CHAPTER 1: YOU WANT TO RELIVE THE PAST
It was the end of the day. Cameron was still in the Nurse West Wing. She was doing some last minute work on a patient's file. She sat on the hospital bed and sighed. She threw the folder holding the file to the side and looked up at the ceiling. She was startled by the sound of a cane and two feet coming towards her. Cameron looked and saw House in front of her.
"What are you doing here? Aren't you and your ducklings working on a case?" Cameron snipped. She stood up and grabbed the folder. Cameron looked down at the folder in her hands. She jotted something down with her pen. She looked back up to see that House had already looked at what she wrote.
"I should be here." House said sarcastically. "Apparently you have a patient who has a terrible headache."
Cameron gave him an annoyed look and put the folder on the tray next to her. "It's a cranial infection." Cameron said to him. "It's very serious." She said it like she was trying to prove it to herself and not just him. It really was just a headache. She knew her logic was terrible but she hoped it became something bigger so she could rub it in House's face.
"Come on Cameron. Is this really what you want? To be taking care of whiney little kids who hurt themselves, playing with something they shouldn't have been touching in the first place?" House truly asked.
"I'm taking care of patients just like I was when I was part of your team." She answered. "Just because my job doesn't let me save lives everyday, doesn't mean I'm not doing something worth while." She said as she brushed passed him with a different file in her hands, headed towards the other side of the Nurse's Station. House followed her.
"I know you would rather be working with me on my team again." He insisted.
"You know, I may be mistaken here, but I think you're asking to hire me back." Cameron replied.
"I never fired you."
"Right, but I quit. I can't House. You have a new team, I don't want to interfere with them." Cameron argued.
"If anything they're interfering with you." House said. He played with a pen on the table next to him.
"Huh?" Cameron replied, confused.
"They're always running to you and Chase when I even say something that they think is a puzzle. They're pretty much incapable of surviving without you." House said as he whirled the pen around in his finger tips.
"That's why Foreman is on your team too." Cameron said, dumbly. She secretly loved still being in the loop. She loved how Thirteen and Kutner would always ask her if what House was doing now was the same thing he did when she was working for him. She loved how Taub would trade her coffee in the morning for stories of when she was one of the ducklings. The only good thing about leaving and going to the Nurse wing was the fact that she was still connected.
"Foreman? He's only there because Cuddy let me keep him."
"He's not a puppy, House." Cameron replied with a grin.
"You're right. He's not nearly as cute." He threw the pen up in the air then caught it.
"So you admit you think puppies are cute," Cameron laughed. "You little softy." She playfully hit his chest and walked back to the hospital bed where they were earlier. House turned around, his gaze following her.
"I'm not asking you to come back." He said gruffly. Cameron looked at him. "I just thought you might want to be part of the inner circle again."
"I'm fine how I am, House." She replied. "And besides," She said slyly. She walked up to him. "I am part of the inner circle. You're the one who said your team is always bugging me."
"Yea but that isn't really involvement." House said.
"How do you figure?" Cameron tested him.
House was running out of smart replies.
"Don't you want to be part of the team again?"
"Ha! So it all comes out now!" Cameron laughed.
"I could fire Thirteen." House said like it was really a potential action.
"You can't fire Thirteen! And why did you automatically turn to firing Thirteen?" Cameron replied quickly. House didn't say anything. A sparkle irrupted in Cameron's eyes. A wide grin arrived on her face. "You hired Thirteen to replace me!"
"You don't know that." House replied.
"She looks just like me." Cameron argued in a playful tone.
"That was a coincidence." House tried to defend.
"Nope." Cameron said bluntly. "It wasn't."
"Yes." House said even blunter. "It was." House moved closer to her.
Cameron noticed House was flirting. She embraced the moment and decided to use it to the best of her advantage.
"House, if you want me back so bad, all you have to do is ask."
"Yea, but that would involve me actually showing that I miss you and you know how that just isn't my nature."
"Fine. But I know deep inside that all you want to do is get me and Chase back on your team. You want to relive the past. It's okay." She stepped back and started walking away.
"So that's it?" House asked.
Cameron turned around while walking. "That's it." She said as she loosely threw her hands in the air. She kept walking away and pushed open the door of the hospital, and left.
Yes, I have decided to do another House fanfic. I really wanted to another story, so I hope you like it so far and trust me there's more to come. Please leave your reviews because I know you wanna. 3 Thanks