Real world
Seras' hallucinations

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At House's office, the team was discussing possible courses of action. At the moment, Dr. Cox and herr doktor were arguing over what to do.

"It could be auto-immune. I say we…"

"Du shiessekopf. Ve vouldn't find anyzing. Vampires don't haf immune systems. In fact, zhe don't haf any living cells at all."

"Oh, and tell me, Shirley, how would you know that?"

"I study, dissect, und create vampires like her every day for mine job."

"And what is it that ya do?"

"I'm a mad scientist! Vhat I do ist none of your concern."

Dr. House butted in with a thought.

"I like what I'm seeing here. This conflict… It's good for coming up with a solution, but it's getting nowhere. Dr. Napyeer, you seem to know the most about vampires out of us, so I'm putting you in charge of this.

"Danke, Dr. House." He snapped his fingers. "I vant a lumbar puncture done on our patient at vonce. I also vant to do an MRI to scan var tumors, und I vant to do some blood cultures, just in case ve miss anyzing.

"Wait, you said that vampires don't have living cells? So why would you want to do a blood culture?" Dr. House interjected.

"It's simple, really. Vampires don't produce new blood, so any zhat ve remove vill tell us a lot about her. It vill also tell us vhat's in her system at ze moment, und if ve go from zhere, ve've just figured out a large portion of zhe case.

"I like it. Okay team, let's go."

Dr. Cox was in Seras's room, prepping her for the lumbar puncture.

"Okay, Barbie, this is going to hurt a lot, but it'll help you out a lot in the long run, so just bare with me for a little bit."

He steadied the needle, and inserted it. She let out a whimper. She had never felt such a pain in her entire life. She wanted to scream, and only just barely managed not to.

"Shhhh, It's okay Barbie. See, I'm almost half done."

The needle came to a stop. He grabbed an empty vial, and removed the stopper from the needle. A small amount of fluid came out, which he collected in the vial. He then removed the needle.

"See, that wasn't so bad, was it? I need to run this down to the lab after I do your blood test."

"You're going to stick another needle into me, right after you just did that?"

"Relax, Barbie. This is just a blood test, it won't nearly hurt as bad. Besides, all I need to do is cut your arm open, and stick this here tube into it." He held up the tube he intended to use.

"NO! I'M NOT LETTING YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE TO ME!"

"Meh, I don't really care." He held her down, and called herr doktor into the room, and held out a scalpel."Hey, dok-Would you do the honors?"

"It vould be my pleasure." With that, herr doktor started slicing into her arm, laughing as copious amounts of blood spurted out, getting everywhere. He then left, having done what needed to be done.

Dr. Cox couldn't figure out what was going on. He hadn't even started the blood extraction when her eyes rolled backwards and she started screaming about her arm being sliced open.

"Hey, Barbie! Get a hold of yourself! I haven't even started doing anything yet.

Her eyes returned to normal.

"Why should I calm down! You just had your friend slice my arm open!"

"What are you talking about, Barbie? Nobody touched your arm. I haven't even drawn blood from you yet."

"Then why is my arm bleeding?"

"Your arm isn't bleeding, What're you…" He looked at her arm, and saw a massive amount of blood pouring from a large gap in her arm. "Oh, shit."

"I don't feel so good…" She couldn't finish her though, because at that moment, she threw up. Or rather, to be precise, she threw up a dark brown sludge. What happened next seemed to go in slow motion for Dr. Cox-she started to crash.

"Oh, shit. She's crashing, can I get someone in here?"