Mandy woke up and went to open her eyes, but the bright lights made her shut them once again. After a few moments she fought the urge to keep her eyes closed and opened them, the first thing that she noticed was that the ceiling tiles were moving. She looked closer and realized that the ceiling wasn't moving but she was. She smiled to herself….but wait I am moving but lying down, that doesn't make since. She panicked and quickly went to set up.

"Whoa, easy, just lay back down you had a bad fall. Lay back down." she heard a voice tell her.

She felt a hand on her shoulder pushing her back down, she looked up to see who it was and saw an unrecognizable man. "Who are you?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper.

"I'm Dr. Foreman." he informed her still holding her shoulder.

"Where are we going?" Mandy asked still trying to sit up.

"To your room." Foreman answered.

"Hey, how you feeling? You had a pretty nasty fall." she heard a voice cut in.

She looked down toward her feet and recognized the man who had been in the elevator with her.

"I'm fine. What happened?" she asked, she thought she had heard she had fallen but she had done no such thing…or had she?

"You fell." Chase answered.

"Uh...huh and who are you?" Mandy asked.

"I'm Dr. Chase." He answered smiling.

"Here we are. We'll get you settled in and let you rest." Foreman informed her.

They wheeled her into a room that had white walls and a single window off to the side.

She looked at them as they began to check her vitals. "What are you doing?" she asked them.

"Checking your vitals. Do you know your name?" Chase asked her.

"Mandy."

"Good, we'll be back to see you in just a little bit." Chase assured her as him and Foreman turned to leave.

She watched them go and slowly fought her body and stood up, she had to get home, she had things to do. She had to get her final exams ready for her students, pay her bills, feed the cats, and then she needed to catch up on grading papers. She looked down at her body and sighed in disgust, instead of her clothes she was in a gown. Now, why would they put her in a gown there was nothing wrong with her. She walked across the room and opened a closet door where a bag hung on a hook, she smiled it held all of her personal possessions.

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House looked at his three employers, "So…what do you want? General Hospital comes on in…three minutes." he informed them looking at his watch.

Chase looked at him in disgust, "We have a case." he informed him.

"Oh, goody, what is it? My leg hurts or I have a major headache." House asked.

Foreman looked at Chase, "It's a twenty-four year old female, hot flashes, dizzy spells, fainting spells, nauseated. Just was at her doctor office and diagnosed with a virus." Foreman informed his boss.

"Oh, and what quack told her that." House asked.

"Dr. Melvis." Cameron answered.

"Uh, huh okay what do you think?" House asked.

Silence hung in the air, "Okay, you have a minute and a half. A minute and a half and you lose me to General Hospital, hear me?" House told them.

"But, but you have a patient." Cameron told him.

House said nothing but pointed at his watch for emphasis.

"Draw some blood do a ct scan and go from there." Chase hurriedly suggested.

"Good, my little boy is finally growing up now get out and don't bug me for an hour. Understand, never mind just get out." House told them.

The three ducklings looked at him in astonishment and left with nothing more to say.

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Mandy walked out of the bathroom and threw her gown on the bed. She groaned she had left her ring on the bathroom sink she went back in and grabbed it and walked back into the plane white room. Her head was killing her and she was still a little shaky but besides that she was back to normal. She turned to walk out of the room but abruptly stopped a girl was standing there looking at her suspiciously.

"Sorry, go on." the woman told her.

"Thanks." Mandy told her walking out.

Chase and Foreman walked out of the ct room and headed to Mandy's room. "Now that we can use that when we get there hopefully Cameron has already drawn the blood and we can bring her straight down here." Chase told him as they headed down the hallway that Mandy's room was located.

"Wait a minute isn't that…Mandy?" Foreman asked pointing to a woman who was heading in their direction.

"It can't be…" Chase told him.

"It is." Foreman informed him.

"My…Mandy what are you doing? You're supposed to be in bed resting." Chase told her as he grabbed her arm.

"Not out wandering the halls." Foreman added grabbing her other arm.

"I'm going home, I have things to do." Mandy told them trying to pull away from their strong grips, but the two doctors remained persistent and led her back to her room.

"I can't find the patient." Cameron exclaimed.

"She is right here." Chase told her.

"Oh I thought she was a visitor." Cameron told them blushing.

"No, that's her alright," Foreman told Cameron while holding Mandy's gown out to her,

"Go change and don't lock the door."

