Cameron's Trial

by Moonowl17

Slight AU: What if there was a supernatural element to House? Cameron has hidden abilities that were not needed until now. She has to choose, House or Chase... R&R, no flames pls. Do not own any of the characters, belong to Fox. Rated T just in case.

1. Chapters 1 to 10

CHAPTER ONE

Cameron heard her pager going off. She looked at her clock and saw that it was two in the morning. She reached over, opened one eye and saw the number on the pager. She rolled over towards her bedside table an old book fell on the floor that she was reading. She picked up her phone and dialled the number.

"There's been an incident, it's Chase!" Foreman told her on the other end of the phone that was all she needed to know. She got out of bed, got dressed and went to PPTH. She made her way to ICU where Chase was. She saw him in bed, hooked up to all of the machines that were needed to monitor him. She picked up his file and read it. He was found outside the entrance to his apartment building, on the floor. She sighed, she knew what she had to do, but she really hated doing it. She told the nurses that she was in here taking care of him and that she didn't want to be disturbed. She locked the door and went up to Chase in his bed. She put her hands one on each of his temples on the side of his head, closed her eyes and concentrated. Images of what happened flashed in her mind. She screamed as the images overpowered her. She removed her hands and opened her eyes, breathing in and out very rapidly. Same images that she saw last week from the other patient in ER. She looked down at Chase's lifeless body, she knew that there was something that she could do, that was putting him in the coma, but she didn't want to risk it, she needed to read about it first before she tried it. She went back to Chase's bedside and stroked his head. She kissed him on his forehead.

"Don't worry, I'll make it better I promise!" she said to him in his ear, and left the room.

Cameron looked up as she closed the door, and saw House standing against the wall on the opposite side of the door.

"Since when have you cared about what happens to Chase?" she asked him as they walked to the conference room.

"Since I told him that I love him!" House replied to her in his normal sarcastic tone. "I heard you screaming in there, what were you doing?" he asked her as he held the door to the conference room open for her.

"Nothing, it was just the shock of seeing him there!" she replied to him.

"Come on Allison! You have seen worse than that!" House told her.

"But not to someone who you work with!" she shouted back. House's hand reached out to her shoulder, but he instinctively pulled it back. Cameron starred at him, she didn't expect that from House, she shook off the feeling and got them both a cup of coffee. She wasn't about to revel anything to House, he had made it clear to her on their date what he thought about her, but she had a feeling that it wasn't his real feelings, they were in hiding. oHou

"I'm going home, I need to do some reading!" she said to House, she touched his shoulder that was all she needed to be able to find out his feelings for her. She felt them rush into her head, causing her to close her eyes to stop the pain from showing. She moved her hand and the feelings stopped. She looked at House.

"You know, you should let them out!" she said to him, he looked at her he knew what she meant, in a strange sort of way.

"I can't!" he told her. She nodded and left him to his own thoughts.

She went into her apartment and walked into the bathroom. She splashed water onto her face and took some painkillers to get rid of the headaches that she had got from what she had just done. She went into her bedroom and picked up the book that had fallen onto the floor. She flicked through it until she found what she was looking for. She read what to do, and mentally prepared herself for it. She had a shower, put on some fresh clothes, picked up her pager, phone and also keys and left the apartment. She went back to PPTH and straight to Chase's room and locked the door. She walked up to him, took his vitals and wrote them down in his file. She then sat down on a chair next to his bed and took his hand in hers. She closed her eyes to concentrate. A few minutes later, she found what she was looking for, she whispered a few words in Latin and it vanished. She opened her eyes and looked at Chase's face. Five minutes later, he opened her eyes and she smiled at him.

"Take a deep breathe in and hold it!" she told him as she got an oxygen mask ready. She pulled the tube out and put the mask on him.

"I had a dream about you!" he whispered to her as she checked his pulse.

"Really?" she replied, still smiling. She put her stethoscope in her ears and listened to Chase's breathing.

"It was dark, then I saw you, your hand reaching out to me, then I woke up here!" he told her as she wrote down his vitals and also the time he woke up.

"Robert, you were attacked, I don't know if you can remember any of it, or tell me anything about it, but you were found outside your apartment entrance. You had a concussion and were also shot in the arm. When you were found, you were still out. Foreman established that something had put you in a coma, but what he didn't know I was just able to find that out quicker than normal. You have only been out about twelve hours." She explained to him. He looked up and saw the blood bag.

"You haven't lost a lot, but we wanted to make sure!" she said, he nodded and closed his eyes again. "No Robert, wake up, stay with me. You can't sleep yet!" she said shaking him gently, he re opened his eyes. His face screwed up in pain.

"My side hurts!" he said to her, she felt around his side gently and found out that one of his ribs was broken. She went into the meds drawer and gave him some pain killers through his IV.

"One of your ribs is broken, we need an x ray to make sure that the rest are ok, and also to check for internal bleeding." She told him as she wrote it in his file. She put it back. "Do you need anything?" she asked him, he shook his head. She smiled and left the room.

CHAPTER TWO

Foreman and House were in the conference room when she walked in.

"Chase is awake and he needs an x ray, he has a broken rib, need to make sure that there is no internal bleeding or more damage." She told them as she got herself a cup of coffee.

"So, when will he be back doing my clinic duty?" House asked her.

"You know, you could just send the patients to him!" she replied, Foreman smirked at this comment.

"People don't like to be treated by a sick doctor!" House informed her.

"Then that's why they don't like to see you, I thought all this time it was your nature!" she replied, looking at him up and down.

"That was harsh!" House said, she nodded, knowing what she had just said. "You have just earned my clinic duty for the week!" he told her.

"Only a week, wow after a comment like that, I expected more!" she replied.

"Well, your cute butt saved you again!" House told her as he began their morning meeting. It wasn't the same without Chase, his input and the fights he and House always had kept them somewhat entertained during them. Once the meeting was finished, Foreman walked out of the door, Cameron put on her laptop and checked her e mails. She saw one in her inbox that she hadn't seen before, it was from her grandmother. She hadn't heard from her in a long time since she went to medical school. She opened it and began to read it.

"I sensed you a few hours ago and thought I would e mail you, better than tapping into your mind and scaring you I thought! It was about time you began to use them again, even though you have proved yourself to be a hard worker, you can not shut them off forever.

You know how to get hold of me when you need me.

Love and Peace always

Grandmamma."

Cameron read the e mail several times, her mind flashing back to the day she discovered her gift. Cheerleading practise, voices in her head the whole time. She explained it all to her grandmother as she lived with her, both her parents died when she was young in a plane crash. Her grandmother then told her about her gift, and trained her to use it. One day that she did use it, she didn't like it and promised never to use it again. She got through medical school and also her life without using it, forgetting about it, but no matter how she tried, she knew that it was there in the back of her mind. Last week was the first time, the attacks on the people who lived in the same area as Chase had begun to worry her, so she used it and opened a world to herself that she swore she wouldn't ever do. Cameron closed her eyes.

*Hello Grandma!* she said as she projected her thoughts to the picture of her grandmother at her house. She was baking cookies.

*I wondered how long it would take you to open it up again Ally. How have you been and what have you found out!* Cameron began explaining to her grandmother about what she had found in the two patients and also for some advice, once she was happy with what she had told her and the advice she had given her, Cameron stopped the connection, turned and saw House starring at her from his office. She looked at him, he could see the longing in her eyes, but she wasn't going to say anything, if anything was to be, then he should make the first move, not her. She had already crossed the barrier by using her powers on him, something she didn't really mean to do.

House entered the room and got himself another cup of coffee. Cameron looked at her laptop and began to read his e mails and answering them.

"Anything new?" he asked her.

"Cuddy's pregnant, she sent everyone an e mail telling them!" she told him with a smile on her face.

"You joker you!" House said as he sat down beside her. She felt uncomfortable, she knew he was doing this on purpose to get a reaction out of her, but she could do the same to him, but she chose not to. House looked at her and he grinned.

"What do you want Dr. House?" she asked him.

"Nothing, it's interesting to see you work. Listen, what you said to me this morning…" House began to say, but they were interrupted by Cuddy walking into the room. "Busted again!" he said out loud.

"Clinic, you, now!" she said to him.

"But I have a sore leg, the sweet doctor here gave me a note and everything! Anyway, she said she would cover for me!" he told Cuddy as he popped some skittles in his mouth.

"Not getting out of it, and no Cameron isn't doing your clinic duty, she has her own to deal with!" Cuddy told him as she started to pull his ear like a bad school boy!

"Ouch, do you mind! You can try your new S&M tricks on your training doctors, but please not with me!" he said, as he let Cuddy escort him to the clinic. "So is it true that you are preggers? I thought you had just let go!" he asked her on the way.

"Yes House and the kid it's yours!" she said, her voice oozing with sarcasm. Cameron laughed as she heard this and watched them walk down the corridor.

Cameron decided to check on Chase. Foreman was already there, looking at his x ray.

"You have several broken ribs you can see that on the x ray. I'm also guessing some bruising and also some internal bleeding, but we should be able to find the source of that!" Foreman told Chase as she walked in. She smiled at Chase he was sitting up and looking at the x ray with Foreman.

"Okay, so I shall bind you up then Chase. But we really need to get the tear sorted out first. The rib could have pierced a main blood vessel, but we don't know." She said, as she put her hands on his side to feel around his ribs. She knew this would hurt, so Foreman got him some painkillers to take it away. "I'm really sorry Chase!" she said as she saw his face scrunch up from the pain. "Tell you what, how about when you are out of this hospital, you can stay at mine until you are better to come back to work?" she said to him, Chase smiled the best he could consider how much pain he was in. She stopped and pulled her hands away, this was beyond her gift, but not her medical knowledge. She looked at Foreman.

"We need to get rid of the blood that has come out, he has a pocket in there, I think that the blood vein has been torn a bit, but I have a feeling it has been healed by itself." She said to Foreman, he nodded and got a surgical kit to drain it. Cameron looked at Chase. "Hey you, we are going to do this now so that you will feel less pressure on your side okay. Then we will give you something to help you sleep if you want!" she said to him. Foreman injected the anaesthetic into his side. Cameron told Chase to turn around while she helped Foreman do the procedure. It lasted about ten minutes until they had the tube in and the blood pocket was being drained. Cameron went over to the other side where Chase was looking and smiled at him.

