AN- I'm changing some of the timelines and events but most of the story and characters should remain true to the show, especially up to the third season but Thirteen's role has been moved up for this story because in the words of House "She's interesting". I love the team dynamic between Foreman, Chase, and Cameron. I don't own anything but I love watching House MD.I hope you enjoy.

"Hello. I'm Doctor Cameron, what seems to be the problem today?" the brunette doctor asked as she entered Clinic Room Two and looked at the woman sitting before her.

"I've been having pains in my arm. Like sharp…. But then they get dull…. Then they get sharp again. It's been going on for the past week…" Cameron nodded as she picked up the patient's chart to look at her history. A middle aged Hispanic woman with no children and no preexisting conditions so she's not on any medication.

"Well, let's start with basics. Deep breath for me." Dr. Allison Cameron instructed as she held the stethoscope to the woman's chest. "Hmm, breathing and heart rate is normal…."

"Of course. It's my arm that hurts not my chest" the patient said confidently. The brunette smiled reassuringly.

"Just trying to establish a baseline…. Next, I'll…." Cameron's knees buckled and she slumped forward.

"Are you alright?" the woman asked quickly as the doctor fell forward. "Oh my god! Help! Help! Help!" she started screaming for someone. "The doctor- Oh my god! Help!"

Chase, Foreman and their boss Dr. House were walking in the hallway discussing their last case when they heard the hysterical shouts from the room nearest to them. The three quickly went into the room and found Cameron unconscious and the poor patient screaming. "Alli!" Chase said looking at his girlfriend, picking her up. "House, get the door." He held her bridal style and was mentally trying to figure out how long it had been since they heard the patient screaming to determine how long since she collapsed.

House spoke first, trying to restore order. "Chase, stay here with the patient… err... clinic patient. Foreman, you take Cameron to Cuddy. Get IVs… and whatever else she deems necessary then meet me upstairs for the new case." They had closed the door to the exam room and were standing in the hallway, Cameron in Chase's arms. He'd started heading towards the Trauma Bay where he knew Cuddy was filling in today due to a shortage of staff. "Chase. Stay. Here." House repeated slowly.

"No." The blonde Australian practically growled, Foreman was at a loss. He'd never seen the other doctor react that way, but he knew House didn't like to be directly disobeyed by his team. Chase didn't want to leave her. He was worried about her especially considering she'd been complaining of some headaches lately and just generally feeling 'off'…. If something happened to her….

"Foreman is stronger, it'd be better for him to carry her. You're more personable… stay here. Pretty doctors calm frantic patients." House smirked before turning to the exam room door. House snapped in the direction of the hysterical patient. "Will someone shut her up?! Her screaming is giving me a headache." Chase was about to argue but thought better of it. Foreman carefully took the unconscious doctor from Chase and took her to where Cuddy was helping out in Trauma.

"Chase, you go in and see the patient… Foreman will make sure Cameron is okay while you check out Mrs. Screamer…" House repeated once the other two had left.

"Why don't you?… I'm going to make sure my girlfriend is okay…" He started to follow Foreman, but House put his cane down so Chase couldn't move any farther. "Why are you such an ass?"

His question might have amused House in any other context but not when one of his Doctors had fainted. "Nope. I told you to do it, Mr. Yesman. Besides, I make it point not to see hysterical women. They make my head hurt… Bye bye." With that he went upstairs to check on their newest case because it was a mystery and he liked mysteries.

Chase groaned and opened the door. The woman still looked terrified but she was silent. "Is she okay?" her words were rushed but quiet. "She-she fell… She's okay?"

"Yes. She's fine." Chase lied as he picked up Mrs. Gutiérrez's chart and glanced at it. "You said something about pain in your arm…" He was worried for his girlfriend, but knew he had to help this patient before he had any chance at seeing Cameron.

"Are you going to pass out too?" the woman interrupted, looking worried. Chase shook his head. The woman didn't look convinced. "What happened to her?"

"Let's get you checked out, yeah?" he asked putting on the stethoscope he'd removed from Cameron. "See if we can find the root of your pain…" she nodded as though she wasn't sure how to act. "Deep breath…"

"Hey, you're awake." Robert Chase smiled as he sat next to Allison Cameron's bed and she slowly opened her eyes. She blinked as his blue eyes came into focus and she smiled. "Hey."

She blinked and looked around, disoriented. "Head hurts…what? What happened?"

"You collapsed… You're on an IV." He explained when she tried to move her arm to better sit up and she winced. "You did hit your head when you fell… but you don't have a concussion… at least Cuddy doesn't think so…."

"My head hurts." She repeated softly. He nodded, taking her hand in his. Her eyes widened as she remembered "I was with a patient!"

