Chapter 8: Miracles.
Chase and Cicciliano walked back into PPTH just as Taub and Forman were returning. It was sometime around noon, when they had decided that they had wasted enough of the day, and because House had finally called, twice, they decided it was time to go back to work.
"Find anything?" Victoria asked.
"Nothing," Taub sighed. "The woman's office is brand new and the opera house is too, and her apartment is immaculately clean, like she doesn't even live in it and no one else is sick in or around any of the places." he explained.
"So not environmental," Chase stated with a laugh, "no allergies, no fungus, no nothing. That's what we have to go on."
"Then what else could it be?" Forman asked as the four of them stopped in the lobby, "we'll have to bring something to the table."
"A tumor," Cicciliano stated, "Maybe we need to hand her over to Wilson and see if he can tell us if she's got a hitchhiker known as cancer."
"House won't go for that, we'll have to tell him its cancer so that he can hand it over to Wilson with his blessings," Forman sighed.
"It could be neurological," Chase suggested.
"It could be lupus for all we know," Taub sighed, "we just don't have a history, or any lab results to narrow down out search."
"It could be fatigue causing our symptoms." Cicciliano suggested, "What do we know about her life aside for the fact that it's been a whirlwind for so long, maybe her body is just shutting down."
"I've never heard of fatigue causing these kinds of symptoms. It would be a pretty sever case and she would have been dead way before she would have been able to walk out onto that stage last night. Something else is going on." Chase stated.
"Sarcoidosis," Taub suggested.
"We're grasping at straws," Forman stated shaking his head. "We need more information."
"You have a better idea?" Taub asked argumentatively.
"What if it is environmental, but it's something to do with the brand new building," Chase stated.
"Could be, lots of chemicals and synthetics go into building materials." Cicciliano stated.
"Well I guess we're going back then," Taub sighed.
"House will want us to work miracles, so we have to have something," Forman stated and moved to follow Taub.
"Good to see you four," Cuddy stated as she came out of her office, "your patient is awake. It's a miracle."
"Doubt it," Victoria whispered to Chase as she shot him a knowing glance. "We'll check the patient; you go back to the opera house." She added and waved Taub and Forman away.