The public address system is fun.

[housepital]

"Dibrell Membrane, Dibrell Membrane, please report to the Superintendent's office. Dibrell Membrane, immediately."

Shades of high school, right? Also, it sounds like House has a new assistant.

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[agent_m0thman]

So much like high school. Several other orderlies even 'OOooo' at him as he heads toward House's office.

Dib does not have happy memories of getting called to anyone's office, ever. He fidgets like a guilty kid in front of House's new assistant, wishing the floor would swallow him. Instead, he gets informed he can head on in.

Damn it.

"Uhm... You wanted to see me, sir?"

[housepital]

Nervous minions, such a wonderful feeling. Dib, you are good for an aspiring mad scientist's soul.

"Are you stupid?"

[agent_m0thman]

Dib's only only minion setting is 'nervous'.

"Possibly. What have I done?"

[housepital]

"Maybe it's amnesia. Do you remember, at all, being suspended a few months ago?"

[agent_m0thman]

"For something I didn't do. Yes, I remember." Dib does not like how this conversation is going. Or how it started.

[housepital]

"Do you remember the conversation we had when I allowed you to come back?"

[agent_m0thman]

"That it's aways good to have a scapegoat around? And to avoid the G-Man." Dib was drinking, see.

[housepital]

"To stop being an idiot, actually. Why are half the patients in the Stupidly Crazy Ward on first name terms with you?"

[agent_m0thman]

"Because my first name is funny?" It is, Dib knows.

"And, well. Simon went into the chat. Eddie runs the chat. And Mr. Dent is friends with my girlfriends boss. When Dr. Stark was in Arkham, they game me the 'meet the parents' interview. Dr.'s Isley and Quinzel did it to fluster me, and Patient I-44 does what he wants."

That was all the patients in Stupidly Crazy Ward. Oops.

[housepital]

"So... all of them. They like you."

[agent_m0thman]

"I don't think they like me. Unless you mean like a cat likes a cricket...." Something to pull apparent and watch flail.

[housepital]

"You're visiting on your breaks again?"

You may man the camera room, Dib, but House is Doctor God.

[agent_m0thman]

"I visited Eddie. Once. Because he has cancer. I brought him juice. And when he didn't want to say anything, I ended up talking to Mr. Dent, who I kicked in the face recently, and Simon, who knows more about Gotham's underground then anyone, ever. I've never 'visited' before. I've done pill rounds. And that's it."

Dib is aware none of that sounds good, but damn it. He didn't do anything but show some common curtsey.

[housepital]

No,it doesn't.

"Bring him juice with his pills. No special visits.

"Now... what's Simon telling you about the Underground?"

[agent_m0thman]

Dib will not look like a teenager about to throw a tantrum. He'll look like a Dib about to throw a tantrum, which looks different.

More blank faced and monotone.

"Yes sir." Dib is not going to mention this to Eddie. It'll just turn into a 'No one can be my friend, poor me!' rant.

"Garoux hasn't told me anything, actually. He once mentioned in chat several subway lines that he knew off shoots of that were abandoned. I asked him about it, and he claimed he had no idea what I was talking about."

[housepital]

"... So, you're seriously asking the psychopathic, delusional, cannibal where to spend your days off?"

This is a whole new level of looking at you weird, Dib.