A/N: Soo guys... This is going to be the last chapter before I go on vacation tomorrow. In that time I won't publish anything, but I will probably finish the story. So far I have pretty much an idea where this is going.

It is pretty long and I hope you like it.

Disclaimer: as in chapter 1

~Davidozzo


Tick…tock…tick…tock…The clock in the exam room ticked steadily. Marina was sitting on a chair and held Rachel in her arms. The trouble that morning had made Rachel very tired and so she fell asleep only moments after Marina had sat down on the chair.

The police man peeked through the window blinds and watched the people in the clinic. Sick people were sitting in the waiting room. Every once in a while a doctor appeared and escorted one patient into one of the remaining exam rooms. The nurses were all standing together and talking. The police officer noticed that they glimpsed towards the Dean's office and this exam room. They were obviously talking about the incident that happened earlier this morning.

"I need to go and see my daughter and Greg. Is that ok?" Cuddy asked. The officer nodded.

"Sure, but we need to ask you some questions before you leave." Cuddy sat down on her couch and motioned to the chairs.

"Why has Dr. House been at your house this morning?" The Officer Demaro asked Cuddy.

"He stayed over last night. This morning I had a board meeting. When Marina called that she had an accident, he offered to watch Rachel." Officer Demaro scribbled on her notepad.

"Has he been at your house regularly?"

"Well, it depends. Sometimes I am staying at his place."

"Can you think of anyone who would want to hurt him? Someone who knows where you live?"

Cuddy thought about it for a couple seconds.

"Well. I don't know. 5 months ago I broke up with my fiancé to be with Greg. He was really angry at the time, but I don't think he would do something like that." Officer Demaro looked up from her notepad.

"What is his name?" "Lucas Douglas."

"Alright, if you want, you can go and see your family." Officer Demaro said and Cuddy got up. "Thank you."

She left the room. As soon as she entered the clinic the nurses stopped talking and watched her.

When Cuddy glanced towards them and they immediately turned away and pretended to be working. Cuddy opened the door to exam room one.

"Lisa." Marina said.

"Marina, how are you?" Cuddy asked taking Rachel from her arms.

"I am fine, Lisa. If you want I can take Rachel so you can see House." She offered.

"Yes. Thank you. Call me when Rachel wakes up." Cuddy said and handed Rachel back to Marina before leaving the room.

'Where is House now?' Cuddy thought. 'Probably in the ER.'


House had arrived in the ER at 9 a.m. Chase and Foreman had been in House's office studying case files when they were paged to the ER.

"What do we got here?" Foreman asked as they arrived in the ER.

"50-year old man with a gunshot wound to the chest is coming in. There are not enough doctors in so I paged you guys." The attending doctor told them. "Prepare yourselves. They should be here any second."

Foreman rolled his eyes. "Great. Now we're down here instead of finding a patient for House." They put on some scrubs in order to avoid stains on their shirts. The sirens of an incoming ambulance were getting louder. Moments later the doors to the ER were pushed open. Two paramedics were rolling a gurney in. One of them was holding a bag of saline. The other was holding a chart.

"We got a 50-year old man, gunshot wound to the chest, he is unconscious, his pulse is weak, and we intubated him in the field." The EMT told Foreman and Chase who immediately joined them. At first they kept looking at the wound. Chase glanced towards the head and froze for a split-second.

"Foreman. It's House." He said and Foreman looked up.

"What?" Chase pointed towards the face.

"It's House." He repeated.

"He got shot again? Someone's really got a grudge against him." Foreman said with a smirk. They lifted House off the gurney onto one of the day beds. Foreman inspected the wound. "Looks like the bullet is still in there. We need to schedule an emergency surgery." Foreman said and they transported him into the OR.


Cuddy walked into the ER area. House wasn't there and she panicked.

'What if he…? No, don't start with those thoughts.' Cuddy thought and walked up to the nurses' station.

"Can you tell me where the man with the gunshot wound is?" Cuddy asked.

"Excuse me. I have to check that." The nurse said after looking at Cuddy and walked to the stack of charts.

