Hi Y'all school has been hectic, and I might have had an tiny case of writers block.
Robert awoke to a blonde asleep on his chest she looked a lot younger than twenty-two when she slept. He looked at his phone seeing it was still rather early in the morning and that there was no message that he was needed at the hospital on his day off so he snuggled back into the pillow falling back asleep.
Ashtyn rolled over sunlight trickling through her eyes one green eye cracked open seeing it was almost one in the afternoon. That was the latest she slept in a long while. She felt wide awake all well rested and her chest and arm wasn't sore. She stuck her feet in the panda slippers and made her way to the bathroom seeing that her hair was a mess.
She pulled her hair up realizing that she had slept through her classes not that it mattered she had taken all of the courses she needed to get into medical school and she could pass most of the psychology courses in her sleep. She technically wasn't supposed to be back to classes until Monday and it was Friday. Robert was sitting in bed rubbing his eyes. "Well hello sleepyhead." She joked seeing his surfer blonde hair stuck up everywhere.
"It's one pm?" He asked checking his phone. "I never sleep this late."
"Neither do I." She muttered. "Want to order a pizza for lunch?" She asked her stomach growling she didn't really want to cook and she figured he probably didn't either.
"How about sushi instead?" He suggested not in the mood for pizza.
"Sure sounds good." She wasn't really a picky person when it came to food and sushi did sound better than pizza. "Do you have to work?"
"I'm off today so you and I can just snuggle on the couch and watch movies or talk." He suggested kissing her lips as he ordered the sampler sushi platter from his phone.
"I've missed all of my classes for today so it is very much going to be a cuddle on the couch kind of day." She let out a half yawn settling into the couch.
Robert sat next to her. "Maybe you should set an alarm clock. I don't want to be the reason you fail." He teased she didn't seem like the slacker type.
"Fail a class you obviously don't know me that well." She joked laying her head in his lap. "So we both have the screwed up family thing going on."
"My family is nowhere as screwed up as yours." He kissed her lips figuring since she laid her messy past onto the table he could too. "How about I tell you about my past."
"You can if you want, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
"I want to. You told me about Luke and your father the least I can do is tell you about my mother." He ran his hands through her hair. "My father is Rowan Chase who wrote the textbook on Rheumatology. He worked a lot finding it interesting for most doctors it's not as time consuming but he was one of the main discovers of Polymyalgia rheumatica and made a huge dent in SLE research. I just never could get into Rheumatology if I'm really exhausted I'll crack open one of his medical journals, those put me right out." He joked his father was massively successful in the medical community as was his step-mother. He was also successful, just moreso in the states while most people knew his father and step-mother.
"Around sixteen dad walked out after mother lost a patient and turned to the bottle. It started off innocently enough a couple of glasses of wine then it turned into several bottles of wine, and other stuff. I was left to clean up her mess all that she wanted to sleep. She was majorly depressed and didn't really want to get help. So the drinking and depression got worse until her kidneys and liver failed, at that point there wasn't really anything we could do. Alana was still rather young and blamed me for her death. So I went off to undergrad. I discovered partying all while dad was bankrolling my college education out of guilt. They tried dragging me back into the family but I just didn't feel like it. They showed up when I graduated medical school and I realized how much of a depressed idiot I was without them. My siblings and I act like nothing happened. Kristin is a lovely step-mother and Rowan and I bonded again. I still have days that I really hate mother for drinking herself to death."
"I have moments in which I want to go back in time and tell my father to put down the Cocaine and Heroin. That things would get better with Peter." Tears threatens to spill out of her eyes. "I hate him so much for turning to drugs to soothe the depression why couldn't he use depression meds like a normal person. I know exactly what you mean. He's my father and I love him but the man who turned to drugs was not my father. The alcoholic isn't your mother." She cooed still bitter over her high school experience. She got up from the couch and walked to the bathroom. "Shit." She cursed forgetting to pack tampons in her week bag.
"Robert I don't suppose you have a box of tampons or pads lying around?" She questioned leaning against the doorframe.
"I do actually I always keep a box under the sink just in case." He said pointing her in the right direction. His old girlfriend had a habit of forgetting them when she stayed the night so he kept a box underneath the sink in case of emergency.
Ashtyn found the box. "Thanks." She sat back onto the couch as he kissed her hair.
