Hacy

Hacy is the het ship between Gregory House and Stacy Warner from the House fandom.

Season 1
SPORTS MEDICINE

Wilson tries to dodge an invite from House to a monster truck rally. He lies that he's speaking at an oncology conference, before he admits that he can't go to the rally because he's having dinner with Stacy, and that he didn't want to tell House the truth because he was worried about hurting his feelings.

THREE STORIES

Stacy walks into Princeton-Plainsboro looking for House. She runs into him as he's walking through the clinic and asks him to look at her new husband's file. He asks about her new marriage and how she was, then looked at her husband's file and shrugged it off. He said that it was nothing, but she kept insisting that there was a deeper issue.

Substitute teaching for a class on diagnostics at the hospital lecture hall, House ends up telling the story of how his infarction happened. In a flashback to years before, Stacy and House are still dating and she acts as his medical proxy as a result. House is told by Cuddy that the infarction will require an amputation of his leg, but House refuses and instead asks for a bypass to restore circulation to the leg on the off-chance that the blood will flush the blockage and restore full function. House, Cuddy, and Stacy fight on amputation versus bypass before House overpowers them and gets the bypass. However, the bypass causes extreme pain and doesn't end up working how House anticipates. He goes into wide complex tachycardia and is technically dead for over a minute. After he is brought back, the pain is still present and Stacy tries to push for him to accept the amputation, which he still refuses, claiming his idea still could work, he just needs more time. Stacy and House then have a heart-to-heart about why House refuses to treat himself like he treats his patients. House then asks Stacy to tell the doctors to put him in a coma to keep him from experiencing the worst of the pain. Cuddy agrees to it, and Stacy then asks if it's true that House's coma will mean that Stacy can be in charge of House's medical care. After House is in the coma, Stacy tells Cuddy to do a middle-ground operation where surgeons take out the dead muscle from his leg to avoid amputation while still helping the pain.

After ending the class, House calls Stacy and asks her to bring her husband and his file back in for him to look at.

HONEYMOON

Stacy and House meet for dinner, where it's revealed the dinner date is a plan to get Stacy's new husband Mark to meet House because he previously cancelled two different exams and he thinks he's just meeting Stacy for dinner. Stacy tells House that it's because he's scared of him, and that even this sudden onset fear is potentially a new symptom. As House is about to leave, Stacy's husband appears and the two start to argue passive aggressively. It ends in them testing who can chug their glass of beer the quickest. House wins, and as it turns out, House also dosed Mark's glass of beer to make him pass out to take him to the hospital. When talking to House, Wilson says that House needs to treat Mark just like every other patient and not try to focus too hard on Mark's case just to win Stacy back.

While Mark is in exploratory surgery, House finds Stacy working on case work in the waiting area and brings her coffee. House remembers her coffee order, but she said it's changed a bit since they were together. House sits next to her and she tells him that some people would be annoyed by him tapping his cane. He then launches into a hypothesis on why people sit in waiting areas for a sick or injured person, and Stacy quips back on his reasoning. He asks if she's having any affairs, ensuring that it's a medical question. She's offended at his assumption that a positive answer to the question would be justifying Mark's symptom of paranoia. She also notices that if it were a purely medical question, he wouldn't have come to ask her himself and he would have sent one of his fellows. She says that she hasn't been having an affair just as Foreman comes out to tell her that Mark is in recovery and she can see him.

Reviewing the footage of the surgery for hours, House finally finds that Mark is suffering from abdominal epilepsy, a symptom of a neurological condition. When House asks Foreman and Chase to search their home, Cameron accuses House of only wanting to search the home to spy on Stacy's life, which he denies. Stacy finds Cameron in the lab, and the two talk about House's behavior and attitude before the infarction, because Cameron is romantically interested in House. Stacy assures Cameron that he was the same before his leg as he is now.

House sits in on Mark's PET scan with Foreman and begins annoying him with questions about his and Stacy's marriage and honeymoon. His answers end up irritating House and he leaves to sit on the roof of the hospital in the evening. Stacy finds him up there because he used to spend his time there when they were dating and starts yelling at him for making Mark more paranoid after his line of questioning. After a beat, House reveals that he still doesn't know what's wrong with Mark and him and Stacy embrace.

