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Chapter Thirty Two: I Know

"Lisa," he mumbled. He had just dreamt of her, her beautiful eyes gazing at him and her expression showing her happiness. She had had a case folder in her hands and was about to assign him to a new case with some patient that had a disease that he would later figure out. And she had talked, not signed, to him that he had a new case. He still remembered her voice, even though he hadn't heard it for a year now.

In his dream, she hadn't been deaf. In real life, she was. And now he could almost understand how she felt. He knew how bad she wanted to hear again; he could tell by the way she wrote about it in her emails. He wanted her to hear again; he wanted her to have the best she could get. But would he ever see her again? Would that ever be able to happen, if they couldn't make it through this storm first?

He turned around in his chair, seeing that Brennan was hard at work, looking through a stack of paper. "Does that have anything to do with this storm?" he demanded.

Brennan looked at him, aware that he was awake now. "No," he admitted. "But it's for work. Don't you have a patient waiting for you anyway?"

"Jennifer will handle that. Right now," he said, getting up from his chair and limping over to Brennan's desk, "we have to figure out how we're going to stop this storm." He pushed the stack of papers down to the floor.

"House!" exclaimed Brennan.

"Oops," House said. "I swear it was an accident."

Brennan looked at him in disbelief, but then finally said, "Okay, I'll take a look at how this storm is affecting the country."

House waited as the data loaded up on to the screen. When he saw the results, he again thought of Cuddy. Most of the northern states were covered by massive clouds, showing storm activity. Brennan found out most of the temperatures of the northern states and they were all at freezing levels. The thing he feared was happening right now.

"Well," said Brennan, "that's what you call one freezing winter."

"We're going into the next Ice Age," said House. "That's what's happening, isn't it?"

Brennan slowly nodded.

House mumbled Lisa's name under his breath and then limped over to the door. Brennan, who was now picking up his papers that House had knocked on to the floor, said to him, "I'm sorry, but there's nothing we can do about saving Lisa."

House banged his fists on the door. "I know!" he yelled. When Brennan didn't respond, he turned around to look at him, his voice quieting. "I know there's nothing we can do about saving her. I want to help her, but I know I can't. But what you can do is pick up the rest of those papers and track this storm. I'll go check on my patient, and then come back here when you have a new report."

He was about to leave, but then Brennan spoke up again. "Coffee," he said.

House gave him a questioning stare.

"You'll be back here in a few minutes," Brennan explained. "The least you could do is to get me a coffee."

"Fine," House agreed. "But if you don't like it, you can get another coffee yourself." He left the room, letting the door slam behind him.

Chapter 33- Danny, Lindsay, Calleigh, and Horatio think that there is yet more to come and the worse of the storm hasn't clear up yet. But they could possibly be wrong, and the storm may just be coming to an end… (The next chapter will be up either tomorrow or Friday.)