"Things happen we all forget things." He said figuring the week in the hospital threw her memory off. "No big deal trust me I've honestly heard every gross thing you can imagine. Periods aren't even on the list." He whispered hearing a knock at the door. "Lunch is here."
Ashtyn watched him fetch his wallet from the nightstand. He came back into the living room holding a bottle of Tylenol and their lunch. "Are you also a mind reader?" She popped to pills into her mouth.
"I'm not a mind reader, I'm just used to it I guess." He teased opening the container of sushi. "It's nothing to be embarrassed about." He noticed her cheeks were a little red.
"Yeah I guess it's true you do know my entire medical history and what birth control method I favor." She giggled softly dipping the sushi into the sauce. "This relationship started rather odd. I normally wait at least till the second to spill my medical history." She joked even though her and Robert had just admitted what was between them if felt like it had been longer.
He laughed at her choice of words. "I'm sorry but I kind of needed to know what medication you were on. I normally don't tell most girls about my past, not something I broadcast." He ate another sushi roll.
"My sorority sisters don't know anything I told you. It's not something I like to talk about but for some weird reason I trust you and I don't know why." She admitted almost like he had drugged her with some kind of truth serum, but she knew it was just she really trusted him. Which would probably only lead to a broken heart she tended to hide and not get involved. All of her relationships had ended with her on a bathroom floor crying loudly to Brooklyn as they had Adele on repeat and a tub of Ben and Jerry's in one hand. "The only relationship that is still going strong is with Ben and Jerry."
He laughed softly he felt something that he hadn't felt in a relationship in a long time. Ashtyn was different he just felt something more than with other random girls he asked out. "Does Ben know about Jerry?" He teased finding her easy to tease and he loved watching her smile.
"I would hope so." She ate another California Roll and a Spicy Tuna Roll. "You can't really have Ben without Jerry. It's kind of like pizza, beer, and football. They just go together.
"Football are we talking soccer or the American version?" He joked figuring she was referring to the American version of it.
"The American version, trust me I get really into football and hockey. I'm very much the type of girl who likes beer and football." She pointed out she was a girly tom boy. Her father had raised her on football and hockey.
"Hockey I like, about the only time I watch football is at a Super Bowl party. So what hockey team do you like?"
"Blackhawks and the Flyers. I'm kind of a tom girl." She said grabbing another sushi roll and taking a sip of water.
"I have a friend who is also a Flyers fan. He's tried dragging me to a game, it's just our schedules rarely allow for that kind of night out."
"Oh really you only talk about Cameron, Wilson, House, and Foreman who is the illusive friend?" She questioned looking down at her phone seeing a text message from Brooklyn.
"Will Blake, he and I met our first day at PPTH. He also came from a family of doctor's the only difference is his father tried pressuring him into following in the family's footsteps of neurosurgery. So I somewhat knew the pressure he was under. We've been friends ever since."
"I thought you dad didn't try pressuring you into a specialty? I have to know if he didn't decide on neurosurgery what did he chose." She asked curiously.
"Dad never did but sometimes he would drop hints at how lovely it would be to a father son duo of rheumatology. Will is an ob/gyn."
Ashtyn giggled softly. "I imagine his father loves that." She teased kissing his cheek. "I think all medical parents hope their children follow in their footsteps, but children aren't there parents and tend to have a different outlook on life. Look at your family completely different."
"You do have a point. I'm not my father and while we are family we don't really enjoy the same thing. So did your father ever hope you'd follow after his footsteps and become a chef?"
"He never tried to convince me to go to culinary school. I love cooking but realistically I didn't want to make a career out of it." She pointed out hearing a knock at the door. "Expecting someone?" She asked untangling herself from his lap so he could answer the door.
"Not that I remember." He said walking over to the door.
"Did someone forget about guy's night?" Will asked holding up the beer. "The Steelers are playing The Ravens. I didn't know you had company." He said noticing the pretty blonde on the couch.
"You must be Will." Ashtyn said heading off to the guest bedroom to well look somewhat human.
"That's Ashtyn? If you want I can leave." Will suggested not wanting to disturb Robert.
"That would be Ashtyn, and you can stay she likes football too. I normally work today but I had it off since Cuddy switched my schedule over to the NICU as a punishment. My days are all screwed up because of it."
Will tossed Robert a beer and placed the rest of them in the fridge as Ashtyn came back from the guest room in an oversized sweater and a pair of leggings. "Why don't I make dinner?" She suggested watching the game from the kitchen. His apartment had an open concept so she could see the game from the island. "Any preferences?" She asked seeing ingredients for homemade pizza. "How does homemade pizza sound?"