House gestures outside of Mark's room for Stacy to talk and the situation sends Mark into a panic attack. House then asks Stacy about her friends, because he hasn't seen anyone around and he doesn't recognize anyone on the cards and gifts. He believes that the reason for that is that she didn't tell anyone that she was going to Princeton-Plainsboro for Mark's treatment, still clinging desperately onto the idea that Stacy is looking to ditch Mark to get back with House. Upset at the idea, Stacy tells House that he should stay away from her.

Later, at a bar, House calls Wilson over to join him. When he arrives, House tells him that the newest treatment for Mark isn't working. When Wilson apologizes, House says that he was actually happy for a bit, because part of him wants Mark to die so that either he can be with Stacy instead, or just to see her suffer. When House talks to Stacy the next day to clear the air and say that they're a good couple together, House finds that one of Mark's answers from his PET scan grilling was a lie, revealing a new symptom that leads to House solving the case, successfully diagnosing Mark with Acute Intermittent Porphyria. Once the case is solved, House watches from afar as Stacy and Mark lay together in his hospital bed.

Afterward, Stacy comes in to visit House in his office to thank him and tell him that she's still not over him like he hoped, but that she can't be with him. She gives him a last kiss on the cheek before leaving his office. On his way out of the hospital, Cuddy stops him to tell him that Mark will need extended treatment at the hospital, meaning that Stacy will be hired on as the hospital lawyer.

Season 2
ACCEPTANCE

House barges into Cuddy's office as her and Stacy are talking. Stacy leaves quickly realizing that House wants to speak to Cuddy alone, despite Cuddy telling her that she can handle being in the same room. Cuddy insists that House should have said something before Stacy was hired if he was uncomfortable.

While transferring the Death Row inmate from his cell to the hospital, House has Stacy write up a court order to move the patient. Upon the patient's arrival to the hospital, it's revealed that House lied about clearing the need for the court order with Cuddy and Stacy was completely unaware. House asks Stacy how it was possible for her to not know when he's lying after how long they've known each other. Later, while eating lunch in a patient's room, Wilson talks to House about the idea of needing Stacy to trust him so that they can work together successfully.

Stacy sees House walking into the hospital in the morning with a hangover after drinking with his patient to reverse him trying to poison himself and yells good morning at him. She mentions that House was always a lightweight when it came to drinking, and she tells House that she wants to cause him pain when he asks why she's speaking to him in the first place. Stacy asks if House is sending the patient back to Death Row because he possibly cured him, and before he lets the elevator door close on her, he asks if he can trust her. She says that he used to, and then he tells her that he doesn't think the patient is really cured and he's keeping him at the hospital. He then offers her the idea of either keeping Cuddy informed as part of her job or not keeping her informed to help House with his potential theory by buying him time with the patient.

Cuddy comes into House's office shortly after and reveals that Stacy chose her allegiance to the hospital over helping House, but as the patient is ready to leave, he begins excreting blood. Stacy comes into House's office and apologizes, saying she had to choose the hospital over him. House then compares her to Hitler and Pol Pot, telling her that he trusted her. She says she knows, and then House says that Wilson is an idiot and so is he. Their discussion leads to House having one of his "a-ha" moments and solving the case.

HUMPTY DUMPTY

Cuddy's judgement is clouded when the patient House is tasked with treating is one of her landscapers and hired helper for repairs around her home and she thinks she may have caused his injuries by making him work when he was feeling sick. After suggesting a radical treatment for the patient's sepsis, Cuddy confronts Stacy and Stacy says that the idea sounds like exactly something House would do. Cuddy confides in Stacy in the remarks House made, all of which Stacy claims sounds just like him.

As House walks by Wilson and Stacy with Foreman and Chase on his way to break into Cuddy's house, Stacy asks Wilson where they're going. Wilson tries to avoid the question but Stacy sees through it and Wilson folds, telling her the truth. When she keeps asking questions, Wilson asks why she's so interested in what House is doing. He then infers that she's interested in Cuddy and House because she's married to Mark but House and Cuddy are both single and work together. Stacy assures Wilson that she's just curious, and Wilson begrudgingly agrees to that idea.

