House T.M.N.D

a/n: Second chapter is finally here, was going to write a poem about it, but I do not have a rhyming dictionary. Sorry I left you on a cliffhanger I thought that it would be a great place to finish it off. The word for this chapter is Benign. I thought that it should be something medical seeing as the crossover is with House M.D. Enjoy! :)

Chapter 2

House and his team sat in his office. "Patient is in surgery trying to fix what caused her stroke and heart attack." Thirteen said. "Her dad gave permission to put in a pacemaker. He looked so heart broken seeing her like that." She commented.
"Why do you care? It is our job to treat not to make sure that the family is alright." House commented, tipping popping candy into his mouth.
"Actually she has an identical twin brother, so it could be our job to take care of him as well." Kutner said. "What if her symptoms are hereditary then he might need a full cardiac work up to make sure the same thing won't happen to him."
"He's right the family seem very protective of her." Chase admitted. "There has to be something we can do to reassure them that she will be all right."
"Is there even any point in discussing this. Case solved it was atherosclerosis." Foreman said.
"That lead to a seventeen year old girl having a stroke and a heart attack at the same time." House asked them. Opening his mouth to hear the crackling of his candy in his mouth.
"High blood pressure, but hers was fine when she was admitted." Taub answered. "Unless it was high and looked normal because it is usually low. The kid admitted to having up to six hours a day of physical exercise. Maybe that was too much for her body to handle."
"I agree with you on the blood pressure thing, but the exercise thing could be wrong. Any other ideas?" House said. "No, when she is out of surgery then take some blood and figure out why it was low."

Meanwhile the rest of the Hamato's were waiting in the waiting area. "I hate being in these places. And I hate that its our sister that is in here." Raph said fiercely punching the glass wall.
"Would you rather her have a stroke outside of the hospital?" Leo asked rhetorically. Raph ignored him and walked away. Donnie sent him a look. "What?" He asked. "All I meant was even though Samie is going through a difficult time that doesn't mean that she won't come out of the other end still alive." He said.
"I would listen to your brother Raphael. He is right Samantha is strong in spirit and in body the best thing we can do for her right now is be there for her and stay calm." Before he could leave Mikey stood up and followed him out of the room. "My son is everything okay?" He asked.
"Can I come with you sensei. I want to see my sister, to make sure she is alright."
"Yes you may Michelangelo."

They stood in the small room above the operating theatre and watched as the doctor was working on that. "Sensei do you remember the time when Leo was hurt by the shredder and we helped ourselves and him by telling stories about his past?" Mikey asked looking at his father.
"Yes I do." He replied.
"Well I was just thinking that maybe we could help ourselves with telling stories about Samie now." Mikey thought for a moment. "Like when we were little and she was trying to practice putting bandages on us in case of an emergency. I helped her and we spent hours playing with it and I came out and pretended to be a turtle mummy and scared Raph so much that he punched me and I had to keep the bandage on my face because it hurt so much. She laughed so much at that and I would do anything to hear her laugh now."
"I too miss her laugh. Do you remember when you were younger. Samantha loved books, as she always has. And every single night she would ask me to read to her. I would even though she could already read by herself and I will never forget the first day when she asked me if I wanted her to read me one. She said that she had been practicing and had gotten really good at it. Then sat on my knee and read me her old barbie book that she loved." Splinter said.
"Sam was always this happy girl who hardly let anything bother her. She was always the one who wanted to play hide and seek. Until Leo accidentally locked her in a cupboard ever since then she cannot stand small spaces or being locked in anywhere." Mikey said.

Later on Sam was out of surgery and back in her room. Chase had explained that there might be some brain damage caused by the stroke and that it would take some time for her to recover and even then she might not recover fully. Raph was sitting staring at his unconscious sister as the others went to get food. That was everyone other than Leo. "Sensei was right about her, she is strong enough to pull through. We can help her do that god knows that she would do the same thing for us in a heartbeat." Raph cringed at his brothers choice of words.
"We nearly lost our little sister today Leo. I don't know what we would have done if we actually got to that concert," Leo looked confused, "What I mean is would it have happened in there or would the stroke have happened when we were on the way home."
"Raph you did good at getting her to the hospital when her symptoms started." Leo told him putting his hand on his younger brothers shoulder.

