This Feeling (7/?)
The wailing of baby Amelia was the sounds that woke House up at 3 in the morning. At first he pretended to still be sleeping but when it was made apparent that even though the baby monitor was right beside her head, Cameron was not getting up. She hadn't even stirred in her sleep.
House got up and out of bed a loudly as he could and made his way towards Amelia's nursery. Cameron had wanted her to sleep in their room for the first night, but House had told her they were better of getting her into a routine as soon as possible. Now he regretted that conversation, if he had known that Cameron was going to sleep through the piercing cry of their daughter and that he was going to be doing the night shift he would have been on Cameron side and allowed Amelia to sleep with them.
He lifted his daughter out of her crib rocking her slightly as he gently shushed her crying. He wrapped the blanket tightly around her and made his way to the kitchen holding Amelia awkwardly in one hand with his cane in the other.
The movement seemed to quiet her, by the time her bottle had been heated and they were seated on the living room sofa, she had stopped crying altogether.
She was staring right at him with her blue eyes as she sucked on the teat of the bottle, she already had a little mop of dark brown hair and her eyes seemed to get slightly bluer every time he looked into them. He couldn't tell if she looked like Cameron or himself yet but he knew that one day he'll be locking her in the house, and setting up some strict rules about dating, or if the word "dating" was even going to be in her vocabulary.
He sat there with only the light of a small lamp that stood besides the chair with only the sound of the sucking from the bottle as Amelia eyes lids began to close and the teat from the bottle slipped out of her mouth. Greg lifted her up and began to burp her over his shoulder whilst trying his best not to wake her again, it seemed to take forever to hear the satisfying burp that came from her mouth, shortly followed by a wet patch on his shoulder were she had brought up a her milk.
He cursed under his breath but was thankful that she hadn't woken up still before making his way back to her nursery to clean her up a bit and then gently placing her back into the crib.
As soon as he was sure that she was going to wake up again he removed his shirt which already smelled slightly of sick and went back to bed, not bothering to find another shirt as sleep was the only thing on his mind.
Cameron rolled over to hold him as soon as he got in.
"Uh, you're cold" she complained as she nuzzled into his neck. He grinned to himself as he moved his hands under her shirt pulling her closer to him making her jump.
"Greg" she tried to get out of his grasped but he had a firm hold on her.
Cameron eyes snapped open in annoyance to see the mischievous grin plastered on his face.
"What are you playing at, Greg?" She tried to sound angry at being woken up in the middle of the night, but it came out more playfully than she would have liked it to have.
House was enjoying watching Cameron squirm underneath him when she burst out laughing.
"Greg, I'm tired" she said when he leaned in for a kiss.
"Yeah, so am I?" finally letting Cameron go and turn over, but not for long as he spooned himself right behind her kissing the top of her heads as she fell back to sleep.
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Cameron couldn't help but smile since she got out of bed, she had had a stupid grin on her face that hadn't gone unnoticed her mother who was still staying with them.
Cameron told Louisa about her engagement and was surprise to know that Greg had already told her he was going to propose, she was glad that this time round her mother was happy for her, the first time she had gotten married Louisa told her that she was making a big mistake, that she was going to get hurt and that she couldn't stand by a watch her baby girl ruin her life.
The smile seemed to grow bigger every time she looked at the ring House had given her that night before.
She had gotten up before House and had already fed, bathed and put Amelia back to sleep by the time he got up.
"Did you sleep well?" was the first thing he said when he found her sitting reading a magazine in the kitchen.
"No thanks to you"
"Well I on the other hand got woken up three times last night to feed that baby of ours" House had made a point of waking Cameron up every time he got back into bed.
"Really I didn't even hear her cry" she looked up at him and could tell just by looking at him that he hadn't slept well.
House pulled a carton of milk out the fridge and didn't bother to get a glass and drank straight from it.
"You seriously didn't hear her. It was like listening to wolves howling at night. Like screams from
Cats…" Cameron rolled her eyes at his exaggeration "It wasn't that bad"
"How do you know it wasn't that bad you slept through our daughters painfully load cries of hunger" Cameron just shook her head and put the magazine away walking past House she knew what he was trying to do and nothing could break her good mood, not after last night and his proposal. Even if she did feel slightly guilty for sleeping through Amelia's cries.
"Where's, your mom gone?" Greg called out from the kitchen after leaving the tiniest bit of milk in the carton and putting it back in the fridge.
"She went to get some groceries, she said she wanted to cook dinner for us tonight" she yelled back.
House walked into the living room finding Cameron standing by the window holding her had up the natural light shinning through looking at the detail on her ring.
The main baby bump had decrease rapidly in only a couple of days, she still had the baby bump but he had never seen her look as beautiful as she did standing by that window.
It had noting to do with they why she looked he observed, rather the way her whole body just screamed how she felt. She seemed content and blissful.
The enormous smile that was plastered on her face that showed in her eyes as she studied the ring showed how happy she was.
It ha taken him so long to finally buy the ring, even before they found out she was pregnant he had wanted to propose but the timing never seemed right, and now just seeing how happy it had made her he was a fool for waiting so long he thought to himself.
He had never been in a situation were he wanted to spend the rest of his live with someone, he always got moody angry and upset when people he cared about where no longer in his life but he knew that at some point that they would leave so never invested to much into convincing them to stay. But with Cameron she was his world, he knew that if he was to ever loose her, a big part of him would be gone with her. He couldn't just go on with his life as it was before he met her, before he fell in love with her. He'd be lost and he knew it.
"You do realise, I got that from a 20 cent vending machine don't you?" he laughed as Cameron jumped and pretended to be looking at the plant box on the windowsill.
"Oh is that all I'm worth to you now?" she turned to him as he approached her from behind, her smile only getting bigger.
"No, but if I got you that big expensive ring, you'll expect so much more on all of the anniversaries now wouldn't you?" he joked. Cameron wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him in for a short kiss.
"You know just a week ago, I couldn't get you to smile if my life depended on it"
"Well now I have allot to smile about" pulling her self in for a deeper much more satisfying kiss. House deepened the kiss gaining entrance into her mouth and pulling her into a tight embrace.
It took a moment for both House and Cameron to recover from the kiss as they both let each other go.
"So were you thinking about a big wedding or a small quiet registry wedding?" he knew the answer to that one but wanted to at least show an interest.
"I don't know. I haven't had time to think about it yet"
"Liar. You've probably had our wedding planned since the day you met me" he laughed turning the television on and sitting back to watch general hospital repeats
"You've got one hell of an ego haven't you" she took a seat on the arm rest next to him.
"Yes dear and you love me for it" putting on a fake British ancient and pulling her so she fell on his lap "So big or small" he asked again.
She thought for a moment before answering "big, defiantly big" from the look on House face she knew she was going to have to compromise her plans.
"We are not going to get married in a church" House said firmly
"Who said anything about a church wedding" she studied his face, what would have ever given him that idea. "Ever since I was a little girl I've wanted to get married in my grandparent's garden. It's so beautiful there. There's a huge oak tree that we used to climb a small pond, you'll love it."
House had never thought about a garden wedding before, hadn't thought about any wedding that concerned him if he was honest. But the more Cameron went on about how beautiful it was the more the idea seemed to grow on him
TBC……
A/N: so sorry it's taken so long I had allot to computer problems. I hope you've enjoyed this chapter, please review.