Chapter 1: Say Mommy

Gabrielle, now sixteen, made her way down the stairs with Rachel in her arms. Her once blonde hair, now black with red highlights, cut short in layers. "Mommy's gonna be happy with her clean little girl now isn't she?" Gabrielle said as she got to the floor and walked over to join her dad on the couch. "Well, she's eaten and bathed and everything."

"Good," House said and then looked over from the television. He had legally adopted the little baby as soon as they had all returned from Hawaii, and had since been working on being closer to her. He took her from Gabrielle's hands and set her down on his good leg. He then looked over at Gabrielle and raised his eyebrow. "You think you could go put on more eyeliner? Your face isn't quite pale enough."

Gabrielle gave him the finger and then sat down next to him. "Did Lisa tell you when she was going to be home tonight? I 'm kinda wanting dinner soon," she said.

House, who had started to tickle the little girl, looked up and over at Gabrielle. "She didn't tell me where the meeting was at, let alone when it ended," he said. Gabrielle just raised her eyebrow to him. "She's over at the meeting room that was rented out in the Holiday Inn. There was no saying when it would end."

"That sounds more like you," Gabrielle said. She sat back and thought for a minute. "Maybe you should cook tonight, she'll love you for it, and so will my stomach."

House turned his attention back to Rachel. "Why don't you ever say anything to her? I've noticed you never hesitate to criticize me."

Gabrielle laughed. "Yeah, because you obviously take everything said to heart."

House turned to her with mock sadness and ran his finger from the corner of his eye down his cheek. "You cut my soul."

"What soul?" she jokingly asked.

"That thing that you religious freaks seem to care about so much," House said. "Which I don't know why you waste time on that, you are some what smart."

"What else did I have to turn to?" she asked as she stood up. She grabbed Rachel and started to carry her to her playpen.

House sighed. "You know, you never did answer my question."

"About the cooking?" she asked as she set Rachel down. "I don't feel like being a little brat," she said as she stood up and turned to House. "Besides, she's trying and she would take it personally and neither of us would get a break for weeks." She started to walk back to the couch but stopped as soon as she had heard Rachel.

"Mommy!" she squealed.

Gabrielle cringed and closed her eyes. "Did she just?"

House laughed. "Oh yeah. I bet that telling her that she's a bad cook sounds good right now."

"Darn it," she hissed and then turned back to Rachel.

"Oh, now you wanna watch your language," House said.

Gabrielle rolled her eyes. "Well how often do I say M-O-M-M-Y? And she obviously picked up on that!"

House stood up and limped over. "You know, this'll get her. Maybe every time you're with Lisa, you can make sure to be standing behind her or something for a while to make her think that the kid's referring to her. Then when the twins are born, she'll be too busy and tired to even notice who Rachel's talking to."

Gabrielle slightly shrugged as she thought over the idea. "What happens in a couple weeks when I go back to school though?"

"She's older, she's smaller, and she's carrying twins, how much longer do you think she's going to last?" House asked. He sighed and went out into the kitchen.

Gabrielle rolled her eyes and leaned over the playpen. Rachel called her 'mommy' again, which caused Gabrielle to instantly drop her head in defeat. Raising her head back up, she smiled down at Rachel, there was the chance that she could teach her something else. "Say, Gab. Come on, you can do it, Gab!"

"You really think that's going to work?" House called out from the kitchen.

Gabrielle completely ignored him and went back to Rachel. It was obvious that this was a failed attempt, but she did feel bad that Rachel had just called her mommy. She had been watching Rachel a lot lately and figured that since she would say that her mommy would be there soon and things similar to that, that that was why.

The door opened and Cuddy walked in. She was seven and a half months pregnant now. Closing the door behind her, she walked over to the couch and sat down to take her shoes off.

Gabrielle turned around and slightly smiled. "That bad of a day?" she asked upon see her facial expression.

Cuddy sighed and sat back. "One of my nurses wrote down the wrong blood type for one of the patients so the doctor gave her the wrong blood and that almost killed her. I would say that it was just an accident but this is the second time she has done this. Once more and she's fired. Then I had a meeting with the board because they claim that I'm slipping! They're blaming the last few screw ups on me! No, of course it's never any of the doctors that almost get us sued! It's me!"

