Title: Two in the Life of One
Rating: K+
Summary: The chances of two people who look exactly alike and not being related are… House heads off to rehab alone though at the PPTH House shows up as a patient who gets hit by a car and is experiencing memory problems… READ AND REVIEW!!!
Wilson came into House's office. House was sitting at his desk with his head down and the curtains were closed. "What's wrong with you?" Wilson asked House.
"I'm pregnant!" House said slightly lifting his head off the desk.
"What?" Wilson looked at him questioningly.
"I'm pregnant. I don't know who the father is and this is all a mess. I am going to have to drop out of school, and I so wanted to go to college." House rolled his head over to look at Wilson. "You are so stupid."
"Well you never know in this department!" Wilson pointed out. "What really is wrong?"
"Migraine." House informed him.
"Self inflected?" Wilson questioned moving closer. "You've been known to do that from time to time."
"Nope this is the natural kind."
Wilson moved closer to House he realized that House's face was dripping with sweat and his eyes had dark circles under them. "You're detoxing aren't you?"
"Isn't that when you stop taking you drug of choice and your body reacts badly to it?" House asked pulling out his vicodin bottle and took one. "Nope not that."
"Have you taken anything?"
"Like? Von Lieberman's miracle cure?"
"Well no, but like aspirin." Wilson tried to figure out what was going on.
"Umm, no, but I'm fine." House returned his head to the desk as it was when Wilson walked in.
"House, what's going on?" Wilson questioned again.
"Don't you have chemo kids to deal with or something?"
Wilson gave up and walked out.
House was in fact detoxing he just didn't want anyone to know he was trying to stop just in case he was unable to do it. He didn't want people to think he was weak. Being the genius he was, House replace the vicodin in his bottle with simple white tic-tacs. That way no one questioned him not using.
House had been off the vicodin for three days now and the withdraw symptoms were getting worse. First it started out with sweating and vomiting, now it has moved on to muscle pains and bone pains. House's blood pressure was rising and he was experiencing some serious cramps, not to mention his leg hurt. House got up and packed his things up. He couldn't stay there any longer he needed to go home.
"House, where are you going?" Cameron question as he walked past her without a word.
"Home," He said groggily.
"Why? What's wrong?" Cameron asked him.
"Headache, no if you don't mind…" House continued to the elevator.
"Where's he going?" Foreman asked Cameron.
"He says he has a headache, so he's going home. He looks really sick though." Cameron was worried.
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"And Cut! That's a wrap!" The director said to the cast and crew on set.
Everyone cheered and applauded. Hugh Laurie, a famous British actor, was the star and as everyone went on their separate way after the party. Hugh was a little drunk and opted for walking back to his hotel. As he walked down the road he tripped on the sidewalk and fell in front of an on coming car.
When the paramedics showed up they searched him for ID but didn't find any. Another EMT looked at him and realized who it was. "Get him to Princeton Plainsboro." He told them.
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"Hi, mom." House answered his phone when her number appeared on his phone.
"Oh Greg, I have some news to tell you. Is there anyway you can come out here?" She asked.
"I really can't. You see…" It was now or never. "I have a pain management problem… I'm addicted to pain killers. I am going to check myself into rehab." He told her.
"Oh sweetheart," Blythe felt for her son. "Is there anything I can do?"
"No mom. This is something I am going to have to do on my own." House reached the door of the building he was heading for.
"I'll be praying for you. And when you get out I want to tell you something very important. I love you Greg"
"I love you too mom!"
House went into the University Medical Hospital Center to check himself in to rehab. He didn't want anyone to know he was there (well except his mother now knew). "I'm checking myself in for rehab. I have a problem." He told the lady at the front desk and they showed him to his room.
