A/N: Thanks for all the reviews so far. I am glad you like the story and are willing to keep reading it.

Doctor Who and House are not mine, and I'll keep stating it just to make sure no one sues me over it.

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Chapter 11

The Doctor opened the door of the TARDIS. He looked around, "Hmm…seems rather quiet. I don't think that's natural."

House came out of the TARDIS and looked around, "Looks alright to me, after all you're the delusional one."

The Doctor grinned a bit, "Thanks. But this clinic should be filled with people all willing to unburden themselves with a bazillion sicknesses and phobias. Just look around, there are nurses and doctors but no people. And I know humans, if they aren't well, they just love to have people try and fix what's wrong with them."

House nodded in agreement, "Point taken, Doctor. I hate the clinic for that very reason. A bunch of idiots whining and begging for me to fix them, it's boring. Give me someone with a sickness or disease that takes some puzzling over to figure out."

The Doctor smiled, "That what I love about humans. Your audacity, your perseverance to figure out the puzzle, it's so very fresh and invigorating. Can I give you a hug?"

House snorted, "You're very manic in your personality, Doctor. It's surprising no one has locked you up a long time ago."

The Doctor grinned and hugged House anyway. House rolled his eyes and pushed the Doctor away. "I hope this doesn't mean we are engaged, I don't know what kind of customs you aliens have."

The Doctor chuckled and then he sighed, "Very boring customs, actually. That's why I left home, well one of the reasons. But never mind all that, your race is in great peril and I am here to help."

"If you're a time traveler, you must have some sort of cure for this disease. Or is that too much to hope for."

The Doctor grinned, "Nope. I may be a Time Lord, but that doesn't mean I carry all the answers. Just because I travel through time and space doesn't mean I am God. I am not omnipresent, or omnipotent. I just sort of end up in these situations, I don't know why? I just do."

House rolled his eyes, "Great, all that power of time traveling at your finger tips and you don't know. I am stuck with a worthless babbling alien who doesn't know how to fix this."

The Doctor grinned and then said, "Besides what kind of Time Lord would I be if I did have all the answers. Even if I did know all the answers, I wouldn't give them to you anyway. That would make your life boring. Nope, humans have to grow on progress on their own. I am just here to help."

House snorted, "You keep saying that. Are you going to do something or are you just going to spend all this time being obnoxious?"

The Doctor looked a bit annoyed, "I was getting to that. But someone keeps interrupting me."

The Doctor walked off, House grumbled a bit and walked forward with cane in hand. Clearly this guy liked to hear himself talk, if given the chance; House didn't doubt that the Doctor would more than likely talk a person to death. Both of them walked further down the corridors of the hospital and found themselves in a hallway masked off with plastic and medical staff in blue gowns and hoods.

The Doctor tapped one of them on the shoulder. "Excuse me, what's going on here?"

The doctor frowned, "Haven't you heard? Cuddy has placed the hospital on full quarantine."

House nodded, "I see and what is the reason for putting this hospital on quarantine?"

The doctor said, "Some sort of infectious disease. No body really knows what it is. We've had twenty cases come in since the past half an hour. They all have red rashes. Some of them are in comas. Some have erratic pulse rates. Others, I can't explain it, their eyes…."

The Doctor sighed, "Golden colored. And with later cases, the rash began to turn into knobby hard like scales. Almost reptile like and almost plant like in nature."

House interrupted slightly annoyed, the Doctor had said he didn't know and yet he obviously knew about this sickness.

"If you know all that, why don't you have a cure?"

The Doctor looked angry, "Hush. Honestly, Humans don't have a cure for AIDS, at least not in this century. I might know the symptoms but that doesn't mean I have a cure. Think for a change. Stop bothering me about it."

House looked annoyed and he opened his bottle of Vicodin and swallowed a few more pills. This guy clearly had a very high inflated ego. And considering the fact that he traveled through time and space, House could understand why. Just thinking about it made him even more infuriated. This alien must think that he was an idiot, which really didn't bode well in his mind. "I generally do think. Maybe if you'd stop acting like a rude inconsiderate ass, I might not decide to whack you with my all powerful stick."

The Doctor sighed and looked at House, the man looked furious. It was slightly funny, given the situation. Normally, House was very much in charge of the situation. This time he wasn't and the Doctor considered the situation for a moment. "You want to add something to the conversation. Be my guest. Just don't assume I know everything, House. I get annoyed by humans who assume that I do know everything."

House nodded, "Fine. But remember Doctor, if you act rude at anytime I may be prompted to whack you."

The Doctor grinned lightly, "Really? You know Rose is always saying I am rude. She sort of has to remind me of it or I kind of get carried away."

House muttered something to himself; he could see why someone had to remind this guy that he was being rude. House knew when he was being rude, or at least he thought he did, but he was rude in order to keep others at bay. This guy ended up being rude and didn't even know it. This partnership of sorts was going to be interesting to say the least.

The Doctor smiled and turned to the doctor who was still in the hallway, "Thanks for your help."

"Anytime, but just to let you know if you enter the quarantined zone you will have to wear a suit just like everyone else."

The Doctor and House both rolled their eyes. Both of them really weren't fond of wearing anything else but what they already wore and to be told they would have to wear something else annoyed both of them to no end.

The Doctor stood for a moment quiet thinking. He ran his fingers through his dark brown hair. House stood looking on for a moment,"Now what?"

The Doctor frowned, "Hush….I'm thinking for a moment."

House rolled his eyes,"Oh I am sorry, wouldn't want to interrupt the great alien with all his high and mighty thoughts."

The Doctor ignored the comment and his eyes brightened, "Come on House, let's go check on Julie Williams. I need to get a baseline of how her symptoms are progressing."

He took House by the hand and both of them walked down the hall, the Doctor was all a bundle of energy and he seemed to almost forget that House was a cripple. But it was House's cane that managed to poke the Doctor lightly in the ribs that reminded the Doctor to slow down.

As they turned a corner, they saw Cuddy. She was dressed in a quarantine suit, "House, where have you been? I have been looking for you since the past two hours."

The Doctor grinned a bit, "I am sorry, I guess you could say that's my fault. House and I were discussing a few things outside the hospital and we sort of lost track of time."

Cuddy sighed, "Fine. I don't really care at this point in time. But next time you leave you should at least tell me you're going to be out. We're under quarantine. The press is hounding me for answers and I have CDC officials hounding me for the same thing and I find out that you two have been chatting, probably having lunch while I have been busy trying to keep the hospital going. If you're going to check on any of the patients, I need you to suit up."

House looked annoyed, "Why? You think I am going to suit up just for your benefit."

Cuddy shrugged, "It's your life House. But just remember I own you. So don't try and kill yourself in the process." She walked off down the hallway.

House gave the Doctor a glare, "Some great alien you are, you have a time machine, you could have gotten us back sooner."

The Doctor looked a bit sheepish, "I can't help what the TARDIS does. She just well…she can be temperamental at times. And why don't you like to suit up? Come to think of it why aren't you all suited up in a doctor's gown to begin with?"

"They'll start thinking I'm a doctor."

The Doctor raised an eyebrow a bit, "So are you a doctor?"

House grinned, "What about you?"

"I have my moments…."