"Maybe you should just take a small vacation," Gabrielle suggested.

Cuddy glared over at her. "Another thing, tell your father that when he's at work, he cannot just come into my office at any time when there are former patients of his that have a complaint against him and kiss me right there! Now they think that the only reason I don't discipline him is because we're engaged!"

"Maybe I was feeling lonely! What ever happened to my needs?" House called out as he entered the living room. "Besides, they don't know we're engaged, they figured out that we're dating though."

"Damn it Greg! Now they're going to go get me in trouble for nepotism!" she started.

"Both of you! Shut up!" Gabrielle yelled out. She first turned to Cuddy. "We all know what he did was wrong, but really, you should be used to it by now, and there really should be nothing to worry about. Don't take this the wrong way, but you could be overreacting a tiny little bit." She then turned to House. "And you, you're an ass and you need to learn some self restraint or something."

Cuddy leaned her head back as she sighed. "I'm sorry," she said.

"I think that answers the question as to how are you feeling?" House said as he went and stood behind her. He started messaging her shoulders as he looked down at her. "I think you should take a few days off, might make you feel less bitchy."

"Great, that's the fourth time I've heard something similar to that," she said.

"Well," Gabrielle started as she looked around. "I'm going to go up to my room and call and see how people are doing back in Toledo. It's Monday so they just finished up with the weekend parties and such."

"I thought you said you were going to make dinner tonight," House said.

"I will! I'll order a pizza," Gabrielle said as she started climbing the stairs.

"Mommy!" Rachel happily squealed to Gabrielle.

Gabrielle stopped and quickly faked her surprise as she walked down to join House and Cuddy. "Did you two hear that? She said her first word!"

Cuddy just blankly stared. "Why was she looking at you when she said it?"

Gabrielle looked down and sighed. "You caught onto that huh?"

Cuddy looked over to her. "Well I'm not an idiot. You and I are in completely different directions." She hated the fact that her daughter called someone else mommy. That was supposed to be her. She was supposed to be the first one to hear it.

Gabrielle walked over to the playpen and picked Rachel up and carried her over to Cuddy. "Look, I can tell you hate me at the moment, and that's okay, I kinda deserve it. I said mommy sometimes when I would watch her and I took your moment away from you." She handed her over to Cuddy. Cuddy took the little girl and kissed her on the forehead as she held her off to the side. "Try saying mommy a lot around her, maybe she'll pick up on it."

Cuddy just sighed and looked down at Rachel. "That some sort of sign I suck at being a mom?"

"Its not a sign of anything. The kid repeated something that she had heard. I think that's why some mothers get mad if people swear around children," House said as he made his way around the couch and sat down by her.

Cuddy just shook her head. "You don't understand, I mean what if she would have called her daddy instead of calling you daddy?"

"If that happens I think we have bigger problems like gender confusion. Next thing you know she'll be asking some random girl to do it with her and then call us and ask why some people out there are missing those important parts for sex," he said.

Cuddy rolled her eyes. "Do you really have to do that?"

House shrugged. "I don't know. Does it really matter who she calls her mom? Cause I'm pretty sure you're still going to be the one that she'll want to come get her at night when she cries, and kiss her cuts and scrapes, and tell her about boys. She could be calling Gabi mommy and you a bitch but she'll still prefer you."

Cuddy just looked down at Rachel. "Maybe I should take that vacation. Spend more time with her."

Gabrielle sat up in her room at her desk. She took her cell phone and dialed the number carefully and then awaited for an answer as she listened to the ringing. "Hey!" she said as she smiled. "Yeah! Its Gabi. How are you doing there Jake?" She sat and listened to what he had to tell her. "Yeah well, I only like ya us I don't have to live with ya!" She laughed. "Well, then, be nicer to your sisters." Her smile suddenly faded. "Well then, good luck at practice then. Call me after your first game and let me know how you do." They each said goodbye to each other, and she hung up.

Well, here it is, the sequel. I know that the very last part with Gabrielle probably doesn't make any sense at all right now, but it will later on in the story. Anyways, tell me what you think, and I hope that you enjoyed it.