This is a really short chapter, but it's worth it. And none of the main characters are in it (gasp!)!
One week before the new season!! -Runs around crazy- I'm pushing to get this complete by then. Here's to hopin'!
Enjoy!
Bill strode down the hall, just coming back with checking in with them. He felt successful, because everything was going just as he had planned. He had done exactly what he told House that he would do. He took away anyone that had any value to House, and Bill wanted House to suffer as much as possible.
Bill didn't intended to kill Riley, but when Riley found out where he was and had meddled too much in Bill's business. Bill had no idea to how Riley found out where he was…but it didn't matter. He was dead now. No one will ever know where Bill was. Bill never gets caught. That is how it goes.
Joey was the only family Bill had left before he had died. Bill still remembers the day he had learned that Joey had passed away.
Bill's telephone rang annoyingly. Sighing, Bill answered it.
"Mr. Arnello?"
Bill didn't recognize the voice. Bill looked at the caller ID. It said that the ID was "unavailable."
"I'm from witness protection, calling about your brother," the man said.
"Joey?" Bill asked.
"Yes."
"What about him?"
"I hate to inform you Mr. Arnello but…your brother has passed away."
Bill's words rose from got stuck in his throat. "W-what?"
"I'm sorry."
Rare tears burned Bill's eyes. "How?" he managed to say.
"He died while he was in a coma. He had some kind of a toxin that poisoned his liver-"
"Joey had Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency. Is that what killed him?" Bill asked.
"I don't know. I got the call from the hospital. They didn't go into the details."
"When did he die?" Bill asked.
"Last week."
"Last week?" Joey had been dead for a week and Bill didn't know it. Joey had probably had already been put into the ground and Bill wasn't there to see him. He wasn't there when his brother took his last breaths. His life had stopped, and Bill didn't even know.
"Well, find out exactly what killed him. You know where to find me," Bill said shutting his phone with a snap.
Nobody could ever tell Bill enough information about Joey's death. The feds said that it was too dangerous, if the people Joey had testified against found out that Bill was his brother, Bill would be a dead man as well. Bill never got the true news about Joey's death, but he knew.
Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency; a disorder that can't break up all digested protein. That's what House had so cleverly diagnosed Joey with. House had misdiagnosed, there had been something else that had killed Joey. It was House's fault that Joey had died, Bill thought. And in two hours, he will pay.
SO Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency was what Joey had in the show. (I put on the subtitles). If you want to read more about it, here is the link:
en./wiki/Ornithinetranscarbamylasedeficiency