Chapter 4: Hide and Sanctuary
Chase led the way through the hospital, Victoria following quickly and quietly as they passed the residence rooms and the lockers and headed toward the lobby.
"Where are you taking me?" Victoria asked, "The residence rooms are that way."
"And that's the first place House will look. You really want to get some sleep and still be within the hospital to take any calls that we may get?" Chase asked as he pushed open the door to the chapel and ducked in.
"I'm not sleeping in the chapel," Victoria stated as Chase pulled off his lab coat, rolled it up and laid down in one of the pews.
"Why not," he asked. "It's dark, it's quiet and no one ever comes up here. It's the perfect hide out."
"It's disrespectful," Victoria stated. "I'm going home; it's only about a block away and it's not going to be offensive if someone happens to walk in here wanting to use the space for its actual purpose. You're not a homeless man off the street, you're a bloody doctor. Have some self respect."
"Don't let House here you talking like that, you'll never hear the end of it," Chase laughed.
"I don't hear the end of it as it is, what's one more little thing?" Victoria sighed, "come on Robert, you can crash at my place."
"You'll let me crash at your place, but you won't sleep in the chapel like hundreds of other pilgrims seeking refuge and sanctuary do world wide? You seem to have your moral code somewhat skewed." Chase laughed.
"I said you could crash at my place, I didn't say I was going to sleep with you," Victoria stated, "and you're not seeking refuge or sanctuary, you just want to hide from House," She added, "besides, he knows you well enough to figure this out, but he has yet to find my apartment so your odds are better with me."
"Yeah, you're right," Chase stated and sat up again. "Besides your place will probably be more comfortable than these ancient forms of torture are." He added motioning to the solid wood pews.
"That's offensive," Victoria sighed. "Seriously how did you go from the seminary to whatever it is that you are now? What screwed you up so badly?"
"You're really offended?" Chase asked eyeing the disgust in Victoria's face.
"I am, its one thing to call attention to the fact so many people don't feel the need to hold any religious appointments or respect for a place of prayer, but its completely another to do a complete three sixty and turn you back on what you once believed in. I'm surprised. I've seen falling away from the faith, but it's never come with the disrespect that I have seen in you." Victoria sighed.
"You wouldn't understand," Chase said with a shrug.
"I debunk miracles and disprove whole belief systems," Victoria stated, "and yet I have never seen people react as you have, something is seriously wrong in your head."