House and the optimistic
prologue
Eric mops the floor and greets the
people around him happily, people enjoy his joy and happiness he was
so polite and kind, Eric rubs his head feeling light headed he shakes
it off, probably have to get a drink of water he puts the mop back in
the bucket and walks to the fountain then falls onto the ground, his
coworkers calls the ambulance as they tend to him.
chapter 1
a
light hits House's eyes and he rolls to go to sleep a shadow is
behind him and shakes house: "House"
House turns and looks up
and sees Cuddy: don't you knock or call
cuddy: I called three
times and I know you won't wake from a knock
House: so why did
you wake me from a great wet dream
Cuddy glares at him: we have a
patient, that fell down
House: epilepsy or a cerebral cancer, now
can you let me go back to sleep
Cuddy: we tested for cancer and he
has no signs of epilepsy, he said he felt thirsty and he just
fell
House sits up: dehydration and maybe a stroke he grabs his
cane just put in an IV and tell him he's too old to bounce on
his bed anymore
Cuddy crosses her arms: he was drinking all day,
and he's only 19
House: so I actually have to wake today, I'll
have to finish that blond babe later he rolls his eyes
Chapter
2
Chase looks into Eric's eyes: do you have any head pain
Eric:
some but it's only a bump on the head I checked it myself he
smiles lightly
Chase feels the wound: right here
Eric cringes
slightly in pain: yeah
no sign of immerging or concussion, yet you
just passed out
Eric: that what they told me
Chase stands up:
well what I see there is nothing wrong with you
Eric sits up: so I
can go back to work good he looks like he's about to get out
whoa
chase pushes the teen back down to the bed you need to rest, I
said nothing I seen is wrong with you, doesn't mean there is
nothing is wrong with you, so just relax
ok the boy smiled
Chase
walked out and to House's office
House is balancing a glass of
water on his head: so how is our head patient
Chase wonders what
is he doing always playing around: what I can see there is nothing
wrong with him
so show me the x rays and monograms he takes the
glass off
he just got here so we haven't done any of that
House
rolls his eyes and drinks the water: so Mrs. tight pants lied to
me
cuddy lied to you to get you here? he cocks his head, house
would lie to get what he wants but cuddy?
I guess it was the only
way to get me out of my bed he takes a pill and puts it in his
mouth
Foreman and Cameron come in and house snared at them: glad
you can join us, now we all can make fun of cuddy
Foreman rolled
his eyes not knowing what house was talking about: so what do we got
for symptoms
Chase: well all he has is a bump on his head no sign
of concussion or hemorrhage, so it's not his head
House gets up
grabbing his cane and walks to the bored: wrong, everything starts in
the head, you just don't fall for no reason he writes on the
board, dehydration, insomnia, exhaustion
Cameron: Sleep
depression or epilepsy
House: yes to the first no to the
second
Chase: his eyes don't say sleep depression, no circles,
no sagging ness
House: I know you like older women but please
don't describe there breasts to me
Chase: I was talking about
his eyes
House: of course and pretty eyes he has doesn't he, but
yet again he might not be your type
Foreman: can we stay on topic
and see what's wrong with this patient if it was sleep depression
soon epilepsy will concur later on so we can treat him and put him on
some sleeping agents
House: well get to it and bring me some,
cuddy woke me up too early
Foreman walks out
Chapter 3
an
African American man with a mustache and a goatee comes in: ok you
might have some insomnia it will explain the fainting and the passing
out
Eric smiles: thanks doctor, I'll like to go back to work
soon as possible
Foreman: well we will have to keep you here,
still normally we will let the patient out if it was just insomnia he
puts the pills on the table just take two
Eric: so what else
do you think it is he takes two
we don't know yet, we'll
just treat on what we know, and find what else is wrong
ok he
sits up and cringes a little
you ok
yeah it's nothing I'm
fine he smiles
no if your fine you won't be in pain, now
what's wrong
my right leg hurts
Foreman checks the leg out
feeling the muscle then the knee and the swell of his leg and Eric
cringes lightly
Foreman sighs: seems bad, did you hit it or fall
on it
no it just started to hurt
chapter 4
Chase walks
to house's desk and yells at him: I told you it wasn't insomnia
and he doesn't have sleep disorder and you act like I'm not even
there
House eyes widen in sarcastic shock: oh I'm sorry I
thought it was the wall talking he leans both hand on his Cain
don't worry I knew your right
Chase: so you just gave him
sleeping medicine for no reason
House: no, there is a reason, he
needed the good night sleep like I did last night
Chase: because
cuddy woke you up on what you conceder early, you decided to take
your grumpiness out on us and the patient
House: told you I had a
reason
Foreman comes in and house sounds brighten: and right on
time to bring us the good news, so what is up with Mr. head,
head
Foreman: he has Sevier Tendentious in his right leg and left
arm
House: ok, chase be actually useful and write that down
Chase
writes it down on the board: so what can cause this
Cameron: long
years of work or arthritis
House: and how long has he worked
there
Foreman: only eight months, not even long enough for him to
cause Tendentious
Chase: and his family doesn't have a history
in arthritis
House: so how is he doing, who is he, and where is
waldo
Foreman: he seems ok mentally and he seems calm
Chase:
his name is Eric and I would have to agree with foreman
House: I
don't care for his name, but what did he do before he passed
out
Chase: working, then he went to get a drink of water
House:
hmm I got nothing, besides dehydration, Cameron, give him x-rays and
monograms of all his tinkers
Cameron: heart and brain coming right
up
she leaves
Chapter 5
ok this won't take long don't
move she speaks into the intercom and Eric compiles and doesn't
move and once it was done he talks you have a nice voice have you
thought of singing?
