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Chapter four: Day three...
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Chase walked into his apartment, and tried to turn on the lights. Nothing came on, he couldn't believe this! "What have I done now?" he asked himself as he made his way through the apartment. Chase noticed that the answering machine light was blinking. He walked over to it and pressed the button.
"Hello, this is the electric company, we have cut your electric off as of six- o'clock p.m. It will not be turned back on until you send us your bills, thank-you sir." the message clicked off and Chase put his head in his hands.
"A person, with a bad leg, in a cluttered dark house isn't a good thing." he replied to himself.
He was afraid to move, he thought that if he did then he would end up falling over something or other, crash down onto the ground below, and hurt himself more than what he already was. Just then his phone rang.
"Atleast I still have that." he replied as trying to find his way to the phone. "Hello?" he asked questionally.
"Hi, Chase, this is Cameron, I wondered how you were doing?" she asked.
"I'm doing...," Chase started as he tried to feel his way to the couch, "Ahhhhh!" he screamed while he fell over the same shoe that he had the day before.
"Chase, are you okay?" Cameron asked.
Chase grabbed the phone. He was now sitting near the couch. "Yeah, I'm fine." he replied.
"What happened...?" she asked.
"I fell again." Chase replied embarrasingly while he climbed upon his couch and sat down.
"...And how did you fall this time?" Cameron asked.
"The same shoe that I fell over the other day, and it's really dark again." he replied while trying to see if he could make out anything in the room.
"I hate to ask this again, but, 'Why don't you turn on a light?' " she asked.
"I can't." Chase replied while turning his attention over to the stack of bills that were on the counter.
"Why is that?" she asked.
"My electric has been cut off." he replied.
"Right, well do you need anything?" she asked.
"Nah, I have food in the fridge and a few flash-lights around here somewhere." he replied. "Thanks though."
"No problem, do you need a ride to work tommorrow morning?" she asked.
"Wilson already asked." Chase replied.
"Right, and what about tommorrow evening?" she asked.
"Foreman." he replied.
"Oh, okay, then I guess I'll see you tommorrow, bye." she replied.
"Bye." Chase said while limping to the fridge. He grabbed a box of pizza out of the fridge and walked over to the couch. He was starting to get used to the dark again. "So what am I supposed to do now?" he asked himself. Chase grabbed a flashlight and turned on a radio that he had put batteries in.
"Cold pizza, what a joyful food, it is well, pizza, and it is cold." Chase replied. He was bored, very bored. "So Mr. Chase what have you been up to?" he asked himself in a dark, deep voice. "I have been working, yes I have...," Chase started. "I'm talking to myself now! How stupid can I get?" he asked. Chase sat in the darkness and ate some cold pizza. He walked to his room and went to bed, he only hoped that the next day would not hold too many 'horrors' for him.
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"So, how you doing today?" Wilson asked.
"Well, I'm still living in the dark, I sent my payments off this morning, my leg hurts, but other-than-that, it has been a pretty good morning." Chase replied. Wilson had already heard the story of what he had done, and it sounded like he had a terrible night.
"Well, you ready to go in?" Wilson asked while parking.
Chase nodded, "Thanks."
"Your welcome." Wilson said while the two walked into the hospital.
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"Twelve- o'clock and nothing bad has happened yet." Chase said while getting up from the table at lunch. Yes, he actually had lunch!
"I wouldn't speak so soon." Foreman said.
"Why?" Chase asked.
"Because, um, you got, uh, bubble-gum on your pants." he replied.
Chase turned his head to see a long strand of sticky gum that was already chewed on the back of his pants. "Great, just great!"
"Chase, there's some scrubs in the meeting room, change into them." Foreman hollered at the already walking away Chase. Chase waved his hand indicating that he understood, and continued to walk away.
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"Scrubs, Chase, did you have an accident, or is there an opperation that I have forgotten about?" House asked.
"No, I sat in gum." Chase replied while sitting at the table in the meeting room.
"Well then, are we ready to get this thing started?" House asked.
Chase looked around the room, "Has anything changed in here?" he asked.
"No, why?" Cameron asked.
"No reason, it just, looks different." Chase replied.
"Allright then, now that we have affirmed that this place 'looks different' to Chase, then let's get started." House replied.
"Okay, so have you guys heard of the disease called Mononucleousis?" House asked.
"Yes, it attacks the throat, and stomach...," Chase started.
"Well, now that we have accomplished that you guys know what it is, then you can tell me what we have." House replied.
"A new case?" Cameron asked.
"Percisely, that is exactly what we have." House replied. "Joanne Kirk, claims that her doctor said she has the flu or something like that, and we claim that she has mono, so what do you do about it?" House asked.
"Run tests..., see if she shows up positive or negative to the bacteria." Foreman suggested.
"Good, that's why your not the smart one." House replied. "Anything else?"
"If everyone else did tests, then they may not be nothing wrong with her, maybe it is just the flu." Chase replied.
"That's why your not the smart one too, Cameron?" House asked.
"Do the tests, and some more, like the flu test, the tests that fit the diseases that fit the symptoms." Cameron replied.
"Right." House said.
"So, she's the smart one?" Chase asked.
"No, I'm the smart one. I just wanted you guys to think properly...," House stated. His whole staff gave him quizzicle looks. "...Get to work."
The three arose and went to work, leaving House in the meeting room alone.
House looked up at the clock, "Itdiots, it took them ten complete minutes to figure out who was the 'smart one'." House replied then left to go to his office.
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"So how's your luck today...," Cameron asked while looking at the blood results. "..., I mean besides you sitting in gum."
"Well, everything hasn't been that bad today, my leg has been hurting, but that I can deal with." Chase replied not looking up from the results of the blood that he took.
