I pretty much emptied my brain onto my laptop last night... This is one of the byproducts. Let me know what you think!

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Chapter 13: There's a New Sherriff in Town (Part I)

Recap: He and Mikenna made their way up to his office. Mikenna knew that this guy was going to be far from boring.

The elevator ride up to House's office was one filled with silence. He and Mikenna looked everywhere, but at each other, wanting to avoid the awkwardness that surrounded them both. House was silently trying to figure out how to address his newest employee… if that's what you wanted to call her. He knew he'd have to keep a tight reign on this chick or she'd go absolutely haywire and he'd be the one getting blamed for everything. He had to reiterate to her that he was alpha one, the man in charge and someone not to be toyed with. Mikenna knew that the grumpy doctor to her left was having a field day with his thoughts and waited for him to make his attempt at gaining control. She was ready for him; she was ready to shut him down again. As the doors opened, and Mikenna stepped of the lift before House, he finally addressed her.

"Before you go and meet my team and get started with all of this crap, there are a couple of things we need to go over. First off, I'm the boss. I know it probably seems to you that Cuddy is the one wearing the pants at this hospital, but it's actually me. If I want something, there's pretty much nothing that anyone can do to stop me. Even her; I can talk Dr. Cuddy into just about anything. That being said, just know that I'm not going to put up with your crap. Act like a grown-up and I won't have to murder your teddy bear or convince Cuddy to get rid of you. Also, stay out of my way. If you want to learn something, go bother my lackeys. They would be more than happy to help you out kid, especially Cameron. Her heart bleeds for the world. We clear?"

Mikenna turned on her heels with a small smile on her face. She was glad to know that men were just as predictable as teenage boys. She gave him a look of amused surprise before addressing him.

--"Dr. House, aside from my thinking that you're just as predictable as any other man on the planet, you've also just proven to me that you're a complete idiot. This comes as a bit of a shock to me, since I've heard so much about how smart you were. I guess you really can't believe everything you hear, huh? In regards to you being the boss of this hospital? Yeah right. I'm a nineteen-year-old girl who just graduated from college and has to take a break before getting into med school because the world isn't ready to embrace a doctor at such a young age. I'm pretty sure that with your track record and what I've already discovered about you in the cafeteria, that Dr. Cuddy would be more than willing to put up a fight for me."

House was about to cut her off and argue her reasoning, but she prevented him from doing so and continued with her rant. She wanted to get him good and annoyed before he could respond.

--"As for my teenage behavior that you're so anxious to tone down or shove into the faces of your fellows, know that I actually don't behave the way I did in the cafeteria. Consider that an experiment of sorts, Dr. House. I wanted to gain some information about you; I can read about your medical and professional accomplishments all over the internet, but I can't learn about who you are as a person… not effectively, so I tested the waters. My little scene downstairs gave me a little bit of insight about the kind of person you really are. I could tell by the looks on the faces of your peers that you're not well-liked. It seems, however, that you have managed to snag one friend on the staff, Dr. Wilson, who likes you enough to sit with you and buy your lunches. You, however, either don't value his friendship or you're nothing short of a cantankerous ba$tard who likes to toy with people… you mocked his friendship and you kept putting salt in his drink. Props to you, by the way, for not getting caught. I'm not saying that you should rest easy, since I don't really behave like I did downstairs, but that should be one of your lesser worries."

"How did you know that Wilson buys my lunches? You couldn't have possibly been watching me; I would've noticed it…"

--"I'm so glad you asked. There are quite a few things that I already know about you Dr. House, things that you might not want to be reminded of, things that you might not want your team to know about. For example, I know that several months ago, you got into a legal thing with a cop for leaving a rectal thermometer… in. I know that you had an affair with a married woman. I know that you cathed yourself because you were unable to urinate… perhaps something to do with your vicodin addiction? If I were you, Dr. House, I wouldn't toy with me too much. I have connections at this hospital and I'm not afraid to use them to humiliate you. On that note, I will be asking you for information when I want it (instead of your team) and I'll follow you around as much as I damn well please."

As Mikenna concluded her rant, she turned back around and made her way to House's office, almost knowing where it was located. House stayed back and stood there in shock, trying to process everything that she had just said. He was a little disconcerted with the fact that she knew things about him, things that proved that she did have connections on the staff as she so described. He was frustrated, really frustrated. He didn't know how she knew all of these things and he didn't know how he'd be able to keep her in-check. He didn't like feeling out of control like this and she was to blame for everything.

