Chapter two, revised.

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Lisa Cuddy walked angrily through the halls of her hospital. For the last thirty minutes she had been trying to get in contact with House, but had been unsuccessful. She figured that he'd be in the Cardiology lounge, one of his new hangouts, but he wasn't there. Then she tried Wilson's office, however Wilson said that he hadn't seen him all day. After that, Cuddy went to the guy's locker room and left without any luck. As a last result, she went to House's own office, however it she found empty as the other places.

When Cuddy found him, House was going to be in so much trouble. Tons of extra clinic duty awaited him. She had walked all over this hospital, called and paged him multiple times, and had not heard or seen hair or hide of him.

When she was walking back to the clinic, she passed doctors Cameron and Chase. Cuddy paused to talk to them.

"Has either of you heard from House?" Cuddy asked.

"No. We were kind of wondering the same thing," Chase said.

"So you haven't heard or seen him at all?"

"Well, he went to the clinic a few hours ago. Then about twenty minutes ago, he called my phone," Cameron explained. "But when I answered it, he wasn't there. I just thought he was playing around, but then when we tried to call and page him, he wouldn't answer."

Cuddy thought about it for a second. "Come on."

"Where are we going?" Chase asked following behind Cuddy.

"The clinic." Cuddy sighed. Knowing House, he had probably found some kid that had a Game boy and they were comparing games. Either that or he had a patient that was a hooker.

When the three got to the clinic, Cuddy went straight to the nurse's station. "Where's Dr. House?" she asked.

"He went into exam room two about thirty minutes ago with a patient," the nurse said.

"Has the patient left? Did House leave?"

"I don't know about Dr. House, but the patient left a while ago. Here's his file." The nurse handed Cuddy a file.

Cuddy glanced down at the file before handing it to Chase. She walked briskly to exam room two with Cameron and Chase following behind. When they got there, Cuddy flung open the door.

The first thing they noticed was the eerie silence of the room compared to the rest of the hospital. Then as they walked more in, they gasped at what they saw.

There was House, lying on the ground in a contorted position. For several seconds they stood gaping at him before their doctor instincts kicked in.

"Chase, go get help," Cuddy ordered. Chase ran out of the room while Cuddy and Cameron bent down to examine House.

Please don't be dead, silently begged Cuddy. She found a pulse on his wrist. It was slightly slow, but she'd take it. It was a pulse.

"His pulse is a tad slow, but he has one," said Cuddy.

Cameron sighed with relief.

"Help me turn him over," said Cuddy. The two managed to flip House over on his back. When they did, they paused and stared. His body was bruised and he had a cut on his forehead that was wet with blood.

"Who would do this to him?" Cameron asked.

Cuddy ignored Cameron's question. "Give me his stethoscope."

Cameron picked up House's stethoscope off the floor and handed it to Cuddy. She unbuttoned House's shirt while Cuddy placed the stethoscope to House's chest.

"How's his breathing?" Cameron asked.

"Okay," reported Cuddy. She stood up. "I'll be back." Cuddy left to find out where Chase went and to hurry him up.

Cameron looked back down at House. She opened one of his eyelids to reveal his crystal-blue eyes. Cameron took a light out of her pocket and shinned it in his eyes, making the pupils shrink. When she took the light away, they went back to their normal size, adjusting to the room-lighting.

Cameron looked up. Cuddy, Chase and two nurses came into the room with a gurney.

"His pupils are reactive," Cameron reported, standing up.

Cuddy led Cameron to the other side of the room while they watched Chase and the nurses lift House onto the gurney.

"You go," Cuddy said to Cameron. "I'll stay here and deal with things."

Cameron nodded and Chase and her left with the unconscious House.

Cuddy looked to the ground. There was House's cane, laying there all by its self. She bent down to pick it up, realizing that it must have been the weapon used against House. She grasped it in one hand and ran her other on the smooth wood. It seemed so odd to see it without House, you always saw him with it. That's why it saddened her to think that something he always carried with him hurt him.

As Cameron and Chase rushed House upstairs, many people stood by to stare as they went past. Other doctors whispered in each other's ears, discussing what could have happened to House. A few tried asking Cameron and Chase what had happened.

Cameron and Chase looked at each other knowing the same thing. House wouldn't want to be pitted for. He was just that way - he didn't want anyone worrying or caring for him or prying into his business. So the two doctors didn't appease the other doctor's curiosity.

Cameron sighed as the elevator doors shut, giving House the privacy he would have wanted.