"Gee, that doesn't sound like an excuse to avoid Cuddy at all."
"Well we both know she will somehow blame it on me. Come on we'll look out the window near his bed, see what's happening outside, try and figure out what happened."
'John Smith' knew exactly what happened and was busy trying to find where the nurses hid his suit and shoes to notice the thudding that signalled House's arrival to the room.
He was slightly surprised when the ground first started shaking but when the shouts and yells of everyone else in the hospital started up, and the repetition of 'we're on the moon' could be heard between all the noise he realised what was going on.
The plasma coils around the hospital and the lightening, there wasn't something going on inside the hospital, there was something happening above it.
He had a few guesses on what it could be but that didn't matter, he'd find out the reason soon enough.
Finally spotting what he wanted he set about getting out of the preposterous hospital gown.
Wilson was about to pull back the curtain from around Mr Smith's bed when a familiar black cane halted his progress.
"Window's this way and don't give me that look his curtain is closed, he obviously wants to be left alone."
Wilson stepped up beside House but all immediate retorts died as he surveyed the outside landscape.
"We're on the moon. That's not possible…"
"That would be because we are not on the moon. There was an earthquake and I suffered some head trauma, mixed with my Vicodin use equals hallucination."
The curtain behind them was pulled back and a pin-stipe clad man was revealed.
"That has got to be one of the strangest arguments I've ever heard, and that's saying a lot. Although I have to give you credit, it is logical."
"Look Wilson, its Benjamin's friend, wonder what he thinks happened."
Wilson decided House was having way too much fun considering the circumstances. "His name is John Smith."
"Actually it's The Doctor, 'John Smith' is just an alias."
The Doctor stood next to Wilson, and smiled before looking out the window, "Beautiful isn't it?"
Wilson was stumped, he had no idea what was going on, so decided just to go with it. "Umm, yeah it is."
"Want to go outside?" The Doctor's tone was full curiosity, excitement and promise.
"Bit dangerous isn't it?"
"Yep" the man said, popping the 'p' and rocking on the heels of his feet, there was a gleam in his eye as if he found the prospect appealing.
"Sorry to interrupt your unusual courting approach, but what kid of alias is 'John Smith'? And if we really are on the moon there shouldn't be any air."
"Correct! Still think it's a hallucination?"
"Hard to tell, doubt my imagination is this good no matter what the drug. Reckon I fried it a while back anyway. So how did we get on the moon? I mean you hear of weird stuff happening but you just think the Brits are off their nuts."
"It was a H2O scoop, the rain, going up, that was alien. Basically took a chunk of the earth and sucked it up here."
House was impressed, and annoyed, Wilson's head was starting to hurt. "Why?"
"Let's find out. Come on, any balcony's around here?"
"Yeah my office and his, Wilson's is closer though. Can't help wishing Chase was here right now."
House took on a wistful look to which the patient could not fully comprehend. He didn't miss Chase at all, he just seemed to say so in order to provoke his friend. Sadly his friend was too busy gaping at what was outside the window to comment.
"Chase?! Anyway, lead the way, Allonsi!"