Topic: High as a Kite (tag anyone at all!) (Read 184 times)
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High as a Kite (tag anyone at all!) « Thread Started on Jun 21, 2006, 2:25pm »
After the Behavioural Issues thread
House knew how much relief he could get from his favorite little pill, so he knew what was coming, even with the new prescription. The feeling, when it did come, nearly overwhelmed him and nicely fuzzed out Wilson's prattling. It was a wave he'd only ridden once before: when he'd first upped the dosage to 80 mg's.
That's how he'd gotten up to the roof without more than the inconvenienced grunt. He wanted to finish out the rest of the elation in a place where no one would find him--not even the nicotine-addicted nurses. Well...someone like Wilson or Cameron could find him, but they'd never be inclined to. Not when there were patients to look after.
He saw a kite, looking out towards suburbia. The flitting motion made him smile tiredly. House could make the very appropriate, if terribly cliched, analogy with himself, but there was no point. Watching the cloth-and-plastic thing flutter was enough. His smile grew wider when a particularly heavy gust of wind destroyed the kite and sent it plummeting to the ground like a stone.
Re: High as a Kite (tag anyone at all!) « Reply #1 on Jun 21, 2006, 5:51pm »
After leaving Adam Bismarck's room, Cameron went on a search for House. He wasn't in his office, nor was he in the men's restroom. She'd had to apologize to a terrified middle aged man when she'd gone in and left her cheeks a bright crimson colour. There was only one other place that Cameron knew of to check.
Heaving a heavy sigh, she headed to the elevators. Crossing her arms over her chest, she tapped her fingers on her forearm impatiently as she counted down the floors until the elevator had reached the roof. When the doors opened, she hurried down the corridor and pushed open the door. Sure enough, there was House smiling quite dopily-pun intended.
Rolling her eyes, her arms crossed over her chest again as she jutted out a hip, looking most put out. "I hope you're enjoying yourself, because our patient most certainly isn't."
Dr. Gregory House Administrator Head of Diagnostics member is offline
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Re: High as a Kite (tag anyone at all!) « Reply #2 on Jun 21, 2006, 6:59pm »
House had to close an eye against the glare of the sun that illuminated his duckling in a golden light. She looked pissed. That wasn't a good sign. He shimmied further up the brick wall to get comfortable and crossed his right leg over his left to ease some of the pressure.
"Well, I could do with a drink with a little umbrella, but, well, I didn't want to complain," he said casually. "What are you doing up here if you're not making our patient just the cosiest he can be?"
Re: High as a Kite (tag anyone at all!) « Reply #3 on Jun 21, 2006, 9:25pm »
Cameron shook her head in disbelief. She supposed she shouldn't have been surprised. "I came to find his doctor. What exactly are you doing anyway?" She approached slowly, a bit cautiously.
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Re: High as a Kite (tag anyone at all!) « Reply #4 on Jun 23, 2006, 6:24pm »
"I'm watching some kid destroy his kite, what are you doing?" House snapped dryly. "Course, if you answered it again, you'd be liable to hurt me. Though...if you were going to, now would be a good time."
House shrugged, disinclined to egg her on further. "Lemme guess...sudden massive heart attack."
Re: High as a Kite (tag anyone at all!) « Reply #5 on Jun 26, 2006, 11:16am »
Cameron crossed her arms over her chest, a mixture of annoyance and earnestness on her face. "Sometimes I wish I could," she replied hotly. Sighing she tucked a few strands of hair behind her ear. "Adam Bismarck, remember him? He just had a seizure and Chase and I had to intubate. We need to discuss him, House."
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Re: High as a Kite (tag anyone at all!) « Reply #6 on Jun 26, 2006, 11:26am »
"Aaaand...you weren't before why? Or do you just need my brilliance to point you in the right direction?"
She was angry and mad and he had her on the ropes. It didn't hurt to be a little smug. Or a lot smug. If he wasn't terribly mistaken, he thought he saw the same kite limping aloft for another flight.
Re: High as a Kite (tag anyone at all!) « Reply #7 on Jun 26, 2006, 3:30pm »
"House!" she cried losing her patience. "He's already been admitted and he's listed under your care. I would ask if you care about your reputation if something happened to him, but I already know your answer," she nearly snarled. "We've already discussed why you should take him, now we need to discuss how we're going to treat him!"
She took a deep breath and looked away into the sky, following his gaze to a kite that was trying to catch the wind. The wind finally caught it and carried it higher than it had been before. She turned back to House, looking rather weary now.
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Re: High as a Kite (tag anyone at all!) « Reply #8 on Jun 27, 2006, 2:16pm »
"Hm...maybe Cuddy gave me too much. Maybe I've gotta get used to it all over again," he mused glibly. The duckling who cared too much was bound to find out eventually, so what if she overheard.
He tapped his cane on the ground a few times, readying himself to get up. There was nothing worse than being left to die on the roof of a big building. Nobody would find you until you started fuming up the ventilation. Well...second thought, that wasn't so bad--a sort of passive aggressive revenge.
House slid off his perch and had to lean backwards against the bricked surface before he fell over. The pills took his pain away, they didn't make him super. Pity, that. "This kid better be dying," the diagnostician warned.
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