For a second, the nurses were confused when Jordyn walked into the Clinic, her arms crossed and face filled with a mix of annoyance and urgency. However, as they remembered who the British Doctor stood in front of them was, they each nodded towards Exam Room 1. Smiling in thanks, Jordyn crossed the Clinic waiting room, ignoring the questions from patients that thought she was another doctor to examine them.
Barging through the door, Jordyn rolled her eyes as she saw House in the room with no patient. However, as soon as he eyes landed on the devise he was looking at, the woman cleared her throat and moved her hand to her hip.
Pushing her glasses to the top of her head, Jordyn said, "TV rots your brain you know."
"Has anyone ever told you, you sound like a mother?" House declared in an immature manner.
"That is a hell of a surprise, maybe I should go and see a shrink."
"While you are there, you should talk about your underlying daddy issues." House added causing Jordyn to flip him off before picking up the device and holding it behind her back. "Come on, the commercials are in 10 minutes."
"Too bad, Brandon's in kidney failure! He may not have enough time for you to do a 15:5 TV to work split." Jordyn declared as she walked out of the room, quickly followed by House who was trying to get his device back. "Now, we need to go and do a Differential Diagnosis before he dies."
Beside the duo, one of the patients gasped causing Jordyn to smile sweetly at her before speed walking towards the elevator. The woman had caught everyone's attention and each of the nurses were parting ways for her as they saw the look on her face. House, however, had not followed her. Stopping by the elevator and calling it, Jordyn pulled the pen from her hair as she turned to look at House.
As he turned to the woman who had gasped, House spoke rather loudly, "She is from the Psych Ward. Stole a lab coat and decided to play doctor."
"HOUSE!" Jordyn yelled causing the man to limp her way and step into the elevator.
"So, we had six symptoms that didn't add up to anything, now we have seven." House huffed as he watched Cameron write kidney failure on the board. Jordyn had taken her seat next to Chase who passed her the notepad and pen he had picked up from the lab. She gave him a small smile in thanks before turning to look at the white board. "Who's excited?"
"I don't think it complicates things." Foreman professed as he looked at House. Jordyn screwed up her face in overexaggerated confusion that caused Cameron to stifle a laugh. "The kidney failure was caused by the antibiotics."
"Maybe." Jordyn hummed. "I was wondering if the cough was even a symptom. We all get a cold, Katie has had 5 and she is only 6 months old. There is a chance that it isn't to do with what he has that is life threatening."
"But he doesn't have a stuffy nose." Foreman acknowledged as he looked at Jordyn. "Typically, low blood pressure and abdominal pain means an infection. An abdominal infection causes sepsis, low blood pressure-"
Shaking his head, Chase interrupted, "Except we checked for abdominal infections. And you don't always get a stuffy nose when you get a cold. If you did, tissue companies would be running the economy."
"I know, but what if it's the other way around." Foreman suggested ignoring the second part of Chase's comment. "What if the low blood pressure is causing the abdominal pain?"
"Viral heart infection." Cameron proposed. "The intestines aren't getting enough blood, and the result is belly pain."
"I know it's not the standard presentation-"
"It's a 10 million to one shot." Jordyn cried as she looked at the doctor.
"I thought that's what we dealt with, here." Foreman said sarcastically to Jordyn, causing her eyes to narrow which he ignored. "It explains the cardiomyopathy, pain, the low BP, the fever."
"You read the book!" House clapped as he looked at Foreman.
"It's a ludicrously long shot that explains every one of those symptoms, except for the cough and the rash." Jordyn stated looking smugly. "I thought that we were including the cough? Or is it gone because it doesn't fit your theory?"
"She's right, should we just erase those two?" House questioned.
"Well, anything can cause a rash." Foreman pointed out, once again ignoring Jordyn's comment.
"Okay." House spoke picking up the coloured markers and stated different conditions that each doctor had suggested, changing colour with each. Once he had finished there was an array of colourful lines on the board and not one un-ringed symptom.
Leaning to look at the board, Foreman said, "If you're going to list all of the things it can't be, you're gonna need more colours."
