A/N: Another quicky chapter that is quite short. But I decided to speed some things up.

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Chapter 9

Cameron looked at Cuddy, "Lisa, we have problems…"

Cuddy frowned,"What now? Has House done something crazy, again?"

Cameron shook her head, "No, that new doctor, umm…" She remembered the Doctor asking them not to say he was an alien. She sighed, "We have discovered that the girl has an infectious disease. It's difficult to explain what it is. I don't really care what you say it is, say it's a case of West Nile Virus or something. But it's beginning to spread."

"So should we call the CDC in on this?"

Cameron nodded,"I know House would probably say I was overreacting on this , but it would be a good idea to quarantine the hospital to keep any of this from spreading."

Cuddy nodded, "If we do quarantine the hospital, you do realize we will have the press and the CDC on our backs. Are you willing to have that, Allison?"

Cameron sighed,"No, not really. But I don't think we have much of a choice."

"Speaking of House, where is he? I was checking up on him in the clinic and I can't find him anywhere."

Cameron shurgged,"Well last I know, Doctor Smith was going to talk to him. Knowing House, he's probably goofing off again."

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House frowned,"1776, I don't believe it. In fact, I don't think any of this is real. I was shot once. I know a hallucination when I see it. Why is my leg, not bothering me?"

House walked around and frowned, He dropped his cane and walked around without any pain at all. "All this is, is an indication that I am either asleep, in surgery, or maybe I am dead."

The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Well as for your leg not bothering you. That's probably the TARDIS. She doesn't like it when people are in pain. Plus you just took a dose of those pain pills of yours. Honestly, I don't even know why I bothered doing this in the first place. I have had people younger than you, that never questioned my TARDIS before. God you are stubborn."

Rose came out dressed in jeans and jacket, "So Doctor, I heard the TARDIS. Where are we now?"

The Doctor grinned, "1776. Philladephia, Pennsylvania. The signing of the Decleration of Independence."

Rose smiled,"Oh wow…."

She went to the TARDIS doors and opened it and then she closed it and gave the Doctor a grumpy look,"Umm Doctor, I took a look out there and I can tell ya, it's not 1776."

House raised an eyebrow, "Oh great, not only am I hallucinating, I am hallucinating that I am with an alien who can't even manage to get the date right on a time machine."

Rose snickered lightly and The Doctor frowned,"Really?" He looked dubiously at his TARDIS control panal. "Where have you taken us?"

The Doctor began to tinker with the TARDIS."Ahh it's the year 17776…..that explains a lot. That was a good year. Considering. Earth took 25 gold medals in the Galactic Olympics. The Salvari decided to declare war on their peacefull loving neighbors the Hirrlashim."

House frowned and Rose snickered,"Don't mind the Doctor, he gets nostalgic at times…."

House grumbled a bit and Rose sighed,"Doctor has it gotten warm in here?"

The Doctor frowned,"No….are you feeling allright Rose?"

House put a hand to Rose's forehead,"She's running a bit of a fever…"

The Doctor went over to Rose and turned her arms over to see a very pronounced red bumpy rash on her arms. "Damn it Rose, why don't you tell me these things?"

"I didn't notice it before."

The Doctor sighed,"Looks like I can't show you the year 17776. Oh well. Now you get into bed, Rose and you get into bed now."

House frowned,"What's going on?"

The Doctor looked into House's eyes, "That bean sprout as you put it, is a Xylomian seed pod, it releases spores into the air and transforms people into it's speices. It seems Rose has been affected by it."

"Doctor, how come you're not sick?"

The Doctor gave Rose a frown,"My body tends to filter things out, Rose. But never mind that. I want you to get into bed and get into bed now."

House raised an eyebrow and he walked over to the door and peaked out for just a secound. What he saw was alarming, a strange planet with a purple sky and he quickly closed the door and passed out from the shock of seeing a strange place.

"Oh bloody hell…." The Doctor said with a look of partial alarm and partial disdane on his face. He quickly rushed over towards House.

Rose came over to help and the Doctor frowned, "Rose, go lay down…."

"But I want to help."

The Doctor grumbled a bit,"Fine, go get some tea for him but after this, you're going to lay down, even if it means I have to strap you down in the process…."

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A/N: I know what you're thinking. NOOOOO not Rose. But it's not Doctor Who if the Doctor doesn't panic over Rose sometime during the story.