"Don't come back!" She yelled through tears as a little girl clung to her lower leg. Her world crumbled around her, her sister standing next to her and her "date" staring with his jaw in a weird position. She led her daughter to a wall and hugged her close, putting the girl's little head beneath her own.
"Mommy…" The little girl whispered. The sister started sobbing as well and leaned onto her husband who was calling 911. Her date was just standing there dumbfounded. "What happened?"
"Nothing Rachel, forget about it." Cuddy kissed her baby's head and held her closer. Wilson walked up behind the car and looked at them, shocked himself. What did House just do? He had just driven his car into Cuddy's dining room! Cuddy looked up at Wilson with tears in her eyes.
The police arrived, taping off the area and helping the victims out of the house safely and over to the ambulances to get checked out. Everyone was fine, expect Wilson had a fractured Radius in his right arm. He watched from afar with little Rachel next to him as the police talked to Cuddy and could faintly make out what they were saying. It was the normal stuff, were there any threats, was there a fight, then something happened.
"Are you asking me to file charges?" She asked the man kneeled before her. "Give me the paperwork. If Greg House steps foot in my hospital again, comes anywhere near me, I want him thrown in jail."
~XxXxXxX~
I can't believe this. She thought, rolling her eyes. She plugged in her iPod and cranked up the music. When did she start thinking she could control my life? Ugh. This isn't what I bargained for when I came back. She sat down on a chair and curled her legs under herself, leaning her head on the back of it and closed her eyes. Sometimes I wish I knew what made her so crazy. It couldn't be her job, she's had it for years. Is it the fact that she isn't married? Rachel sighed, opening her eyes and looking at her mom's empty desk. She stood, inching over to it like it was an animal ready to kill. She touched the smooth wood lightly with her fingertips, rounding it and going to sit down in the leather chair behind. No wonder she wears those heels, she could slide off this thing. She pulled the chair to the desk and turned on the computer. Wow, this is a sweet setup. Rachel grinned, clicking around on her mom's computer. She pulled up pictures and articles, laughing and spying.
"Cuddy?" Wilson asked as he slid into the office. His hair was slightly graying but he still looked pretty good for his age. "Rachel, what're you doing?"
"Spying on my mom." She smiled at him, standing and pushing the chair back.
With a smile faintly seen on his face he said, "You look your mom."
Rachel raised an eyebrow and walked around to the other side of the desk. "Wilson, you know I'm adopted." He shrugged, looking behind him where the clinic still stood then back at the 21 year old girl staring at him.
"We should get out of here before your mom gets back."
"You should." She corrected. "I can be in here if I want."
"Yes you can, but you have places to go." He reminded her.
She thought for a second than remembered what he was talking about. "Shoot!" She cried, running to grab her sack and then quickly hugged Wilson before running out into the clinic.
"Hi Rachel!" Megan, a friendly nurse, called when she saw her. Rachel waved at her quickly before she pushed open the clinic doors and ran to the elevator, catching it before it closed. I should've taken the stairs. She thought restlessly as she stood in the crowded elevator. 3… 4… 5… Get to seven already! The light dinged floor seven and the doors slid open, Rachel being the first one out and into the hallway.
"Hey Alex!" She said as she slid past the nurse station and towards room 716. "Kayley?" Rachel asked as she slid open the door.
"Whadda ya want?" Came a fake nasally voice from behind the curtain.
Rachel grinned and called back in a nasally voice, "Hey lady can I watch your windows?" There was a fit of giggles from behind the curtain and Rachel walked over to her, sitting on the edge of her best friend's hospital bed.
"N-no." She managed to choke out between giggles. Her brown bangs fell into her face and she rocked her head back and forth as she laughed. Rachel started laughing herself, watching her friend technically roll around on her bed was too much.
When she had finally stopped laughing, she looked at her friend and put her hand on her leg. "How're you doing?" She asked, sending her friend a pitying look.
Kayley shook her head and pointed accusingly at her friend. "Don't you dare look at me like that!" Rachel looked down and smiled. Even though Kayley had become sick she didn't change at all, that was the only reason Rachel came back to see her mom. They had a fight 2 years ago about what major Rachel should have in college, Rachel wanted to go into medicine like her mom but Cuddy refused. Rachel ended up doing what she wanted anyway.
Rachel reached behind her and grabbed Kayley's chart. "They're ordering you an MRI…" Rachel eyebrows furrowed together in confusion. Sure, she was a second year med student, but she didn't know everything.
"They said something about cists in my liver." Kayley murmured as she leaned back and closed her eyes. She's in pain, Rachel thought sullenly, she shouldn't have to be in pain.
