This one's a bit punny. I apologize in advance.
THE BLUE WIRE
House normally took no interest in computer games - especially not at work, where he had other, more reactive things to entertain himself with. Members of his team, for example. Or Cuddy, or Wilson. ... Or Cuddy's boobs. (Cuddy's boobs, while not reactive in and of themselves, did earn him a reaction from Bosslady, thus earning them a place under this category.) And if not something reactive, then at least something that didn't involve being glued to a screen; his tennis ball, naps, his TV - well, okay, maybe the last one didn't count.
However, lately he'd become immersed in this simple, yet maddeningly difficult Flash game - Bomb Disposal Master IV, level six. If he recalled correctly, Wilson had introduced the game to him one night (more than likely to distract him, as the oncologist had been surrounded by a frighteningly vast volume of paperwork) along with the challenge "Bet you can't beat just one." While it wasn't a masterfully-built game by any means, a number of the bomb pieces were left up to chance, like a large-scale version of Minesweeper.
And level six kept eluding him - until today. He was sure he'd finally figured it out; he'd narrowed it down to two specific wires. Now, which to cut - the red or the blue?
He decided to go for the blue. He started to drag the mouse in that direction-
- the door burst open and Cameron strode in -
- and, startled, he clicked too soon.
The Game Over song was a loud rendition of Rick Astley's one-hit wonder, Never Gonna Give You Up, and it flooded House's office now for what felt like the hundredth time, briefly drowning out the first part of Cameron's apparent tirade. The immunologist looked a bit flustered, but she pressed on relentlessly as the music slowly dwindled of its own accord.
"- Patient's still got a fever of 103.3 and her baby's heart rate is still too high but her mother's trying to convince her to just go home, she'll never - why are you looking at me like that?"
House stared mournfully from the brunette to his computer and back again.
"I was supposed to cut the blue wire."
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