CHAPTER FIFY ONE
"I was walking home after being with my girlfriend ad I got chest pains!" the patient said to House. He had his I pod on and was listening to music.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you!" House shouted over his music, he secretly turned it off.
"I'm having chest pains!" the patient shouted!
"No need to shout!" House said as he stood up! "Your girlfriend has poisoned you!" House replied and the patient sat there in shock. "It's called spicy food, your stomach doesn't like it! Take these and go find yourself a new girlfriend!" he said as he walked out of the exam room. His pager went off and he saw Cameron's number on the screen. He looked in Cuddy's office, she was deep in paper work. He put down the file and went to see Cameron. He walked into her room, and heard her crying. He couldn't see her face as she was looking out of the window. He walked up to her and saw pieces of papers lying on the table next to her *no, it cant be!*he thought to himself. He reached out and touched Cameron on the arm. She turned around to face him and smiled.
"You paged me?" he said, she nodded.
"Thought that you would like an excuse to get out of clinic duty for a few minutes!" she said.
"It's something else isn't it?" he asked, she just nodded and pointed to the pieces of paper. He picked them up and read them. He then looked up at her, she smiled and just nodded, a tear fell from House's eyes, she could see the same amount of relieve in his eyes as she had when Chase told her the results. He took her in his arms and kissed her on the cheek, she held him and continued to cry. He stroked her head.
"It's all over now, you are going to be fine, there's nothing more to worry about! We don't have to think about this anymore!" he said in her ear.
"Chase has taken some more tests, we want to make sure that they really are gone! Be gentle with me as I've juts had a spinal tap!" she said, as he sat down next to her.
"Remind me to give him a pay rise or something!" House said sarcastically! "I really have to get back before Cuddy gives me more clinic duty!"
"You're going back willingly!" Cameron said.
"Only so I don't have to be away from you longer than I have to!" he said as he kissed her and left.
Foreman walked in, guiding Michael with one of his hands and opening the door with the other one. Michael was so engrossed in his game, that if Foreman didn't help him, then he would have walked into something! Foreman lifted him up onto Cameron's bed.
"Hi Alli, I'm back!" he said not taking his eyes off the screens.
"I saw Chase going into the labs with some samples, and I know that House was on clinic duty, so I thought that I would come and keep you company!" Foreman said. He saw the test results, looked at Cameron for approval and picked them up. He read them and then looked up at Cameron, she smiled.
"That's great news!" he said, she nodded. Chase walked in with a microscope and also the samples prepared for her. He brought them to Cameron's bedside table. She took off her mask and looked at the samples. She magnified them several times.
"And…" Chase asked. She looked away and blinked, then looked back at the sample again. She looked up and a tear fell from her eye.
"They're not in my blood stream, either my immune system has woken up and fought them off or they have been all removed after the lump was taken out of my head!" she said. "I need the spinal tap ones to look at!" she said. Chase handed them to her. She went back to looking in the microscope, looked at the boys and smiled.
"They really are all gone! I'm clear, they are no longer there, they have all been removed after the operation!" she said. Both Chase and Foreman looked into the microscope at the two different samples.
"She's right, they are gone! You're going to be fine, a week off work and you should be back to normal!" Foreman said.
"Hey, can I look?" Michael said, looking up from his game. Cameron pushed the microscope towards him and he looked in it.
"What's that?" he said looking up.
"That's what is in my blood!" Cameron replied, as she put her mask back on.
"That's yucky!" he said and returned back to his game. Chase picked up the microscope and the gels.
"I better go, get the results copied down into your file and then I will be back!" he said as he left.
"How's our other patient?" Cameron asked Foreman.
"He's going to be fine, your theory was correct! I don't know how you do it, even when you are ill you're a brilliant doctor! He is going to be discharged tomorrow, so I'm going to pop in to say hi!" he said.
"We are all brilliant doctors, I was just doing my job!" Cameron responded. Foreman's pager went off.
"I have to go, I'll see you later!" he said and he left.
Cameron was left alone with Michael. He was playing the DS and wasn't going to stop anytime soon! Her laptop was too far away, and she wasn't allowed to move after the spinal tap.
"Mikey, can you get me my laptop please?" she asked him. He looked up from his game, pressed pause and went to get her laptop.