Stacy finds House hiding out in a patient room in the clinic to ask how Cuddy is handling the case. House replies that she's not acting like herself and Stacy tries to make House care about Cuddy's feelings, which doesn't work. Stacy tells House to take it easy on Cuddy and he neither agrees nor disagrees.

Cuddy and House argue about whether or not to cut the patient's hand off to Stacy, who is in the middle of something and tells them to give her half an hour. After arguing about it in the hall, they return to her and House accuses Stacy of favoring Cuddy just because she doesn't want House to be right. After an argument, House is allowed to amputate and Cuddy speaks to the patient.

SPIN

Stacy bursts into House's office demanding to talk about renewing House's credentials. House states that their relationship was better when they were sleeping together. Cuddy interrupts them talking to say that she has a patient for House, and House asks Cuddy to fire Stacy because she's keeping him accountable for his paperwork.

As Wilson and House are eating lunch together in the hospital dining hall, Stacy comes in pushing Mark in his wheelchair. Wilson jokes that they only look happy together because they wanted House to see them. House then says that it's possible, considering she was upset with House hours ago. Wilson jokes that there was no other reason she would be happy with her husband and unhappy with House. Mark and Stacy roll up to Wilson and House's table and Mark and House start to argue over Stacy before Stacy pulls them apart by moving on in the dining hall to look for a table. House asks why Mark is even there, and Wilson tells him that Mark is in group therapy for people with disabilities.

Stacy walks in on House examining a patient in the clinic to hit him and yell at him for interrupting Mark's group therapy session to mess with him. Stacy accuses him of doing this just because he wants to get back together with her, which he denies, countering with the idea that he feels he can't do his job without her interrupting him all the time. She leaves upset, and the patient asks if House really used to sleep with Stacy. Shortly after, she comes back in to yell at him for not understanding Mark's struggles as a fellow disabled person.

Stacy and Cuddy tell House that someone around the case has leaked a false story that the famous patient has cancer. Stacy tells the team that she'll be sitting in on them until she finds out who leaked the story, and House complains that he will be unable to practice medicine with a lawyer present.

House comes into Stacy's office as she's packing up to apologize for "punishing" her. He asks honestly if she hates him or loves him so that they can work together better. She says that she both hates and loves him, but she doesn't hate Mark. She says that working together will get easier, just because her therapist tells her that. House then takes that to break into Stacy's therapist's office and make copies of the files.

HUNTING

The morning after stealing Stacy's therapy file, Wilson and House argue in House's apartment about the reason House would do something like that. House then shows him that Stacy is not only unhappy with Mark because they cannot have sex, but she also speaks frequently about House in her sessions.

Following a confrontation with the patient in which House pushed the patient, causing him to go into anaphylactic shock, Cuddy urges House to talk to Stacy about it because he needs legal protection. He meets with Stacy at her home as she's washing dishes and they discuss the case and any possible legal ramifications. House mentions that he thought Stacy asking to meet at her home meant that they could possibly have sex, since Mark is away at physiotherapy. Stacy assures him otherwise, that she just has to wait for the exterminator to arrive to take care of a rat she saw in the house the night before. He notes that her being awake after a certain point in the night is indicative that Mark and her are not having sex, and then begins washing Stacy's dishes. Stacy tells him that he hates washing dishes, and he tells her that he's changed. House then flirts, saying he can make sure she sleeps well that night. He assures the innuendo is referring to taking care of the rat, but Stacy tells him that the exterminator is already on the way. The two help wash and dry the dishes. Mark comes in and asks what they're doing, to which House jokingly says that they were secretly having sex by washing the dishes together. Stacy tells Mark that they're working and Mark makes fun of House before wheeling out. Stacy tells House to hurry and cure the patient.

