Chapter 1: Ruined

Her words had ruined his life. The one thing in life that he wanted, he couldn't have. She teased him with her candy coated lies about how she loved him for him and then went ahead and ripped his heart out of his chest.

Never, would he forgive her. Never did he want to see her face again. All the feelings that he once had for her were all gone and replace with those of regret and despise.

Did he really feel that way though? Sitting in the conference room, he started to question himself as he stared at the white board before him. Symptoms written down. His glazed over eyes, blankly staring forward as he twisted his cane around.

Three years had passed since that night, and here he was, still working for her. Still doing the same thing day after day. He could have gotten up and left if he desperately wanted to, nothing was stopping him. There was no contact though between the two. He didn't go into her office anymore and she didn't go up to talk to him anymore. He would send one of his team members down to get something approved while she would send someone up to give him a message.

No, that was a cheap excuse for not leaving. Just because he didn't talk to her didn't mean that he never saw her. He saw her everyday. Everyday he was reminded of what could have been and what he didn't have. Everyday, she killed him, just a little bit more.

That was when he had to ask himself the bigger question, why was he helping her? Right now, he was going out of his way to secretly help her. She had no idea that he was involved right now, and that was how he wanted it.

Fatigue. Numbness. That was all that was written up on the board. Nothing else. It didn't seem like a huge problem when you just saw those two words, but he knew that there was something more going on.

Chase walked in and sat down at the table.

"Any news?" House flatly questioned. Without actually being able to run any tests, he felt pretty hopeless.

"Nope," Chase answered. "Maybe you should just go up and talk to her," he suggested. "Let her know that you are trying to help her out."

House turned back and glared to him. "Why don't you go chase down the wife that left you?" he retorted.

Chase put his arms up in defeat. "Fine, I get it, you're still bitter. Just keep in mind, she's one of the only people that has access to every record you need. Also keep in mind that she could probably answer any questions you have without having to double check anything," he explained.

"It's not that important to me," he argued as he went back to staring at the board.

Chase rolled his eyes and left the room. He wasn't about to just stand there and watch this man waste his time staring at a board with nothing better to do. Especially when that man was in denial of what was really going on.

Okay, so I got this ten chapter thing written down in my notebook that I have been working on during math class that last couple of weeks. I am going back and making a lot of changes to it. Let me know what you think.