"Thank you!" she said when he gave it to her, he returned to his game. She checked her e mails and also House's, she then sent her brother an e mail telling him about everything that had happened while he was gone. Evening came, Foreman, Chase and Wilson all came in to say goodbye to her. At about 7pm Cuddy came in, Michael was already asleep on Cameron's bed.
"Shh, he's just fallen asleep!" Cameron said as Cuddy walked in. She walked up to Cameron's bed and picked him up, he began to wake up.
"Say bye now Mikey, it's time for us to go home! Thanks for looking after him for me Allison!" she said as she put Michael back down on the floor.
"Bye Alli, see you soon!" he said sleepily
"Bye Mikey, go home an sleep well okay!" she said and they left. Cameron laid down in her bed and closed her eyes and slept. She didn't even notice House coming into her room. He saw her sleeping, turned off her laptop and also her bedside light. He looked at the file and saw the test results that were done today in them. He smiled, he knew that they could start planning their lives together now. He put it back and went over to her, he kissed her on the forehead and sat down in the chair. He picked up his Nintendo DS *I thought I put this back in my office!?*he thought to himself as he turned it on. He looked at the game, it had been completed! *Michael!* he thought as he put it down, picked up the remote and watched TV. He looked at Cameron, sleeping. He smiled and relaxed.
Cameron woke up the following morning to see House watching TV.
"Why didn't you wake me up last night?" she asked.
"Like I said, you need rest, so I just watched TV and checked your stats every now and then to make sure that you were alright. I also saw your test results!" he admitted.
"Well, you are my doctor, it's not if I could hid them from you! I wanted to be awake when you came in so I could show you them, but I was too tired!" she said. House reached over and took her in his arms.
"I'm just happy that we both know it's finally over!" he said. He let her go and took out two of his happy pills and popped them in his mouth. A nurse came in and gave Cameron her breakfast. She took off her mask and ate it. They both had a relaxing day. Foreman came in and told them that their other patient had just been discharged. Wilson came around lunch time, with food in tow. They all started eating.
"Gregg, can you go home, get some sleep on a real bed and also bring me some clothes! James can look after me, so there's no need for you to worry as I will be in good hands!" Cameron said once they had finished lunch. House looked at her, he knew that she was looking out for him, as he was too busy looking out for her to think about himself.
"Okay, I will be back in four hours, don't you leave her by herself!" House said. He kissed Cameron on the forehead and left them both alone. She breathed a sigh of relieve.
"I hate seeing him like that! He hates being here, he is only here because of me!" she said "James, I want to get out, get some real air into my lungs!" she asked.
"I'm sorry Allison, you know as a doctor I would have a lot to say against that! Your oxygen levels in your blood are still low, it's something I don't want to risk today. Robert can take you out tomorrow depending on the test results that he will do!" he said. She felt trapped in the room.
"Fine, so tell me what you have planned tomorrow!" she asked. Wilson then told her about the plans that he had made for him and House, she sat back and relaxed.
"Thanks for doing this!" she said to him once he was finished.
"Have you told him yet?" Wilson asked.
"No, I will tell him later. I'm sure that Robert wouldn't mind spending the whole day looking after me! It would be great to get out too!" she said
"Won't Gregg have something against that? I mean we all know how Robert feels about you, no matter how he tries to hide it!"
"Yes, but he also knows that he doesn't want to lose his job. Robert won't do anything to me, except look after me the way I'm supposed to be treated!" They continued talking.
A few hours later, House returned. He had a bag for Cameron with some clothes in it. She looked up at him as he entered the room. He looked loads better, he had slept, showered and changed clothes. Her heart skipped a beat at this sight, and she knew that this was the man that she could really be happy with! Wilson said his goodbyes and left them alone. House joined Cameron on her bed and they watched TV together.
"Gregg, can I talk to you for a few minutes?" she asked as she reached up to take the mask off.
"Okay, but the mask stays on I'm afraid!" he said as he reached for her hand and took it away from the mask.
"Damm, okay, well, James is going to take you out for the day tomorrow. I'm not the only one who needs to relax, you hate being here and you are here because of me. It's your weekend off and I don't want you to spend it trapped in here with me! Robert is going to look after me tomorrow, so you don't have anything to worry about! Anyway, you have to ask Wilson something!" she said as she looked at House.
