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-- Walk Five Seasons --
(With My Cane)

Three Stories

"Hang on," said one of the med students - the annoying one, as House had mentally dubbed him. "You said there were three stories, but you only told us about the volleyball player and the farmer. What happened to the other patient?"

"She didn't check into the hospital. Thought it was a charlie horse, waited for it to go away."

"Obviously it didn't, since she came to the hospital sometime to get it checked out," Annoying One said.

"No, she didn't," House replied, apparently enjoying the fact that the med student was wrong in his assumption. "She was admitted four days later, after going into cardiac arrest." He waited a moment for the students to absorb that.

"So, she just continued to ignore the leg pain even though it wasn't going away?" Annoying One piped up once more, just proving once more that the nickname suited him.

"She didn't ignore it," House explained. "When the pain didn't resolve on its own, she realized that it wasn't just a charlie horse and assumed that she'd pulled a muscle. She stopped wearing high heels, took some aspirin, and went to work as usual. She didn't realize anything was really wrong with her until after the cardiac arrest."

"But if she'd just gotten it looked at before that-" a female student started to say.

House cut her off. "I just said 'She didn't realize anything was really wrong with her until after the the cardiac arrest.' Therefore, she didn't realize that anything was really wrong with her until after the cardiac arrest. Which is why she didn't have it looked before that." He went on to list the symptoms the patient had displayed after being admitted. "So, what's the diagnosis?"

After a few half-assed attempts were shot down, one of House's fellows piped up from the back of the room, "Muscle death."

"No fair, you already knew the answer," House mock-whined.

"You were right, he was talking about Cuddy," Foreman said quietly to Cameron.

"And you three shouldn't be here anyway, you're already doctors," House continued. "What are you doing here, anyway?"

"We have a case, and this class was scheduled to end twenty minutes ago."

-end of chapter 1-

A/N: This fic will be five chapters, one "episode" from each season. You may have guessed already that the fic title is based on the "walk a mile in their shoes" saying. The "five seasons" part is referring to the five seasons of the show and also "Walk the seasons from spring to winter, spring again and you can enter." Anyone who can tell me where that quote is from gets 500 points. (I keep track of eveyrone's scores in my profile page.)

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