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house m.d. - robert chase

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[FROM THE DEVICE OF MR J. WACHAWSKI: only those particularly familiar with the residents of City Hospital's coma ward will be aware of the true owner of this hijacked device.]

Halibut offered:

A safe plaice for nonpartisan citizens, or anyone willing to put aside piscean sentiment in return for a bed for the night - the sick, old, young or scared. This doesn't have to be krill or be killed.

We're well dolphinded. There's free medical care.

If you can stick by the house rules, keep the noise down and the fights outside, and you have a checkable network record, reply to this post and let minnow.

[Private to: House, Wilson, Cameron, Penny, Mae, Carla, Ginny, Stiles]

6 letters: to steal from Ernie's friend.
5 letters: banking on you taking your eye off the sofa.

I'd like to know you're safe, even if you're not taking the offer.

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I think that depends who you ask.

Camping out at City General. Don't worry.

no one who's yet to hit puberty. or house.

you're shore you feel safer there?

I'd feel safer if you'd drop the ocean gags

they're net gags. i reckon something's screwing with the wires.

It wouldn't be the first time, I suppose.

with all the arrests, seems like people's devices sardine traced. this could be the next step.

i could walk you to work and back.

Standard City sense of humor. Terrible, I mean.

I convinced a neighbor to look after Gray, I'm going to weather it on the couches here, I think.

all right. if that's what you want.

[He'll just have to switch to night shifts.]

i'll probably ask again. just once a day or so. so you know the offer's open.

Not just a weekly schedule? You really are serious.

Would you feel better if I'd asked you to cat-sit?

i'm hoping the time frame we're working with won't play out long enough for that.

maybe. i do know what treats she likes.

If past experience holds it won't, but lately it seems like past experience doesn't.

If it would make you feel better.

if past experience held i'd dismiss the whole thing as a game. still not sure it isn't.

you don't think she'd take it as a reflection on her ability to take care of herself? they have this thing about independence. cats.

Assuming it is hasn't made things go any more smoothly. I think it's safest to prepare for the worst either way.

When Gray develops opposable thumbs, lays in a supply of food, and takes self-defense classes, I'll trust her to take care of herself.

[Cats.

Of course.]

isn't part of preparing for the worst figuring out who you want with you, if it happens?

not sure how many rioters gray's going to take down with night school judo, thumbs or not.

I know where to go if it comes to that. For now, I want to be where I'll do the most good.

That would be why I'm entrusting Gray's safety to you, and not entrusting my safety to her.

i'm still going to be coming into work. just not sleeping there. and offering some kind of alternative - anyone wanted by either side isn't going to look for treatment somewhere they'll be a sitting duck.

i'll take good care of her.

The fact that I'm making different plans doesn't mean I doubt you.

I really will rest a little better knowing that.

she's done, isn't she? i can leave her alone with scan without risking her needing a shotgun wedding?

Wait, why isn't yours?

[Because now is the optimal time to hassle you for not getting your cat fixed, Chase.]

mines a boy.

They fix boys too.

right, but... he's not going to be bringing home twenty extra mouths to feed.

So just because you don't have to deal with the unwanted litter of kittens, you don't feel any responsibility for keeping the stray cat population down.

if i'd had him from a kitten i'd have gone for it. he's a few years old now. set in his ways.

[...several minutes later, after several typed and deleted comments about what a man you are...]

Gray is fixed.

[BECAUSE SOME OF US ARE RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERS.]

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