"Allison, I want to be with you!" he replied.
"And you will be, but you also need to relax, so go out with James tomorrow and relax. Please do this for me!" she said. House thought about it and nodded. He really didn't like the idea of leaving Chase alone with Cameron, but she was right, he did hate it here! She put her head on his shoulder and they both fell asleep in Cameron's bed.
CHAPTER FIFTY TWO
Cameron woke up, House was already awake.
"Hi did you sleep well?" he asked her
"Best nights sleep I've had since I've been here! I've missed you!" she said. House took her in his arms and kissed her on the cheek. He had also missed her, but he didn't need to tell her that, she knew! He got down from Cameron's bed, took two of his pills and sat down. Cameron ate breakfast and House watched some TV.
"Knock, knock!" said someone at the door. Chase entered holding a bunch of flowers.
"Wow, Robert, how sweet of you!" Cameron said as he put them down on the table.
"How are you feeling?" he asked her.
"Good, thanks!" she said.
"Morning Dr. House, I heard that you and Dr. Wilson will be going out for the day, well at least you have nice weather for it!" Chase said.
"You still need to prove something to me!" House told him. Chases understood what this meant, look after Cameron, don't let anything happen to her and also don't try anything!
"I have to take your bloods Allison, then depending on the results we should be able to get you out of bed for the day!" Chase said. He went to the drawer and got what he needed. House had turned his DS on and was starting the game again. Once Chase had finished, he left to go conduct the tests on her blood in the lab.
"Gregg, do you want to help me get changed?" Cameron asked. House looked up from his game and smiled.
Chase came back and saw Cameron dressed and waiting on her bed. House was still playing his DS.
"So what's the results then doctor?" she asked Chase, she still had her mask on and wanted to get it off!
"Your oxygen levels are up, so that means we can go out for a while today if you want. However if you still feel weak or start to go pale, the mask is going back on!" Chase said as he put the results in her file. Wilson then entered the room.
"Hi everyone! How are you feeling Allison?" he asked. He handed her a card and a get well soon bear.
"Thank you James! I'm fine, oxygen levels are up, so hopefully no more mask! Robert and I are going out for a change of scenery today!" she replied as she took the mask off.
"Don't keep her out too long Robert, keep an eye on the left lung as it may not be able to handle too much today!" Wilson warned Chase. He nodded.
"So buddy, you ready for some fun with your friend today?" Wilson asked House, he looked up from his DS.
"Mommy, do I have to?" he said to Cameron
"Yes, go be free!" she said to him.
"Just a minute! You two get out of here, go get me some breakfast Wilson, and Chase, well just go get Cameron something too!" he said. They looked at each other puzzled and just left them. House turned off his game and came up to Cameron. He offered her his hand and helped her stand up. He put his arms around her and kissed her gently on the lips. She relaxed, but then pushed more urgently, wanting to taste him, wanting to go further, but she knew that they couldn't. House explored Cameron's body with his hands, she felt great. He had wanted to get her back in his arms for a long time. He hated seeing her lying on the bed with the mask on. They kept kissing, each going deeper, wanting each other. They knew that they couldn't do anything here, but they were both happy to be back in each other's arms. Finally, Cameron had to pull away. She laid her head on House's shoulder and sighed.
"I wish you didn't have to go, but you need to get out of here, and also speak to Wilson about something!" she said in his ear as she kissed his neck.
"Hmm, I wish I could take you home tonight!" House replied as Cameron continued to move towards his lips. She pressed hard against his. She didn't want to break the bond that they both had. House pulled away. Cameron looked up at him, he smiled at her.
"Don't want to make you stay in here longer than you already have!" he said. He put her head back on his shoulders. "We will be alone together soon, I still have to ask Cuddy about talking time off, don't know how she will take it, Wilson will have to look after the other two ducklings, but I'm sure he won't mind!" He said as he stroked Cameron's head. She turned away from House and put on the mask, their little kissing session took a bit out of her. House came over and sat down next to her.
"Please, be careful today, okay, no sport or anything that's going to keep you away from me longer!" he said. She nodded as she took deep breathes in. Colour was beginning to return in her cheeks, so House removed the mask from her face and kissed her lightly on her lips.
