Chapter Four
Wilson had just begun going over a case file when his office door was unceremoniously swung open and a face he hadn't seen in years smiled brightly at him. The last time he had seen her she was just a little thing. She was certainly all grown up now and had her mother's beautiful looks. If she had House's quick wit and both her parent's brains they were all really going to have to watch out for her.
"Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. How long has it been?"
"Kara?" Was all Wilson could say dropping the file onto his desk. He shook his head a few times just to make sure she was really there and rubbed his eyes.
"You weren't exactly expecting to see me huh?" She sat down in one of the chairs in front of his desk.
"What are you doing here? Do you parents know you here?" All Wilson had was questions.
"Yeah they know I'm here. They aren't really happy about it either."
"Why are you here?"
"Grams and gramps needed a break. I guess I was a bit too much to handle."
Wilson could easily imagine that any child of House and Cuddy's would be hard to handle. In fact he thought there was a song called Hard to Handle. It was probably written about Kara.
"So how long are you going to be here for?"
"The summer."
"Wow." Wilson leaned back in his chair. I still can't believe you're here. You're so grown up."
"Oh God can we please skip the 'You're so grown up speech?'" Kara groaned.
"Sorry it's just that I haven't seen you in a long time."
"Yeah I've missed you too Jimmy." She stood up and stole a sip from his cup of coffee. "Well I should probably get back to my parents and see what they decided to do with me I just wanted to stop by and say hi."
"Yeah I'll see you around." Wilson watched as she left his office. He rubbed his eyes again hoping he didn't just have some weird hallucination.
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"Thanks…yeah she made it here safely. Okay we'll talk to you later." Cuddy hung up the phone and let out a loud stressed sigh. House just sat at his desk twirling his cane around.
Kara came through the glass door and folded her arms across her chest before blowing her long hair out of her face. "So what horrible fate have you decided for me?"
"You broke into a department store and assaulted a police officer." Cuddy scoffed out in disbelief.
"What?" Kara shrugged her shoulders. "It was just a little innocent shop lifting and that cop was an ass he had it coming."
"It wasn't just a little innocent shop lifting. You smashed in the glass window of the store front and vandalized the place and you attacked a police officer."
Kara rolled her crystal blue eyes. "Did you steel anything good?" House asked.
"Shut up House." Cuddy glared at him. "You, young lady will be staying with your father for the first month and me for the second month. You will be under house arrest for the entire time and during the day you are going to be volunteering here at the hospital."
"Shit." Kara mumbled under her breath.
Cuddy slid off the side of House's desk and walked over to Kara. She affectionately tugged at her hair and kissed the top of her head. "What am I going to do with you?" She asked herself before leaving the office.
There was a long silence after Cuddy left. House finally broke it. "Since you're volunteering you can start by getting me a cup of coffee."
"How about instead of doing that you take my left foot and shove it up your…" House's pager went off and interrupted her.
"Gotta go." House hoisted himself up and limped past her ruffling her hair on the way out.
Kara let out a bored sigh and looked around the empty office. The case file in the conference room caught her attention and she curiously wandered over to it. She flipped it open and began skimming through the pages. After a few minutes she flipped the file shut and smiled to herself. Maybe this whole volunteering thing wasn't going to be so bad after all.
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Noah Hale sat up in his bed and began coughing violently. He reached over for his cup of water and took a long sip. He sat back and tried to relax. He looked up suspiciously when a beautiful young girl who looked to be his age walked into his hospital room wearing a white lab coat and carrying a clipboard. He croaked out a laugh.
"What is this? The female version of Doogie Howser?"
"M.D." Kara winked at him.
"Okay you're obviously not a doctor so what's your reason for being here?" Noah asked intrigued by the stranger.
"Being born a bastard."
Noah quirked a confused eyebrow.
"Oh, oh I'm sorry you meant what's my reason for being in this room not my reason for being on this planet."
Noah laughed. "Well if you're here to cheer me up you're certainly doing a good job of it.
Kara couldn't stop herself from smiling back. Despite the fact that the kid sounded like a choking frog and was whiter than a ghost she had to admit he was pretty cute. Noah laughed again and then started making choking noises. Kara stepped back, she knew what was coming.
"We're going to need a clean up on aisle 12!" She yelled out the door and just as Noah started throwing up blood a few nurses came rushing in.
