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Chase hadn't seen Jasper since the early morning and it was now almost noon. He hoped that his friend wouldn't find anything and that the vision he had was only a nightmare.
"Are you ok Chase, you seem distracted," he heard Cameron ask him.
"Sorry, didn't get that much sleep last night," he told her, Cameron opened her mouth to ask him something else but didn't get a chance when House burst through the Conference Room doors and threw a file down on the desk.
"New case," he said as he set his back pack down and shed his jacket.
"Symptoms?" Foreman asked but House was way ahead of him and had already written the symptom on the white board.
Chase felt sick as he read the word 'burns' on the board.
"Burns?" Cameron said.
"Yup," House said as he dropped the marker onto the table.
"Shouldn't they be in ICU if they were burned?" Foreman asked.
"Nope," House said simply and he looked close to bursting with the information that had intrigued him to take the case in the first place.
Chase thought he knew where this was going and he prayed to God that he was mistaken. "Two idiots were admitted four hours ago with small 3rd degree burns on their arms, an hour later from the wrist to their elbows were burned," House said and Chase wanted to bang his head on the table and curse God for giving him this gift.
"B-but that's impossible," Cameron said.
"I know!" House said excited.
The four debated with various diagnosis's but nothing fit what had happened to the two teens.
"Chase go talk to the two and see if they got some strange burning liquid spilt on them," House said. Chase reluctantly got up and made his way to the room holding the two teenage boys.
"Hi," he said, his eyes glancing down at the bandaged arms of each teen.
"Who are you?" one of the boy's mothers asked.
"I'm Dr. Chase I'm here to ask Michael and Jake some questions about how they might have gotten burned," he said.
"Mom can you go get me something other than this stuff to eat?" one of the teens asked.
"Yea mom, dad can you go with Mrs. Richardson to get me something to eat," the other boy asked.
The three adults looked at each other before nodding and exiting the room.
"Whatever you want to tell me you better tell me now," Chase said as he walked over to stand between the two beds.
Michael and Jake looked at each other before Jake said "We're being punished."
Chase quirked an eyebrow and indicated that one of them should continue. Michael picked up where Jake left off "We were stupid, we heard about this high school just outside of Princeton called St. Augustine's that was burned out in the sixties or something like that, anyway we went there and genius over there decided it would be funny to lit a match and when he did there was all this wind and we felt hands on our arms and something literally threw us out of the school."
Chase swallowed "What you think a ghost did this to you?" he asked. This was not a coincidence, his vision and these boys going to that school and their burns that couldn't be explained medically.
"Hells yes I think a ghost did this to us, that place is the most haunted place in New Jersey, like over 100 people died there," Jake said.
"100 people didn't die there you idiot it was barely 50 people," Michael said.
"Whatever it doesn't matter a lot of people died there, this is all your fault Mike if you hadn't wanted to go to Acid Walls so much we wouldn't be burning to death," Jake said angrily.
"Wait," Chase said before Michael had a chance to retaliate "What did you call the place you went?"
"Acid Walls, that's what most people call St. Augustine's nowadays cause the fire melted and warped the brick inside and outside of the school so when you look at it's like you're on acid," Michael explained.
"Look I know we sound crazy but we're tellin you the truth," Jake said.
Chase nodded before saying softly "I believe you."
"Don't tell our parents we were there would ya, we were supposed to be at the library studying," Jake said and Chase promised he wouldn't tell.
"Excuse me I have to go," Chase said before hurrying out of the room.
The blonde was in a daze as he made his way back to Diagnostics. He entered the conference room to find Cameron, Foreman, and House waiting for him.
"So what'd Beavis and Butthead have to say?" House asked.
"They were at an abandoned high school right before the burns appeared," Chase said.
"What abandoned high school?" House asked.
"St. Augustine's, it was apparently a victim of arson in the sixties, about 50 people died," Chase said and House nodded.
"I think I remember hearing something about that place when I was younger," House said.
"So what does this place have to do with the burns?" Cameron asked.
"School was burned down, lot of people died," Chase said knowing that some people who died violent deaths turned into angry spirits who lashed out at anyone who dared to mock them or disturb their peace.
House chuckled "Don't tell me you believe in ghosts too?"
Chase said nothing just glanced over the older doctor's shoulder as Jasper walked through the wall.
"Robbie, we gotta talk pet it's urgent," Jasper said as he walked through House who shivered and glanced from side to side wondering what had just happened. Chase would have laughed if the situation wasn't so sickeningly serious.
"I found out what walls of acid means, it ain't good love," Jasper said but stopped talking when Chase glanced up at him for a second and Jasper sighed when he realized the blonde already knew.
"Alright maybe there's something in the school that did this to them," House said.
"Bloody well right there's somethin in the school that burned them kids, lots a angry somethins," Jasper said.
"Chase since you seem to be a believer in all things spooky, lets you and I go and check it out, hell we'll even bring Wilson along, it'll be just like Ghost Hunters," House said as he made his way out of the conference room to go and fetch Wilson. Chase sighed and looked over at Cameron and Foreman.
"If we aren't back by sundown send someone for the bodies," Chase said wearily before following his boss out into the hallway.