Chase and Wilson entered the room and saw Cameron still on her bed and House, well playing his DS. They looked at each other, wondering what happened.
"Let's go House, the day is still young and we need to have some fun!" Wilson said holding a bag of food for House.
"Oh, my Jimmy, you're a poet and didn't know it!" House replied as he turned his DS off. He went up to Cameron and gave her a gentle kiss on the lips. Chase was surprised of this show of emotion from House, as he thought House had no emotions!
"Be good, I'll be back sometime this evening, remember don't do anything that would keep you here longer! I love you!" he whispered in Cameron's ear. He pulled away and she nodded, she didn't need to tell House that she loved him, he knew it! House walked over to where Wilson was waiting for him, and took the bag of food.
"Look after her otherwise I'll take care of you!" House said to Chase.
"Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to her!" he said to House. He nodded and he and Wilson left.
Chase walked into the room.
"House is really uptight today!" he said
"Do you blame him?" Cameron asked. Chase helped her out of her bed, and they left the room. Chase informed the nurses that he was taking Cameron off the grounds and that it was okay as she was a doctor and so was he. Even though they knew this, he still had to sign her out, so he did just that! They left the hospital and Cameron smiled. It was the first time she had been out since Wednesday, so she was very happy.
"How are you feeling?" Chase asked her as he guided her out of the grounds.
"Alive and great! I mean, as I was being operated on, I really thought that I wouldn't be able to see all of this again, but I got better and it's thanks to the people who work there. I'm so glad I became a doctor!" she said as she allowed Chase to guide her. They walked around the park, and sat down on the grass. They talked about life and also work.
"So when do you think you two will have a date set?" Chase asked her. Cameron thought about this for a few moments.
"I don't know, I mean can you imagine House becoming committed about this? I know that he loves me, I see that in his eyes everyday, but I guess I will have to push him to be able to get things on the move!" she said. "That's why I organized the day with Wilson, he needs to ask Wilson to be his best man, what a better opportunity than today! I mean he gets out of the hospital and also have fun in the process. I also get to spend time with you! Robert I think it's time that you spoke about your dad, I know that it has been a long time since he died, but you need to get your feelings out. I'm here for you if you want to do that!" she said as she put her hand on Chase's shoulder.
"Allison, you know what it's like to lose a family member, so you can guess that I have gone through all of the pain and moved on. I have said my goodbyes and now, I just want to think that he has gone off to a better place, I just wish that I could have done something, you know cured him!" he said.
"You didn't know, don't beat yourself up because of that!" she said as Chase stared into her eyes.
"You look so beautiful, has anyone ever told you that?" Chase said as he stroked her face.
"No, Robert, please don't do this! I wanted you to look after me as you know that House is looking for some stupid excuse to get rid of you, I just want to prove to him that you are a brilliant doctor and that you can be trusted alone with me!" she said, she turned away from Chase.
"I'm sorry, I know all of that, and he knows that I love my job and don't want to lose it. I'm just… it's not fair that I never get what I want, and then I met you when you started working for PPTH on House's team, and I thought 'wow! Is she really a doctor!' but you have proven that you don't only have good looks, you have a brilliant mind too!" he said. She turned back to face him.
"You know, when I asked House the reason he hired me, it was because I was good looking, I wasn't the best applicant, but he saw me, my looks I mean and hired me. I don't believe that, I mean he must have seen something beyond my looks!?! When you look at me, you also saw my looks, but I have proven myself that I am a great doctor. Everything happens for a reason, and it's because of this reason we have to figure it out why it happens!" she said.
They laid on the grass, looking up at the clouds. Cameron felt sick, she sat up and turned to Chase.
"I'm not feeling so good!" she said. He put his hand on her forehead and checked her temperature. It was fine. He took her wrist and checked her pulse, also fine. He listened to her chest, her left lung was getting enough air, but was not inflating properly. Cameron sat up.
"Robert, stop okay, I'll be fine, it must be from the excitement of getting out for the day!" she said.
"Take in a few deep breathes for me?" he asked, she did what he said. He listened to her lung, it was starting to reopen itself! "How are you feeling now?" he asked her
"Hungry, are you going to take me to lunch or do I have to starve to death!" she said. Chase looked at her, she was fine, it was just a moment of panic, that was all. He laughed as he helped her up.
