dr_conscience | [ 70th consult | video / action at the hospital ]

[At about 12:30 AM, a video post makes its way to the network. The feed turns on as the device is nestled down into its place. It looks out over rows of cars - sports cars, ambulances, school buses, police cars, monster trucks, each of them a slightly differently scaled diecast representation of a vehicle. At the edges of the frame, you can just discern the building-block structure upon which the device sits. The carpet that the cars rest on, and the seating beyond them, may be just enough for those familiar with the hospital to discern this as a waiting room in pediatrics. And then, a small child crawls into the picture - brown hair, brown eyes, about four years old. He grabs a monster truck from the back row in his hand and moves it around as he talks in a falsely deepened voice.]

NO. I park up front so I can see Godzilla better!

[And so, he lowers the monster truck and has it drive over the cars which were in front of it - tossing each of them aside with a crashing noise he makes with his mouth. Then, he picks up a bigger monster truck and adopts a slightly different deepened voice.]

Stop picking on little cars!

[And that monster truck tosses the first one aside with a much larger crashing noise, gleefully provided. He puts it down, and grabs a few of the smaller cars, providing their responses:]

Yay, yay! You saved us! Yay!

[And the big truck:]

SHH! NO TALKING DURING THE MOVIE OR I CRUSH YOU.

[ooc: So, someone is four.]

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...little boy?

[She's making the last round, late because Frankie works late too]

[He's not little. He's big. But he forgives you, because you're old.]

Hi?

Where's your mam?

[She's looking around, but sees...no one]

'm waiting.

What's your name? I'll help you look.

James.

[But he doesn't get up, not yet. He's picking up the cars that have been tossed aside, lining them back up.]

She's with doctors.

I'd reckon, yeah?

[She looks him over. He looks...familiar.]

We'll go find her.

Dad said to wait here.

[He turns his attention away from the cars and looks up at her.]

What's your name?

I'm Eden.

You work here?

Right on the first.

What are your parents here for?

Getting the baby.

Little brother?

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Those are pretty cool trucks.

[Here's one delighted kid who's found that this little TV thing is pretty much the best toy ever.]

Uh-huh!! They were really big.

Have you ever seen a real one?

A real one? No...

Did you?

I did. A whole bunch of them, it was very exciting.

Really?

[Eyes are wide. You are his current favorite, Cameron.]

I bet they were huge. My dad says our car is big but we don't all fit in his old car. But if those trucks were real they'd prolly be lots bigger than his car and also really cool.

Lots bigger, [she agrees, nodding solemnly. One doesn't work for House as long as she has without learning that monster trucks are serious business.

Speaking of serious business, she knows that a small, unattended child on a weekend like this is probably not a child.]

My name is Doctor Cameron. What's your name?

Cool.

[These are the things of little-boy dreams right now. He has no idea what lies ahead.]

'm James.

Well it's nice to meet you, James.

Are you in the hospital by yourself?

Nice to meet you too!

[He smiles, and is still doing so as he shakes his head.]

Nah... I was but then Eden found me. D'you know her? She can see germs in blood.

[Clearly, this makes Eden awesome.]

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I work with her, sometimes. She's very good at what she does.

[That answers some questions and raises a few new ones.]

So she's taking care of you?

Yeah-huh. We think maybe my dad an' my brother got lost, and mommy's with doctors.

[Wait. This is a doctor.]

Did you see her?

[video; later on]

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