So this is the sequel of "Prank" one shot I wrone, hope you like it. There is no Masters, Ally is the new girl instead of her. Enjoy.
It was her second official case and she along with House and Chase were walking towards their patient.
"Housekeeping. Either you're crazy or you're atoning for something naughty, and you're crazy." House said walking into the patient's room.
"Believe it or not, he's a doctor" Ally sad smiling and sitting down on a stool beside the bed.
"I'm not atoning for anything." Patient Ramon said.
"That answers that. Thanks" House said sarcastically boosting himself up and sitting on a countertop.
While House talks with Ramon and Chase apparently was doing nothing, Ally was taking some blood.
"If you're done mocking him, we need to prep for an LP." Chase finally interfered.
"Good. Another hole in him should really make God's day." House said jumping off the countertop and waking out.
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"Have you seen the bride-to-be?" Foreman asked while the whole team was doing some tests at the lab.
"Gorgeous woman half his age. He's a lucky guy." Chase answered him and Ally just rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, for a while." Foreman chuckled.
"What's it mean when somebody takes their cell phone into the bathroom when they're taking a shower?" Taub asked ignoring previous talk.
"It means they don't want you to check their calls, emails, or texts." Foreman said with a duh tone.
"If we're talking about your wife, it means the chickens are coming home to roost." Chase said raising his head just to see Ally frowning in confusion.
"Taub has been known to dabble." he looked back at Taub and corrected himself. "Used to be."
Ally just raised her eyebrows in the manner that said she thought Taub was a pig and continued her job.
"Maybe that's just a habit, I take my mp3 player or sell with myself when I shower just so I could listen to music" she shrugged not lifting her head and missing Chase's and Foreman's amused expressions.
"She has a meeting today at 1:30. At a hotel." Taub said.
"Maybe it's just a meeting with some people from work, don't read into it too much" she said trying to reassure him. "Negative for Toxocara, Bacteroides, Ascaris, everything" she added once more looking at the computer.
"So what looks like an infection but doesn't test like one?" Chase asked.
"Animals." Taub said catching Chase's attention.
"I'm sure your wife's just seeing a dude." Chase joked earning a giggle and a punch to his side from Ally.
"Patient works for Morgan Timber Works. Card's in the file. Specializing in stables, barns, and stalls. He works around animals. Rhodococcus Equi." Taub explained.
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"Fever, coughing up blood, coughing up teeth. So either God sweetened the deal with a "no flossing" clause or…" House talked walking down the hall with his team.
"Radiation sickness."
"Yeah, maybe the carpenter builds microwave ovens." Chase brushed off Taub's suggestion.
"Kaposi's sarcoma?" Ally suggested brainstorming.
"No skin lesions." Foreman reminded.
Then Chase suggested Heavy metal poisoning witch House agreed with and ordered Ally and Chase to search the patient's home after trying to make fun of Taub.
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"How long have you been doing this?" Ally asked Chase while he was on his knees trying to pick a locked of Ramon's apartment.
"Since I started working for House" he said ad smiled at her.
"You know we could've just asked Ramon" she said trailing off.
"Yeah, but we don't do that so that the patients wouldn't have time to hide anything" he explained to her like speaking to a child.
"Exactly, but our patient hasn't been home, lives alone. He doesn't have any help, and he has no motive to hide anything." She pointed out and added, when Chase looked at her asking to make her point. "So I asked him for a so called permission "she grinned like she knew something he didn't.
"Did you ask for his key too?" he asked making fun of her.
"Didn't need to" she said with a smirk pushing the door lightly to reveal that it wasn't locked "he doesn't own one" she said and stepped inside.
"And now we know why. You think he's crazy?"Chase said quickly following her.
"Well, I'd say Crucifixion's pretty convincing evidence. Lead paint?" Ally asked walking around, while Chase checked the fridge.
"The place is too new. He believes in a higher power that can affect his life. Like most people on the planet." He said closing an empty fridge. "No canned tuna. And I don't think we have to worry about sushi." He added checking out other places of the apartment.
"No computer. No television. No music. How does he still live?" Ally joked.
"He reads. Prayer's been proven to aid recovery. "Chase said checking out a book.
