Chapter 4

So I was sick and lost my USB (several times) and had to run away from the spiders that Gregslabrat conjured to battle my snakes, so yeah … here is the newest chapter. We combined them sooner then I thought we were going to. Please enjoy the chappie and please review. Also ... I have been in college since Chappie 2, and GregsLabrat is going to college soon (YAY! *GregsLabrat*), so updates may be few and far between for awhile. BTW the only people we own in this story are Mira, Celia, Freya, and Aden. Everyone else is owned by other more wealthy people.

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Harry arrived in the entrance to St. Mungo's with his entire entourage; there was an immediate uproar from the Muggle detection charms. Harry grimaced as his head started pounding more as he flicked his wand and the charms were silenced. Harry looked at House as Mira came sprinting out of her office. Harry opened his mouth to ask for Ginny when Mira did a double take before shouting, "HOUSE!!! WHY IN MERLINS DIRTY LAUNDRY ARE YOU HERE?"

House looked at his former boss, saying, "Well, Mira, it's pretty obvious that this fine gent here brought me back."

Mira looked stunned at a sheepish looking Harry. When Mira glared at Harry, he shrugged, saying, "I was doing a favor for Ginny."

As Mira walked back to her office, she was holding her head in her hands, muttering about how young healers never learn. Before anybody could say anything, a different type of shout was heard, one that was full of happiness. "HOUSE!!"

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Meanwhile

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Ginny was pouring over the latest case, the one that they had been arguing over when she had begged Harry to find House. Sighing heavily, Ginny set down the case while looking at her team. Celia was chewing on a stale sandwich that had been sitting by her for the pass three hours while she made notes on all possible illnesses that could even minutely reacted violently with each other. Freya was standing by the coffee pot, begging it to brew coffee faster and Aden was snoring over his copies of the last case. Ginny sighed, pulled her wand out of her arm guard, shot green sparks at Aden (which knocked him over) and laughed with the other women as he squealed and fell flat on his back. As his chair hit the floor, the Muggle sensor charms started blaring. A manic gleam appeared in Ginny's eyes, which peaked Celia's interest.

Celia put down her sandwich, looked expectantly at Ginny who nodded slightly. Her gleam growing, Freya turned around to see Aden rubbing the back of his neck and the other women having a silent conversation. Ginny jumped up and ran from the room with her team scrambling to follow her. Ginny's hope and desperation rising with every hurried step. The other healers and employees of St. Mungo's looked scared and slightly depressed; they all thought another Muggle case had come in, over three fourths of the deaths had been from Muggles. With every step, Ginny's hopes kept rising and rising. She had hoped her gut instinct was right. She quickly rounded the corner and came to a quick stop. She was right. Standing on the other end of the hall with Harry and some other doctors was Dr. House, dressed in his normal Muggle clothes and leaning against a cane. "HOUSE!" she shouted happily.

House looked up at the sound of his name and saw the ever familiar Ginger running towards him. Unfortunately, he knew what was going to happen next, and as much as he wanted to avoid it, there was no way he could limp out of the way in time. As she got closer and closer, he muttered an "Uh-oh" and clenched his eyes shut. Wilson, Chase and Cameron, in unison, took a step backwards so as not to be bowled over.

Suddenly, he felt Ginger glomp on him, wrapping her arms around him, trapping him and not letting him go. "You came back!" she cried with joy.

"I didn't have much of a choice when he turned up drunk and bascially blurted it out." muttered House. Ginny chose not to hear it.

House rolled his eyes as Cameron, Chase and Wilson stood behind him withholding laughter. If only his cane hand was free he could whack his cane against the Wombat's head. Finally, Ginger let him go and turned to Harry, hugging him and kissing him on the cheek. "Thank you so much, Harry!"

The happy moment was interrupted by Mira, who shouted in an angry voice, "Sorry to ruin this happy moment but Ginerva ... House, could you two step into my office?"

Ginny followed Mira in, but House hesitated. Before he walked in, House stated in a loud, joking tone, "Excuse me, my mistress is waiting."

Chase and Cameron started to laugh as House walked in and closed the door behind him. Mira was not at all happy with his outburst. House limped into the office and stood behind the two seats while Ginny sat in one of the open seats. As Mira sat down, she flicked her wand, locking the door and shutting the blinds. Once they were in complete solitude, she shouted, "Ginerva, what were you thinking?!"

