AN: Okay, wauw first of all I would like to thank everyone for the reviews and the alerts! I had no idea you'd be interested in this. So thank you.
Okay well, here's the second chapter. I'm not a doctor or a nurse, I found all the medical stuff on the internet and put in some of my own things :) Just so you know. Don't know if any of it is true but I remember an episode of Cougar Town where they were saying 'if it's on the internet it must be true' LOL so okay yeah :)
If there are grammatical mistakes, I'm sorry, I'm tired and English is not my native language.
I hope you enjoy this chapter. Feel free to review. And I'll try to update as soon as I can.
Enjoy
House tried to keep himself to the speed limit, but he had a hard time not driving to fast.
He wanted to believe that everything was okay, but when he got Cuddy's call he knew that something was wrong.
Finally taking the last turn to Cuddy's place he quickly shut off the engine of the bike and limped up to the door.
He tried the door and found it unlocked, so he just entered then called out 'Cuddy?'
'House!' he heard, she sounded relieved but scared at the same time. He limped to where her voice had come from.
She had put on Rachel's pajama's and was carefully cradling the girl in her arms trying not to hurt her. The girl had been dozing on and off and her temperature had gone up a little more.
House looked into the nursery, and saw Cuddy with Rachel. He walked up to her and gave her a kiss on the head.
'What's wrong with our kid?' House asked without realizing he had referred to the toddler as 'theirs'.
'Her temps up,' Cuddy told him while walking over towards the changing table. 'But you should take a look at this.' she continued as she put the girl down.
Rachel started fussing as soon as her mother had put her down. House wiped the hair out of her eyes and looked at her.
'Rachel, I need to check you. You need to lay very still.' he told her, quietly but firmly.
The toddler whined and kept looking from her mother to House but eventually stopped squirming. Her eyes still locked on House as Cuddy pulled on the pajama pants' leg to show him the bruise.
'She also has a similar one on her back.' Cuddy whispered, barely keeping her tears in.
House still kept his eyes locked with Rachel's, studying her.
'Rachel, what happened to you?' he asked.
The girl shifted her gaze again to her mother and back to House.
'Nothin'.' She finally muttered. 'I was playin and bumped the table.'
'You ran into the table?' House asked and the girl nodded. He narrowed his eyes.
Cuddy silently studied him. 'What are you thinking House?' she asked him.
House turned to look at her. 'Check her temperature again, she feels warm.' He said then turned and limped out of the room.
Cuddy stood there, looking after him not knowing what to think but did what he had told her to do. She checked Rachel's temperature again and noticed it was now 101.5℉. She fixed Rachel's pajama's and picked her up. She walked into the living room where House was sitting on the couch, his feet up on the coffee table and his eyes closed.
'House?' she asked as she walked closer to him. He opened one eye to look at her.
'It might be nothing, I can't really tell, there's not enough symptoms to diagnose. If there is anything to diagnose at all.' He told her.
Cuddy sighed. She knew he was right. Standing in front of him she handed Rachel to him.
'Here.' she said. 'I'm going to get something to get her fever down.'
House put the toddler next to him on the couch, but Rachel crawled into his lap. He rolled his eyes as she got comfortable but the corners of his lips went up a little.
When Rachel was comfortable she looked up at him. 'I hurt Hows.' she said.
House, still not used to this kind of behavior from the little girl, gently patted her head like he was patting a dog.
'I know kid.' he replied when she kept looking at him. He felt uncomfortable. Normally he could be rude to his patients, but this was a small child not to mention his girlfriends child.
'Me sick?' she asked him, looking at him with her big brown eyes.
'I don't know.' he said, not really knowing how to answer that question.
Luckily for him Cuddy decided to come back into the living room in that moment. She sat down next to them. The two most important people in her life right now. Gently stroking Rachel's back she took a pill and the glass of water she was holding.
'Rach, I need you to take this.' Cuddy said. The toddler however shook her head and hid in House's chest.
House looked at Rachel then Cuddy.
'Rachel, it's important. This will make you feel better.' Cuddy tried again. The girl, however kept hiding in House's chest.
'Give me one.' House said, motioning to the pill with his head.
'House…' Cuddy hesitated.
'Oh come on Cuddy, it's children's Advil. It's not like it's going to have any effect on me, and I certainly won't get addicted to it will I' House replied.
'House is right' she thought while taking a pill for him. 'And if it helps her to take it…'
House took the pill from Cuddy and took the one for Rachel as well.
He nudged the girl and she looked up at him.
'Come on kid, your mom's right, you need this. And I could use it too, so let's take it together.' He tried. No idea what he was really doing.
Rachel narrowed her eyes at him but eventually she took the pill from him.
'Okay,' House started. 'You put it in your mouth, drink some water and swallow. Not that hard eh!' He continued.
Rachel shook her head. 'Okay, ready?' House asked her. She nodded. 'Okay here we go.' he said and did what he told her to do as well. She took a big gulp of the water and swallowed.
'Open your mouth.' House asked her. She did. 'Stick out your tongue.' he asked again.
'House!' Cuddy warned.
'What, I'm just checking if she actually swallowed it.' He replied. Cuddy looked at him, eyebrows raised.
'Okay, whatever.' House said, picking up the girl and handing her back to her mother.
'She should go to bed.' House told Cuddy as he got up from the couch. 'Where are you going?' Cuddy asked.
'Bathroom.' he answered and walked away.
'What's wrong?' he asked as he walked into Rachel's room.
Rachel was up in her crib crying and waving her arms to her mom indicating that she should be picked up.
'I don't know House, she doesn't stay down. I think she's in pain.' Cuddy said.
'She's a pain …' House started but stopped at the look he was getting from Cuddy. 'Just get her to be quiet.' he told her instead.
'You think I didn't try that?' Cuddy asked him angrily, tears forming in her eyes.
House sighed and walked over to her. 'She'll be fine Cuddy, all she needs is sleep.' He said.
'I know.' Cuddy said and wiped at her eyes. She looked at her baby who was still crying her eyes out.
House also looked at the girl and sighed again. 'She's quiet when you're holding her right? he asked.
Cuddy nodded her head. He sighed again.
'Guess I won't be getting lucky tonight!' He murmured and motioned to the girl.
'What?' Cuddy asked.
House rolled his eyes. 'Just make her shut up. And make sure she stays on your side of the bed!' He replied and walked out.
Cuddy smiled through her tears and picked up her little girl who quieted down as soon as she was in her mom's arms.
Not long after they finally fell asleep House was woken by Cuddy.
'What?' he groaned and rolled away burying his head in his pillow.
'House!' she yelled. This made him open his eyes and sit up in bed. As he wiped the sleep from his eyes he noticed there was blood on Cuddy.
'What happened you're bleeding.' he told her.
She quickly shook her head. 'It's Rachel's.' Cuddy got out before she started sobbing.
House quickly moved towards the bathroom where the light was on and found the little girl sitting on the toilet, a towel pressed to her nose.
'Her temperature's gone up again too, it's now 102.2℉' He heard Cuddy say.
He turned to look at her. 'Grab a bag, we're going to the hospital.'
