CHAPTER TWO
The door to Chase's apartment was unlocked, so after no one answered when he knocked numerous times, Forman went in.
Chase had always been a clean person. A place for everything and everything in it's place. But his apartment looked like a frat party had taken place. Either that or a tornado. Pillows and furniture were thrown everywhere, things were broken; the whole place looked very un-Chase like.
Forman called for Chase a few times with no success.
He finally found him laying on top of the bed. There was blood all over the sheets as well as on Chase. Chase was awake, his eyes were open, but he was completely unresponsive. Forman almost felt bad about his suspicion of a hang over. He struggled to put a pair of sweats on the other man, gathered him in his arms and brought him down to his car and sped him off to the hospital.
"Come on, Chase, answer me," Cameron begged as she started cleaning cuts on his head.
"What happened?" House leaned his weight on his cane as he stood in the door of the room Chase had been placed in.
Cameron looked up but didn't say anything to the other doctor.
"He needs a staple here," she pointed to a large gash that had stained the blonde hair brown. "And stitches in several places. I haven't gotten him x-rayed yet. But I'm sure he has broken bones."
"That's not what I asked."
"I don't know!" She looked up at him with her own puppy eyes. "I don't know what happened. But we saw it coming. All of us, didn't we? And we didn't do anything!"
"Go find Forman and help him with whatever the hell he's doing."
"But what abou-"
"I'll take care of it. Go find Forman."
Cameron stared at him for a second, surprised by the underlying concern she could feel coming from her supervisor. But she shook her head to clear the thought then went to do as she was told.
"What did you get yourself into?" House muttered as he picked up the cloth Cameron had abandoned and dabbed the last of the blood he could find before calling in to get him some x-rays. He wouldn't ever admit it, but the way that Chase was just staring into space, not registering anything around him, unnerved him.
