A/N: Thanks for the reviews and all the ideas offered. I am considering some of them. Not sure where I'll fit them in. But….I'll have fun seeing where I can place them.
Now to have fun turning House into a Sci-fi story, which should be intresting considering there is very little Science Fiction to it. Although I am quite pleased actually on how this chapter turned out. And Forman, Chase, and Cameron seem just a bit more livelier than they did in the last chapter.
I don't own either Doctor Who or House M.D. But maybe they'll let me borrow them, just for this story. ;)
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Chapter 6
Cameron bent down and examined the pod in the container. "What is that?"
The Doctor grinned, it was time to prove to these poor human doctors, that the world that they had been born in was about to get a little bit bigger.
"It's a Xylomian seed pod."
"A what? I have never heard of such a thing," Foreman said looking slightly in doubt over the object.
"Of course you haven't, it's from another world. I wouldn't expect humans to know what a Xylomian seed pod is," The Doctor said quite confidently.
Chase frowned,"Are you saying it's alien?"
The Doctor grinned and put an arm around Chase,"Of course it's alien. It fell from the sky…" The Doctor paused doing a mental calculation,"Probably two to three days ago, depending on the day that our patient was admited."
Chase's eyes lit up, "Then it's true, I knew that we couldn't be alone in the universe. With all the planets in the universe, it just doesn't seem plausable that we are alone. And all I get from House is obvious disdane. He had the audacity to tell me that the metal that was retrieved off a patient, who had believed to have been abducted from aliens, was from another world and then he said, and I quote, "It's Titanium you, moron."
The Doctor rolled his eyes,"The idiot. Why do humans think that Titanium can't be found on other worlds? Just because you humans haven't traveled to other worlds yet, doesn't mean that the metals you have, can't be found on other worlds."
Cameon looked at the Doctor a bit hesitantly,"You speak as if aliens are common knowledge and why do you say, humans, as if you're not?"
The Doctor looked a bit sheepish,"Well…..for one….I am not…and as for aliens…..I guess you could say I am sort of an expert on them."
The doctors around them paled a bit and Cameron spoke up a bit hesitantly,"You're….you're….you're…not…"
"Human," The Doctor said with a slight grin on his face, as he finished her sentence. And he then added,"Nope, but I am quite fond of the Human race."
Cameron wetted her dry lips, she felt scared and afraid all of a sudden but tried to speak as everyone else in the room had gone deadly silent, "Your saying you are an alien."
The Doctor nodded and Foreman frowned, he had finally gathered his thoughts and his courage and he shook his head. He had seen too many psychotic patients and too many strange things to actually believe this guy was an alien, "You're delusional. Of course you're human. I mean your clothing, your apperance. Look at him, you guys. He's clearly suffering from some psychatric condition."
The Doctor sighed, it figured that he would have at least one guy that wouldn't believe that he was not human and he'd have to prove that it was otherwise because he could tell that doubt was already starting to appear in these humans' eyes."You wouldn't happen to have a stethoscope on you, would you? Now mind you, I don't normally do this with people, the circumstances and the peril your race is in. This is probably the only way I can convince you that I am not human."
Chase went over to a closet and retreived a stethoscope and the Doctor said,"Put it on and put your sethoscope here first…" The Doctor pointed to his chest where one of his hearts was and then he stated,"And then after you do that….put it here." And the Doctor pointed to where his other heart was.
Chase nodded and did what he was told to do and he smiled hearing the strong healthy beating of one of the Doctor's hearts. He then placed the metal of the stethoscope on the other spot the Doctor had said to place it, and he frowned. And the Doctor grinned a bit,"Not normal, is it?"
Chase took off the stethoscope and handed it to Cameron who proceeded to do the same feat that Chase had done earlier and she gulped,"That's not right, you should be dead…."
"If I was human…."
Cameron nodded and then took the stethoscope and handed it to Foreman who had a skeptical look on his face. He listened to the Doctor's hearts and he said,"A heart abnormality…that's all that is."
The Doctor rolled his eyes,"God you humans are hard to convince. You want proof Foreman, I don't know what else I can give you." The Doctor looked thoughtful for a moment and then said, "You said you knew Doctor Grace Holloway, she knows me. Do yourself a favor and call her. It's a long story about how I met her but talk to her. She can vouch for me and my two hearts."
Foreman nodded and Chase said,"So…if you're an alien, what are you doing here?"
The Doctor sighed,"Long story and I don't know if I have the time to tell you everything. There are quite a few agencies that know that aliens exist. I am sort of doing a favor for one of them."
Cameron sighed,"What are we going to tell House?"
The Doctor wrinkled his nose in obvious displeasure,"Oh him. I'll handle it. what a puffed up arrogant contemptable human. I have a feeling it's going to take a little more to convince him about things. By the way, how's our patient?"
Foreman sighed,"The tests have all come up negative."
The Doctor nodded,"Didn't figure that your lab could figure out the problem. But the girl?"
Cameron looked a bit concerned,"Still in a coma, her vital stats are not good. Her blood presure is almost non detectable. The rash is spreading all over her body."
Chase stated quickly,"And her friends have a rash as well."
The Doctor's face darkened a bit,"Uh-Oh, that's not good. That means the Xylomian spores are spreading. Her friends must of ended up breathing them in as well. Mind you, they probably didn't get as heavy a dose as Julie did, but it means they are infected as well."
Cameron looked at the Doctor clearly concerned,"What should we do, then?"
The Doctor sighed,"Anyone that had anything to do with that girl should be quarantined. police, hospital staff that brought her in should be held here and the hospital should be closed to anyone else, unless they have similar symptoms. We need to keep the people infected close to the hospital."
Cameron nodded,"Well I'll have to talk to Cuddy about that and alert her to the fact that there is an infectious disease in the hospital."
The Doctor nodded, he then took a deep breath and he grinned,"Well I think I better go off and talk to House." He grabbed up the container and he said,"Wish me luck…."
He began to walk off and then he turned back to the other three doctors,"Oh by the way, don't mention about me being an alien to anyone else. I mean if I had a hard time convinceing you, can you imagine how hard it would be to convince someone else?" The Doctor then turned again and walked out.
Chase sighed,"I have to admit that this is the strangest case I have ever done in my residency."
Cameron nodded and Foreman stated,"I am still going to make that call to Doctor Holloway. I am still not too sure about this guy."
