Disclaimer: Do not own "House".

Many thanks to Jenna and Heather from clinic-duty.

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"So how's everything else? The girls?"



"Ah, you know... a lot of crying, some nightmares. We'll be ok though."



"Good."



"Girls are not going to be happy about leaving town though. They love that house, the yard, their friends."



"You're moving?"



"Ever since the operation I've been on disability and there's the mortgage so… moving out of state somewhere cheaper. Anyways, thanks." 


"Tell him, tell him!!" One part of his brain was screaming, another couldn't proceed the words. "You're worthless doctor anyway, tell him and be done with it!" But he couldn't and he didn't.

When Sam was leaving the room, he just managed to ask.

"Please, leave your new number at the nurse station, so we could contact you. I'd like to check you in a couple of weeks one more time."

"Ok," with that Sam left.

He had to do something. He walked out from the exam room and went straight to diagnostics. They didn't have a case. He asked Cameron to page him if House noticed his absence and run out from the office, leaving wandering Cameron behind.

First, he went to check his bank account, hoping that today it would magically worth a couple of millions, he so desperately needed. But he found it exactly the same as a month ago. Not very bad, but still not enough for what he wanted to do.

Then he went to his lawyer. Maybe he knew more about his father's will. But he didn't.

"Why don't you call your step mom? If you think she's trying to rob you, I can contact her solicitor."

"No." He managed so far without his fathers help, he wasn't going to seek it after his death either.

He couldn't think of any reason, why his father cut him out of his will, except the latter being the complete jerk, he always knew he was.

But it didn't matter that much now. He had a problem to solve, he better do it now.

When he came back, he asked nurse to call Sam for another check up in a week.

That day he was the last to leave the office. Trying to remember it as it is, as it was the first day he stepped inside.

He shouldn't have become a doctor. That's what his supervisor at the seminary was telling him. His father's shadow would haunt him forever. He never wanted to be a doctor, why he went to med school was still a mystery to him. Now he had to find a new career. Maybe his father's death had done what his father couldn't do when he was alive. It let him go, now he was free. He didn't have to prove anything to anyone. He was free to make his choice. The worst thing was that he had to take a life of an innocent woman in progress, leaving two girls without a mother, that sin would be on his shoulders for the rest of his life.

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A/N: Why Chase's father cut him out of his will? That question is still unanswered for me, though I watched all series twice and looked through almost all discussions concerning that in all forums I knew.

But I found a reason why writers needed Chase to be cut out of the will and therefore being "not rich". I think, if he had money, there was no reason for him to provoke Sam to sue him, he could just settle it with his own finances, just help poor family. I think he could even do it without actually telling, that he screwed up the diagnose.