The Unexplainable - Gregory House x Oc

Hello, I'm Dr. Charlie Sangster

 September 9th, 2004

Charlie and Chase arrived at the hospital within minutes. They immediately ran inside and to the elevators. Hockey was shaken awake by the running and let out a disgruntled meow. He sat up in the bag and gave Charlie an annoyed look, his eyes narrowing in judgment. Charlie quickly shushed him and pushed him back into the bag.

"Wanna give me the rundown?" Charlie asked as Chase hit the elevator button. Chase glances at her before looking back at the elevator doors. "In all honesty, I'm not sure what the current problem is. My pager just said 'EMERGENCY'." He sighed, his hands clenching and unclenching by his sides nervously. "Just... be prepared. Can I ask you to try to control the parents? They can get a bit overprotective." He explains seriously.

"Parents? How old is this patient?" Charlie questioned with a raised brow. Chase glanced at her expectantly, waiting for her to answer his question. "Yeah, I'll watch the parents." Charlie sighed, running a hand through her hair. She wasn't the best at comforting, but Chase was asking a favor, and she couldn't just say no. Plus, if the situation turns out to be bad, the parents will need to be either calmed down or escorted out.

"Thanks." Chase let out a sigh of relief, "and the patient is 16." Charlie gave a nod of acknowledgement in response. The elevator doors opened, and the two doctors raced through the halls, dodging people along the way as needed. Chase would yell an occasional "Excuse me!" while Charlie stayed quiet, a monotone expression plastered onto her face.

They soon reached the room, and Charlie took a quick scan of the area to assess the situation. The patient was an African American girl, with bouncy curls and a relatively clear complexion. The young girl was covered in hives and crying out in pain with tears streaming down her face. Charlie's first thought was that the girl was simply having an allergic reaction, but the hives and her body language looked off.

She didn't have the same panicked look most patients suffering from an anaphylactic response harbored. The patient did look scared, but she mainly looked like she was in pain. Her brows were knitted together tightly, and her hand occasionally grasped the sheets of the hospital bed tightly before releasing and going back to her chest. Beads of sweat rolled down her forehead and her eyes were squeezed shut. Furthermore, it didn't make sense why they would call Chase in on an emergency just for an allergic reaction. Even if it was severe, the nurses on standby around the hospital could handle it easily.

As the two doctors entered the room, they saw Dr. Cameron distributing a shot via the patient's medial cubital vein in the arm. Chase rushed to the patient's bedside and started shouting questions as Cameron set the syringe down, her hands shaking slightly. "Cameron, what the hell is going on?" Chase asked, looking between her and the patient. Charlie set her bag down next to the door while keeping her gaze locked onto Chase and Cameron. She glanced at the parents and moved to calm them and try to get them to stop yelling.

"What the hell is happening to our daughter?!" The man Charlie assumed to be the father, a 6-foot Caucasian man with a long black beard and wavy black hair, shouted at the doctors. He looked a lot like a Viking and if Charlie had to admit that he was very attractive. If she had seen him in a bar, she probably would have tapped that.

'No, Charlie, be professional.' Charlie mentally scolded herself and quickly shook the thought out of her head as she focused on the situation at hand. A nurse, along with whom Charlie assumed was the patient's mother, were already holding the father back and trying to keep him calm. Charlie quickly stepped in front of the parents, hopefully taking their attention away from what their daughter was currently going through.

"Sir, I need you to calm down. As soon as we figure out what is wrong with your daughter and know how to help her, we will take immediate action to get her stable." Charlie explained in a professional manner while holding her hands up nonthreateningly. The man's attention shifted to Charlie, and he started to yell at her instead of Chase and Cameron.