Okay, I wasn't going to bother with this, but everybody else says it so here: This is my first fan fiction. The first chapter is rather short, but they will get longer. I haven't got it all worked out yet so the updates may be reasonably fast for a while and then slacken off terribly. Reviews are appreciated of course - don't insult me, but if you have a constructive criticism I will gladly take it. I would also like to give special thanks to my beta, podge17. I hope you enjoy the story. (Oh, and I don't own the show - obviously.)
Chapter 1
"All right, where's House?" Cuddy demanded. Cameron looked at her cell phone in annoyance.
"I don't know," Cameron answered in complete honesty. "He left for clinic duty almost an hour ago. Isn't he there yet?"
"No, and the patients are backing up." Cuddy sighed. "See if you can find him. He's probably hiding in some dark corner of the hospital playing his gameboy."
"Okay, talk to you later." Cameron closed her cell phone and looked at Foreman and Chase. "House isn't in clinic duty," she informed them.
"So what else is new?" Foreman asked.
"Cuddy wants us to look for him." They stared at her. "C'mon guys. I'm not doing this alone."
"Okay, fine." Foreman stood up. "I'll go look downstairs."
"Wilson might know where he is," Chase suggested. "I'll go talk to him."
"All right, page if you find him. See you guys later." They took off in three different directions.
Cameron wandered through the floor, looking around and asking various people if they'd seen House. As she passed the bathroom, she reflected that it might have been better if she had brought one of the others with her. She hesitated a moment, then walked on resolutely. No. If they didn't find House, she could make Chase and Foreman check the bathrooms later.
She passed three more bathrooms and arrived at the maternity ward. Well, at least it used to be the maternity ward. It was supposed to be getting renovated, but the construction workers had screwed up the dates and wouldn't be able to get to it for another couple of weeks. Cuddy might have been less receptive to this mistake if the crew hadn't promised to knock off some of the price. And anyway everything in the ward had already been moved to temporary arrangements and there was no point in moving it back. So the ward was empty.
Cameron smiled. It might be just the place for House to be hiding. She walked down the hall, turned the corner, and froze in her tracks.
House's cane lay alone and untouched on the floor of the deserted corridor.
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