Chapter 2- Who's your mommy?
…The blond and beautiful Chloe Pike from high school, yes, that was the place they met for the very first time. The new girl from Pittsburgh, who started her last school year in an unknown place, with him, in the same class. She was wearing blue jeans and a light pink jersey on her first day in school, he remembered that, very clearly, as she was just standing there, distracted but definitely not shy, in the doorway. That was love, he knew that, for the first time in his life. The year passed and they got closer with every day. It was not just some calf-love any longer, they were 22, and he wanted to keep her, seriously, like he wanted to keep Stacy later on. But he failed just as miserably.
Jenny called on a soggy autumn day, just to tell him that Chloe left with her family, she didn't tell where or why, she didn't tell it to anybody, didn't even tell it to him, who was his boyfriend for 4 years. They talked about their future just the day before. It seemed so impossible, so unfair, so cruel. It was so not Chloe! Leaving everything behind, without a word, without sense. Disappearing as the protagonist of a girl roman. He tried to contact her, of course he tried. He tried it in every possible way without any success, until he realised that it hurts a lot less to just don't care. 'Who said that?' he chuckled. 'Chase'…'when they were talking about his father, and he finally didn't tell him...'
He never heared from Chloe again. But now it was like a bad dream, a screwed up soap opera- he thought. He wanted to forget her again, like he did for so many years. This Chloe Pike can't be that Chloe Pike! He was scanning the paper with his eyes.
Date of Birth: 1980.05.18
'How could it be? The year after she left. And she have found a husband so fast? Rowan Chase? In Australia? And had a baby? 'Robert' he was smiling at this, 'Dr. Robert Chase' the name stared at him from the paper.
'You can't be sure that this Chloe is the one you knew once, you idiot! And even if she is what does it matter now? She is dead!' he muttered to himself and rised from the desk, putting the papers away and taking Chase's blood sample with him down to the lab, where he run into Cameron.
"Dr. House!"
"Cameron'still here?"
"I had some work to do. New case?" she said, looking at the sample in House's hand.
"Oh, God no! At 'leaving time?' It could be the pope itself! It's just Chase's blood. The Wombat was hiding as long as he could but I cought him!"
"I'll run the tests now. I'm not in a hurry."
"Cameron. It's 4 o'clock. He's not dying, even though you would possibly appreciate it…"
"Dr. House! I thought that we have already finished this conversation! Remember?"
"And where did we lead up to? Oh, I see…I'm damaged. He is not…yet…but who knows, maybe...By the way! Does this mean that I apparently get an extra point by you?"
"Stop it! Jealousy is poisonous, you know! I do the tests."
"Fine! If it makes you feel less guilty for using him…go ahead!"
"He wanted it too…I was…"
"High…that's the word!"
Cameron shot a killing look at House and turned away. Yes, he nicked it! She was feeling guilty. Chase wanted her and she knew it, but not within the context of a lie. She took the sample from where House has left it and started preparing for the tests.
House went back to the office, upset after his scene with Cameron. He didn't want to slight her. 'You fool! Why do you always have to say things you don't mean?'
He liked Cameron, maybe a little lot more than he admitted to himself. From which followed that Chase annoyed him lately, after sleeping with her of course, which he tried to response with putting him under a lot of pressure, which obviously had its effect on the boy.
'And on whose boy?'- he chuckled loudly. 'Chloe Pike.' If Chase is her son…if he really is…he has to know that for sure! Investigate in every possible way until he finds out the truth, the solution to his new case!
Thanks to Roxie Faye for correcting the paragraphs! Hug! ;)
