OK, this is a very different kind of piece for me. It very probably is crap, but hey, mistakes are what make life!
Random quote: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oh, PS. 13 + Cam = just friends.
Alison Cameron Mills ran into Remy Hadley at the Mayo Clinic in 2014. They were introduced by a mutual friend who was Remy's doctor and Alison's best friend.
"Thirteen?"
"Cameron?"
They asked before the mutual friend even had time to make introductions.
They went out for coffee to catch up. Alison felt no need to tell Remy she was married and no longer Cameron, and Remy decided she would allow Alison to call her Thirteen despite the fact no one else was allowed to anymore. They hit it off living in the past, joking about old times, their old lives. They talked about House's antics, Chase's hair, Foreman's robotic nature, Cuddy's outfits and Wilson's innocence. They exchanged phone numbers. They saved them as Cam and 13. They began texting each other as they remembered old inside jokes. They met up again for coffee. And again.
They went to a movie that had come out in 2009. They always talked about the past. Occasionally of what had happened before Princeton, but never of what happened after.
They went out to dinner. Remy made the reservations under Cameron, and Alison decided they'd sit at table 13.
Eventually Alison saw Remy at the clinic again. Remy refused to talk about it and just said she'd see Alison on Thursday for coffee like always.
After a few months Remy saw Alison and her husband at the store together. Alison just turned down a different aisle and neither ever brought it up afterwards.
After a year or so Remy left. She had gotten much sicker and the treatment was a wash. She went away to end it.
The day after she left Alison got a note, Remember House's turkey neck? -13
That was the last thing she ever heard from Thirteen.
Three years later Alison ran into Eric, they talked about trivial things, they began to reminisce a bit and Alison asked, "Hey, when was the last time you saw Thirteen?"
Eric sullenly told Alison that Remy had ended her life three years prior, Alison was devastated. Eric began to talk about his wife and his son and his practice, but Alison barely heard it. She was letting go of her past - the last shred of it gone with Thirteen. The last part of her old life that was still intact was gone. She had always known that Thirteen was called Remy just as Thirteen had always knew she was Alison Mills. They just chose to forget, to ignore Mrs. Alison Mills' mortgage and marriage problems and aging and car pools and soccer practices and stretch marks. They had chosen to ignore Remy Hadley's shaking limbs and lessened life and pity stares and pills and nonexistent future. They had chosen to live as Thirteen and Cameron. As they once were, and in each other's minds, always will be.
And feel very, very free to tell me what you think...or not...whatever tickles your fancy really.