AN: Sorry for the long wait. Life and all that jazz. Thanks for the reviews.

"House, we need to talk." Cuddy walked over to the man in the clinic.

"You told me you were on the pill." He exclaimed.

Cuddy just rolled her eyes and dragged him to an empty room. "What's going on with Chase?"

"Why you jealous?" He leered.

"I'm serious. He hasn't shown up for his clinic hours. He's constantly sniping at the nurses. I've had three complaints about him from patients. It's like he's turning into you."

"Oh good. The mini me plan is working."

"Cameron and Foreman have both come to me about this also. They see him constantly popping pills. He seems to have given up shaving. No one has seen him eat. Actually unless he has to be with a patient, no one can find him."

"The man was brutally attacked. Maybe he doesn't liked being around people. Of course his personality is going to change a little. If it didn't I'd be worried. He's seeing someone correct?" Cuddy nodded. "Then let him be. Or get Wilson to talk to him. He's good at that crap." House turned to walk out of the room.

"I did. Chase took a swing at him."

House spun back around. "Did he connect?"

"No. Wilson dodged. He's worried too. I mean when did Chase ever resort to physical violence?"

"Never. He doesn't even stick up for himself."

"House, I know you care for him for whatever reason. I'm worried about him. We all are."

"Fine, fine." House waved her off and continued out of the room.

As much as he wanted to, House couldn't ignore Cuddy's comments. As he made his way back to the conference room, he was surprised to hear yelling. Even more surprising was the fact that it was an Australian accent that was yelling. He stopped a few steps away to listen closer.

"Stop caring so much. It's clouding your judgment. Who the hell cares what she thinks? We're the doctors. It's the symptoms that are going to tell us what's wrong. Not the girls past three boyfriends."

"What's gotten into you man? You got to calm down."

"Who died and made you boss? Just because you're black and older you think we all have to lie down and listen to you. I didn't bring your ancestors to this country. I don't owe you anything, least of all respect."

House watched as Chase opened the door and stormed out of the conference room. He caught Foreman's and Cameron's eye before he looked directly at the young man heading in his direction.

"What do you want? Decided it was time to play doctor now?" Chase lit into him.

"That's enough Dr. Chase. Come with me." House realized he had to figure this out.

"I don't have to go any where with you. You're just an egotistical, self righteous, pill addicted, abusive, crippled bastard." To prove his point he kicked House's cane out from under him.

Loosing his balance, House grabbed the closest thing to him in order to keep himself steady. Unfortunately the closest thing happened to be Chase.

"Get you're hands off of me." Chase pushed House off of him, turned, and walked away.

House, already off balance, fell back to the wall, banging his head before falling to the floor. Wilson, Cuddy, Foreman, and Cameron all rushed over.

"You okay?" Wilson asked as he and Foreman helped House up.

"Just a headache."

"I'll go after him."

"No, let him cool off first." House told Cameron.

The five of them made their way to the conference room. Cameron detoured to the fridge to take out an ice pack. She handed it to House, who was standing by his white board.

"Okay. 27 year old male. Sudden aggression and hostility." She started to write. "Differential diagnosis."

"You want us to diagnose Chase?" Foreman asked.

"Would you not agree that there's something wrong with him?" Wilson added. "So what can cause that dramatic of a change in a persons personality?"

"A traumatic experience?" Cameron guessed. House wrote it down.

"Drug use?" Foreman added.

"I expected that from you." House commented as he wrote that down too.

"Change in sleeping and or eating patterns." Cuddy commented.

"Has anyone seen him eat recently?" Wilson asked.

"We barely see him." Foreman answered.

"Hiding." House wrote that on the board also. He then stood back and looked at the board for a moment. "Cameron, Foreman, ask around. See if anyone else noticed off behaviors in Chase. Start with the ICU nurses. They're the biggest gossips in the hospital. Wilson, look though his locker. Cuddy, can you call the shrink he's seeing. See what you can get from them."

"And what are you going to do?" Cuddy asked,

"Update my will in case Chase kills me for confronting him tonight." House turned and walked into his office.