"We could always just order a pizza, you don't have to go through the trouble." Robert said looking at the blonde not wanting her to do all of that. "Come watch the game."
"I want to cook, it's no trouble pizza isn't that time consuming." She tied up her hair and got to work on the chicken making sure it was in bite sized cubes before dumping it into the pan with the buffalo sauce and all of the seasoning. "I can also see the game from here. That TV is probably big enough that people on Mars can see it." She teased winking at him.
Will snickered liking the blonde already. It was obvious that Robert really liked her. "So I understand why you want to break the rules." He whispered watching the Ravens score a touchdown. "Come on Steelers you got this." He didn't want the Ravens to win.
"The wheel route was clearly open." Ashtyn muttered making the pizza crust.
"You actually know football!" Will said staring at the blonde amused that she knew football.
"I'm a collegiate cheerleader I have to speak some of it. I've also been watching football since I was three. I also know soccer, baseball, basketball, and hockey." She sassed covering the pizza in three different types of cheese. "Pizza will be done in twenty minutes. She sat next to the guys watching the Steelers score a field goal.
"I'd stop putting my foot near my mouth." Robert suggested to Will watching the two of them argue over football. He joined in at various points but he wasn't nearly as passionate about it.
Ashtyn heard her phone timer ding signaling the pizza was done. She grabbed the pizza from the oven. Her phone rang with a number she didn't recognize pop up. "Hello." She said walking into the guest bedroom.
"Hi I'm Josh from John Hopkins University is this Miss Ashtyn Miller?"
"This is she." Ashtyn said sitting down on the bed.
"We were wondering if you would come in for an interview, the second round of interviews is next Tuesday."
"I can most certainly make it." She said writing it down in her planner. She hung up her phone and slicing the pizza. "Dinner is served." She handed the guys a plate and sat down with her own.
"What was that?" Robert questioned looking at the blonde.
"John Hopkins University asking me to come for an interview." She said smiling brightly surprised that she was already receiving interviews for medical school.
"This pizza is amazing." Will butted in complementing the blonde's cooking skills. "So Hopkins that's amazing it's also an amazing school." He knew from experience seeing as how that was the medical school he went to.
"How do I do the whole med school interview thing?" She asked realizing that she had a lot to do before Tuesday.
"Don't stress about it." Will said that was the best piece of advice he could give her.
"How do I dress?" She asked ignoring Will's piece of advice of not stressing.
"I'd talk to Allison about that, we are guys we slap on a tie and call it good." Robert said knowing very little about fashion if he wasn't working he was a tee shirt and jeans kind of guy.
"Can you text her for me?" Ashtyn asked wanting a shopping buddy and who had been through it before.
"Sure." Robert finished his pizza and texted Cameron quickly while the game was on a commercial. "Does tomorrow work for you?" He asked.
"It should. I have so much homework still left, and I know I'll be missing days for interviews." Ashtyn muttered feeling stressed about medical school, her health, making sure she was graduating on time.
"Sweetheart stop stressing, I can visibly see your stress levels rising. You aren't completely healed yet, and stress will only make healing a lot worse. Breathe and relax, it's not as terrifying as you think it will be. Watch the game and relax." Robert ordered placing his arm around her.
"Chill I was never stressed out at the interview process, you don't need to stress either from what Robert has told me you will be admitted into a fancy pants medical school." Will said honestly it was obvious the blonde was bright. It was also obvious how much his friend liked the blonde.
Ashtyn managed to relax and stop her mind from racing. It wasn't her fault that she was type A and worried over every little thing. She just wanted to get into a great medical school, she did not work her ass of at Princeton to get into Mercer School of Medicine.
Will yawned the game had ended and Ashtyn had disappeared into the guest bedroom to work on some schoolwork. "Don't screw this up, I actually like this one." He said being honest she was good for Robert.
"I don't plan on it, I like her a lot." Robert admitted yawning himself. "Don't know why I'm so tired she and I didn't wake up until one in the afternoon and it's only eleven."
"Must be rough I've been awake since two am." Will teased knowing full well that Robert had those nights too probably more.
Robert tossed the couch pillow at Will. "Boo-Hoo we've all been there wait don't you work tomorrow?" He asked since he was in the NICU until lunch.
