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[thewarningafter]

And yet you're the one asking me for help. Yeah, I know, I'm a brainless do-gooder or whatever else you're going to call me this time.

And I'm sorry you got shot. Really. Never been through that myself but it's not exactly on my bucket list, either.

[rubikscomplex]

i said sometimes
if you were a brainless do-gooder all the time
you'd be as annoying as elric or watson
you're selfish, too
i like that
flaws give you character
beyond self-sacrificial moron

you've died plenty of other ways, though
getting shot is probably one of least unpleasant things to ever happen to me after this place
don't add getting your tongue cut out to the bucket list, either

[thewarningafter]

Gee, thanks. Glad I passed your litmus test; I'd hate to think I wasn't entertaining you. And I wasn't about to. I've had enough dismemberment without getting specific enough to try the tongue.

You asked how I felt about garroting, once. It's not a favorite, it's -- it's too slow. The slow ones are the hardest. Shooting might not be so bad if they shot the right part of you, but getting shot in the neck....

[rubikscomplex]

oh, get over yourself
it's a compliment

i was out for the neck
chest hurt enough
ever seen "reservoir dogs"?
now mr. orange had it bad
i'm also pretty sure that guy had twice as much blood as any human being i've ever seen

[thewarningafter]

You were just saying that you like that I'm not over myself.

Mhmm, twice as much blood and half as many ears -- no, that was the cop. The other cop, the one they knew was a cop. You'd be surprised how long it can take a person to bleed out, though.

[rubikscomplex]

i admire that you have flaws
they still make you a whiny asshole

and no
i wouldn't be
although, most of my bleeding patients are doing the whole bleeding thing way faster then they should be
admittedly
that makes them more interesting, i find

[thewarningafter]

I used to pick my patients by who was the most interesting, too.

[rubikscomplex]

and then you stopped being a doctor
so you don't have patients anymore

[It's a low blow, but he feels a 'lesson' coming on.]

[thewarningafter]

[Wow, House, not everything is about you.]

And you got stranded in a snowy wasteland, so you don't have patients anymore either.

[rubikscomplex]

i've treated people here
have you?

[thewarningafter]

Not for cuts and bruises, no. I've helped a few patients, though. You know, psychopaths...addicts....

[rubikscomplex]

[There's a delay in House's reply because, okay... he walked into that one. But there's a question that raises and he's just going to skip past being Stephen's patient.]

you're not treating the clown
so which psychopath is that?
gray?

[thewarningafter]

Yeah, he asked me to --

[Stephen abruptly hangs up. Doctor-patient confidentiality, House, for crying out loud.]