A/N: Wow, I'm so excited, Love Hurts is showing FINALLY, tomorrow night! Yay!

Heh, I've been TRYING to write this for absolutely AGES, but I get writer's block after I watch House, and, well, I taped the last one, and watched it once a day, so…not much writing happening.

Does anyone happen to know a cure for writer's block?

This chapter is dedicated to livetoeat06, for your awesome reviews! Though may I say, fallacious means deceitful, while asinine means foolish.

Chapter 2

Day 1, noon

"Morning," Cameron called to him as he made his way to the Diagnostics Office for a coffee. "You look beat."

"Didn't sleep so well last night," Chase told her as he passed.

"Anything wrong?" she asked, and Chase could see a spark of concern flash on her face.

"You shouldn't assume something's wrong every time someone gets a mild dose of insomnia," he smiled.

Cameron didn't return the small gesture of joy.

"Yeah, maybe," she said slowly, "but your body language tells me that that's not all there is to it."

"Why are you so worried?" Chase questioned her curiously.

Her troubled expression cleared immediately.

"I'm not," she said, shaking her head slightly. Chase looked at her for a moment longer, before nodding, and continuing towards a coffee.

Chase sank into a chair, gratefully gulping the hot liquid.

"Chase!"

Chase looked up as House entered the office.

"Just the person. Gotta show you something."

Chase sighed. Damn it, he shouldn't have looked so comfortable. Reluctantly, he rose, and deposited his coffee mug upside down on the sink.

House led him down the hall.

"New patient?" Chase asked, as he tried to keep up with the limping doctor. He seemed to be moving quicker than normal…quicker than possible.

"No. Take a look at this."

Chase followed him as he pushed open the clinic doors. It was packed full of people.

"What do you expect, House, it's cold season."

"Not just colds," House told him sorrowfully. "Car accidents. All the ice on the road."

"We Aussies have learnt to deal with situations like that," Chase said seriously. "We have hot summers instead."

"Uh huh… Well, now you're here, could you…cover for me this morning?"

"What? No!" he cried, though Chase could tell that protests would go unheard.

"Thanks, I owe you one!" House called over his shoulder, as he left hastily.

Chase spent the morning in the clinic, treating a total of 4 colds, 2 emergency broken bones, an infected scab, and a mild case of dermatitis.

Chase supposed that these patients were lucky that House refused his clinic duty, and were treated by him rather than the uncooperative doctor.

"He'll be fine after a couple of days off school," he told a grateful mother, as she ushered her son, who had a large bandaid on his arm, from the room.

"He'll be a bit sleepy; it's jus the flu wearing off, and from the antibiotics."

The mother smiled her thanks as she left with the boy.

Chase checked his watch. 1:30. House was off at 2.

Shaking his head, he called the next patient into the exam room.

As Chase left the clinic, he ran into Dr Cuddy, running the other way.

"What are you doing down here, Dr Chase?" she asked, panting slightly.

"Uh…" Chase considered telling Cuddy that House had forced him to, but he thought House might have something to say about that.

"House forced me to," he said, silently cursing himself.

"You did his duty…again?" she said wildly.

"…Yeah." There was no better answer, nothing not hiding the truth, anyway.

"Look," Cuddy started. "I don't want you doing his job. You're not Cameron; you can bring yourself to let me know when to kick his ass."

Chase snorted inwardly at the thought. Those high heels didn't look as if it would be at all comfortable to have them coming at you with high force.

Nodding sincerely, he said,

"Sure. No problem."

Cuddy smiled wearily.

"Thanks." Checking her watch, she added, "I gotta go. House has a new case; go make sure he does it."

He gave her thumbs up, and watched her coat disappear around the corner, before heading in the opposite direction.

A/N: Yay, someone congratulate me, I survived the whole morning without watching House. Heh, I'll be glued to the TV for an hour tonight, though.