Disclaimer: Still don't own House.
Pairings: None this chapter.
A/N: I'm not a doctor, so the medical stuff? Probably wrong. I did try though!
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House burst through the glass door of the diagnostics department, causing his team (who had been busy doing only medically relevant things, of course) to jump.

"We," he tossed the file onto the table, "have a case."

Taub grabbed the file and began reading, with Thirteen looking over his shoulder, while Kutner watched expectantly as House made his way to the white board.

"So," he began, uncapping the black marker, "What explains and absence seizure," he scrawled the words on the board in his messy handwriting, " and bleeding, from the brain, out of the ear." House finished writing, and turned to face his team. "Go!"

"Meningitis." Taub suggested, looking up from the file.

Thirteen shook her head, "No. No fever, or rash, seizures only present in the later stages."

Kutner spoke next, "Just because the blood came from the ear, doesn't mean it's from the brain. Could be an inner ear problem?"

"Could be cancer- Paraneoplastic Syndrome would explain the seizure, and the bleeding." Foreman suggested, glancing at the file.

House nodded, adding the options to the white board. "What else."

"What was she doing when she had the seizure? It could have just been oxygen deprivation." A quick glance at the file shot down the idea, "Band practice." Taub supplied, shaking his head, "besides, that doesn't account for the blood."

"Her blood sugar was slightly elevated, that could have caused the seizure." Kutner mused, taking the file, "or it could be diabetes."

"That still doesn't explain the bleeding. Could be a parasite."

"Infection," the idea was shot down, "Can't be. No elevated white count."

"Viral encephalitis."

"Or auto-immune."

"What if the seizure wasn't really a seizure?" Kutner asked, looking around the room.

House raised an eyebrow, and waited for the young doctor to continue.

"It could have been cataplexy. No one who witnessed her seizure has any medical experience, and cataplexy can be mistaken for seizures, easily. She could have Narcolepsy." He finished, looking pleased with himself.

House, however was frustrated. "Well, if that's the case, we've gone from two symptoms, to one and a half." He wrote cataplexy on the board with a big question mark next to it, "we need to find out if she's been having trouble sleeping. If it's Narcolepsy, she'll have insomnia, and sleep walking, talking, well, just about anything." He paused, "There's also no cure. We'll do a polysomnogram on her tonight, but for now, more ideas."

"Could have been trauma. Has she had any head injuries lately?" House just shrugged.

"Don't we have her medical history?"

"Oh yeah! Knew I was forgetting something." House feigned frustration, "someone should probably do that."

"It could be TTP," Thirteen interjected, "It fits the symptoms. Including the fact that she's not exhibiting any right now."

"Good!" House nodded, "Taub, go run blood tests, check for parasites, bacteria, and broken platelets. Kutner, you check for viruses that attack the nervous system, specifically encephalitis. Thirteen, you go talk to the patient. Get her medical history, and ask her if she's pregnant. Also find out if she has any family history of seizures, or cancer." He paused for a moment, "Or both."

Foreman cleared his throat, and House shifted his gaze to the neurologist, "Oh, right. Hmm, you go round up her band-mates, see if this has happened before, or if any of them are sick."

His team left, and House limped into his office, flopping unceremoniously into his chair, and grabbing his PSP off his desk. There was no better way to pass time...well, internet porn was a close second, but video games won in the end.

Hmm, I'm not so sure about this chapter. It's mostly medical stuff. 99.9% actually. D:
I did my research though! So hopefully it's pretty accurate.

Also, I lied about this update being longer. Damnit.
But hey, you're getting two updates in the same day, that's gotta count for something, right?

Again, review and let me know which pairings you want to see.