"I have to work tomorrow too. I want to know what I did to Cuddy these shifts are starting to be exhausting. How can there be this many pregnant people in Princeton and the surrounding areas. I'm dealing more with pregnancy than usual."
"I can't help you. I avoid that department like the plague. I sometimes have to do a pelvic in the clinic but that's few and far between." Robert muttered that was least favorite department during medical school. He didn't have a problem with it and he knew a lot about the department. It just kind of bored him it was pretty much the same. Surgery was at least always different same could be said about House's department. "It could also be the fact that you are also board certified in general surgery, fetal surgery, and maternal-fetal medicine along with being an a general ob/gyn."
"I honestly can't remember my last full day off."
"Then why are you drinking? You better not be on call tonight."
"Relax mother I have tonight off, I mean the days I'm not on-call I still get called in, I've only had one beer that's not even going to cloud my judgment if I was." Will said noticing the blonde flopping onto the couch.
"Holy cow do you have enough certifications!"
"I graduated high school at sixteen as did Robert. We are still rather young in our careers, seeing as how we are both only 25. Robert and I have the same amount of board certifications. Mine are all kind of in the same department his really aren't." Will said being modest he just liked furthering career and education.
"You didn't tell me that." Ashtyn said referring to the whole graduating at sixteen thing.
"I'm a surgeon, intensivist, cardiologist, and a diagnostician. Surgery and intensive care go hand in hand as does cardiology. Just because they aren't all sub-specialties of each other doesn't mean they don't go together."
"I see your point. I should probably get going I do have work in the morning. It was nice meeting you, Ashtyn." He said putting on his shoes. "I'll see you at lunch tomorrow."
"Nice meeting you too." Ashtyn stretched out on the couch feeling exhausted after that paper on split personality.
"Hopkins! You got an interview at Hopkins." Robert said noticing that she was blinking repeatedly. "Tired cupcake?"
"A little, I blame that paper." She muttered. "I'm rather surprised with Hopkins." She felt excited and nervous at the same time. This was her future and she wanted to do great things.
"So do you know what you are interested in?" He asked curious as to what specialty she was thinking about.
"Probably surgery, it seems really interesting. I haven't even gotten into medical school so I have no idea what I want. I just want to get into a good medical school." She said as he ran his hands through her hair.
"I guess you are right that is kind of putting the cart before the horse. You could go anywhere with the scores you have. How has a whole entire day gone by?" He asked yawning himself. "I know you are probably are tired of hearing this, but how's the pain?" He reached for her wrist feeling her pulse underneath his fingers.
"I felt out of breath cooking tonight." She answered honestly meeting his eyes. "My chest also hurts a little."
Robert grabbed his stethoscope which was in his messenger bag by the door. "Breathe in sweetheart." He listened to her heart and lungs. "I don't hear anything out of the ordinary you might be moving too fast. "Do I need to remind you that it was major heart surgery? It might have been two weeks ago but you aren't going bounce back quickly.
"I know it was major surgery I just hate sitting around not being able to go to work, school, or do most of what I'm used to. I'm bored sure I've loved being able to get to know you but I really want to get back to work and have a somewhat normal schedule." She whined admitting defeat and boredom.
"I know it's hard but you are slowly building back the strength and trying to go back to normal. You and Allison are going shopping tomorrow and you start back to school and work Monday a med school interview Tuesday. I have to say you picked a bad semester to have health issues." He said knowing grad school interviews would be another week off from school.
"I know and I'm not even that far into the semester. I should probably make sure my professor's know about the interviews. I also need a note that my two weeks off were because of a health issue and not because I was too lazy to drag my ass to class."
"I can handle the note that's not a problem. Sounds like you are in for a busy week." He muttered kissing her lips which tasted like buffalo sauce. "We could probably make whatever this official, seeing as how this relationship started off anything but normal. I'm sure you've told most of the sorority girls about me and you've already met Will who approves of you."
"Brooklyn and Tiffany both know of you. I'd kind of like to keep the relationship quite for a couple more weeks, let the whole heart thing blow over and you and I can admit it at Kappa's Halloween party and you can be my date. We'd also need to come up with a lie on how we met. I don't want you to get in trouble with an ethics board."
"I don't have a problem with keeping it secret for a while let's not jump the relationship shark. Why don't we get ready for bed?" He suggested he had work in the morning.