"Okay, we will leave it in for a few hours the blood should have finished draining then. I'll stay here if you want?" she asked him, just as her pager went off. She looked at it and saw House's number on it. She went to the phone and called him.

"Dr. House, how can I be of help to you?" she asked him.

"I need a consult on a patient." He told her.

"Is there really a patient there or is it another excuse to get me alone!" she said to him.

"Nope, real patient here this time!" he said. She told him that she would be there soon, and left Foreman and Chase alone.

Cameron arrived in the clinic, and went into exam room five where there was a patient sitting on the bed and House playing his Nintendo DS.

"Hi, I'm Dr. Cameron, you must excuse this man here, he must have escaped from our cuckoo wing, he thinks he's a doctor!" she said to the kid as she pointed to House, this made him laugh.

"You funny!" he said to her. She smiled at him as she began to check him out.

"I resent that! I went through medical school I'll show you my degree if you are a good girl!" House said to her as he looked up from his game. She turned to House and smiled.

"Is that a promise now?" she asked as she continued to listen to the boy's chest. "He has a chest infection, you needed a consult for a chest infection that you could have done yourself!" she said to House as she gave the little boy a lollypop and watched him walk to his mum with the prescription in his hand, telling her how he was a big brave boy going in by himself.

"No, I needed a consult because he was a kid and I hate them most of all!" he said to her as he put his game down. She smiled as she walked out of the door. "Allison, wait a minutes, I wanted to tell you about what you said to me this morning…" he said, as her pager went off, she looked at it and smiled.

"To be continued I guess, looks like I have a new patient!" she said as she walked out of the exam room. House sat back on his chair and slammed his fist on the table "damn it!" he said and popped two pills in his mouth.

The immunology wing was one of the newest additions to the hospital, and it was here where Cameron got to learn more about her speciality. Each day she would come in here and talk to patients about their condition, making sure that they were getting the right meds and also that if they were on home infusion, that they were doing it right. She went into the room, where one of her regular patients was sitting there, refusing her treatment.

"Not again Louise, do I have to come up every time to do it for you?" she said as she asked the nurse to leave.

"I hate it here, why do I have to have this stuff again?" Louise asked her as Cameron put the needle in her arm.

"Because if you don't, then you will become very ill and your organs will suffer, you know this as we always have the same conversation each time you come here!" Cameron said to her as she sat down with her once the infusion had started, she felt sorry for Louise, she had a hard time accepting the illness that she had. Who could blame her, she did have the worse one going, but she got so ill and diagnosed too late, it had already damaged her lungs. Louise resented the doctors for this, but she trusted Cameron, she had no idea why, but as long as she got her meds, then Cameron didn't mind keeping her company for the next few hours. They caught up on things and also talked about events that were going to happen, once she was finished, Cameron booked an appointment with her to have it done in her office next time, to make it more comfortable for her and also so that Louise didn't get the feeling that she was stuck in the hospital. They said their goodbyes and Cameron left the wing, heading back to see Chase.

When she walked into his room, she could see that he was asleep. She went over and checked the bag, and saw that the blood had stopped flowing out of his side, she pressed gently and felt the pocket gone. She went and got some gloves and also the things that she needed to stitch him up after she took the tube out. Once she had pulled it out, given him a shot to make sure that there would be no infection and stitched it back up, she covered the stitches and wrote down in his file how much blood was drained and also when she took it out. She heard a moan from his bed she went over and stood next to him.

"Be careful, I have just removed the tube from your side!" she told him as she automatically pushed his hair out of his eyes. "If you are okay to sit up, I would like to bandage your ribs up!" she said to him as she offered him her hand. He took it and she helped him sit up, blocking the images that she was getting from him. Cameron went to get the bandages, took off his top and looked at his chest. She was shocked at how badly bruised it was, she knew what to expect, but she still couldn't believe it. She reached out and touched Chase's chest and looked into his eyes.

"I'm so sorry!" she said to him.

"It's not your fault!" he said, as he took her hand and put it on his heart. "As long as this is beating, I'll be fine!" he told her. She closed her eyes and listened to his heart beat. After a few minutes, she opened her eyes and smiled. She was careful and took her time to bandage up his ribs. When she was finished, she put his top back on and helped him lie back down on the bed. She took his vitals and he just looked at her.

"What?" she said, as she looked up at him while taking his pulse.

"Thank you!" he said, she smiled as she made sure that his oxygen tank was full and that his mask was on correctly.

"For what? I just want to get you better as soon as possible." She said to him as she sat down next to him. He turned his head and looked at her.

"Why are you doing this Allison?" he asked her. She looked at him, she felt guilty about what that thing did to him, but that wasn't just it, there was something else too.

"Because I want to!" she told him as she reached out and held his hand. He touched her hand and smiled.

"It means a lot to me!" he told her, she reached up and pushed his hair out of his eyes again. She stood up and left him to his own thoughts.

Cameron went up to her office. She waved her hand and all the blinds in her office went down so no one could see her *this gift can sometimes be really cool!* she thought to herself. She sat down and closed her eyes, allowing images that she had gained from Chase to play in her head. She wanted to piece together what happened to him, but she couldn't, there was something missing. Her mind then forced itself to the feelings that she had gained from House, she wanted to forget them, but her gift wasn't allowing her to do it. She knew what she did had invaded his privacy, and she also knew that she wasn't going to act on them, yes she had an advantage, but she wasn't going to use it. Like she told herself earlier, if anything was going to happen between them, then she will wait for him to make the next move, she wasn't going to do anything. A knock on the door brought her back to reality.

"Come in!" she shouted, she had no idea who it was as her blinds were closed and she couldn't see out. She knew who it was when she heard the noise of his cane on the floor. He sat himself on the opposite side of her desk, she looked up at him.

"I was just thinking about grabbing some lunch, and I wondered if you would like to join me?" House asked her. "It will give us a chance to talk about our new case!" he added. She wasn't sure if this was true or not, but she didn't want to say anything, House asking her to lunch, well that was a big step for him.

"Okay, let's go then!" she said as she began to put the blinds up in her office by hand. She and House walked out of her office and she locked it. They went to the canteen, got their food and sat down at an empty table.

"So, how's Chase?" he asked her.

"Okay, very bruised, the blood pocket has been drained. I just hope that he stays stable overnight, I think I will stay with him, do observation duty just in case!" she told House. They both began to eat in silence. "So, new case?" she asked him.

"No, not really. Just needed to give you a justification for my actions about asking you to lunch!" House said looking at her. "Listen, Allison, what you said to me this morning. I'm sorry about what I told you on our date. I was a real a§§!"

"Got that right!" she said to him. House starred at her, angry for interrupting him.

"What I want to say is let me make it up to you. I would like to take you out on a date that is if you will go with me?" House asked her. Cameron looked at him.

"Okay, that sounds good, but wouldn't you rather think about it for a bit longer? Ask me in the morning?" she asked him.

"I have been thinking of nothing else all day, and it is eating me up inside. I will pick you up tomorrow night if that is okay?" he asked.

"That's fine!" she said. "Thank you for lunch, see you later!" she told him and walked off.

CHAPTER THREE

Cameron thought about what House asked her as she made her way back to the conference room. She walked in and Foreman was sitting there, looking over a new patient file that he had.

"If you are going to try it, then good luck!" she said to him. She thought back to their lunch. "But then again, you may catch him in a good mood if you are lucky!" she said to him as she sat down beside him.

"Even I have no idea what it could be!" he told her as he handed her the file.

"That's because you are a neurologist and think like one too, it may be something unrelated to the brain!" she told him as she looked at the file. She read through it, and also had no idea. House walked into the conference room and looked over Cameron's shoulder.

"That's not your case, there is no girly G in there, so it must be his!" he said, nodding his head towards Foreman. "Try me!" House said to him as he sat down the opposite end of the table from them.

"Twenty year old female, came to me presenting with headaches and nausea. CT scans a complete zip. Symptoms gotten worse in the past week, she now presents numbness in her feet and hands. She has also started to develop a rash!" Foreman added House looked at him. This had caught his interest. He wrote their conditions on the whiteboard and got himself some coffee.

"Okay, so what do we think then?" he asked them both.

"Could be a nerve caught in her spinal cord somehow?" Cameron suggested. "However, that wouldn't count for the nausea." She added. She picked up the medical dictionary and went through it.

"Okay, that's unlike Cameron to be out after one suggestion! Foreman, what have you got!" House asked him.

"I'm running on empty I'm afraid, I've done all the tests I wanted, I have no idea what it could be!" he admitted to House.

"We should get a MRI of her spine, I know something we don't do very often, also a spinal tap, make sure the fluid is okay, and a pain test done in her hands and feet, to see if there really is any nerve damage." Cameron said, looking up from her book.

"Okay, well then, let's get going!" House said to them, and they left the conference room. Cameron walked up to Foreman.

"Can I have the file so that I can take it to Chase, maybe we could find something together tonight, I am doing observation duty just in case!" she told him. Foreman looked at her, and nodded. They went to see the patient together and did the tests. Once they were done, they went to the labs and began to process the results. Cameron left Foreman to do this, as she took the file and went to see Chase.

"Hey, how are you?" she asked him as she walked in. He was watching GH. "Shall I get House so you both can watch it together?" she said as she walked over to the phone in his room.

"Forget it you know he hates sick people, and me, so imagine how much he hates me now! I'm guessing about triple the amount before my accident." He said to her.

"He doesn't hate you, he just doesn't trust you!" she told him. She sat down on the chair next to him and gave him the file. "Here, new case and well, Foreman and I are stuck. We have a few ideas, which you can see from the tests, but apart from that, we are bringing up nothing!" she explained as he opened the file and looked at it. She took his vitals and felt that he was well enough to take the oxygen mask off. She turned off the oxygen and took the mask off, watching his signs for a few minutes until she realised that he was stable. She sat down and breathed a sigh of relieve, no lung damage at least! "I'm doing observation duty tonight, well, that is if you want me to?" she asked him, looking down at her feet. Chase looked at her, he looked a bit pale, and Cameron passed him a bowel and watched him be sick. She felt so helpless at the moment. Once he was finished, she took it away. He had coughed up some blood, but from where, she didn't know. She went back to him once she had disposed of it and started to feel around his stomach and spleen. She couldn't feel anything.

