A/N: Fic pos-Act your Age.
Disclaimer: I don't own House, I wish I did. If that was the case, my friends and I would write the scripts and we send the guys from "Writers Guild of America" to hell!
Summary: "In what seemed to be just another routine case, House, Wilson, Chase and Cameron confront truths, challenges, lost and found things... Is there going to be any time to get back what was lost?" CHAMERON, WILSON/OC, HUDDY
"You don't really know what you got till it's gone"
LOST AND FOUND
An original story by Ligya Ford
PROLOGUE
"Hurry up, pass me that thing" Someone requests.
Five people are gathered inside a room with precarious illumination, playing truth & dare. There were dozens of Heineken bottles spread all over the floor.
Polly, leaned against one of the beds, spins the bottle.
The green bottle moved around on the floor and slowly stopped.
The bottom pointed to Leah, while the other part aimed Amanda.
Amanda, who was sitting down on her legs, widened her eyes and exclaimed:
"Oh no! Here it goes…" She smoked the weed in her hands and stared at her friend.
"Hmm…" Leah raised her eyebrows, playfully "Truth".
"Shoot".
Amanda had black mascara in her eyes and tattooes all over her arms. The opposite of her roommate, Leah, who wore clothes signed for famous stylists and fancy brands.
"What did you have to do to get that Indian?"
Amanda straightened her eyes and had another sip of her beer.
"I knew you were gonna ask that!"
"Answer!" Jake, Leah's boyfriend, demanded.
"I had to…sleep with the mechanic"
Everyone laughed their asses off.
"He didn't want to get it fixed for me" She justified "Well, the guy was pretty cute, actually. I just had to make it a…fantasy out of it".
"But it was worth it. You have a 30 grand motorcycle" Jake laughed, completely amused.
"Yeah, and all it costed was a night of sex" Polly giggled.
"And five grand" Amanda added.
"I don't think I'd ever do something like that" said Jennifer, the youngest of the group.
"I used to think like that too, Jenny, I did" Amanda laughed.
"Spin the bottle, Amy" Leah asked.
With another push, once again, the bottle was moving around in circles.
The air inside the Room 42 of the "Ford's House" was smelling like pure pot. The five friends enjoyed the weekend of the holidays, getting drunk and wasted with recreational drugs. They laughed and made jokes about everything.
The bottle pointed into Polly's direction. It would be up to Jake to decide if it would be a truth or a dare.
"Truth. What was the worst thing you've ever done?"
Polly coughed, looking nauseous.
"Geez…" She stopped "I have to think"
"That many, huh?" Jennifer asked, laughing. She was bending against the wall, half sat, half laid.
Everyone was having a great time.
"Hmmm, when I was sixteen I spread a rumor in high school… I said that a girl I hate was knocked up. That got to the Principal's office, and from there, straight to their parents' ears. She was taken out of school and sent to a boarding school in Europe".
Everyone had their mouths opened in shock.
"Why would you do something like that?"
"Because I was into her boyfriend. I had to humiliate that girl. They say he fought with her, probably thinking she was really pregnant"
"Did you get to be with the guy?" Jake asked, with a harsh tone due to the smoke.
"No. He found out I spread the rumor."
"And what did he say to you?" Jennifer asked, looking not so good.
"That I was insane, among a million of other insults" She smoked again.
"That is what I call threatening. I want to die your friend" Amanda confessed.
"In my senior year, I made out with him. Only he wasn't the same guy anymore, he was just a stupid football player"
"Hey!" Jack exclaimed.
"Sorry, Jake, you are not an…idiot" Polly apologized.
"Just a little bit" Amanda whispered, almost being hit by a pillow thrown by him.
"Idiot!" His own girlfriend laughed, obviously wasted.
"Spin that bottle" Jenny asked "I bet it's going to point to me"
And that's how it happened. As soon as Polly moved it, the bottle aimed Jennifer.
"Go, Amy, you're going to choose challenge, anyway"
Amanda smoked her pot and giggled.
"Alright! Challenge!"
"Of course" Someone said.
"Jenny, baby, I challenge you to swim naked at the Carnegie Lake"
The five of them burst into laughter again.
"What?!" She tried to scream while everyone else laughed.
"That's something I wanna watch!" Polly yelled.
"You're being harsh on her. Jenny would NEVER do that"
"Wanna bet?" Jenny stood up.
Everyone shut their mouths and stared at her.
"I do" Amanda said "A hundred bucks"
"Deal" She agreed.
They all got up too and Jake almost fell down, being grabbed by Polly.
"Ease there, man"
"I'm really stonned… I can't make it anywhere today" He exclaimed, taking a seat.
"If the security stops us, we're all going under arrest" Jennifer said "Or worse, we'll get expelled"
"Are you backing off?" Leah asked.
"No, I'm just stating the risks"
"Let's go!" Amanda said.
"Oh, no! We have to cross the entire campus!" Jake complained.
"You stay, then" Leah lifted her shoulders, in an obvious indifferent attitude "Chicken"
"I'm not a chicken, I'm just…"
"Let's go!"
They turned around to the door and Leah checked the hallway. It was empty. Ford's House had emptied that morning. Most of the students had gone home to see their family in those holidays.
"Clear" Ela pointed the direction with her head "Let's go"
Amanda and Polly followed her, sneaking out silently. Leah turned around when they got near the stairs.
"Where is Jenny?" She whispered.
"Leah!" Jake yelled, his voice echoing in the empty dark hallway "Leah! Amy! Polly!"
He showed up in the hallway.
"I think Jenny passed out" He said, with a half smile.
The three girls stared at each other for brief seconds and ran. The noise of their shoes hitting the wood floor would be enough to wake everyone who would happen to be there. They quickly made it to the room.
"Jenny" Polly screamed.
Amanda approached.
"Jenny, cut off the crap! You're faking so you won't have to jump in the lake!"
They waited anxiously for Jenny to open her eyes and scare them. But nothing happened and the girl still laid on the floor, smelling like marihuana.
"Jenny…" Polly said in a whisper.
"She's not dead, is she?" Jake laughed.
"Shut up, Jake" Leah replied.
"Jenny" Amanda bent down and brought her face close to her friend's nose, paying attention "I think… I think she's not breathing!"
"What?!" Leah raised her voice "Put her in the car!".
"Maybe she had an OD?" Jake was still sitting on the bed, looking like an idiot.
"Weed doesn't give you an OD, Jake."
"What about an alcoholic coma?"
"If she had one of those, she would be like… I don't know! Throwing up?"
"Let's just go! Shit!" Leah and Amanda lifted Jenny up.
"Go, Jake, get your fucking ass out of there!" Polly yelled while she grabbed the keys of Leah's car.
"Oh, fuck…" Jake made an weird noise and threw up on the floor.
"Oh no, you fucking moron!" Leah exclaimed while she carried Jennifer. Amanda helped her and they both went out through the door.
"The only man in here can't even stand up!" Polly said sarcastically.
"Which hospital are you going to?" He asked, trying to pull himself together.
"Princeton Plainsboro!" Amanda yelled.
"Why this Hospital? Is it free?" Polly asked.
"I think it is." Amanda added "I met a really cool doctor that works there. Besides, I know those guys are hardcore"
XxLFxX
NOTES
Heineken – a german beer.
Indian – it's a motorcycle brand. They are made since 1901 and look a bit like Harleys, but they're smaller, ideal for women.
Ford's House – It's not a tribute to me, but to James "Sawyer" Ford. El Grand Lorão.
Carnegie Lake – It's the lake in the middle of New Jersey. It reaches almost all the campus of the Princeton University.