"Sounds like a plan." She yawned getting off the couch making sure the kitchen was clean and the stove and oven were off. She grabbed a pair of pajama pants with cupcakes and a black tank top and went to the bathroom to get ready for bed. She applied eye cream and an overnight face mask feeling that her skin was dry. She brushed her teeth and went to his bedroom in the mood for cuddles she crawled on top of the shirtless doctor straddling his waist placing kisses across his cheek.
"I don't think so." He teased rolling on top of her pinning her to the bed nibbling softly at her neck. "You might want to wear a sweater in the morning." He teased sucking the spot gently leaving a hickey on her neck.
Ashtyn smirked toying with the hem of his tee shirt. "That's going to be fun trying to hide." She teased pulling off the green shirt and made her mark in the same spot he did.
"That will be easy for me to hide since I'll be in a dress shirt and tie." He smirked kissing her cheek. "Let's not go any further you are still healing."
She yawned as he rubbed her back falling asleep on his chest moments later.
Robert smiled turning off the bedside lamp trying not to wake her, it wasn't the most comfortable position for him but he didn't want to disturb her besides she was bound to roll over onto her pillow soon enough.
The alarm clock went off and they both groaned he reached over and turned it off heading to the Keurig waiting in the kitchen and brewed himself a cup of coffee before jumping through the shower as the blonde fell back asleep five-thirty was early for her even if she was a morning person. "You are supposed to meet Allison at the mall at nine:" He reminded before she dosed back off into a deep sleep.
She nodded too tired to form words as he jumped through the shower the hickey one his neck was impressive, he buttoned the grey dress shirt up to his neck and styled it with a black tie and tossed a green sweater vest over it. He grabbed his phone, keys, and wallet after kissing the blonde's forehead.
"Morning Dr. Chase." A nurse said seeing the cute doctor walk into the hospital.
"Morning Marisa." He said heading to House's department before being stopped by Wilson.
"I'm not trying to mother you, but I thought you were in the NICU until lunch." The Oncologist reminded the surgeon.
"Your right my brain is working this morning." He turned around and went to the locker room. "Morning Will." He unbuttoned his dress shirt pulling on the green scrub top.
"Damn looks like you and Ashtyn had fun after I left." He looked up from tying his shoes noticing the hickey.
"That's really none of your business." He teased slinging the pediatric stethoscope over his neck. "How about we get coffee before shift starts." The blonde suggested.
"Have I ever said no to caffeine of any kind?"
Robert shut his locker and followed Will to the cafeteria to get his morning coffee before starting his day in the NICU. "I'm tired." He muttered paying for his coffee noticing House walking his way. "Morning House."
"Nice hickey, you might want to borrow some of you girlfriend's concealer." House teased grabbing a breakfast sandwich charging Wilson's account.
"I ran into a wall." Chase lied sipping the red eye which was half expresso too tired to argue with House.
"Sure you did, don't forget you are back in my department at 12 pm sharp." He crossed his arms walking to one of the tables.
"Is it wrong that I will be sad to leave the NICU it's been a wonderful week not dealing with House."
"Nothing wrong with not wanting to deal with him. I'm glad my department doesn't really cross over with his much. I can't stand him he's a jerk and if I were you I'd be going back to surgery." Will said honestly he couldn't put up with House.
"I can't stand House, but the cases are almost always interesting and I still do get to do surgery, maybe not as much as I like." Robert admitted heading to the NICU after downing his cup of coffee as Will pager buzzed.
"See you for lunch, I have a baby to deliver." Will said running off in the direction of the delivery ward. Chase was reading the charts of the night doctors, and three babies were showing the same symptoms which was strange.
Will came in an hour later handing him another file with the same exact same symptoms. "Hey Will look at these and tell me we do not have an epidemic on hand." Chase said handing the red head the four charts.
"Have you told Cuddy?" He asked reading over the charts quickly noticing that all the babies had the exact same symptoms to a T.
"You honestly think she'd believe me? She is all on my case for asking a patient out on a date, and I'm also not House for all she cares House hired me because of my last name, not because of my impressive resume." He sighed looking at the charts trying to come up with a connection other than the epidemic he was thinking of.
"She might not believe you, but she has to believe me. I'm a member of the board. Come on you are more than just a Chase, same as I am more than just a Blake. We aren't our fathers and both have surpassed all the expectations this hospital might have had. You have proven time and time again you are more than just a pretty face with successful father. Now let's go break the bad news to Cuddy."
The two males made their way down to the main floor finding Regina at the desk outside her office. "Is Dr. Cuddy busy?' Will asked the nurse.