"Well…you see…there have been several cases coming in and they are all connected, effecting Muggles and Magic Folk alike. I haven't been able to figure it out! I called in Dr. House because I knew he could help," explained Ginny.

"I don't care if he is the only one that can figure this out. The Minister banished him from London. If he so much as sees House in the building or anywhere in London, this hospital, yourself and anyone else that knows he is here is in big trouble."

"You do know I'm in the room?" piped up House.

Mira turned her glare over to House. "House, you knew you weren't allowed to come back here."

"Yes, but you see, it was either come here or do the horrible, tortuous clinic hours I owe back in Jersey."

Mira turned her head to the side and looked at House in confusion. After all, there were no such things as clinic hours in St. Mungo's Hospital. "Anyway, I'm here to help. Apparently there has been some widespread disease across both worlds and you idiots haven't been able to figure it out yet. I can."

"What makes you think you can?" asked Mira.

"I'm the leading doctor in America. Me and my team solve the cases that no one else can solve. I'm a celebrity."

"Celebrity or not, your medical license here in London has been revoked by Fudge himself."

"Fudgsicle wouldn't know how to revoke a license even if he had "How to Revoke a Medical Liscense For Dummies" (instructions for idiots) on his desk." Ginny turned her laugh into a cough at the glare from Mira.

"Still, the only way you can so much as perform one test is to go talk to him."

"Great, I'll head over and work on that now."

House turned to limp away when Mira jumped up and blocked House from walking out the door. "What do you expect to say to him the moment you step foot in his office at the Ministry?"

"Hi Fudgsicle. It's me; the doctor who knew how to treat your son but you let your son die instead because you're a big fat idiot. I'm here to get your permission for working on some cases over at St. Mungo's and if you refuse, then you're going to let even more people die because you're a big fat idiot…or something like that."

"The moment he sees you, you're going to be arrested and thrown in Azkaban."

"Oh, I'm scared. Please hold me!" House sarcastically whimpered.

Mira rolled her eyes. House couldn't help but notice how much Mira looked like Cuddy when she did that. Pulling himself out of that particular fantasy, he heard Mira state, "As much as I want you to work on this case, I can't. If you want to talk to Fudge, the only way to do that to save your ass is to sneak in and kidnap him."

"Then I'll do that."

House pushed past Mira and out the door. Once he was out, he saw Cameron, Chase, Wilson and Harry standing around waiting for him. "What's going on?" asked Wilson.

"Harry, can you take us to Fudge's office in the Ministry?"

"Yeah, why?"

Before House could say anything, Ginny ran in front of him and pleaded, "House, don't talk to Fudge. Let Harry do it."

"But that would take away all the fun. Come on, let's go."

As they group walked away, Ginny stopped House once more and stated, "I'm going with you."

"Wouldn't recognize you if you didn't. Let's go."

And with that, they walked through the doors, ignoring Mira's shouts for them to wait until tomorrow. Harry, Ginny and House looked at the three muggles that were tagging along. "Please keep all hands and legs inside the apparition at all times. Thank you." Harry held out his hands and once again they formed a ring, Harry apperated them to the Ministry of Magic.

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Harry swallowed as the ragtag group he had become a part of appeared in the ministry lobby. Of course, the muggle alarms went off again. Harry sighed as he saw 15 Aurors running their way. "Stop!" he yelled holding up his ID card which showed the Head Auror emblem, he was the youngest person other then Alaster Moody to get it before the age of 25.

The Aurors stopped dead in their tracks and started studying the group behind their leader. The muggles stood out like sore thumbs. They were in healer outfits and looked like they wanted to hurl. The three wizards just calmly standing there looking amused. "Sir, What brings you in on your day off?" asked Harry's 1st officer, named Tiberius R. Picard.

"This bunch wants a word with Minister Fudge. They are Doctor's from overseas who know Ginny. They heard about the pandemic and they want to help."

Tiberius looked skeptical, but gave the go ahead when his boss gave him the "Don't-Mess-With-Me-Look". Harry thanked Tiberius, and lead the group into the maze that is the ministry. Harry nodded at his Aurors whenever he passed them. They nodded back and let them pass. The group reached the minister's office in a relatively short amount of time. Before He knocked harry turned to the group saying "Before you come in let me announce your name Please!"

House looked affronted but sighed and nodded. Harry knocked and opened the door. "Ah, Harry! What do I owe the visit?"

