A/N Hey guys, I know that the drivers license thing didn't make sense and that in real life Regina would need to be able to prove she is her girlfriend to get medical information...the thing is that it just makes it easier this way, I want to be able to move the story forward and these little details make it easier. All I ask is that you suspend your disbelief a little haha
Chapter four
Emma sat on a bench and stared out into the familiar park.
Pulling her phone out, she checked for any messages for the tenth time. The blonde knew that she would be getting a call from someone in her family soon, but a part of her hoped that just maybe, House had a case and they wouldn't run into Cameron.
She had spent years perfecting the persona of Allison Cameron, but it all fell apart when her relationship with Chase had.
She had believed that being a doctor was what she wanted, but as she got older, it somehow just didn't feel right anymore. Now, she would guess that it had something to do with being the saviour, it would have been a lot more difficult to disappear to Storybrooke if she worked in some hospital instead of the bail bond's agency.
"Allison?" someone called, obviously very much confused.
Emma looked up and tried desperately to keep the look of recognition off her face as Lisa Cuddy walked over to her with a furrowed brow.
"How did you have time to dye your hair since this morning?" she laughed, looking the woman up and down as she got closer. Everything about the woman she thought she knew was completely different. For one, she looked older than she had earlier, her hair seemed to have changed colour and she was wearing clothes that she thought Allison Cameron would never have been caught dead in.
"I think you have the wrong person," Emma said as evenly as possible.
Cuddy raised her eyebrow, the woman's voice sounded slightly rougher, but at the same time, she still sounded like her employee.
"What are you talking about?" she laughed nervously.
The blonde stood with a sigh and said, "my name is Emma Swan…I'm a tourist…"
Blush came up the Deane of Medicine's face, but she quickly did one more look over and said, "I'm so sorry, your resemblance to one of my employees is remarkable."
"But not impossible," Emma shot back rather defensively. At the brunette's surprise look, she figured she could soften the mood with a question she didn't really need to ask, "would you be able to tell me where the nearest hotel is?"
Cuddy blinked a couple times and nodded, clearly having a chance to help made her feel better, "two blocks that way, the Marigold…you can't miss it."
"Thanks," Emma muttered, "it was a pleasure to meet you Lisa."
"How did you-"
The blonde bit her lip in frustration and was about to come up with some convincing lie when she noticed a mother desperately chases after a little boy on a scooter.
He was clearly going too fast down the hill and was too afraid to jump off, though, considering that he was heading straight towards a main road, it was probably the safer option.
Emma didn't even bother turning back to her former boss as she bolted in the direction of the kid whose mother was never going to be able to catch up to.
It was as if all of her heroic senses activated as she noticed a car speeding reckless down the road, she heard the boy's mother let out an anguished cry as he finally made it into the path of the speeding driver.
Feeling adrenaline pumping through her veins, the saviour just about managed the last couple feet so that she could push the child to the safety on the other sidewalk. Before she could move her own legs however, she a huge weight hit her side and then a couple sickening cracks as fell violently to the ground.
With all the effort it took, she managed to keep her eyes open and watch the car continue to move away as if nothing happened.
The sound of rushing footsteps came towards her and she looked up at the anguished expression of the distressed mother.
"Oh my God, thank you so much," she cried, clearly sparing glances to her child to make sure he was okay.
Emma tried to tell her that she was fine, but all that came out was strangled breaths, and blood began running from her mouth.
"It's going to be okay," the woman said shakily as she pulled out her phone with trembling hands.
Someone put their hand on her arm and said, "I've called an ambulance, it's going to be okay, I'm a doctor."
The woman looked at Cuddy gratefully and the only thing that she could think to do was place her hand on the now unconscious woman's shoulder and whisper, "thank you," as the sound of sirens could be heard sounding not far away.
Charming basically ran to the ER after the brunette version of his daughter.
Cameron seemed to have him beat as he eventually realised that she was way ahead of him, walking straight ahead, he completely forgot to look out for peopled walking towards him.
"David!" Regina said for the third time and he finally blinked to see his daughter's girlfriend holding out her hand. "Trust me, you don't want to see this," she said as evenly as possible, though it came out rather hoarse.
The blond man just shook his head and by-passed the brunette to get a better view of the entire room.
