I apologize for the wait. Thank you again for all the reveiws.

Cuddy was surprised when she made her way to Chase's room the next day. There was Greg House, shoes off, feet propped up on the bed, head tilted back and light snore emanating from his parted lips.

When she looked at the bed, she saw a pair of eyes start to flutter open. She moved closer to the bed and the monitors started to beep quicker again. In an instant House woke up and moved into Chase's line of sight. Cuddy moved back, not wanting to get in the way. "Shhh, go back to sleep Robert." House consoled.

"I'll get help." Cuddy said as she noticed the monitors continue to beep quickly.

"No. Just stop." House called out, never taking his eyes from Chase's, which were now wide open. "You have to calm down. I know you're scared. I got you. But you have to calm down. Remember, I told you that you couldn't talk because of your jaw and the trach tube. It's okay. Calm down and I'll tell you what's going on, but you have to relax."

Cuddy stood by the door, waiting to react in case it was needed. But it wasn't. After some talking the monitors started to calm down. "Good job. Relax."

House moved back to his chair. "Do you want me to tell you what's going on?"

Chase blinked.

"Okay. Oh Cuddy's here. I think she wants to make sure you're okay. Don't freak on her, we want her on our side." House smiled and waved her over.

"Hi, Chase. Just wanted to see how you're doing. I see that Dr. House is keeping you company. If you want to get rid of him just let me know."

Chase started to blink rapidly and the heart monitor started to beep quicker.

"I'm not going any place Robert. Even you couldn't get me fired from this place, and Cuddy even stood up for me. So they'd have to forcibly remove me. I'm not leaving. I'm staying right here."

Chase's heartbeat slowed back down to a normal beat.

"Are you sure you want to know what's going on?"

Chase blinked again.

"Okay." House took a breath and sat down on the bed next to Chase. "I was outside with Wilson, you know, doing my clinic hours. You were pushed out of a moving van. Wilson ran to get help. Cuddy and Cameron came out.

"You were choking on blood. There was no breath, no pulse, no heart beat. I started CPR.

"We put in a chest tube, drained the blood in your lungs. Shocked your heart twice. You came back to us.

"Five of your ribs are broken, one punctured each of your lungs. They repaired the damage, but to allow them to heal without too much stress we put you on a respirator.

"Remember I told you that we wired your jaw closed. It was broken in three places. We used a trach so that we didn't have to disturb your jaw to take you off the respirator.

"There is a break in your left femur and your left hand and wrist were shattered along with two fingers. They had to put in some plates and pins. With therapy you should gain back about 90 use of that hand.

"There was a tear in you liver that has been repaired. And your kidneys were bruised. There is a foley catheter so that we can monitor your output and make sure there are no problems for you down the road. There are also bruises covering most of your body."

Chase continued to stare at House.

Greg wasn't ready to tell him the rest. Not yet. Even he wasn't ready for it. This was hard enough. He remembered telling his son, that they had removed his leg. That had been hard.

Steven knew something was up. He remembered that his leg had hurt before, and that it didn't anymore.

Greg remembered the look that Steven had given him. The one that said, I know there's something else. What aren't you telling me? It was the same look that Chase had on his face at the moment.

The only reason that he was hesitating was that he wasn't sure how much of the event Chase remembered. If he remembered just the beatings then he didn't want to remind him of the other pain and humiliation that his body had gone through.

Greg looked at Cuddy searching for advice. She looked back at him blankly. He'd been doing so well with Chase before she wasn't going to help him out now. Not that she had any clues as to what was going on between the head of diagnostics and his youngest duckling.

"There was some other trauma." Greg started. "There was blood on your legs. When we rolled you over we found that a flashlight had been used to sodomize you. It tore through your bowels and damaged some of your intestines. They removed about 4 inches of your intestines and repaired the damage to your bowels. There were numerous tears along the anal wall that have been sutured."

Greg finally focused on Chase and saw the tears in his eyes. "I'm sorry Robert. I'm sorry. But we're going to get through this. I promise." He leaned over and hugged him while tears continued down Chase's cheeks.

Lisa stood up and walked out of the room wiping her eyes. She looked back in the room. She wouldn't mention to anyone what had just gone on in that room. It was something personal to both men and she felt like a voyeur for having witnessed it. She also wouldn't mention that there were tears in House's eyes too.

Greg was aware of Cuddy leaving the room but right now he was more concerned with the crying man in his arm.

After a few minutes Chase's arm came up to wipe away the tears. That was House's cue to lay him back down on the bed. He grabbed a tissue and handed it to Chase who wiped his nose too.

Chase then pointed to the tube in his neck and then House's watch. "When can you get that out?" House guessed at Chase's question.

He blinked.

"Figure at least one more day. We want to make sure that you'll be able to breathe on your own without any problems. We aren't taking any short cuts here. We want you to make a full recovery. You take your time. Don't rush anything, you got that."

Chase blinked slowly.

"Tired."

Again another blink.

"Go to sleep. I'll be here when you wake back up." Chase looked like he was wanted to argue. "Rest is the best thing for you. You know that. Don't make me drug you. You know I will." Chase blinked before closing his eyes. "If you're good I'll get you a toy." Was the last thing that Chase heard before he fell back into oblivion.

Once he was sure that Chase was asleep, House went out to the nurses' station. "Give him a sedative. I want him asleep for the next few hours."

The nurse nodded and he made his way to Cuddy's office.