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This chapter is shorter (1000 words in french, 889 in english!), but you'll know what happened to Greg, so I hope you'll like it.
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Nurse Garett stood proudly in front of lieutenant Jones, not in the least ashamed of her actions.
- You have helped a mentally ill man to escape from the asylum. You don't deny anything?
- No. But the "why" should interest you! Retorted the middle aged woman.
- I'm listening. Replied Jones, feeling it was going to be a big one.
- You didn't wonder why the hospital reported his disappearance only 3 days after I helped him to escape ? They barely took care of him!
- What? He was mistreated? Asked Jones frowning.
- Not treated at all! When he arrived, they began to sedate him, it has to be said that he was crying foul , that he wasn't mad, he hadn't his place in a nuthouse... But that is normal, they often react like this... But then they left him sedated for months... When he woke up, it was to be injected a new dose...
- He didn't have a doctor to take his case? Asked Jones.
- He had. But for some obscure reason, the only thing he wanted to do with Greg was that. Greg went through all states of mind: one time he begged to go outside, one time he threatened to call his lawyer...
Garett cleared her throat, holding back her tears.
- If he wasn't totally mad when he came there, that certainly finished him off... He began to mistake me for his mother...
- You said it was like that only for the first few months, not years, so what happened next?
- You probably heard he is suffering from multiple personality disorder? For the time being I counted three of them... Well, one of these personality can be very violent , he ... tried to strangle a nurse who came for give him a shot... So they put him in isolation with a straightjacket.
- How much time did he stay in? Asked Jones who was beginning to feel sick.
- I really don't know... They're supposed to stay in for three hours max, but I didn't see him for a few days... After that, they stopped to consistently sedate him , he was obliged to do PT with me and an other nurse, because he had lost a lot of muscular mass... When he was able to walk again, I went to talk to the director of the hospital but he didn't believed me and told me I should be ashamed to accuse a respectable doctor...
I was transferred into an other departement, but e kept on seeing Greg during my free time. She shook her head. Somebody had to feed him!
- What finally did make up your mind to help him to escape ?
- I saw him being beaten up by security agents. Several times. And nobody bothered to do something. The director threatened to fire me if I kept on "slandering a performing staff who have already showed their abilities better than I me". It was the straw that broke the camel's back. I gave him food from the cafeteria, nurses scrubs, and I let him go out by the backdoor. I assume, they noticed he wasn't there when they missed their favourite punching-ball!
- So you just let him disappear in New York! What do you think is going to happen to him in the street? Exclaimed Jones offended.
- Believe me. He has what he needs.
- You know where he is? You have to tell me!
Garett saw red.
- So that you can send him back? Not gonna happen. Leave him alone now, He served his sentence. And even more !
- And what if I tell you he kidnapped a little girl?
- He can't hurt anybody!
- You told yourself that one of his personality is violent.
- Trust me. After the whole straitjacket thing, that "Greg" won't show up again. Suppose you are locked in a little room without aeration, covered of mattresses so you can hit your head against the walls as much as you want, and in a straitjacket with a bum leg for 1 day. Now suppose this for a week. That certainly subdued him!
- That little girl needs her mom! Don't involve her in that, and don'tobstruct the justice!
- Justice? First, do justice to what's left of Doctor House before you sentence him again!
- We will. No worries, but the girl and her mother don't deserve that.
Garett lowered her head. She was herself a mother of three children. She took the paper and the pencil and wrote down an address.
- He saved my daughter. He is a doctor not a killer. Please don't hurt him.
- We'll do what we have to. Tonight, doctor Hourani as well as his crooked security guards, will be behind the bars, Rachel will come back to her mother, and we'll take care of Mr House.
Jones bit her lower lip. This woman had only helped a man in danger and she still risked so much...
Sighing, she switch her dicta-phone off, and wrote a phone number on a little paper.
- She is the best lawyer I know. Tell her it's Lieutenant Jones who sent you, she will understand.
- Thank you! murmured Garett having a lump in her throat.