Introductory Chapter

Warnings: May contain swearing, child abuse/abandonment, or some mild violence. If anything else comes up, I'll let you know at the top of a chapter said warning is contained in.

Rating: T

Disclaimer: I don't own House, M.D. or the song used in the title, which we will get to in a moment.

Everyone's favorite twisted-brained fourteen-year-old FanFiction author is back. Well, if I'm your favorite, I suppose.

This is a story, or rather a series of one-shots, I had the idea for several months ago while writing my first (and only) story, Scars. Go check that out if you haven't already?

Anyways, I feel I need to explain a few things before I begin. One, the title is from the song "The Kids Aren't Alright" by The Offspring. This is not a songfic, but lines of the song may be included (hopefully seamlessly) into the story at different points. The correlation between the song title and the story will be much like Scars was, if you're familiar with that.

Second, each one-shot will be centered around "a day in the life" of each main character of House. However, there's a twist: It's a day in the life of each character during their childhood. Some (potentially most) will have several parts to each chapter, showing typical days at several ages throughout their childhoods. They will only be from ages 1-18, at no point will any character be an adult.

Most likely, no main character will visit another main character. Obviously, there will be other characters involved, but they will often be friends or family of that child character. The "main characters" I will be using are these: Gregory House, James Wilson, Lisa Cuddy, Robert Chase, Allison Cameron, Eric Foreman, Lawrence Kutner, Chris Taub, Remy "Thirteen" Hadley, and Amber Volakis.

Here's my favorite aspect of the story: I will be giving the characters with their respective childhood chapters (I feel like I'm using a lot of words that start with 'C') in a specific order. That order will begin with the character I feel had the "best," for lack of a better term, childhood that led to them being less broken as adults than the other characters. Basically, it's going from least screwed up, to a little more screwed up, to "the most screwed up person in the world." Well... I can't promise House will be last. I just thought that quote fit well here. Oops. Since little is known about some of the characters as kids, I am using some things I've picked up on them as adults to make reasonable inferences about them as children.

Anyway, I think it will be fun for you guys to guess the orders in which the characters will come. I am the only one that knows as of right now... and so I decided to make a contest. Well, if anyone cares and wants to play. If anyone can drop to me in a PM what they think the order is, the closest person gets to either choose what I write a one-shot about... or, I can't think of anything else, so I would definitely be willing to negotiate a "prize" with the winner. If nobody wants to play, okay :( I just thought it would be fun if anybody wants to participate. If you choose to, your predictions have to be submitted before I reveal the second character. You may still submit after the first real chapter, or after this introduction if you think you already winner will be announced and contacted via PM at the conclusion of the story.

I will be trying my very best to update on a regular basis. I will try to stay a few chapters ahead so I don't take any four month breaks, but just a heads up, I can only post chapters when I'm at my Dad's, so when I can post will somewhat depend on that. Even if I have a chapter ready, it may take a few days after it's done to post because of that reason.

That's all I have to say to introduce this, folks! Let me know if you have any questions or tell me in a review if you're excited to read or not? :)

Thanks!