Author's Note: YEA more reviewss...dances i love yea all...keep reviewing pleaseeeeee, i would love more
mazzy: the cliffhangers are gonna die down a bit right now...i think...ummm...yea...
50 off: sorry, im trying to work on length, but im not one of those types who can get into as much detail as they want too, its hard for me, but im trying...thanks though
Ficcieboy: yea im not much for romance either, thanks
little-delia: and i shall reply in 2 words. IM TRYING! and thank you
Random House quote of the update:
"Steve McQueen without hair? It's a blessing he died young."
Now I have my diet coke in hand, and my music on, LETS UPDATE! lol
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Hours turned into days. Everyone seemed to be in a melancholy state since the incident. The police scoped out the crime scene and asked questions. They questioned everyone in the clinic as well as Cuddy, Wilson, and the ducklings. They had figured out the suspect's name, Jack Locke. He had came in with shortness of breathe, and a bad cough. The police had to have the nurses track the patient threw the computers, the file seemed to be gone along with House's cane, and the apparent weapon of choice.
They had found his apartment and raided it, having a warrant out for him. They had entered the apartment, to find it destoried, rubbish was everywhere, but they found no trace of the man they were seeking. The warrant for arrest was shown in the headlines of the news the first few days after the raid, but no one had called in. This was giving the hostipal alot of bad publicity, fewer patients came in, they were all afraid it would seem. It was just one attack, one patient, one doctor, that caused all this. But the media was a powerful tool, in either hands, reporters flocked around the hostipal, wrenching and prying, asking about the condition of Dr. House. No one answered to them, no one gave them any information that involved the investigation or the condition of Dr. House.
After a few weeks they stopped coming as well. The patients started returning slowly as the news story died down, but the investigation was still on. Still no report on this Jack Locke.
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It was Cameron's turn to check on House. She briefly paused at the doorframe. Her eyes fell apon his frial figure. He laid limply on the bed, a heart monitor hooked up to him beeping regularly, and a respirator machine sitting by with a tube going from it to House, extending down his throat. Tape sealed it to his mouth so it couldn't be removed unless a professional did it. An IV line was dangling from a pole on the other side of his bed, the tube from the bag extending down into his arm, which was laying palm down on top of the blanket that lay neatly over his chest. A hostipal wristband wrapped around the wrist around his arm with the IV as well. His whole frame was gauntly by appearance, he looked like he had an eating disorder now. His skin was pale, but not as pale as when they had found him a month and a half ago, just after the accident.
It had been a month and a half since the incident, and nothing had changed. He was still in a comatosed state, the other doctors said he should be coming around anytime now. The 5 doctors closest to him knew that there was a very slim chance of him waking again, but tried to be optomistic.
Cameron treaded towards him slowly with his chart in her hand. She wrote down what the machines read, and checked his IV bag. Lastly she pulled the blanket back off his chest, showing the scrub shirt that they had placed on him. She pulled up the shirt seeing the bandaged stomach. Slowly she peeled back the bandages, seeing the closed wound, healing quite nicely to their satisfaction. She caressed it slightly with her hand, feeling for anything abnormal. As she was doing this she heard the heart moniter starting to speed up its beeps. His heart rate was rising, she removed her hand looking at the monitor for a second then to House. His face wasnt the serene sleeping look anymore, it contorted pain now. His eyes squeezed together tightly.
"Greg?" Cameron asked softly, moving her hand to his, wrapping her fingers around it lightly. His fingers loosely and shakingly wrapped around hers slowly, in a sign to show he was awake. Cameron felt a flood of relief rush over her, as she smiled, even though he was too tired to open his eyes now, because of all the medication and the pain mixed together, that simple gesture just now was enough for her. She reached over him and hit the nurse's button, she would have gone out to get the other doctors but didn't want to leave House, not right now, he needed her weather he was coherent enough to know it or not.
A nurse walked in, blinking almost in confusion. "Can I help you?" She asked looking to Cameron.
"Yes, Can you get Drs. Cuddy and Wilson for me? Tell them Dr. House is awake" She asked.
"Certainly" The nurse said moving out to retrieve the doctors she had been asked too.
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Dr. Wilson was on his lunch break when the nurse found him, he was in mid-chew of his sandwich. He swallowed hard almost not believing what the nurse had said to him, in utter disbelief.
"Come again?" He asked, he had to hear it again, denying it almost.
"Dr. Cameron told me to tell you Dr. House is awake, and she wants you to come to his room in ICU immediatly" The nurse explained more thoroughly. Wilson blinked at her for a second, then stood up, completely forgetting about his tray, and was off to ICU just as quickly, the nurse had vanished though he didn't notice.
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"Dr. Cuddy?" The nurse knocked on her office door.
"Come in" She answered, closing the file infront of her. The nurse came in.
"Dr. Cameron told me to come get you, and to say Dr. House is awake" The nurse said. Lisa nearly let her jaw drop wide open in shock. She too was in the same disbelief stage as Wilson was, without realizing it. She stood up instantly.
"Thank you for telling me" She said politely and headed out the door after the nurse and went to Greg's room.