'What is taking so long? There couldn't have been a lot of gunshot wounds.' Cuddy thought impatiently. The nurse returned and held a chart in her hands.

"Gryory Houve." The nurse said trying to decipher her handwriting. Cuddy looked at her doubtfully.

"What? You mean Gregory House?" She was fuming that she allowed such incompetent personnel to work at her hospital.

"Uhhm, yes. He got transferred into emergency surgery. He is in OR one." The nurse said.

"Thank you, next time write stuff like that neater, so that you and others are actually able to read the information you are writing down." Cuddy said with an annoyed tone in her voice before she left.


She took her cell phone and dialed.

"Wilson, where are you?"

"I am in my office, what's up Cuddy?"

"House got shot this morning." Wilson fell silent.

"I am on my way to OR one."

"What happened?"

"I don't know."

"Wait for me I am coming down." Wilson said and ended the call to rush down to the OR.


In OR one the team was already operating when Cuddy entered the gallery above. She leaned on the wall.

For the first time since she heard about House, Cuddy felt unobserved. A single tear ran down her cheek. Down below her Foreman and Chase were trying to extract the bullet from House's chest. All of a sudden, the monitors started to beep.

"V-tac, get the paddles!" Chase yelled and a scrub nurse rolled them over to his side. Cuddy immediately moved closer to the glass, almost pressing her face against it.

"Charge 300. Clear" The first round of shocks went through House's body but the monitors showed no improvement.

"Charge 360. Clear." Chase shocked House again. But still the monitors kept beeping. Cuddy almost went crazy in the gallery.

"Come on, House, don't do this to me. Come on, Greg." She yelled not caring if anyone in the hallway could hear her.

"Charge again. Clear." House's chest rose one more time when the electric bolt went through his body. This time it had an effect. The heart monitors went back to a regular beat and everyone seemed to be relieved. Cuddy walked to the back wall and sat down burying her face in her hands. She had almost lost House. All the dams seemed to break within seconds. Tears were streaming down her face and she sobbed bitterly.

Wilson entered the gallery and found Cuddy on the floor. "Hey. What happened?" He asked her as he sat down next to her and took her into his arm. Cuddy tried to talk in between her sobs.

"When I … came back … from the meeting … there were two police officers … in my office … waiting for me. They told me that … House had been shot … and that he … was lucky to be found …" Wilson listened to her carefully and patted her head.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" he asked. Cuddy thought about his offer for a moment.

"Could you ... fill in for me today? I don't think that ... I can work today." Cuddy asked.

"Sure. No problem." Wilson said "But call me if anything happens with House." Wilson hugged her once more and left the gallery.


At the same time Officer Demaro and her partner arrived at Lucas' apartment. They got out of the car and knocked at his door. Nothing seemed to move within the apartment so they knocked one more time. "He seems to be at work. " Officer Demaro said and they walked back to their car. Before they got there the door to Lucas' apartment opened and he stood in front of them, dressed in pajama pants and a shirt.

"Can I help you?" he asked drowsily. The two officers walked back to the door.

"Yes, I hope so. Are you Lucas Douglas?" Officer Demaro asked him.

"Yes." Lucas answered.

"I am Officer Demaro. This is my partner Officer Greenson. We would like to ask you a couple questions. May we come in?" she told Lucas who let them both in his apartment and closed the door behind them.

"What can I do for the local police?" he asked motioning to the couch. The two officers sat down.

"Mr. Douglas. Where were you between 7:45 and 8:15 this morning?" Officer Demaro asked him.

"Uhm. I was asleep in my bed. You know I work as a private investigator and yesterday I had to do some observation until about 5a.m." he answered.

"Can anyone confirm that?" Lucas looked at them confused.

"What exactly is this about?" Officer Demaro who had been writing in her notepad looked at him.

"This morning there has been a shooting at the house of a Lisa Cuddy, I think that name is familiar to you?"

"Oh, my god. Is she ok?" Lucas was now totally awake.

"Yes, but would you please answer my question. Can anyone confirm that you were here this morning?" Officer Demaro asked emphatically.

"No, I was alone. Bo you think that I would hurt her or her daughter?" Lucas asked.