"Robert, do u know that you just brought up some blood?" she asked him. He looked at her and he shook his head. She went up to his file, wrote this down, and also wrote down tests that she wanted done in the morning, she would ask House tomorrow, it was late and he had more than likely gone home already. She looked at Chase he was concentrated on the case that she had just handed to him. She smiled and quickly left him to get her laptop so that she could do some research. Once she came back, he was watching TV again. He looked up as she came in and smiled. He moved up on his bed, and patted down on it for her to join him. She came up to him, sat down on his bed and pulled the table over and put her laptop on it. She turned it on and waited for it to boot up.

"You still haven't asked me if you want me to stay, I could always go home?" she said to him as she turned and faced him.

"No, please, stay. I could really do with the company, and also the looking after!" he told her, she smiled.

"Just don't expect this all of the time!" she told him as she went on the internet. "So what do we think?" she asked him. They spent the next few hours bouncing ideas off each other about their new case. Once they had done the research and had ran out of ideas, Cameron wrote a list of the tests that needed to be done to rule out their choices. She pushed the table away and laid down on his bed next to her. They watched TV and relaxed in each others company. Cameron fell slowly to sleep in Chase's arms.

"Two, four, six eight, who are we going to beat?

One, three, five, nine, we are number one.

Go defence go!

Take it all the way.

Go Spirits! Yeah!"

Cameron cheered as Justin lifted her up on his hands, and stretched his arms up as she stood on them for the big finish he threw her in the air as she performed a perfect pike back somersault and landed in his arms. She smiled as she looked at the rest of her squad. They had just made the winning touch down for the semi finals in the football championships. They were all happy, especially her squad, as they had also made it to the finals of the national cheerleading competition. Suddenly, she could hear what Justin was thinking and also a powering feeling wiped over her, love! She knew that it was for her, but she still couldn't believe that she was seeing the images that she had gained from him. She shook her head, and looked at her best friend, Kimberly. She suddenly heard what she was thinking about her. She was shocked that her best friend had a crush on Justin. She looked puzzled at them all for a few moments, the match was over, she grabbed her stuff and said goodbye to the squad and walked home.

"Grandma, I'm home!" she shouted as she walked through the door. "I had such a strange day, I could swear that I was feeling things, hearing things and seeing things that came from other people." She explained to her grandmother as she walked into the kitchen to get some water.

"I wondered when this would happen, you have got it!" her grandmother told her.

"Got what? Can it be fixed?" she said. Cameron's grandmother sat her down, gave her some milk and cookies and joined her.

"You have the powers. It's mainly on the female side of our family. This is just the beginning of it Allison. You can feel people's emotions when you concentrate on them, also get images from things that have happened in their past. Another sign is having the ability to move objects with your mind. Now that you have come into your powers, I am going to teach you how to control them." She said.

The dream faded from Cameron's memory. She opened her eyes and looked around, figuring out where she was. After a few minutes, she realised that she was with Chase. She looked at him and saw him sleeping. She moved his arm and stood up. The dream, the day she found out about her powers.

"Hey, bad dream?" she heard Chase ask her from his bed. She turned and smiled at him.

"Something like that, something I was hoping that I would forget, but it always comes back and haunts me in my dreams." She told him as she walked back over to him. She lay back down and he took her back in his arms. He kissed her forehead.

"How did you get me out of the darkness?" he asked her.

"I didn't do anything, it was just a dream remember!" she said. She hated lying, sometime when she used her powers she had to implant a dream into the person that she was doing it on, especially the spell she performed on Chase, hence the dream that he had. She rolled on her side and put her head on Chase's chest, being careful not to hurt his ribs. "Well, I guess I'm not one of the best doctors for observation duty if I always fall asleep!" she said to him. He kissed her on the forehead again, she looked up at him, and he bent down and kissed her slowly on the lips. Cameron was taken back by this act of passion it had caught her off guard. Images of the accident the happened to Chase flew into her head again, stronger and faster than ever. She pulled away from the kiss and screamed. Whenever something like that happened to her, emotional surprises, her powers went crazy and took over. She had avoided any emotion surprises since the first, and last time that happened. Chase looked at her. Once she had settled back down, she looked up.

"I'm so sorry, that… wasn't meant to happen, not the kiss I mean, but my head hurting. I sometimes get really bad migraines from lack of sleep, and since I was up at two yesterday morning due to your incident, that really wasn't meant to happen!" she said to Chase as she stood up and got herself some pain killers to get rid of it. The images disappeared as soon as she stood up. She took the pills and splashed some water on her face in his bathroom. She came back in and saw Chase lying on his bed, he looked hurt.

"Allison, I didn't mean to surprise you, I wasn't sure if you wanted that." He said to her. She turned and smiled.

"Robert, that was really nice of you to kiss me, but next time, please try not to surprise me!" she said as she sat back down next to him. "However I'm not sure what I want right now!" she said, he took her in his arms.

"Well, I'm sure that another kiss may help you decide?" he said as he moved his head closer to hers. She was prepared for it this time and had time to block her powers as Chase kissed her gently, then more passionately on the lips. After a few minutes, she pulled away and looked at him. She smiled, she wasn't sure what she wanted, but she hoped that her date with House the following evening would make things clearer for her. She was scared to get emotionally close to anyone, if her powers kept taking over, she didn't know what to do.

CHAPTER FOUR

She awoke the following morning in Chase's arms again she looked up and saw the he was still asleep. She smiled as she remembered the kiss that he had given her before she went to sleep. She stood up and checked his vitals, she didn't want to disturb him, he looked so peaceful when he slept. She gave him some pain killers and also an anti sickness shot as he wasn't looking too good. She reached over to the oxygen mask, even though he had no damage to his lungs, and he had made it through the night breathing by himself, she didn't want to take any chances. She slowly moved his head and put the mask on him. As he felt the rush of oxygen hit his mouth, he slowly opened his eyes.

"Good morning, I have given you an anti sickness shot and also your morning pain killer dose. I know you don't want the mask on, but please, do it just for me. I'm going to take a shower. I see your sister brought you some shower gel and shampoo, so I'm just going to borrow that. I'll be back in a few minutes you can get some rest if you like." She said as she took his bag and went into his bathroom and showered. Twenty minutes later, she came out, drying her hair with a towel and dressed in the same clothes that she had on yesterday, but she had a change in her office, just in case. Foreman was there, talking to Chase. He turned and saw Cameron as she came out of the bathroom.

"Ah, there she is! Did you sleep well?" he asked her.

"I did get some sleep, yes, thank you. What did the test results show?" she asked him.

"Nothing, everything clear, but we need to do that MRI today, and also some tests on Chase, aren't we in for a fun day!" Foreman said as he looked down at Chase's chart. "So, what did you guys get up to?" he asked them.

"Nothing much, ideas about our new case and watched some TV and chatted really, oh and also I got some sleep, but Chase got most of the sleeping done around here, no surprise considering how much we put in him yesterday and also what he has been through!" she said as she went over to them both, she pushed Chase's hair out of his eyes for the third time in two days. "I really should stop doing that!" she said to him, he smiled. "Right, let's go to work then Foreman!" she said to him as she loosely tied her hair in a bun. "Tell House that I will be there in a few minutes, I just need to go to my office and put on some fresh clothes." She said to Foreman as he left the room with both files in his hand. She turned to Chase and smiled at him.

"Thanks for looking after me last night!" he said to her, she started to walk out of the door.

"No problem, I will see you later okay, so that we can do the tests." She said and she walked out of the door.

In her office, Cameron found her bag with her extra set of clothes in it. She waved her hand and her blinds automatically closed and she got changed. Once she was done, she waved her hand again and they re opened. She took one last look in her mirror and headed down to the conference room where Foreman was sitting there and House was fighting with the coffee maker.

"You are so impatient, you can't even wait a few extra minutes for your morning caffeine kick!" she said to House as she went over to fix the mess that he had made. She had the machine on in a minute and fresh coffee was now brewing. Once it was finished, she poured them all a cup each and gave it to them.

"Ah, coffee, my morning wake up!" House said as he inhaled the aroma. Cameron rolled her eyes. The morning meeting started as normal, talking about the case and also possible tests that could be done. Once House had okayed most of the tests that Cameron and Chase wanted done, they moved on to Chase's file.

"He was bringing up blood last night. Either his spleen has erupted or he has a tear in his stomach." Cameron suggested.

"We need to get a camera in his stomach to have a look and also an x ray on his spleen to make sure that it is okay!" Foreman told House, House was starring at Cameron.

"Oh yes, we had observation duty last night didn't we Dr. Cameron?" House said to her, she nodded.

"Why, are you jealous?" she asked him sarcastically as she drank her coffee.

"Oh, yes, of course I'm jealous of Chase! As if he's a threat to me!" House replied to her and grinned. "Do the tests you want to do Foreman, it's about time that Chase was back working, he has been slacking off long enough!" House added.

"Not true, he was helping me last night on the case!" Cameron informed him.

"About time that he did some proper doctor work, some physical stuff!" House told her. "Foreman, go do the tests, Dr. Cameron will be with you shortly!" House told him, Foreman stood up, looked at Cameron, and she looked confused back at him, and left them.

"About tonight…"

"Changed your mind already? Let me guess, you couldn't cancel your normal hooker!" Cameron said to him, she was doing rather well considering how tired she was.

"No, I just wanted to say that I will pick you up at your place at 7pm, dress smartly!" House told her, she nodded and left him alone.

"Damn it!" she said as she walked into the MRI observation room. Foreman looked up at her.

"What's wrong? Whoa, the computer is going crazy!" he said. Cameron looked at the screen, took a deep breath in and calmed down. The computer went back to normal. "Must have been a computer problem, they warned me that there was something wrong with the machine!" Foreman told her. "Anyway, what's wrong with you?" he asked her again. She sat down beside him and looked at the screen.

"Nothing I guess, just like this MRI is showing us. What is wrong with me Foreman?" she asked him.

"I would have said nothing, but after that outburst, I don't know! Listen, you know you can talk to me about anything and I will try to help you the best I can!" he told her as the MRI finished and they got the patient out of the machine.

"Thanks!" Cameron said. "I'll take her back you go and get Chase so that we can do his x ray." She told him as she pushed her back to her room.

"Dr. Cameron what's wrong with me?" she asked as Cameron helped her into her bed.

