Next chapter! I'm excited...lOl.


"Okay, so we've got bleeding in the lungs...what does that tell us?" House asked, much later after Allison's whole ordeal.

"Can be anything," Foreman said. "Lung caner, lung disease..."

"Yes, but it doesn't fit what's on the board," House interrupted, adding Bleeding in the lungs on the whiteboard. "Because, if I'm correct, and correct me if I'm not, everything else on the board leads up to some sort of a series of seizures...or something more," he trailed off, his mind going forward.

"Like what?" Chase asked. "We've thought of almost every possibility there is."

"Not quite," House said, twirling his cane in between his fingers. "What I'm thinking is, 'Epilepsy'. It's the only thing that mainly fits."

"An 'epilepsy'?" Wilson asked, walking in. "That's usually genetic, am I right?"

"Yes, you are," House said, rolling his eyes. "Good job, would you like a cookie now?"

Wilson ignored House's smart comment and continued, "Cameron has NO family history of any form of epilepsy...or any seizure of any kind."

"Right again. Yet, it's the only thing that fits. It's the only thing that makes sense...unless...how's her heart been?" House asked, looking up.

"Normal," Chase said, shrugging. "Why?"

"How normal?"

"Um...as normal as a heart could be, why?" Chase asked again.

House shook his head. "Would you answer my question?" he demanded.

"I did!" Chase protested. "I told you, as normal as a heart could ever be. It hasn't done anything wild since her last seizure and that was, what, a day ago?"

"Yes, but did you guys get a CLOSE check up on it?" House continued, coming around with another theory that slipped into his mind.

"No...just the normal kind," Foreman said. "Nothing dramatically major."

"Well, 'dramatically major' is about to get a whole new wake-up call," House said. "Chase and Foreman, you're coming with me," he said suddenly, limping his way out the door.

"Where exactly?" Chase asked.

"To Cameron's room. We're doing a heart biopsy," he said.

Wilson jumped into the conversation. "Woah, House! This thing--whatever it is--is in her arms, legs, head, hands, and her entire lung area. Not in her heart!"

"True...yet, according to SOME, the HEART is IN the CHEST, wouldn't you agree?" House asked. "I got a hunch and it's coming around. And if it's wrong, it'll come back to bite me, are you happy?"

Wilson faked a smile. "Completely."

"Good...now be a good boy and get Daddy the files of Cameron's family history...tracing back as far as her parents, got it?" House said.

"But how---"

'Find Cuddy," House winked. "She'll know."

Wilson shook his head after watching House take off with Chase and Foreman. "The man's insane," he said to himself, heading in the direction of Lisa Cuddy's office. "Completely and totally insane..."


"What--are you guys...gonna do now?" Allison asked as House, Chase, and Foreman walked into her room and stood in different places around her bed.

"Heart biopsy," House said rather cheerily. "See if anything's broken."

"Broken?" Allison asked. "You're insaner than I thought!" she added.

"Hey...you just finished a sentence without a stutter," Chase said. "And your head's not twitching anymore..."

"Well, it was when we got in here," House said, rather unmoved by it. "All that is now is the rest of her body," he said, grabbing a syringe. "Gotta sedate ya again..." then to Allison's face, he added, "Yah, I know, it hurts me to do it," while sticking it into her IV line once again.

"Why do you need to do the biopsy. Isn't it a little extreme and over the top?" she asked, watching Chase adn Foreman getting the rest of the machines and equipment necessary for the biopsy.

"Not at all...it's just a test," House told her.

"A...test?" Allison was starting to get tired, but she wanted to know more. "A test for--what?"

"A test for my well-thought-into theory," House told her. "Now shut up and drift off to Dream Land."

As soon as Allison was well unconscious, Chase, House, and Foreman started the biopsy with pretty much no problems at all. House watched the screen in front of him intently, to the occasional, "Pull back"'s from Chase.

It was about twenty minutes into the procedure and Chase was watching the screen as well, pretty much guiding House through it, "You're entering the right atrium..."

"I know, I'm not blind," House muttered.

"Somebody in a bad mood?" Chase dared to ask.

"Trying to save somebody's life, here," House said, trying to ignore Chase and focus on the screen.

All of a sudden, Allison's monitors went wild. "Her heart rate's dropping!" House said after cursing to himself. He pulled the slender tubing out of place and un--did Allison's top part of the Plainsboro nightgown. Foreman grabbed the defibrillator and brought it to House's side of Allison's bed.

House was quick to this and placed to paddles on Allison's chest within a heartbeat. "All clear!" House told Foreman. He watched Allison's heart monitor as they tried to jump-start her pulse and heart again.

Foreman felt her neck. "Nothing. Keep going!"

House waited a moment. "Clear!" he yelled.

By now, a whole rush of doctors were in the room with the other three, including Cuddy and Wilson. When the second time didn't work, they tried for the third time.

Then the fourth.

Then the fifth

Sixth...

Seventh...

Eighth...

Ninth...

Tenth...

"I got a pulse!" House called, his eyes on her heart monitor still. He watched as it steadily went up...higher and higher and higher until...

"What the HECK do you think you're doing!" Lisa demanded, watching as House started placing the slender catheter back into Allison's chest for another try at the biopsy.

"Doing exactly what I came here to do," House said through gritted teeth. "I'm going to find out what's wrong with her.

"But she almost just died! You're OBSESSED!" she protested.

"YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT!" House snapped loudly, his focus on the screen for the heart biopsy.

Cuddy and every other eye was on House, looking both shocked and completely incredulous as he went on with the test as if nothing had happened and all that mattered in the world wasAllison...


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