“House.” Cuddy caught him as he was coming
out of the clinic, “The brunette that came in with your patient’s in a coma.”
“Which one? The boy or the girl?” House
demanded.
“The guy collapsed a block away from the
hospital.”
“Symptoms?”
“None, fell into a coma, just like the
patient.”
“The children aren’t contagious.”
“I want them in quarantine.”
“We don’t have enough rooms.”
“Four clean rooms just came up. Get them
down there and they’re staying there until you figure out what’s causing the
comas.”
“They’re not contagious.”
“House.” Cuddy snapped, “Just do it.”
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“In ten minutes, I’m expected to bring you
three down to the clean rooms for quarantine where you’ll be guarded at all
times until I can find the cause of the comas.”
“We told you the cause of the…” Tea froze, her
hand on Joey’s arm. “Comas?”
Yugi, who had already grabbed his backpack
and Duel Disk and was heading for the door, had stopped, turning to look at
House. “Tristan?”
“The brunette you came in with is already
there, he was brought in about twenty minutes ago.”
“Ten minutes?” The Yugis had swapped and it
was the more forceful one that was asking the question and he looked pissed
off.
House checked his watch. “I’ll be back in
eight and a half minutes.” He left the room.
That was all Yami needed. “Tea, stay in
quarantine, they can’t get to you there. We’ll be back once we’ve rescued Joey
and Tristan.”
“Be careful.”
Yugi left.
Eight and half minutes later House entered
the room, looked around, pretended to look surprised and asked, “Where’d the
kid go?”
“Kid? What kid?” Tea asked innocently.
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“Where’s the brother?” Cuddy demanded as
Tea settled into her room, next to Tristan’s empty shell and Joey’s was wheeled
into the room the other side of him.
“The brother?” House asked innocently. “I
was unaware the patient had a brother. He certainly didn’t come in with a
brother.”
“House!” Cuddy got it immediately. “You let
him leave!? Do you have any idea how dangerous that could be?”
“He was nowhere to be found when I went to
collect them.” House answered quickly and smoothly, “I asked Security to keep
an eye out for him but…” House shrugged, irritating Cuddy further.
“You let a patient with a potentially
contagious, unknown disease leave the hospital.”
“I didn’t see him leave; I haven’t seen him
for the majority of the afternoon.” That was certainly true, two minutes didn’t
add up to much since he hadn’t actually been in the patient’s room since
yesterday, unless you counted the two minutes to warn Muto and the five minutes
it had taken to get Wheeler out of the room.
Cuddy just scowled at him.
“If it’s any help, Foreman said he’s been
coming back to the hospital every night.” House offered, “He’ll be back.”
“If anyone else catches this disease
because your team let him walk out of this hospital…”
“No one else is going to slip into a coma.
It’s not contagious.”
“You can’t know that.” Cuddy growled, “I
want to be informed about every test you perform and every drug you issue. Am I
clear?”
“As glass.”
Cuddy stalked off.
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