"That's a question that many people seem to have on their minds today, but the answer to yours is that we don't know, that's why we are doing these tests, to find out what is wrong. Listen if you need me, just ask the nurses to page me and I will see what I can do for you okay?" Cameron told her, she nodded and Cameron left her alone. She made her way quickly to her office, as she needed to pick something up. She saw a package sitting outside her door. She picked it up and opened her office door. She closed it and opened the package. Out of it tumbled a gold necklace. She picked it up, and on the gold chain was a small gold circle. In the middle of the circle a purple stone hung freely. She reached into the package and got a note out of it.

"This should help keep them under your control.

You can only call upon them when you need them with this on.

Love and Peace always,

Grandmamma."

Cameron closed her eyes and let go of the necklace, it didn't hit the desk, but hovered in front of her, she loved this trick, it was the best ability that she had, and she missed it. She smiled as she saw that she could still do it. She pulled the chain out of the air, opened the clasp and put it on. It had a strange feeling to it, she felt safer and stronger to an extent. She would have to look in her book about the necklace, maybe there was something that her grandmother wasn't telling her. She smiled, grabbed her mobile and put it in her pocket and left her office. She walked to the x ray room, where Foreman was finishing the x ray on Chase.

"Nice of you to show up. Where did you get that nice thing?" Foreman asked as he pointed to the necklace around her neck.

"It's a gift from my grandmother. I found the package outside my office." She told him as she fingered the stone in the middle of it. The stone became warm in her hand, making her feel secure. She smiled as she saw Chase. "So, what do they show?" she asked Foreman.

"Don't know yet, let me get them developed and you can take Chase back to his room, he was asking where you were!" Foreman told her. She went into the x ray room and went over to Chase.

"Hey good looking!" he said to her, she smiled.

"Hey yourself!" she said to him as she helped him sit up and back into the wheelchair. "How are you feeling now?" she asked him.

"Okay, I have been sick again, more blood, so I'm still on a liquid diet!" he said, pointing to his IV.

"Just think of the wonders it will do for your figure!" she said to him. "Not that you don't look great the way you are now!" she added as she pushed him into the lift.

"Thanks, that means something coming from you!" he told her, as he reached back and put his hand over hers. She looked at him and smiled again he looked up and saw her necklace.

"Wow, that's amazing, how did it do that?" he asked, she looked at it and saw that the stone had changed to red.

"Oh, it's one of those mood stones, you know it changes colour depending on the mood that the wearer is in. It was a gift from my grandmother, I found it outside my office before I came to see you!" she explained as they arrived back in ICU. She helped Chase into his bed and sat down next to him.

"Allison, last night, I just wanted to show you that you mean a lot to me, I hope that once I am better and out of here, the we may be able to take things to another level?" he asked her, she smiled, she knew that Chase had a crush on her, and she liked him a lot too, but things with House, she wanted to see what would happen tonight with him, then she would be able to make her choice.

"Let me think about it Robert. I just need to think about a lot, so much has happened to me this week, and last night, it was amazing, just being with you made me feel.." she couldn't think of a word, she didn't know what to say.

"That mood stone must be really strong, it's changed to blue!" Chase pointed out she looked down at it and smiled.

"It's been in my family for generations, I'm lucky to have it!" she said as Chase reached up and touched it. She looked at him in the eyes she reached over and stroked his face. He reached up with his other hand and put it on his heart. She remembered this action from the first time she saw his chest bruised. She closed her eyes and felt the beating of it on her hand she pulled away after a while and smiled at him. She seemed to be a little school girl around Chase at times, but when she was around House, the mature and sarcastic side of her appeared.

Foreman came into the room with the x rays in his hand. He put them up so that they could all see.

"Well, the spleen looks okay, but we should feel around it, just in case!" Foreman said. "I'll let you do that Cameron, you are gentler than me!" he said, as he put up the MRI pictures.

"Okay, I see something that you don't!" a voice said at the door. They turned and saw House standing there. "Since when have our meetings changed to here? I didn't receive the memo!" he said as he walked in.

"I sent you an e mail, maybe it's time that you began to check them!" Cameron said to him. "Oh, no wait I'm the one who always does that! How stupid of me!" she said as she hit her own forehead. Cameron and Foreman moved closer to the pictures to see what they could find.

"Hey, move, I want to see too!" they heard Chase shout from his bed. Cameron went over to him and helped him out. She supported him to the pictures and he began to scan like the rest of them.

"There, the vertebrate has moved, ever so slightly!" Chase said, pointing at one of the pictures. Cameron and Foreman moved in closer to the picture, and stood there with their mouths open.

"Well done Chase, looks like we will have you back annoying me in no time!" House said as he took two of his pills. Cameron helped him back to his bed and she checked his vitals at the same time.

"How could that happen?" Foreman asked. "It still doesn't explain the nausea though." He pointed out.

"Well, it explains everything else, so one thing could be something different!" House told him. "So how do we put this back in place?" he asked them.

"We have to operate, put a pin in it and hope that will work, or we leave it and hope that it goes back by itself!" Cameron said as she took Chase's pulse. House looked at Cameron and saw the necklace.

"Present, is it your birthday today? Why didn't anyone tell me?" he said to them, Cameron looked at him as she wrote Chase's vitals in the file.

"No, it's a gift from my grandmother that I got today, found it outside my office." She explained. "Shouldn't we be treating patients, and not starring at my necklace all day! What is it with boys and my fun bags today, I know, men will only grow up when dogs stop licking themselves!" she said, House smiled at her.

"Good memory, or have you maybe thought that you are actually attractive?" he said to her.

"Again, the reason you hired me, let me think, because I look good, like a piece of art in the waiting room?" she said, trying to remember what House had told her.

"Touché!" he said. "Foreman go and do some bloods on our patient, and Cameron, you can do the camera on our poor sick doctor here!" he said as he walked out of the room.

CHAPTER FIVE

"Lunch first!" she shouted at him. Foreman and Cameron left Chase alone and went to the canteen to get something to eat. They found a table, and they could see House and Wilson having their normal lunch conversation.

"So what is it with you and House at the moment? Ever since Stacy's husband has been here, you have been weird." He said to her.

"Well, the date we went on opened a few doors and also other things in my life!" she said to him as she ate her salad. "No, nothing happened and we are not together before you say anything, he just made some things clearer for me." She said before Foreman could make a comment. They continued talking about the cases that they had at the moment in their own fields of speciality.

House and Wilson were eating their food, same as every lunch time. Wilson looked at House.

"Okay, what is on your mind? I know that there is something as you haven't made any sarcastic remarks to me yet!" he said.

"I'm taking Cameron out on a date tonight." House admitted to him. Wilson laughed.

"That's a great one House, as if you would open up to your feelings!" Wilson said, when he saw the seriousness on his face, he stopped laughing. "Oh my god, you are serious! House, what was you thinking! Are you actually admitting that you have feelings for Cameron?" he said to House. House didn't answer, he would normally make a sarcastic comment at this point, but none came to mind. He did have feelings for her, but he didn't know how to tell her, and he also didn't want to get hurt.

"If you are going to do something, then you better do it tonight, and not screw it up! You know that Chase is after her, and she did take observation duty last night. Where did she get that necklace? The stone keeps on changing colour!" Wilson commented. House turned and looked at Cameron's necklace.

"How the hell can you see that from here?" he asked him.

"I just can! So, where did she get it?" he asked her.

"Why, you want to buy Julie one? So she doesn't think that you are cheating on her? She got it from her grandmother today, so she told me." House said as he continued to eat his sandwich.

"I mean it House, you screw this up with her tonight, and you will lose her!" Wilson emphasised once more.

"I don't think that, she is so into me, I can have her at the snap of my fingers!" he said to Wilson.

"Overconfidence will bring this whole thing crashing down on you!" Wilson warned him. They ate the rest of their lunch in silence.

Cameron went and got the camera from the equipment room and also the TV where she would see it. She took it up to Chase's room and numbed his throat.

"Well, you know how this works! Say ahhh!" she said as she put the camera down his throat. She looked at the screen and stopped once she reached his stomach. She could see blood in there, but no tear. She went in a bit deeper, Chase turned and looked at the screen, still she saw no tear, and she went back into his stomach and moved the camera around a bit in case she or Chase could see anything that she missed, still nothing. She pulled it out and gave him some water.

"Did you see anything?" he shook his head "me neither!" she added. She put her hands on his stomach and felt around for any sensitivity there. He moved a few times, but she couldn't find anything that would explain the blood. She felt around his spleen, it was a bit swollen.

"That needs to come out!" she said as she wrote it in his file. "I can have the OP ready for you tonight, just let me phone down and I'll get you prepped to go." She said as she went to the phone. Once she had a team ready, she phoned Foreman and House and paged them to come and see her. She explained the procedure quickly to Chase and he signed the form. House and Foreman came in and she explained what she found. Neither of them was going into the surgery, but Cameron wanted to escort Chase down. House agreed to go with her he didn't want anything to happen between them, what Wilson had said to him made him feel somewhat more protective of her, but in a loving way. Once they saw Chase into surgery, they went back to the conference room. Cameron was exhausted, and this began to show.

"Go home see you both in the morning!" House told them.

"I wanted to make sure that Chase's surgery went okay!" Cameron commented.

"Listen, if anything goes wrong, I'll page you!" House said as they walked out of the conference room. They all went their own separate ways.

Cameron went home and showered. She closed her eyes and lay on her bed for a few minutes. She set her alarm clock to wake her up in half an hour. She hit it when it went off, and got dressed. She found her blue dress that hugged her figure in all the right places. She put it on, tied her hair in a braid and then put it in a bun. At seven o'clock, just like he said, she heard a knock at her door. She sprayed some perfume and went to answer it. She saw House standing there in black pants and a green shirt. She smiled as she saw him his mouth hit the ground as he saw what she had on. She looked stunning to him. He held out his hand, in it was a single red rose. He put it behind her ear, breathing in her perfume as he did this.

"Thank you Dr. House!" she said.

"Call me Gregg, I mean we aren't at work anymore!" he said to her as he offered her his arm. She picked up her purse and closed her apartment door behind them. House took her to his Chevy that was parked outside her apartment. He held the door open as she got in. He went around, got in and drove off.

