Author's notes: Foreman always seems to be doing crossword puzzles. Here's my take on that, as well as a gratuitous Star Trek reference.

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Foreman made a small, frustrated sound in the back of his throat. Chase glanced up from the paper he was 'reading.' Chase rarely read when he said he was and in this case he was merely gazing and occasionally turning pages.

"What?"

Foreman looked up, considering. It was just the two of them, House having gone off to flirt with Wilson, or whatever he called it, and Cameron gone to feel sorry for kicked puppies or something similar. Chase mentally pushed these thoughts in Foreman's direction, hoping he would at least dignify him with an answer.

He did. "I just can't get this one, and it's throwing off the rest of the thing." He waved the paper around half heartedly.

"What is it, I might know."

"I doubt it." He glanced at the paper anyway, clearing his throat to talk. "KS Originally, five letters."

"Slash."

"What?"

Chase cursed mentally, knowing he had answered to quickly. "Slash, it's a Fanfiction thing. You wouldn't understand. Just write it down, it's the right answer."

Foreman raised a brow, scribbling down the answer. "Care to explain it?"

"No," Chase answered. "Not really."

"That's okay, I can just ask House. I'm sure he would love to hear this story. Or I could look it up on the internet." Foreman looked away, dismissing the conversation.

"No! It's-uh…" Chase cleared his throat, managing barely to find the spine to continue the conversation. "It means Kirk/Spock, it's an abbreviation anyway."

"Star Trek?"

"Yeah, they were the originators of Slash Fanfiction back when housewives had nothing better to do." Chase paused purposefully, hoping the conversation would end.

"What is 'slash?'?"

Chase wished he had never decided to be the Good Samaritan and help Foreman solve his stupid puzzle. "It denotes a romantic pairing between two male characters." He immediately tried to cover it up, distracting Foreman with another random bit of trivia. "There's also Femslash, which is between two female characters, and sometimes the slash sign is used for a Het pairing too."

Foreman smiled, clearly disbelieving. "Did you just seriously say Het for Heterosexual?"

Chase sighed because, crap, he had. "Yeah, I did."

Foreman shook his head. "Okay, thanks. The rest makes some semblance of sense now."

Chase mentally thanked any Gods there may be that the conversation had finally ended. As short as it had been, it was to long. He turned back to his paper and began to gaze half heartedly at the words.

But Foreman decided to beat the dead horse. "I thought that the pairing had to do with mixing the letters around?"

Chase looked up. "You can do that too."

Foreman did some quick calculations, "So, Spirk?"

Chase nodded, "That's the common one, better than-" He stopped abruptly.

"K instead of Sp?"

Chase looked back at his paper, blushing slightly. "Sure."

Foreman still refused to drop it. "Although, that name makes a little more sense; Ko-"

House chose that moment to break into their little chat fest. "Alright Ducklings one of three and three of three, we have a new case." He threw the file at Chase and began to limp towards the white board.

"What is with the Star Trek references?" Chase muttered under his breath.

"Hey," Foreman replied. "As long as it's got a little Sulu/Chekov, I'm good."

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Authors notes: END. A little history lesson for you. I was incredibly bored at 1:58 a.m. and felt like throwing this together. Apologies for any OCCness, I have never worked with any of these characters before. One thing, if you're a dude and you say 'Het' that means you are very, very, gay. At least according to us lesbians.