Disclaimer: See chapter 1.

I walked into the office to see that as usual my luck wouldn't hold out, and the entire team was in there. I knew that I couldn't give House any leverage, so I simply walked in grabbed my bag and attempted to walk back out.
"Where you off to?" House questioned me, stopping any chance of me walking out with no incident.
"Home. I'm off the case," I retorted sharply, "Cuddy's signed off on it." House looked pissed off.

Just as I went to close the door behind me, I heard Chase call out,
"Is this because of the patient?" I stopped dead in my tracks. I could feel everybody's eyes cutting into my back. I simply nodded and walked off to the elevator.
"Wait!" I heard as the doors to the elevator opened. I walked in and turned round and saw House limping quickly towards me. He just managed to get in before the doors shut.

"You've never been off a case since you've started. Why now?" I tried to ignore him, but I could feel his eyes still on me.
"I know him. I don't want to treat him. I don't even want to be in the hospital whilst he's here. He's going to call…" I trailed off as I glaned at House. He raised an eyebrow.
"Call who?"
"My brother." House seemed shocked at this response. No one here knew of my brother. Suddenly, both our pagers went off. Cas was crashing. House looked at me and pressed the button for ICU.
"Right now, I say you're back on the case. Just… try for today." I sighed and nodded.

We rushed to Cas's room and saw them trying to recover his heartbeat.
"How long?" House asked Chase who was prepping the defib machine again.
"2 minutes with no heartbeat." My heart sunk. I knew what Cas needed. He needed grace. He has obviously run out. Maybe…

"Move!" I shouted at Cameron who was performing CPR. She was exhausted so she moved to let me do it. My hope was that the little grace in my burn would help him recover.
"I'll take over. Chase up it to the max." I shouted at them all. Chase did as I asked and I placed my hands on Cas's chest. As I started the compressions, I felt the surge of energy from the grace in me flowing through my arms into Cas. After 5 seconds, I stopped and grabbed the paddles from Chase.
"CLEAR!" I shouted and everyone backed off. I shocked Cas and heard the tell-tale sound of his heart resuming its normal beat.

I stepped back as I listened to the heart monitor. I saw Chase and Cameron check his vitals whilst Foreman was talking with House. Then my eyes were drawn outside of Cas's room. I knew I couldn't avoid it anymore. So I walked out the room.

"Hello Sam."