Hi everybody. That's my first try and English is not my first language, so please don't be too hard...

It was a normal day in the PPTH in New Jersey. There were a lot of patients in the waiting

room of the clinic. An as usual one of the doctors tried everything to avoid his clinic duty.

A young man, named Tom got a little annoyed because he has been waiting for nearly 2 hours.

But 5 minutes ago the scene got much more interesting. He observed a couple that was having an argument. That's what he thought in the beginning, but as he could hear them talking he realized, that it wasn't a couple but employer and employee.

" Damn it, House, I don't want to discuss this anymore. Just do your job!", the woman said right now.

"But my leg hurts so much today!", he replied, throwing a heartbreaking look at her.

"I don't care! I don't believe you anyway. Not everybody's got the plague or something like it, just because it would make you happy. Get to work!"

"God, I will die of boredom one day in here. What do we have students for anyway? Anybody can diagnose a cough."

" Would you have preferred waiting for 3 hours when it happened to your leg?"

There she hit a nerve, because Dr. House got really angry and loud.

" I had to wait for three days and I nearly died, before I had to come up with the diagnosis my self. Unfortunately half my muscle was dead by then. You wanna hear the whole story? No wait a moment, you already know it, because it was your damn hospital!!!"

"Alright, calm down. Just do your job, please.", Cuddy said. She took the next file and shouted a name.

"Mrs. Darwin, please follow Dr. House to exam room 2."

Then she went to her office. And the bored doctor sighed, took the file and vanished with that woman and her three crying children in the exam room.

"Poor guys!", Tom thought but he didn't know if he felt sorry for the family or the doctor. Then his name was called.

His doctor not just looked more cultivated then House he also seemed to be nicer.

" What seems to be the problem?", Dr. Wilson asked him in exam room 1.

" I had an accident 2 weeks ago in California and hurt my shoulder. My doctor said, I should get a checkup. Here, I brought my file along."

He handed it to Wilson and he started reading them, when suddenly the door opened and this Dr. House entered.

"100 Bucks, when we change patients.", he said immediately.

" You still owe me from lunch yesterday."

"Alright, 200 Bucks, your 20 included."

"Get out, House!"

But Dr. House had other plans. He looked at Tom and pulled the file from Wilson's hand.

"Bruise on the shoulder, part of the bone split. Do an x-ray and get him out of here. Now you take that family in room 2."

Wilson got the file back.

"That's my patient, get out!"

" Oh come on! Stomach flu. Vomiting people. That's exactly your thing, wonder oncology boy. Even an happy ending included. They don't vomit because of chemo but because they were stupid enough to…, I don't know. Because they are stupid. You can deal better with them."

"House, get out!", said Wilson took his cane and threw it out of the exam room.

"Damn, but you gonna pay for lunch today!" Then he limped out to get his cane.

„I'm sorry.", Wilson said to Tom while he felt his shoulder.

" What's wrong with him?"
" That's a long story. We gonna take another x-ray, then I'll be back."

In the meantime House got rid of this family. Time for him to escape the clinic. This time he made it to the office where he sat down in his chair. Time for his soap opera. Yeah, that was much better.

The reason for the head of diagnostics and his team having so much free time on their hands, that Cuddy made them constantly pulling clinic duty, was an acute absence of cases.

For more than a week now they didn't have a case. That is good news for the inhabitants of New Jersey since House's patients are usually close to death. The bad news for the team is them having to deal with "normal" medicine. And there is not much that annoys Dr. House more.

And even worse for him was that his boss Dr. Cuddy always came up with new ways to torture. He had to give a lecture to students. On Monday three of them followed him all day and pissed him off with stupid questions. He sighed again and shook his head. Tomorrow she would probably make him do the janitor's job. He had to stop this. Either a real case or he would take his holiday. He popped a Vicodin, leaned back and tried to relax.

But it didn't last pretty long.

" You can't be serious!", Cuddy shouted, when she entered the office.

"Which part of "Do your job!" didn't you understand?"

"I did my job there today!"

" 20 minutes! That's not doing your job, that's a joke! Go back downstairs!"

„ Take Cameron or Chase!"

„ Isn't she just answering your mail? And Chase already is in the clinic. Come on."

" But that's my favorite show. What about Wilson?"
„In contrast to you, he has patients. Let's go, House! There's a flu epidemic in Princton. I need every doctor!

„ Hey, I could catch something. I rather stay here, where it's save!"

Cuddy took a deep breath.