"Who is now on some painkillers for her arm pain. She went home. She's fine…" Chase said, but he was more worried about her. "They did some tests…. Just checking to make sure you're okay…"

"Are you pregnant?" A new voice entered, amusement written all over his face.

"Why are you here, House?" Cameron asked, waking up, her hazel eyes glaring at him. At least she was feeling well enough to call him out.

"We have a case." The Head of Diagnostics said shrugging. "But my question still stands… Dizziness is common in early pregnancy." He added smugly.

"Fainting's not." Cameron said automatically as she looked to her boyfriend. "I'm not pregnant. I just…"

"Didn't eat. Your blood sugar is really low." Lisa Cuddy said entering the room with some results from the lab work. "House, go away. You've got a patient upstairs, Foreman said something about a blind girl when he came in…"

"Cameron's one of my doctors. She takes priority…. Plus I like her more than whoever is making my life difficult upstairs." The man answered sitting next to Chase, stretching his feet. "Besides, I'm missing half my team with Chase in here too." Cuddy sighed and ignored him, turning to the younger woman lying in the bed.

"So ask Thirteen." Chase said, annoyed with the older man's presence. "That's why she's here isn't she?" But she was new and House didn't completely trust her yet, not as much as he trusted Chase, Cameron, and Foreman.

Cuddy turned to Cameron for explanation on why she hadn't eaten lunch. "I was busy…. And forgot to eat…. Plus I wasn't very hungry anyway." Cameron said simply. "I had some toast early this morning before I came in today but that's it. I was feeling nauseous…"

"Also a symptom of pregnancy." House spoke up from the chair he was lounging in. Chase looked like he was going to punch his boss and Cameron looked furious.

"House!" Cuddy spoke sharply to him. "Leave the room."

"Fine, I'll be quiet. Don't get snippy. Hormones are crazy things, you know…." He muttered under his breath. "especially in—"

"It's just food poisoning. I made some chicken last night but it must have been bad…." Cameron said confidently, albeit defensively. "I just wasn't feeling well, but it's nothing. I forgot to eat today… it's no big deal. What'd the tests show?"

"You're pregnant…. And in denial." House added, craning his neck to try to see the paperwork in his boss's hand, but she'd folded it for that exact reason, knowing he was nosy.

"OUT!" Cuddy pointed towards the door and Gregory House slunk out of the room.

"I'm not leaving." Doctor Robert Chase said firmly, even if Cuddy tried to make him leave, he wanted to make sure Allison was alright.

Cuddy sighed once it was just the three of them in the room. "No, you can stay, Doctor Chase. We took some blood just to do some routine tests….." she passed the paperwork to the other female doctor who looked it over. Everything seemed normal except her glucose and…

"HCG levels are present…but I'm not pregnant! That's impossible…" Cameron whispered looking over the results. But she knew it wasn't impossible. For the past week or so she'd been feeling dizzy and nauseous and just feeling 'off' from her normal self. She was also a few weeks late, but her period was often sporadic. She'd put everything down to stress at work, but she knew it wasn't. Cameron knew she was pregnant. She just didn't want it to be true; now was just not the right time.

"When was the last time you had sex?" Cuddy asked with all the professionalism that House lacked. All three were glad he was out of the room.

Chase and Cameron shared a look and both blushed. "Okay, so it's slightly less impossible…completely probable that I might be pregnant…" She whispered and Chase squeezed her hand lovingly. She sighed. "Don't tell House, I know he'll have a field day because I was so adamant it was just a temporary bug…"

"We'll have to tell him eventually…Probably sooner than later" Chase pointed out with a slight smile. She knew that, but if House knew, they'd never hear the end of it.

"Not today… Don't tell anyone yet? Please?" She looked at him and begged. He nodded. He kissed her forehead and she smiled.

"Of course…We can tell them whenever you want." Chase said quietly. He leaned back into the chair and sighed quietly to himself. This was big, but they'd talked about getting married and having kids… eventually…. so they were just speeding up the timeline now, is all.

Cuddy handed Cameron a glass of water and smiled to her. "Don't stress. Everything will be alright… Just don't let House push your buttons." The younger Doctor smiled at that. "But don't forget to eat…. Especially with all the blood pressure changes, an empty stomach will cause the dizziness to get worse." Cuddy reminded her.

"Thanks." She took a sip. "I'm sorry about earlier…" She looked at Chase and half-smiled.

He grinned and shook his head. "You're okay, that's all that matters…. Though Mrs. Gutiérrez might not return to PPTH in the future…lest any other doctors faint on her" Cameron laughed but still felt guilty. They looked and saw Brianna, a nurse, watching the room.

"Tell them I'm sorry." She blushed, embarrassed because she knew many other staff had been curious about what happened because they'd no doubt seen Foreman carrying her or House or Chase or something. Whenever a hospital staff member was brought into emergency, especially from another department, word traveled fast. She didn't doubt that the hospital was now gossiping about how Doctor Cameron had fainted during a Clinic Case.