"Cameron was right, no condition explains all these symptoms." House declared as he looked at the board. "But orange and green covers everything."
"Orange and green?" Chase questioned, emphasising the and. "Two conditions, contracted simultaneously?"
Foreman looked to House sceptically as he said, "Occam's Razor. The simplest explanation is always the best."
"And you think one is simpler than two." House declared.
"Pretty sure it is, yeah." Cameron stated.
"Jordyn tells us that she is pregnant, Chase asked how." As House spoke, Jordyn and Chase groaned placing their head in their hands. "Cameron tells you that two people exchanged fluids to create this being. I tell you that one stork dropped the little tyke off in a diaper. You going to go with the two or the one?"
"I think your argument is specious." Foreman professed.
"I think your tie is ugly." House countered before looking to Jordyn and asking, "Why is one simpler than two? It's lower, lonelier… is it simpler?"
"Each one of these conditions is about a thousand to one shot. That means that any two of them happening at the same time is a million to one shot." Jordyn explained and Foreman was about to interrupt but Jordyn raised her hand. "Your cardiac infection is a 10 million to one shot, which makes my idea 10 times better than yours. Get a calculator, run the numbers."
"We'll run the tests." Chase spoke pushing himself up.
"Tests take time. Treatment's quicker." House declared. "Start the kid on Unasyn for the sinus infection and… what was orange?"
"Hypothyroidism." Jordyn stated as she stood up and walked out the door, not waiting for anyone to say what the treatment was. She knew what it was, it wasn't that complicated.
Each of the doctors still in the room looked at each other confused before House said, "Foreman, I think you upset her."
"By pointing out how unlikely her theory was?" Foreman questioned rhetorically.
"It was more likely than yours." Chase pointed out. "And, her's is closer to the one we are using."
Rolling her eyes, Cameron said, "And now you see where the Dynamic Duo comes from."
"You mean it wasn't just because they both have accents?" House quizzed sarcastically. "Damn, I have been making assumptions all along. Now, go and save the patient."
Walking into Brandon's room with Cameron, Jordyn let a small smile fill her face as she saw the duo sat in almost the exact same position they were that morning. When the girlfriend saw Jordyn, she looked up hopeful.
"Have you found what's wrong?"
"We think Brandon has Hypothyroidism and a Sinus Infection." Declared Jordyn as she stood before Mindy who had now stood up.
Looking at Jordyn, Brandon said, "My uncle has hypothyroidism."
"Not like this." Cameron smiled as she looked at the duo.
"Dr Cameron there is administering Intravenous levothyroxine, that is an artificial thyroid medication that should take care of the Hypothyroidism." Jordyn explained. "Also, the nurses are going to start you on Unasyn, it's a more targeted antibiotic-"
Interrupting Jordyn, Mindy asked, "For the sinus infection?"
"Yes."
"And the other stuff is for… something else entirely?"
"Bad luck, huh?" Cameron smiled as she looked at Brandon.
In Jordyn's pocket, her pager went off. Looking at Cameron confused when hers didn't sound as well, Jordyn pulled it from her pocket. Her heart stopped when she read the words across it. Turning to Brandon and Mindy, Jordyn asked, "Are you good if I leave Dr Cameron to administer the treatment?"
As they both nodded, Jordyn thanked them before discreetly signing a K to Cameron who looked just as worried as she was. Keeping herself composed as she walked out the door, Jordyn struggled to keep herself upright as there was a pit in the bottom of her stomach.
"Did you tell them House's theory?" Questioned Chase, his voice dripping with humour until he saw the look on her face. His brow furrowing in concern, Chase watched Jordyn pull out her phone and dial a number she knew off by heart. She only knew one number off by heart.
"What's wrong?" Jordyn asked as she ran through the hospital halls closely followed by Chase who stopped to tell Foreman to stay with Cameron. The duo didn't wait for the elevator. Running down the stairs, Jordyn continued to talk on the phone shocking Chase as she did. Not only was she running down the stairs in heels, but she was talking on the phone. Suddenly there was no surprise that she had lost the baby weight in 6 months.
