☎ voicemail

[as_damaged]

❝You've reached Allison Cameron, please leave a message.❞

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[ooc: you know the drill, if you need her and there's no recent post &c &c. whatever. ♥♥♥]

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☎ call

[as_damaged]

Exactly.

[She pauses, transfers the phone back to her hand, a little perplexed. She'd assumed, at first, that he needed a hand, had run into some emergency... but that doesn't seem to be the case. Is Chase actually just calling to chat?]

So-- you're doing this because you don't trust Eden's results?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Pretty much.

[Okay well maybe not just for the smalltalk. There is something pregnant in this pause.]

I guess you saw House's post on the subject. And other subjects.

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[as_damaged]

[She doesn't answer immediately. No doubt he can imagine her glancing down and to the side, folding her free arm across her body as she considers his meaning. Other subjects indeed.]

I saw.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

He didn't mean us. One of his 'new' employees apparently holed up in a different exam room.

No wonder I got complaints about how long patients had to wait.

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[as_damaged]

[That elicits a short laugh, some of her tension draining away. As much as she'd prefer not to discuss that curse, it helps to know that they're in the clear. Probably.]

Better than getting complaints that they'd walked in on it.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Complaints? [If she can find some humor, so can he.] Might have got an encore.

Anyway, don't worry about it. He's just being an arse, as usual.

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[as_damaged]

I wasn't worried.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Sure.

[Amused? Maybe. Calling bullshit too loud won't get him anywhere, though.]

Listen. How about if I brought round take out sometime this week. Tomorrow?

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[as_damaged]

[She's less worried about House finding out about her and Chase than she is about House telling Chase about about her and Chase, really. There's a long moment as she considers his offer.]

...Maybe. If there isn't a curse, if things are stable enough at work.

[It's a broad concession for her, even if it doesn't seem like one.]

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[And it remains a small miracle that he hasn't been told. Yet. Chase is aware of the concession, though, and his voice turns from tired to pleased.]

Right. So assuming these hypothetical conditions come to pass - what was it again? Stable at work, full moon, day sacred to the Earth Goddess...

Thai alright?

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[as_damaged]

Don't forget House smiling, and all new patients being diagnosed with Lupus.

Thai is fine.

[She's been feeling compassionate; which is not to say that his behavior won't be held to arbitrary and exacting standards, in spite of it.]

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

So you want Hell frozen over, too?

[He's tell her he only wants to visit because he's missed the cat, but it's not true. He needs the stability of the familiar, and here, that's more or less just Cameron in terms of anyone he's close to. As stable as she makes him feel.]

Good. Guess I should get back to counting antibodies.

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[as_damaged]

Good luck.

[She means it, but her amusement is clear, too. In his place she'd probably have trusted Eden's results; not because she's lazy, but because Eden is effective and it means something to trust in someone else.]