"Just don't forget to eat something, even if you're not hungry…." He said lightly. He studied her critically.

She spoke up to defend herself. "Hey! I did have breakfast this morning… at like six thirty….I had some toast…" Her voice got smaller as she continued because she knew she just proved his point.

"Almost eight hours ago?" Chase asked her, half teasing, half concerned. But he smiled when she blushed and accepted the granola bar he dug out of his pocket.

"But what about you? I know you were working during lunch today, too" She challenged. Normally she doesn't skip meals but with the nausea, she figured it would be better to…. But she was wrong about that today and she knew it.

"I had something more filling than toast this morning." He said and grinned while she rolled her eyes, half amused. He groaned when his pager went off. "Ugh. I swear I'm gonna kill him…." He muttered about House as he glanced at the screen before making his way upstairs to Diagnostics. ROMEO GET UP HERE NOW!

"Just don't get caught." Cuddy said with a smile and Cameron laughed. "You won't do well in prison…" She was feeling better, but Cuddy suggested she rest for a bit. "House has Chase, Foreman, and Thirteen to help him…." Cameron knew the other woman was right.

"The prodigal duckling returns!" House smirked when Chase entered Diagnostics. Chase glared at him but said nothing. He wasn't in the mood to engage House just yet. Foreman blinked, normally Chase would never think to upset House and he'd just take whatever insults thrown at him but this was twice he'd disobeyed. He gave a questioning glance to the blonde who shook his head.

"New case?" Chase asked looking at Thirteen. She nodded and looked at him curiously. She was new, having been here only a few weeks, but House already tried comparing her to Cameron. Neither woman liked that, so House repeated it as often as he could. "What'd I miss?"

"Didn't miss much. Just running through differentials…" She smiled at him reassuringly. He smiled back gratefully. "You okay?" she asked softly. "You seem a million miles away."

"Just thinking is all" He said. House studied the younger man.

"She okay?" Greg House asked, concerned for Cameron. Chase blinked in surprise, he would have expected the first thing House to say about Cameron's fainting and lack of attendance here would be another assertion of pregnancy or he'd try to diagnose her with a parasite or something, just because he could. Robert Chase just nodded and tried to push the thought from his mind.

"Fine. Just resting. What's up with the patient?" Chase said, trying to shift his thoughts from his pregnant girlfriend to the latest mystery case.

House grinned, loving a challenge. "Fifteen year old girl, blind…. Or half blind. Apparently it changes. Oh, and occasionally her hearing disappears. But that part is rare. Tunnel vision. She's funny though, normally the girl's hearing is impeccable since she's had to compensate. Mommy and Daddy are with her now."

"Brain tumor?" Chase asked. House pointed to the board, some of their differentials had been crossed out. Brain Tumor wasn't even listed.

"If she has one, it didn't show up on CT or MRI…." House said. "She was referred by Union Hospital…. I hate referral cases."

"We know" Chase said quickly so he wouldn't go on a tangent and Foreman nodded, House would complain about every referral case they got because of other places' screw-ups.

"Just means we're hopefully smarter than they are." Foreman joked. House frowned at that.

"Don't get cocky, Foreman." House smirked. "You're not smarter than anybody if you don't solve the case."

"Melody?" Chase asked as he opened the door to the girl's room. Her father was slumped in a chair asleep and her mother had gone to the cafeteria. House sent Chase in to ask the patient her history. "My name is Doctor Chase…."

"You'll fix me?" she asked, not looking at him. He bit his lip.

"We'll do our best." He promised. "Your history… it says…"

"I was born blind. I've been blind for as long as I can remember." She said simply, no stranger to doctor's questions. "But then it got better…. Then it gets worse again. I'll never be able to drive." She added softly. Chase felt bad for the younger girl.

"No, but you're in school… what do you want to be when you're older?" He asked, trying to get her to relax and trust him. He found talking to patients about their interests made them comfortable.

She didn't smile. "Not blind…. But I know what you mean. I hope I can do ceramics…." She blushed and added "You can mold the clay into whatever you want. Doesn't require sight." Chase smiled and so did she. He stepped over to her and checked her vitals. "You sound… different… your words…."

He laughed "I'm Australian."

"Oh." She said softly and her mouth fell open in surprise. "Why are you here then?" Chase blinked and almost laughed at the look on her face.

"Curious?" He asked amused. Most patients didn't take an interest in their doctor's lives…. But when you're a blind teenager maybe that's all you can do?

"Bored." She admitted and sighed. "I'm not allowed to listen to music or my books or anything since I got here…. The don't want me to 'ruin' my hearing… it comes in waves." She groaned frustrated. "The hearing thing has only started this past month. As if being the blind freak wasn't enough, I have to be occasionally deaf, too." Chase listened sympathetically.

