Author's note: This was my first multi-chapter fic
Disclaimer: The only characters that are mine are the ones you don't recognize and I am not using this fic for any financial gain.
Chapter 1
Thirteen took a deep breath. She wasn't ready. She would never be. She was about to tell her boss she was dying.
She pushed open the glass door and stepped in.
House looked up.
"Results of the biopsy already?" he asked, but she knew, and she knew that he knew that she knew that he knew, she wasn't there about the patient.
So she ignored the question and approached his desk. She pulled a piece of paper out of her pocket. From the state of it, it had been crumpled into a ball, and then uncrumpled, smoothed out, and folded into thirds. She held it out to him.
House looked at it.
"You got tested," he said, looking back at her.
She nodded briefly.
"It came back positive," he concluded.
"How do you know," Thirteen asked, shocked.
"If it was negative," House explained. "You wouldn't be showing it to me."
She sighed and dropped her hand back to her side.
"Is that it?" he asked.
She nodded and turned to leave.
"I'll go get the biopsy results," she called over her shoulder.
"Thirteen," House said, just as her hand was on the door.
She stopped and looked at him.
"I'm proud of you," House said.
"Why?" Thirteen asked, her hand dropping from the door.
"You're doing your job," House shrugged. "Most people would have resigned, sat in their apartments and cried or something. You're doing you job."
Thirteen nodded slightly, pushed open the door, and left for the MRI room.