"No go right in." She said figuring it was something important seeing the files under Chase's arm.
"How can I help you?" She asked looking up from the file on her desk, once again House had a complaint lodged against him making it the sixth this month.
"There's an epidemic." Will said handing over the five charts of sick babies. "All have the same symptoms, weird thing is there is no shared personnel."
"Does House know?" She asked the two young doctors one of which was already a member of the board. If Will was saying there was an epidemic sweeping the maternity ward she believed him, Chase was also rather smart so he doubt this was a false alarm. "Any ideas of what it could be?"
"We need them quarantined and a team." Will admitted.
"Good go bother House, he doesn't have case at the moment and I don't want my hospital to become patient 0." Cuddy admitted she was the Dean it was her responsibility that these things didn't happen.
"What is the doctor of hoo-ha land doing in my office?" House questioned staring at the ginger. "I thought ginger's had no soul, so how can you be a doctor?"
"Hilarious and there is an epidemic happening in the maternity ward." Will crossed his arms over his chest knowing a cheap shot about his family was coming next. It was always the same with House his hair color, the fact that he was the only member of his family that wasn't a neurosurgeon.
"Yeah you would know about that wouldn't you after all you could be considered 'The Blake Family Failure." House said looking at Chase and Blake. "How'd the two of you even find a cluster for one you are both too young to have a medical degree and one of you is much too pretty to be smart?"
"How am I a family failure, because neurosurgery didn't interest me like it did everyone else in my family? I didn't find the cluster, Chase did. In case you are forgetting I'm also a general surgeon, fetal surgeon, an ob/gyn, and a maternal-fetal expert and I'm not even 26 yet. I also hold a chair on the board." Will said not in the mood for House's games. He was a doctor and there were five babies on the verge of death. "Can we please get back to the case?" He left of the part where he had saved House's job more than once
"House you saw my resume I'm more than just pretty." Chase crossed his arms tired of House's games he wanted to focus on the case of the five sick babies not his love life, or his intelligence.
"Five sick babies, no common personnel, no shared rooms. Yet all of them are sick." Will said pitching the case as House grabbed the whiteboard marker.
"MRSA. It's always MRSA in hospitals." Foreman said looking around the room. "Where's Cameron?" He asked watching the brunette walk in with Cuddy.
"Sorry went shopping." Cameron muttered grabbing the red file from the desk. "So what's Dr. Blake doing here?"
"Social call." Will joked catching the two women up to speed.
"Why were you shopping?" House asked curiously.
"Can't a girl decide to go the mall during her time off?" Cameron asked skimming the charts. "Sounds like a parasite." She watched as House wrote down parasite.
"It couldn't be it's spreading to fast." Will said leaning against the glass wall.
"He's right, but how do you know about parasites?" House asked Will was supposed to be dumb and delivering babies. "More importantly what are you still doing in my office? Last I checked I had three doctors under me not four."
Will crossed his arms looking at the older man. "I went to a medical school, just because you seem to think my specialty is easy doesn't mean I'm not smart. I got into the same medical school you did." He smirked thinking what would equal all the symptoms the babies had. "Virus seems the most likely."
"Kids are too sick, the blood work doesn't show lymphocytes." Foreman corrected glaring at Blake and Chase.
"Just because the blood work doesn't show lymphocytes doesn't mean they aren't there." Chase said looking at the chart.
"I'm leaning more towards bacterial infection." House said crossing off virus.
"It's always MRSA in hospital." Foreman said shutting the chart he was reading.
"It could also be a contained water source in the hospital making it Pseudomonas." Cameron looked a Chase or Blake hoping one of the other doctor's with her over Foreman.
"VRE." Chase suggested he agreed with Cameron but VRE also fit the symptoms.
"Alright start the kiddies on Vancomycin for the MRSA and Aztreonam for the rest. Do an MRI and check for abscesses. Come find me in the clinic if it's something important or unimportant. Blake I'd suggest you go back to your own department."
"I'm staying, how many times do you bother Wilson for help, when he has no clue what is going on. Besides I'm also a fetal surgeon I might even be an asset." Will hated House but he hated that his department was turning into patient 0 of some weird superbug. House seemed like the least terrible of the two.
"So now can we please talk about the elephant in the room, and by elephant I mean Chase's hickey."
Chase covered his hickey with his hand. "That's none of your business."