Cameron smile lightly: no she comes in
ok you are almost done we just need an x ray
he gets in the
wheel chair and she takes him to the room well you should, I
would so buy your cds he smiles
thanks she smiles back
professionally
she takes the x rays: ok all done she takes him
back into the room
Eric pulls himself onto the bed: well tell me
how I'm doing ok Dr. Cameron
Cameron: I will She sets him up
with a sling on his left arm putting a plastic binding on it and his
right leg
as she does this Eric talks: I hope I'm not causing
you too much trouble
not at all this is our job, and right now I
just finished checking on you, so relax and we'll come back to you
once we figure out what's wrong
Eric smiles: ok, I bet you will
find out
Chapter 6
Cameron comes in foreman and chase look
mentally Exhausted, talking to house again
House is twirling his
Cain: glade you came back, so how is the man who fell down for no
reason
Cameron: he has no tumors in his heart or brain she hands
him the results and the x rays and he brushes them to the
side
Cameron: you not going to check them
House: no I have
better things to attend to, so our little patient how is he taking
the illness of falling down
Cameron: well thanks for you drugging
him, he is out like a light
House puts his Cain down: that's not
what I meant, is he depressed or angry about being around a woman not
able to get his hands on her
Cameron: no he seemed happy, very
optimistic
Foremon: yeah he was very cheerful even when he was in
pain
House: happy, cheerful, hmm I wonder if Optimism can be a
symptom
Chase: a symptom of what, of being a happy person
House:
you almost hit the nail on the head, next time, use a hammer
Foreman:
your not thinking drugs are you
House: thanks for asking he takes
a vicodin
Chase: he's not on drugs his eyes weren't dilated,
and he seems all together
House: yeah he probably didn't smoke
any today but it takes a month to get it out of his system
Foreman:
this boy is happy and you think drugs
House leans on his Cain and
gets the files: yep, but I think other stuff too like women, good TV,
but where are you getting at
Foreman: I'm saying people don't
have to take drugs to be happy
House: your right, but no one in a
hospital is normal are they, now if you leave me be I got business to
attend to he limps out
Chapter 7
Wilson comes out of his
office and sees house he was about to go back into his office then
house caught him: WILSON he says on what sounds cheerful and Wilson
sighs and turns towards him: what
I got a job for you he hands
him the files check theses for tumors or inflammation
Wilson
cocks an eyebrow: couldn't you do this yourself
House: yes but I
heard that this patient has a case of happy and I don't want to
catch it
Wilson rolls his eyes and flips through the x rays:
nothing to swelling, no inflammation, no bubbles or tumors,
nothing
House: Great, now I have to think
Wilson: good now I
can have a drink of water he drinks out of the fountain
House:
water? he walks away
Chapter 8
House comes back into his
office everyone is there: good now I don't have to rally you all
up
Foreman: we are loaded with patients thanks to you, now what do
you got
House: he was drinking water he crosses out Exhaustion
and insomnia and adds lack of red blood cells
Cameron: we tested
his blood for drugs so that won't explain lack of red blood cells,
and we haven't tested for that yet
House: well go to it he
leans against the wall well any guesses before I tell you what it
really is
Chase: well if you already know it, why not tell
us
House: because it makes me feel better, but I'll tell you
anyways, Copper poisoning
Foreman: who would poison him
House:
he would, well heck I would if I was thirsty enough, which he is
always dehydrated, so he would have to drink
Chase: the drinking
fountain: I'll go and get a test sample
House: good and I'll
go test him for magic brownies
Foreman: it didn't show in his
blood
House: yeah but he might be hiding it
he leaves
Chapter
9
house enters Cuddy's office and she glares at him: what do you
want house, revenge?
