Chapter 6

"He's what?" Rose asked as she got the call from the Doctor.

"Rose, just stay away from it. Gleryth are very dangerous creatures and they have the ability to assume whatever form they wish. I just want to you to stay out of its way and let me know if it goes anywhere. And try and keep anyone else from it if you can. We don't need someone letting it know that we have it figured," the Doctor replied.

"Just how do you expect me to do that then?" she demanded.

"I know you'll think of something Rose. Just, be careful," and with that the Doctor hung up.

"Fat chance, that," Rose said to herself as she put her phone back in her pocket. She stood in the hallway, eyeing the door to Dr. Wilson's office. He hadn't come out yet, so she assumed that he was still there. She just hoped that things would stay that way until the Doctor got back. It wasn't going to do any good to have the thing wondering about while his look alike was brought in by an ambulance. Might cause a little concern among the other doctors.

But of course, being that it was her luck, just then the door opened and Dr. Wilson, or his look a like anyway, stepped out. He began to stroll down the hall to the elevator. Rose tried to be inconspicuous as she followed the man. She walked on by the elevator as the doors were closing and then stopped and watched which floor it went to. It went down to the first floor. Of course, right where they would be bringing the other Dr. Wilson in soon.

She rushed to the stairs and ran down, hurrying to not lose the man. She reached the ground floor and took a breath, trying to steady herself once again after her jog down the stairs before opening the door. She stepped out and saw the man walking towards the clinic. It appeared that this thing was at least trying to keep up appearances that he was Dr. Wilson. It would become rather suspicious if he suddenly stopped seeing patients, Rose thought. Of course she didn't know that was what House did every day.

She watched as the man entered the clinic and picked up a stack of patient files and began to go about his business. She decided that maybe the best way to keep an eye on him was to become one of the patients. She walked into the clinic and checked herself in, all the time keeping an eye on the room that the man had just went into.

She sat down in the waiting room and continued to watch the door. After a few minutes, she suddenly heard a scream of pain from what sounded like a child from that room. She jumped up to see what was wrong when a nurse grabbed her arm and said, "Don't worry. The child had a broken arm. It's usually pretty painful to have it set back into place."

Rose just nodded and sat back down. "I wouldn't worry any. Dr. Wilson is really a great doctor. He's not going to purposefully set about causing anyone pain."

The Nurse turned and walked away but Rose thought she heard her saying under her breath, "But that Dr. House…"

Rose thought how Dr. House might be a crass and cynical man, but she was sure that right now, the one they all thought was Dr. Wilson was much, much worse than anything House could be.

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Right as House and the Doctor reached the hospital, House's cell rang.

"What?" he demanded.

"House, they just brought Wilson in. He looks like he's in bad shape," Cameron's voice echoed down the line.

"I know, I was the one who found him. I just got here. I'll be there in a moment.

"What happened?" Cameron asked.

"I'll tell you later, bye," he said and hung up on her. "Ok, the rest of the hospital is going to know about this in no time," he announced to the Doctor.

"We're going to have to get to the other Wilson before he finds out."

"Yeah, I kinda figured that," House answered as he walked into the hospital.

The Doctor pulled out his phone and called Rose again. "Hello?" she said.

"Rose, we're here. Where is the other at?"

"Oh hi dear, I wasn't feeling too good so I went to the clinic," she answered.

"What? Rose what's going on?"

"Don't worry, I'm fine. I'm with Dr. Wilson right now."

"Damn it Rose, I thought I told you to stay away from him!"

"We just started, I'll probably be here for a while yet," she answered.

"We'll be there in a minute," he said as he hung up the phone. "She's in the clinic with him right now," he said as he began to pick up his pace, passing House on the way to the clinic.

"Whoa, wait up there, Doctor. It's going to look a little strange to have you burst into the room. On the other hand, I'm notorious for it. You wait in the waiting room, I'll take care of this," House smiled as he passed the Doctor again right as the reached the entrance to the clinic.

"House, you don't know what you're walking into," he said, but House wasn't paying him any attention anymore.

"Barbara, what room is Dr. Wilson in right now?" House asked the nurse behind the desk.

"Room three," she answered without looking up from her stack of paper work. It was just Dr. House again going to pester his friend and interrupt yet another examination. There was really no point in trying to stop him she knew.

House began to head to room three with the Doctor close behind him. "House, you can't go in there alone, you have no idea what this thing is capable of."

"Other than torture and being able to assume someone else's form, you're right, I don't. All I know is that he will become suspicious if you burst in there and pull your girlfriend out of harms way. Where as if I go in there, everything will seem perfectly fine and I can think of a way to get her out without him thinking anything is up."

The Doctor stared at House for a second. He didn't like it. He was putting Rose's safety in the hands of another man. A man he knew almost nothing about. But the man also had a point. "Fine, but I'm going to be right here. If I so much as think that anything is going wrong I'll be in there," he said.

House nodded and confidently strolled into the room.

"Wilson! There you are. Been looking all over for you," the Doctor heard House say before the door closed behind him. He didn't trust this man, but there wasn't much else he could do.

So he leaned against the wall and tried to listen to what was going on inside. But as he was listening, he heard something else. It seemed that news had spread about as fast as House had predicted. He could hear the nurse at the station saying to another nurse who had just come up and been talking to her, "That can't be right. Dr. Wilson is in room three right now. He's with a patient and I think Dr. House just went in there too."

Fantastic, The Doctor thought sarcastically to himself.