Renelle had returned to her patient Rebecca's room. After searching a bit among all the junk she has in her office, Renelle had found a -Zhen Dai-.
Renelle remembered, in the memories of this world's life, when she traveled to the far east and went to the international convention of integrative medicine in Beijing (Peking).
Renelle remembered that moment, and that girl she met and with whom she had a fight about medicine. In the end this memory simply remained, a set of Chinese acupuncture needles that had been collecting dust until now.
Although she felt a hint of guilt and more for using this Chinese doctor as a fake mother for her current feminine form, Renelle pushed those feelings aside and ran back to her patient's room on the ground floor.
"I have everything I need, let's start with your treatment ~" Renelle opened the sliding glass door and entered with a smile. Renelle's hair tied in a ponytail swayed behind her cheerfully.
"Little girl?" Rebecca, who was thinking about the immortality of the crab, woke up upon hearing the door open and the soft bell-like voice of the young girl.
"Just call me Renelle" Renelle said as she approached the bed.
Renelle's voice sounded so natural, as if she had no problem with the name and said it unconsciously as if that was the way she had been called for many years.
"This is..." Rebecca saw how the little girl opened a kind of dark brown leather bag beside her on the bed and looked at the long and thin needles of different sizes.
The needles had a soft shine, not as metallic as one would expect from sewing needles or an injection needle.
The Gregory House of that time had not paid attention to the material of the needles either. He took them as a souvenir from that girl and had only contemplated them a couple of times in these more than eleven years.
"Do not worry, I am an expert at this! You will not feel any pain or discomfort and it will be over in a minute ~" Renelle smiled softly while taking a few needles with her hand and looking Rebecca in the eyes with joy sprouting from her blue pupils.
"This... Why do we not better wait for Doctor Cameron or better, for your father...?" Rebecca shuddered when she looked at the needles held by the little girl with golden hair and eyes the color of the midday sky.
It is really like horror movies to look at a sweet girl like Renelle but who was holding dark gray needles. She could almost imagine that small lightning bolts were coming out of the needles... Is it imagination?
Rebecca, upon seeing the large number of needles of different sizes and thickness on the brown leather skin, imagined herself turning into a porcupine again.
"It is not necessary ~" without waiting for Rebecca to finish speaking, Renelle had already started inserting the needles into the patient's skull.
Swish
Swish
Swish
Swish
"... Shiiiiing ~"
By the time Rebecca realized and after a soft swish of the sound of a needle breaking the wind and even a tender and cute shing~, she could see needles in her legs, arms, in her chest, in her belly.
Some of these needles seemed superficial, not entering very deep into her skin, others seemed to have been pierced through all her flesh.
Rebecca wondered if some needles had pierced her all the way into the bed beneath her.
But although she thought she would scream from the pain or worse, die next, in reality she felt nothing more than a slight numbness in her limbs.
What Rebecca did not know is that her head also had needles sticking out of her dark brown hair.
"See, it is not so difficult. You did not even feel anything ~" Renelle spoke with a calm and soft voice but one that reflected the inner joy she felt.
At first she thought of using these needles to pretend, but she realized that the vital energy was absorbed gently and with great ease through these acupuncture needles.
Not only by placing the needles where there are larvae and tapeworm eggs in Rebecca's body, but she inserted needles in parts of the body where Rebecca had an energy deficiency, helping her repair those places.
At first Renelle was happy. She annihilated all the parasites inside Rebecca, but then her face changed. Rebecca's cells began to change before her eyes.
Rebecca's cells filled with a lot of vital energy and Rebecca's system began to purify and expel the toxins from the body that had been accumulating for years.
Rebecca looked at the change in the little girl's expression and her heart trembled.
"What is wrong?" Rebecca asked with a little fear.
"Ahem ~. It is nothing, I thought of something else... Jejeje~ Do not worry, the treatment was successful. You can practically ask for discharge!"
Renelle began to remove the needles in a soft way but slower than when she had stuck them into Rebecca's body.
'I think I should not use these needles easily... What are they made of...' Renelle thought.
The needles not only helped eliminate parasitic organisms of all kinds in Rebecca's body and helped Renelle easily absorb the vital energy of these parasites, viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc., but the energy circulated from inside Renelle's body and returned to Rebecca's body, helping her to -rejuvenate- her body.
Renelle does not feel that this in itself is something bad, but how will she explain that suddenly Rebecca is younger and healthier than when she was a teenager?
"Oh ~ then how...
Eh? Why do I suddenly feel better?" Rebecca wanted to keep asking about her condition but then she noticed the change.
Rebecca's voice sounded clear and full of energy and not like just a few minutes ago where it was hard for her to speak and she felt extremely exhausted.
Also Rebecca felt that her breathing was smooth and she did not feel exhausted at all from lying in bed all the time. Her eyes could also see everything calmly and not blurry from feeling tired.
After Renelle removed all the needles, Rebecca began to move her legs and her hands. Rebecca did not feel any discomfort and felt as if she had just woken up from a night of good sleep.
Rebecca had never felt so well in any of the mornings of the last years. She does not even remember when was the last morning she woke up feeling well.
Rebecca sat up in the bed and looked at her hands that now seemed to have recovered their youth and no longer had the first wrinkles from having passed thirty years.
Then the sliding glass door opened again and a series of footsteps were heard, especially the tac tac of a woman's heels.
"Rebecca, I have good news, after doing your blood test we confirmed that you can have neurocysticercosis. To be sure we can do a computed tomography, but we can start the treatment already..."
Cameron entering began to explain and in her hand she brought a small paper cup with some pills and in the other some printed sheets with the blood test.
"I say we first talk to House or do the CT to confirm..." Chase came with a doubtful expression.
He did not doubt the diagnosis, but he doubted doing something without consulting House.
"I think the same as Chase. If it is not tapeworm the medication can complicate the tumor... Besides basing it on what a supposed daughter of House said is..."
"Hello Renelle, are you still here?" Cameron said silencing Foreman.
Renelle did not care what they were saying, in fact, she did not even hear anything. Renelle only dedicated herself to arranging the needles in her brown leather case and rolling it up again.
Now she is only thinking about where to place the acupuncture needle case on her body, so that it is not uncomfortable but accessible.
As Renelle was not saying anything and seemed focused on her needle set, Rebecca took the floor.
"I do not think it is necessary, Renelle just treated me and I feel fine"
"Why are you getting up? Wait, do not get off the bed" Cameron trotted hurriedly to the side of the bed when she saw Rebecca lifting the hospital sheet and turning her body to get off the bed.
"You can do all the studies you want. I already feel better, Renelle cured me"
"That is impossible... If you have neurocysticercosis you have to take treatment..." Cameron began to try to convince the patient.
"Ahem... You can continue, I will go... I will go to the bathroom... Goodbye" Renelle did not want to stay to answer questions or anything else. Renelle wanted to escape now and return to the appearance of an older man.
Now she is thinking about how to undo any speculation that begins to appear about herself and Renelle believes that as a man it would be easier to resolve anything.
"Wait..." ×2
The voices of Cameron and Rebecca were heard at the same time, but Renelle had already gone around Chase and Foreman and left through the glass door with ease and agility.