Foreteen

Foreteen is the het ship between Eric Foreman and Remy "Thirteen" Hadley from the House fandom.

Season 4
WHATEVER IT TAKES

After trying to make things work at New York Mercy Hospital when he quit House's practice, Foreman returns when he can't find any jobs because House's reputation has been following him. Cuddy places him as supervisor over House's current game of attempting to find a new batch of fellows from a lecture hall of potential candidates because Thirteen previously killed a patient under the stress of House's game. House is mysteriously called out by a man who turns out to be working with the CIA for a consult on a top-secret case, leaving Foreman in charge as him and the remaining candidates get a new patient. The fellows are not taking Foreman's authority seriously, as they assume that he's operating as House's eyes and ears while he's gone. The group still view the patient's care as a game that they can win by saying the right thing, which frustrates Foreman, who is genuinely concerned about helping the patient. After Taub and Amber go rogue and give the patient treatment without Foreman's knowledge, the patient is paralyzed. In the office during differential, Foreman refuses to acknowledge the paralysis as a new symptom because he believes that Amber and Taub caused it when mixing two opposing medications. He begins ranting to them about the dangers of their actions when Thirteen interrupts him to say that she would rather talk about the differential than hear Foreman keep yelling at Taub and Amber. Foreman snaps at her that none of them actually care about the patient and are being programmed by House to believe that their jobs are games and puzzles rather than serious responsibilities with patients' lives.

DON'T EVER CHANGE

House is intrigued by his newest patient, a Hasidic Jewish woman that collapsed unexpectedly at her wedding. She is a convert to Hasidism, which House's mind sees as sudden change consistent as a symptom of porphyria. His porphyria idea is inevitably shut down as new symptoms arise. House orders Foreman and Thirteen to run both an MRI and an FMRI to check for blood clots that could cause a stroke. In the aside room while the test is being done, Foreman and Thirteen have a conversation about the patient.

Foreman questions how the woman, who previously was a drug addict music producer, could change so drastically to converting to one of the strictest sects of Judaism. Thirteen explains that she thinks that society is too quick to oversimplify people into a set of characteristics that can be neatly organized into a set of boxes. She specifically mentions that things are too often a dichotomy in other's minds, when things can be more of a spectrum or unsorted entirely. Foreman smirks and notes that Thirteen's comments make it sound like she's been oversimplified for something in the past. He then presses on the button of the microphone used to communicate with the patient to tell her to move slightly for the scan. After he talks to the patient, Thirteen nervously clarifies that no one can accurately describe themselves in a certain amount of words, so she doesn't understand why anyone would want to have someone else do the same to them from the outside. Foreman ponders the insight, noting that it may be better for some to keep themselves a mystery, since there can be no categories to build if no one knows about one's history at all, a tease to the fact that Thirteen has remained the most mysterious and shut-off of the winning new fellows. She tells him that she thinks he's oversimplifying her now. He presses the microphone button again to talk to the patient, but while he holds it down, he tells Thirteen that he knows she's secretly bisexual, which is why he hypothesizes that she's been keeping her life a mystery to everyone else. Thirteen is shocked at his read of her, and stares in surprise without saying anything. Foreman says that a denial would have been more effective to cover her tracks than her silent stare, then finally tells the patient to move again. He lets his finger off the microphone button again, both of them unaware that the patient has now heard that Thirteen is bisexual. Foreman continues, saying that he knew because people who dislike societal boxes usually don't fit into any. She still doesn't deny it, only telling Foreman that she can tell he's been working for House for a long time. She is about to say something when Foreman clarifies that her sexuality doesn't make a difference to him. House then walks in to check on them, and they drop the subject.