House took her to a restaurant boat on the river. He had reserved a table outside, so they had a perfect view of the city and also the river and countryside in the distance. They spoke about work and their interests. The conversation then turned to their free time.

"So Gregg, why did you ask me out tonight?" Cameron finally got the courage to ask him.

"I wanted to show you a good evening with the real Gregg House. Not the sarcastic or the evil one that you see everyday and also at our first date." He explained to her. He didn't know what to do in this situation, it had been over five years since he had been with another women. He reached out and touched her hand that was on the table. She looked up and smiled at him. The stone on her necklace changed colour to red, House looked at it.

"That is one really cool necklace!" he said, she looked down at it.

"Mood stone, it changes depending on the person's mood." She explained.

"Then what does red mean?" he asked her, she had no idea, so she didn't answer. They finished their meal in silence, House kept looking over at Cameron and her necklace as it changed from red back to purple. Once they had finished their meal, they ordered a coffee and House paid for the meal and he and Cameron got up and left. They found a bench along the river, and sat down to admire the view. House reached out and took Cameron's hand. She looked at him.

"Gregg, I don't want you doing anything that you are uncomfortable with or don't want to do." She explained to him as she pulled her hand away, House grabbed it back and held it tight.

"I know that. If I didn't want anything to happen, do you think I would have asked you out tonight?" he said to her. She sighed she couldn't deal with this, her powers coming out, Chase kissing her and now House finally admitting that he had feelings for her. She didn't want to hurt House she knew how hard it was to open up with someone.

"How was Chase's operation?" she asked House.

"He's fine, was in recovery before I left work." He told her. "Do we have to talk shop?" House asked her. She shook her head.

"Then what do you want to talk about Gregg?" she asked him.

"If you think that this is worth it or not!" he said to her in his sarcastic tone. He regretted it as soon as it left his mouth.

"You can't just expect me to jump back to you after the first date I'm surprised that I said yes to this. I have feelings for you, but they are confused at the moment as you have seen at work. I think either we leave things until Stacy has gone and her husband is better or we start something that may end in a disaster." She told him. "You are not the only one who can analysis a person. You still love Stacy, and I am not going to be the rebound and end up getting hurt, and I don't want to hurt you. Wait and see how things happen once Mark is better and you can lead some form of a normal life again." She said. She looked at House, this was not an answer he was expecting, and she knew that this had hurt him, it also hurt her. She leaned forward and kissed him on the cheek. House looked at her, put his hand around her head and kissed her lightly on the lips. She responded slowly, but thoughts flew back to the kiss that she had shared with Chase. She was surprised that House was such a good kisser. She closed her eyes and allowed him to lead in the kiss. When he pulled away, she re opened her eyes.

"Thank you for a wonderful evening Gregg." She said to him as they stood up and walked back to the car.

"You're welcome Allison, and thank you for what you said to me, I needed to hear that I guess." He said as he dropped her off at her apartment. "I need to ask you, you and Chase…"

"You said that he had nothing on you! I don't know, I mean nothing has happened, but I'm confused like I said. I need… time." She said.

"Okay, time I can give you." He said as he leaned over and kissed her for the last time on her lips. She got out of the car and went back to her apartment.

A wave of her hand, her lights went on. She clicked her fingers and her stereo played as she threw her shoes off and took her hair down. She heard a knock on her door she turned the music down and went to answer it. She saw House standing there.

"Hi." She said.

"Hi." He replied. "Can I come in?" he asked, she looked around her apartment, it wasn't very tidy like she normally had it, but she opened the door and let him in anyway. He looked around and grinned.

"Glad to see that you really live in this apartment!" he commented as he walked over to her sofa and she walked into the kitchen to get them something to drink. Her book was open on the sofa and House looked at it and was confused. "What is this book about?" he asked, she walked over to the sofa and closed her old book and put it in her bedroom.

"It's just a book about medicine in the past." She said as she closed her bedroom door.

"But it was in Latin, since when could you read fluent Latin?" he asked her as she gave him a bottle of water.

"Since I was a teenager, my grandmother made me learn it." She told him.

"Then why didn't you put it on your CV?" he asked her.

"It has nothing to do with me being a doctor. What do you want Gregg, I mean not that I'm happy to have you here in my place, but I thought our date was finished?" she said to him.

"I know, I just wanted to see where you live that was all!" House said she knew that his wasn't true.

"And now the real reason please!" she said to him as she crossed her arms and looked at him.

"Don't clench, we are not at work and it's not a nice look for you in a dress so beautiful. I wanted to tell you that… you were right to say what you said to me, and I was wrong to think that after the way I treated you that you would just come running into my arms after everything. I just wanted to say that I respect your wish of time, and will wait, and if it is me you choose, then I will try to make you happy, but I can't promise it." He said, and Cameron starred at him. She didn't expect that from House.

"That's it?" she said as she moved towards him, she stopped herself, she didn't want to open up, she was scared of the reaction that would have happened. Then she remembered the reason her grandmother gave her the necklace, to keep them under control. She looked at her feet, she didn't want to make this move, and then it was his choice. She looked up at House, he was walking towards her, and he came up and put his hand around her waist and pulled her towards him. He bent to kiss her.

"No!" she said to him. "Not that I wouldn't enjoy it, but I don't want to gain false hopes from you." She said to him. He put her head on his chest and she listened to his breathing and heart beating. After five minutes, she looked up at him and pulled away. House looked at her, she couldn't tell what he was thinking, and she wasn't going to use her powers to find out either, no influence was going to make her see what he was thinking.

"Thank you Allison, I hope that we can do this again soon." House said as she walked with him to her door.

"Well, you know my pager number if you need me, and also where I live!" she said to him and smiled. House bent down and kissed her on the cheek, she wanted to kiss him on the lips, and she kissed him right next to them. This was painful for the both of them, keeping feelings trapped inside, but they wanted, no needed to make sure if it could work.

"Goodnight Allison, sleep well." He said as he left her alone in her apartment. She watched House leave and closed the door.

CHAPTER SIX

The following day at PPTH was busy. Cameron had overslept and gained clinic duty as punishment, cursing herself for being late for the first time in her life she went up to her office. She relaxed on her sofa and looked at the file she had in her hand. She had just diagnosed a seven year old child with CVID. She hated breaking the news to his parents, and also told them that the rest of their family had to be tested in case it was hereditary. She read through his file again, once she was finished she put it on the floor. A knock at the door made her look up at it. She saw Chase standing there, out of bed. She walked up and let him in.

"What are you doing out of bed?" she asked as she looked at him. He was dressed in jeans and also a green shirt. He looked really sexy for someone who had just had an accident. He walked over to her sofa and sat down.

"It's about time that I got out of there, anyway, you haven't visited me today yet, and it's nearly lunch time." He said to her as she sat down next to him and she checked his pulse.

"I've been busy!" she said as she pointed to the file on the floor and also the ones on her desk that she had paperwork to do.

"Foreman told me that you got extra clinic duty for oversleeping, are you okay?" he asked her.

"I'm fine I'm more worried about you! When did Foreman say you could be discharged?" she asked him.

"Today, that's why I'm out and about! The operation last night went well, there is no more blood in my stomach, I just need the dressing changed on my side once in a while and also some cream put on my ribs to bring down the pain in my muscles." He explained to her. She smiled.

"Okay, we can quickly go to yours, get some stuff and then I want you to stay at mine, at least until this person who has been attacking people has been found! I mean, that is if you want to and don't mind sleeping on the sofa or sharing a bed with me." she said to him, she blushed. She had to find some clues, get this thing back to where ever it belonged so it would stop hurting people.

"Sure, I mean if the offer still stands, I would love to!" he said. "Come on, let's go get some lunch, my treat!" he said and they left her office.

Foreman joined them for lunch and was happy to see that Chase was out of bed. They saw House and Wilson walk past them as they were laughing about the sarcastic comments that Cameron had made to House the past few days. She was embarrassed that she was like that, but the other two seemed to like it. House looked at Chase as he walked past them.

"So, he is out of bed at last!" House said as he paused at their table.

"Yes, but the doctor recommends a few days off, so I won't be back at work until next week!" he told him, "so no torturing me just yet Dr. House, you have to keep doing that to Cameron, but with what I have heard, she can give as good as she gets!" he added.

"You shouldn't leave your date waiting!" she said to him as she pointed to Wilson sitting down by himself.

"Well, at least he knows how to treat a guy during a date!" he added.

"If I recall correctly, you were the one who wasn't nice to me on our date that time I came back!" she added, House looked at her and grinned she smiled back and left his ducklings alone.

"What the hell was that about?" Foreman asked Chase.

"I have no idea!" he said as they both look at Cameron.

"Don't look at me, he was the one who did it!" she added to them. She wasn't going to tell them about last night, it was her special secret.

House walked over to Wilson, and he looked up from his sandwich.

"Another battle of wits against Cameron? Who won this time? So tell me all about last night!" Wilson said as House sat down.

"Oh Jimmy, you're such a gossiper!" House said, impersonating a girl's voice. "Even when she's tired, she can throw it back to me pretty good!" he said as he stared to eat his own sandwich. "Last night was amazing, I admitted to her that I loved her and we had wild sex in my Chevy all night!" House said to him. Wilson looked at him, and then realise that his friend was just kidding.

"Very funny!" Wilson said as House grinned, he had nearly caught him that time, but Wilson was more awake that House, he had spent most of the night thinking about what Cameron had told him.

"It was nice and romantic, we went to a restaurant boat on the river, had dinner, made small talk and then sat on a bench and admired the view and took her home, end of date!" House told him.

"So nothing happened, why don't I believe that, a romantic setting like that and she didn't make a move on you!" Wilson said to him.

"Nope, she didn't make any move, well she kissed me on the cheek, but I was the one who kissed her on the lips." House admitted to him. "And if you tell anyone that, I will personally make you eat worms in front of the hospital staff butt naked!" he added to Wilson so that he wouldn't blab anything to anyone. Wilson looked at House he didn't expect his friend to be brave to make a move like that!

"And, what's going on between you two now?" he asked.

"Nothing, she told me that I needed time to think about my feelings, considering that Stacy is here and also Mark, so she said to wait until they have gone back home." House told her.

"What about her and Chase? I heard he is staying at her place until he is fully recovered." Wilson added. House didn't know this and tried to hide the shock on his face before Wilson noticed it. He obviously didn't, otherwise he would have said something.

