Lizzie Turner was running late on her first day at the hospital. She had just finished her Psychology studies and had subsequently been assigned an internship and she really wondered how she'd managed to get one at this exact hospital, it was like a miracle.
She rushed into the building, her blue eyes quickly scanned the signs, finding out where to go next. She'd been told to report to someone named Dr Cuddy in no less than two minutes.
„Bloody hell, where is it?," she asked herself in her still quite broad English accent. She'd been in the United States for about five years now but she didn't sound American at all, not that she had tried a lot, it wasn't what she was here for.
Finally she found the office she'd been looking for and knocked.
„Come in," she heard from the other side of the door and hesitantly opened it.
„Good morning," she said. „My name's Elizabeth Turner, I'm the new Psychology intern," she explained and the woman sitting behind the desk got up from her chair to greet her.
„Hi, I'm Dr Cuddy," she didn't seem to have noticed that Lizzie was 10 minutes late but before she could even try and apologise, Cuddy said, „Well, it's planned that you should join the team of Dr House because all our other departments are really overloaded. I hope that's not a problem."
Lizzie was shocked, this was so much more than she'd expected, so much better and so much scarier at the same time. Cuddy must have seen it in the expression on her face.
„I know he's got a very bad reputation concerning social interactions and I can say myself that it's more than true, but I'm sure you'll learn to deal with it," she tried to reassure Lizzie but there was also a tone in her voice that made it clear she didn't have another choice. „A psychologist might actually do him a great deal of good," she said under her breath.
„No, that's fine," Lizzie stuttered. „No problem at all."
As they walked along the corridors heading for the conference room in which House and his team met up each morning, Lizzie noticed her heart beating faster. The whole plan she'd been building up for 5 years was shattered into pieces in the matter of seconds.
She'd planned to get to know him gradually, find out more about him, and now she felt like she'd been thrown into cold water. Nervously, she flicked one of her brown curls.
„This is it," Cuddy announced, knocked on a door that said: Dr Gregory House, MD and opened it.
„This is it," Lizzie mumbled to herself and only a second later she faced the man she'd been looking for for the past 23 years.