Marthteen

Marthteen is the femslash ship between Martha Masters and Remy "Thirteen" Hadley from the House fandom.

Season 7
THE DIG

House picks up Thirteen when she is released from prison. The two go on an adventure to The 9th Annual Greater Schenectady Spud Gun Competition, of which House is a contestant in and he enlists Thirteen to help him win, as he's only ever been second place. While House is away with Thirteen, the group at the hospital attempt to cure a husband and wife that live in a hoarding house. After driving back home because House was arrested for threatening a long-time opponent, the team is on the phone with him about the condition of the patient. Masters explains that she thinks that the couple being unable to have a child in the past caused the wife to start hoarding. Since House did not tell the team that he was with Thirteen, she tries silently giving him ideas, which he ignores. She finally yells out her idea and the team asks if he is with Thirteen, since Chase, Foreman and Taub hadn't seen her in over a year. House tells them that they can question her when she returns to work on that Monday. Masters anxiously asks for confirmation, and Thirteen asks if she can talk and give her idea. With Thirteen's help, they solve the case.

LAST TEMPTATION

It is Masters' last day with House, since she is still only a med student. In order for her to leave, she must complete the final test on her logbook for her residency, a final lumbar puncture. When she walks into the office in the morning, she meets Thirteen as she is messing with a television. She asks if she is "Doctor Thirteen" and Thirteen gives her her real name, Remy. They shake hands as the rest of the team walk in to hug and welcome her back to the office. The team conduct a differential and House hammers Masters about her signing up for his internship before the team leaves to run tests. She tells him that she needs one more LP for her log to officially be done and be eligible to sign up for his internship. House tells Thirteen to take Masters with her to draw blood from the patient and also sarcastically tells Thirteen to "remind her of all the perks" of working under him if she chooses the internship.

While Thirteen draws the patient's blood, her and Masters bond over being young and gifted, as the patient is only 16 and on her way to set a sailing record. Masters tells her about her being in college at 13, which the patient finds interesting. Thirteen tells them that she is done drawing blood and says that her and Masters will be back soon for another, but adds that Masters can say if she wants to keep bonding with the patient over their feats as children. The patient then asks if there's some way that they can make the tests go faster, since she's leaving to set her sailing record in a few days. Thirteen and Masters look at each other before Masters suggests a treadmill test to achieve the same goal as their blood drawing test. Thirteen is impressed by the suggestion until Masters is paged about an LP she could do for her log. Thirteen tells her that she can go and she'll finish up with the patient. Unfortunately, a fellow student tricked Masters about the LP and she left for nothing.

Masters goes to find House in the ER and finds House and Thirteen talking behind a curtain about where Thirteen was while she was gone, since House lied to the team earlier in the day and said she was in drug rehab instead of prison. Masters learns the truth and House finds her listening when he pulls the curtain back. Thirteen is concerned that Masters will tell the rest of the team, but House assures her that she won't and tells Masters not to tell anyone about what she heard. Thirteen leaves and Masters sees that House and Thirteen did an LP without her as well. House asks her again about if she'll be in his internship or not, and she tells him that she will accept. He is happy and takes her log to falsely mark that she did her final LP so that she can turn in her logbook and get the internship. She is conflicted, as she doesn't like to lie. She then gets a page about the patient and leaves.

After another differential and finding that House and Wilson both have chickens in their offices, Masters asks Thirteen and Foreman what the chickens are for as they run another test on the patient. Thirteen tells her that they have a bet on who can keep a chicken in their offices the longest without being caught by security. Foreman then tells Masters that he's glad she took the internship because he thinks it's valuable to have someone on the team who knows something other than House's rules. Masters complains that House won't let her on unless she compromises the personal rules Foreman is congratulating her for, like not lying or cutting corners, because he forged the LP signature on her logbook. Foreman tells her to just cut House's corners, which she says she also doesn't like because it's still lying. Thirteen reframes it, saying that lying about a lie is like telling the truth. She tells them that doing right by her rules means that she still needs her last LP. Thirteen tells her that she knows where she can find one, and asks if Foreman can finish the test on his own. He agrees and Thirteen leaves with Masters.

The LP Thirteen was referring to is one that she needs done on herself, so her and Masters talk while Masters does the procedure. Thirteen encourages her with positive comments about her technique, and tells Masters that she doesn't need to skirt around the issue of her Huntington's because she's at peace with it herself. After a few beats of silence, Masters asks Thirteen why she feels the need to lie about where she was to the rest of the team. Thirteen tells her that the real reason is personal and she doesn't feel comfortable sharing. Masters asks why she couldn't just say that instead of lying, and Thirteen laughs. She asks how long Masters has worked with House and the team to not realize that nondisclosure will only make the others go out of their ways to investigate to find the real answer. Masters questions if Thirteen thinks that there would be room on the team for someone who isn't so nosy and who does things by-the-book. Thirteen disagrees, conflicting with Foreman's previous answer, adding that it's not possible unless House chooses that he wants someone like that.

Masters seems dejected after that answer, and that feeling continues later into the evening at another differential. After looking at scans and discussing the next course of action, House correctly guesses that Masters cheated his rules by giving Thirteen an LP earlier based on Thirteen's physicality. House is angry that Masters broke his rules. Masters, upset, asks why he's so against her wanting to be honest and procedural. Thirteen asks if her and Foreman can leave the room while they argue, and House refuses as he berates Masters. He gets on his computer and revokes his internship opportunity, leaving Masters to find an internship elsewhere.

Fanon
Since the two doctors meet when Masters is ready to leave House's team, the ship is much less well-known than others in the fandom. The ship is considered a rarepair, since there are only two fanfictions under the ship on AO3 and only a few fanfictions on fanfiction.net. For those interested in the ship, though, the main potential lies in the limited dynamic between the two. Masters is young and naive in general, while Thirteen is not only canonically bisexual, but also is experienced in House's unethical ways. Thirteen is also notably kinder and softer to Masters, instantly giving Masters her real name rather than "Thirteen" and offering to help her finish her log. In their interactions, Thirteen is regularly encouraging and supportive with Masters compared to House or the rest of the team, who have either previously viewed her as a nuisance or incompetent compared to the rest of them.

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