"She said that nothing was going on between them, and I believe her." House said, he was getting uncomfortable and took two of his pills. "Let's change the subject, how are things with you and Julie?" House asked.

"Since when did you care about me and Julie?" he asked.

"Since now!" House replied. They spoke about trivial things for the rest of their lunch.

The ducklings finished their lunch and Foreman went to see their other patient. Chase went with Cameron to her office, and since he wasn't going to relax, she picked up all her files and her laptop and they went to his room.

"Bed!" she told him. "If this is the only way that I am going to get some work done without worrying about you, then so be it!" she said as she put the oxygen mask on him.

"I don't need this anymore!" he said like a child.

"You will do what the doctor tells you!" she replied as she smiled, sat down beside him and started doing her paperwork. It took longer than she thought, by the time she looked at her watch, it was nearly six o'clock. She looked up at Chase who was watching TV.

"Why didn't you tell me it was getting late?" she asked him as he watched the news.

"I thought you needed to get them done, so I left you to it!" he said, as he removed the mask. She looked up at him, shook her finger and he put it back on. She went back to work and finished doing her files. She put the last file on her pile and smiled.

"Now you can take it off!" she said as he removed it. "Let's go, where's Foreman?" she asked.

"Haven't seen him all day like you!" he replied as they left the room with Chase's stuff in tow. They walked into the labs and saw him pouring over some test results.

"You should have called me!" she said to him as they finished off the test results together. It didn't take them long as all three of them did them. Within thirty minutes, they were finished, and Foreman decided to look at the results in the morning. They said their good byes and went their own ways.

Cameron took Chase to his place so that he could pick up some clothes for the next few days. Cameron waited outside his apartment block. She felt around the walls where Chase was found and images of what happened flashed into her head. She saw a man shooting Chase and kicking him, for some reason, and then something leaving this person and entering Chase. The same thing that she found in him and also what put him in a coma. She quickly removed her hand from the wall, like she had been shocked by electricity. "No!" she said.

"Hello Allison!" someone said, she turned and saw a man standing there looking at her. "The council want to see you tonight." He told her as he walked up to her.

"Hello Justin, you can tell the council that tonight isn't a good night, you know, doctor stuff!" she said. She didn't want to face the council, her grandmother had told her about them, but she was still scared of them.

"Now, now, no need to get defensive!" he said pointing to her necklace as he inched closer to her. She looked down at it and saw that the stone was black.

"Well, I guess I have a good enough reason!" she informed him as she crossed her arms.

"They will come to you tonight I just thought that I should warn you." He said as he walked up the steps to her.

"What is that thing, it put my friend in a coma." She said to him.

"I don't know, only you have the connection to it, and therefore only you can destroy it." He said to her as he put his arms around her waist. She pulled away.

"Forget it, you may have the council's blessing, but not mine, there is no way that I am getting close to you. I have feelings for someone else!" Cameron told him.

"But your problem is that you don't know which one you want the most! You know that the council wouldn't be happy with either one you do end up choosing!" Justin told her as he tried to approach her again. She pushed his arms away.

"I don't care what the council say, it's my choice now leave me be! And also a word of warning. If I find out that you are the reason behind these attacks, or are in any way connected to them, I'll be coming after you!" she informed him. Chase walked out of the apartment building carrying a holdall with him. He looked and saw Cameron and Justin.

"Who's he?" Chase asked.

"He is no one and also is just leaving!" she added, not removing her eyes from Justin. Justin smiled at her.

"I see when I'm not wanted! I'll see you soon Allison!" he said and walked off. She breathed a sigh of relieve and turned to look at Chase. She smiled and took his bag and they went back to her car.

CHAPTER SEVEN

She spent last night tidying up as she wanted to keep her mind pre-occupied with something else than her own thoughts. Once they were in her apartment, they sat down on the sofa. Cameron was exhausted and all she wanted to do was go to bed.

"The bandages and dressing needs changing!" Chase informed her, as she closed her eyes.

"Fine, but then I am going to bed!" she told him as she stood up and went to her knapsack. She got out the bandages and also the cream. Chase took off his shirt and she undid the bandages. She took off the dressing, checked the stitches, washed it and put on a fresh dressing. She then applied the cream to his ribs and re bandaged them up and looked up at him.

"Hi you!" he said as he pushed her hair behind her ears.

"You can have the bed and I'll take the sofa if you want. Or if you promise to keep your hands to yourself, we could share my bed?" she said to Chase as she sat back on the sofa.

"Allison, I don't want to be any trouble to you, so I will do whatever you are most comfortable with." He told her, she leaned onto his shoulder and closed her eyes. She really wanted someone to be with her in her bed, so that she felt safe from the outside world. She knew that he wouldn't do anything to make her uneasy.

"Okay, we can share my bed then. You can stay up longer if you want, watch TV or some DVD's, but I need some sleep." She said as she stood up. She went into her bedroom and then into her bathroom and got changed. She pinned her hair back and then went into the living room to check on Chase. She took his pulse quickly and he smiled at her. He kissed her on the cheek, she turned to face him and she went red.

"So, now that I know that you are fine, I'm off to bed!" she said as she stood up and went towards her room.

"Do you want me to tuck you in?" he asked her, she turned and smiled at him. She went into her room followed by Chase. She laid down and he put her blanket over her. Chase then laid next to her and leaned on his side, using his arm to support his weight off his ribs. She closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

"You have to defeat it!" someone said to her. Cameron opened her eyes and saw herself in front of a group of people. She knew that this must be the council.

"Tell me how you got me there and also what this thing is!" Cameron demanded.

"It's your dream, so you are really still in your bed at home. As for what it is, we don't know, it's a demon that needs to cross over, we know that. Since you have linked to it twice, you have to destroy it." The women said to her.

"Tell me how!" Cameron asked.

"We need to know more, here is a spell that you must use next time you encounter it, so that we have a link to you and can find out what it is." A male voice said to her this time. A piece of paper floated her way, and Cameron plucked it out of the air and walked away.

"One more thing, these feelings that you have for these, humans…"

"We are also human unless you can't see that!" Cameron snapped to the male voice.

"You can not have them, the council forbids it!" he continued.

"Well, then I have to disappoint the council as I do and there is nothing that you can do about it without breaking several of the laws that you created for us!" she added. Everything went black around her. She screamed and woke up in her bed. She took in some deep breathes, and saw the piece of paper in her hand. She opened it up and put it on the floor. She looked beside her and saw Chase opening his eyes.

"Allison, are you okay?" he asked her as he felt her forehead. "My god, you're burning up!" he said as he went into the bathroom and got her a wet sponge and put it on her head. "Lie back down!" he told her. She did what he said. He took her pulse, and she looked at him. He was wearing a pair of boxers and also a t shirt, he looked really good to her. She closed her eyes and recalled what happened at the council, she hated them. She felt the sickness in her stomach; she opened her eyes and looked at Chase. He saw her go pale and he knew that she wasn't well. He went into the bathroom and got a bucket, and got back just in time as Cameron was sick in it.

"You have the flu." He said to her, she knew she forgot to have something this year, the flu jab! She cursed herself for her bad memory.

"Looks like we're both off sick for the next week!" Chase added as he looked at her. He held her hair back as she was sick again. Once she had finished, Chase checked her temperature again, and it had gone down slightly. He picked up the sponge and went to put some more cold water on it. He came back and she was still lying down, she was too weak to do anything. It was seven o'clock in the morning, she knew he would still be asleep, but she didn't care. She reached for her phone on the bedside and picked it up. She rang his number off the top of her head and heard a grouchy voice on the other end.

"Gregg, it's Allison." She said, he heard himself cursing as he woke up a bit more, he could hear the weakness in her voice. "I can't come in for the rest of the week I have the flu!" he told her. She listened to what he said on the other end. "Okay, I'll see you in an hour then." She concluded and hung up. She looked at Chase and he guessed who she was talking to.

"House is coming over to check up on me." She told him.

"You could have said that I was here, I can take care of you!" he said to her, stroking her head.

"He needs to see that I really am sick, and then when he sees you, he will know that you are looking after me. There's just something I want to ask from you, could you just make out that you are sleeping on my sofa, there's an extra blanket in the drawer there." She said as she pointed to it. He went up to it and took it out, went into the living room and put the blanket on the sofa like she said.

House came like he said in an hour, and Chase answered the door as Cameron was sleeping. House looked at Chase he had put some jeans on, but looked tired too.

"What are you doing here?" he asked him.

"Allison is supposed to be looking after me, she offered to after my accident." He told House as he let him and. Chase went into the kitchen and made them both a cup of coffee, came in and gave one cup to House. "She is in her bedroom." Chase informed House, and he went to see her. He walked up to her bed and checked her pulse. He then checked her forehead her temperature had gone down a bit more since Chase was putting a cold compress on it. Cameron slowly opened her eyes. She saw House and smiled.

"Thank you!" she said, he grinned at her.

"What, no sarcasm?" he asked her. "Yep, you have the flu. Stay home for the rest of the week, I will come in after work everyday to make sure that you are okay." He told her as he reached into his medical bag that he had brought with him. He gave her an anti sickness shot and also some tablets on her table to help bring the temperature down further.

"You don't have to Gregg!" she told him.

"I know, but I want to, I saw Chase so I know that I don't have to come in my lunch break to check up on you!" he said. He kissed her on the cheek. "I would give you a real one, but I don't want to get sick!" he told her, she smiled weakly. He looked on the floor saw the piece of paper. He picked it up and read it. "You are fluent in Greek too?" he asked her as he gave her the piece of paper.

"Another skill from childhood that I gained from my grandmother!" she told him as she read it.

"There is so much I don't know about you that I want to find out!" House said to her as he stood up. "See you after work." He told her, and left her alone. She put the spell in her drawer and closed her eyes again.

CHAPTER EIGHT

Once House had left, Chase went into Cameron's bedroom and saw her asleep. He smiled as he went up to her and kissed her lightly on the lips. She opened her eyes slightly.

"Do you want the flu?" she asked him.

"I had my shot this year, looks like you forgot though!" he said as he lay back down beside her. She put her head on his stomach and listened to him breathing, and she fell back to sleep. Chase looked down at her, saw her asleep he closed his eyes and did exactly the same. When she awoke, she looked at her alarm clock, and saw that it was nearly 1pm. She wiped the sleep out of her eyes and looked up and saw Chase also still fast asleep. She sat up and the room started to spin, she felt like crp. She looked around her room and saw someone standing there, she rubbed her eyes again, thinking that it was just an illusion, as she could see through the person, but it wasn't.

