Here's the next chapter. I don't own Crossing Jordan or House. The only characters that I own are Leah Rysten and Samantha Redstone. If you're enjoying what you've read so far, click on the little box at the end of the chapter and leave me a note.

Lisa Cuddy was trying to keep her nerves calm and it was taking all of her will power for her not to get out her cell phone and call House and give him the worse dressing down that she could think of. She kept telling herself that this was typical House behavior, but still, if things were as bad as Wolcott was not filling her in on she'd be needing to call a lawyer for House. She sighed and fell back into her seat biding her time until she landed in Boston.

Back at the Boston Morgue Garret Macy's week wasn't getting any better and he thought it couldn't get any worse until Dr. Slocum appeared at his office door, when his phone picked that time to ring. "Macy. Look Abby, now's not- all right, all right, when do you need me there? All right, see you then." As he then hung up the phone and turned his attention towards Slocum. "Jack, what can I do for you?"

"Well, seeing as some news doesn't travel as fast as it does in the office grapevine, I was wondering how Doctor Rysten is."

"As of right now she's in the hospital and I have the ADA breathing down my neck and I guess you here to tell me that this would never have happened under your watch."

"Garret, may I remind you of our last conversation that we had. I say that I'm acting as your guardian angel on high. See to your daughter and pass along my regards to Ms. Lebowski on her upcoming nuptials. I have a feeling that we'll be meeting again soon." Said Slocum as he then left a rather confused Garret.

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"We've got the test results back from the bottle of water that was open in Leah's apartment."

"And?" questioned House

"Well, from what we've been able to gather it's a combination of a mix of rohypnol and the smallest trace of curare." Said Chase.

"Which would cause all of this to happen. Are you sure about that Chase?" questioned Foreman.

"Yes, Dr. Foreman it would." Said Bug as he then came into the lab that the group was in. "Dr. Chase called me into look at what he had found and this combo would cause Leah to pass out and I believe it may be a modified version of what Leah could have been drugged with, but I can't run a comparison test because of Det. Simmons. So, I can't be certain but I'm getting the feeling that someone does not want Leah to live to tell the tale of whatever she may know about the story that J.D. was working on."

"What story?" questioned House then going on with a shake of his head as Bug was about to tell him, "On second thought, don't tell me."

"Could you run a chemical makeup test. I think I still may have Nigel's tox screen results that he ran somewhere in these papers." Said Cameron gesturing with her hand to a two inch stack sitting on another lab table.

"It's worth a shot. But I'm warning you, it's going to take me some time, and I don't take well to being hounded." Said Bug shooting House a bit of a scathing look. House didn't say anything but did try to send an I'm innocent and would never do such a thing look.

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"Woah, slow down." Said Jordan grabbing a hold of Sam by her elbow.

"Okay, why? You're the one who was practically dragging me down the hall." Said Sam trying not to majorly glare at Jordan, she was trying to help her after all.

"I just saw someone I'd rather not see coming out of Garret's office.

"But it's still somewhat safe to talk to him right?" questioned Sam

"I'd say about a fifty-fifty chance, we'll have to proceed with a little more caution." She said as she then poked her head into Garret's office.

"Safe to come in?"

"Yeah, what do you have or want, Jordan?"

"Well, one what was Slocum doing in here in your office? Don't tell me they're placing him in charge again, 'cause I still have that bonsai tree of his, can't kill the damn thing, trust me I've tried." Garret let a small grin come across his face and said, " Just that he's still looking out for me, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean at this point in time, so I'll ask you again Jordan, what brings you here?"

"Well, it's more like us, Gar. I'd like you to meet Samantha Redstone, she had a couple of questions she needed to ask you."

"Sure, so what did you need to know?" questioned Garret.

"In your field report you said that Leah had GSR on her left hand, how sure are you of that?"

"Pretty sure of it, her right hand showed no GSR traces, only thing of note was a bruise on her upper right arm. Why?"

"From other reports I've read it's said that Leah was right handed and from what I've been able to find so far in the fire arm proficiency test she did Leah never shot a gun left handed or if she did she wasn't accurate and from what I've seen of the crime photos it was an accurate shot." Said Samantha.

"So, you're telling me the odds are pretty good that she didn't shoot JD and it was someone else." Said Garret.

"Yeah, I've just got to track down Nigel to see if he's come up with the same conclusion I did."

"Can you do me a favor and don't go telling anyone else what you've found out?" questioned Garret.

"Sure thing, I could see where this information coming out could tick a few people off who think they have an open and shut case, and even the person behind the set-up job." Said Sam.

"Exactly. If the two of you'll excuse me, I have a few things I need to finish up and then I have to meet someone." Said Garret.

"You go on ahead, Sam, I still need to have a word with Garret." Said Jordan sensing that something was going on.

"Okay." Once Sam was out of earshot Jordan gave Garret a critical look, "What's going on Garret, is it Abby?" Garret let out an exasperated breath, "Yeah, Abby called me before Slocum came to see me, all she said was that she needed to see me and that was it. So, I'm on my way over there."

"I'm sure she's fine Garret, call me if you need to talk or if a visit from me might help, okay?"

"Yeah, now please get out of my office."

