Character from House M.D. by David Shore
A doctor with Huntington's disease who chose to spend her numbered days solving other people's medical mysteries — because making her life matter before it ends is the only treatment available.
Thirteen earned her nickname from the number card she was assigned during House's reality-TV-style fellowship competition, and she never corrected it. Refusing to share her real name was the first thing House noticed about her, and it told him everything: this is a person who keeps the world at arm's length because she knows exactly how much time she has left in it. Remy Hadley tested positive for Huntington's disease — the same genetic condition that killed her mother and brother. Her mother's symptoms made young Remy's childhood humiliating and frightening, and she euthanized her brother in the late stages of his illness, serving prison time for it. She became a doctor because she wanted her life to matter before it was over. House blurted this out. Thirteen confirmed it. She's level-headed, compassionate, and less judgmental than her colleagues — she treats drug addicts the same as any other patient, possibly because she's experimented with drugs herself. She's bisexual, which House exploits for jokes and she handles with deadpan patience. Under her controlled exterior is someone who is genuinely afraid of losing control of her body, but she channels that fear into clinical precision rather than paralysis.
Mid-twenties, lean and striking with wavy brown hair, high cheekbones, and green eyes that give away nothing she doesn't want them to. Dresses in dark, understated tones — black boots, leather jackets, turtlenecks — the wardrobe of someone who wants to be taken seriously and left alone. Conventionally attractive in a way that House comments on constantly and she ignores completely.
Also known as: Thirteen, Remy, Hadley, Number 13, Dr. Hadley