House: I would have to keep you up all night
and the sight of that shirt you already have that plan
Cuddy tugs
her jacket closed: so what do you want, give me more of your
perverted thoughts
House: no that's why we have the internet, I
need a vile of happy reefers
Cuddy: for you no
House: it's
for a patient to prove that he is on majuana
Cuddy: well giving
him some would prove that
House: no if he wasn't on majuana, he
would just be really high and really happy, but if he has been doing
it, he would be mostly the same because the small dose won't be
enough to sustain his mind
Cuddy: a small dose ok, I don't want
you to get either of you high
House: deal we will share a bowl
he walks out
Chapter 10
a man with stubby five o
clock beard and messy hair with a dirty suit on comes in leaning on a
nice wooden Cain with flames on the bottom and Eric smiles
the man
snares at the boy: so I see your still on last Saturday
Eric:
sorry I don't know what you are talking about Mr.?
House, I am
here to prove that like me you are a pot head he sits on a visitor's
chair next to the kid
the teen laughs lightly: you know your
funny
House injects the substance into his arm: and after this
I'll be hilarious
the boy breaths and feels the sustains take
over: well Dr House, do you have a first name
House cocks his
head: why do you want to know, to tell everyone where to get there
fix
the boy laughed in the same way as before and house takes out
a blood sample: no because everyone calls you by your last name
because the way you act, your first name gives you character
House:
it's Greg, and you are high
the boy smiled: I haven't done
this over a year and I don't feel any different
that's because
you are a pot head he looks at the sleep help pills do you
mind if I take one
not at all why would you need that insomnia
problems the boy seems to sweat lightly
something like that, and
you are feeling a little hot under the color, hmm that must be
because your stoned he takes the sleep agent pill and his
viccoden
the boy cough into his hand allot and blood is on it and
he smiles as he looked at it
House eyes widen a little: well
that's not good
Chapter 11
House has his head in his arms
and he seems to be sleeping
Foreman slams the door open and shut:
he wasn't a pot head
House wakes and looks horrible: I figured
that out
Cameron: and we are treating the copper in his
body
Chase: so what makes him cough up blood
Foreman: it could
be TB
House yawns loudly to interrupt: it's not TB, but thanks
for stating an obvious diagnosis
Cameron: the copper in his body
could have infect his lungs
House: yeah and his blood decided to
move into his lungs, show me the scans after my nap, now excuse me I
have a woman to attend to he puts his head back on his
arms
Chapter 12
the x rays show a big dark blotch that
covered all his bottom half of his lungs
House: wow this is
cool
Foreman: his lungs are becoming liquid goo and you find it
cool
House: yes, what makes lungs become liquid goo
Chase:
cancer
Foreman: he hasn't smoked a year
Cameron: it could be
second hand smoke, or it could be remnant
House: if it was second
hand smoke, he would get a heart attack first, and if it was a
remnant it would just be a round blotch not half his lungs
Foreman:
well whatever it is he's going to die, who's going to tell
him
Cameron: he's a sweet boy I'll hate to see him sad
Chase:
I don't feel like it
House rolls his eyes: fine I'll do
it
Chapter 13
House comes into his room: hello, don't
worry I'm not here to get you high again, your, Eric, your going to
die, your lungs are disintegrating...his eyes are wide Eric do you
have stomach problems
Eric: yeah but I'm used to them, I drink
allot of water, because of them
House: I'll be right back, your
not going to die
at the office
House pushes the door open:
did you guys do a MRI on his stomach and Colin
Chase: no
Foreman:
I never thought of doing that
House: well do it and show me the
results
After the scan
Foreman: his stomach is scotched and
his intestates walls are breaking down
House: there's waldo he
yells
Chase: poison?
House: of a different sort, and it's a
growing one
Cameron: mold
House: no I don't have any
Cameron
glares at him
oh you mean the boy, yes he has mold, just give him
the stuff and get it over with
Foreman: because he likes you, you
want to get rid of him
House: likening me hmm I wonder if that
could be a sickness of course non of you have it, so it's not
contagious
Cameron and Foreman leave
Chase: you look different,
has this boy change you a little
House: no it's my hair, I tried
to brush it
Chas sighs
after the cure
Eric sits
up
Chase: ok you can leave, but first you need a Cain he holds
out an assorted style of Cains on a rack
hmmm Eric smiles
this on, it has style, just like Greg does he takes it
House
stands in the hall and sees the kid lean on a hickory wood Cain and a
magnolia handle simple but slick
Eric smiles at House: bye Greg
he walks out
House: bye Eric he says quietly and takes a
pill
THE END