Wilson joins House in the pharmacy as he looks for a blood thinning medication to use to kill the rat in Stacy's home. Wilson claims that this is another attempt to try to win Stacy back, but House tells him it's just a plan to get Stacy to admit her feelings for House so that Cuddy can fire her or move her. Wilson is still convinced that House wants her back and tells him to just admit it or move on. House calls Stacy's exterminator to tell them that there's no need to send someone to the home after all.

House and Stacy investigate her home's attic for the rat and a place to hide the blood thinners as a trap. House makes a mention that Mark doesn't like him, then that it doesn't seem like Mark likes Stacy either, alluding to her therapy files. House keeps dropping hints of things mentioned in the therapy notes, disguising the knowledge in the idea that House felt the same things Mark feels when him and Stacy were together after his infarction. He mentions resenting Stacy for a long time in the past tense, which Stacy catches and the moment causes slight tension between them as the fellows call to update House on the case. While on the phone and setting up the rat traps, House sees the rat eating the food he laid out while Stacy is out of the room. He tries to kill the rat with his cane, but notices that the rat has a head tilt and views it as a symptom of a disorder. House consults Foreman on the rat's symptoms without telling him that the patient is a rat, and Foreman predicts an ear or lung infection.

Stacy returns home to find that House had broken into her home to wait to catch the rat. House reveals that he both named the rat and diagnosed him with an infection or brain tumor. He explains that an infection would mean that there was some toxin in Stacy's home that needed to be sampled, which he does. The two joke and bond over the idea of a rat getting chemotherapy for a brain tumor when Stacy gets a call from Mark that he'll be home soon, and House leaves. Speaking to Wilson again that evening, House finally admits that he may be close to getting Stacy to re-admit her feelings for House.

House and Stacy lay on the floor of Stacy's attic, watching the small rat trap House made. House tells her that they have to wait there until they catch the rat, and meanwhile they discuss the rat's capabilities and personality. While talking about toxins in the rat's urine, House finds that Stacy has been smoking since Mark's diagnosis, and he mentions that Stacy did the same thing after House's infarction, and that he knew that she had hidden it from him at that time. He says that he used to tell her emotional state based on how many cigarettes she would smoke in a day. She asks why he didn't just ask her directly how he was feeling, and he says that he already knew, and he apologizes for making her miserable with his infarction. She apologizes back for going behind his back and having the surgery done. They almost kiss as the rat is caught in the trap.

Wilson jokes to House that the rat being caught means that he'll need a new scheme to get close to Stacy. House reveals that he's keeping the rat alive to treat him for his infection. After the case, Cuddy advises that House see Stacy for legal counsel after he assaults the patient's father to figure out the case. This time, House doesn't object and doesn't tell Cuddy why. When he enters Stacy's office, she already knows why he's here. He tells her that the patient's father hit him first, and Stacy asks to see. She touches his face to see the wound before telling him he's fine. She puts a cold cloth to his face as he continues to probe about Mark and Stacy getting distant, which she continues to deny. He asks why she's lying about it, and she finally figures out that House broke into her therapist's office to read her file. She is outraged and upset that he manipulated her and he argues that she wanted it all along because she never stopped him visiting the home or telling Mark about it. She tells him that she's not interested anymore and kicks him out of her office.

The end-of-episode montage includes Stacy and Mark cuddling together on the couch and House alone on his couch drinking as the rat runs on a wheel on his table.

THE MISTAKE

Stacy is tasked with coaching House and Chase through their legal defense after accidentally killing a patient before the disciplinary hearing that is the day after. Stacy and Cuddy argue about Stacy avoiding House after their argument over her therapy files, but Cuddy does grant Stacy's request of working with Chase first before House. House tells Wilson that he thinks that Stacy is overreacting about the file, to which Wilson compares House to Nixon while they play finger football with a coin in House's office. Stacy walks in asking for Chase, and is unamused by House's jokes. She serves him the paper to move the disciplinary hearing without informing him of his legal rights and he signs.

