Play House XXV
By PaBurke
Spoilers: All of Pretender, Season 2 of House (that's all that's on DVD.)
Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine and no money is being made.
Distribution: The Nook
Rating: PG for language and sexual insinuation
Word Count: 300
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Jarod Senior sat his bags down and gazed around the apartment fondly.
"Anything you left behind would be on the floor, not the ceiling," House sniped.
Senior only shrugged. "This is the longest I've stayed in one place since... I'll miss it."
"The longest?" House hated change. He still had the guitar he'd been given at the age of eight and he preferred it to his new one. He hated moving even more.
"They believe we belong to them," Junior said.
House paid attention. "They're coming here?"
"Six hours," Senior replied. "We'll be well over the Atlantic before they land."
"Isn't that cutting it close?"
Junior smirked at the chink in his armor. "Worried?"
"Yeah, that they'll take me as a consolation prize."
"You're too old," Junior teased.
Senior, at least, thought about it. "He does have the right blood type and they could find uses for his sperm."
"They'd send a prostitute to obtain that," Junior countered.
Senior nodded. "That would be the easiest. They'd have to set off a bomb in the hospital to keep Cuddy from kicking up a fuss if he disappeared."
It scared House how calm the two were seriously discussing the probable actions of their kidnappers. "I'm safe?"
Junior shrugged. "As long as you don't change jobs; they'd nab you in transit. We'd prefer if you abstained from prostitutes for a while. We don't want to have to rescue a test-tube cousin."
"Is that what you are?" House finally asked the question he's been dying to know. "Emily? Ethan?"
"Emily's all-natural," Senior answered.
House heard what they did not say. He grinned. "My family could be more interesting than any on General Hospital."
"Just don't sleep with Miss Parker," said Junior.
"We don't want the family tree to get any more interesting," Senior finished.
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