Rachel jumped up, startling Kayley. "I'm going to go ask the doctor to increase your morphine." She said decisively and ran out of the room before she could stop her. She walked over to the nurse's station and, leaning on the counter, she asked, "Is Dr. Foreman in his office?" The nurse looked at her annoyed and nodded. "Great!" Rachel smiled at her and called the elevator. She's just stressed. She doesn't mean to be a jerk. Rachel sighed and entered the sliding elevator and clicked button 5. Now time to face the Foremanator. Rachel giggled quietly at her own nickname for him. She had always thought him to be a stiff, boring man. The doors slipped open and she came face-to-face with a man she had never met before, but he looked so familiar, she just couldn't put her finger on it. She walked out of the elevator but couldn't help but stare at him as he limped onto the thing and turned towards her. Where had she seen him before? He just looked back at her with a bit of a sad face, then the elevator the blocked him.
"That was weird…" Rachel said quietly as she backed into Foreman's spacious office.
"What?" He asked, eyeing her from above his book.
Rachel flipped around and looked down with a slight tint on her cheeks. "Nothing, doctor." She shook off the blush and straightened herself. "Kayley needs a higher dose of morphine, the pain is getting worse."
Foreman closed his book and set it on the clear, glass desk. Rachel could swear, most of the stuff in this place was glass. "Her morphine is maxed out Rachel, it can't go any higher without some risks." He looked annoyed, he had only taken this case as a favor to Cuddy, he had never planned to have to deal with a med student trying to protect her friend.
"Isn't there something you can do?" Rachel asked, fiddling with her hands.
Foreman sighed, "I'll ask if they can push up her MRI."
"Thank you doctor." Rachel smiled fakely and then ran out the room. She didn't like being alone in a room with that man.
"Hey Rachel, what're you doing down here?" Wilson asked as he came out of his office, which was right next door.
"I was just asking Dr. Foreman a couple of questions about Kayley." Rachel said, skipping towards the elevator and pressing the down button. "Now I'm going to get her an ice cream, wanna tag along?"
"Wish I could, I have a patient." He shrugged.
"Ahh, the busy life of a doctor." Rachel teased.
"Get ready for it." He said with a smile as he pointed the file in his hand at her. The elevator came and Rachel quickly made it down to the cafeteria without incident.
"What can I get you?" The cashier asked happily.
"Two ice cream's." That girl sure is perky for a cafeteria worker, they usually are all grumpy. Rachel accepted the ice creams and handed her a five dollar bill. She ripped the paper off one of them and bit into the creamy dessert.
"Your change!" The girl called and handed it to Rachel, which she gladly took and headed to the stairs. She was at the third floor when she heard and strange noise from the floor above.
"Hello?" She called, inching up the stairs. She found a little bird near a window on the ground, it had been trying escape. "Aww…" Rachel slid the window open and the bird lifted itself and flew out the window, but it fell as soon as it was out. Rachel turned and kept walking up the stairs, feeling a bit sad. She made it to Kayley's room but saw her leaning forward with her hand pressing her chest. She was breathing heavily and her chest barely rose.
"Help…" She whispered.
"Lean back." She said calmly and pushed the bed out from near the wall and lowered the back. "Someone get in here!" She yelled into the hallway and pushed the Emergency Nurse Button. A couple of nurses and a doctor flew in, pushing Rachel out of the way and getting to work.
"Her throat collapsed." The doctor spat, and Rachel was pulled out of the room by a stern looking nurse.
"Please, help her." Rachel whispered and stared into the room of her life to be.
Cuddy walked over briskly and looked into the room then at her daughter. "What happened?" She asked, surprised.
"Her throat collapsed, they are trying to get her airway open." Rachel said sadly. Her mom looked at her with worry then back into the room where the group was working easily to get her breathing again. Is this really the life I want to live? Rachel bit her lip. I need some answers.
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Welcome to my new story! I don't have an update plan yet so I don't know when the next will be up.
I also know that some information was changed, like Rachel was at Cuddy's mom's house when House crashed the car into her dining room, but it's better for the story if she was actually there. Sorry if you don't like changing real information for the purpose but I promise that's the only time it will happen in the story.
This is also a while later, about 15 years after the "incident." So I assume Foreman would be running diagnostics, Chase and Taub would be somewhere in surgery, Thirteen would be dead or near death, Cameron would still be gone, and Masters would be a pediatric something or other, or maybe not in the story at all. (I never liked Masters.) So expect older people to be in the story.
I don't know exactly what is going to happen in the story, so I can't set a real rating so it may change.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to House M.D., any of its cast, or Universal Studios.
