A/N: This is the second installment of "Family Matters."
Thicker Than Water
Prologue--When Angels Pass On
"Cuddy, I think House's in trouble."
"Wilson, House isn't alone. He got three fully capable doctors with him."
"Not the kind of trouble that they would know how to handle."
"What do you mean?" asked Cuddy. Wilson handed her a note written in House's famillar scribble.
I have lost myself. I have lost myself forever. There is no hope left in this world for me. I will never find myself again. Give K the box.
G.
"What box?" asked Cuddy. "And who is K?"
"The note was taped to this," said Wilson, holding up a cardboard box. "As for 'K,' your guess is as good as mine."
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Kyla watched as the priest closed the coffin containing the lifeless body of her mother. Turning to face the crowd of people that had come to Charity's funeral, she saw a man dressed for hiking join the crowd. Even though she couldn't see the man face clearly, she thought he looked famillar.
"It seems as though all of McGill University has come to mourn their professor of oncology, Doctor Charity Myn Ryan," she said to the crowd.
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There was a knock on Cuddy's door.
"Come in!" she called. A brown-haired girl opened the door.
"I was told I'd find Dr. Wilson here," she said.
"I am he," Wilson replied.
The girl, who looked to be about twelve years old, turned to face Wilson. Her left eye was swollen shut.
"What's with your eye?" Wilson asked.
"Tree branch," replied the girl with a slight smirk.
That smirk is so like House's, thought Wilson.
"You can tell us the truth," Cuddy said.
"I don't have anyone to abuse me," retorted the girl. "Anyways, it really was a tree branch."
"Then what do you want?" asked Cuddy.
"A little bird told me that Doctor Wilson has something for me," replied the girl.
"Who are you then?" asked Wilson.
"K," replied the girl, a famillar gleam in her good emerald eye.
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Kyla saw the man in hiking clothes later that day, at the reception following the funeral. He'd changed into nicer clothes, replacing his hiking clothes with dressy causal. How had he gotten in without an invitation, anyway?
"Hello, sir. Do I know you?" she asked as she approached the stranger.
"You probably don't remember me, Ky, but I was a close friend of your mother," the stranger replied.
"Please don't call me 'Ky.' My mom was the only one who called me that..." she left the sentence unfinished.
"Your dad always called you that."
Kyla looked up at this. "You knew my dad?" she asked eagerly.
"Did your mother ever talk about him?"
Kyla shook her head. "She told me he was a very bad person and that I was lucky that he had left her before I was born."
The man said, "They'd had a nasty fight. One of her students cheated on a paper, and she informed the honor council. When your father refused to testify against his best friend, they got into a fight."
"Did my dad know about me before he left?"
The man shook his head before saying, "She didn't ever know herself that she was pregnant."
"How do you know?" Kyla asked.
"Is there somewhere we can talk privately?"
"Yes," replied Kyla, "follow me."
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"So what's in the box?" asked Wilson.
"And who are you?" added Cuddy.
"Dr. House told me that the key to the identity of my father was in this cardboard box...and that my real name was in here," replied the girl.
"Well, then," said Wilson, "open it."
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House looked at the results of the paternity test.
Charity was right about Kyla, he thought to himself.
He wrote on a slip of paper: 'Kyla Ryan House, the anwser's with Santa Claus.'
He packed the results and the slip of paper into a cardboard box.
After taping the box shut, he stuck a piece of lined paper on top of it.
The note read:
I have lost myself. I have lost myself forever. There is no hope left in this world for me. I will never find myself again. Give K the box.
G.
After placing the package on Wilson's desk and emailing a message to Kyla, House snuck off to hide.
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"He's on the roof," Cameron informed Cuddy.
Cuddy fainted.
"What did you say?" asked Chase as he entered the diagnostics office with Foreman.
Cameron shrugged.
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"House!" called Wilson.
"Hi, Jimmy! Ky with you?" answered House, lying on his back on a blanket, wearing only three things: boxers, tank top, and sunglasses.
Kyla peered out from her hiding spot behind Wilson.
"You're Doctor House!?!" she squeaked.
"Yes, my lovely little Ky."
"If I hadn't seen the results of the paternity test," remarked Kyla.
"You're my rebellious teenager, Ky," proclaimed House.
"Put your clothes back on, House," retorted Wilson, throwing House's pants at him.
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A/N: What do you think?