Harry repeated what he told Tiberius and Fudge asked to meet the visiting doctors. Harry swallowed "The Visiting Doctors are Dr. Robert Chase from Australia. Dr. Alice Cameron from America, Dr. James Wilson also from America, and Dr. Gregory House."

Fudge shook their hand one by one as they came in, when it came to House, Fudge paled and started shaking in rage. House smirked saying " 'Ello Govena!"

Everyone but House and Fudge smacked their heads. Fudge glowered "I could have you sent to Azkaban! You were exiled!"

Cameron and Chase looked at their boss in shock. House frowned before stating "Because you were an idiot who let his son die of a blood clot!!!"

Fudge was now cherry red. "We wizards are NOT MUGGLES!! We DO NOT get muggle DISEASES!!"

Cameron and Chase were following the argument like a tennis match. Houses' frown deepened "Oh, so sorry. That's why this epidemic is affecting both muggles and wizards. My mistake, WE can't be at all atomically related!"

Fudge looked like he wanted to say more instead he stumbled back to his desk and chugged some of the water in his cup. Only Wilson noticed the manic gleam in his friends' eye. "Careful!" House shouted, causing everyone but Wilson to jump. "It's in the water!"

The next few moments were comical. Fudge looked down at the cup that was in his still shaking hand, looked at the group of Doctors who were all nodding, back at his cup and then fell in a dead faint. Chase looked at House. "Is it really in the water?"

Shrugging House said "How the hell should I know."

Ruckus laughter erupted around the room. Ginny wiped a tear from her eye as she said "He's a dolt anyway. He's insistent on the fact that since we have magic we are in no way like muggles. His son died because he wouldn't approve a simple angiogram."

Ginny ranted on that thread for a few more moments in the process making everyone in the room wide-eyed with their mouths on the floor. She called into question his parentage, his intelligence, his ancestry, the fact that his mother must have slept with dung-bombs and dragons. Harry's laughter cut her off in the middle of referencing that Fudge came out of a toilet fully formed and ready to screw people over.

"Ginny, do you still remember the signature copying spell?" asked Harry.

Wilson was scared to see a manic gleam enter not one but two sets of eyes. "Yes. I do. What are you scheming?"

Harry walked around Fudge, taking great care to tread on him; Harry sat down at Fudge's desk and scribbled something on a piece of Ministry of Magic stationary, signed it with Fudge's full name, then Harry handed the parchment to Ginny. Ginny looked it over, grinning from ear to ear, waved her wand; making the whole document Fudge's handwriting, handed it back to Harry who put at the very bottom "Witnessed by Harold James Potter Head Auror on this day the 31st of March in the year 2005 in the presence of the Minster his cabinet, and Mr. Tiberius Picard 2nd in command of the Aurors."

Harry then copied the document for every member involved. All the cabinet members had ties to either the Auror division or St. Mungo's, Harry also made a copy for the daily prophet. Wizarding England would be shocked to know that their most controversial healer was back and practicing. Harry nodded to the room and they all left, each of them kicking Fudge before leaving. "Well that went easier then expected," said House as they went back down the elevator to leave.

When they got back to the lobby, Tiberius walked up to them to escort them out (mostly to make sure the muggles didn't get lost). Harry moved so as to be next to his number 1, and slipped Tiberius' copy of the pardon that had been drawn up and then continued on his way and left the ministry with the rest of the group, hearing gales of laughter from his number 1. When they arrived back in St. Mungo's, House snatched a copy of the pardon and barged into Mira's office, the rag tag group following. Those around Mira's office held their breathe.

When Mira saw the look on House's face, she began to worry. "Whenver you have that look on your face, nothing good ever comes of it."

"Well, that changes for today. Ol' Fudgesicle has allowed me to come back and help."

Mira's jaw dropped to the floor. She was the only one in the room that found this news shocking. "B...but...h...how...?"

"Oh, a little of this, a little of that. It is amazing what a bit of guilt can do to a guy, right Henry?"

"It's Harry," replied Harry with a smile.

"Same difference. Now then, if someone would be so kind as to show me back to my differential room...and by someone I mean you, Ginger...and if someone would be so nice as to get m..e a cup of coffee...and by someone, I of course mean you, Wombat...then I think everything will be back to normal. Ah, aren't you so happy to see me back?" replied House.

Mira face-palmed her forehead as House limped away with Ginny in the front and the others close behind. Everyone poked their heads out of the doors to see if it was true that Healer House was back, and they soon found out the rumors were true. House was back in business.

TBC...

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