Chapter 6

After shopping for most of the afternoon, House and Cuddy came back home with most of the stuff that they would need for Katherine. House had mostly picked out the furniture. Cuddy had mostly bought the cute baby clothes. They mostly consisted of pink, purple, blue, and yellow. The crib would be delivered in the morning. House would have Wilson come over tomorrow to help move the heavier stuff since he couldn't do it on his own, and Cuddy was out of the question. Once everything had been moved into the house, House and Cuddy sat down on the couch and breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm hoping that we don't have to do that anytime soon again." House said as he laid his head on the back to the couch. "Who knew that carrying bags to the car and into the house took so much work? All House heard was Cuddy breathing rapidly like she had just come back from a run.

"Hey are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine I guess that was just a lot on me since I really don't exercise that much anymore." "

"Are you sure?"

"Yes now stop being such a worry wart."

As House slept, he had the same dream that he was having for the last few days it was really starting to worry him.

House's dream

House would be sleeping a clinic room and Cuddy would find him in there. She would tell him that he was supposed to be doing his clinic hours and not just sleeping on the job as usual. House would keep on listening until he heard a faint beeping sound. He would tell Cuddy to be quiet. He listens quietly to find where the sound was coming from. He would find that it was coming from under a cabinet. He would always open it and find a bomb that only had about five seconds left until it exploded. He would run over to Cuddy to get her out of the room but they would never make.

After the bomb goes off, he would find Cuddy she was either hurt or she was dead. This time she was hurt. He would find her under some rubble and once he moved it off her he would see that she had a piece of pipe that had gone through her just at the start of her rib cage. She would always be crying and saying that she wanted the baby to be alright. It was a blur after that he would be standing in the observation deck watching Cuddy be operated on. The monitors would start beeping and then he was back at the house drinking a popping whatever pills they would have around the house. Until he was alone in his dark cold world.

House would always wake up and look over at Cuddy to see if she was alright. But this time was different. House woke from his dream; he made quite a racket that he woke up Cuddy.

"House are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine, "House says as he gets up and heads to the bathroom.

House goes into the bathroom and splashes some water on his face. When he looks up at himself through the mirror and sees the girl that was in his fantasy world. She looked the same as when he saw her on the beach. That black-brown wavy hair, the beautiful sapphire eyes that were surrounded by really long eye lashes that were full and dark. She was dressed in jeans, a plain t-shirt and wore a pair of black converse. House slowly turned around. They didn't talk; they were just standing there looking at one another.

"Please say something."

"What do you want me to say?"

"Tell me that this dream that I'm having will go away and its' just me getting nervous about being a father." The girl said it but it didn't make House feel any better.

"Why are you here?"

"Maybe it's your subconscious trying to tell you something."

"To tell me that I'm about to lose the two of you." House said angrily

"Maybe, but only time will tell what will happen."

"That really didn't help." House looks up but she's gone. He calls out to her but doesn't get a response. He then hears her voice saying wake up, wake up. The voice changes to Cuddy's saying wake up House wake up. House jerks awake to see that Cuddy is leaning over him. "House are you ok?" she asked worried.

"Yeah it was just a bad dream that's all"

"Do you want to tell me what it was about?'

"No not really now excuse me I'm going to go and take a shower." Cuddy watches as he gets up and leaves. She is worried about him lately he has been moving around a lot in his sleep. Cuddy slowly gets up out of bed and heads into the bathroom. She makes her way over to the shower. Cuddy pulls the shower door open.

"What?" House sees that there are tears pooling in Cuddy's eyes. "Oh Cuddy I told you it's nothing." House says calmly as he wraps his arms around her. "It's just a dream it's not real." House holds Cuddy until she seemed that she has calmed down. House hopes that it's just a dream that is not going to happen.

Later in the day the crib is delivered and House got Wilson to come over and help set up the crib and move the other heavy stuff where Cuddy wanted it. House and Wilson carry the crib into the nursery and start to take it out of the box. Wilson pulls out the instructions and gets a confused expression on his face. House grabs the sheet of paper out of Wilson's hand and goes over it. He to gets a confused expression on his face. He hears Cuddy giggle from the door way.

"What's so funny Cuddy?" House states

"Is Greg House the best diagnostics in New Jersey stumped on some silly instructions on how to set up a crib?"

"Oh shut up and go do something productive."

A couple hours and temper tantrums later (Both from House and Wilson), the crib was all set up. House goes to get Cuddy, but Wilson stops him.

"What?" "Oh I see Cuddy talked to you when I was in the bathroom."

"House she's worried about you. She says that you have been acting weirdly in your sleep lately.

"It's nothing Wilson now just drop it." House angrily pushes past Wilson to get Cuddy.

(Later in the night)

House and Cuddy are standing in the now finished nursery.

"It looks really good." Cuddy says

"Yeah it's only missing one thing."

"What's that?"

"Katherine"

"Well it's only a few more months until she's here. Cuddy says as she moves her hand to her belly.

"Come on lets' go to bed it's been a long day for me."

Once again House has that dream again.

It's Monday after noon and House is sleeping in one of the clinic rooms. Cuddy comes in quietly and slams the door. House jolts awake.

"House you are supposed to be doing your clinic hours and not sleeping again."

"Why?"

"Because it's part of your job House."

House gets off the table and leaves the room Cuddy follows him. House sets out of the room and starts to hear a beeping. House listens until he hears a nurse scream bomb. He watches as everyone starts to panic and back away from the nurse's counter.