His eyes were instantly drawn to the hive activity going on across the room, the only person not moving was Cameron, who stood dumbstruck, staring at the woman in the bed. She was somewhat relieved that she managed to get Chase to leave her alone before she arrived here, but the moment she had walked up to the bed, she found that she'd basically forgotten everything she'd learnt at med school.
A loud beeping sounded throughout the room and David sucked in a deep breath, trying to get closer to see his daughter's face, only to have Regina place her hand on his shoulder.
"Dr Cameron," a nurse shouted as she launched forward to grab the woman by the arm, "Doctor!"
The brunette's widened eyes finally closed slightly and she snapped her attention to the waning heart monitor.
"Inject 10 ccs of epinephrine," she ordered.
Seconds later, her command was completed and she came forward to further access the situation.
Resolutely, she refused to look at the face, that was something she could deal with later, preferably with a bottle of wine.
"BP is still down," the nurse announced thirty seconds later.
"She's bradycardic," another nurse called.
"Inject another 10 ccs of epinephrine…" the brunette said somewhat weakly.
A moment later, the nurse shook her head, "no change."
Cameron bit her lip in concentration as she inspected all of her injuries, by accident, she allowed her eyes to fall upon Emma's face and she instantly looked away.
The nurse seemed to follow her lead and her eyes widened, "do you…know her, Cameron?"
The brunette shook her head and muttered something about a coincidence, before she said, "paddles."
The other woman quickly nodded and pulled the machine forward, handing the two paddles to the doctor.
Cameron placed them on the coding woman's chest and said, "charge to one fifty….clear…"
Regina could no longer stop herself and turned to watch the completely bizarre scene that David clearly couldn't look away from. It was obviously confusing for the man watching a younger version of his daughter trying to save the one who actually knew who he was. The pair of them didn't agree on much, but she knew that they probably both wanted to know exactly what happened to the saviour.
"Charge again…clear…"
Cameron looked up at the monitor desperately, gripping the paddles harder.
"Doctor…she's already coded twice…" a nurse said weakly.
"Charge to two hundred," Cameron said by way of reply.
The nurse looked ready to protest, but she just nodded and pressed the button.
"Clear…"
Everyone observing the scene watched with bated breath. Both David and Regina had a feeling that was one of the last chances the sheriff of Storybrooke had, and they each let out a breath of relief when the BP began to steadily climb after stretched seconds of nothing.
Cameron looked over at David and Regina with a raised eyebrow, as she was finally able to notice the world existed outside of this bay.
She raised her eyebrow at the expressions on their face and suddenly had no doubt that they knew exactly what she wanted to know, but now wasn't the time.
Turning back to the nurse, she said, "book a X-ray and a MRI stat, page someone from Ortho and tell them I'll inform them of the extent of the bone damage as soon as possible."
The nurse nodded and said, "right away, doctor."
Snow screamed as another contraction wracked her body, the doctor looked up sympathetically and said, "where is your husband Mrs Nolan?"
The brunette just shook her head, and said, "he has something important to do…"
The door burst open before the doctor could question it further and David fell into the plastic chair next to the bed, instantly bringing his hand into Snow's.
With a deep breath, she looked at him expectantly, hoping that he would tell her that it was all some big mistake and that Emma Swan was a much more common name than they had ever thought.
The solemn look that was returned to her told a different story, however, and her head fell back against the pillow as she allowed even more tears to escape her eyes.
"Is she…" she began, but found that she couldn't finish the sentence. It was mostly because of the morbid possibility of losing one child on the day that her son was born. She found that she couldn't quite think about the full implications of her daughter being dead, only that it would ruin her son's birthday. It was for this reason, that she felt like an utterly terrible person and she looked to David, hoping that these morbid thoughts wouldn't be what she would have to remember thinking on the anniversary of her child's death.
"Emma's…alive…" he said weakly, "they're doing some tests and Regina told one of the doctors about their relationship, so we should get an update soon."
A particularly bad contraction overtook Snow's body and she screamed at the top of her lungs.
