Disclaimer: see chapter one

"Shit!" House was the first one to slide open the door to Cuddy's room and immediately rushed by her side, pushing aside the attending nurse like a rag doll. "Cuddy!" House said in a firm tone of voice, as if saying her name would get her to stop convulsing. He reached down and tried to hold her still. Foreman, Chase, Cameron, and Wilson entered soon after and watched as Cuddy convulsed violently in her bed.

After a brief moment the commotion wore down and Cuddy stopped thrashing. House watched as her eyes opened for a brief moment and she looked at him, something of confusion then relief flooded her eyes before closing again. She now lay silently in her bed, a heavy sheen of sweat coating her pale face and dampening the curly hairs framing her face. House addressed his team, all the while never tearing his eyes away from Cuddy. "The seizures are getting worse." House brought his face up to look at Foreman, his suggestion of epilepsy still fresh in his mind. "Give her phenytoin to stop the seizures and a PET scan to pinpoint the location of these seizures."

Foreman looked at House quizzically. "Are you actually considering that she might have epilepsy?"

"No." House replied stubbornly, "we're going to figure this out." it was almost as if he said that last statement to Cuddy herself rather than to his team. House limped quietly past his team and Wilson to retreat into the confines of his office, most likely to sit in the dark and stare at the whiteboard of symptoms while he waited for Cuddy's PET results.

As House was making his way solemnly towards his office, a gurney rushed passed him in the hallway. He didn't have much time to discern what was going on, but he could barely make out the figure of a young child being wheeled towards the emergency room bleeding profusely.

House ignored it continued to his office, his thoughts focused solely on Cuddy.

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It was dark.

That was the first thing Cuddy noticed of her surroundings. It was the only thing she could make of her surroundings. The complete darkness enveloped her whole being like a heavy blanket and only served to heighten her other four senses. The wind whistled softly and gently caressed her face letting her know she was obviously outside as she heard the undeniable sounds of someone's footsteps off in the distance.

She wasn't alone.

The fear of not knowing shook her to her core and she felt her blood run cold. She took a few cautious steps forward into the darkness when a street lamp burst to life off in the distance. Her eyes took a moment to adjust and she turned her head side to side, desperate to find out where she was.

It was the hospital parking lot.

'How did I get here?' She thought to herself, still looking all about her in a cautious effort to identify her company. Then she saw it.

House. In the now near darkness he was hard to identify, but she didn't know many other men who walked around in the hospital parking lot at night with a cane. She took a couple hesitant steps forward just be sure, but stopped dead in her tracks as he became visible. He was hunched over in what appeared to be a gesture of immense pain, clutching his stomach almost as tightly as he was clutching his cane. His clothes were blood stained and his hair was also matted down with blood. He seemed to be in a frantic attempt to reach his motorcycle.

"House!" Cuddy couldn't help but cry out. House stopped what he was doing and lifted his eyes to meet Cuddy's. The pain she saw in his eyes was beyond anything she'd ever seen before.

"Cuddy." he said weakly, "Cuddy!" he said, his voice more powerful this time.

In an instant everything changed. The light filled her world completely now and she closed her eyes at the sudden assault of brightness. She opened them again and found herself in a hospital room, being looked down upon by House, free of the blood and tremendous amount of pain reflected in his eyes. She closed her eyes again, this time drifting off and away from the sounds of chaos and panic all around her. And her world became dark once again.

A/N: …Sooo…tell me what you think! Reviews are greatly appreciated!