Yay...woo hoo, it's chapter 9! You'll be able to see Jak in action at the end of this chapter. Chapter 10 is going to be the last chapter of this story. But, it doesn't end there. I'll have a sequel up right after I post chapter 10. Anyway...on to the story!

----Anyone who was in the lobby had fled. No one dared to step between the two women. Wherever they brought the fight...they completely decimated the area. Chairs were knocked over, desks overturned, lamps destroyed, Ashelin and Stacy had laid waste to the lobby. And all that Dr. Lisa Cuddy could do was watch her precious lobby be destroyed. She impatiently waited for security to show up. The lobby was a mess and someone was going to have to pay for all of this. Cuddy stared down the hall to see if security was even here yet. "Why? Why did I hire security if they aren't going to do their job?" She thought to herself.

Stacy and Ashelin had no intention of stopping. Ashelin stood there dazed for a moment and Stacy was backing up and she flung herself at Ashelin, dragging her to the ground. Ashelin flipped Stacy over and began to take her share of punches to her stomach. The two women tumbled and rolled across the lobby floor.

Five minutes too late security finally arrived. The officers struggled to pull the two women apart. They thrashed against the officers and at each other. Out of the corner of her eye, Stacy saw House. She stopped fighting and seemed paralyzed by his gaze. House approached the officer holding Stacy. "I'll take her." was all that House said. The officer hesitated, but released Stacy to House.

Stacy ran to House and collapsed into House's arms. She was sobbing heavily, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry..."

House had zero of a clue on how to handle this situation, considering the fact that House just wasn't good with emotions in general. He slowly wrapped his arms around Stacy. He patted her back, "It's alright, Stacy." But the only thing running through House's mind at the time was: "Wow...women have the weirdest mood swings. Ready to kill one minute, crying the next. So enotional...huh, is it time for my lunch break, yet? And, damn, where are my Vicodin? Well, this sucks...ok, I'm bored, can we move on now?"

Cuddy's shock drained from her face and resurfaced as pure anger, "Stacy! Ashelin! In my office now! This is completely ridiculous! And as for the security officers, all of you are fired! It took you five minutes to get here! What the hell is wrong with all of you, you are completely useless! Just get out."

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Chase, Cameron, and Foreman sat in the cafeteria eating lunch. Cameron munched on a fresh garden salad while Chase and Foreman ate cheesburgers. "Where is House?" Foreman asked before taking another big bite out of his burger.

Cameron thought about it for a second, "I'm not sure. Probally with Stacy or bothering Cuddy about something."

Chase's demenor sounded worried, "I hope Stacy isn't taking the focus off of Keira's case, like she did with Salicia's."

"Who is Stacy exactly anyway?" Cameron asked.

"House's ex-girlfriend." Chase answered. "Strange thing is, is that she's married and staying with House."

"She's having an affair with House! House of all people!" Foreman found this both shocking and amusing.

"Weird." Cameron added.

Chase and Foreman were finished eating and were waiting for Cameron, who was slowly savoring her salad. "Well," she said. "While House isn't here and currently MIA what can we do about figuring out a diagnosis?"

"Good idea. We''ll do our own diffarential." Chase complimented Cameron.

"I'll start." Foreman offered. "It's rather hard to diagnose her. She has had so many symptoms. I mean think about it: coma, cardiac arrest, fever...the list goes on and on."

"Wait," Cameron said as if she had just had a sudden revelation. "of all the symptoms, did any of them include pain?"

Chase thought about it, "No, not as far as we know about it."

"Exactly, she hasn't felt any pain of any sort at all. Which is very strange. Analgesia (a fully conscious state where pain isn't felt) would narrow it down to all but a few diseases, if we could prove that it's a symptom. It would have made this diagnosis perfectly clear."

"First off, what makes us think that she is experiencing analgesia? Remember that cardiac arrest she had? She said---"

Cameron cut Foreman off, "she said that her chest felt funny, not that it hurt, even though it should have. Plus, have we ever heard her complain about pain?"

"No." Chase and Foreman answered in unison.