Ally didn't replay, they were quiet for a few minutes just examining the place when she finally sighed and said.
"Look it's been over a week since I joined your team, are you guys still mad of what I did?" She asked straightening up ant looking at Chase.
"We were never really mad" he said still looking around and not facing her. "We're kinda used to these things; House pulls them off pretty often." He said looking though the trash can.
"So what about all three of you come to my place after work?" she offered looking through old photos.
"The house I brought you back after karaoke night?" he asked.
"No" she trailed off with guilt in her voice. "That was my friends place; I own an apartment not really far from the hospital." She said quickly looking away.
"Huh?" he finally looked at her. "Your friend's? And what would you have done if I invited myself for a little desert that night?" he asked raising his eyebrow.
"I wouldn't let you" she said with a devilish smile on her lips.
"If you say so…" Chase got back to his work. "And I'll think about that" he added after a few minutes of silence.
"I guess worry is good for the waistline." Ally said to herself but looked up and showed the photo to Chase when he came up to her.
"It's not worry. It's starvation. His tooth didn't fall out because of heavy metal poisoning. It fell out because of malnutrition." He corrected her after looking at an old photo of Ramon, where he appears to weigh more than he does now.
"He does have Rhodococcus Equi."
"Taub was right. He just didn't know why." Chase said putting his arm on the little of Ally's back, leading her out of the apartment.
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After they started the new treatment, they were all at the dressing room and Ally locked her locker before coming to Foreman and Taub.
"Hey, look I know we started off not really pretty, so why don't you three come tonight at my place I'll have pica and some beers" she suggested looking around and finally landing to see, that Foreman was about to say something, so she quickly added something she knew he couldn't resist. "It would be a rematch I have a pretty big flat screen" she said grinning when she saw, that she was winning.
"Fine, we'll be at your place at 8" Foreman said and Taub just nodded.
After she said her goodbyes to the boys she left that changing room and went to the office. House was sitting at his desk, looking at the computer screen. Ally walked in, closed the door and lean at the door frame.
"I asked them to come to my place tonight, they agreed." she said looking through the window.
"They won't come" he said not even looking at her.
"I know" she said looking at him.
"Than what do you want?" he asked finally looking at her.
"Well I will have a large pica and a couple of beer, would be sad to see them go to waste."
He nodded and Ally left with a smile.
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Next morning Ally was already sitting at the table, once more looking through the patient's file when all three of them walked in.
"Hey boys" she said like nothing had happened.
"Hey" they all said with those stupid smiles on their faces. "So how was last night?" Taub asked and others tried not to laugh.
"It was awesome and she makes the best picas ever" they heard House say before Ally could answer. "Oh and you should be careful cause she kills at "Guitar Hero"" he said flopping into one of the chairs. "Probably because she owns all the "Heroes" he whispered like it was a secret.
Ally just tried to contain her smile, when she saw that boys were confused and a bit pissed that their plan to stand her up didn't succeed.
"Oh, sorry, you thought that she wouldn't figure out that you planned not to show up?" he asked his usual tone. "Well too bad for you, the pica, which I repeat, she made herself was amazing".
"The patient seemed to be feeling better, but" she said finally stopping House's rant. "He feels a huge pan in his legs and it appears that he feels one emotion while unknowingly expressing another one." She finally looked up to see that she's got everyone's attention. "I came early to check on him" she explained herself.
"Okay, let's go see our patient" House said standing up and walking out of the office, quickly followed by his team.
"Leg pain and Pseudobulbar Affect." Taub said thinking loudly while they all there looking at their patient.
"Classic Neurohecatia. Two days of anticholinergics, you'll be walking out of here." House said sitting on the bed.
"Really?" Ramon asked.
"No. I just made that up to see your reaction. Diagnostic test. This is awesome. 33-year-old carpenter presenting with narcissism, delusions of grandeur,
hallucinations." House said satisfied while Ramon smiled.
And after a discussion about God and some other stuff, House ordered to do an MRI of his brain. And that is what Ally Chase and Taub were doing when Taub decided to discuss his marriage again.
"Chickens aren't roosting. She's just got a friend. A guy she met in an online support group for cheating spouses." He said turning to the other two.
"I've heard of that group. It's called irony." Chase said focusing on the screen.
