History

Anna Burrows or Bell as she was known back then was the head of the transplant committee at Princeton Plainsboro, but back then she was only a general member of the board.

She and House had hated each other from the moment they had laid eyes on one another within the conference room. However, after one evening of hard drinking and nice food they put aside their hatred for one night of passion.

The evening out was House's idea of course because one of his patients needed a new liver but as usual the patient had a flaw. They had only just stopped drinking.

House knew that he had Cuddy on side with him as always and he'd have that jerk Dr. Winkleman eating out the palm of his hand after a little blackmail, but Anna Bell was one of the most influential members of the board after Cuddy. House felt that if he could change her attitude towards him for one day then this ridiculous plan was surely worth it.

The first phase was to show up at Anna's favourite bar and harass her until she agreed to a drinking competition with him, then once they were tipsy he would take her to some fancy restaurant for food and that would've won her over.

What he hadn't bargained for was them getting so drunk that they made out as soon as they'd paid for the bill and went back to his apartment for a night of sex.

Two weeks later after winning the liver transplant he had Anna yank him into her office and scream at him.

"Do you know what you've done?" she yelled.

"Make fun of Chase's hair?" came his response.

"No moron!" Anna snarled. "You've got me pregnant!"

"What?" House asked now focusing all his attention onto the conversation.

"You heard me."

"How do you know it was me? How do you know it wasn't you're jackass boyfriend?"

"Fiancée"

"Whatever." House said brushing away the statement "How do you know it's not his?"

"Because we made a vow of celibacy until our wedding night…" Anna replied crossing her arms across her chest.

"Poor guy."

"Shut up with the sarcasm and take this seriously Greg!"

"Hey. Don't get pissed at me. I'm not the one who wanted to remain celibate and then slept with someone." He paused in thought "although I don't think I would ever make a vow of celibacy…think of all the poor women that might have to kill themselves…"

"But think of how much money you'd save." Anna smirked.

"Have you and Wilson been gossiping about me again?" House asked. "I told him never to make friends with the enemy."

"Yet it's ok to sleep with them…"

"Of course."

"Anyway, that was just a guess." She said walking over to her desk "But it just goes to show Greg that you don't surprise me."

"Well obviously I do, otherwise you would've seen through my plan and not had sex with me and not got pregnant." House retaliated.

Anna remained silent as she twiddled a strand of her blonde hair through her fingers of her left hand.

"So what do you wanna do?" she asked helplessly.

"I dunno." House shrugged. "It's your thing."

"It's our thing and whether you like it or not, you are going to have to be a part of this kid's life."

"Wait a minute. I didn't say you should keep it."

"Well I want to."

"What are you gonna tell Larry -"

"Chester."

"Well I took a shot at it." He shrugged again.

"He proposed a week ago so I could lie…"

"Good." House said turning on his heel. "That means I don't have to be there to mess up the kids life."

"Greg wait." Anna asked "I hate you and you hate me but I want our child to develop its own feelings towards you. Not ones it's replicated from me."

"If Chester's playing daddy to the thing then how am I involved?" House replied.

"You can be a family friend that visits every so often."

"Did you plan this or make it up on the spot?"

"A bit of both." She said with a half smile.

"Well I better be getting back to work." House informed Anna, his head was still swimming with all this information.

He was going to be a dad, even if it was a non existent one.

Anna gave out a small laugh "I never thought I'd hear you say that."

"Neither did I" House smiled back before closing the door behind him.

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Three months after their marriage Anna and Chester broke up.

It was partly because he found out that he wasn't Imogen's biological father, but it was also because the marriage was put under strain by Anna's constant need to work, this meant that she spent no time with Chester or Imogen.

So Anna was left with a one month year old daughter and no husband to support her, which was when she got together with Wilson.

Anna and Wilson shared a house together for two years but never got married; they both knew that with their previous marriages it wasn't worth the money or the hassle. This was a good idea because after a huge row Anna and Imogen moved out.

Yet whilst Anna was living with Wilson, House had seen Imogen for once a month for an hour. These visits were supervised by Wilson and sometimes Anna. But once they had moved out from Wilson's House went back to being a non existent dad again. Every so often Wilson would nag at House to see his daughter but most of the time the suggestion fell on deaf ears.

No one but Wilson and Cuddy knew that House and Anna had a child together and that's the way it had stayed for five years.

Anna had ended up marrying again when Imogen was four.

Richard Burrows was an all round nice guy. It didn't bother him that Anna already had a child and he didn't mind working from home so that he could look after Imogen within the day. He loved Imogen like she was his own daughter and never let the fact that she wasn't his own get in the way of his relationship with her.

House and Wilson had been invited to the weeding reception, House was meant to be there for his daughter's sake, but he was more interested in the free alcohol that they were serving at the bar.

Imogen was too young to notice her father's reactions as she was too busy playing with the other children to notice he was even there.

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"Stop crying!" House demanded after ten minutes of continuous howling.

Silence then echoed throughout the apartment for about half a minute before it was broken by a sniff.

"Right. Do you wanna watch some TV?"

"No." Imogen replied rubbing her eyes. These were a dead giveaway that she was House's child. They were the coldest shade of blue yet sparkled with mischief; although she was only five, Imogen Bell was to grow into a prankster.

"Do you wanna eat?"

"No."

"Drink?"

"No."

"We're stuck doing nothing then." House concluded as he hobbled back over to the sofa.

Imogen inched forward from her position by the door and grabbed her blanket from next to the bag. She buried her face into it and thought of her mum.

House looked over at Imogen and decided he needed help.

From none other than Lisa Cuddy.

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