AN: At the end.

Foreman

"We need to find a way to beat it. The only one who is actually doing any damage is Jason and that's just because of the sword he has. The rest of us can't even touch it." House heard Foreman say as he walked into the conference room. It was Monday morning and all the other fellows were busy doing other things.

House stayed silent listening in on the conversation. He was always interested in the lives of his ducklings. If there was something that he could learn about them and tease them with later, all the better.

"Maybe Karen. But that's it. He needed a 20 to do it at all. No I think that he's trying to kill us all off. Come on; look at what he's thrown at us lately. We need to come up with a strategy." House saw Foreman look up and see him. "Can't talk. Got to go. I'll talk to you later. I'll see what I can come up with." Foreman hung up his phone and then walked out of the room before House got a chance to even blink.

What was Foreman up to? Some secrete plan? Trying to take something? Who was Foreman talking to? Who were Karen and Jason? And what could they do to help Foreman?

He needed to do more investigating.

It wasn't until the next week that House was able to get more information. Again it was a Monday. But as opposed to it being in the morning it was late afternoon. Foreman was once again on his cell phone in an empty conference room. Again House stayed silent to listen to the phone call.

"It pisses me off. Just because he lost his sword doesn't mean that he shouldn't fight. I know. Just pick something up and a hit something. He has like a 21 strength. There was debris all over the place. I'm sure if he asked there would be a piece of wood he could have used as a club. You're right. She did try. It's not an excuse. If he's going to just run anytime he loses a weapon what good is he in the party. That's why we were almost killed last week. We don't fight well together. I agree. Strategy. I mentioned that to Karen also." Once again Foreman looked up and caught House's eye. "Got to go. Yeah. K. See you then. I promise to answer the news group."

Foreman hung up the phone and looked at his boss. "Can I help you with something?"

"Someone lost a sword? A real sword or is someone compensating? Do you use your sword?" House really didn't know what he was talking about. But any kind of reaction he could possibly get from Foreman was a good one.

"Don't worry about the type of weapon I use. Just fear the fact that I know how to wield it, and can wield it well." With that Foreman smirked and left the office.

House was getting more and more worked up over this. There were now more pieces of the puzzle. But he didn't even have a picture to work with in order to put it together. He was working blind. And even worse all the pieces have the same shape to them. He hated when that happened. The only thing that he could do was sit and wait for more pieces or maybe even a picture to work with.

Again it was Monday, in an empty conference room, when House came across Foreman on his cell phone.

"I don't know. We've gone over them how many times? Rule One: Always question the sanity of your party members."

House had to agree that it sounded good. Although he was still curious as to what Foreman was talking about. He knew most people questioned his sanity everyday.

"Rule Two: Always question the identity of your party members."

What party was he talking about? And identity? What was Foreman talking about?

"The weapon is rule four. If you something strange or out of the ordinary you wake someone and tell them."

Again something that could be useful in at work. Anytime a new symptom arose you should tell someone. House thought that Foreman maybe on to something? Was he writing a new manual for first year doctors? Then again the idea of a weapon didn't make sense. Although with some of the crazies that did come to the hospital maybe a weapon was a good idea.

"See you got all five, and you've only been with us for about a month. Greg should have gotten this by now. He's been with them since before I joined the group."

So there is a group of them. And it seems the person that Foreman was talking to had only been there for a little while. House added the name Greg to his list of names that he heard Foreman mention during these conversations, Jason, Karen, and now Greg.

This time the conversation ended on it's own, and Foreman made his escape without having to make any sort of conversation with House.

House eagerly awaited the next Monday. There would be more interesting conversation from Foreman if he could get near enough to hear it. And House wasn't disappointed.

"I'm not sure I like this. I know it's great and all, I mean I'll never turn down any extra points but for third level it seems a bit much. Of course it means he can throw harder things at us. But that doesn't mean we can handle them. But what about B.A.B's? And I can't cast anymore or anything more powerful. I don't care what the others say; I still think it's too much. Of course when we gain higher levels it will be better. But right now it's too much."

Levels? What are they talking about? House couldn't stand it. He was going to have to say something. Sure he had spent the week asking Foreman to prove who he was anytime he walked into the room. Even asked how sane each of his fellows was each time they threw out a diagnosis on the patient that he didn't like.

And what was Foreman casting? Fishing lure? Could there be levels at fishing? Maybe as a sport? He had never heard of anything like sport fishing for points and all. And put together with the other conversations it didn't make sense. Could it be a totally different conversation? One that had nothing to do with the others he had listened in on?

