A/N: Thanks for all the reviews. I guess I am a bit formal and scripted in my writing. Too much formal school stuff, blame all my instructors. LOL. I'll try and loosen up. My instructors are always telling me to do that as well. First, they tell me to be formal, then they tell me to loosen up. Do instructors ever make sense? No, they don't. Oh and sorry for the multiple entries, it seems that Fan Fic is acting up. –Glares angrily- A bit of angstyness for the records in this chapter.

Doctor Who and House M.D. do not belong to me. Unless, someone likes my writing to say otherwise, I don't think that will be the case.

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Chapter 10

Warm liquid touched House's lips. Maybe it was all a bad dream. The strange doctor, who said he was an alien. The machine that he said was a time machine. Maybe taking all those pain pills had finally gotten to him at last. All these thoughts came to House as consciousness came to him. The first face he saw however, was not who he thought it was though. The Doctor's grinning mug in his face. "Hello…. I should have warned you about taking a peek out there. It can be a bit much for a skeptic."

House took the tea and began to drink it quietly.

The Doctor turned to Rose, "Okay Rose, you have done the domestic bit you can go lay down now. And if you don't I'll…."

He grinned lightly,"I'll call Jackie and tell her that you're not following the Doctor's orders."

Rose snorted,"So now you're going to be telling my mum on me. What she going to think when you tell her about me having some weird alien stuff floating around in my body?"

The Doctor smiled,"She'll probably give me a good slap the next time I see her, but hey I am willing to take it if it means you go lay down and take care of yourself. Now go on."

The Doctor's face took on a serious cast, it looked a bit downcast and serious, "I mean it Rose. You're wandering around all over the place means the spores will react sooner to your body. I….I…"

He gulped a bit. Over the past year and few months his feelings for Rose and grown so much. He hadn't felt this way for a human since… he bit his lip. That wasn't true, he had many companions that he had fallen for, although ever since his eight regeneration, he had become a bit more romantically inclined towards his companions. Although maybe it had always been there, he remembered all his companions;he had been fond of all of them. And he loved them all equally, and when he lost one of them or they moved on with there lives it pained him deeply.

He put a hand on Rose's cheak, "Just do what I say, just this once."

Rose nodded seeming to feel the emotion in the Doctor's touch. House grummbled a bit, for an alien, this guy acted so much like he was human.

Rose wandered off to her bed.

And House stated, "You know for an alien…."

The Doctor quickly said, "Stuff it. I don't want to hear it."

The Doctor went over to his panals and began to plot a course back to the hospital. The TARDIS's central column went up and down and demateralized. "You still don't think any of this is real. Just wait till people die, then maybe you'll realize just how real this all is."

House drunk the tea, "I didn't say that, I just find it a little far fetched. A guy traveling through time, with his girlfriend. It defies explination."

The Doctor sighed a bit, "Typical human response. You know House, you're a brilliant guy. I'd call you a genius, if I wasn't here. But what you say defies explination is my reality. You may choose not to believe it. But I can't. Because if I did, it would mean losing people I care for. Joke all you want about me being a sentimental guy, but after all I have been through..." The Doctor paused a bit, he wasn't sure why he was saying this but he continued anyway, "I have already lost my race, doing this sort of thing fills some of my lonely existance."

House pondered the Doctor's words and then grinned,"Like I said you must have had a doozey of a past. I wasn't wrong was I? And why does she call you Doctor? Don't you have a name? Or does it invoke something painful?"

"I really don't want to talk about it. We all have wounds we carry. I don't ask you about your leg, do I?"

House normally didn't care about anyone but this strange guy had baggage."I'll figure it out eventually. Everybody lies, and you're no exception. You lied about being someone called John Smith. You lie to that girl by not telling her who you really are? You're just another person with a messed up life."

The Doctor felt the hair on the back of his neck bristle. He hated being analyzed by a human, particularly one like House.

"I don't have to explain anything to anyone, not even you. I live my life as I see fit. Rose is happy with it and so am I."

House grinned a bit, "Doesn't sound like it…"

The Doctor's grasp on the panals tightened a bit more, this guy wanted him to get upset. He wanted him to blurt out everything but the Doctor wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of telling him anything about his past, and so the Doctor took a few breaths. He slowly began to feel his anger subside gradually in a few measured breaths. He smiled, the things you could learn from Tibetan monks was definatly a plus. It had been awhile since he had praticed a bit of self restraint. Rose would have probably said that it was out of chracter for him, but he wasn't going to let some really arrogant human get on his nerves, especially when Rose's life hung in the balance.

The TARDIS demateralized back at the hospital and the Doctor said, "We're back. Listen, Doctor House, you can help me or choose not to help me, your choice. But once I start, you just better stay out of my way. Because I am not going to lose Rose, not without a fight first."

House suddenly grasped the Doctor's hand, "You're insane. But what's a little insanity between the both of us."

The Doctor grinned brightly and then slapped House on the back, "Why House, I didn't know you had it in ya."