"Where would the sick patient like to eat today?" he asked her. She hit him on the arm and laughed as he guided them away and to a restaurant to get something to eat.
CHAPTER FIFTY THREE
House and Wilson were just getting started, well that's what Wilson called it. House was just debating how he was going to get out of this one, and also how he was going to ask Wilson to be his best man at the wedding. Cameron was going to pay for this, but she was right, he needed to get out. He hated it in the hospital, it was… too sterile! He looked out of the window to see where they were going. Wilson pulled the car over and House looked out of the front widow.
"What are we doing here?" he asked Wilson.
"It's a funfair and we are going to have some fun!" Wilson replied as he got out of the car.
"I hate these, you know that!" he said as he got out.
"I know, that's why we are only here for a few hours or so!" Wilson said with a huge grin on his face.
"You can't lie to me, where are we really going?" House asked, as they got back into the car.
"Cameron's, well I mean my place, I got us some DVDs and also some food, I thought instead of trashing your place, let's trash someone else's for a while!" Wilson explained as he drove them away from the funfair.
"But that would have been fun too you know, oh and if Cameron asks, that's where we were, well where I told her we would be!" Wilson said, House grinned as they drove off.
Chase and Cameron had just finished lunch and were heading back to the hospital.
"Thanks Robert, you have done so much for me today! I don't know how I can repay you, I mean I'm still in debt for you saving my life before…" she wanted to continue when a voice shouted.
"Help, is there a doctor anywhere!" Chase and Cameron ran over to see what was going on. A man was lying on the pavement near the hospital, having a seizure.
"Move out of the way!" Chase said as he and Cameron approached.
"He's seizing, let's get him on his side!" Cameron said as she and Chase rolled him over.
"Airways are starting to close!" Cameron said, as she felt his lungs deflating and reflating less than before. "Go into the hospital quick, we need a medical kit here!" she said to someone who was standing there, he looked at her and ran in to hospital. They opened his mouth, Chase checked for a pulse. The man who ran came back a few minutes later with a medical kit and also some paramedics that he got it from. Cameron reached in and got what she was looking for. She moved to the back of his head and tried to focus. She could see the airways closing up, she got out an tube, and slowly put it in his mouth.
"Hurry it up Allison!" Chase said "I can't hold him for long!"
"Keep him still, I've nearly got it!" she said as she looked at him. Chase could see that she was also having difficulty breathing.
"Get me an oxygen tank and a mask now!" Chase said to one of the paramedics. He looked at Cameron "Come on Allison, stay focused!" he said. She closed her eyes and visualized. She saw the cords opening, now was her chance! She pushed the tube in and bagged him!
"Got it!" she said, and started to re-inflate his lungs. The paramedic came back with the tank, Chase put the mask around Cameron's mouth and she breathed in deeply. She laid in his arms as he came beside her, the paramedic taking over Cameron's job!
"House is going to kill me, but you saved that man's life!" he said as he stroked her head. She looked up at him and smiled. "It's what we do best!" she said and she closed her eyes. He stroked her face, and watched the paramedics take the man into the ER. He checked Cameron's pulse, and also her breathing, she was getting better again. She opened her eyes and smiled.
"Hi angel!" Chase said to her. "How are you feeling?" he asked.
"Better, I'm really tired though, I want to get some sleep and also a big tub of Haagen Dazs for the sick one!" she said. He laughed.
"What flavour do you want?" he asked her.
"Strawberry cheesecake, I mean I did just save a man's life, isn't it time someone saved mine?" she asked
"I already did that, remember!" Chase said as he helped her stand up.
House and Wilson had just finished watching their third DVD. Wilson had gotten up to get some popcorn and House took two of his happy pills. *now's a better time than any!* he thought as she swallowed the pills. Wilson came back in with a new bowl of popcorn, put in the next DVD and sat down on the same sofa as House.
"Listen, James, we've known each other a long time!" House said.
"Since medical school, that's right!" he answered.
"Well, I wanted to ask you willyoubemybestman?" House said, getting the words out really quickly.
"I'm sorry, say that again, I didn't understand you!" Wilson said.
"WILL YOU BE MY BEST MAN?" House shouted. He breathed out, a sigh of relieve that he had finally done it. Wilson looked at him, stunned.
