"So what if he has personality problems. There was a case where a patient didn't show any symptoms until he bled to death," Wilson explained.
Wilson was slightly worried that House's enthusiasm would end up hurting him in the end. Marburg virus was known for a relativally high fatality rate and although it was less than Ebola, it was still a doozy. The fact that Chase had the slightest symptoms meant it was a classic normal case and hopes shouldn't be held with it in case it happened.
"So what, he'll be the exception. Besides he knows that I hate interviews and how could I threaten him to come back to work then?" House asked sarcastically.
In reality, House was really worried about Chase, but he didn't show it nor would he believe what Wilson was telling him either. Chase was going to be fine, he had to be was what House kept on telling himself when he had one sinch of doubt over this whole thing.
"Fine but if he doen't make it, then there will be a lot of therapy in the future," Wilson added.
"You think I would need therapy," House asked.
"No but your team certainly will," Wilson replied going back to work.
Cuddy and her stupid high maintance for filling out completed paperwork, Wilson thought. House stood there for a moment and was about to say something when his beeper went off.
"I think there's trouble in paradise," House simply said before limping off in a hurry.
Wilson decided to follow from behind.
"Come on Chase, come back to us," Cameron cried.
Foreman finally got a normal heart rhytm and sighed. House and Wilson came to see what the problem was and was shocked to know that things took a turn for the worse again.
"He went into cardiac arrest for five minutes, then after we got a normal rhythm, he went into cardiac arrest again. We finally have a normal heart rhythm lasting longer than a minute," Foreman answered.
"So he's fine," House asked.
"I wouldn't say fine, House he's in a coma," Foreman replied.
Wilson shook his head.
"There has to be a way to help," He said.
Foreman shook his head.
"It's supportive. The heparin isn't working as well as it was and his blood is starting to thicken again," Foreman explained.
"So he's in a coma and no longer grumpy," House asked sarcastically.
The other three ignored him. They knew it was his way of covering up his worry, so they didn't reply to that either.
"His brother Jacob called and said he'd be here tomorrow and to do what ever means necesary," Cameron said.
"Good in the mean time general hospital is on and I wouldn't want to miss it," House said.
He limped off before any one could reply.
Even though he had said that he was watching general hospital, his thoughts were elsewhere. Chase was gravelly ill and there was no way in hell that House was going to give up on him. The problem was, he may not have to and Chase would die right before his eyes.
House was still deep in thought when a man with blonde hair and blue eyes appeared.
"Yes," House asked.
"I'm Jacob Chase and I heard he was sick. I've come to see him," Jacob replied.
House noticed the resembalence right away, although Chase was a bit shorter than Jacob, they had the same colored eyes and hair, and the same nose. He also noticed the Australian accent.
"Come and I will show you-" House was cut off by the beeper again.
House limped as fast as he could to the ICU that even though Jacob wasn't a cripple, he had to follow to keep up. House kept him from entering and went in to see what was going on.
"What happened," House asked.
Cameron and Foreman stood in shock. House didn't have any protection on whatsoever and yet he was in here.
"Well we need to intubate him now," Foreman said.
House sighed before helping them.
After that was taken care of, he limped back to Jacob and told him what the problem was. The antibodies would be available later that day and then they wouldn't worry after that.
"So my brother would be fine after that," Jacob asked.
"The big problem is that he may have brain damage," House said.
"You telling me, he makes the big decisions for me," Jacob remarked.
House nodded.
"So Chase seems to be getting better now," House asked.
Cameron and Foreman looked up from what they were doing. It had been close but when the antibodies came, it seemed that all of them were getting better, even Chase who had the breathing tube removed later that day.
"He'll wake up soon," Foreman said.
"No brain damage," House asked.
"We'll see although you'll be telling some jokes for some time," Cameron said now going back to her work.
House looked at them and smirked. As long as Chase was alive and kicking, what more could he ask?