poly_chromatic | 013: VIDEO

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house m.d. - robert chase

013: VIDEO

[Lab coat on, it's another general address. Anyone paying attention might note he rarely (deliberately) uses the network for anything personal.]

All non-emergency surgical procedures are officially cancelled until further notice. The hospital can no longer guarantee a non-contaminated operating space. If anyone knows a way to hold the sand back, or of somewhere that's not emulating the Sahara, please get in touch. When I want to go to work in flip-flops I'll open that beach shack.

[He reaches forward to turn off the monitor. Hesitates.]

Oh, and for those of you who weren't taught it when you were three: don't take candy from strangers.

[ooc: he's eaten dozens of the hearts, but he's unlikely to be telling -you- that. His secrets are available in multiples and still open for takers.]

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I'm fine.

[Isn't he always. He bends to grab for the bag.]

You're not.

[She looks at him and moves in a bit]

Why'd you ask me about her? No one talks about her anymore, I bound her.

[He sighs rather than argue, lifting his head but not moving back.]

Sometimes things come back.

[He does mean the memory, not the sid.]

I can't predict it.

Oh.

[Pause]

Just like that? Random?

Random. Not quite like that.

[And the paper bag thumps against one side of his ribcage.]

Don't tell anyone.

Who would I tell? Frankie? Frankie doesn't care.

[House, maybe.]

I wouldn't tell House or Cameron, either.

Yes, I'm sure your boyfriend loves me right now. [Srsly, Eden.] Just... keep it to yourself.

[A snap]

I'm not going to fucking tell anyone, all right?

[Seethe just a bit, but she's quieter now]

What else did you remember?

[It's important to him - absurdly important to him - that she doesn't. Which is why he takes a breath and levels his voice before he replies.]

About you? Not much.

Not much is still something.

[He twists one corner of his mouth, one eye screws closed.]

You lived with me. And... something with a lamp.

Yeah, I lived with you. For a long while.

[She smiles, just a touch]

If it comes back, it'll come back. Unless you want me to try and speed it along?

No. [It's not quite a flinch, but a literal expression of shying away from the idea.] I want to let what's resting rest.

[Which, he knows, is withholding something or some one she cared about.]

I'm sorry.

[Honestly.]

For what?

For that. So, where's the best place for the view?

[She shakes her head and goes up the hill]

D'you get a candy of mine?

I didn't get any. It's early for dessert.

[She raises her eyebrows]

Fuckin' restrained of you.

[But she's smirking a bit]

[His lying tells haven't really changed. But he can still do that innocent smile so well.]

I'm always fucking restrained.

Once you attacked Amory with a lamp.

[Snort]

Weren't restrained then.

[At the top of the hill is a bench and she goes to take a seat]

I'm sure my reasons were excellent. How about you?

[Beside her, he stretches his legs out as he sits. His office has a view, one of the good things going for it, but this one's preferable.]

Ate one.

[She opens her soup and takes a bite]

[which reminds him to delve into his bag, holding up the tub as if 'salad with fish' were an obscure description.]

Put you off?

[Well, it's his favorite of the salads she makes him, with the dressing on the side.]

Dunno. This curse comes every year and every year I eat one of those shite hearts before I remember they taste like crap.

Which means every year you learn one thing someone doesn't want you to know.

[He raises his eyebrows, chewing.]

Must remember that.

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