*I told you I would see you soon!* a voice said in her head.

*Justin get out of my apartment before I do something that would mean that you won't appear back in your body!* Cameron said threaten him.

*Touchy when we are ill, aren't we! I know that you can't handle it, but there has been another attack…*

*And the person is at PPTH, well I'm sorry, but I'm sick and I'm not going anywhere, spiritually or physically!* she added to him as she crossed her arms. *now get out!* she told him. He looked at Chase.

*So this is one of them, what's wrong with him?* Justin asked as he floated over to him.

*He was the last person to be possessed by the demon, now I feel guilty for letting that happen so I'm looking after him!* she said as she looked at Chase sleeping. She felt weaker by the minute, and also sick. She looked at Justin one last time before he faded.

*I'll see you again soon Allison* she heard him say as he went. She turned to the bucket that was on the floor and was sick once again.

Chase woke to the sound of Cameron being sick, he turned and looked at her, her head leaning over the side of her bed.

"That's not really a nice sound for someone to wake up to!" he said in her ear as he held her hair back. Once she was done again, she turned and looked at Chase. He handed her a glass of water and she sipped it slowly. She lay back down and he checked her pulse and temperature.

"So much for the anti sickness working!" she said to Chase.

"When did you get that?" he asked her as he went to get her a cold compress.

"House gave it to me this morning!" she informed him. He looked at his watch.

"Well, the effects would have worn off by now, it's been four hours already!" he said as he put the sponge on her forehead. She smiled at him and he left her alone in her room. She reached over and picked out the piece of paper in her drawer. She read through it, thinking about calling the council for help, but she didn't want to, she hated them. She didn't know what to do, she hoped that the person was okay, but she was too weak to do anything about it, she knew it would have to wait until she was feeling better. Chase came back in with the TV and DVD player on the cupboard. Cameron had brought one with wheels so that when she wasn't feeling too good, she could just push it into her bedroom and watch TV or films in bed. Chase plugged it in and gave her the remotes. After they flicked through the channels and found nothing, they decided on a film from one of her collection. He picked out one and put it in, he looked at Cameron and she smiled. He reached over, grabbed the phone and ordered pizza for himself as he knew she couldn't eat anything. Once he did that, he lay down next to her and Cameron laid her head on his chest.

"How are you feeling?" he asked her.

"Better knowing that you are here!" she said as she listened to his heart beat. "I'm so sorry Robert, about what happened to you, I mean if I could have done anything to stop it…"

"Allison, you are a great doctor, and you didn't know that anything was going to happen to me, it just did. I'm still here and am happy that I get to spend time with you! We make a great pair at the moment, me with a few broken ribs and bruising and you with the flu!" he said as he pressed play on the remote. The film that he had picked out was Ghost Ship, one of Cameron's favourite horror films. She snuggled closer to Chase.

"So what was your plan, get me scared so that we would get closer?" she asked as she looked up at him. He stroked her cheek and she smiled weakly. The doorbell rang and Chase went and answered it.

"Do you want any of my pizza?" he asked her as she pause the DVD. He wasn't going to eat it in her bedroom he knew that the smell would properly make her sick.

"No, thank you, but I would like a slice of toast and see how that goes!" she said back as she began to get out of bed. As soon as she stood up, she fell to the ground the flu had hit her really bad. Chase came in and saw her there on the floor.

"You know that you are going to be weak!" he said to her.

"What, so when I want to go to the bathroom, I need to ask for your help to get me there!" she said to him as he helped her onto the sofa. He went back into her bedroom and picked up the pills that House had left for her and also brought in the bucket just in case. He went into her kitchen and put a slice of bread in the toaster for her. He ate his pizza there, keeping an eye on her just in case. Once the toast was done, he brought it to her with a glass of water and also the tablets. He put it on her sofa table and went back into the kitchen and finished eating his pizza. Cameron looked at her toast and began to eat it. Once she had finished it, she took one of the pills. Chase then helped her back to her bed, tucked her in and they watched the movie together. At 5:30pm Chase heard the doorbell ringing. Cameron was asleep in his arms he eased her gently onto the bed and went to answer it. He saw House standing there in his normal cheerful mood.

"Since when do you make house calls?" Chase said to him as he held the door open to let him in.

"Since two of my doctors became sick and I have to put up with Foreman until they come back on Monday. Where's Allison?" he asked. Chase pointed to her bedroom door and he went in. He saw her sleeping, she looked like an angel. He went up to her, took her pulse and also her temperature.

"She is still burning up!" House told Chase who was standing in the doorway of her room.

"Well, the flu does that to you, I assume you have had your shot, otherwise you wouldn't be here looking after her." Chase said to him. House had brought some meds from work, he gave her an anti sickness shot and then turned to face Chase.

"What has she eaten today?" he asked.

"A slice of toast and also drunken some water." Chase replied. "If you are going to put her on an IV, I hope that you have enough saline for me to change it!" he added. House reached into his bag and threw a few in Chase's direction. Chase left them both as he went to put it in the fridge. House gently woke Cameron up.

"Hi Gregg, what are you doing here?" she asked him as she wiped the sleep out of her eyes. She pulled the blanket around her more she looked at House and smiled, and then kissed him on the cheek. He grinned at this gesture she was showing her how thankful she was.

"I need to put you on an IV you are not getting enough fluids for your body to work, and also not enough food. So just lie back and relax as I do this!" he said to her as she lay on her back. House took her arm, found a vein and inserted the IV.

"Gregg, I need to ask a favour. A person got admitted in ER last night, a male. He was attacked in the same area where Chase lives. I just need to know if he is alright!" Cameron told him as House hooked up the saline drip. He looked at her.

"How do you find out these things? What is it about men that come from this area and get beaten up? I thought that Chase lived in a good neighbourhood?" House said.

"I do, but it doesn't look like that recently!" Chase said as he returned to Cameron's side with a cold compress in his hand. He put it on her forehead and stoked her face. House helped Cameron sit up, he took her head in his hand and she slowly pushed her body up. Once she was comfortable, both House and Chase sat down beside her.

"I know, but there has to be a connection between all of them, I mean both Robert and the man before were in a coma, I need to know if this man is too. Please Gregg, I need to know!" she said, she looked into House's blue eyes. She wanted him, but she knew that he had feelings for someone else. She was the same she liked both House and Chase, but couldn't decide which one. House nodded.

"Okay, I will do this just for you Allison, I better go home, don't want to keep my hooker waiting!" he said. He squeezed Cameron's hand, and left her and Chase alone. Chase stood up and followed House to the door.

"So why are you doing this House?" he asked him as he walked out of the door and into the hallway.

"Properly the same reason why you are!" he said and left. Chase watched House walk down the hallway, closed the door and went and sat on the sofa. He thought about what House had just said to him, was it possible that House also had feelings for Cameron? He didn't know, but he needed to know who she had feelings for most of all he could tell that there was something between her and House, but it appeared to be little. He pushed this thought to the back of his head and went in to see her.

CHAPTER NINE

Chase spent the night watching Cameron. He couldn't get some sleep he was more worried about her than anything. He wanted to tell her that he loved her, to pick him over House, but he didn't want to influence her decision, she had to make it herself, and this meant him being patient and giving her time. Cameron had some really bad dreams, she would wake up in the night sweating, and Chase would hold her and calm her down, and made sure that she got back to sleep. He changed her drip in the night, and watched her the whole time. She kept screaming out, having illusions about things. He hated to see her suffer like this. He took a deep breath and called House.

"WHAT IS IT?" House shouted down the phone, Chase realised that it was four o'clock in the morning.

"House, it's Chase, I need something for Allison, she has been having nightmares, and I need some meds for her to help her sleep." Chase said to House, silence on the other end of the phone.

"Fine, I'll be over in an hour!" House said to him and put the phone down. Chase hit the wall after he put the phone down. He looked in at Cameron she was having another dream, went up to her and took her in his arms again. She finally calmed down and went straight back to sleep. He put a cold compress on her head and heard a knock at the door. He answered it and saw House standing there. Chase let him in and followed him to Cameron's room. House looked at Cameron she had just fallen back asleep and looked okay. He checked her temperature and also her pulse. He put a sleeping med into her IV and also gave her a relaxant med, so that he wouldn't tense up so much during her nightmares.

"The flu is causing her to have these nightmares, her temperature is very high. I hope that she will be okay." House said to Chase.

"Don't worry about her, I'll look after her." Chase said to him as they left her to sleep.

"Did you know that she could read fluent Greek and Latin?" House said to him as they sat on the sofa, Chase shook his head. House didn't want to leave Cameron like this, especially not alone with Chase, even though he was no threat to him, House still had a small worry in the back of his head that something could happen while he was still trying to sort out his own feelings.

"Listen House, sorry that I called you so early, I just didn't have the meds here and needed someone for a consult." Chase

"The fever is making her delusional; you didn't need a consult for that. Take care of her and please tell her I was here and that I'll be back after work." House told Chase as he walked to the door. Chase nodded his head and went as he heard Cameron moaning from her room. House looked at him. "Go and see to her." House said as he walked down the hallway.

Cameron woke up to see a worried Chase looking at her.

"Allison, how are you?" he asked her. She looked up at her IV and saw a new saline bag on it. She looked at Chase and smiled. "It's gone ten o'clock." He said to her as he checked her pulse.

"I'm fine. I'm hungry!" she said to him, he looked at her confused.

"Don't you remember anything from last night?" Chase asked her. She shook her head. He kissed her quickly on the lips. "Don't worry about it, I think you have gotten over the worse of it, I'm glad that you are getting your appetite back!" he said as he went and got her some toast. When Chase came back, she looked at the empty syringes on the table.

"What did happen last night, I need to know!" she said to him as he gave her the toast.

"Your temperature went through the roof, and House came by and gave you some meds to stop you from tensing up so much and also for you to sleep. I would hold you in my arms and wait until you went back to sleep. I was scared for you Allison I just wanted to help you." Chase told her. She looked at him she had no recollection of any of this. She cried scared for once in her life that she had no control over what she was doing. Chase took her in his arms and stroked her head.

