Hi, SpreadTheWord! This is fine since your question is relevant to the episode. (FYI, we also have a Q&A thread if ever you need it & for this question, you might want to post in the Chase thread here http://houseofwhining.com/viewtopic.php?t=50 - lots of the Chasers here would be happy to answer your question!)

Thanks saara_zaara! I'll cross-post. :biggrin:

The timeline here might be helpful, if you scroll down to the end of Season 1/beginning of Season 2.

Day 1: She sees Foreman in the clinic. Her uveitis (inflamed irises) were weird enough to interest House and she becomes a Diagnostics patient. Because of the spilled Vicodin, House makes Chase do the pelvic. He found some ulceration so he ran a pathergy test for Behcets -- "takes 24 hours to confirm" Day 2: She returns to the clinic and finds Chase who is in the middle of getting the news about his father. He confirms the Behcets and forgets to ask her about anything else. Day 2: Kayla is rushed to the ER with bleeding ulcers. After Chase cauterizes the first one, House finds another one which had perforated. Chase says "She was fine two hours ago" so we know this is a couple of hours after the follow-up clinic visit. Day 2: She was rushed to an OR but, as a result of the perforated ulcer, she turned sceptic. Day 3 or 4: While Kayla is resting post-op, Cameron explains to Sam "The kidney damage isn't so bad. The liver damage is more worrisome. There's no dialysis for livers." Sam offers to donate part of his liver. She only had "another day or two" to live when Sam produced his file that showed he was a perfect match. He had paid a guy he knew in medical testing to rush the tests. So the transplant took place within a week of Kayla's first visit to the clinic. When Chase talks her out of going to Mexico for the new transplant, she tells Sam "You gave me three months. You gave Dory and Nikki three more months with me." Then Chase says she died a week later at home. So, from her first visit to the clinic until she died, it was about 3 1/2 months (one week before the transplant - 3 months after the transplant - one week week at home). Stacy comes in for the administrative hearing 2 1/2 months after Kayla died. Just before that, while performing follow-up care on Sam, Chase tells Sam he had been hung over. That's why Stacy is already working on the hearing when they receive notice that Sam is suing Chase for malpractice including punitive damages of $10 million.

Thank you, Poeia! That makes everything so much clearer! Much appreciated.

Thanks for working all that out, Poeia! Just for the sake of having it all in the same place, if the House Guide timeline linked above is correct, that would put the episodes "Humpty Dumpty", "TB or Not TB", and "Daddy's Boy" around the same time as the initial clinic visit and transplant (May), Kayla's death in August, and "Spin" and "Hunting" after her death.

Bedawyn, Poeia, you guys are amazing! Hmm. Question about the timeline. It says TB or not TB happened before Chase found out about his dad's death based on the idea that this statement was made in the present tense: Foreman: "Talk to Chase, he's rich." Chase: "My dad, not me." Without verbs it's kind of hard to tell. Is the timeline open-ended enough that I could get away with making Rowan's death occur between Honeymoon and Acceptance? Because I can't see any change in behavior between TB or not TB and Daddy's Boy and I'm probably analyzing this too much. For some reason that's the only place the death really fits in my mind, but I don't want to get it wrong because then the whole fic would be wrong and...I really need to lay off the fests. Sorry guys. :|

I thought that, until S4 (Alone is 2 weeks after Human Error), things were supposed to take place in more-or-less real time. For example, House was shot at the end of May and he returned to work at the beginning of September. If so, The Mistake aired on November 29, 2005. Six months earlier was May 29 -- 5 days after Honeymoon (the final episode of S1). Going from the opposite direction, Cursed aired March 1, 2005. Rowan said that Wilson had predicted that he had 3 months to live. Three months after that was June 1. That's a spread of only 3 days -- and, either way, Rowan died at the very beginning of the first summer hiatus.

things were supposed to take place in more-or-less real time. I'd always assumed that too, but the link above gives some interesting canon references implying that the first few episodes of Season 2 actually took place in late spring rather than fall (like the line about spring break being over a month ago -- a weird thing to say in the fall, even if technically correct). And I guess if they're willing to do it with S4, there's no reason to assume they wouldn't have done it earlier. SpreadtheWord, I think you're fine, especially since Chase didn't publicize the death. House noticed him being off on May 12, but there's no indication Foreman or Cameron saw any change in behavior either, and they'd have had a lot more chances to observe him than we do! Plus, I imagine most readers will simply assume S2 started in the fall; I certainly did until yesterday. But since there are those of us who are nitpicky and will research timelines and such :-), I'd stick with the late May/early summer time frame for "Acceptance", etc., and simply have them happen soon after Rowan's death rather than right before or months later. IMHO, of course.

Ah, late! Poeia, Bedawyn, thank you guys so much. :D