"You think she's cheating on her spouse with someone from a cheating spouse support group?"
"Sounds like the perfect place to hit on vulnerable women."
"Oh come on" Ally said a bit frustrated with all this talk. "Maybe she's not cheating, maybe he really is her friend, it's not like we sleep with all the men we befriend." She said looking from one man to the other. "I have plenty on guy friends and I don't sleep with them, I just…" she trailed off trying to explain herself. "Look, when I went out with you and Foreman when we first met, I didn't sleep with you, but we still hanged out and had fun." She said looking at Chase, waiting for his conferment.
"But that was our goal, to sleep with you." He pointed out.
"Ass." She said ending the talk and concentrating on the screen." Look" she said before Chase had any chance to say anything to her and instead he stopped the screen. "Multiple dense lesions."
"It looks like M.S." he said.
"How did we miss M.S.?" Ally seemed surprised that she could miss that.
"It was hiding behind the malnutrition. M.S. attacks the immune system. No system, no symptoms."
"And now we're feeding him, so they're both back." Taub pointed out.
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Ally was looking at the reception table from the upper floor, her hands resting on the rail, coffee mug in them.
"You okay?" she heard Foreman's voice.
"Our patient is a self harming psycho, who thinks that he does something against some kind of imaginary rule that his daughter will die and we have to treat him with the only treatment that is against God otherwise he's dead. So…"she trailed off still looking down.
"You don't believe in God?" he asked mimicking her posture.
"No, yes, no…"she sighed and foreman just chuckled. "I don't know I sometimes believe that maybe there is something there but I think that this entire Christian thing is a lot of bullshit." She said taking a sip of her coffee. "Sorry" she quickly said realizing what she just said; she didn't know him, for all she knows she might just insulted him.
"It's okay, I'm atheist."
Ally just smiled and they were silent for a moment.
"Sorry we tried to trick you" he said looking at her from the corner of his eyes.
"It's okay, it's only fair since I fooled around with you." She sighed once again, but smiled at him.
"So we're good?" he asked now fully turning to look at her.
"We're good" she smiled and nudged him with her shoulder. "So now what?"
"I think House's already doing something" he said and they both looked down to where their patient's room was.
…
She and Foreman were sitting at the bar with their drinks, when Chase came up, he probably didn't see Ally, because he said directly to Foreman.
"I just spotted a couple of hot girls by the chocolate fountain." He said reveling that he already have got one too many drinks.
"Weren't you just upstairs with…"
"And it wouldn't have happened if not for you, buddy. Someone had to distract the sober friend."
"Grosse" Ally said and just then realized that she said it out loud.
"Oh, you're here." Chase said a bit surprised.
"Don't mind me, I'm going to find someone, I don't know" she finally said when she couldn't think of any other excuse. She put her hand on Foreman's shoulder to get his attention and smiled "We'll talk later" nodded to Chase and hooped of the stool, fixed her dress that rid up a bit and walked away.
Chase watched her go admiring the view. Her whole back down to the point where the curve of her ass started was naked and the fact that she had her hair up revealing her neck too didn't help. Oh and did he mentioned that the whole dress was really tight and ended just about the middle of her thigh and those heels made her legs look so long even though she was really short and he just wanted to do her then and there, but his thought were disturbed by Foreman's throat clearing, so the only thing he said was:
"She looks hot." Looking her up and down one more time.
Foreman just shook his head and nudged his friend.
"You were saying…"
"Yeah, "he said looking back at Foreman after Ally disappeared in the crowd. "Two hot girls, chocolate fountain" he repeated…
...
Ally wondered around the dance floor when she finally stopped at the table that had a card with her name on and sat with her drink, focusing on the spot at the middle of the plate that didn't exist. She didn't know how long she was zoned out before she heard the same familiar voice she heard earlier.
"You know that food won't just appear there if you just stare' Foreman laughed.
"Huh?" she looked up at him a bit startled. "Sorry zoned out a bit "she smiled sheepishly.
"What's the matter?" he asked placing the chair to face her and sitting in it.
"I don't know just feeling a bit like an out of place" she said laughing a little " I mean I don't know like 99 % of those people and the fact that I don't really know the people that got married doesn't help ether, I don't really get the point why I was invited." She smiled at him.
