked up tight in a cell. There's got to be another reason."

xXx

"Her BP is on a steady decline." Chase muttered as he looked at the monitor beside Jenny's bed. "She's not responding to fluids."

"What do you think is going on?" Foreman asked quietly.

"Who knows," Chase replied, "This kid must be cursed."

"Maybe we need to get her aura cleaned." Foreman suggested with good humour, "A good shaman with affordable prices."

"How can you joke at something like this?" Chase demanded, "This is bad!"

"I know," Foreman replied with a shrug, "It's how I deal with awkward situations."

"How much longer do you think she has?" Chase asked, ignoring Foreman's comment completely.

"Two days, maybe three." Foreman said quietly as he looked down at Jenny with a sad look in his eyes, "Unless of course we figure out what's going on."

xXx

"Can... can you tell us anything about her condition?" Richard Kendall asked quietly, his arm was around his wife's frail shoulders, her head buried in his arm, hiding her tears.

"She was admitted with aspergillosis, a fungal disease." Cameron explained quietly. She had taken the two shocked parents to a quiet corner of the hospital where they could sit and discuss the situation. "Myself and a colleague went to her home and discovered some disturbing information about her living situation. Your daughter... has been spending most of her life in a basement, there were spores in the vent above her bed which she's been breathing in for who knows how many years. We believe the aspergillosis aggravated her Addison's disease which was a result of her half-treated tuberculosis. She was on the road to recovery when she slipped into a coma, I honestly don't know what happened."

"What are you doing to find answers?" Olivia asked as she wiped her eyes on a tissue her husband handed her.

"We're running some tests, at the moment we can't take any more blood because of her low BP and we've taken a fair amount over the past few days as it is." Cameron paused and watched the parents, she was amazed by what she saw. These were the parents that a child like Jenny deserved, and these were the same parents that may never get a chance to speak to her.

"What... what's the chance that she'll wake up?" Richard asked quietly, obviously hiding his own fear.

"It's hard to say at this point in time." Cameron admitted, "We'll need the results from the tests first, her stats are declining, without answers..." Cameron paused and tried to find the words that would not come to her. "If we can't figure this out then... she may have three days left."

"Oh my god." Olivia muttered before burying her head in her hands and sobbing once more.

"Doctor House is an amazing diagnostician," Cameron said, "If anyone can figure this out, he can."

xXx

House stood outside Jenny's room and stared in through the glass. There was a single lamp lit near her bed, casting beams and shadows around the room and onto the young girls ghostly face. The heart monitor was still moving with its jagged lines but there was an obvious decline. Something was killing her.

'All tests negative...' House thought as he held the results in his hand, 'No more sicknesses, just an insane white count that's fighting off something. But there is no infection, no fungal disease, we still have her on the Addison's treatment... what the hell is going on?'

Gloria Corbin had been released from the hospital two hours earlier and taken by the police. It had been quite a scene between the kidnapper and Olivia Kendall, who had begun screaming her fury at Gloria for taking her daughter and nearly killing her. As it had turned out, Gloria and Olivia had been old friends back in BC, the Corbin's had moved a few months after Jenny had disappeared and had not been heard from until now. The police had to restrain Olivia as she tried to lunge at Gloria, with no real agenda in mind, she just wanted to rip the woman's head from her shoulders.

It was only when she nearly fainted that Olivia gave up trying to attack Gloria and finished her verbal attack on the woman with a simple: "Burn in hell." Cameron had taken a history and learned that Olivia had systemic lupus erythematosus. During a rough time for the family while there was no medical coverage available, Olivia had become pregnant with Jenny. She was a 'high risk' and so Richard had borrowed money from rather shady people to get his wife and unborn child the best care available. Unable to pay off the debt in time, the infant Jenny had been taken from her parents by the same people who had lent them the money to insure her survival.

Jenny had been caught up in a heated battle and was forced to pay the price. By working at the bar, she had been paying off her fathers' debt.

House wondered how much money she still had to pay before this all happened. Maybe they could have hosted a bake sale to help her out. Little good a bake sale would do for her now, with all her tests negative and no real lead, the doctors were stuck. All they could do was watch the young girl slowly fade away from the world.

House was not one to let that happen, so with papers in one hand and cane in the other, her hobbled back to his office to take a look at the reports once more and see if there was something. Anything to turn them in a new direction.