"Describe for me what it's like when you can see?" Chase asked, writing down her words exactly.

"Blurry… I see colors and blurry things sometimes… I can tell a tree because it's brown and green blobs but other than the blobs and the blurs…. I don't know. Most of the time it's not like that…. But I see flashes of… I guess… white? It's bright and it hurts my eyes." she shrugged. "I've gotten pretty good at adapting…. But now things are all screwed up."

Chase nodded and wrote all of this down. "You can continue if you want…" But Melody got quiet when Foreman entered the room to do some tests. Thirteen came in to take the girl for an MRI because even though she'd had it done at Union Hospital, House wanted them to do one.

"You look like Hell…" Foreman said, eyeing Chase once they were gathering data alone. "Any word on Cameron?" He was worried about the other woman because she was unresponsive when he carried her.

"Hypoglycemia. She was busy with work and didn't eat." Chase said matter-of-factedly. He didn't mention the reason that she didn't eat was because she had morning sickness. "When I left she was annoyed with all the tests they did…"

"Standard procedure when a collapse victim doesn't wake up immediately." Foreman reminded his coworker as though he wasn't a doctor himself.

"I know that. She does, too. She just thought it was unnecessary." He sighed, "But how many 'unnecessary' routine tests have we done where we found something…? But Cameron's fine. Just didn't eat since breakfast." She's also pregnant, but that was beside the point.

Foreman nodded and smiled. "Sometimes I worry about that girl. She just gets so invested in the medicine….and forgets to care for herself…"

Chase knew why and so did House, but Foreman didn't know she was a widow and didn't want to see any family go through what she did. "She just wants to help people." He sighed. "But you're right." he gave a small smile. "Cameron worries a lot about her patients, more so than she cares about herself" Foreman nodded, remembering how much Cameron cared deeply about every case they had and how invested she got. Suddenly, Chase looked at Foreman and smirked "House is mad at you."

"He's always mad at me. What is it this time?" the other man asked his coworker. Chase shrugged. He saw it from the moment he walked in the room that House was in a bad mood and Foreman wasn't helping. Honestly, he and Cameron probably weren't helping either but he was glad House decided to take it out on Foreman instead of them.

"Fine as long as you don't fall over with this patient…." They heard House yelling. "You shouldn't be seeing patients today…"

"Right because there's only allowed to be one ill doctor at the hospital." Cameron snapped in response.

"Vicodin versus fainting…." House answered smugly as Foreman and Chase entered the Conference Room. "But you're looking better." He said approvingly.

"I had some food. Cuddy cleared me to come up. I'm fine" She muttered and House raised an eyebrow but remained silent. "The MRI showed…?"

"Nothing yet." Chase said, relieved she was up and about.

"Of course." Cameron rolled her eyes impatiently. Though she knew the tests weren't even finished yet. She just wanted to concentrate on work not anything else. She and Chase shared a look but neither one said anything. Too many ears to discuss anything unrelated to Melody.

"What was that?" House demanded. "You two shared a look…. You looked at each other…"

"No we didn't." They both said simply. He frowned but ignored them.

"Liars." Everybody lies. It was one of the few things House made very clear to all his team when they first began working for him. "Whatever. Not important. Just do your job." He shoved the girl's chart at Cameron. He muttered sending his Original Three into the room to talk to the patient's parents while Thirteen finished the MRIs.

The Mom was in the middle of talking about some of the therapies they'd tried when Melody was nine when Cameron put her hand to her mouth and immediately ran to the trash can, retching into it. She then left to go to the bathroom with the trashcan to clean herself up. Chase and Foreman looked at her concerned and Melody's Mom paled at the sight. "Food poisoning." House was lying through his teeth, not that he cared "Don't eat the hamburger from the cafeteria."

"That's what I just ate…" She gasped and held her stomach. House rolled his eyes; he hated placebos.

"Then that sucks to be you, doesn't it?" House said pompously, turning to his team. "Foreman continue grilling Mrs. Whatever on her darling daughter's enchanting history. And because I know you're going to do it anyway, Chase, check on her. Once she's… feeling better…Have Cameron go lie down on the couch in my office… she's off patient duty for the remainder of the day and have her take tomorrow off because I'm sure Cuddy will have my head if I don't." Thirteen and Melody returned to find House and Foreman talking with Melody's parents and her mom laying down with an empty wash basin next to her. The brunette looked curiously at the eldest doctor. "Food poisoning." House responded cheerfully. "Don't ask for details…. Mommy's looking a bit green, doesn't she?"

Foreman glanced at House, sure he was hiding something, but not wanting to ask. He knew House would just say he was being paranoid and stick him with all the clinic duty he didn't want to deal with.