This is a short story about House and a teenager that comes into his possession.
I WISH
Doctor Gregory House is asleep at home when his phone rings.
House turns over and glares at the ringing phone.
He groggily picks it up.
"You've reached the voice mail of Gregory House. Please don't leave a message after the beep."
House then hangs up.
But right when he doses back to sleep, someone knocks on his door.
"Gregory!" he hears faintly through his bedroom door.
House angrily and groggily gets up and limps out the bedroom, through the hallway, to the door.
"Hold on!" House yells as he unlocks the door and opens the door.
"Gregory!" Suddenly, an African American teen dressed in Gothic attire, w/ red streaks in her hair, stumbles through the door.
"I'm sorry but i thought good little girl scouts sold cookies during the daytime." House said.
"Gregory!Don't you know who i am? Remember.....Gabi." Gabi said as she went back outside and grabbed up her 2 large suitcases.
"You're leaving already?" House commented sarcastically.
"Don't be silly! I'm staying.....remember?" Gabi said as she handed a note to House.
House looked down at the note which read,
Dear Greg,
Hey, Its Angela. Do you remember a certain call and you said you would take Gabi in for a little while for me so that i could get myself together(drugs and whatnot)?
Well, this is it. I promise she won't be a hand full for you and i promise I'll take her back once I'm clean. So thanks.
Angela
"I never agreed to this." House said as he put the note on the couch.
"Sure you did. Hear, listen." Gabi said as she took out a tape recorder and played it.
"Hello Greg!"
"Who is this and why are you calling me?"
"Greg! It's Angela! I married your cousin Jeff? Remember the wedding?"
"The one with the pig as one of your bridesmaids?"
"Yeah! That's the one!"
"Why are you calling me?"
"I need to ask you a favor."
"I can only grant favors on the day of my daughter's wedding."
"Oh, you silly! I need you take Gabi in for me."
"What's a Gabi? It's not one of those things where if you feed it after midnight it multiplies?"
"No Gregory! Its my daughter."
"I'm not a pedophile you know."
"Gregory, please. This is absolutely important, okay. I need you take her in for a while because I'm................having problems."
"What problems?"
"I'm going to rehab for drugs and i won't have anyone to take care of her."
"What about Jeff?"
"You didn't get the news did you?"
"......"
"Jeff was killed in Afghanistan almost 2 years ago."
"I'm sorry to hear about that."
"....Ever since then, i started to spiral down hill and before i knew it, i found myself addicted to Heroin and Cocaine and..lets just say a little of everything."
"That's your problem, not mine."
"House, I'm begging you!(Starts crying) I need you to help me! I need someone to help me!I don't want to make my daughter suffer as much as i have!"
"........"
"House...Please? I need you to help me out."
"....I'll take her in for you."
"Thank you! Thank you! I promise she won't be any trouble."
"Bye."
"Bye."
Gabi turned the tape recorder off and put it back in the bag.
"How can you not remember any of that Greg?" Gabi said as she looked at him.
"I usually forget people who are crack heads and their daughters who tape people's personal conversations." House said as he walked back into the bedroom.
"Where am i going to sleep?!" Gabi yelled.
"On the couch."
"How come i can't sleep in the bed?!" she yelled again.
"If you don't SHUT UP, YOU'RE GOING TO SLEEP OUTSIDE!"House yelled from the bedroom.
"Whatever." Gabi mumbled to herself as she laid herself down on the couch.
Bedroom:
House laid in bed trying to reply the phone conversation and get a better understanding.
"When was that conversation made?"
"Why haven't i heard from her since then?"
"Why send her daughter now?"
Slowly, House's thoughts began to put him to sleep and before he knew it, he was knocked out.