"You can't keep me here, I'll sign out AMA." Mandy told them heading toward the door but was stopped by Chase.

"No actually you can't you were a head trauma patient. You're stuck here." Chase told her pointing toward the bathroom.

Mandy groaned but saw no way out of it so headed to the bathroom, "I will tell you this is against my wishes." she told them.

"You've made that perfectly clear." Foreman nodded.

"You let her leave?" Chase hissed looking directly at Cameron.

"I didn't know that was her." Cameron hissed back.

"Stop fussing, we can't leave her alone again or she'll leave, she isn't going to stay, if she can find a way to leave." Foreman told them.

"Your right, one of us has to be with her at all times." Chase said glaring at Cameron.

The bathroom door opened and Mandy walked out. "I see you changed." Foreman observed.

"Only because there were no windows to climb through." Mandy answered.

Chase shook his head and led her back to the bed. "Dr. Cameron here is going to draw some blood and then we're going to take you to get a cat scan. Okay." Chase told her.

Cameron watched Mandy nodded grumpily and then went to get her supplies. She stood by the bed and took Mandy's arm, "This will only take a second."

Foreman and Chase waited patiently for Cameron to finish so they could be on their way to the CT scan.

"Okay, that wasn't that bad now was it?" Cameron asked the young woman.

"Depends on how you look at it. I'm in a hospital, where I don't want to be. When I could be at home grading papers, getting caught up on all my work." Mandy answered.

"You're a teacher?" Foreman asked as he walked up to the gurney.

"Yeah, sixth grade." she answered.

Chase and Foreman grabbed the gurney and began to roll it out of the room and toward the CT scan.

"I'll take this to the lab." Cameron told them walking in the opposite direction.

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Foreman and Chase moved Mandy into the CT machine and went into the other room. As they rolled her back into the machine Chase reassured her through the intercom, "Just relax Mandy it will be over in a little bit."

Mandy rolled her eyes and thought to herself how could anyone relax in this thing, it's so loud and noisy. Then she started to feel it, the dizziness and the confusion. What was happening, what was going on? All of a sudden Mandy started to see a white fog. This wasn't part of the whole process was it? She couldn't help but think something was wrong.

Chase looked at the television screen that was showing Mandy's results, "Something is not right, look at her heart rate." Chase told Foreman.

Foreman nodded and looked at Chase.

"Mandy are you okay?" Chase talked to Mandy through the mike but had no reply .

"We have to get her out of there!" Foreman said jumping up.

Mandy screamed.

" Hold on," Chase held his hand up to Foreman, "Mandy calm down you have to stay still." Chase tried desperately to calm her.

Mandy heard his voice and saw the white fog split in the middle and a man move toward her with a gun pointed directly at her. She screamed again and hit the machine, "Let me out...Please let me out." she yelled letting the fear be heard.

Foreman glanced at Chase, "We can't do this unless she holds still."

"I know, I know...Mandy calm down you are okay, you have to hold still." Chase tried yet again to calm his patient.

Foreman sighed this wasn't going to work, "Just get her out we'll try later."

Chase opened the door separating him and his patient and went to the machine to pull Mandy out. She was still screaming and shaking uncontrollably. "Mandy calm down. It's okay, nothing's going to happen to you."

Mandy saw the fog disappear and Foreman and Chase come into view. "What happened?" she asked her voice hoarse.

"You mean you don't remember?" Foreman asked a startled expression appearing on his face.

"No what happened?" Mandy asked.

"You started hallucinating and went into shock. We had to pull you out of the machine." Chase answered still looking at her.

Chase and Foreman helped Mandy back to her room, settled her into bed and told her to rest and take it easy while they figured things out. As they left the room they started to discuss what had just happened and what possibilities there were. Nothing seemed possible. Chase looked at Foreman and said, "As much as I hate to admit this I think we better go talk to House. Even though General Hospital is not over." Foreman nodded in agreement.

Chase walked into the room where House was and immediately started talking. "Mandy started hallucinating in the CT machine and we had to pull her out. . . " Chase stopped abruptly at the look on House's face.

"I still have three minutes left of General Hospital." House said holding his hand up to silence him.

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Mandy watched the cute Australian doctor and the other doctor walk out the door. This was her chance she could leave now. No one would know till she was fifteen minutes away. She held her head up and immediately let it collapse again. It just wasn't worth it, she was tired and there would be plenty of other times she could escape...she closed her eyelids and slowly drifted off to sleep.