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Chapter 1

Six residents occupied the space behind Wilson's desk as they waited uncomfortably in the dark for their friend/colleague to enter his office. They pushed and shoved at each other like children as they sat hunched closely together in an incredibly small space that under normal circumstance would never hold this many people. All of them sat wondering where House had suddenly come up with the crazy idea to surprise Wilson on his 43rd birthday. It wasn't normal for him to celebrate anything really, especially something as nonchalant as a 43rd birthday. Not wanting to disturb his recently absurd but none the less happy mood, they had agreed to join him in the crunched space they currently inhabited. Little had been said in the few minutes spent waiting for the oncologist but people were getting uncomfortable and starting to complain.
"My legs are sore, can't we just stand behind the door or something instead of crouching down back here," Chase said clearly annoyed by the tingling feeling shooting through his legs indicating they were indeed asleep.

"You think standing behind a door would be less crowded?" House asked sarcastically and refocused his attention on the door that was scheduled to open at any minute.

"I think my legs might fall of if I stay in this position any longer," Foreman complained rubbing his thighs slightly.

"Oh shut up and stop your bitching. I have a bummed leg and you don't hear me complaining." Everyone looked around at each other before returning their gazes to House.

"You have your legs stretched out comfortably in front of you further crowding the rest of this in these cramped positions."

"Cameron," House said in a whiny voice, "I have a bummed leg, remember."

"The rest of us are gonna have bummed legs if we don't get to use them soon," Chase complained further. As Foreman opened his mouth to speak House held out his hand and sent a hushing noise through his lips. All eyes drifted towards the door as the door handle was turned and the door was pushed open. All at once everyone jumped from their positions yelling surprise as the figure walked through the door. To their surprise it wasn't Wilson but instead Heather.

"Heather, you do realize I sent you to obtain Wilson and bring him back here with you so we could all surprise him. Simple directions that I didn't think even you could screw up." House said clearly annoyed with his daughter who was still standing in the doorway. Taub made his way around the front of the desk and leaned on it as he waited to hear Heather's explanation. House had sent her to find Wilson nearly 25 minutes ago and she had failed to return with him. Taub waited impatiently for the conversation to continue, House and Heather arguing was always great entertainment, especially on a particularly slow day at the hospital.

"Well I went down to the ER to get him but as I was trying to get him up to his office, Cuddy made an unannounced appearance, putting an end to my little trek."

"What the hell does Cuddy have to do with anything?" House asked.

"Well apparently she had been searching for you and your team for the past twenty minutes. The ER is swamped due to some accident on the freeway that included 9 cars or something. Then she found out her head doctor in the ER," Heather turned her glance to Cameron as she said this, "was missing as well. Wilson and I listened to her bitch for 5 minutes about the sudden disappearance of her employees before sending me off to retrieve them. Afraid to piss her off further I came up here without Wilson." Heather was nearly out of breath after the quickly delivered explanation and turned her eyes to House waiting for his reply.

"You let her scare you? What the hell is wrong with you, she is a woman for God's sake." Heather raised her eyebrows slightly before replying.

"You are all supposed to get down to the ER right now before all hell breaks lose with Cuddy." Everyone except for House began to file through Wilson's open office door, disappointed by the fact that they had sat uncomfortably for nearly 25 minutes and not had an opportunity to surprise Wilson anyway.

"Are you coming?" Heather asked knowing his answer before hand but was slightly shocked at the words that came out of his mouth.

"Ya, ya I'm coming." Heather eyed him curiously as he limped around from behind the desk and brushed past her and out the door before hitting the elevator button numerous times with the end of his cane. Heather was not all surprised when they reached the main floor and House headed in the direction of Cuddy's office instead of the ER. Uninterested in the constant disputes between her parents Heather decided to make herself as useful as possible and headed towards the ER with the others.

Cuddy continued her paperwork as she heard her door swing open with a bang, not needing to look up to know who it was.

"You're needed in the ER House." Instead of heading to the ER as he was told, he sat in one of the chairs facing her desk and began to play with the toy bird on her desk absentmindedly. After about a minute without conversation Cuddy reached out her hand and placed it on top of House's indicating for him to stop playing with the bird. He leaned back in his chair, pulling a red lollipop from his pocket, ripping the plastic off and shoving it in his mouth.

"Was there something you needed?" Cuddy asked annoyed at the fact that he hadn't said a word since he entered her office.

"Not really, just trying to waste some time instead of heading to the ER."

"That doesn't sound like you," Cuddy deadpanned.

"Are you kidding, that sounds exactly like me. You should start paying a little more attention to your employees Cuddy; no one likes an unsocial boss." Cuddy rolled her eyes at the parody he had just employed of himself and continued to scrawl her name across the many forms that had found their way to her desk. Clearly bored at the nonexistent conversation, Cuddy stood from her desk abruptly and made her way through her office doors. House stood and followed her like a lost puppy as she made her way towards the ER.

"Well you're not much fun today. Well actually you're never really that much fun but today I think that drowning myself in a bucket would be more amusing then talking to you."

"You drowning yourself in a bucket would be amusing for all of us," Cuddy retorted as she made her way into the ER filled with havoc her clicking heels announcing her entrance. Stretchers containing people were still making their way through the entrance as doctors and nurses bustled around from patient to patient. House watched as Cuddy raised a hand to her head, massaging her temples instinctively. About to ask her if her headache was caused by a late night with another blind date, House was cut off by a loud rumbling coming from outside the building. Many people stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction of the open doors as people continued to make their way back and forth through it. House watched as people looked out the doors and fingers were pointed in the direction of the sky before everyone turned and ran into the building, screams escaping their lips. Without fully comprehending the situation, many of the doctors, nurses and patients began to exit the ER as well, through the doors opposite the one leading to outside. Curious of what people were running from House made his way towards the doors just to be reprehended by Cuddy who began to pull him in the opposite direction. He tried to tug his arm from her grip with little success.

"Cuddy let go of me!" House whined still trying to make his way towards the open door

"House we need to get out of here!" House glanced at Cuddy with a look that said 'why we don't even know what's going on.' Before Cuddy could answer a loud crash sounded above and the building began to shake violently. Smoke and screams filled the air as a plane hit the building straight on, leaving little time for escape.

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Author's note: Thank you for reading, this is my first fan fic. For those of you wondering who Heather is, she is House and Cuddy's daughter. I have started a fanfic where they discover she is their daughter but I am not yet sure if I want to publish it.