Disclaimer: I do NOT own House MD, any of its cast mates or plot or whatever...this is for pure joy and bordness of me...
Summary: When House sent Chase to do his Clinic Duty, something unexpected happened. can the team get through it? will House blame himself? and what will be to Chase? lots of drama and characters interaction. aiming for House/Chase
A/N: this is my first House MD fanfic, so be easy on me :) reviews are the highlight! nods
Changes - chap1
"So, what now?" she asked slightly agitated, her eyes trying to hide the fear, but to no avail.
"We wait" House said, trying to seem nonchalant, but not succeeding. It would be un-human, even for him, to not be a bit worried at a time like this.
Some time earlier
Three figures were sitting inside the messy yet cleaned office. With a quick glance you'd think those people sitting around the big glass table were working on a new case, but if you dedicated another look, you'd see that they were actually each in its own separate thing, with no case at all, just trying to pass the day, which so far did not involve any mysterious cases that needed to be solved.
One of the figures, the smallest of the three was sitting by the small desk in the side, busying herself with the computer.
Another figure was sitting by the big glass desk, apparently doing nothing, but with a closer glance you'd see his eyes were closed, and he was actually sleeping. Or at least, trying to sleep.
And last but not least, another one, sitting by the glass desk, preoccupied with his paper, a pencil in between his teeth, a small furrow on his forehead, conveying his tries to figure out some word in his cross-word puzzle.
All three figures were oblivious to the people that would pass through them on the outside that sneaked a peak sometimes, to see what they were up to. But they weren't bothered. Though, as much as doing nothing appealed to the tired doctors, it soon became highly boring.
Their bordness however would soon be over, seeing that a limping figure just entered the office. His loud entrance startled them, and they looked at the new-comer, first, annoyed, then expectantly, perhaps a new case has finally arrived?
But they shouldn't have gotten their hopes up….
"What?" House barked at them, visibly annoyed, or in pain. Or both, who could really know for sure?
"No cases? At all?" foreman asked desperately. He was bored out of his mind. Cameron and Chase always found a way to occupy themselves, but he didn't have the luxury.
"Do I look like a carrier of interesting news?" House retorted annoyed himself. Even he was starting to get bored, and he had all sort of stuff to make sure that wouldn't happen.
"You don't look any different than usual" Chase said, returning his gaze back to his cross-word.
House shot him a look, trying to understand what that meant, but to no avail. Not that he'd let that show of course. He just limped into his own privet office. It did curious him, he'd admit, the nerve Chase seemed to have gained over the past few weeks. Maybe it was the lack of daddy-issues-pressure, maybe the fact he solved two cases by his own and maybe it was something entirely different. Which only made House more curious as to why. What made Chase so…confident?
House would have thought about it more if Cameron hadn't shown up in front of him. Almost making him jump up from his seat at the sound of her voice, he was preoccupied in his thoughts about Chase that he didn't even hear her coming in.
"Wha-what?" he stammered
"I said" she emphasized, clearly annoyed he wasn't paying her attention, "how come there are no cases?" she finished looking at him determined
"Well, I am so sorry there are no sick people. Geez! And I thought you were the caring one out of us" he said getting up, knowing what he said wouldn't bother her, not this new Cameron. Lately it seems, Cameron disregards him more, a lot more than when she first came in. in a way, he liked it. Finally, not that sad little woman that cared too much. But in a way, her disregard would sometimes be over done.
It's like she can't get it right, she does too much, on each sides. No balance.
He walked pass her and inside the office with his two other minions, Cameron hot on his heels. Expectantly.
"Cameron here wants a case" he said nodding his head at her direction"
"I didn't-" she started but was cut off by House
"There IS a solution you know" House said mysteriously,
"Oh?" Foreman said, hopeful
"Uh-huh"
"Care to share the details?" Foreman said, trying to maintain his rising anger and frustrating. House could be worse than a 6 year old kid sometimes.
Most of the times.
"We want a case. All we need to do is find a case" House said as if that explained everything. Foreman and Cameron were looking at him, hoping that he'd just tell them and cut the crap, but Chase was still occupied with his cross-word, seemingly uninterested in House play.
"Aren't you interested at this, at all?" House said, half accusing, half amused by Chase behavior.
Chase looked up when he realized House was talking to him he said, "of course I am. I'm just not so interested in your little foreplay, so I decided to wait till you get to the actual news and THEN join in"
"Very well then. We just need someone to find the case. And I pick Chase!" with that statement House got Chase's full attention, "what better place to find patients rather than the clinic? Off you go to Clinic Duty" House said grinning as Chase seemed annoyed by this "what? You said you wanted something interesting! What's more interesting, and NOBLE, than helping sick people?"
Chase just gave him a look of 'come-on' and said, "Noble? Since when do you care about noble actions?"
"I don't. You on the other hand, all about helping others aren't we? Well, go!" House said, and Chase just shrugged and left the room.
Little did they know how noble it was going to get.