"Its okay, it was to be expected with the flu, you have nothing to worry about!" he said to her, she looked up at him.

"Robert, this is going to sound really weird, but what colour was the stone on my necklace?" she asked him. Chase looked at her as he tried to remember.

"It stayed purple the whole time," he said, "it never changed colour, not even once!" Cameron smiled at least nothing had happened to her or her powers while she was sick. She kissed Chase on the cheek, and he then moved in and kissed her passionately on the lips. Cameron relaxed to the kiss he was gentle with her however she could sense a feeling of longing, of wanting. Chase pulled away and Cameron looked at him.

"Go out with me!" Chase said to her. Cameron opened her eyes and looked at him.

"I'm sick remember." She said as he lay her back down onto her pillow. She hadn't eaten her toast in fact the smell of food was making her feel sick. She reached over for the bucket and let the feeling take over. Chase held her hair back the whole time and comforted her.

CHAPTER TEN

The question that he asked got lost in the next few days. Cameron was getting better and House came and saw her every evening after work and also during the weekend. Monday morning came and House said that they were both well enough to go back to work. He left them to get ready and next saw them in the conference room. Cameron was checking her e mails and also House's. She had lost a lot of weight from the flu. Chase had made them both a cup of coffee and they sat down next to each other like best friends. Foreman came in, and looked at them both.

"Glad to see that they are back!" he said, as he turned and saw House standing there.

"Sorry that I wasn't fun enough for you Eric, maybe next time I should try harder! I thought us two geniuses solving a case together would have brought us closer together!" House said sarcastically. Foreman brought House a cup of coffee and sat down and drank his own.

"Oh don't get me wrong Gregg, last week was a blast!" Foreman said as Chase looked up from Cameron's laptop.

"Well, it looks like you guys bonded well!" he said as Cameron let out a little giggle.

"Oh yeah, Eric is now one of the posy, you know me, Jimmy and now Eric, the three musketeers, prepared to take on any case!" House said to them. "Right, that's enough time to catch up, lets get on with our meeting!" he said as he took out a board pen and started to write the symptoms on the board of a case that may happen. House had invented it and the ducklings spent the next few hours guessing and arguing to House what it could be and tests that they could run. Once one of them had found it out, House closed the meeting.

"Dr. Cameron, can I speak to you please in my office." He said just as she was about to leave. Chase and Foreman walked out, and were talking about things that Chase had missed since he was ill. Cameron nodded and followed House into his office. She sat down on the other side of his desk and waited for him to take his seat.

"You were right, the patient is in a coma, and he is in ICU and hasn't woken up yet." House informed her. She nodded.

"I need to go and see him." She said to him.

"Then let me go with you!" House told her, she shook her head.

"I need to do this by myself, I'll come back once I have finished." She told House, he hated being told what to do and popped two of his white friends in his mouth. Cameron sighed, walked up to him and stroked his face. "Please trust me on this Gregg, its important!" she said. "I know that you are hurting, and so am I but if anything will happen, then not now!" she told him. House looked at her he knew that she was right. She turned around and left him.

Cameron went into ICU, found the man that had been attacked. She felt the piece of paper in her pocket and told the nurses not to disturb her. She locked the door and went up to the man. She hovered her hands over his temples and called on her power. She felt inside him and touched the images of the demon that came to him she probed a bit more until she found it herself, not in its real form, but as a ball of red light. She whispered the words of the spell that the council had given her and she heard a scream in her head. It was the demon, as it disappeared, she screamed herself as the images rushed into her head. She quickly moved her hands and they stopped. She was breathing rapidly and went to get herself some painkillers, the whole experience left her weak and exhausted. She unlocked the door and went back to where the man was. She paged Chase she didn't know who else could get to her faster but she didn't know where he was. She looked down at the man, who had begun to open his eyes. She looked at him, she was sweating and pale. She had brought him back, just like she did with Chase and the man before. She buzzed for a nurse and started to give orders, telling them to check his vitals and to take the tube out of his throat and put him on an oxygen mask. Another nurse came up to Cameron and started to check her pulse as Chase rushed into the room.

"Damn it Cameron, your first day back and you already look like death!" he said to her as he came up to see her. Chase looked at her hand, and saw that she had the piece of paper in it. He took it out and read it.

"Okay, Greek, fine don't understand it!" he said as he put it into her pocket. He checked Cameron's temperature and pulse again and then checked her eyes.

"Get that light away from me!" she said as he shined it in her eyes.

"You okay?" he asked her, she nodded weakly.

"Just tired, that's all. How is he?" Cameron asked. Chase looked at her puzzled and then looked at the man in the bed. He had an oxygen mask on and was looking at Cameron. He took his pulse and checked his breathing on the monitor.

"He's fine. How long was he in a coma?" Chase asked the nurse.

"Since Wednesday. He has only just woken up now." The nurse told him as she looked at Cameron. "What is wrong with her?" she asked.

"She has had the flu it's her first day back. Who is this patient's doctor?" he asked.

"It's Dr. Smith." She replied. Chase looked at Cameron, he had no idea why she had decided to come to see this patient, but he was on the road to recovery now anyway.

"Inform Dr. Smith that his patient has gain conciseness and also that he needs to speak to Dr. Cameron when he has time, and I mean today!" Chase said to the nurse. She nodded and went off to page him. Chase turned back to Cameron, she had gained some more colour in her face.

"Thank you Dr. Chase for that loving comment about me earlier!" she said as it slowly registered in her brain what had happened. He looked at her he wanted to kiss her, but not here, not at work when she didn't want it to happen.

"Dr. Cameron, next time you go and see a patient, make sure I'm with you!" he added, with more concern in his voice than he expected to have.

"Does that mean you are going to do my clinic duty?" she said to him, he smiled.

"No, that's something you have to do yourself, as I also have my own to take care of. But don't worry, I will always be nearby in case you need me!" he said to her "I have the same time as you today, House made sure that one of us was there in case you were not feeling 100% healthy, looks like he was right. Take it easy, you have just had the flu remember? And a really bad case of it too!" he explained to her as they left to go down to the conference room.

Chase held the door open for her as she walked in and sat down.

"Who was that?" he asked her as he got her a bottle of water and himself a coffee.

"It was the man that was found near your apartment block on Tuesday night if I remember rightly! I can't really remember much, this flu left me really bad." She said as she drunk her water.

"You should be taking it easy, not rushing back into treating patients like that!" he commented as he put his hand on her shoulder.

"I didn't expect it to take so much out of me, anyway, I'm fine. I have to go to the immunology wing today, do you want to pick me up for lunch?" she asked him. She was happy when she was around Chase, he made her feel safe, but whenever she was around House, and in his arms she felt even more secure. Stacy walked into the conference room and looked at the two doctors.

"Hi, glad to see you both at work! Has anyone seen House anywhere?" she asked. "He's in big trouble this time with the law!" she added. Cameron sensed him hiding in his office, Chase hadn't noticed this and he shrugged his shoulders.

"I think he's either with Wilson or in the clinic. I have just come back from seeing a patient, so I haven't seen him since this morning!" Cameron added.

"I just finished my rounds and also have loads of paper work to catch up on, so I will leave you two lovely ladies and see you later Cameron." He said as he stood up and left the room.

"You really are the hospital flirt!" Cameron shouted at him.

"Sorry, that's not me, that title is reserved for Dr. Wilson!" Chase replied from down the hallway, both girls laughed at this comment. Stacy pulled up a chair and sat down next to Cameron.

"Can I get you anything to drink?" Cameron asked as she went to the fridge and got herself another bottle of water. Stacy nodded and she got another one out for her.

"So, Cameron, I heard that you and House went out?" she said.

"You know that our first date was a disaster!" she said as she drunk from her second bottle. "There's no way I'm going to be able to get into that man's heart, so I'm just going to leave it!" she said, she knew House could hear them, he was only hiding under his desk surprisingly well for someone who's leg was busted! Stacy still hadn't noticed it.

"Don't give up I can see in him that there is something in there for you. He just has to get over many things that have happened in his past until he can move on!" she said to her. "House is confused and he doesn't know what is what at the moment, and I'm going to admit that I am partly to blame for this! Just give him time Cameron, he will come around, I promise you." Stacy told her, she sat there in shock.

"Listen, Stacy, I really hope that House does forgive you for what happened, he really is a gentle man, he has been looking after me while I had the flu and we both know what he is like around sick people!" Cameron told her, Stacy smiled at this comment. "Listen, go visit Mark and I will be along soon to check up on him. He is getting better so Foreman tells me. If I see House, then I will send him to you!" she said as she looked down at her water. Stacy stood up.

"I know that this might sound nasty, but it's not intended that way, you really are not the little girl that I hear so much about, I've heard that you are giving House a run for his money!" Stacy said as she walked to the door.

"Well, someone has to keep him in line! Thanks Stacy for your advice, and please call me Allison." She said, Stacy nodded and left the conference room.

Cameron smiled as she sneaked into House's office and looked under his desk.

"Hiding from someone are we?" she said.

"Holy crp Cameron, what a way to scare me!" House said as he hit his head on the desk, she held out her hand and helped him out from under there. "So you knew I was there and you didn't rat me out, nice!" he said.

"Yes, I know, and I also know that you heard what was said in that room. I hope that you really were listening for once and that some of the things that were said will go in!" Cameron told him as he sat back down in his chair.

"So, you and Chase for lunch, then let me take you to dinner tonight!" House said she smiled.

"I'm sorry I can't, as I have a meeting tonight with some annoying people! Cameron told him. "How about Friday night though, that should give you time enough to think of an excuse if you change your mind!" she said as she walked away, House grabbed her arm, she looked down at his hand there and looked at him puzzled.

"Not excuses, I want to go out with you!" he said.

"You need time House and you need to move on, but like I said, if this is going to be a rebound thing, then I'm not going to be the one who gets hurt, I wouldn't be able to deal with that! Mark is getting better and he should be going home at the end of the week, hence the date being then. I'm hoping that it will give you time to sort things out!" she said to him. "Please let me go!" she added, House didn't want to let go.

"Allison, I want to…!" he started to say. "Please let me!" he said. Cameron looked into his deep blue eyes, and melted.

"Think about it Gregg, so that neither of us get hurt." She said as she stroked his face. He let her arm go at her touch, she smiled and left him.