"I think House has to do something with it" he said.
She just nodded and started playing with her almost untouched glass of martini.
"Okay, what's really wrong?" Foreman finally asked, because somehow he didn't believe the whole don't know anyone here story.
"That obvious?" she asked smiling sadly and after he nodded she just sighed. "I just feel so guilty. His daughters face just keeps popping up in my head, she was so heartbroken and he with his stupid principals didn't even care" she sounded a bit angry. "All we did was cause more pain to the little girl, we never should have brought her to him" she trailed of playing with the hem of her dress.
"Look, we can't do anything about that, it's his choice and it's not your fault" he said squeezing her hand.
She just smiled sadly at him and nodded.
"Could I borrow your car?" she asked after a moment. "I promise, I won't do anything to it, I barely had a y drink, just the glass of champagne and now this, but as you can see I barely touched it, so I'm sober." She rambled on.
"Ally" he stopped her. "Let's go" he said smiling and started walking to the exit with his hand on her back guiding her way out, not seeing a frowning Chase following them with his eyes.
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"So what Chase didn't share?" Ally asked biting her lip to stop herself from laughing when they were in his car.
"No, as I told him, I didn't come to the wedding to get laid."
"Good boy" Ally teased him.
Foreman just rolled his eyes on her and parked near the hospital entrance.
"How are you feeling?" Ally asked quietly coming into Ramon's room.
He just looked at her a bit pissed off, but stayed silent. She looked around, when noticed that she forgot her doctor's robe so it probably looked a bit wear that she was checking up on his so dress up, but she decided that she didn't really care. She used the couple of minutes they've got till Foreman's come with the instruments to apologize:
"Look, I'm sorry about your daughter, I feel so bad because of what she had to suffer, but you have to know, that I never meant to hurt her." She said sincerely.
"You just thought she would change my mind." He finally speaks up.
"To tell you the truth I was surprised she didn't."
"So was I. I didn't tell you the truth. When I said I'm not afraid to die."
She was about to speak again, but Foreman came in to check on them. They put down the data they needed and walked out of the room.
"Ready to head back?" He asked as they were walking down the hall.
"Yeah…" she said and smiled. "Thanks, Eric, for everything" she said after a few moments.
He just smiled nodding and said after a few moments, as they were walking through the exit door.
"So it's Eric again, huh?" he asked a bit mockingly.
"Well, I though, since we're good again…" she said with a little smirk playing on her lips.
They just laughed, she nudged him to the side playfully and he just put his arm around her shoulder and walked back to the car.
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They were sitting at their table, with drink in their hands as they hear some giggle and a laugh they know, they turned their heads toward the sound and saw Chase walk out with two girls next to him. They shook their head, looked at each other said "bottoms up" at the same time, clinked their glasses and gulped down their drinks and laughed ordering one more round.
At the end on the night when wait staff were clearing tables, House, Taub, Foreman, and Wilson stood leaning on a long table and Ally was sitting on it, her legs dangling in the air between Taub and Foreman.
"So how many do you think?" House asked.
"At least three" Foreman answered.
"Hat trick, Chase" House said picking up a glass of martini from the table and taking a sip."See? The life of the bachelor. All of the sex, none of the guilt." He looked pointedly at Taub.
"It's not over, okay? I just really miscalculated. I thought she'd forgiven me
for everything. All those hurt feelings, they never really went away." The guy defended himself.
"That makes a lot more sense."
"Oh come on" Ally whined, ready to argue with him, because she missed his zoned out look.
"Ignore him. He just got an idea." Wilson cut her off.
"I have one more test to run." House said, grabbed his stuff and walked away.
"Ugh. I hate weddings." Foreman said looking up to the sealing.
"Come on" Ally said, patting him on the back. "Let's go, we still have to go to work tomorrow" she said jumping off the tables and leaving with Foreman to grab a cab.
…
And she was right. They were at work first thing in the morning, Foreman was still grumpy as well as Taub and it really didn't help that Chase was all happy. They had to do an MRI and she was with House then he was trying to prove his point to the patient. Somehow she felt guilty about everything. And when he showed an MRI of God she just had enough she just walked out of the room with a single mutter of an "ass".
