Jealousy

House was walking to the front desk to pursue his Clinic Duty for the day. He didn't have much to do because his ducklings were off taking a MRI and doing another Tox Screen because he was sure that the 17-year-old girl was doing drugs. He walked up to the nurse and said, "House two thirty-three, write that down," then grabbed a folder and headed off to Exam Room 2.

"Dr. House?" he heard an unfamiliar voice behind him say. No one called him "Dr." House so he was sure that it was a patient, or a patients parent wanting to either thank him or yell at him, both he rather avoid. But, reluctantly, he turned around to face, a doctor.

The mid twenty-year-old looking woman was wearing gray dress pants with black tips of her shoes barley showing. She had a pink lacey top on, that didn't have as much cleavage as Cuddy's usually does. Her long straight hair was a light brown color and she had bangs over her right eye that was cut too short to go behind her ear. Her lab coat made her look tall and she looked very smart with her black framed glasses, yet very pretty at the same time.

"Hi, I'm Dr. Clark," she introduced herself and held out her hand to shake House's.

"Who?" Was all he could say.

"Um, I'm the new resident here. Dr. Cuddy told me I would be shadowing you and your staff for two weeks to get use to things around here, she didn't tell you?" Clark asked.

"She doesn't tell me anything, or ask for me permission for that matter," House responded then turned and started back to Exam Room 2. Clark ran to catch up with him then walked steadily behind him. "So what kind of doctor are you planning on becoming?" House asked even though he wasn't interested.

"Neurologist," Clark replied as they walked threw the door.

"Hmm, neurology?" House asked as he popped a pill into his mouth, "So why are you wasting me time this after noon?" he said to the patient.

"Well-"The young man started but got interrupted.

"Wait let's have Dr. Clark take care of you!" House suggested and sat down on a stool.

"What?" She asked House as she looked up from the cart..

"Well, you gonna have to do this sooner or later," House said as he sat down on a stool.

Clark sighed and got up to examine the patient when House's pager started to go off. "MRI must be done," He said then got up and left. Clark followed behind him when the patient stopped her.

"So what's wrong with me?" he asked.

"It's a cold," she answered then left.

The two walked down the hallway and headed towards the three doctors walking towards them, "So what did we find out?" House asked as he walked up to his ducklings.

"All the tests are clean, she's definitely not on drugs," Cameron said looking at Clark.

"But, look at this," Forman said and handed House the MRI.

"Brain cancer?" House asked as he glanced up and realized everyone but Forman was looking at Clark. He sighed and said, "This you're going to be you're stalked for the next two weeks in the clinic. Her name is… uh…"

"Clark," she finished, "I'm the new resident here.

"Yeah can we get back to this now?" House said annoyed.

"Well the cancer explains why she's acting crazy, but not the rash, drowsiness, or the shivers," Forman explained.

"Oh, and the rash is starting to peel, it looks just like a sun burn," Chase added.

"Is it sun poisoning?" Clark asked.

"Can't be," Cameron said mater-of-factly, "Sun poisoning wouldn't be that bad, it has to be an infection."

"Well, she has a point," Chase said nodding to Clark, "It could be sun poisoning and the only reason it's worse than usual is because her body's trying to get rid of the cancer."

"It makes sense," Forman agreed.

"Go rub some aloe on her and tell her parents she has cancer," House said.

"It could be many other things; you just got this idea from a resident!" Cameron said defensibly.

"Okay Cameron, you can do my clinic hours here with the new girl and the rest of you go tell her parents," House and walked off as quickly as he could to Cuddy's office so no one would be able to yell at him again.

"He is unbelievable," Cameron said, she had already started the day off with a ruff start with House, and this wasn't helping.

Chase felt bad for Cameron so he suggested, "Well, I'll take care House's hours and you and Forman can go test for infections if you want."

"Thank you, Chase," Cameron said and walked off with Forman. Chase and her were at a tight spot now and she wasn't sure why he was suddenly being so nice, he wouldn't have done that before.

Chase turned around to Clark, "So tell me about your self."