Guys were sitting at the table while House, who just entered the office, went straight to the coffee machine.
"Male, mid 30's, loss of consciousness, abnormal EKG." Ally said coming in through the door, looking at the file. "Also known as the subway hero." She said lifting her head to look at everyone.
When she got no reaction, she set other files on the table and sat next to Taub.
"You don't believe he's a hero?" House asked drinking his coffee and surprisingly placing another mug in front of Ally.
"Well," Ally said ignoring the mug. "I don't really think that just because he was brave enough to jump in front of the train he automatically is a hero, it probably was an adrenalin rush" she said, looking through the patients file.
"The coffee isn't poisoned" House said sitting in his usual chair. "So why this case should be interesting?" he asked leaning in his chair.
"The other hundred people stayed on that platform. That's a normal response to danger." Taub pointed out.
"Maybe he's some kind of policeman or a firefighter, natural response?" Foreman wondered.
"He plays a bass in a band." Ally said taking a sip of coffee from the mug House placed in front of her and she frowned.
"What did he put in this time?" Foreman asked not impressed.
"Sugar" girl answered and pushed the mug away missing surprised faces of the guys.
"Our patient's problem is neurological. Sympathetic stimulation — stress to the brain triggers a response in the heart. Go forth and look for masses in Clark Kent's limbic system." House said observing Ally with an interest.
…
Ally and Chase walk into the patient's room and see a huge bouquet, with a card saying "Jack! You're a hero!" Girl just raised an eyebrow while Chase smiled looking back through the glass and seeing that hospital employees are standing in front of the glass wall, taking pictures with their phones.
"Seems like you're getting a bit of attention."
"Everyone keeps going out of their way asking me if I need anything. It's kind of nice." Jack said waving to those people
"So what happened out there?" Ally asked while preparing to give him his medicine.
Jack started explaining when his wife came in lashing at him about him being irresponsible.
In the evening, when others were sent home, Ally and Chase were at OR. Jack was lying while Ally was preparing to do the exam; Chase was next to her as a supervisor. He could see that she was a bit nervous while doing it.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"First time doing so a bit nervous." She half smiled at him. "What's wrong?" she asked a bit panicked, because the monitor started beeping faster when she injected dye past the takeoff for the optic artery.
"His B.P.'s going up. The procedure's stressing his body." Chase explained quickly coming to massage Jack's carotid.
Ally froze and she didn't notice when Chase started taking over her job and ordered to get a crash cart.
"He's in cardiac arrest." She said to more to herself than to him and muttered under her breath "Fuck."
…
They were at a bus stop, staring at an ad with Taub's face. Foreman was sitting and Ally came to join him still pissed off about what had happened earlier.
"So we finally know what Taub would look like if he were life-size" House said smiling smugly.
"Can we go back to the office now?" Chris asked annoyed.
"You kidding? We got a differential to run." House said hanging his cane on the bus shelter and pulling out a sharpie to start scribbling on the glass. "Cardiac arrhythmia." He said out loud what he wrote.
"That poster got me laid when I got home last night, so do your worst." Taub mutters.
"Both of our patients' cardiac incidents happened after physical stress. I'm guessing vasovagal syncope?" Ally finally spoke up trying to ignore all the unnecessary talk about this ad for some reason it just annoyed her now.
"Buzzkill" House said and went back to writing something on the ad.
"Vasovagal syncope would manifest at a much younger age. Could be drugs." Taub suggested.
"Tox screen was clean." She sighed and laid her head against the glass.
"What about autonomic nervous system dysfunction?" Foreman asked but before he could explain himself Ally jumped out of her place, grabbed the sharpie from House's hand and went back to the hospital after glaring at his for what he did with Taub's ad.
Just when others turn back to look at house after they send confused looks towards Ally, they see the Hitler alike drawing of Taub.
…
Foreman found her coming out of one of clinic rooms.
"You okay?" he asked concerned.
"Fine" she said walking past him.
"Come on" he pushed her to talk.
"It's just that stupid test, if I didn't mess it up…" she explained, but he cut her off.
"It wasn't your fault. It wasn't." he reassured her, when saw that she was about to protest.
"Fine" she gave in and they walked to the cafeteria.
…
She came to the cafeteria to get something to eat, when she saw Taub sitting trying to eat something.
"Hey, mind if I sit?" she asked and when he smiled she sat down and touched his hand. "Chris, what's wrong?" she asked nicely concern in her eyes.
"Nothing. I'm peachy." He said, but when Ally gave him the look he just sighed. "She wants to do it all the time, but it has nothing to do with me. I'm just a piece of meat." He said putting his uneaten sandwich back on the plate.
"Hey, it's not true, she loves you." Girl tried.
"I know and I love her. We've been together for 22 years. I've never loved anybody else. I don't know how to… not be with her." He sounded devastated.
She didn't know what to say, so she just squeezed his hand. Then her cell goes off and she says:
"Foreman found diffuse inflammation in Jack's liver. Looks like autoimmune hepatitis… Starting him on steroids. "When they both get up she stops Taub and says "I'm here if you need me".
He just nods with a little smile on his face and they both leave the cafeteria.
…
After they solved the case, Foreman and Chase decided to go out for a couple of beers. They spotted Ally at the reception and decided to invite her too.
"To another life we saved" Chase said and they clinked their beers.
"So do you really think that Taub's face is the most trustworthy?" Foreman asked.
Chase and Ally just looked at each other then at Foreman and started laughing.
"Will you stop already, it's just an ad. " Ally said smiling.
"Fine" foreman gave in.
"So why do you tell everyone to call you Ally?" Chase asked after a few minutes.
"Cause Dr. Gorgeous would sound a bit weird." She laughed.
"Ally Gorgeous…" Foreman said out loud. "Yeah, sounds interesting" he said a bit mockingly.
"Actually, it's Alice Gorgeous." The girl corrected him and sipped her beer.
"Alice? Why do you ask to call you Ally?" Chase asked.
"Don't know just habit I guess." She said and thought for a minute. "I got tired of being called Alice from the Wonder land so I just started introducing myself as Ally." She explained.
"Who called you that?"
"Friends and some teachers in school even now when I'm a student at university some like to joke around. "She smiled not really being mad at people for doing it.
"You're still a student. How old are you?" Foreman asked.
"Yea, House found me somehow and asked to work for him. So I just talked to the dean and he understood and was happy that I was already spotted by someone and agreed to let me take the equivalency exams so I could work here." She explained. "And I'm 23 at the moment, will be 24 soon." She said and saw how the guys started looking at her a bit weird.
"So how come House hasn't still made fun of you for your last name?" Chase asked changing the subject when he saw how uncomfortable she was under their stares.
"And how did he agree to call you Ally?" Foreman added.
"We made a bet, if he mocks my name he owes me 100 bucks." She said smiling and feeling proud of herself.
The guys smiled too, approving her choice.
"And what about calling you Ally?"
"Every time he calls me Gorgeous he starts laughing so he figured it was easier to call me by my first name and then I just automatically corrected him and he didn't mind calling me Ally, so…" she said and finished her beer.
"We'll gonna help you win this bet."Foreman said.
"Really, how?" Ally asked a bit suspiciously.
"Don't worry, it won't be hard." Chase asked and they smiled knowingly with Foreman.