„A Hypochondriac."
Disclaimer: The world of „House" doesn't belong to me. I know I wrote better stories but the idea for it came to me so suddenly that I decided to give it a try. Tell me if you liked it.
„Help me... but I don't know if anyone manages to help me; it's incurable."
„Well, we will see."
„Don't come too close to me, doctor, I don't want you to contract it. It's incurable, as I said."
„Listen, mister, we have medicines for everything now. Don't panic. What do you think it is?"
„Leprosy."
„Huh?"
„Leprosy. Hansen's disease. Like in 'The Kingdom of Heaven'. Soon I will have to hide my face behind a mask, too."
„ Listen, if there's one thing you learn in my job, it's that nothing is certain. Nothing that seems very bad and nothing that seems very good. Nothing is certain."
„But it is leprosy, that's for sure. No, I saw lepers just on TV but what else could it possibly be? I have the symptoms. I will have to move in a leper colony... Do they still exist, doctor?"
„Let's me assure you that if you didn't have any sort of contact with a sufferer of Hansen's disease, it can't be this. Let me see your symptoms – what are those?"
„The white spot on my forearm. Can you see it, doctor?"
„Ah, yes. I saw similar ones many times."
„Many times?"
„Yes. I can instantly tell you what it is. It's so called white leprosy."
„Leprosy! I knew!"
„It's just a name. We normally know it under the name of vitiligo."
The End.