"Chase, take your eyes off her spectacular breasts and-"

"I'm here, I'm here." Chase interrupted, his eyebrows furrowed as he read the file in his hands, as he got up from the table and crossed the room to stand next to House by the whiteboard. Taking a breath to speak he stopped himself and took another look at the file before turning to look at House. "Why are we looking at this again?"

House took a long sip of his coffee as he tried to think of a believable excuse. "Well, I'm your boss and I've told you that we are and so that's the end of it."

"Here it says the patient was discharged yesterday." Gabby stated as she piped up from across the table. She'd spent the time that they coworkers were bickering to read the patient's background check.

"Cuddy wants House to go to rehab because of the-" Toub started knowing the look he was getting but refusing to look up from the pen he was twiddling in his fingers.

"You really are an ass aren't you." House said rolling his eyes as he placed his now empty coffee mug on the table and looked back at Chase. "There. You have your answer." He grabbed his cane and began heading for the door.

"Were only reviewing the case because Cuddy told us to didn't she?" Chase said slyly, a grin now sliding into his face.

House stopped. His back to the rest of the team and rolled his cane between his fingers. "Yes." He turned to face them and looked at Gabby. "Foreman, take Dr Dawson here to the patient's place. Search it for anything that-"

"I'm not taking her to break into a house with me so, are you out of your mind?" Foreman exclaimed as he put the pencil in his hand back into the pot in the middle of the table; he went and stood at the side of the whiteboard. "The symptoms he came in with were a fever and a loss of breath. I really don't think it's cystic fibrosis because he's a firefighter." Gabby's heart dropped as she frantically flipped through the patient's file to see how she'd missed a detail so important. "He breathes in smoke on a daily basis. It could've been acute smoke inhalation in combination with a common cold. So personally, I don't think we need to break into his house for him to call the cops and both of us go to jail."

Gabby finally stopped looking at the file and wiped her brow. Somehow she was losing control of her cool and was desperately trying to push away the thoughts of firefighting. "He wouldn't be at home." She said suddenly, finally piping up.

"What do you mean?" Chase asked. Taking an interest in what she was saying even though he didn't quite know why - there was just something about her. "He was only discharged from the hospital three days ago, surely-"

"No." Gabby carried on finally letting her heartbeat even out ask she clenched her pen until her knuckles went white to compensate. "Firefighters work a 24 hour shift then have 48 hours off. He was brought in by the paramedics when he was - errr, when he was on shift." 'Keep it together Gabby. Keep it together' she told herself. "That would mean that he's on shift today because the chief would've looked at his diagnosis and saw that he collapsed of exhaustion and a mildly high blood pressure - that's what it says here anyway. So, he would've been expected to sleep and recover over his days off and then report for duty the next shift - that being today."

The whole room was silent when she finished but as always House was the first to speak. "How the hell did you know all that," he took a breath of thought " you know what, don't tell me." He said exiting through the door.

"Where are you going now?!" Thirteen called as she chased after him.

Limping down the corridor House turned and said over his shoulder: "I have Cuddies to chat up and rehab to avoid."

Rolling her eyes Thirteen returned to the board room and looked at Gabby. "There's more to you than your file says." She sassed as she looked her up and down. "I'll find it."

Suddenly the room was filled with a beeping noise and all the doctors proceeded to look at their pagers. "Looks like our boys back" Chase stated as he began running after the others as she raced down to the ED.

***

"What have we got Christina?" Toub called as they all came thundering down the corridor towards the paramedics that were wheeling in their patient.

"Derek Anderson. 27 year old firefighter collapsed before walking into a fire. One witness, his colleague, said that he just went ridged and fell to the floor. He coded once en route and treated with 3mg of epinephrine. He went tachy with a systolic peaking to 204 briefly before he seized." Christina recounted as Derek was rolled into one of the trauma bays before the paramedics left the doctors to take over.

Gabby stepped up and pulled her torch from the pocket in her white lab coat and opened his eyes. "Sir? Sir can you hear me?" She asked as she flicked the light in and out of his eyes. "My names Gabby. We're here to help you. You're at Princeton Hospital and you collapsed on a call." Derek moaned in acknowledgement before he started thrashing uncontrollably on the bed again. "Chase he needs an airway. Toub, Thirteen get an IV and push 2mg of Narcan to the proportion 0.5 to the part of 2 of the IV fluid. Foreman, order a head CT, CAT scan and an MRI." Gabby barked as her paramedic training and field knowledge merged with her doctor training to create something to the equivalent of a higher medical being.

"I can't get in either way." Chase spoke desperately as he wrestled with the ET tube, his finger plugging the crake wound to hold the bleeding.

An idea popped into her head. She stopped putting the pads on Derek's chest and moved to be opposite Chase. "Get me an IV tube but leave the suspended end on it - just cut off the bag attachment!" He pulled his finger out of the crake hole, Gabby instantly plugging it with hers, and he moved over to the medical cart and did what she said. He came back with the small tubing and handed it to her. Pulling her finger back a small way Gabby pushed in the small tube until it was 2 inches from the skin of Derek's throat. Meanwhile Chase looked on in awe, Gabby grabbed the Ambu-bag and attached it to the part of the tubing. "I need you to bag Chase." She said forcefully as she brought the stethoscope to his chest and listened for lung sounds. "I'm in. Let's get him to CT and check he wasn't oxygen deprived."

As David was wheeled off, Toub and Thirteen running beside him, Gabby let out a sigh, placed her hands on her hips and let her head fall forward. It was too much like being back as a paramedic she thought as she listened to the sounds of the ED. Suddenly she heard footsteps come up behind her - there really was only one person it could've been.

"Gabby-"

"No, Chase. I'm so sorry. I know i'm new and everything and i shouldn't have taken over."

Chase went to open his mouth but then decided against it. He stood there, taking her all in. Her beauty, her intelligence all radiating out like a beacon of hope. He stood there, his eyes open and his heart trying to figure out what he was feeling. It felt like when he was with Cameron but there was something else - something deeper and yet more meaningful.

"Chase?" Gabby questioned as she stepped forward and placed her hand on his shoulder. He was looking at her in a way she hadn't looked at in a while. "Hey, are you okay?"

He brought himself back into the real world and realized that he was probably gawnking at her. "Gabby, I'm sorry." he said as he found his words. "I don't know what I-" His Australian accent making Gabby smile as she took a step closer to him.

"It's okay. It really is." Looking at her feet she took a deep breath she tried to dismiss what the look he was giving her meant - it made her feel something she hadn't felt in a very long time. "Look, we better get out of here, they're bringing another run in and I bet David will be out of CT now." she smiled before she walked past him and headed for the door.

Before she got a chance to fully escape, Chase called out to her. "Hey Gabby, you wanna get a drink after work or somethin'?"

Stopping to look at him over her shoulder Gabby smiled, "Yeah sure why not. Tell me when and where later?"

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