The doctor looked between them, clearly trying to figure out who Emma was, but he seemed to decide that he had no right to know and said, "it's time to push…"
Snow shook her head and looked up at David, "I want Emma here…"
"Mary Margaret…" he sighed squeezing her hand, though she felt a slight tremble in his muscles as he did so. "She'll be able to meet Leo later," he assured.
"But…" she said weakly, David knew that when she said Emma, she probably meant Cameron. He found the brunette's presence just as calming as she did, but that didn't change the fact that Allison Cameron had no idea who they were and would probably be in soon to ask a battery of questions.
"You need to push, Mrs Nolan," the doctor urged, and Snow just nodded, and nearly broke her husband's hand as their son was finally about to be born.
"You should be good to go," Foreman announced, as he finished shining the light into Henry's eyes, "it looks like all signs of concussion have gone. Where's your mom?"
The brunette shrugged, though he had a clear anxious look on his face as he replied, "she went to get me juice half an hour ago, maybe she got lost?"
"It is a big hospital," the doctor chuckled, "if she isn't back soon, we can send out a search party."
Henry chuckled slightly, until he heard the clicking of heels and looked up to see his mother at the door, completely empty handed.
He furrowed his brow and considered questioning the lack of a beverage, until he looked up to her face and completely forgot that he had asked for anything.
Shifting in the bed, he sat up straighter and said, "what happened, mom?"
Regina looked over at Foreman, who offered her a cautious smile, she could tell that he was uncomfortable with emotion.
She looked at him expectantly for a few moments, as if telling him that she obviously wouldn't be revealing the information in front of him.
He cleared his throat and nodded, handing her some papers to sign, "Henry can leave as soon as you're ready, just keep an eye out for any erratic behaviour and bring him straight back if you see anything out of the ordinary."
Regina nodded and quickly signed the discharge forms, Foreman took the papers and with a quick awkward look around, he took his leave.
"What happened?" Henry tried again.
The older brunette fell into the plastic chair next her son and pushed her hand to lay on his arm, she considered how to tell the boy so used to magic, that they would just have to wait for the doctors to make his mother better.
She opened her mouth to say the words aloud, nothing came out and told herself that all she had to say was that Emma had been hit by a car. It was then that tears began to fall down her face, she hadn't realised that she had yet to accept the fact of the situation. She may have seen her girlfriend's blonde tresses, but her face had been marred by injuries and covered by the breathing mask.
"Emma…" she began, but quickly trailed off.
Henry watched his mother's face closely and he felt panic beginning to cling to his mind, it took a lot of rattle Regina Mills and it usually only happened when there was something wrong with a person that she cared deeply about.
"What happened to ma?" he whispered as softly as possible.
Regina bit her lip and looked up at him, "she was in a car accident…"
The brunette boy sucked in a breath and looked down at his bed for a moment before a few questions occurred to him, "what…is she…"
His mother brought her hand over his and said, "she isn't awake, but the doctors say she is stabilised her and they will let me know as soon as they know the extent of her injuries."
Henry nodded and allowed his mother to squeeze his hand, only to have the moment interrupted by the ding of Regina's phone.
She looked down at the text and smiled weakly, "do you want to go and meet your uncle, Henry?"
"Allison," Cuddy called as she walked over to the doctor.
The brunette looked over at her boss and said, "can I help you?"
"I hear that you took on our newest case," she said as she leant against the side of the nurse's station. They each looked over to the drawn curtain, behind which, the nurses were working on cleaning the blood off the woman and changing her into less restrictive clothing.
"I hear that you saw the accident," Cameron shot back, a slight tremble in her voice, "I'm surprised that you didn't take the case yourself."
"I could just hear Stacey's voice in my head saying that the traumatic experience would make me a less effective doctor…speaking of which…"
"We are not related at all, there is no legal reason that I shouldn't treat her," the younger woman sighed, she knew that it wasn't ethical to be treating someone just so she could demand answers, but no one had to know that.
"How about an emotional reason?" Cuddy asked with a tilted head, "it can't be comfortable to see someone who looks so much like you in that position."
"That is exactly why I want to treat her…it's hard to explain…" she trailed off, trying to think of a plausible reason why she wanted to treat her, then she realised that she didn't know exactly what happened to her. "What was she doing when she got hit?"
Cuddy smiled slightly and replied, "she was saving a little boy on a scooter from being where she is now."
