Chapter 3 here we go! Ashelin seems to be a problem...but with her hanging around things are bound to get worse. House knows that she doesn't mean well, but Cuddy is too accepting of the large donation that she made. Ashelin is defnitally going to be stirring up trouble...
NOTE: All of the diseases shown in this fanfiction are real some are more common than others. For more information on these diseases check the very end of the story, I will have more information on the diseases explained.
---- The sun shined brightly outside of Haven City Teaching Hospital. But inside a dark cloud followed Dr. Gregory House into the hospital. As he walked the long, white coat flowed around his figure. He stopped at the large circulation desk in the lobby. He took his cane and slammed it on the desk, grabbing the attention of the two women standing there. "Good morning, Dr. Cuddy!" House said in a extremely sarcasticly cheerful tone. "Morning, Dr. Ashelin. Oh wait, you can't be a doctor. Strippers never made good doctors." House continued to make his way to the elevator.
Ashelin scowled and Cuddy yelled after House, "House! Get back here! You have clinic duty!"
"Sorry Cuddy. I have a dying patient to diagnose. I'm sure the clinic patient's sneezes and runny noses aren't fatal."
House stepped into the elevator and as the door closed Cuddy yelled, "You have thrity minutes! After that, I want you in this clinic!"
Ashelin glared, turned to Cuddy and said. "I think that I'm going to have a word with Dr. House." Ashelin proceeded to the elevator.
Cuddy just stood there, "I still can't believe that he is actually wearing his lab coat like I told him to yesterday." She looked around to see that no one was there to hear her. "I've really got to stop talking to myself."
----House yanked the door to the conference room open. The smell of the coffee that Cameron roasted filled the air. House's entire team was seated at the table. Cameron was sorting House's mail, Chase was working on a crossword puzzle, and Foreman, the neurologist, was staring at Keira's file.
House grabbed a cup of coffee and went to his dry erase board. He gave Ashelin and Cuddy one tally mark. The board now read: "House: 1, Ashelin and Cuddy: 1" but that would change soon enough. Cameron and Chase looked up at House.
"Lemme guess," Chase said. "Ashelin and Cuddy get a point for making you wear your lab coat."
"But still," Cameron added. "you are actually wearing your lab coat!"
House looked down at the lab coat he was wearing, "Oh my god. You are right. I am wearing my lab coat. am I stoned or something?" House took it off and tossed it into the trash. He began to write more on the board. It was a listing of Keira's symptoms. It read: Coma, blood vomit, sudden wellness, cardiac arrest. "Chase, how is our patient?"
"Fine now. Took long enough to revive her. But now she has a fever of 102 degrees." Chase explained.
"Differential diagnosis. Cameron suggestion?"
Cameron set the mail down and studied the symptoms on the board. "Well, it could be Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis. That causes heart failure."
Foreman took that into consideration. "Can't be. That's a lung condition. Plus, other symptoms are leg swelling, dry cough, and shortness of breath. She doesn't have any of those."
"How about Lymphoma? Causes chest pain and unknown fever." Chase suggested.
"Can't be that either." Cameron said. "That disease attacks the immune system. If she had that, she'd probally be a sickness magnet. She most likely would have died of the common cold by now."
House banged his fist on the board. "Come on people! Stop over thinking it. Her file says that she came from a tropical place. Tropical places have bugs."
"West Nile Virus?" Foreman questioned.
"Exactly." House said. "Symptoms of West Nile include high fever and a coma."
Chase argued, "but the symptoms also include paralysis, muscle weakness, and paralysis. She has none of those."
"True. But maybe she had symptoms like that before and ignored them. For a time they could have recessed and then came back full force."
"He has a point." Cameron said.
"Great. Now that we all agree. Chase, give her the west nile meds. Cameron, give Kairi---"
"It's Keira." She corrected.
"Whatever. Give her the diagnosis. And Foreman, take the nametag that I never use and go do my clinic duty. For four hours you are going to going to be Dr. House." House left and went into his office. He pulled out a file and began to study it.
