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Submitting Info:
Stacked with: Hogwarts (Term 15); MC4A (Year 4)
Individual Challenges: Eating Cake (Y); Two Cakes (Y); The Real MC; In a Flash; New Fandom Smell; Old Shoes; Zed Era; Disabled; Neurodivergent; Medic MC (x5); Fix-It Felix; Green Ribbon
House: Slytherin
Assignment No.: Term 15 – Assignment 06
Subject (Task No.): n/a
Other Hogwarts Challenges: 365 [17](blatant);
Other MC4A Challenges: FaB [3D](Paper); Hunt [Fa WD (OCD); Fa Set (Classroom); Fa Con (Muffin)]; Chim [Loride] (Indigo); Fire [x3](Minimalist; Dangle; Femme Fatale); Garden [Chores (Arguing/Debating); Flowers (Indigo); Mixed Bag (WC Less than 1K); Daphne Special (Lipstick); Reader Digest (3rd Chapter)]; Hang [Phrase 02] (n/a)
Representation(s): Gregory House; Remy "Thirteen" Hadley; Work Relationships
Primary & Secondary Bonus Challenges: Hot Apple; Turtle-Duck; Second Verse (Rock of Ages; Muck & Slime; Lyre Liar; Lovely Coconuts; For the Vine; Brooms Only; Unwanted Advice; Nightingale; Persistence Still; Not a Lamp; Ladylike); Chorus (Surprise!; In the Trench; Abandoned Ship; Unicorn; Larger than Life; A Long Dog; Tomorrow's Shade; Mouth of Babes; Peddling Pots; Machismo; Bee Haven; Wabi Sabi; Pocky Pockets; Odd Feathers); Demo 1 (Under the Bridge); Demo 2 (Misshapen Pods; Hot Stuff; Soul-Like; Sitting Hummingbird);
Tertiary & Generic Bonus Challenges: War (Sanctuary; Ennui); Mea (Ennui); O3 (Olivine); FR (Satisfaction); T3 (Terse)
Word Count: 489 words

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House & Homes
Patients
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House kept listing off potential diagnoses as he wrote what he considered to be the symptoms on the main white board of the differential room. Remy was only paying superficial attention. It seemed a bit ridiculous that they had been pulled out of the ER for what looked exactly like a mild case of the flu. She had already planned to get what snarky responses she could get in about niceness being the most blatant symptom, too.

But what had really caught her attention was the secondary white board, angled so that the indigo words could only be clearly read by someone standing at the coffee pot with its pile of muffins. Incidentally, that was the position that House kept returning to between listing symptoms. Remy frowned to herself as she noted that House looked over at his personal office for the third time since the differential had started. Leaning forward as casually as possible she started copying down what she could read of the other list.

"Run a complete metabolic set, including A1C," she said without thinking and completely ignoring the rapid fire debate about kindness as a genetic defect. All sound in the room died around her. She forced herself to meet House's questioning gaze. "If there's an issue in the pancreas or thyroid, that could cause the weight issue. The other symptoms could be explained by the resulting malnourishment."

"Malnourishment?" Foreman asked in frustration. "The man weighs over three hundred pounds. He is not malnourished. If anything, he's over-nourished."

House glanced at his office again. This time, Remy gave into the temptation to look herself. She didn't immediately see anything out of the unusual. Then she spotted a few stacks of archival boxes around the desk. Her confusion only grew. House might not like talking to patients, but normally his cases were all alive. It was extremely rare for living patients to have any of their records in Archives.

"You two aren't talking about this patient, are you?" Foreman followed up. He sounded more resigned to the issue than truly annoyed by it. "Can we please just deal with our actual patient instead of whatever it is that has you distracted from curing niceness?"

"Right," House agreed more easily than any of the guys must have expected him to. He gestured between Foreman and Kutner. "You two, check out Mr. Nice Guy's home for toxins. Taub and Thirty-One—"

"Thirty-One?" she interrupted. House paused. Remy regretted many of her life choices because she knew what he was about to quip. And sure enough, he didn't disappoint.

"Oh, I'm sorry," House apologized as he actually bothered to make eye contact with her. "I thought that either way was good with you." He looked towards the table before continuing. "Taub and Thirteen, MRI for tumors; EEG for nerve damage; and test whatever else comes out of him for everything else."

Then House was out the door and gone.

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To Be Continued
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