NO MORE MR. NICE GUY

Nurses in New Jersey are on strike, leaving Princeton-Plainsboro without nurses for a few days. House finds his new patient in the pandemonium, as well as having to take on the burden of paperwork that is usually done by nurses. The main paperwork Cuddy demands of him is performance reviews of each of his fellows. Since House is uninterested in the work and noticeably terrible at giving constructive feedback, Foreman takes the work off of him and offers to give Taub, Thirteen and Kutner their reviews. House, while amused at Foreman wanting to do the work, is more than happy to give up the duty. That night, Foreman calls Thirteen into House's office to give her his feedback. He starts on the review, and she dodges it by leaving to run another test on the patient. The next day, in the differential, each fellow has a different idea of what could be causing the patient's new symptom. House asks them to vote for which option is better. Obviously, each fellow votes for their own idea, leaving Foreman to be the tiebreaker. He votes for Thirteen's idea.

Season 5
LUCKY THIRTEEN

Reeling from her recent Huntington's Disease diagnosis, Thirteen begins engaging in risky behaviors like drugs, alcohol and casual sex. She hooks up with a woman one night, and after they are done her hookup begins seizing. Thirteen takes her to Princeton-Plainsboro, and she becomes House's newest patient when House is interested that she was Thirteen's fling. In the initial differential, the fellows take turns grilling Thirteen about diagnostically relevant information about the case. House makes fun of her for her reaction to her diagnosis. She says that the patient's seizure was likely caused from dehydration from a mix of alcohol and drugs ingested. Foreman asks Thirteen if she was doing drugs that night as well. Thirteen deflects, claiming her answer is not diagnostically relevant.

After the patient crashes, House proposes that the patient is a frequent drug user, which could explain her symptoms. Thirteen is frustrated at that, and Foreman asks her what's wrong. She explains that she knows that House's train of thought now entails him having to search her apartment for any potential drugs the patient could have left there, and that she doesn't want him there. House confirms and says he'll search the home, but Foreman volunteers to follow him just so that he doesn't do anything to Thirteen's home. At the home, Foreman keeps his search strictly professional while House explores for more sexually-charged items in the bedroom. While snooping, he finds an inhaler in Thirteen's drawer. Foreman tells House that he should try having conversations with his fellows instead of just stealing from them and breaking into their homes. He claims that "conversations go both ways," and then him and House laugh at the joke of Thirteen also "going both ways."

House and Thirteen believe the patient could have calcification in her kidneys, and they put the patient under exploratory surgery to confirm. As the patient is being operated on, Thirteen watches from above in the observation deck. Foreman walks in and joins her in watching the surgery. He notes that he saw that she was nervous in the previous differential about the possibility of what House could have found while snooping around her apartment. Foreman confirms that he found whatever she was anxious about and produces a folded paper. She takes it from him and stuffs it in her coat pocket. The paper contains her newest Huntington's test, which he explains reveals that her disease is progressing rapidly, explaining why she was engaging in self-destructive behaviors. She thinks that he's judging her for her actions, but he tells her that he thinks she should be taking action to slow the Huntington's progression, like drugs and physical therapies. She tells him sarcastically that those things sound like a blast, telling him that she's really having fun doing what she's currently doing, claiming that she's only cramming as much life in as she can before the disease worsens. Foreman is concerned for her, but she shrugs him off and leaves the observation room, wishing him a good night.

The next morning, House and the fellows run a differential after the patient crashes after the surgery. Notably, Thirteen is absent and House mentions it. Foreman stands up for her and tells House that she's probably just late because the traffic is bad. House doesn't care. It is revealed that Thirteen was in an exam room, trying to give herself IV fluids after another night of drugs and partying. Cuddy finds her and intends to make her take a drug test, but House saves Thirteen from it by instead firing her for her recent slacking and reckless behavior.

Foreman finds Thirteen looking at the patient's lung scans in the lightbox room, and tells her that he heard about her firing. She tells him that she's there to look for a way to be rehired. Foreman apologizes to her for invading her privacy by finding the Huntington's test, but she tells him that she didn't mind. She asks if he can fill her in on what the team discussed while she was gone in an attempt to find something House may have missed as her ticket back onto the team. Foreman obliges and catches her up, but ends it by saying that he still thinks she's being foolish with the way she's handling her disease's progression. She tells her that she knows, before finding that the patient has lung cysts, something the team missed, and running to tell them. Foreman follows her as they find that the team accidentally punctured one of the cysts and Thirteen saves her. Foreman congratulates her on the save. When catching House up after the fact, Foreman vouches that Thirteen was able to both find what was wrong and save the patient when Taub and Kutner couldn't. House isn't impressed and doesn't rehire her. Foreman asks House to give her another chance, but House thinks that she doesn't deserve it for missing the morning differential. Taub then joins in on Thirteen's side, but nothing works. House orders the team to do a biopsy and Foreman leaves with them, but not without first apologizing to Thirteen.