"Oh so you and Will were getting it on in the janitor's closet." House suggested pulling out his phone. "I wonder how the nursing staff would feel about the two most eligible doctor's being caught in a closet together." House said trying to get the dirt on his employee and also trying to make the ginger uncomfortable.
"House knock it off. Ashtyn had the exact same mark when she and I went shopping this morning." Cameron said noticing a little bit of the concealer had rubbed off during the morning.
"So why were you too ladies shopping this morning?" He asked wondering why Cameron wanted to hang out with Ashtyn.
"She has a medical interview on Tuesday and needed a girl who had been through it before and knew what they look for her. She also needed a suit."
"Where is this interview?" House questioned looking at Cameron curious as to where Ashtyn was planning on attending for medical school."
"Hopkins." Chase said watching Foreman have the pained look in his eye.
"How she's blonde, and well pretty." Foreman glared. "I'm a graduate of Hopkins."
"I'm a graduate of Hopkins too. You don't hear me complaining. Unlike you I see past the blonde and the pretty" Will said glaring at Foreman.
"Well then the quality of my university has gone downhill if New England Barbie is getting an interview at Hopkins or the fact that you graduated from there."
"You think you are all high and mighty, when you aren't. I've seen your patient reviews they make for a great laugh. You are House-light no one really likes you. Patients complain about your lack of bedside manner. Everyone knows you're the weakest one on House's team."
"Really then who is the strongest on the team?" Foreman asked resisting the urge to throttle the leprechaun.
"Are we talking patient reports, diagnostically, papers written?" Will asked knowing a lot about the four doctors in the room.
"How about we talk about the fact that daddy bought your seat on the board?" Foreman suggested finding it beyond weird that someone Will's age was already on the board.
"My father didn't pay for my spot on the board. So you're pulling the rich father card on me and not Chase. Just because our fathers are successful in their fields does not mean we are riding on their coat tails. If anything we have more to work for, since our last name puts a target on our back. So how about we go back to your terrible patient reports. In this hospital in terms of the patient's standpoint it's Wilson, Chase, Blake, and Cameron. You and House are tied for last in terms of patient care. Shouldn't we be dealing with sick babies and not arguing over who is the better doctor?" Will said leaving the room with Chase by his side. "I need a drink after dealing with House and after Foreman. Good God."
"Foreman just annoys me he has a high and mighty attitude and a huge ego with none of the skills to back it up. He is constantly getting the diagnosis wrong. I can almost tell you that it's not going to be MRSA." Chase grumbled going to the NICU and starting the babies on the medication.
In the end only one baby died all the others were saved and it most certainly wasn't MRSA. Chase stumbled into the apartment and on to the couch an into Ashtyn's lap. "Hey." She said kissing his forehead. "Long day?"
"Very there is nothing worse than the loss of a kid." He said as she ran her fingers through his surfer locks. It was days like this that sucked, it was days like this he wanted to cry. He knew realistically that people were going to die it was just terrible when you were running a call and a baby died because it was your call.
"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked watching him use her lap as a pillow.
"Maybe later, right now I want something to eat. So how was shopping with Allison?" He asked looking into her deep green eyes.
"I found a suit that didn't make me look like I was playing dress up in my aunt's closet. I made chocolate chip cookies, would you like some milk?" She asked getting up from the couch pulling down her flannel pants which had rode up.
"Who can eat a chocolate chip cookie without milk?" He questioned it just didn't sound right.
"I certainly can't." She poured two glasses of milk and dished up a plate of cookies and made her way back to the living room. "bon appetit." She joked.
Robert took a bite of the cookie which made his day less terrible. He ate about three cookies and finished up the milk. "I'm tired."
Ashtyn placed the three dishes in the sink. "Well let's go to bed." She suggest knowing that tomorrow she would need to get back to her usual schedule of school and the panic of getting into a medical school. Which meant going back to the sorority house and making sure everything was set before the start of her interviews, after all most med school acceptances were released in mid-October and it was going to be the second week of September. She had also gotten calls from UPenn, NYU, and Columbia today for interviews.
Sorry I've been busy trying to get my grades to a good spot before finals. Small amount of writer's block, and obviously it's the start of the holiday season.
I hope you like this chapter I decided to focus on something different. So let me know if you want more of the previous chapter's or something more like this chapter. As always thank you for all the wonderful reviews and the faves. :)
The case was season 1 episode Maternity obviously I changed some bits