House T.M.N.D

a/n: New Chapter and new Worries for the Ex-turtles. Ha ha ha, I can be so mean to them when I write. But really, Donnie is my favourite and I created Samie so I couldn't have them hurt and not mention them again. The word for this chapter is cosmos. Enjoy! :)

Chapter 3

The ex-turtles and Splinter were in the motel room they were renting out while Sam was in the hospital. Don had brung his laptop with him and was looking at the files that Sam had sent them with their DNA sequences in them. He looked at them closely.
"Guys, I think I figured out what the doctors didn't tell us at the hospital." Don said. The others crowded around the laptop. "This is our DNA sequences and it still has traces of red-eared slider in it."
"So you think that this is why they wanted your blood too?" Leo asked him. Don nodded. "Can you make up a cover story to protect us?"
"I could say that me and Sam injected ourselves with the terrapin DNA to see if we would gain any reptilian qualities, but only if they ask us first."
"That could work. Stick with that." He suggested.

Back at the hospital House walked into Wilson's office. "What do you if a teenage girl and her brother both have traces of turtle in their DNA?" He asked.
"Wonder why they have that, or better yet just ask them why they have been injecting themselves with it?" He responded. "Now if you don't mind I have a dinner date with Amber." He said standing up.
"Wait what if the DNA caused the girl and not her brother to have nearly have a heart attack and then actually have a stroke and a small heart attack?"
"Do a tox screen make sure they aren't injecting themselves with anything else." Wilson looked back at House. "Now would you please get out of my way."
"I'm going hide from Cuddy for a while. I'm still avoiding her since I hired 40 applicants and narrowed down the suspects gradually."
"She's the Dean of Medicine, you need to talk to her eventually." Wilson said before leaving his office.

The next morning the ex-turtles were in Sam's room before she had even woke up. Don had worked up a cover story and was willing to stick with it. Mikey was holding sam's hand and stroking her arm as she slept. "Donnie, she doesn't have any needle marks on her arms." He said identifying the gap in the cover story. Don delved around in his dufflebag.
"I have the solution to that." He took the needle and injected into her arm. She woke up to the pain of the needle going into her arm. "Don't panic Samie, it's only water. I'm not going to hurt you." He reassured her. Sam looked confused, but trusted her brother as he finished injecting her with water. He put away the needle and brought out another one and injected himself with it. He was clever enough to use the arm that was covered up yesterday with a plaster to hide the mark he gave himself, and used platers to stop the bleeding in their arms.

House and his team where in the conference space connected with his office. "Is there enough of their blood left to run a tox screen?" He asked Thirteen who was the one who had done the blood tests.
"Yes, why are we just now suggesting drugs? I doubt that they are the kind of kids that would something like that." She questioned.
"Do you have any other ideas."
"No, but shouldn't drugs have-"
"Just run a tox screen, Chase go with her. Foreman break into their armoured truck and look for any environmental causes. Taub go with him Kutner go and visit the patient and see how she is doing." They all stood up to leave the office. "Kutner, check over her twin as well, he might start showing symptoms." Kutner nodded and went to the ICU.

He arrived in the room. "Good morning." He said. "I just came to check on you." He looked between the twins and pointed between them. "Both of you two."
"Why Donatello, he isn't ill. He is fine." Splinter asked.
"Mr. Hamato, they are identical twins. We want to be sure that the same thing that happened to your daughter doesn't happen to him as well." Kutner explained.
"Dr Kutner, what makes you think that Don is sick? Samie's problem probably isn't genetic." Leo asked pretending to be confused about the situation.
"We just to cover all of our bases." He checked Sam's vitals. He looked at Don. "May I?" He asked. Reluctantly Don agreed to this and allowed Kutner to check his own vitals.

In the pathology lab Thirteen and Chase were testing for any kind of drug that the twins could have possibly have gotten their hands on. So far they hadn't found anything. "Do you think they are on drugs, if they have why did she get worse after admission?" Chase asked while putting some of Don's blood in a centrifuge.
"I don't know, they don't really seem like the kind and there has been no signs of withdrawal, so I'm going to go with no for now." She answered.
"If House is wrong about the drugs then we don't have a lot to go on." Chase said. "His is negative for everything."
"So is her's, he was wrong and now we are back to what could cause this."
"The family still don't know about the mutation in their DNA, the rest of the family might be pretending to be unaware. If they are, then what are the chances that they have this mutation as well?"
"Slim to none, they aren't biologically related." Thirteen answered. She looked thoughtful for a moment. "Maybe it is her heart. When we finish here we should talk to House again." The finished up and two sheets of paper came out of the printer. Chase collected them and left the pathology lab.