"Sure thing, boss."

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) Lily was trying her best not to loose her temper with Elaine Brandau, her soon to be mother in law.

"Lily dear, please think about this, this is supposed to be your day coming up, why throw it away on helping your friend, your friend should understand and be happy for you." Said Elaine.

"That may be Mrs. Brandau."

"Please dear, call me Elaine."

"That may be Elaine, but my friend is lying in a hospital bed, unconscious from who knows what, so excuse me, if that overrides my special day right at the moment. If you'll excuse me, I'm supposed to me meeting your son for a private lunch." Said Lily as she stormed out of her apartment. Lily couldn't believe Elaine's audacity at suggesting that she still go through with the wedding in the next two days. Lily let out a breath to calm herself down. She knew deep down that Leah would still want her to go on with the ceremony without her, but Lily wanted her there, plus there was something that Lily couldn't quite put her finger on, the feeling of uncertainty and certainty that she was getting, and why she was having these feelings at this time. She sighed, best not to be thinking like this now or Jeffery would wonder what's wrong.

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Cuddy finally arrived at her hotel to quickly drop off her things and she was back in the first taxi that she could find to take her to Boston General Hospital to track down house. She'd call ADA Wolcott after she had talked to House first to find out his side of the story and what she could try to spin control. When she got to the front reception area of the hospital she was quickly helped and told where House and his ducklings could be found. When she arrived at the lab, she let the emotions get the better of her.

"House, what in the hell were you thinking!!"

"I'm sorry but Dr. House isn't here right now." Said a voice that Cuddy didn't know.

"Who are you?" questioned Cuddy.

"Dr. Mahesh Vijay. I work at the ME's office here in town."

"And you're here because?" questioned Cuddy. Bug raised an eye brow and looked at Cuddy just a little skeptically. "I'm helping work on Dr. House's daughter's case, and his daughter just happens to be a friend and co-worker of mine. And you are, let me guess, Dr. House's boss."

"Yeah, he's not paying you to hide him or anything is he?" questioned Cuddy.

"Contrary to popular belief, I can not be bribed. I don't know where he went."

"Great, just great. What about the others?"

"They're at some discussion panel that you wanted them to be at. They should be back within the next hour or so." Cuddy let out a breath and let her shoulders slump just a little. "So how is his Leah?" questioned Cuddy then going on after Bug gave her a somewhat surprised look that she knew Leah's name, "We've met a few times before, just because House might have made me out to be a cold-hearted bitch doesn't exactly mean that I am one."

"The last time I heard she was still unconscious up on second floor. We think we may have found what caused her to be in that condition, but I'm still trying to find that out for sure."

"So, do you think that she actually did what the ADA said she did?"

"I honestly believe that she didn't do this. Sure we've all threatened at one time or another to kill someone, but never went out and did it. I've seen Leah get angry, but I really don't believe that she'd be capable of killing someone in cold blood, but then I'm one of the few in the minority that believe that."

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Nigel slowly made his way to Leah's hospital room; from his fuzzy count he'd been up for the past twenty-four hours if not longer. Nigel needed to get out from the lab and to check up on Leah. When he got there he could tell that she was sleeping. He took a chair next to her bedside just at the time a nurse entered the room.

"Oh, are you Ms. Rysten's boyfriend?"

"No, no, I'm not, I'm a good friend of hers."

"It's good to see that she's had visitors coming into see her. Lets her know that she's cared about." Said the nurse, whose name was Evelyn.

"How is she?" questioned Nigel.

"She has her moments where her heart rate skyrockets and then calms back down. Poor thing must be having nightmares. My personal opinion is that she's getting better minute by minute, and waking up and finding someone as good looking as yourself sitting by my bedside would be a definite plus."

"Evelyn, you naughty girl you." Said Nigel with a grin.

"If you need anything, or if she would happen to wake up, I'll be right around the corner at the nurses' station." Evelyn then left, leaving Nigel alone with Leah.

"Can you believe her?" he said with a chuckle looking at Leah and then going on, "You've got a lot of people looking out for you and trying to clear your name luv. You're father's quite the interesting man. Threatened to beat me with his cane the first time I met him. What did you exactly tell him about me? But I did wind up meeting him when he was trying to figure out why you were brought to the ER in the first place. This brings back memories of me talking to Bug after he got injured on the mass grave case we were working on. At least you and I didn't get in an argument about minotaurs and centaurs."

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"This is a nice quiet little spot." Said Jeffery

"Yes, it is." Said Lily

"Any news yet from the hospital?"

"No, no change from the last time that I've seen her."

"We're still on for two days from now right?" questioned Jeffery. Lily sat there and quickly thought of her answer.

"Yes, yes we are." She said hoping that she sounded more sure of her self than what she actually did.

"Good. Mother was a little concerned."

"Like I told your mother this morning, Leah is my friend and I'm concerned about her, and I know that she would want me to go through this, just give me a little space and I will be ready. " said Lily irritated that Jeffrey had brought up his mother. He should have brought up that he was concerned about her emotional state and not his mother.

"I know, I know, I just want to be sure that you're happy and okay with this." Said Jeffery as he placed his hand on top of hers.