Chapter 2

The doors close and Cuddy looks up to see House standing there. "I'm kind of busy right now." Cuddy said, motioning to the pile of paperwork on her desk. She watched as House shrugged. Cuddy sighed. "Is it important?" Cuddy asked and waited for an answer.

"Either Cameron is sick, she hates us, or has relationship problems. That will end up being my problem because if she can't work, nothing will get done. If nothing gets done, I will get in trouble, and in turn will get fired, which will be your problem because you would have to hire somebody else, which would be problems for patients because there would be a few less people taking care of them, and then they'd die." House said, and Cuddy stared at him. He'd talked way too fast. She had caught Cameron and relationship problems though, and she sighed after a while.

"And you want me to do what? I can't go over there and tell her to take Chase back or else I will fire her! Her having sex with him was a problem for me, and now it is your turn to have a problem. She's your employee, you talk to her." She remembered when House told her about that problem, and that she talked to Cameron about it.

"I may be her boss, but you are my boss, so technically-"House said, stopping when Cuddy cut him off.

"I know I am your boss, but you are the one that hired her, not me. Don't even say that I made you. I did, but that doesn't mean that you automatically had to hire her. Go deal with it." Cuddy said, not wanting to get into this.

"By the way, has that kindergartener with restrictive pericarditis been assigned to anybody yet?" House said. Cuddy shook her head and handed House the file. He grinned and walked out of the room to go to his office. This case was going to be interesting.

"New case." House said, plopping the files on the desk. Everybody took one and they began with the differential.

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Later that day, Cameron and Chase were standing by the soda machine. They still hadn't figured out what was wrong with Lucy, the patient. "It's Tuesday." Chase said, looking at Cameron.

"I know." Cameron said with a sigh. "Doesn't it ever get tiring to say that over and over and get the same answer every time?"

"Well-"Chase started, but was cut off by a yell.

"STAY AWAY FROM HER!" Came the voice of Lucy's brother. He pounced on Chase, knocking him to the ground.

"Oh my god!" Cameron said, putting her hands to her mouth in shock. Her eyes had widened, and she had gasped as she had said it.

"Don't just stand there, help me!" Chase said. "OUCH! HE BIT ME!" he said as Cameron pulled the boy off of Chase. "Thanks." Chase said, looking at his wound, which was bleeding. He walked off to find a bandage and some disinfectant.

"Why did you do that?!" Cameron asked, but got no response. "You are going back to your sister's room right now!" Cameron said, and proceeded to bring him back to the room.

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"He bit Chase." Cameron said as she sat down. She picked up the file and proceeded to read it once more, trying to see if she missed anything that might have been critical to this case. Maybe the brother has whatever Lucy has?

"I think we noticed that." House said, pointing at Chase's bandage. "It is big enough, unless you need new glasses."

They proceeded to do the rest of the differential, bouncing off symptoms, and most of them got rejected. They had narrowed it down to three possible things, unless Lucy or her brother started showing new symptoms. "Chase, get another blood test, Foreman, go search her home, Cameron, I need to talk to you."

Cameron sighed and stood up, though she wasn't going anywhere. Everybody else had left, and she probably knew what was coming her way. "Oh god, why does he need to bother me?" She thought as he hobbled over to her.