During the conversation Sam opened her eyes. "Eo, aph. Cnn yooo herreee me." She whispered lowly they turned around and stopped talking at her waking up. Raph and Leo were standing at her side by this time and Samie looked wrong in their eyes, the seventeen year old looked small and was hardly awake and looked really weak. "Samie, we can hear you. Can you hear us?" Leo asked.
"Wret snsi?" She asked gargling as she spoke.
"sensei is getting something to eat with Mikey and Donnie." Raph answered.
"Mky nd nni?" She asked. Leo nodded.
"Yeah Mikey and Donnie are with Sensei downstairs." Leo looked at Raph. "Do you think you can stay with her while I find the others?"
"What am I supposed to do with her?" He asked in return.
"Keep her talking for as long as possible. I'll get a doctor while I'm gone." Leo responded, he didn't want to leave so soon after Sam had woken up but the others needed to know that she was awake, as did the doctors.

Leo entered the hospital cafeteria. "Guys. You are never going to believe this. Samie is awake and she spoke sort of. Couldn't really make it out." Don stood up.
"Then why are we all sitting in here. Let's go and see her." Leo looked at the brown haired teen as if he was mental. The outburst was so uncharacteristic of Donnie.
"Okay then." Mikey and Splinter stood up and followed Leo, they spotted Dr Kutner on the way up and told him that Sam was awake. He followed him into her room.

Raph was still sitting beside Sam getting her to say a few words in Japanese. "Ishi ni aisatsu." (1) He instructed slowly.
"Konicwa." Sam gargled again as she spoke. Everyone smiled at her attempt to say the word Konichiwa. It was a good start and was quite a long word for her to attempt say when she had just woken up.
"That was very good." Kutner smiled at the teenager. He brought a small light out of his pocket and preceded to check her vitals. "I'm going to look into your eyes now. I won't hurt you, but you need to say something if you do get hurt." It was a quick two minutes and at the end Kutner was satisfied that Sam was able to stay awake for a while longer and was presently surprised when she hadn't fallen back to sleep just yet.

Kutner walked into the office he shared with his boss and co-workers. "Patient is awake and actually spoke." He said.
"So the patient, just had a stroke and she can already communicate properly. I doubt that." Foreman said.
"Well I don't think what she said was an actual word. More like most of a word. But I don't speak Japanese so I can't tell. Her family seemed pleased though." Kutner responded.
"Maybe she did, but at the same time shouldn't we be making sure that there is no underlying problems." Thirteen said. "I noticed some pretty big mutations in her DNA. Some of it resembles that of a red-eared slider." "You mean the terrapin with the red skin over it's ears I doubt that." Chase replied. "Next you'll be saying that her brother had the same thing when you tested his blood.
"Maybe he has." House interupted. "Why don't you get blood from the one that looks like her and test that. If they are identical twins then he might have the same mutation." Little did House know that the five teenagers all had the same mutation. And their father had one similar to a rat's that would be harder to detect.

There was very little that could scare Donatello, but being told that he could have the same thing as his sister scared him. Doctors Taub and Hadley had just said that they wanted to take some blood to be sure. They didn't technically lie, they were worried that he could be as sick as his sister currently was but Donnie just didn't know that the team of doctors thought that it was because of mutation. He came back into Sam's room with a plaster on the crease at his elbow. "Man I fell like they took like a quarter of my blood." He said sitting down and eating his cookie.
"Do the doctors maybe think that this is genetic? It would be a pretty big coincidence if it wasn't." Leo asked him. Donnie swallowed and shook his head.
"If it was I would probably already be sick. But Sam is usually the one who deals with the medical things in this family. So I can't be sure." He looked at the door. It was shut. "I got the feeling that they were hiding something. I also think that her body could be having a delayed reaction to the chemical I induced to all of us two years ago. But I could be wrong."
"More likely that the chemicals in the Utrom mutagenic substance caused a reaction with the chemical properties in the chemical ooze that you injected into our systems two years ago." Mikey said. The others looked at him. "What I can be smart sometimes." He said acting slightly hurt.
"Your theory Mikey, might be more accurate. But if it is why isn't it happening to us." Donnie thought putting his right hand on his chin.
"Maybe because the reaction took place in her heart causing all of her symptoms." Leo responded. "Maybe that's why she has been sick. Who was the first to be injected with your ooze?" He asked.
"I can't remember, Leo it was two years ago as we have said several times in the last few minutes." Don argued.
"My sons it appears that we might be in a lot more trouble than these doctors have let on." Splinter informed them. "If they figure out that we are mutants then we would be forced back into our old lives, back into the shadows."

The three ex-turtles looked confused, Raph had fallen asleep as had Sam so both of them missed the conversation that had taken place. But for Donnie, Leo and Mikey the situation was very real and very dire.