" Alright, your fired! Get your stuff and leave!", she said quietly. Then she left.

House leaned back and shook his head again.

" She's such a pain in the neck.", he thought, before he returned to watching his show.

Half an hour later he got up again. Two men entered the big office and started to pack his books in some boxes.

"Wow, wow, wow. What are you doing?", he shouted at them.

"We got order from Dr. Cuddy to do this.", one of them said while throwing some books in a carton. " She said you could use a hand moving out, because of your leg."

House was really pissed.

"First of all, if you throw around one of my books again you can start praying for a good urologist because this can will be deep, deep inside you and second: GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!"

" Well according to Dr. Cuddy, that's not your office anymore.", the other guy said.

But House didn't listen anymore. He was already on his way to the elevator.

He even forgot to bring along his cane. Wilson came along.

"Where is your cane?"

" In my office, nope, wait a second. Not my office anymore."

Wilson looked confused. "What happened?"

" Cuddy is playing a game. I didn't wanna work in the clinic, she fired me. And now two gorillas throw my stuff around."

"How often did Cuddy remind you to do your duty down there? Twice a day, three times? And she did that for 8 years. I think she really gave you a chance there."

Now House looked confused.

" You are on her side?"

" Rules apply for everyone, House!"

" Are you out of your mind? Hello! She fired me!"

" Yeah, I heard. She's right! It's called consequences."

Wilson was grinning. House put on his „ I got you!"-look.

"She came to you, told you about it. No, wait, it was your idea. That really screams Wilson. " We gotta teach House some humidity, so let's get together, we make a plan, that will never work, because I'm too clever for you guys! Am I right?"

Now House was grinning and Wilson was mute.

" No answer is an answer, too!" House said and got into the elevator.

As usual he forgot to knock, when he entered Cuddy's office.

„ I just wanna make sure. It's effective immediately. Because I don't wanna go home now, and then you come along with a lawyer, telling me I have to work two more weeks."

" Sit down, House. We need to talk."

„ No, we don't. But could you write me a reference?"

" What happened to your cane?"

" It's probably in one of those boxes by now!"

But he sat down finally.

"Why is it so hard for you, to do your job?"

"Ahm, let's see. It's boring, not interesting, annoying, do you need more?"

" But it is part of your contract."

" The contract you just ended."

" Come on, you already know it was Wilson's idea. But if you wanna leave go ahead. I'm sure you can find a job as head of diagnostics anytime with a team of young doctors doing the work you don't like. And a boss keeping up with your moods and who defends you even when you piss people off. And who also bears you wasting half your working time with video games and watching TV because she knows that you will be there when it is important. Yeah, you will find such a job anytime."

House looked at her. He knew she was right. He would never admit but he knew. Without a word he took her phone.

" Cameron, get down in the clinic. There is a flu epidemic und you are reading my mail? What's the matter with you? And bring along Foreman and my cane!"

He put the phone back and limped towards the door. Cuddy smiled.

" House, you may leave at 4 o'clock!"

" Yippie!"

And really, House started working in the clinic. Without complaining he took one file after another. Even his lunch break was short today. And after a while he started to like it. Where else he could tell so many people that they are idiots?"

Now he took another file and entered the exam room.

"Hi Greg!"

He hesitated a moment. He knew this woman very well. But he wasn't sure if he should treat her or rather ask for another doctor.

" Hey Sara." he said while shutting the door.

" How are you?"

" Fine. But I'm not the one needing a doctor. Maybe you should see your ex husband."

" I don't want James to do the physical."

" I think, he has seen you naked before. I think he even told me about once."

Sara was Wilson's first wife. House and she often had fights. She always blamed him for taking to much of Wilson's time. She also blamed him for short-changing Wilson. In her opinion House always takes while Wilson gives. House always tried to get rid of her.

"What's the problem, Sara?", he asked after he closed the door.

" I'm always tired and flabby. My friends keep telling me I'm pale lately. And whenever I hit something, I get a bruise immediately . I've never had so many colds as in this winter, I always have a fever."

House had recognized immediately that she was pale. And he already knew what was wrong with her. Some blood work and it was confirmed. Problem was, she would meet her ex husband. Wilson was after all the head of oncology and leukemia was amongst the worst kind of cancer.

House may be an emotionless cripple who treats people like shit, but Wilson was his friend and maybe Sara was right about some things. Wilson always was the giving part in their friendship, who took care of House, even if he didn't want him to. But how much House would sacrifice for his friend he couldn't know this moment.