"That's why I want to treat her then, not many doctors have the time to give her their full attention. I doubt House will be getting a case any time soon…"
The older woman held up her hand and said, "I wasn't looking for you to convince me, I just wanted to make sure that she would get the best, most uncompromised care."
Cameron nodded and looked back over to the curtain with an uncertain expression on her face.
"She's so much like you, it's hard to believe," Cuddy chuckled to herself, "it's almost as if she's the same person."
The other doctor covertly clenched her jaw, that hadn't yet been a possibility she had considered, in fact she had yet to fully consider any explanation, since she couldn't imagine one that was in any way logical.
"I'm sure it's just a coincidence," she sighed.
"It's a pretty amazing one, by the way, page me when she wakes up, Mrs Johnson wants to thank her son's saviour in person."
"Interesting," House announced as he limped into the MRI control room.
Cameron looked over her shoulder and the quickly scowled at Chase next to him, "you told him?"
"Actually Foreman did, I was curious what two thirds of my team were up to. It's usually only one of you doing something weird," he smirked as he leaned over to inspect the screen.
"Running tests on a patient is weird for a doctor?" Cameron asked sceptically.
"Running tests on a different patient to the one you was so set upon treating an hour ago is weird. I didn't know that it was physically possible for you to just transfer all of that care so quickly."
"This may surprise you, House, but I am capable of working on more than one case a week and I am certainly capable of being compassionate for more than one human being a week," she replied through gritted teeth, quickly pressing buttons to inspect different sections of the brain.
House and Chase exchanged a quick look, before House decided to go ahead and point out the important point, "you do know that Cuddy won't be happy that you're treating your sister?"
Cameron's fingers stilled on the keyboard and closed her eyes in frustration, "I am an only child, the resemblance is a coincidence."
"If that were true, then what has you so rattled?" Chase asked with a furrowed brow and instantly jumped back slightly in his chair when he was met with a deep scowl.
"The resemblance may be a coincidence, but it is still rather disconcerting…" she replied as evenly as possible. Though she had been able to convince House of her rather elaborate lie that was the life of Allison Cameron, he never seemed to have caught onto it. He had no idea that Emma Swan was anyone other than the injured woman in the MRI machine, then again, she imagined that he had no idea what her name was.
"Then maybe you're too close to this case," House smirked, "it clearly makes you uncomfortable."
"Since when do you care about my comfort?" the brunette scowled, finally turning away from the computer to full look him in the eye.
"Oh, I don't," he laughed, "I'm just interested in how this all turns out, I can see that there is something about this case that is bothering you and I will figure it out."
"A car accident doesn't exactly fall under the scope of a diagnostician…" Chase said with a frown, "we know what's wrong with her…"
House tilted his head and mockingly pouted at the blond man, "but I want to be a real doctor."
Chase and Cameron rolled their eyes at the same two and the brunette of the pair said, "I don't need your help, House, I can handle this without you."
The standing man held his hand over his heart and said, "has the student finally surpasses the master?"
The female doctor rolled her eyes deeply and ran a hand across her face in frustration, "there is no puzzle here, House, this woman just so happens to look like me and I want to treat her because it bothers me."
House held out his hand and Chase instantly gave him the file, as always, he skipped the name and did a quick check through the symptoms. Finally, he seemed to decide that he couldn't find a reason that he should be the one to treat her and instead, tried a different tactic.
Turning to the front page, he said aloud, "Emma Swan."
Cameron involuntarily flinched and he said, "ah ha, I knew it. Who is she, Cameron?"
"I'm just tired," she mumbled, turning back to look at the screen.
Silence reigned for a moment and House finally decided that he needed to wait to unravel this mystery and said, "bring the test results to the office when you're done."
A/N Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the chapter, please let me know what you thought of it XD
Also, for anyone who would be interested, I started a facebook page for my account, it's the best place to send prompts and get information about new ideas I have.
Depending on how many likes I get, I may start posting previews of future fics so you guys can see what you think XD
At the moment, I'm looking for crossover ideas since I've had a few reviews saying that they think they're aren't enough. If you have any ideas for a House/ouat crossover, then please message me (on fb would probably be better so that I can start to organise myself haha).
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