At the Battle Shell Foreman was really impressed by the fact that it was basically a military base on wheels. What he didn't realise is that Don had rigged up a silent alarm that sent him a text if someone broke into his gas guzzling toy. And Don had received a text the second Foreman had opened the door to the truck and he was on his way down as Foreman was looking around.
"What makes you think that there wasn't going to be a security system on a truck like this?" Sounded a voice from behind him. Foreman jumped out of his skin and turned around. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't call the police Dr Foreman?" Don asked as Foreman stood up.
"Because I was only looking for environmental causes to you sisters' condition." He answered.
"You still broke into our truck, that my friend is illegal." He said.
"For your sister's sake do not call the cops." Foreman looked at Donnie. "How did you know that I was in here."
"I didn't know that it was you. I have a security system linked into my phone that sends me a text message whenever someone attempts to break into this truck, yeah and a silent alarm that sends the frequency to my phone. It's pretty sophisticated.". Foreman was completely lost for words, how could he have been so stupid to assume that there wasn't one, with all the technology in here they would need a security system in place if someone was to try anything. He just assumed that the teenagers were careless enough not to have one. "Now that you know we have an alarm system I am going to assume that you want me to let you snoop around while I watch." Don was staring him right in the eye. "Let me save you and myself at least an hour of our lives and say that the others would be sick too including my father if there was any environmental causes, and none of us were sick." Once again, Foreman was outsmarted by the teenager, who looked away from him. Foreman looked at one of the shelves and pointed to the half eaten burger that was there.
"What about that?" He asked.
"That is Leonardo's from last night. Anata wa kami no tame ni inotte teishi shimasu."(1) He said reverting back to Japanese.
"What did you just say?" Foreman asked.
"I said that there is nothing here and it's time for you to go." He looked under the front seat and hoped that the doctor hadn't seen the giant soda cup that probably belonged to Mikey, and was actually Raph's from the drive down to Jersey. The two left the vehicle and went back to the building of the hospital. Foreman went to the clinic to look for House as Don went back up stairs.

In Sam's room. "Hey, Don where'd you go?" Leo asked him. Don slid the door shut and closed the blinds. Luckily Kutner had left the room so there was no one there that could over hear them.
"Foaman wa, watashitachi no tatakai sheru ni oshii~tsu."(2) He said in Japanese just in case you could hear through the glass.
"Wait are you sure?" Leo asked.
"Watashitachiha totsuzenhen'i-tai to shite hakken sa reta kono heikinchi o nani?"(3) Mikey asked.
"No Mikey he said that he was looking for environmental causes, there are none only an extra large soda cup underneath the front seat." Don looked at Mikey, who put his hands up in innocence. Raph looked slightly sheepish.
"Sorry Don that was me." He said. "It was the extra large cherry cola I had on the way down." He admitted.
"So it clearly isn't the reason why she is sick." Donnie commented. "It makes the battleshell uninvolved. And me more suspicious."

Foreman went straight into the office space that was shared with the entire team. "There are no environmental causes. And her brother nearly called the cops on me. They had a silent alarm fitted in too." He said.
"Pretty sweet ride isn't it, they made me promise not to touch anything when I helped one of the brothers get her here in the first place." House said. "Makes me think that they are hiding something. Find out what it is." Chase and Thirteen came back into the room.
"The tox screen was negative, just like I said it would be." Thirteen commented. "Now can we concentrate on the wierd DNA sequences before making sure that there is no more build up in the patient's heart."
"Yes Chase get an angiogram of her heart to make sure that she doesn't have anymore symptoms. Taub, you have nothing to do, so you go with him." They turned to leave.

"Hello, Samantha. We just want to give you another test. Can you open your mouth for me?" Chase said walking in with Taub. Taub cleared his throat.
"We are just going to give her an angiogram to make sure that there is nothing else blocking the artery's that lead away from her heart." Mikey looked at him confused. "It's what caused her symptoms, it's called an atherosclerosis. All we have to do now is figure out what caused that and make sure it doesn't happen again."
"Smie, Samie."
"You want me to call you Samie?" He asked her. Sam nodded.
"Okay Samie, I need you to open your mouth wide and stay calm but I am going to put this tube down your throat. Look it has a camera on the end so that we can see your heart on this screen." Chase reassured her as he put the camera in her mouth. He pointed at the screen and told everyone that there is no sign of the problem returning, which of course was a good sign that the meds that they were giving her were working.
"All you have to do now is work at getting stronger." Leo said to her as Chase pulled the tube out of her mouth. "It looks like it's clearing up. It's a good sign." Chase smiled and stood up.
"We'll be back in a little while to check on you." Taub said.

The doctors left the room and stopped at a desk outside. "Well on the bright side she might be able to go home soon." Chase said.
"Provided we can find sufficient information on her from the DNA we pulled from her and her brother." Taub said. "I wish we could check out her place in New York."
"We better get back to the office and tell House, then maybe grab lunch in the cafeteria." Chase smiled at him, hoping that his friend would say yes. They hadn't worked together very long but they had a lot in common and he was hoping that he would say yes to a double date with him and Cameron, and obviously Rachel who was Taub's wife.
"Lets go." Taub said and they left the area entirely.

In the pathology lab Thirteen and Kutner were trying to figure out what was with the funky DNA, when Kutner had an idea. "Hey Thirteen, why don't we just ask the patient, or her brother seeing as she can hardly speak." He suggested.
"And whatever answer you get House would just say that the patient is lying even if it is the truth." Thirteen told him.
"So, it might be the only way we are going to figure out how that DNA got there in the first place." Kutner left the lab and Thirteen stood there shocked by the way that the geek stood up for himself. Honestly she didn't know why she was so surprised. The guy blew up a hyperbolic chamber with a defib his first day on the job instead of letting the patient die.