Just then there was a knock on the door. The three turned their heads when the door open, there stood Cuddy. "Chase, my office, stat." she replied then left.
"Wonder what that is about." Cameron stated while looking over at Chase.
"I don't know, but I hope that it isn't nothing bad." Chase replied while taking off his gloves.
"I don't know with all this 'luck' you've been having lately." Foreman replied.
"Your right, be back soon." Chase replied then left the lab.
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Chase knocked on Cuddy's door. He hoped that this was nothing 'bad', but what could he expect?
"Come in!" Cuddy yelled from inside. Just then, Chase opened the door. There sat House on the couch, and Cuddy on her seat behind her office.
"Dr. Cuddy, Dr. House." Chase nodded while enetering the room after shuting the door.
"Dr. Chase, please sit down." Cuddy nodded toward a seat.
Chase took it, "Dr. House." he nodded.
"Chase." House replied back solemly, with no joke connected to it, or no smile, he simply looked back down at his cane.
"This can't be good...," Chase thought, "I mean, House didn't even call me one of the many names that he likes to do. What in the world is wrong here?"
"I suppose that your wondering why I've called you and Dr. House here, correct?" Cuddy asked while looking at Chase.
"Ye, Ye, Yes Mam." Chase stuttered nervously. House caught this and, glanced over at him. Chase could tell that House was nervous too, he could tell it in his eyes. House looked back down at his cane.
"Well, I have been informed by the hospital, Johnslynn Hospital, that you two have been 'messing up' with the patients that have been sent to them." Cuddy replied.
"What!" House yelled as standing up quickly, and dropping his cane, sending him painfully to the ground with it.
"Dr. House!" Cuddy yelled while helping the panting and jaw-clenching House up. House sat back down and grabbed hold of his leg.
"Are you allright Dr. House?" Chase asked. He knew that it was not a good idea for House to stand up suddenly without warning, then drop his cane in the process.
"Dr. House, if your not okay then we can have this meeting tommorrow, you'll need to go down to the clinic to get your leg checked out anyway...," Cuddy started.
"..., No...," House interrupted. "...,I'll go get it checked out later, right now I want to know what you mean by 'messing up the patients at Johnslynn Hospital'?" House replied while panting. His leg hurt really bad.
"Allright, um they said that when their patients came down here to recieve a second oppinion, that you two was always making assumptions to what could be going on with them...," Cuddy started again.
"Patients such as whom?" House interrpted.
"I am not at liberty to discuss other people's patients to other doctors." Cuddy replied while looking sternly at Dr. House.
"So what your saying is that we're being charged with...," House started.
"No, your not being charged with anything Dr. House." Cuddy replied.
"Well, why are we having this meeting then, hmm?...," House asked. "..., this is a total and complete waste of time, you know me Dr. Cuddy, you know that I don't mess around with patients." House stated while raising his voice.
"House is right, if your not going to tell us what is really going on here, then this is a complete waste of time." Chase agreed.
"Allright, you two are being laid off for a couple of days." Cuddy replied.
"What?" House yelled again.
"Exactly what I said House, now if you could please keep your voice down." Cuddy replied.
"What do you mean for a 'couple of days'?" Chase asked silently.
"You two can return to work tommorrow afternoon for the evening shift, then return to your normal shift on Friday." Cuddy replied.
"Why?" House asked, "I mean, we have done nothing wrong except for treating a patient when they were ill, so does that go against the law some how?"
"What I'm giving you is better than what the board wanted to give you two, You can either be fired and go to court, or laid off for a afternoon, and morning, what's your choice?" Cuddy asked.
"Well, you have a choice Cuddy, what are you going to do with my staff?" House asked,.
"Well, I'm glad that you chose that choice Dr. House, I'll be using your staff as my own for the next few days, they'll be working on whatever I assign them." Cuddy replied.
House arose to leave followed by Chase, until Cuddy stopped House. "House...,"
"What?" House asked not turning around.
"Go to the clinic before you leave." she replied while House and Chase left her office.
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"You should be fine Dr. House." Foreman replied.
"I knew that, but stupid Cuddy just doesn't know that." House replied.
Foreman had checked House's leg in the meeting hall so he could be filled in with what was going on.
"So you mean, you guys can't come back to work until tommorrow afternoon?" Cameron asked.
"Yeah, won't that be wonderful for you?" House asked while limping to his office, the three following him.
"So, what are we doing until Friday morning?" Foreman asked.
"W.U.I.C." House replied.
"W.U.I.C.?" Foreman asked.
"Working under the influence of Cuddy." House replied while grabbing some files out of his cabinet.
"What are you doing?" Cameron asked while helping House with the files.
"I need something to do, and these need to be done." House replied while walking out of his office, the three still following.
Chase had grabbed the stuff that he needed and already took it to Foreman's car.
"So, I guess I'll see you Friday morning." Cameron replied while putting the files in House's car.
"I guess so." House replied while getting in his car and driving away.
"Sometimes he so..., idiotic." Cameron whispered while walking back to House's office to sort his mail.
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"So what has brought this penalty upon you?" Foreman asked.
"They said we've been messing up their patients." Chase replied while getting out of Foreman's car.
"So you need a ride tomorrow?" Foreman asked.
"Yeah, I'll need to be there by the time you leave." Chase replied while grabbing his stuff. "Bye."
"See-ya." Foreman replied then left.
Chase approached his apartment and went inside, he flipped his light's on and dropped his stuff to the floor. Chase walked over to the couch and laid down. "I can't believe what a week this has been, and it's only Wednesday!" he exclaimed.
To be continued...
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What else will befall the Aussie? Find out in the next chapter of Princeton, Plainsboro's Unfortunate Events.
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