"Jordyn, we aren't all pro runners like you!" Chase called as they exited the stair well, him stopping for a breather as she continued to run ahead. Struggling for his breath, Chase watched as Jordyn was stopped by a dark-haired man. Placing his hands on her shoulders, the man's mouth moved and Jordyn's hand flew to her chest.
Walking over, Chase appeared just as the dark-haired man walked away leaving Jordyn stood with a look of relief on her face and tears streaking her cheeks. Shaking her head as she anticipated Chase's question, Jordyn burst out into tears that seemed to be a mix of fear, pent up anger and relief. Opening up his arms, Chase held the woman tightly as he years soaked through his lab coat.
"What was wrong?" Chase asked as he looked through the window before them to see Katie sat on the floor playing with the toys that had been placed before her.
Taking in a shaky breath but not moving from where she was leant, Jordyn said, "She couldn't breathe, they thought that she was choking on something but there wasn't anything in her airways. They had to put her back on oxygen. They are almost completely convinced that it is Bronchopulmonary dysplasia now, she may never be off the oxygen."
"I didn't know she was off."
Pulling back from Chase, Jordyn nodded, "I didn't want to jink it by telling anyone. Today was the first full day they were doing it. She has done the gradual and been fine. I guess she isn't as healthy as I thought."
Pushing her hair out of her face, Chase let out a large sigh before saying, "I can cover for you up-"
"No!" Jordyn interrupted quickly as she pulled her hair back and twisted the pen in it. "I need to be doing something. From the looks of it I have another night in this ward so if I don't leave now I will go insane."
"Okay, but at least get yourself a drink and something to eat before you collapse into a heap on the floor."
Biting her lip, Jordyn gave in, "Fine. But I am only getting stuff in the office so I can worry with my phone on loud speaker."
Walking side by side to the office, Chase's pager went off in his pocket. Checking it, he let out a large groan before saying, "I'm sorry, but we have to go to the lab. Without House knowing."
"We don't agree with the two conditions?"
"Not at all."
Walking into the lab side by side, Jordyn and Chase caught Foreman's attention quickly. He wasn't quite sure whether it was the way Chase's hand lingered on her back for a little too long or the way that she looked up at him a small forced smile on her face, but something had caught his attention. Of course, he knew they were close, this had been more than evident when Chase had gone running after the woman earlier that day, but he sensed that there was something more.
Watching as the women pinned back her hair with her pen, a trait that Foreman found rather peculiar anyway, he tried to work out what it was about the duo that confused him. There was always the possibility that it was purely the fact that they both had accents and House had planted the idea in his head earlier. However, Foreman highly doubted that considering the fact that House had also planted the idea that she and Wilson were together yet when he had seen them that morning on the way to the office there had been no part of him that had even considered it. It was something in the way they acted around each other.
Shaking off the thought and pulling his eyes away from Jordyn, Foreman watched as Chase placed a drop of Brandon's blood into a machine to the side of him. He had only been back a moment and Foreman already knew that something was up, he was too quiet. The Australian doctor always had something to say, whether relevant or not. His silence was just another thing that confused Foreman.
Checking the test, Foreman let out a large sigh of announce as he announced, "Negative for Coxsackie-B virus."
"Five down, about 5000 to go." Chase groaned as he looked over to Jordyn once more. Foreman supposed that he knew exactly how many they had done from Cameron, who in Foreman's opinion also talked too much about irrelevant things, so didn't question that. "You really think we're going to come up with your mystery virus by running gels until we guess it right?"
"No, I think we're going to get it by standing around watching other people work." Foreman stated letting Chase know that he could see him watching Jordyn work.
"I'm waiting for the Epstein Barr virus." Chase declared, existing himself from looking over to Jordyn. "She's so unlucky."
Rolling his eyes, Foreman said, "Bad idea."
"What?"
"Bad idea." Foreman repeated even though he knew that Chase had heard him perfectly fine. "You work with her."
