Day 26: Doctor's Office #2, Dr. House (Fourth Shift)

[damned_doctors]

The good thing about self-righteous patients was that they usual didn't stick around in House's office for long. Same went for the rest of the people at this damn place, all of them boring and all of them unworthy of House's time. The diagnostician wanted to head back to their crappy temporary living quarters in town, but Wilson was his ride and

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[outtokillhim]

The thing about outwardly grumpy people; the type like this doctor, was that it was so hard to scope out their purpose for being so, and thus find a way to manipulate them. Most of them were pissed for entirely different reasons and could respond to anything from paternal pity to collaborative bitching.

The fact that Envy had been given a short sleeved uniform to wear that clearly showed the bandaged gashes on his wrist severely limited his potential characters to play. Denying and saying that he wasn't some snivelling self pitying kid who did it to himself would do little good. He was crazy after all.

He wasn't particularly annoyed, but he supposed he should stir up a little to match the patient character he was inevitably going to be percieved as.

"So, do you have an injection to cure my crazy, or do we have to talk about feelings?" He asked as he slumped into a chair.

[damned_doctors]

"If you're talking about drugs, keep your eyes off 'em; they're mine." House replied with his usual amount of sarcasm, though he took a glance at the obvious injuries on the patient's arms before looking back to the magazine in his hands, his tone pitiless. "Guess I'm doing a sucky job, then."

[outtokillhim]

"So bad a job that you've failed before you've begun? It's a wonder you keep your career," Envy's act was outlined by his honest comfort in being a sarcastic bitch once in a while. It came so naturally, "Does this mean you just get to ship me on home?"

Envy spoke this in an easy nonchalant manner, but one that was carefully worded, in that he hoped to squeeze a little something out of his doctor about what his story extended to beyond the walls of the institute. Even the lie might betray something about the truth of the matter. False pretenses were typically grounded in some form of reality.

[damned_doctors]

"It's a wonder you keep your hands, and no." House flipped a page of the publication he was reading. "Are you really enough of an idiot to think half-assed suicide attempts are going to get you out of the nuthouse?"