The first thing Lizzie noticed about Greg House was not the fact that he was using a cane, it was the grim look on his face.Was he just in a bad mood or was that to do with Cuddy's hint about social skills? But Lizzie also noticed his eyes that were so very similar to her own. Or was she just imagining this?

Pretending confidence, she walked over to him and was suddenly aware of other people's presence in the room. Three other young doctors, they had to be House's team, were sitting around the conference table that took up the best part of the room. They were looking at her and House, waiting to find out what was going on.

„My name's Elizabeth Turner, I'm the new Psy-," but House didn't let her finish and didn't shake her outreached hand either.

„Well, I guess this must have been Cuddy's idea," he stated sarcastically, ironically looking at the doorway that Cuddy had already abandoned. „Probably wants to find someone who makes me feel good about being a cripple."

Lizzie didn't know how to take this and wasn't sure what to do but luckily, the female doctor at the table came to her rescue.

„Hi, I'm Alison Cameron," she came over to Lizzie to shake her hand as if to show House what good manners were. Following her, the two men also came over.

„I'm Eric Foreman," a black man with a polite but genuine smile shook her hand next and she repeated her own name as if rehearsed. It didn't matter how polite people were, she was still nervous as hell.

„Yeah, and I'm Robert Chase," a blond and blue-eyed doctor shook her hand and smiled broadly. Lizzie usually didn't jump to conclusions but this guy seemed too handsome in the commonly accepted way to be not mean.

„Hi, I'm Elizabeth Turner, pleased to meet you," she replied when her suspicions were confirmed only seconds later.

„Well, someone's English," she heard Chase, who had was grinning widely, whisper to Foreman so she wouldn't hear.

„Well, we used to send our convicts to Australia," Lizzie said to Cameron, not even trying to keep her voice down. Granted, it wasn't the wittiest comment ever but it still had the intended effect. Taken by surprise, Chase turned around with an almost humiliated look. He looked as if he was about to say something but he was interrupted by House.

„Does everyone know everyone then," he said impatiently. „We've got better things to do."

By that he seemed to mean playing with a tennis ball, throwing it against the wall and catching it.

„Ive had strange experiences with shrinks," he said matter-of-factly. „Thing is, they always want me to come to terms with myself."

„Actually, I'm not a shrink," Lizzie explained, people always thought she wanted to analyse them and tell them what their subconscious expressed through their behaviour. „In fact, I'm a medical psychologist-"

„Isn't psychology more like a mickey mouse subject? I mean, everyone can do it, that's why everyone does it," House pondered, his eyes following the movement of the tennis ball. „And you're not going to be an MD, are you?," House mocked her to make her see that he didn't take her seriously.

„No," she admitted, already starting to give in. „It's a PhD degree, but it's still scientific, it's also about making people healthy." She sensed that House had the conversation under control and she couldn't win anyway, he would think of her whatever he wanted.

„Ah well, my little ducklings, everyone say hi to Micky Mouse!"