After House sends her on errands to spend time with the patient, as well as tell her that she's dying, House gives Thirteen her job back. As they talk about it, House notices that Thirteen's lips are cracked. This leads to him finding the correct diagnosis for the patient, which ends up not being a death sentence. That night, in the locker room, Foreman walks in to find Thirteen getting ready to leave. He tells her that he heard about her rehiring. She doesn't acknowledge him or say something in return. He tells her that he's going to stand there until she does. She finally tells him that she feels completely alone because of her Huntington's progression, and that she made a real connection with the patient because she didn't push her away. Foreman understands, and then Thirteen leaves, saying she wants to go home because she's tired.

JOY

House's new patient is a man who experiences blackouts in his memory. When Thirteen is examining his daughter, she notices that she has a flat affect. After the exam, Foreman catches up with her at the nurse's desk. As they talk about how Thirteen is unnerved by the daughter, they notice the patient dressed and trying to get into the elevator. They chase him down and ask why he's leaving. He appears to be in a strange mental state as they work to get him back to his room for more tests. They find that he is sleepwalking, presenting a new symptom.

LAST RESORT

Thirteen is busy in the Clinic when Foreman asks if she has a minute to talk. She says that she doesn't and asks the nurse for more patient files. Foreman pushes, saying that he's been consulting for a few different clinical drug trials. Thirteen is still not interested, until he tells her that one of them is for a new Huntington's drug. She freezes up to listen as he says that the drug is showing results in trials and that he could get her in as a patient. She hesitates, before declining and moving on. He follows her, asking if she's been doing anything herself to look for programs to join or drugs to try. She says that she hasn't, and that she isn't interested in a consult from him about it, either.

One of the many patients in the Clinic that day happens to have a gun, and he holds up the hospital by capturing House, Thirteen and a few other waiting patients in Cuddy's office. He holds House at gunpoint and asks for a diagnosis, since no other doctors have been able to find what is wrong with him. The patient is extremely untrustworthy and volatile, and ends up giving all of the drugs House recommends him to Thirteen first to test that House isn't poisoning him. At the end of the hold-up, the mix of drugs have shut down Thirteen's kidneys and she is dying. The police are finally able to arrest the patient after House gives a correct diagnosis and Thirteen is able to be saved. In a hospital bed on dialysis after the incident, Thirteen wakes up to see Foreman watching over her. He tells her that she'll be back to normal after a week of dialysis. He apologizes for backing out of one of House's differentials during the hold-up, not knowing at the time that Thirteen was almost dead. She only asks if she can take him back up on his offer about the Huntington's drug trial. They smile at each other.

LET THEM EAT CAKE

House comes into the office to give the fellows a new case when he notices that Foreman and Thirteen are missing. Taub tells him that it is the first day of Thirteen's clinical trial for the new Huntington's drug. Meanwhile, Foreman administers Thirteen's first tests for the trial. While she is being tested for fine motor skills, she asks Foreman if there are many others in the trial with her. He tells her that he's been overseeing the people who already started at New York Mercy, remarking that the trial is pretty full. Foreman stops the test and asks her to do it again, with no talking this time. She doesn't care, since she starts talking immediately when the test restarts. She claims that she's benefitting from nepotism, that she doesn't deserve to be in the trial because she knows Foreman, the person running the trial. He soothes her concerns by clarifying that she got a spot not just because she knows him, but because she has Huntington's, the only qualifier for the trial. He again stops the test and asks her to retake it without talking. She starts it again but talks, saying that she thinks the tests are useless on her because she hasn't shown enough symptoms and that he should give her spot to someone else instead. He finally tells her to shut up and just focus on the test. When it is done, he tells her that she doesn't need to worry about whether or not she "deserves" the spot, since he says that the test readings show that her nerves have already started degenerating.

