Chapter 2

House was just about to enter the dreaded clinic when Cameron appeared out of now where.

"You're going to the clinic… willingly?" she asked.

House paused and looked at her. "Only to get something to wrap this in," he said as he held up his hand. There was a nasty looking cut across the back of it.

"What'd you do?" Cameron asked.

"Nothing," he said as he turned to continue to the clinic.

"Fine, don't tell me. But if you're looking for an excuse to get out of having to work the clinic today, I have a new case for you," she said, handing him a file.

He just looked down at the file, waiting for Cameron to tell him what it was all about. "21 year old female brought in last night. She was experiencing seizures and repertory distress. When she came to, she couldn't remember what had happened after she fainted though her roommate says that she appeared awake through out the ordeal.

"21 and memory loss. Alcohol poison, boring," House said as he turned to walk away.

"She's currently running a fever of 102 and she has had a pin in her arm for the last three days."

"Alright, some kind of STD. Again, boring," he said as he continued to walk away.

Cameron followed after her. "That's what the ER thought but all of her tests came back negative. And not only was she clean from STD's, she's a virgin. There's no way she could have gotten one in the first place."

"21 and she's a Virgin? Not likely. What is she fat? Ugly?"

"No, she's no super model, but she's quite pretty," Cameron answered. She didn't think this was a very good line of questioning to go on, but she knew that whatever House found as a mystery, he couldn't help but get involved.

House paused and looked down at the file Cameron was still holding out to him. "What kind of arm pain?" he asked.

"Paresthesias," she answered.

House reached out and took the file. Without saying anything more he turned from the clinic and started back for his office. At least it could be a mildly interesting distraction that will get him out of some clinic time, he though thought himself.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Soon after the team was all assembled in House's conference room. He was leaning on his cane beside his white board, marker in hand.

"Alright we have…" he said, putting the marker up to the board, preparing to write her symptoms.

"Arm Paresthesias, Fever," Cameron said.

"Seizures, rapid pulse," Chase supplied.

"Disorientation," Foreman said.

"And repertory distress," House finished as he wrote his own comment. "Now, what is it?" he asked as he turned back to his team, capping his marker.

"Syringomyelia?" Foreman suggested.

"Not with the Fever," House answered.

"Spinal Meningitis?" Cameron supplied.

"Possible," House said as he wrote it down next to her symptoms. "What else?"

"Syphilous?" Chase asked.

"Unless it's a story related to the Virgin Mary, not likely," House said.

"She's a Virgin?" Foreman asked.

"So she says," House answered.

"And you believe her?" Chased asked in surprise.

"No, but I believe that usually when a girl has had sex their cherry is popped. When checking for STD's the ER found it in tact."

"Ok, well that rules out a lot," Foreman said.

"Let's test her for Meningitis and get an MRI."

Everyone nodded and left.