"I don't know? What about a Gregory House? Would you hurt him?" Lucas was completely confused by that question.

"What? Was he the one who got shot?" Lucas asked.

"Did you do it?" Officer Demaro asked him.

"Look, 5 months ago I was really pissed when he practically stole my fiancé. But I moved on. Believe me. I mean if I wanted revenge, why should I wait 5 months. I could have gotten it earlier." Lucas said. "I just want Lisa to be happy. If she is happy with this jerk then ok. I got no reason to shoot him." He continued. Officer Demaro looked at him.

"Alright. For now that's it. But if we have any questions, we will come back. Don't leave the state." She said and they left Lucas' apartment. Lucas closed the door behind them.


House's surgery was finished around 10:30. Cuddy had watched it from the gallery. She got up from the floor and wiped away her tears trying to disguise the fact that she had been crying. In the ICU hallway she met Foreman and Chase who were bringing House to an empty room.

"How is he?" Cuddy asked them. Her makeup was smudgy and her eyes were red from crying.

"He is currently stable. During the surgery he went into V-tac and we had to shock his heart."

"I know." Cuddy said.

"The wound stopped bleeding and we were able to remove all of the bullet fragments." Foreman continued.

Cuddy pulled up a chair and sat down next to House. She took his hand and held it tight. Foreman and Chase excused themselves and left the room. Suddenly Cuddy's cell phone rang.

She looked at the caller ID. It was Marina.

"Marina, what's up." She answered."Ah, Rachel woke up. Alright I will come down to … yes or you can come up here. Sure. …House is out of surgery. He is stable." Cuddy said while brushing through his hair with her free hand. "Alright Marina. I will see you up here." Cuddy ended the call and turned her attention back to House.

"You know you really scared me today, Greg. Don't you ever do that again!" She got up and placed a soft kiss on his cheek.

Marina knocked on the glass wall and Cuddy got up. Rachel was happy to see her mother.

"Mommmy!" she yelled and attracted the nurses' attention. Cuddy took her into her arms and hugged her. Marina patted Rachel's head.

"How are you doing Lisa?" She asked.

"Well, I have been better. At least House is stable right now. I already panicked when they had to resuscitate him in the OR." Cuddy told Marina.

"Well, do you want me to take Rachel home with me, so you can be with Greg?" Cuddy didn't know what to say.

"Do you really think it is ok?"

"Sure. I think I got some clothes from my nieces and some toys at home. So that won't be a problem." It took a load off Cuddy's mind.

"Thank you Marina. But call me if anything happens. OK?" Cuddy said and handed Rachel back to Marina.

"Hey, Sweetie. You will spend the day with Marina, ok?" Rachel looked at her happily and gave her a kiss before she left with Marina.

"What do think about the zoo? Do you want to go to the zoo today?" Marina asked Rachel. Before they disappeared behind the corner Cuddy heard Rachel babble deliriously. Cuddy spend the whole day at House's bed. The beeping monitor lulled her into a sleep.


It was already dark when House regained consciousness. Cuddy still slept on her chair next to House's bed. She was curled up like a ball and held House's hand with her own. When she felt him move she woke up immediately, looked at him and called a nurse. Foreman entered the room only seconds later. House struggled against the tube in his windpipe.

"House, hold still. I am going to remove the tube." He said and removed the tube. Then he checked House's pupils.

"Do you know where you are?"

House shook his head.

"Do you know who you are?" House looked at him.

"No." he whispered.

"What happened?" Cuddy asked Foreman.

"I have no idea. He seemed to have lost all memories."

They looked at each other quite shocked.


A/N: Ok this is it. Please don't kill me right now... I am sorry that I am leaving you with this cliffie for 2 weeks (that's how long I will be gone).

Chapter 4 will probably be up on 5th of October. That's when I get back. Yeah I know it's sad that I will miss the first THREE episodes but thank god for those wonderful things named DVR. So I will be able to watch the first three episodes when I get back. Soooo excited.

But I got a question for you: What do you think happens, now that House lost his memory? (Don't worry I already have a solution for that problem ;-D)

~Davidozzo

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