Hey guys! It's been like a year since I last posted on here! Sorry for the huge gap. I had started another story that was quite a bit through, but like you I've completely lost it now. Had no idea what I was going to write. But I've just had such a hectic year I've literally had no time. But I had some spare so I thought I'd start writing again. I will go back to my old story and see if I can pick it up and finish it but for now, you have hopefully a new little gem to read.

Many thanks and reviews and opinions are always welcome! Hope you enjoy!

"Broken arm?" The little girl asked after pulling back the curtain.
"Er, yer... who are you?" The man asked grasping his arm in pain as he lay in a bed in the ER of Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
"Rachel," she replied. "But I'm not supposed to talk to strangers."
"Well you're the one who pulled back my curtain." The man replied quite amused.
"I thought there was a little girl behind here. Sounded like my friend at school when she screams. Come on, it's only a broken arm, was there any need to scream like that?"
"Well... it was dislocated too actually." He replied stunned at how confident this girl was.
"Then the scream should have been loud but short. Your scream was several screams. We're you just looking for attention? I do that when I want attention. Well I don't scream but I make several loud noises over a longer time."

The man just stared at the little girl. She couldn't be more than five surely!

"Right, you finished reading that..." House began speaking as he walked into his office. However he stopped dead when he saw the sight in front of him.

"Why am I surprised?" He sighed to himself.

His office was a complete tip, books lay all over the floor, as well as his mac book and old wrappers of sweets. He looked to the corner of the room to see some children's toys, all untouched. He glanced at his computer screen to see that Rachel had drawn a picture of himself, Wilson, Cuddy and his ducklings. He outwardly laughed at the size of Taub's nose that she had depicted. He picked the Mac off the floor and printed the picture after he set it back on his desk. As he sat down, Cuddy suddenly stormed in.

"Right I'm done now."
"Awesome, I was thinking in the clinic this time. The doors have locks so that rules out being caught, but I prefer living dangerously..."
"House, I'm not having sex with you in the clinic."
"You had sex with me on the roof..."
"That was a one-off that you were not going to mention..."
"And in the cleaning cupboard..."
"That wasn't really sex..."
"It was sex...ual."
"Someone won't be getting any sex if he doesn't shut up." She sat down in front of him, then suddenly her smirk turned into a frown as she looked frantically around the room.
"Where's Rachel?"
"You're guess is as good as mine."
"House!"
"Cuddy!"

She glared at him as she stood up in a hurry.

"Calm down, she's still in the hospital. Oh you should see this picture she drew. She really got my rugged, handsome looks down to a tee."
"House, Rachel is missing and you're talking about a picture she made!"
"She's not missing, how many times has she wandered off round the hospital."
"Several! And every time is when you were supposed to be looking after her."
"Yes, and where does she go every time?"

House now stood up and grabbed his cane as he walked out the room, Cuddy hot on his heels.

Cuddy literally ran into the ER. She looked around and saw blood, screaming and pain, all from a number of people waiting to be seen. This was no place for a child! This kind of thing could scar her for life!

"Mum!" Rachel shouted spotting her mother.

As Cuddy turned around she let out a squeal seeing her daughter. She had a cast on one leg as she held a crutch, her arm in a sling and a bandage around her forehead.

"What the hell happened?" She shouted crouching down to her daughter.

Rachel giggled.

"Mum, they're not real. You fool for it every time! The med students needed someone to practice on! They taught me loads of things... look." She held up her arm in the sling. "I have a broken ulna and radius! And my skull is actually called my cranium, which I already knew but forgot. But I'll remember it this time." She smiled.

House had finally walked in with a drink in his hand. He obviously had stopped off to buy a slushy. Not at all worried about Rachel, he knew she'd be fine. After all, he was the one who introduced her to the ER.

"Looking good squirt." House said.
"Thanks limpy."
"Hey, bit offensive!" House retaliated.
"So is squirt. You keep calling me squirt, I'll keep calling you limpy."
"I guess that's fair enough." House nodded.

"Can you sort her out of these bandages, I need to go... somewhere." Cuddy interrupted and walked off.

House and Rachel looked at one another and decided to follow Cuddy. They both limped as fast as possible after her. Quite a site for the other nurses working who couldn't help but giggle.

House and Rachel pressed their ears up against a door Cuddy had just walked into. She had started shouting at a bunch of med students.

"How many times do I have to tell you? Stop deforming my child!"

The pair of them giggled as they heard her shout.

"Come on then, let's get you out of these bandages."

Rachel pouted. "That doesn't work on me, I created that look!" House replied.

Cuddy left the med students, quite frankly, frightened. You don't get on the wrong side of Cuddy. As she sighed leaving the room she rested against a wall to get her heartbeat back to somewhat a normal human rhythm.

"Hi Lisa," a man's breath whispered past her ear making her jump. She looked to her right to see a man in his forties, dark hair with a smug look on his face.
"Oh hi Max."
"You look, flustered." He said putting an arm around her lower back.

Cuddy moved away from him.

"I'm fine thank you. What are you doing here?"
"Just seeing if my money is being put to good use." He smirked glancing briefly at her chest.

Cuddy felt sick! She hated this man but his money did help the hospital. So she continued to be polite.

House was busy taking off Rachel's bandages in a spare side room but she begged him to leave the cast on. Truth was, he couldn't attempt to cut it yet as it still wasn't fully dry.

"Fine." He huffed after much whining by Rachel.
"Thank you!" She shouted and leapt off the bed and ran (as best she could) to find her mother.
"Oi! Squirt, wait!" House called after her, but it didn't take him long to catch up as Rachel had stopped in the middle of the ER.
"What's wrong?" House asked.

Rachel pointed towards her mother and Max. He was dangerously close to her and she was trying to squirm out of his persistent slimy grip.

"I don't like that man." She said. "There's just something eww about him! He keeps showing up too."
"What?" House asked.
"At our house. Mum hates him too."

Cuddy looked on angered. Why the hell hadn't Cuddy told him about this guy. And how had he not noticed, he practically lived at Cuddy's now.