Wilson asks House why Stacy is only coaching Chase and not House as well, House says that he doesn't need coaching because he wasn't culpable. House asks Wilson if he thinks it's because Stacy hates him, and Wilson says that he does. Stacy takes a break with Chase and tries to ask Cameron and Foreman why Chase would make a mistake in patient care. Both mention asking House, because he knows them better than they know each other, and Stacy is frustrated by the idea. Finally, she talks to him while he's examining a patient, asking about Chase's mistake. House says that Chase didn't mess up and avoids Stacy's questions. As she's leaving, House finally tells her the truth about Chase's mistake, where he yelled at Chase for not doing an adequate check-up on the patient after her test results came back. While arguing after House shows more of his terrible bedside manner with the clinic patient, Stacy pulls him back and asks why House didn't fire Chase after he made a mistake and what he's hiding about the case. House jokes that he's gay, deflecting and not telling her anything.

Stacy returns to House for more details on how he secured a surgeon to do a live-donor transplant on the patient, and gets frustrated when he doesn't tell her the truth. He's about to leave when Stacy tells him that all of his unethical motives will be safe with her due to attorney-client privilege, and that he'll want to take advantage of that just because he knows it will torture Stacy that she can't reveal any of his illegal activities to anyone. She gets progressively angrier as he tells her about blackmailing the surgeon then going through with the blackmail even after doing the surgery, and then House stops to say that he doesn't want to spend any more time pretending like her anger isn't based purely on him manipulating her with her therapy files. He articulates that she's not really mad about him breaking in to take the files, but that she was only upset because he let her know what he had done, and he genuinely apologizes for that. When continuing to recount his story of the events of the patient's care, Chase says that Stacy takes breaks to see House and comes back to take out her misplaced anger on Chase while he tells the story.

Watching Chase give his story to the disciplinary committee, Stacy comes to sit next to House. House asks why she didn't try to make House look bad instead of Chase, and Stacy says that House is her client just as much as Chase is. House then suggests that one of them needs to leave the hospital to keep their feelings for each other from messing something else up. Stacy admits that she does still have positive feelings for House, and she says she doesn't know what to do after House asks.

FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE

House and Stacy travel to Baltimore to defend his billings. Stacy is able to manipulate the Medicaid officer into moving quickly through the billings and they get done hours earlier than expected. House says that he booked the two dinner reservations, but Stacy reminds him of his flight time, saying that she has a flight a few hours later. House says that it's strange that she would check his flight time just to make sure she was on a different one, and then asks where her crucifix necklace is. She claims that she left it at the jeweler's to be cleaned, which House doesn't believe.

Due to weather complications, all flights are delayed and House and Stacy run into each other at the airport while they wait. They sit together and House revealed that he got Stacy coffee. House asks again why Stacy doesn't have her crucifix necklace, claiming that she's lying about leaving it at the jeweler's because she always has her own jewelry cleaner at home to keep herself from missing wearing it. She asks if he has a book to read to avoid him talking to her. House reads for a bit before reigniting the conversation, saying that he theorizes that she either left it behind on purpose or on mistake, explaining that it was impossible for her to leave it on purpose because it has sentimental value. She asks why it means so much to him and to leave it alone. He then wonders if the clasp for it broke, but that she didn't have it in her purse with her. She then breaks and tells him that she left it at home on accident because her and Mark had a fight before she left for the airport to Baltimore. House says the argument will blow over eventually, but Stacy tells him that they fight seriously over the smallest things now and it's upsetting to her. She says that her and House's relationship also ended by arguing about the little things, and they bond a bit over it.

After more wait, the flights are grounded until the next morning. House is going to sleep on a cot in the airport at first, before Stacy offers him to come over to her hotel room for the night instead. House asks if Mark knows about the situation and she only gives a vague answer. When they get to the hotel room, House asks what's going on, and Stacy says that she's scared that something may happen with them while she's vulnerable after a fight with Mark. Stacy compares their relationship to an addiction to spicy curry, saying that too much of House is abrasive, but she still misses him after a while without him. They kiss in the hotel room until House's fellows call again with questions about the case and he has to leave the room to brainstorm.