Wilson is walking to the clinic when he sees an explosion. People in the lobby start to run around in panic. Wilson spots the ducklings heading over to what used to be the clinic. Wilson quickly ran over to them.

"What do you guys think you are doing?"

"We are going in there too…" Answered Forman

"I don't think so."

Wilson ushers Forman, Thirteen, Chase and Taub away from the clinic. The police come and so do some firemen to rescue the people that were in the clinic. A policewoman comes over to Wilson and the ducklings to get there statement. The policewoman leaves them as soon as she gets all of their statements. It then dawns upon Wilson that House is not around.

"Hey do you guys know where House is?"

"Um…I think that he was in the clinic." Said Thirteen

"What? Are you sure?"

"Yeah, he left after Cuddy had to come and get him to go."

"That means he and Cuddy…Oh no." Wilson says.

They watch him run off to the clinic.

"Sir it is not safe to go in there just yet." Says an officer.

"But…"

"I'm sorry but have to wait until we get an all clear to go in there. Please step aside."

Wilson goes back to where the ducklings are and starts to pace around. It takes about 30 minutes to get the all clear sign. Wilson and the ducklings head over to the clinic.

"It's ok to go in now, but please stay in sight of the people in yellow."

Wilson, the ducklings, and a handful of other doctors and nurses to in. It's dark and really smoky. It is hardly recognizable there are a lot of wires hanging out of the broken ceiling. There is a lot of rumble on the floor and some shards of glass.

"I think that the best thing to do is spilt up and call for help if you find anyone." Wilson says.

They split up and find other people most of them are unconscious. Some are hurt and some are dead. After about an hour of looking for people Wilson and the ducklings take a break.

"It's ok Wilson someone will find them" Thirteen says. After a 10 minute break they go back into the clinic. Wilson, Forman, Chase, Thirteen and Taub walk over to the far side of the nurse's station. Wilson spots a hand that is sticking out from under some rubble. Wilson quickly bends down to move the rubble away. Wilson moves a ceiling panel and sees that it is House that is under there. He calls Forman, Chase and Taub over. He orders them to take him out of here and into the ER and to stay with him. The three quickly pick him up and head out.

"Cuddy shouldn't be too far away from where we found House." Thirteen and Wilson set upon looking for Cuddy. Five minutes later Thirteen calls Wilson over saying that she had found Cuddy. Wilson rushes over to Thirteen and the two works on moving the rubble off Cuddy. As soon as they clear the rubble Wilson carefully picks up Cuddy and heads out of the clinic. Thirteen closely follows him out. A nurse spots them and has a gurney brought over to them.

The two quickly head down to the ER. When they get, Chase comes over to them and tells them that they have moved House to a private room and that they have another ready for Cuddy.

They get Cuddy into the room.

"So what's the damage with House?" Wilson asks.

"He has a few cuts and bruises but other than that he's fine, what about Cuddy?" Chase asks

"I think she will be ok but I don't know,"

They get some nurses to get House and Cuddy changed into some hospital gowns. They also have a nurse to get Cuddy hooked up to a fetal monitor just to be sure. They waited for them to wake up.

House is once again back on the beach that he was on when he died, but this time Cuddy is with.

"House?"

"Yes Cuddy?

"What happened and where are we?"

"I think that we were in an accident. This is where I was when I died."

"Oh god. Cuddy says as she wraps her arms around her middle but finds that she has flat stomach.

"House, I'm not pregnant, do you think that means that..."

"No I don't think that she's gone."

They sit there until Cuddy speaks up.

"House look there's a girl over by the shores edge."

Cuddy gets up and starts to head over to her. House runs to catch up to Cuddy. As they reach her the girl turns around. Cuddy looks at the girl and notices that she has beautiful sapphire blue eyes with really long lashes. She has blackish-brown hair that has a slight curl to it.

"House is that…."

"That was my guess the last time I was here but it could be one that we lost."

"I don't think so; I think that this is Katherine a lot older."

"So how did you know?"Katherine asks

A slight smile comes to Cuddy's face. "I guess mothers instincts"

"Wait how come you told her who you were and not me?" House asks pretending to sound hurt.

"You didn't ask."

House, Cuddy, and Katherine start to walk along the shore line. Cuddy can't help but glance at her daughter ever once in a while.

"It's time for the two of you to back to the real world." Katherine states.

"Ok lets go" House says as he starts to walk to the water."

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going back. This is the way you took me last time.

"Well that's not the way and last time you were dead."

House and Cuddy start to see black in their eyes until they can't see anything.

Wilson goes back into House's room and sees that he is starting to stir. Wilson goes over to him.

"House how do you feel?"

"How do you think I feel after getting blown up? How's Cuddy?"

"She's fine, would you like to go and see her?"

"Yes you moron I would."

Wilson helps House get up and they walk into Cuddy's room. Wilson left to give them some privacy. House looks down and sees that Cuddy is also awake.

"Hey you feeling ok."

"Yeah how about you?"

House and Cuddy talk for a little while. The next day House checks himself and Cuddy out of the hospital. A few weeks later they find out who planted a bomb in the clinic. It was just a mental patient that had gotten away from his hospital.

Months passed without any more accidents. It's September 14th. House goes into their bedroom to find that Cuddy is still asleep.

"Cuddy it's time to get up now." House says gently.

"I don't want to get up today."

"Look at the bright side you only have to work half the day and then you get to come back home and do whatever you want. Unlike me who has to work all day."

"Fine but help me up."

House takes hold of Cuddy's hand and slowly helps her up. That's when he feels his right foot get wet.

"Ewe Cuddy did you get pee on my foot?"

"No you idiot my water just broke."