Chapter 2

"Guess we should start investigating," Rose said.

"Looks like," the Doctor responded as he began to walk away from Rose again.

"Maybe you should scan for alien tech as a start," she suggested.

He hated it when she was right, but it did seem like a place to start. He pulled out a small device form his leather jacket pocket and began to punch some buttons as he stared at the screen. Once again, he began to walk away, but now Rose stayed somewhat close to him as he scanned the area.

She realized that The Doctor was heading to the entrance to start with. Apparently he was going to be as thorough as possible… start with the entrance and go from there. They were still a few feet away from the glass doors, (was everything glass around here?) when The Doctor paused and pulled Rose to the side as he continued to aim his scanner out of the door. They watched as a well-dressed blond haired man came in through the doors. Rose looked over the Doctor's shoulder at his scanner and saw that a light was blinking right where the man was. They watched as the man walked out of the field of the scanner, the blinking dot following after him across the screen until he had passed out of range.

They exchanged a look before they left they're spot against the wall and began to follow after the man who seemed to have something that he shouldn't

But they were so intent on their quarry that they completely missed the next man who came through the door next. The three of them collided, knocking both Rose and the rather tall, cane carrying man flat on the floor.

"Wow, what a way to treat a cripple," the man said indignantly, glaring at The Doctor and Rose.

The Doctor ignored the obviously bad tempered man and reached his hand down to help Rose to her feet once again. "And such manners. Knock a guy down and don't even offer to help him up again," he complained and he used his cane to help lever himself from the floor.

"I'm sorry," Rose said. "We didn't see you there," she said.

"No need to apologize to him Rose. He wasn't watching where he was going either."

"Oh great, a couple of high horse Brits," House said as he began to walk on by. "I should have known today was not going to be my day when I spotted that black cat this morning."

"You're one to talk," The Doctor said as the man with the cane stalked on by them.

House stopped and turned back to them as he asked, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Calling us high horsed Brits when you're obviously just as much one too," The Doctor answered coolly.

House glared at them for a moment before deciding to ignore them and continued on his way to the dreaded clinic.

"Doctor, what are you talking about?" Rose asked him quietly.

House stopped and turned back, "Doctor? As if there aren't enough pompous Doctors around here already, we get another British bloke in here. I thought Chase was more than enough."

The Doctor smiled at him. "Bloke, such an American word, wouldn't you say Rose?"

Rose just looked on, rather confused about the whole thing. "I have one question though," The Doctor asked House.

"Just one?"

"For now anyway. Why do you try and hide who you are? It's obvious that you're not as pure blood American as you claim. Oh sure, you hide your accent well, but there's still the subtitle undertones and the way you carry yourself, you practically scream British."

House stared back at The Doctor and his smug grin and couldn't help but crack a slight smile himself. Who was this man who seemed to be able to read him like no other person ever could?

But House didn't have time to play these games with some want to be doctor. He just turned and walked directly into the clinic. The Doctor and Rose just heard him say as he walked in, "Dr. House reports in for clinic duty at 12:05, write that down please."

Rose looks at The Doctor, "that man's a doctor?" she said.

"Seems there's more than one secretive Doctor in the universe," The Doctor said as he pulled his eyes from the man that they had been talking to and turned to try and find the other that they had been attempting to follow. But the second man was gone as well.

"I'll bet that the other guy was a doctor as well. He walked in with a purpose and had a brief case. I doubt that he was a patient by the way he just strolled in here."

Rose shook her head. "You know, being in a hospital with you is going get to be confusing," she said as she followed after him. He had pulled out the scanner once again and was searching for that alien technology that he had picked up earlier. No matter what rude, secretive, sarcastic doctors they met along the way, there was at least one who had something that didn't belong on this planet or at this time and it was his job to find it.