House and the rest of the team are stuck in the middle of the case as Foreman and Thirteen are able to join and offer insight. While conducting a brainstorming session, Foreman's pager goes off. He tells Thirteen that they need to go to make it for the next testing period in the trial. She tells him that she'll finish the brainstorming then meet him there, but he reminds her that she was late on the first day, and he doesn't want it becoming a habit. She argues that she'll be fine and that she doesn't need his help to make it to the trial. Foreman begrudgingly walks off without her.

That night, Thirteen comes home to find that Foreman has broken into her apartment and has been waiting for her. He tells her that she never showed up to the trials. She tells him to get out of her house, but he tells her that he broke it to try to find proof that she was slipping back into old habits, which would make her ineligible to continue the trial. However, he shows that he found that she had done quite the opposite, and was following his instructions and medication regimens perfectly. He says that she's probably following the schedule better than any of his other patients, which is why he's confused as to why she's unable to make it to the testing sessions on time. She finally clarifies that she actually did come down when she was finished, but he never saw her because he was busy with another patient. She opens up to him, telling him that she doesn't show up on time because seeing the other patients in the trial in the waiting room is triggering to her, reminding her of her own future. He gets up and grabs his coat, leaving. He tells her at first that it's understandable, but then tells her that she needs to get over it and show up on time the next day, or he'll take her off the trial.

The next day, the team conducts a differential in the stairwell. Foreman and Thirteen are sitting on the same step, and House stops the discussion to point out that it seems as though Thirteen is leaning away from Foreman. She claims that she isn't, and he mocks her with the idea that the trial may not be working for her. She doesn't say anything, and Foreman picks it up by saying that everything is fine before tossing another idea into the differential. House says that they're deflecting.

Thirteen makes it to the testing on time, and Foreman walks out to the lobby to see her. She is clearly unnerved and upset as she watches a particular other patient in the study, a woman that makes Thirteen keep having flashbacks of seeing her mother. She tells Foreman that she'll keep coming if he'll change her testing time. He tells her that he can't because the schedule is full, and tells her that she might as well make friends with the patient she keeps staring at as he walks off. Thirteen swallows her fear and does it, talking to her and helping her with her jacket that she's struggling with.

After the testing for the day is completed, Thirteen comes into Foreman's makeshift office for the trial as he is getting ready to leave. She tells him that she lied to him the other night, that the woman in the waiting room triggered her not because she made her confront her own future, but because she makes her have flashbacks about seeing her mother in the disease's advanced stages. He apologizes, telling her that he can't imagine how hard seeing that must have been for her. She recounts to him the way she used to wish her mother would die because she couldn't understand the symptoms of the disease at the time. She says, trying not to cry, that she hated her mom for that, and that she was never able to say goodbye to her. All Foreman can do is come up to her and hug her as she cries.

Video Game
Often-forgotten CD-ROM and DS game "House M.D." seems to be a slightly alternate canon, taking place somewhere in late Season 5 to early Season 6 of the show. There are 5 "episodes" to the game, all of which include Foreman and Thirteen, mostly working together. Since it takes place in the aforementioned show timing, the game also has mentions of their dating relationship.

GLOBETROTTING

Thirteen is in the lab as Foreman comes in to give her the patient's blood for testing. He then launches into a story about his childhood, where he wanted to be an astronaut. He tells her that he was interested until he saw the centrifuge tests they had to do on the potential astronauts and that he got nauseous just watching the footage. She tells him that they should stay focused on the patient, calling him "Pukey McGee" because of his story. They then run the patient's blood through the centrifuge. After the test, they cross off a potential diagnosis.

Later, the two search the sound stage where the patient was filming his show. The two play around with the foam props on the set for a bit before they look for possible toxins. As they look around, they find only that their patient had been lying about escapades he told his fans he had been going on. The patient's agent is sneaking around on the sound stage and she sees Foreman and Thirteen looking around. She claims that she'll call the police on them for trespassing, but they blackmail her out of it with the promise of telling her client's fans the truth about his show. The agent agrees and then tells Foreman and Thirteen more information on the patient needed to secure a diagnosis.