Kutner marched right into Sam's room. "Can ask exactly how your daughter managed to get some foreign DNA signatures in her bloodstream?" He asked as Sam pushed her body up only to be settled down by Donatello. Then Donatello stood up.
"Dr Kutner, can I speak to you out in the hallway for a moment?" He asked. Nothing suspicious with that, he suspected that the kid had a confession.

Don then dragged him into the hallway, not really having the patience to wait on him. "What do you want to talk about kid?" Kutner asked Don.
"Well the reason for those DNA signatures are messed up is because, Samie and I were trying to see if we could gain reptilian traits from injecting turtle DNA into our bodies." Kutner could tell that Donnie was really worried about this causing his sister's symptoms. "Please don't tell my father. I don't want him to know that I caused my sister to get so sick. It was my theory after all. I guessed if it never worked then it would work it's way out of our systems." Don said sadly. Kutner's heart went out to this kid, he was so sure that this was what caused his sister's symptoms that he never wanted his dad to know how the DNA got there in the first place.
"Don't worry kid. I can't tell if you don't want me to. Confidentiality laws prevent me from doing so." Kutner said half-lying. Little did the doctor know that Donnie was acting. Who would have guessed that a drama club at school would actually be useful for something.

Kutner told House who he had found in Wison's office. "Well then, that's another part of the puzzle solved." By this time Kutner had walked past two of his colleges twice and he was about to a third time to get back to Pathology.

House was still talking to Wilson in his office. "What do you do when a person has the DNA of a turtle and isn't hiding the fact that she injected it into her own body?" He asked his best friend who was looking at an MRI of someone's lungs.
"There's a shadow there. Dammit, that patient was going into remission. And you treat her symptoms and send her home, you found out what was wrong with your patient. And her brother discovered Foreman breaking into their truck. House you solved it."
"No I didn't why would turtle DNA cause her heart to fail?" Gregory said looking up. He was about to day something else when there was a knock at the door. "Do you have an appointment?"
"No I don't. Come in." Wilson said the door opened revealing Chase and Taub.
"The angiogram was clear, her heart is still weak but the atherosclerosis has cleared up. Nothing is blocking it anymore." Chase told his boss.
"Good, do you know how the others are getting on?" He asked, needing the answer to his puzzle.
"No results from the lab, and Foreman is getting lunch." Taub answered honestly. "Do you two want anything from the cafeteria?" He asked as the were about to go down. The two doctors said no as they went back to the previous conversation they were having.
"Why can't you just admit that you like Cuddy?" James asked.
"Why can't you admit that you are a sucker and go for the first woman that gives you attention?" House asked rhetorically. Wilson ignored this and continued to work. After 5 minutes of silence House decided to leave the office without saying a word.

House went over to Samie's room as fast as he could considering his bad leg and the fact that he was paging the team at the same time. He opened the door. "Is that a revolving door or something?" Raph asked as he felt he wasn't getting anymore than 5 minutes piece and quiet with the doctors and nurses coming in and out of the room. He waited for his team showing up before speaking, the rest of the time just standing there looking at the family. "Your daughter's heart condition was caused by the turtle DNA in his her system going around her blood stream and into her heart. Only there was a problem and it began to have an adverse reaction to her heart. This caused everything, the atherosclerosis, the stroke and the heart attack. As well as the initial symptoms which caused her to be hospitalised in the first place." The family stared at House in shock.
"I take it that you are Dr House? The doctor who is in charge of my daughters case?" Splinter asked as he stood up. "Can I ask exactly why this turtle DNA was introduced in the first place he asked turning to Donatello as they had rehearsed.
"Sorry sensei. I didn't think that she would get sick from it. It was all my fault, guys I'm sorry can you ever forgive me?" Donatello rambled on not giving a full explanation.
"My son. You are forgiven by me, you clearly did not mean for your sister to get so unwell and I sense that you are truly sorry about all of this Donatello. It is not my forgiveness you need to seek however, it is your sister's." He told Donatello who was half acting that it was his fault. He knew that it was the chemical that turned them human that caused all of the symptoms and Dr Gregory House himself practically confirmed it.

When Sam was strong enough she was let out of the hospital, by this time all that remained was a very unoticable speech problem and her eyes weren't as good at seeing, but that was normal for stroke patients.

Over the next few years Samantha got better eventually got the all clear. When Sam graduated Med School it was the happiest day of her life. It was strange to think that when she was a mere 15 she had never thought that it would be possible, and her brothers had their fare share of jokes about her being a doctor. Until she told them that she wasn't training in cardiology but was training to be a neurosurgeon. It was what she had always wanted to do and she was finally getting the chance to do it. And nothing could stop her from achieving that dream. Not even the Shredder.

a/n: The End. I have one last story in this series though. And it will be posted when I write the first chapter. I know exactly what is going to happen and I hope to see you in the reviews section. Thanks for reading! :)