The Results

She walks down the hallway swiftly, her coat brushing against her pants as she bites on her lip, her finger playing with the ring she's wearing. As she approaches, she notices the team gathered around the table, files begin passed around. She takes a deep breath and walks in, sitting down in the empty chair beside Taub. House stands opposite of her, his mouth agape.

"My pager went off." She says shortly.

"Did it now?" He replies, looking over at Kutner, who avoids eye contact.

"So you got the results?" She questions nonchalantly.

"Oh no…" House raises his cane, pointing and shaking it at her as if it were a finger. "You asked to be taken off this case."

"Foreman quit but he's still here." She retorts, looking sideways at Foreman who furrows his brow at her, before she looks back at House.

"But my balls aren't. Unless you want Cuddy to remove more of my manhood from me…"

"Her blood work and toxscreen are clean…" Foreman interrupts loudly, reading off the tests. "But after her seizure…"

"Seizure?" Alex speaks up, looking shocked. The team looks at her.

"As I said, after her seizure, there has to be something more going on."

"See this is precisely why I told Cuddy I would need my balls." House chimes in, only to be interrupted by Taub.

"We need to schedule an MRI, she might have a bleed."

"Spontaneous haemorrhage?" Kutner questions him.

"Haematoma…" Alex whispers.

"Order the MRI, we'll go from there." Foreman closes the folder.

"What about her family? Is anyone here?" She questions, looking around at everyone in the room. Kutner shakes his head.

"I didn't see any when I was drawing her blood…"

"Okay." She pushes herself up from the seat, rising to her feet.

"So what is it? Are you her doctor or her ex-lover?" House questions her sternly as she turns away from him.

"Can't I be both?" She questions as she walks out of the door, not waiting for a response.

She walks down the hallway and grabs the elevator, closing the door as the team exits the room. She rides silently, her eyes closed as she leans against the wall. When the doors open she steps out and walks toward Marissa's room. As she opens the door she finds it empty. Taking a deep breath, she closes the door behind her and walks inside, looking at Marissa's unconscious form. She sits down on the chair against the wall at the foot of the bed and pulls her knees to her chin.

If it is a haematoma and they repair the bleed, there could be a slight chance she might pull out of the coma. However, the bleeding would have most likely had to have occurred by trauma, and Marissa's been comatose for nearly 10 years. A spontaneous haematoma was rare, but possible. Still, if they fixed the bleed, she could begin to recover.

If Marissa wakes up, and recognises her, she'll have a lot of explaining to do. More than she'd like and more than she wants to. To explain the impact Marissa had on her life was impossible – it was so great. She is the person she's become because of Marissa and because of their break-up. As much as her heart has ached for the love she found in that 16 year old girl, she never regretted not staying that night. The only regret she had was never telling Marissa exactly how she felt and for disappointing the girl.

She drops her feet to the floor and stands, walking over to the bed. She reaches down and strokes Marissa's cheek softly.

"I won't let you down again, Riss…" She whispers, shaking off tears that threaten to fall, before she turns and leaves the room quietly, passing Kutner and Taub as she walks away. She ignores them as they quietly make bets about her and 'Coma girl' and heads back to the elevator, only this time she heads down to the E.R.

"My ex girlfriend is lying in a coma in room 314." She tells Cameron, causing both her and the teenage boy whose head she was stitching up to stare open mouthed at her. "Or something… I don't know. Forget it." She tells Cameron quickly, turning and heading back towards the elevator.

"Hadley!"

She stops, turns, and walks back towards the doctor and patient, hands in her pockets and out staring the boy as if daring him to say anything about her being a lesbian, bisexual, or… whatever.

"I shouldn't be telling you this but… House woke a guy who was in a vegetative state for 10 years with a large dose of L-dopa a little while back. But he was only awake less than a day. I'm not saying it'll work for her, since she's in a coma and I assume therefore not responsive as the man was, but…"

"Thank you." Thirteen replies softly. "Thank you…" She repeats again as Cameron nods and turns her attention back to her patient. Thirteen quickly walks off in search of as much information as she can about Levodopa and it's affects on the comatose. This could be the loophole she's been hoping for.

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