"So" House said sitting with Cameron in his office "how are you feeling?"

"I am mad that you are pulling me out of work to do the touchy feely feelings crap that you hate so much" Cameron said "so how are you feeling?"

"I meant Chase" House said "I mean he his own little way guilted you into accepting his proposal"

"I love him anyway" Cameron said

"No you don't" House said and then held up his hands when she went to interrupt "let me finish you where married young and your husband died don't get me wrong that majorly sucks and I am not just saying that I do feel sorry for you and you have my upmost respect for moving on you really do but you want to be loved and cared for because you are normally the one looking after us, when you, Foreman and Chase where my team you looked out for me and both of them it was like you where the parent and we where your three dysfunctional kids you want someone to look after and love that is why you love Chase"

"Your wrong" Cameron said

"Maybe" House said "but are you sure you want to go down that aisle and marry Chase knowing you don't completely love him like you did your first husband? I mean I know how that sounds but I don't think you could ever be that cold hearted to someone to play on their feelings for you so that you have someone to take care of"

"Maybe your kind of right" Cameron said turning her head away from him "does that make me a bad person?"

"No it makes you human" House said and turned her head back to face him "Cuddy wanted a baby so that she could have a family, Foreman and 13 are together out of love and the fact they both need each other the reason Wilson marries and divorces so many goddamn times is because he can't bear to be alone"

"How do you?" Cameron asked "you're alone a lot"

"I am never alone" House said with an eye roll "seriously between you, Wilson and Cuddy I'm good, Cuddy's like the annoying teacher that never lets you burn the school down, Wilson is the friend that stops you from killing yourself or someone else"

"And me?" Cameron asked

"You what?" House asked with a grin

"What am I to you jackass" Cameron asked and she really wanted to know why she was important to him more so than Chase or Foreman

"You're in a way the reason I still have hope" House said "when you three came to work for me you where different than the other two they might not agree with my decisions but they would still follow them to the letter if I told Chase to kill a patient he would do it so would Foreman or 13 or Kutner you and Taub are different you want reasons for everything you saw no shade of gray you where like me seeing me when I started my medical career so much hope and belief in the world and that is why I gave you a job because I didn't want some bastard to make you see how he did I trained you but I made you make your decisions"

"When did you get so philosophical?" Cameron asked

"When Kutner decided to put a bullet in his head" House said looking away "I couldn't help him and he made a mistake I am not going to let you make a mistake as well"

Cameron with tears in her eyes leant up and kissed House on the cheek

"Thank you" and then she walked off to talk to Chase

"And I love you" House said but she was too far out of earshot to hear his confession