Disclaimer: I do not own House.
Author's Note: Thank you so much for reading and reviewing the first chapter. Hehe sorry about some of the mistakes, I'll try to do my best to proofread. Also if my updates are too frequent its because I'm on tennis and have practice a lot and I also have AP Bio coming up in two weeks and I really need to read the chapters and take notes and all. Hopefully, during the school year I won't be as busy and will have more time to write. I hope you will all be patient and not stop reading my story because I can't update that often right now. D Well, one with Chapter 2. Oh yeah and thanks for pointing out the name differences for the patient.. I would have never noticed that! Lol.
Chapter 2-
"Dr. House," Cuddy addressed him sharply, "How can you possibly be helping these people if you're talking to them with headphones playing in one ear and your eyes on your Gameboy? Don't make me take it away." Her hands were now on her hips and House could tell she was serious.
"You just love to ruin other people's fun, don't you?" He said and then reluctantly turned off his headphones which were currently playing Coldplay.
"And the Gameboy," She stared down at him.
"Let me at least save it first! I just made it to level 59!"
She shook her head, muttered something about House being useless, and then hurried off to catch someone she needed to speak to who she saw pass past them in the hallway.
House clicked the play button on his headphones again and continued playing his game. The patient who sat across the room looked at House with a very confused look on her face.
"Excuse me… sir…"
"Oh, right, patients. Yes, that's why I'm here. Okay, so tell me what's wrong?"
She gave him a weird look and got up and left.
House got up and left as well; something was on his mind and he needed to find out something before the problem could go away.
Meanwhile, Cameron was sitting at the desk in House's office looking at the file with Mr. Falli's family history. As it turns out, Chase was right; Mr. Falli had the most unbelievably perfect family history. She gave up and decided to go and talk to Mr. Falli herself.
She began her short walk upstairs and had made it into the elevator when she saw House limping as quickly as he could towards her.
"Hold the door," he said and she did.
He stepped in and didn't say anything, so Cameron took the initiative.
"I thought you had clinic duty."
"I thought you had some patient to cure."
"I do; I'm going up there now."
"It took you all that time?"
"I was going over the patient's family history."
"Right."
"Fine, don't believe me."
House didn't say anything for a moment and then replied, "What's wrong?"
"What? Nothing."
"I'm supposed to believe you?"
"Yes and its not really your business if there was anything wrong. I can deal with my own problems very well, thanks."
He rolled his eyes, "Fine, keep secrets from me; I'll find out eventually. Er, but if you want to talk, I'm all ears."
This comment had temporarily stunned Cameron for a bit. She gave him a strange, but thankful look and the doors of the elevator opened and the both of them got out.
Cameron looked at him, "Cuddy's going to find out you left clinic duty. You should probably go do your job."
"I don't care, the people down there bore me and they think I'm strange because I was playing with my Gameboy."
"And you aren't ten years old…" Cameron added, "If my doctor was playing Gameboy I think I'd be a bit weirded-out, too."
"Oh, so you think I'm weird, too?"
"No, I'm used it you and your Gameboy."
House had thought that with his cunning and sarcasm he could make Cameron seem a little happier and for a few minutes it seemed he had, but then Cameron had the same look on her face as she had earlier when they past by the window and she saw the rain pouring down.
House shook his head and kept walking behind Cameron until they reached Mr. Falli's room. They entered the room to find Foreman talking to Mr. Falli.
"It says here that you've been to a few doctors and they all said you had arthritis?" Foreman asked.
"That's right. But I know arthritis and this isn't arthritis. I play sports and am pretty physically fit, but lately I've been getting this bursting pain near my left knee and it's making me have trouble walking and affecting my tennis game. No medications helped with the pain or did anything at all."
"When did the pain first occur? Did you fall or get into any accident that brought on the pain?"
"No, not really. I mean, I'm human and I've certainly fell before, but I've never injured my leg before."
"Right, well. We'll take a look at your leg and later today I'll schedule you for an x-ray to make sure everything is okay inside and out." Foreman saw House and Cameron out of the corner of his eye. "I'll be right back. Chase will be in and get a record of all your past medications and we'll see if we can find something to put you on to help with your pain."
The man nodded.
Foreman stepped out of the room and looked at House.
"Aren't you supposed to have clinic duty?" he asked.
"Don't you have anything better to do then to make sure I do my job? I'm your boss, you aren't mine!" House rolled his eyes.
"So what's going on?" Foreman asked.
"Not much," Cameron said, "The man's got a pretty good family history with perfectly healthy people that live perfectly normal lives. What about you?"
"Personally, I think Cuddy is just making a big deal out of this guy because he's got a lot of money. He just needs a stronger arthritis medication, but I've got him scheduled for some x-rays later on today; you know, just in case."
"Great," House said, "You're getting more like me everyday, Foreman. I like the x-ray part, just to make Cuddy happy. Anyway, you guys want to head down to the cafeteria for some chow?"
Foreman nodded and Cameron just stared at the floor. House knew that look; either she was worried about something or she was in deep thought. The problem was that he didn't know which of the two it was and it was really bugging him.
House looked at Foreman who just shrugged and they started walking down to the cafeteria. Chase was just coming down the hallway as he saw House, Foreman, and Cameron getting on an elevator some distance down the hall.
"What, where is everyone going?" he thought, very confused….
Author's Note:
I am really really sorry that this took so long for me to update, but I had a lot to do. I'm thinking that there's only going to be one more chapter for this story, of course if you ask I can continue it. But the end of the next chapter is where I presumed that the story would end. Please review and I hope you aren't too angry with me that this took too long. I promise that the next chapter will be up a lot faster than this one was!