Best Mistake Ever

Best Mistake Ever.

Chapter Six: It Is The Simple Things You Miss.

"She's avoiding me."

Wilson looked up from the files on his desk and instantly met the eyes of Gregory House. Raising an eyebrow he placed his pen down and sat back in his chair. "Who is? And when did you get here?"

House furrowed his brow as he glared down at the oncologist. "Forget that. When I got here isn't important. On the other hand, Cameron avoiding for the past four days is."

"Well," Wilson sighed. "What do you expect? You've been viciously attacking her for… I don't even know why. Your reasoning can't be compare to that of any other human being." Wilson's own brow furrowed as he thought, before instantly narrowing as he quickly re-reached his verdict of not being able to decipher House's reasoning for anything that he does. "I would avoid you too." He then said, shrugging.

"No you wouldn't. You would be so far up my ass trying to figure out what you have done to get on my bad side." House said, easing himself down onto the sofa across the room. "Shut up Jimmy I know you. You can say and think differently all you want, but I know you."

"You're right. That's exactly what I'd do." He said, rolling his eyes.

House watched him silently for a moment, as he leaned forward and rested his chin on top of his cane. "Have you seen her? Talked to her?"

Wilson's jaw dropped open. "Uh, no… Why do you even care?"

House sat up, pushing himself up to his feet. "I don't."

"Yeah you do." Wilson said following House's lead and getting to his feet. "You wouldn't-"

"BYE!" House cut him off.

Wilson sighed, quickly rounding his desk to catch up to House. "You know, you could try apologizing to her."

House looked over his shoulder at Wilson, who was standing at his office entrance watching him, and give him a skeptical look. "Right," He snorted. "I'll go do that now." He said, tapping his cane against the glass wall of the conference room, gathering the attention of his fellows. "Thirteen." He whined, pressing his face to the glass.

Wilson sighed, disappearing back into his office.

Thirteen leaned forward in her seat, eyes wide as she stared at her boss making faces against the glass, disgusted. "What is he doing?" She asked, pushing her seat back a few inches.

Kutner turned to look at her, chuckling softly. "He looks like a baboon."

Thirteen rolled her eyes and Taub let out a sigh of annoyance.

"THIRTEEN!"

"I'm coming!" She groaned, quickly jumping from her seat and dashing to the door. "What is your problem?" She asked, poking her head out into the hallway.

House took a step back away from the glass and moved closer to her. "Nothing," He said with a shrug. "Go find Cameron. Tell her we need a consult." He said pushing the door all the way open with his cane. "Kutner, get out here and clean the glass."

The smile on Kutner's lips quickly faded and he slowly pushed himself to his feet, pouting.

"But we don't have a case." Thirteen said, watching as Kutner left through House's office.

"So."

"So, what if she asks me some of the symptoms our patient has?" Thirteen asked, crossing her arms over her chest.

"You're smart." House said, placing his cane back onto the floor so that the door would close. "Make something up."

Thirteen stopped the door gently with her hand. "Why?" She asked sternly.

House cocked his head to the side. "Oh, I don't know, perhaps because I'm the boss and I told you to."

Thirteen stepped out into the hallway and walked passed House. "Do it yourself. I'm not going to interrupt her work to bring her here so that you can jump down her throat."

Amused, House limped after her. "But you can interrupt her work long enough to tell her that I'm killing our patient so that she would run to Cuddy because you didn't have the guts to in the first place?"

She looked over at him as she pushed the call button to the elevator, slightly shocked. "If I would have went to Cuddy you would have fired me. You can't fire Cameron, but getting you pulled from the case wasn't my intention anyway." The elevator door opened and she stepped in. "Page me if we get a case. I'll be in the clinic."

-House MD House MD House MD-

Cameron stared down at her coffee as she stirred it with her plastic spoon. It had been a busy morning and she was already completely exhausted. She had come to the cafeteria to get a cup of coffee in hopes the caffeine would give her some kind of energy buff, but she was too tired to even pick up the Styrofoam cup.

Sighing she lifted the spoon to her mouth and stared down into the cup as the brown liquid swirled in a counter clock wise motion, the taste of the hot liquid instantly teasing her taste buds.

"Would you mind some company?"

Lazily Cameron looked up and met Wilson's soft welcoming eyes. "Oh hey," She said pulling the spoon from her mouth and replacing it into her cup. "No, not at all please sit down." She said smiling softly.

Wilson returned her smile as he sat down across from her. "So, how have you been?" He asked, placing his own cup of coffee down in front of him. "You look tired."

"Oh, I am." Cameron said as she finally gathered enough strength to lift her cup to her lips and take a sip. Sighing contently as the hot liquid made its way down her throat. "The ER has been so busy lately I haven't really had much time to rest, but other than that I'm good. What about you?" She asked swirling her spoon again.

Wilson watched the slowly lazy movements of her wrist as she stirred her coffee and smiled. "I'm pretty good can't really complain, but hey, I actually came down here to ask you something. Do you mind?"

"No, go a head." She said, her head cocking to the side slightly out of curiosity.

Wilson took a deep breath and leaned forward. "House came to talk to me today. He seems to think you are avoiding him.-"

"Don't even finish that." Cameron said pushing her chair back and getting to her feet. "I don't have time to play his games. I'm not going to be the punching bag he takes his anger out on anymore. So, if he is looking to vent he needs to go some where else."

"Uh, right," Wilson murmured softly, looking up as she stood. "I didn't mean to-"

"I know." Cameron smiled softly, pulling her pager from her back pocket as it began to vibrate. "And don't worry about it. It was really nice talking to you, but I've got to go."

"Same here." He said as she turned. He watched her drop her full coffee cup into the trash before rushing out.

-House MD House MD House MD-

House stood in the hall, watching her talk to her patient from a distance before closing the privacy curtain. There must not have been anything seriously wrong with the young girl because Cameron was smiling.

"Hey Tina, can you get the discharge papers ready for Mercy Daniels for me please." Cameron called as she turned to head to the next curtain hidden room, but instantly stopped as her eyes landed upon House.

Sighing, her lips slowly curled into a soft frown as she slowly approached him. "What do you want?" She asked softly. "And no, I won't go out and have a few drinks with you, so if that is where this is headed I wouldn't waste your breath."

House smirked. "Break my heart." He said sarcastically, causing Cameron to sigh.

"Well, if you are just going to stand there and waste my time I'm going to go." Cameron said looking down and wrapping her arms gently around her. He was staring at her and it was making her self conscious.

"I don't like it."

Cameron raised her head and looked up at him, her brows furrowed in confusion. "Don't like what?"

"You avoiding me. I…. miss talking… to you."

Cameron's jaw dropped open a bit as she stared at him in disbelief. At first she believed he had sincerely meant it, but quickly knew better. That was exactly how he wanted her to react and she almost fell for it. "Good bye House." She said bitterly as she turned away from. She wasn't going to fall for his traps anymore. She wasn't going to allow herself to openly be hurt. She was going to be in complete control of her emotions.

Author's Note:I stared working on this after I finished my English Portfolio. I actually have three completely different versions of this chapter and the first one I liked more, but because it is on my computer at home I couldn't use it. I'll probably go through it add some changes and make it chapter seven. Also, now that my English Portfolio is completely I can probably get you all an update every other day, if not everyday. Unless ,of course, I'm assigned more pointless end of the year projects. yuck. As always thank you so much for reading. I hope you enjoy! Please review! And now I'm heading off to bed. :3

-AnnaMarie