Wrong again on the diagnosis, Thirteen and Foreman examine scans of the patient's lungs after he stops being able to breathe. The two find that he has signs of some kind of pneumonia. They go to tell House. After House questions the patient more about his history, he sends Foreman and Thirteen to the patient's home to search for toxins that could have caused his pneumonia. At the home, Foreman mentions that he hopes he won't be chasing any middle-aged women there, referring to the patient's agent. Thirteen asks if he'll still chase her when she's a middle-aged woman. He tells her that she already knows the answer. They search the home and find that it's not well-kept, meaning that any number of things could have caused the patient's symptoms. They decide to call the patient's landscaper, who left a voicemail on the patient's phone complaining of a flu. Due to Foreman and Thirteen's snooping, they discover that the patient has tularemia from a dead rabbit in the yard.

BLUE MEANIE

House's patient is a chef that suddenly turned completely blue. Foreman and Thirteen test the patient's blood and find irregular levels that they report to House. The team conducts another differential. After searching around in her workplace and after the patient presents a new symptom, Foreman and Thirteen test her blood again. While testing, Thirteen asks Foreman if he would still love her if she turned blue. He asks if she really thinks he's so shallow to say no. She playfully presses on, asking that he's sure there would be no difference in their relationship. He assures her that there wouldn't as they take the results of the test back to House. Foreman and Thirteen then go back to the patient's workplace to find clues of potential foul play on part of her co-workers. They find a forged note and confront one of her co-workers about it that had handwriting similar to the forgery. Through this information, they are able to deduce that the patient was poisoned.

SKULL & BONES

House's patient is a college student that loses feelings in both of his arms after a hazing incident. During the differential, House has Foreman and Thirteen search the frat house, since he has a feeling that the patient may be doing drugs. Thirteen flashes the students so that they will be let into the frat house, and Foreman says that he can't believe she would do that. She jokes that they never would have been let in if Foreman flashed them instead. After looking around, they find that House's hunch is right, as they find wood glue that the patient could have been huffing. They also search the patient's dorm room while they're out, finding a locked box that they can't get into. Since they can't get into it, they take everything that could be a potential toxin, as well as the patient's laptop to look for clues. The team run a few tests at the hospital before House sends Foreman and Thirteen to talk to the patient's girlfriend for more information about the patient. They don't get much, but then snoop around her room to find more items that confirm the suspected truth: the patient is a drag queen.

CRASHED

House's patient is a young girl with a clotting problem that was hurt in a car crash. He yet again sends Foreman and Thirteen to look for clues in the patient's home. They find the girl's diary, which they read for clues on her physical and mental status. The diary is extremely depressing, as the patient is worried about her weight. Foreman asks Thirteen if her diary was ever like this when she was that age. Thirteen tells him that hers was more melodramatic than depressing. They then search the parents' room and find a photo of the patient with bruises all over her arms. They believe she may be being abused by her father. They also find several potential toxins, as well as an empty bottle of antidepressants they think belongs to the patient. They come back to the hospital and talk to House about it. After more differentials and more history from others around the patient, they discover that the girl has been stealing all sorts of pills from her mother to abuse.

UNDER THE BIG TOP

House's patient is a circus ringleader that gets bitten by a horse during a circus act. While getting a history, House notices that the patient's wife is jittery and nervous about something. He sends Foreman and Thirteen to the patient's office to check for anything relevant. Inside the circus, the two discuss the creepiness of clowns as they look around. They find that the patient is drinking and smoking his troubles away and they bring the evidence back to House.

Fanon
Fans of the series enjoyed the unique banter offered by Foreteen. Foreman and Thirteen work partially because they bring out the humanity and vulnerability in each other. Both characters individually are more quick-witted and guarded around their emotions, which is stripped away in their interactions with each other before, during and after their relationship. While not being in the top 10 most popular House fan fiction pairings on AO3, there are currently 33 Foreteen fan fictions on the website. Foreteen is the third most popular ship for Thirteen's AO3 character tag, and also the third most popular ship for Foreman's AO3 character tag.

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