No. These conversations happened the same day and all around the same time? Almost like a covert operation. And Foreman's tone was always the same. Serious, but with a hint of amusement to his voice. Almost like he was enjoying the topic of conversation and the person he was talking to.

House decided that he would give the puzzle one more week. He would use Google to the best of his abilities and try to figure it out. But he would admit defeat if he couldn't figure it out.

"I can't believe we found all that crap." Foreman said into his cell phone. It was Monday and he was having his weekly conversation with Karen about yesterday's game. This was when she had her lunch break and they could talk with out Greg or Michael putting their two cents in. And being Jason was sitting next to her it allowed the three of them a nice time to plan strategies and the such.

"I know. Jason got a Holy Avenger. And I have that two handed axe."

"Those are nice. You and Jason lucked out."

"You weren't there, but we tested it, and all the stuff is aligned good."

"No way, aligned? That's a big help."

"What did you get again?"

"A staff and a Robe of the Magi, I don't remember the staff. I think power or something."

"You know that this means though."

"I know, we are going to be in one major battle if he's giving this to us."

"Jason wants to know if that Robe has a DR?"

"Yeah, DR of 25."

"Good, we all have some sort of DR. That should make things more interesting."

"As long as we remind everyone we have it, when it comes time to damage." Foreman was really involved in his conversation that today he didn't notice House in the conference room with him.

In the past this had been a great time due to the fact that the soap opera's that House liked to watch were on at this time. They must have been on hiatus or something. At first when House started coming in and listening to his conversation a few weeks ago, it bothered him. It was his personal life and House had no business interfering.

But now, he took it as a game. House liked puzzles. But what he liked about puzzles was solving them. House was having a hard time solving this one.

When the book, paper and small bag hit the table, Foreman couldn't help but jump.

"What was that?" Karen asked.

Foreman looked up. "Just my boss. Got to go. Talk to you later."

"Sounds like a plan." And Karen hung up.

"But I want to play too." House whined as he saw Foreman closing the cell phone.

Foreman looked at what was put down in front of him. The book was a Players Handbook, 3.5 addition. Foreman was impressed. The piece of paper was a character sheet. Looking at it, Foreman gave a laugh.

"You obviously didn't roll these."

Foreman took another look at the sheet. The name of the character was Greg the Great and he was a Cleric. Although there was nothing listed for Deity. The stats were what made Foreman laugh the most. Strength was listed at an 11. Dexterity had a 9. Constitution was a 15. Wisdom was a 20 as was Intelligence. The Charisma score of 18 was the one that made him laugh the most.

Foreman knew he was going to be asking for trouble but he thought that it might be fun. "You talk Cameron and Wilson into this and we got ourselves a game."

The look on House's face was priceless. It took a lot to surprise House but when it did happen, Foreman loved every minute of it. And he was interested in trying to run a game. With a bunch of newbies it wouldn't be too bad. There were some books and scenarios he could run them through.

"What about Chase?" House questioned as the man in question walked into the room.

Foreman looked up at his co-worker. Chase had a deer caught in headlights look. "Wizard or Sorcerer?"

"Wizard. Always a wizard. That scribe scroll feat always comes in handy."

Foreman picked up the book and the bag, which he assumed, had dice in it. "Roll it up. I'll get you a character sheet."

Chase looked between House and Foreman. "We gaming?"

"House wants to play. So I figured why not. It would give us something to do while we're waiting for test results and the such. He's getting us Cameron and Wilson."

Chase shrugged. "As long as there are no paladins I'm good to go." He sat down at the table and took out the dice and started to roll them.

"Better get the others here. We can start characters up so we'll be ready to play tomorrow." Foreman said as he walked away with the book.

House sat stunned for a moment. He couldn't believe that two of his co-workers actually played Dungeons and Dragons. It would be interesting to try it. And Foreman was right. It would give them something to do to kill time. This could actually be fun. House grinned as he watch Chase roll dice and create a character

Well here we are, at the end of this experiment. I found that Foreman's was the hardest to come up with. I was first going with him being a dancer or a trashy romance novel author. I thought DnD was a better way. I had to throw Chase in at the end because I'm missing him from that last few episodes. The Rules belong to the Nasha Koria gaming group, DnD belongs to Wizards of the Coast, and House belongs to Fox and David Shore. Thanks for reading!