Author: Katy (xLostXDollx)
Rating: K
Character(s): In this chapter; House and Grace.
Disclaimer: I do not own House or any of the characters. If I did, the show wouldn't be as fun.
Notes: Heh, I totally don't know what I'm doing. In the next chapter we've got lotsa drama and some getting to know Grace.
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Grace looked around the exam she was in, sighing softly. She'd gotten to the Clinic at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital as fast as she could and Grace was now sitting in exam room one, waiting for her doctor to come in. She felt strangely dizzy and sleepy and Grace found herself wanting nothing more than to lay back and go to sleep.
Running a shaky hand through her hair, she looked to the door when it opened. At first all she saw was a wooden cane and then a person. An older man stepped in and Grace straightened her posture, presuming him to be her doctor, seeing as how he was looking over her chart.
"You have a headache?" He asked without looking up at her.
"Yes," Grace answered. "A very, very bad headache. It's lasted for about a day now. Advil and Tylenol don't help."
"What about Ibuprofen?" The Doctor mumbled as he sat the file down on the counter.
"Tried that, too. It didn't work." Grace replied as she crossed her arms over the top of her stomach.
"And," The doctor paused, looking positively bored. "You've had a small fever. Sounds like Sinus problems. Go home, drink some hot tea, relax, sleep."
"I can't sleep," Grace said quickly and the doctor finally looked up at her, his blue eyes meeting her green ones. "I feel restless at night. I don't want to try sleeping medication so I really haven't slept much."
"Which could explain the, I don't know, headache and fatigue?"
Grace was taken aback slightly by his bluntness and she regarded the Doctor curiously.
"I'm not missing sleep because I want to," Grace said slowly. "I cannot fall asleep no matter how long I lay in bed."
The Doctor seemed to ignore her and he looked back down at the file. "You had an incident at work today?"
"Yes, it started out as simply as forgetting what I was saying. And then it went to not remembering what I was doing while I was one my way to the filing cabinet."
"You remembered just now.." The Doctor said.
"Did I, now?" She snapped before she even could stop what she was saying. "I'm sorry, I don't why I did that." Grace apologized, going back to her calm nature. The Doctor just stood and looked at her for a moment.
"We're going to keep you a while, run some tests," The doctor replied as he picked up her file.
"Well, why?" Grace asked, curiously.
"Well, BECAUSE. I said so," The Doctor said before he turned and walked out of the room, leaving Grace to wonder what was going on. She stayed in the exam room for a few more minutes until a Nurse came in to bring her the papers she needed for Admittance. It was going to be a long day, she just knew it.