The Accident that Changed Her Temporarily

Re-Written

Chapter 1

Lisa Cuddy was a highly successful Dean of Medicine at the famous Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. One of her troubles were having to deal with House, the pain in the ass.

She really couldn't have a personal life, he always ruined it. Especially her dates…and really everything else.

She sat in her office one late stormy night. She really needed to go home, but what did she have to go home to? She sighed a massaged her temples, having to look at a computer screen for a long period always did that to her. She thought about what everything would be like if House wasn't her employee, she knew it was a random thought and in a way not. Her thoughts were interrupted by House barging into her office.

"Shouldn't you be heading home?" He asked with an unusual sound of care to his voice

"I'm thinking about staying here overnight, there's no use in going out in this weather." She motioned to the window with her shoulder as she crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair.

"Oh, I didn't know it was raining…my bad." He acted like he didn't know "I've been sleeping and-"

"Avoiding clinic duty." She finished for him

"Yeah, pretty much."

"Don't worry, you can do all of it including the ones due that day tomorrow." She smirked

"You're mean." He said turning to limp out of the room "And, good idea to stay here, I wouldn't go out in that rain either." He said before limping past her assistant who happened to be glaring at him as he passed.

She massaged her temples again. She couldn't believe she could go one day without killing him. Sighing, she got up and grabbed her bad and jacket before picking up her keys and making her way out of her office turning off the lights. Going home to sleep in her room really seemed like an inviting idea at the moment. That's why she forgot about the rain beating down on the roof of the hospital.

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She sped down the highway, weary of people driving slow because of the pounding rain. She wasn't so sure that she actually wanted to be home anymore, but she was actually closer to home now than the hospital.

The person in front of her stopped abruptly. She slammed on the breaks as fast as she could. She was happy that she didn't hit the car in front of her.

Her heart was still hammering against her chest. She thought for sure she was going to be in a serious accident. She let out a sigh of relief when the car in front of her started moving again.

She saw the orange glow of a stop light and watched at the car in front of her sped up and went through the light. She stopped right on time and muttered a curse under her breath for being the first one at the light. A stray strand of hair fell in her face, she brushed it out and sighed again, all she wanted to do was go home and sleep.

She saw something bright out of the corner of her eye, then the sound of tires screeching just before something came in contact with the side of her car. She felt her head hit something, then she felt nothing. She heard people yelling out, but then nothing. She couldn't feel anything…

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He saw the whole thing; he didn't really know it was her until he actually saw her license plate.

He was shocked; he thought she was going to stay at the hospital all night. He felt weak in the knees…but he still threw his cane to the ground and bolted (forgetting about the pain) and making his way over to her limp, bloody body.

Her car had flipped, he couldn't see clearly because of the rain. But because of a light he could see the plate. He broke her windshield a little bit more, just enough that he could pull her out.

He saw the rain hit her bloodied forehead and hands. He grabbed her and tried to pull her out…but he couldn't, she was stuck. He let out a hiss of pain as he noticed that her leg was jammed in the door.

He wiggled himself into the car and managed to loosen her, but hearing the sirens of emergency vehicles didn't ease him, he knew her chance of surviving was scarce and was likely in a coma because of the head trauma. He heard voices, and then he felt someone move him and then he just watched as they worked on getting Cuddy out of the car and loaded into an ambulance before she was taken away.

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"Any news on her?" Was the first thing he asked Cameron as he limped soaking wet into the hospital lobby.

"No, she 's with Chase in surgery now." She sounded worried as she was frantically messing with her blonde hair between two fingers.

"How bad is it?"

"Severe head trauma, major internal bleeding around the heart…took a while before we actually got it working again…House, the only thing that got her heart going again was a cardiac epee pen." Cameron looked even more worried before, just talking about her boss to her formal boss

"When you injected her with the epee, did she wake up?" He looked hopeful

"Yes, but her eyes were only open for a couple of seconds before she lapsed into a coma."

"She's in a coma." House sighed looking down at the ground feeling the beads of water fall down his nose.

"I'm sorry."

"I thought she was going to stay here."

"We won't know the damage until she wakes up." Cameron put a hand on his shoulder

"I know that!" He was enraged "I'm a doctor too!" He yelled before turning on his heel and limping towards the elevator and punching the button with the end of his cane before stepping into it and pressing the number to the surgical floor. He had to see for himself how bad of a shape Cuddy was in.

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He watched as they fixed her heart. She wasn't doing much better, the only good thing was that her heart was beating and that she could actually breathe…with machine help though. He looked away from the glass just before he heard the beeping of machines before he limped away and he heard Chase's accent…and it still rung in his ears as he made his way down the hall…

I started re reading the original copy of this, and realized I didn't get all I wanted down and all the comedy, so I'm rewriting it to make this a little better!:p Addio-Taco