----The doctor walked down the hall as they headed towards their patient. "Hey!" A red haired woman with tatoos on her face called to the doctor. The doctor turned around and Ashelin approached them. "You are a member of House's team aren't you?" She asked.
"Umm...yes, I am."
"I'm Ashelin. I'm the new director of the board, meaning I'm your new boss. I need some information. I need you to keep a tab on House for me. Do that and I can assure you that if anything goes wrong, you are safe from any harm. You never have to worry. Deal?"
"Sounds good to me."
---- With that settled, Ashelin made her way to House's office. She yanked the door open and stood in front of House's desk. House looked up at her and said mockingly, "You're late. Cuddy said that the stripper she sent me would arrive at 10, it's 10:30."
"Hilarious." Ashelin hissed sarcastically. "And you are House, right?"
House didn't care much for her company and would much rather had her jump off a cliff or something. But he wouldn't mind pissing the new chairman off. "Oh right, you're the new chairman of the board. what was your name again...Ashely? Ashla? Ashelin? Ashhole? No wait, it was asshole. Right, I got it now."
Ashelin leaned forward on the desk, "Listen amd listen good. I am the head of this hospital now. Keep breaking rules and being the typical ass that you are and I'll fire you."
Jak stopped in the doorway. This time Daxter was with him. Jak signaled to Daxter to keep quiet. It seemed as though Ashelin and House hadn't noticed them yet.
"House, if you don't do exactly as I say I'll dismantle you entire department and pull the plug or your current case!"
Jak couldn't hold it in any longer. "you can't do that! Keira is my girlfriend and House can't give up on her now!"
Daxter leapt off of Jak's shoulder and approached her, "But i'll give myself up to you. Meow." Daxter was the usual flirt.
"Hey!" House cut in. "She's my whore! Back off rat!"
Ashelin growled, "Keep pushing it House!" I'll turn this whole hospital against you!" Ashelin turned to Jak. "and about your girlfriend. You can blame House for her death." As Ashelin left, Jak followed her in a fit of rage.
House looked at the rat a.k.a Daxter. And thought for a second, "Hey, are you up for a little job?"
---- "We believe that you have west nile virus." Cameron explained.
"So this comes from one tine bug bite?" Keira asked.
"As hard as it seemes to believe, yes, it does." Cameron explained with a slight smile.
Chase was prepping a syringe with the west nile meds. "Don't worry." Chase said. "These meds contain a blood thinner to help deter a heart attack or cardiac arrest. It'll also improve blood flow to help flush this out of you."
Keira suddenly looked at bit uncomfortable. "Is everything alright?" Cameron asked.
"My bed feel wet..." Keira solumnly admitted.
"It's ok." Cameron said soothingly. "Accidents happen and---"
"But I didn't go. I feel a bit light headed."
Chase put the syringe down. He walked over to her. "Well, we'll just turn you on your side." He pushed her over on her side. "and----oh my god!"
"what?" Cmaeron peered over. Keria was lying in a pool of blood.
"We need a shot of epideferin, stat!" Chase ordered. "We need some more help in here!"
"Got it!" Cameron grabbed a syringe filed with the drug that Chase asked for. "Pushing 2 ccs of epideferin." Cameron injected the drug.
Chase eyed the moniters, "She should be ok now. We'd better get to House. Looks like west nile isn't the virus we should be looking for."
Medical definitions:
1. Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis: Lung condition. Symptoms include: shortness of breath, heart failure dry cough, and leg swelling.
2. Lymphoma: Disease that weakens the immune system. Symptoms include chest pain and enexplainable fever.
3. West Nile Virus: Potentially seroius illness. Caused by mosquito bites. Symptoms include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, disorientation, coma, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness, and paralysis.
4. cardiac arrest: When the heart stops beating
In chapter four things start to get confusing with Keira's condition and it is a race against the clock to save her. And House gives Daxter a very special job. Ashelin is stirring up even more trouble and one of House's doctors continues to feed her information, but who is it. And when Jak accidentally loses control and turnes into Dark Jak, House begin to search for a way to save Jak too.
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