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Doctor or Vet? [In Progress; Closed]

Apr 30, 2008 19:16

WHO: Yu Kanda and Gregory House
WHAT: Kanda visits the doctor, but this time not for his own sake.
WHERE: House's place
WHEN: Dead of night; the day the blood curse increased and everyone started acting like cats.

( It was unnerving; he didn't remember his body feeling so light beneath his skin. )

Ω kanda yuu, Ω gregory house

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causticguy May 1 2008, 21:18:52 UTC

House was in a bad mood when the knock sounded. A very bad mood. The sort of bad mood precipitated by a diagnosis where everything seemed to be going wrong at once and the patient was declining faster than House could come up with theories to try and save them.

The patient, in this case? Rivelata. The whole damn city. The whole damn world. And it wasn't that House hadn't been prepared for some backlash. He knew that he would be labeled a traitor for turning in Schuldig and Farfarello. The benefits of that choice, however, were worth more than his standing in the local popularity polls.

What he hadn't been prepared for? This damn cat plague. And watching the people he cared about-all one of them-pawing and nuzzling journal pages and getting sicker and sicker by the hour, while he sat around under this inescapably necessary gag order knowing that nothing he could say would make any difference now because no one was going to listen to him ( ... )

madmugenskillz May 2 2008, 01:55:55 UTC

"Stating my complaints would require standing here all night which I have no intention of doing," Kanda said simply. His lack of usual bite within his voice indicated the absolute seriousness of Kanda's visit, and killing the doctor was not on the agenda tonight. "Let me in... Doctor House. What I have to say can only be said indoors. I have two reasons for my visit tonight that I'm sure you would be very interested in."

causticguy May 2 2008, 04:11:31 UTC

House glared at Kanda, eyes narrowed and assessing, but he actually was curious to hear what this was about, and more than a little eager to get the whole thing (whatever it was) over as quickly as possible.

Besides, there was the matter of what he'd seen in the journal only a few hours before, and if the nose prints and scratches were any indication, Kanda was not only afflicted with the city's latest scourge, he was a lot more conscious of what was happening to him than most. House stepped back, opening the door enough to let Kanda inside and then closing it behind him.

madmugenskillz May 2 2008, 21:42:37 UTC

Stepping inside, Kanda was immediately aware of the changes of the scents outside to the scents in here, and he fought of the immediate instinct to go poking his nose around every corner to sample every smell. He managed to suppress these new instincts from taking over, forcing himself to relax a bit as the door closed ( ... )

causticguy May 3 2008, 20:32:45 UTC

The frown hadn't left House's face.

While it was true enough that the majority of his face-to-face interactions with Kanda had taken place while the young man was either unconscious or stoned on codeine and masquerading as a girl, there was still absolutely no mistaking the shift in demeanor--which was, at least on its surface, very nearly downright deferential--or the change in hairdo, for that matter. It was on the register of a Who are you and what have you done with Kanda? kind of moment.

O-kay. Well, this was unexpected. And it was just a mess of complicated, too, wasn't it. Because knowing that Kanda's death threat hadn't been genuine, while it probably should have been comforting, wasn't: it wasn't House's own life he was worried about at the moment, and having his motives be suspect ( ... )