"Who the hell are you? Do you work for the government? I swear that Foreman's a legal citizen, he never does anything demeaning at work… However, I think we're still paying him 15 percent less than my Caucasian employees. Is that a violation?"

Mikenna, who was reaching for the door to House's office, turned to him and smiled wildly. She knew that she'd gotten under his skin with her little speech and she was still in control of the situation. It was going to be a good day for her; she'd meet the team, listen to the DDX and then head downstairs to Geriatrics to shadow Dr. Moore for the rest of the afternoon. She was sure she could have House at a nine on the frustration scale by then.

House on the other hand, being at the receiving end of Mikenna's wide grin, was tormented with a new set of thoughts. Her smile seemed familiar to him in some way… like he'd seen it before. He was viciously imploring his thoughts for any memory of ever meeting her, or running into her on the street somewhere, or seeing her in the clinic before. Nothing. It was just one more thing that had House frustrated. He gave up for the time being and entered his office behind Mikenna. He decided to get the whole introduction part over with and get straight to the DDX.

"This is black one, Australian one, and the one with the bleeding heart. Team, this is crazy, teenage, smartypants."

--"Mikenna Falke, it's a pleasure to meet you Doctor Forman, Chase, Cameron. I'll be here every morning for roughly the next year, shadowing Dr. House."

"Yeah, yeah, we get it; you're professional. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to get to the reason why we're here. We still need to figure out which porn site I need to subscribe to. So far, we've narrowed it down to Jugluvs, Hothead, or BigLove. Now I was thinking…"

Cameron cut him off and got to the real reason why they were there: the medicine.

"Patient admitted with nausea, diarrhea, fatigue, and mental disorientation… She was driving to work this morning when her disorientation caused her to have a major car accident. EMT's thought she needed to be checked out by us…"

Cameron's voice seemed to fade out of the attention of the men in the room as Mikenna loudly and slowly unwrapped a lollipop that she had received from the nurses station in the clinic. Glancing very quickly and slyly to her right, she made sure she had House's attention. Once assured she did, she began slowly allotting long and playful licks to the candy treat and sucking on it slowly. She knew that she had every male in that room drooling over themselves, especially House, which is why she put the lollipop back in her mouth as far as it would go and slowly sucked on it and pulled it back out of her mouth again. She thought to herself: sexual frustration, check.

Chase was the first to jump back in to the diagnostic process that was the DDX and try to put the amazing things the teenage girl was doing with her mouth aside.

"Could be environmental, maybe she just ate something weird… Maybe she hasn't been eating at all. These are all symptoms of someone with a possible eating disorder. We should check her house to see if there's evidence that she's either not eating or somehow demonstrating some kind of eating disorder."

Cameron nodded her head in agreeance with her co-worker, agreeing that an eating disorder very well may be the cause of their patient's illness. That is, until Mikenna chimed in…

--"Forgive me if jumping in makes me seen presumptuous, but how is the patient's immunoglobulin-G level?"

Cameron was taken a little aback by how smart this young girl actually was. It didn't take her long to snap back into it and respond to the surprisingly intelligent new intern.

"A little elevated, are you thinking autoimmune?"

--"Yeah, I mean, it makes sense. She's showing signs of liver failure. If it's not too late or too risky, I think you should do a biopsy; she might have autoimmune hepatitis. Maybe even primary sclerosing cholangitis, although I don't think she's showing symptoms severe enough for that… at least not yet, anyway."

Cameron looked over at House to see which approach he wanted his team to take in trying to find a diagnosis.

"Forman, do the biopsy. Cameron, search the home. Chase, go fix your hair; it's starting to fall flat and you're just embarrassing yourself. Oh, after you're done doing that, I want you to go check out the car the patient totaled this morning… see if there's anything in there that points to environmental or autoimmune. You know, like vomit or condoms."

House then turned to Mikenna with a small smirk on his face. She frustrated him to no end, mentally and now sexually (much to his own surprise), but she was smart. She seemed to be able to keep up with his team fairly well and that was a definite plus in his book. Maybe, he'd keep her around after all… that is, if she didn't drive him crazy first.

A/N: Hope this one got you chuckling... Are we all still liking Mikenna?

----------I'll probably post part 2 early tomorrow. :)