Disclaimer: Okay I just want to say that this is my first attempt at a fanfiction.

I didn`t think I could write one, but I was so inspired by maxthegirl (allthingsdecent) writing that I thought I would give it a shot on here. Please be advise that no where have I said I am a good writer. I am just a person who misses Lisa Cuddy/Edelstein so I come up with stories in my head about where she might be.

I don`t own House or its characters, although I do care much more about how they are written than apparently Fox or DS does.

Leave some reviews and tell me what you think!

Chapter 1

It had taken Lisa Cuddy exactly 3 months to get her life back together after House crashed his car through her house as well as her life. The day after the crash she handed in her resignation letter to the board and never looked back. The board of course understood her resignation because they had after all, seen what had happened on the news the night before, and read it in the newspaper this morning.

So Cuddy packed up what was left of her house and her life and she moved on from Princeton.

Once the news had spread that Lisa Cuddy was officially on the job market, job offers started coming in left and right. Out of 10 offers Cuddy received, she finally picked her top 3. It was between Boston General, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Duke University Hospital. Boston General was too close to Princeton she thought, and Cedar- Sinai was too far from her mother and sister. So she finally decided on Duke. Located in Durham, North Carolina it is right outside of the Capital city of Raleigh and just an hour plane ride from Philadelphia, where Arlene lives.

Duke University Hospital was a lot different then PPTH. For one, PPTH was a small hospital with only about 300 beds. At Duke University Hospital there were at least 600 beds. At PPTH Lisa Cuddy was a big fish in small pond, here she was a small fish in a big pond. Here Cuddy was one of 5 Dean of Medicines that ran every department in the hospital. Her primary responsibilities included the departments of Radiology, Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Pathology, and Hematology.

Once Cuddy got the job at Duke, she bought a new house with a big backyard for Rachel to play in and she arranged her work hours so she could be home at night with Rachel. Cuddy even hired a new nanny, a young pediatric nurse, who also worked at the hospital.

When Cuddy left Princeton she also left Wilson and obviously House. When she moved, Wilson wanted her new phone number, address and work email. She gave him none of them, fearing that one day House would go through Wilson`s address book (like he always did) and find her. She did however give Wilson a generic email address , and told him that would be the only way he could contact her. If Cuddy needed to talk to him then she would call him. As far as Cuddy was concerned she had to end her relationship with Wilson just to stay away from House.

During the 2 years after Cuddy left Princeton, she did however still have some contact with Wilson, they normally traded e-mails back and forth once every couple months. One day late at night Cuddy, who had just put Rachel to bed was sitting at her dinning room table paying some bills, when she noticed a new email from Wilson. The subject of the email read "URGENT PLEASE READ LISA"

"Thats weird" Cuddy thought, Wilson never uses subject lines in his normal emails. Slowly Cuddy rolled her mouse over the link and clicked it, curious as to what the email contained. Slowly she read,

Lisa,

Can I please have your number? This is an emergency and I really need to talk to you.

Love,

Wilson

"Nice try House", Cuddy thought. But still intrigued at what it could be, Cuddy decided to respond knowing damn well it was probably House on the other end.

"Wilson"

I`ll give you my number, if you give me yours.

-Lisa

She wrote, Not five minutes after she hit send, a reply came back.

You have my number Lisa! its the same as its always been!

Please Call Now.

Now Cuddy was perplexed, what could it be? She thought. What was so important that Wilson needed to talk to her right at this VERY moment. With a sigh of frustration she picked up the phone and dialed the all too familiar number of Wilson`s Cell Phone. It rang 3 times as Cuddy held her breath "please god don`t let House pick up please," she thought.

"Hello" came Wilson`s voice on the ear piece. "Wil… Wilson, its Cuddy" she practically choked out. "Lisa, o god i`m so glad you called. How are you? Where are you? How's Rachel?" Wilson asked. "Wilson, you said it was urgent that I called so here I am, what's wrong?"

"House" Wilson whispered. "Wilson I don`t care I…" "Lisa" Wilson interrupted. "House is in a coma, he had some complications from surgery and they are not sure if he is going to make it. I just thought you should know." Cuddy bit her lip, hesitated and finally against all of her will, asked "surgery for what?"

"Amputation, he was having severe leg pain again last week and we did an MRI which revealed another blood clot in the leg, near the damage muscle tissue. The surgeon believed the only way to prevent a heart attack or stroke from occurring was to amputated the leg. Without the amputation House only had days to live. With no one there to make the call, I made the decision to amputate."

"Does he know?" Cuddy asked.

"He knows, we woke him up after surgery to tell him, he took it pretty bad and his BP started spiking so we thought it would be better to put him in a medically induced coma for the time being to get him stable." On the other end of the phone Cuddy was silent.

"Lisa are you still there?" Wilson asked. "Yes, sorry I`m here, well it sounds like you made the right call Wilson, I`m sorry but I have to go, I have a early meeting tomorrow morning. Let me know if House makes it," and with that Cuddy hung up the phone.

What she told Wilson was true, she did have an early meeting tomorrow yet she still didn`t move from her spot. Cuddy kept staring at the phone like it was some foreign object. "House had his leg amputated." she told herself. That thought seemed to be so impossible for her to understand. Yet still in some sense it also brought her relief, why? she didn`t know.

Chapter 2 is already written so should I post it?