Well we never did get the guy to confess but turns out we didn't need to. The pills had nothing to do with him passing out. The guy had Meniere's disease. Fluid was built up in his inner ear. This caused severe vertigo causing him to pass out. Of course House had to figure this out after we drilled the guy about drugs for three days straight. Oh well, we had our answer and that was all House cared about.

I sat down to lunch alone, fully expecting to stay that way when suddenly I see House limping over to my table.

"Mind if I join you?" he asked while sliding into the booth across from me.

"I guess not." I chuckled. "Won't Wilson be lonely?"

"He had a lunch date already so you get me all to yourself."

"Ok…but why? Why would you choose to hang out with me when you could just as easily go back to your office and hang out by yourself?"

"One, I'm hungry. Two, you interest me."

"Why's that?"

"You hid pain. Only reason someone would do that is that they feel like they need to be strong. I saw the tears building up; any normal person would've been screaming their head off by that point. Why weren't you?"

"Same reason you don't scream your head off every time your leg starts to hurt. You're used to the pain. You've built up a tolerance. When it gets really bad you just grin and bear it so no one has to see what you're going through."

"Hmm." House was apparently satisfied with my answer and went back to eating his lunch. The discussion of pain would come back to haunt us later on.

A/N: Sorry it took so long to update guys! Wrote this chapter on my iPod on an airplane to Montreal and never got around to retyping and posting it. Hopefully this chapter makes up for the long wait. Please read, review, and share with your friends!