Ch1 p2: Decisions
- AN/ no House in this part but it's a key part of the story so PLEASE READ. Also, less Cameron after this part and much more Chase/House. Sorry it's so short! It should really have been posted as part of chapter one but I didn't know how people were going to react, my continuation does depend on if people read and like this story so PLAESE REVIEW-
She comes home the next morning – luckily, after House has left. Chase is suitably apologetic and Cameron is suitably wifely and does the very Cameron thing of forgiving him. They go on pretending for another week with Cameron avoiding talking about House or even the diagnostics department in any way while in Chase's company. He makes sure he's home every day before dinner and he compliments whatever she has cooked or ordered in, saying how nice her hair is and that she looks beautiful that evening.
They do not have sex.
Maybe it's because he's too guilty or she's too bitter, or maybe it's because she's on the verge of admitting to herself she never loved Chase like she loved House, and maybe it's because Chase is finally realising he can't lie to himself anymore – marriage, children, Cameron… this life was suffocating him. And the only thing that made him feel even the tiny bit like himself was House. A fact that he could laugh himself to tears with; oh the irony.
One day when he's feeling particularly shit because he's just watched a mother lose her daughter and get a grandchild she had no idea existed all in thirteen minutes, only to have her reject her grandchild because her husband is too Catholic to accept a child born out of wedlock, and then have the baby die in incubation. Alone. But hey – things like this happen, right? You just have to shrug it off or it'll kill you.
Today it was killing Chase.
Cameron came home late, a meeting had run on and there had been drinks afterwards. A much more pleasant thing, to have drinks with friends, than to come home to a husband who treated you like a stranger.
He was on the bed in the spare bedroom, the one in which he had fucked House in. Sitting in the dark. His eyes were blank, devoid of all emotion. He didn't even flinch when Cameron switched the bedroom lights on. Smiling in her wonderfully false manner she put her hands on her hips and walked into the room.
"What are you doing, Robert? I'm sorry I'm late, my meeting ran late and I just couldn't get away. It was really very irritating actually, Cuddy was going to put forth my latest suggestion but Harris, you know, the new board member with balding blond hair? Anyway, Harris interrupted and started going on about –"
"Alison." Chase said, getting up from the bed and stopping her mid-flow. "we can't do this anymore." He told her, a deep sadness in his voice.
"I know, but maybe if we both-" Cameron began in a small voice, but her husband interrupted her, shaking his blond head.
"What? Pretend even more? No. I think… I know, I want a divorce."
Cameron gulped, her expression frozen on a pleading-sincerity that he suspected was faked. Then without a word she turned around and walked into the master bed room, closing the door gently but firmly. Chase got the message – it was finally over.
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Next chapter should be some flash backs leading up to part one. Please tell me what you think! What you want and stuff…
ALSO: A shout-out to:
Saya – thanks for your support!
And also to:
TombeDeLaLune: don't worry, more about their past coming up. Sorry about the short chapters! Thanks!