House brainstorms on the wall of the abandoned airport hall and Stacy joins him when he can't figure it out. The morning after, Stacy worries that he'll be late for boarding his plane. He's able to solve the case just as airport security comes to make him board the plane to fly back. House talks about the patient falling in love and changing as he looks over at Stacy waiting for him to be done with the call. On the way to board the flight, House compares the patient's struggle with his wife leaving him to Stacy and him not being able to be together. He says that the patient wanted to change so badly just to make things work, and Stacy reminds him that the patient still couldn't end up changing despite that.

NEED TO KNOW

House comes into the hospital earlier than he usually does, as well as with an ironed shirt, and Cuddy and Wilson agree that something's wrong and Wilson goes to investigate. He asks what happened in Baltimore, and House tells him that it was just a kiss. Wilson worries what it could mean for both Stacy's marriage and House's emotional well-being, but House deflects any of the sincerity of the message as Cameron brings him a new case. Wilson reminds him that this problem won't just go away magically.

Wilson visits Stacy in her office, asking about what happened in Baltimore. Stacy asks why Wilson is so worked up over the kiss, and Wilson tells her that she shouldn't be playing with House's emotions. Wilson reminds her that he was left to care for House physically and emotionally after Stacy left shortly after the infarction, and that she's playing with House's emotions by stringing him out. Stacy confides in Wilson that she doesn't know where she wants to go with this, and that she's unsure if House isn't just stringing her out instead.

House bursts into Wilson's office while he's rolling a joint for a patient to ask about what Stacy told Wilson, knowing that he would have to go see Stacy to talk about what House told him. Wilson tells House to talk to Stacy herself instead, but still tells House that he thinks that Stacy wants him to do something to show her that he's serious about her. House comes into Stacy's office asking if she's working late just to avoid Mark. She tells him that she's going to leave the hospital soon to move back to Short Hills because Mark's physical therapy is almost complete. House claims that she's running away because their kiss in Baltimore meant something. She says that she loves Mark, and House tells her that he doesn't want her to leave. The scene after shows that House and Stacy slept together after they left the hospital.

Stacy finds House sitting on the roof. She talks to him about a cheesy note he left on her desk and they hug. He asks if she told Mark about their affair, and she says that she didn't because she doesn't know how to. House tells her that she has to choose between a life with House and a life with Mark, claiming that it's a simple decision. Stacy comes into Cuddy's office asking about how House was a as a person after she left him. Cuddy tells her that he was the same as before, and Stacy asks if he's capable of having a real relationship and Cuddy asks what happened in Baltimore. She explains that they officially had an affair after Baltimore and she tells Cuddy that she's still not sure about leaving Mark for House.

Mark finds House as he's walking through the halls of the hospital and asks House for help about Stacy shutting him out. House tells him that he can't help and tries to go up the stairs to avoid Mark, but Mark pulls himself out of his wheelchair to grab onto House and tell him that he knows Stacy and him are having an affair. House walks over him and leaves him in the stairwell.

House visits Stacy in her office, where she tells House that she plans to tell Mark and leave him to stay with House at the hospital. He tells her not to, and she asks what changed as soon as she's here for him. He tells her that Mark will do anything for her, and he won't. He anticipates them being happy for a few months until he ruins their relationship and she leaves him again, just like last time. Stacy tells him that it doesn't have to be like that, but House tells her that it does, and he apologizes before leaving. As Wilson is leaving, he sees Stacy packing up in her office and he finds House up on the roof. House tells Wilson what happened and Wilson calls him an idiot, believing that House only sent Stacy away because House hates himself and wants to be miserable, so he doesn't want to get close to anyone and risk changing as a person.

Season 3
SON OF COMA GUY

Stacy is not present in this episode. However, while driving to Atlantic City with House and Wilson to solve the case of House's patient, the patient's father asks House if he's ever been in love. House responds affirmatively, to which the patient's father asks how he met the person he was in love with. House explains that him and Stacy met at a paintball tournament where the teams were doctors and lawyers, and she successfully shot him while playing.

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Hacy is the fifth most popular ship on the House M.D. AO3 tag. The ship is the most popular ship for Stacy Warner and fifth most popular ship for Gregory House.

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