"What did I say? Is unlucky some new ghetto euphemism for sexy?" Chase asked looking annoyed at the man. "I said she is unlucky because she is. She hasn't slept more than 2 hours at a time since Katie was born."
"Ghetto euphemism?" Foreman chuckled questionably. Chase joined him after a second of glaring at him unnervingly. "So, you don't think she's hot?"
"No!"
"Wow, then you're brilliant." Foreman declared causing Chase to once again glare at him. "And I am using brilliant as a euphemism."
"Obviously, the girl is hot." Chase stated rolling his eyes. "But you, you're not talking about her aesthetics, you're talking about if I want to jump her." There was a pause in which Foreman though Chase was weighing up his possibilities. However, after a second, he quickly added, "I don't. She is purely a friend. Nothing more, nothing less. Now if you don't mind, the Epstein Barr is ready."
After checking the test and announcing it was negative, Chase moved into a second test. As Foreman watched, Chase's eyes continued to dart across the lab to where Jordyn was working. However, from the look in his eyes when he had mentioned her lack of sleep, Foreman assumed it was concern rather than anything else.
Meanwhile, in the other section of the lab, Cameron was tiptoeing around Jordyn as if she were a cracked glass and just the impact of her whole foot on the floor would cause her to smash. She wasn't far wrong. Had she have said the wrong thing Jordyn would have fractured to millions of sharp shards heading straight for her. So, Cameron said nothing.
Having spent over half an hour in silence, Jordyn pulled her eyes from the computer. Looking over at the doctors, she announced, her voice void of any sort of emotion, "Negative on parvovirus B19."
Watching as Chase looked over quickly catching Jordyn's eye and earning a small strained smile before he looked away, Cameron's brow furrowed in confusion. After a few moments and negative tests of watching the Australian's behaviour, Cameron turned to Jordyn declaring, "You realised that Chase hasn't spent more than 5 minutes without looking over here."
"Your point is?" Jordyn questioned not looking up from the computer as she spoke.
"What did you say to him this morning?" Cameron asked looking at Jordyn who didn't pull her eyes from the computer. "Normally I wouldn't ask, but considering what the topic was-"
"Cameron, I'm not in the mood! I told Chase something that only he understood would have understood." Snapped Jordyn finally moving her eyes from the computer. Raising her eyebrows at Jordyn, Cameron allowed a smirk to filter onto her face. "What so I can't even mention sex, even as part of the case, without it being some sort of power play?"
"Yes," an unknown voice calls from the door, catching each of the doctors' attention. "If you look the way you do, and you say whatever it was you said, which I'm sure could have warranted a sexual harassment lawsuit, you have to be aware of the effect that it'll have on men."
"Can we stop talking about this? I didn't say anything to Chase that would make it awkward, it was simply an inside joke."
"Yeah, and dogs don't lick themselves."
As Jordyn rolled her eyes and looked back to the computer, Chase walked into the area with Foreman looking overly confused. House hadn't known they were in the lab. If he had, he would have come sooner to stop them. They were trying to disprove his theory, something that House would have hated. Him being there made no sense.
Looking at House, Chase asked, "What's going on?"
"Yeah, what are you doing here?" Jordyn asked ripping her eyes from the computer and back to the man who stood before them.
"Looking for you guys." House declared.
"Why didn't you page us?" Foreman questioned confused.
Turning to Foreman, House answered in a matter of fact tone, "'Cause I knew you'd be here."
Looking around the room, shocked, Chase asked, "Who told him?"
"No one. I assume you're trying to prove my crazy two-illness theory wrong, so, obviously, you're going to be in the lab." Pulling the all too familiar yellow pot from his pocket, House asked, "You spin the urine?"
"Not yet." Foreman answered confused.
"Talk to me when you have." House declared before he walked out of the door.
Looking around the lab, Jordyn shrugged her shoulder at the confused doctors. Deciding that doing her job is better than sitting and doing nothing, Jordyn announced, "I'll spin the urine."
"Are you sure-"
"I'm fine!"