"Thank You" House said, as he closed his phone and slammed the phone on the table.
He then looked at Wilson.
"Differential" House said "Say you're a middle aged Chinese woman."
"Fine"
"Say it"
"I'm a middle aged Chinese woman" Wilson said
"Girl comes to you, says that she's your long lost daughter. Why would you be frightened?" House asked
Wilson didn't reply right away. He was thinking, and he knew that he didn't have to pretend to be a middle aged Chinese woman. He had a daughter of his own that House didn't know about, and he was cautious about saying such a thing. He knew his past; and how he ruined it for his entire family because he left. He knew that his depression got the best of him for once in his life, and he wasn't proud of it.
"I would be frightened because...she's a threat?"
"That doesn't sound convincing" House said
"Does it have to be?"
"You're not thinking like a middle aged Chinese woman" House commented.
"I don't have to."
House looked at Wilson, confused by his comment.
"What do you mean you don't have to?" House asked.
Wilson sighed as he looked at the table, and then looked at House.
"I don't have to think like someone else, because I'm in the same situation."
"You have a long lost daughter?"
Wilson nodded his head.
"She's nineteen years old by now. I never saw her in my life."
"Then let me ask a different question. Your long lost daughter came up to you and said that she's yours. What would your reaction be?"
"I would be...shocked because she actually made the effort to find me in the first place" Wilson replied "I have never been in her life; why would she want to be in mine?"
"Maybe she'll come to you because she never had a fatherly figure to look up to" House suggested "Maybe she'll come to you because her mother was a horrible person. Or maybe, she'll come to you by some sort of force and you won't have time to prepare yourself to meet her."
"Maybe she'll never come to find me at all" Wilson said "Maybe things should just be the way they are. Things change for a reason, and if they change...then so be it."
They sat there with silence at the table while the world continued around them. The only thing he knew about his daughter was the name that him and his girlfriend decided on: Hannah Lynn Wilson.