"So let's go do one small test."

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----Stacy and Ashelin sat at one end of the desk. Cuddy sat at the other end of the firnished wood desk. She was tapping her pen on the desk and House, who was standing behind Stacy, was tapping his cane on the floor in perfect sync with Cuddy's pen tapping.

"I can't believe this..." Cuddy sighed. "Our head of the hospital board and a lawyer got into a physical fight in my lobby. What the hell triggered all of this?"

"I just wanted an apoligy for my mother's death." Ashelin stated matter-of-factly.

"It wasn't my fault!" Stacy yelled. "There was nothing House, Cuddy, or any other doctor could have done!"

Ashelin hissed, "If you hadn't taken the one doctor that may have been able to save her, maybe she'd still be alive right now!"

"Wow, women fighting over me. I can get used to this." House sarcastically remarked.

"Shut up, House. Ladies please. I'm sorry Ashelin, but Stacy is right. The disease was terminal (ultimately fatal). There was nothing that anyone could do. But as for you Stacy, what is your reasoning for continuing to fight?"

"I hadn't had a good day. The last thing that I needed was someone to piss me off. I had recieved a call from my husband...he wants a divorce after he found out that I was staying with, Greg...er...House. I just saw this as an outlet for all of my frustration and anger. I am sorry though."

Cuddy placed a hand to her head. "Hearing each of your individual pleas and arguments tells me that no further administrative action is neccessary. Just make sure that this doesn't happen in my hospital again."

Ashelin nodded and left and Stacy also nodded in agreement. Cuddy's phone rang and she waved House and Stacy off. They walked down the hall together. House turned to her and said, "Was that true about you and your husband?"

"Yeah." Stacy said sadly. "Looks like I'm moving back in with you."

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---- Jak was walking the streets of Haven City. He was a good while away from HCTH. But for him, althought it was tempting to stay and watch, Jak fled the carnage that Ashelin and another woman had created in the lobby. Jak wasn't exactly sure where Samos went, but he was sure that it was a quiet place. Somewhere that he could be alone to think and meditate as he was frequently prone to doing.

Jak stared up at the sky. It was a very cloudy day. The sun could barely shine through the clouds and the air smelled heavily of rain. Jak turned his head slightly to the side. He could have sworn that he heard someone. Jak shrugged it off and continued walking. That is until Jak was sure that he heard a faint groaning in the alleyway next to him. Jak peeked inside the alleyway.

Thesight that Jak was met with was horrid. A young woman in about her twenties lay beaten on the ground. She was moaning and groaning and had blood profusely pouring from her forehead. Jak knelt beside her. He tried to keep his calm so that he wouldn't frighten her. "Miss, what happened?"

She gasped for breath, "Krimson...guard...I was...I was walking...and I...I looked...at him...and...and he...attacked...me..."

Jak scooped her into his arms. Jak grabbed the nearest zoomer and held tight to her as he craftliy navigated the streets of Haven City with deadly accuracy. Jak's driving was so fast yet so well timed and perfect that he brought her to the hospital just in time to save a life. Jak waited in the lobby, or what was left of the lobby, for a while just to make sure that she was alright.

One of the doctors from the ER came out to let Jak know about her condition, "She is doing just fine. As a matter of fact, she is and employee of this hospital. She works with the EMTs or Emergency Medical Transport team. She said that she was greatly impress with your timing and great navigation skills. She also said that you'd make a very good EMT and that Cuddy would scoop you up for the job in a heartbeat."

Jak was releived about the good news, but he also said, "I'll consider the job offer."

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Jak is the hero as always, but don't forget that job offer he just got. I was giving a bit of foreshadowing into this story's sequel. That was the whole purpose of this part. Any way coming up in the finale of Jak, M.D., Cameron, Foreman, and Chase perform a test that may land them in big trouble, but save Keira's life. And it's job offers left and right as I use chapter 10 to set that stage for Jak, M.D.'s sequel: Keira, M.D.

Thanks to all my faithful reviewers for sticking with this story the whole way so far!