"Of course I will, I was wondering when you would ask me that!" Wilson said as they ate popcorn. He turned on the DVD and they watched yet another film.
Cameron was back in her room, her and Chase were sharing the tub of ice cream and also watching TV. The nurses told them that they disapproved of the ice cream, but they didn't care, they were doctors and could do what they wanted! Cameron had recovered from the incident outside and was lying down on her bed having fun with Chase as they were making fun of the different TV shows.
"Oh my god, and this is what you watch while you're stuck in here! Man, I feel sorry for you!" Chase said as they were laughing at another TV show.
"I know, let's change the channel, there has to be something decent on!" she said as Chase picked up the remote. They continued eating the ice cream and watching TV, Cameron decided to break the silence.
"How is the man that we saved today?" she asked.
"Fine, he's going to be just fine, if we didn't come, he would have likely died! I just have to be careful now that House doesn't kill me!" he said as he took another spoonful of ice cream
"He won't, I'm fine, nothing happened to me today, just started back at work earlier than he wanted me to!" she said as she helped herself to the ice cream too. "Stop eating all the good bits!" she said to Chase as he got another cheesecake piece. He laughed.
"I thought that you were sweet enough!" he said as he found another bit, he thought about putting it in his mouth, but then guided the spoon to Cameron's mouth, and she ate it.
"Thank you!" she said once she had finished. Chase looked at her, *she's really sexy, and such a brilliant doctor, House was very lucky to have her* he thought to himself. He checked her stats, made sure that she was okay.
"It's getting late, I wonder what the two boys are up to?" Cameron said as he was checking her stats.
"Don't worry, they can take care of themselves!" Chase replied. "Now stay still so I can check your breathing!" he said listening to Cameron's chest. "If House ever finds out what we did, well I won't be having a job much longer!" he said, worryingly!
"Don't worry, I'm still better!" she said. He went to the medical drawer and took out things he needed to draw her blood. She shook her head.
"No, please no!" she said, she felt like a pin cushion again!
"Last one, tomorrow you should be discharged, but I need to know your oxygen levels so that I can make sure that you do get discharged. Then it's a week of rest for you, while the rest of us have to work!" he said. She laid down and let him take the bloods.
CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR
"Are you sure that you are not a vampire Dr. Chase?" a voice at the door said, Cameron just laughed, and Chase continued taking her bloods.
"Dr. House, Dr. Wilson, I hope that you boys had a nice day out?" Chase asked them as he finished taking Cameron's blood.
"Oh well, it was okay!" House said as he walked towards Cameron's bed. Chase took out the needle in her arm and put a cotton ball on it, he lifted Cameron's hand and put it on the puncture point.
"Well, I'm going to drop these off at the labs and get them to do it for tomorrow so you can be discharged Allison. Thank you for a nice day, and I shall see you in the morning!" he said as he looked at her.
"Thanks a lot Robert, for everything today, you really made today a lot of fun!" she said and reached up and hugged him. She let him go. Chase said his goodbyes to House and Wilson and left.
"Well, I better go too! I have to come in tomorrow morning to discharge a patient!" Wilson said as he came over to Cameron, she had a big smile on her face. She reached up and hugged him.
"Thank you James for everything you have done for me!" she said as she pulled away.
"It's what I'm here for!" he said, and left.
House and Cameron were finally alone together. House came over to her and took her in his arms. She held him back, not wanting to let go.
"God, I nearly forgot how good you smell!" he said as he kissed her. She pressed harder, holding him tight in her arms. He pulled her away and laid her back on her bed.
"So how was your day?" he asked her.
"Interesting!" she said. House looked at her, raising one of his eye brows. "Don't worry, noting happened, I'm fine and well!" she said as she pulled him in and kissed him. "I'm tired and want to sleep please!" she said as she was kissing him. He pulled back and went to sit on the chair.
"Do you think I'll be able to sneak you out of here?" House said, he really wanted to take her home. She laughed and closed her eyes to sleep.
"Allison, stay awake with me tonight, I haven't seen you all day, I want to spend the night with you!" he said. Cameron moved up on her bed and House joined her. She laid his head onto his shoulder and they watched TV.
"Gregg, I really need to get some sleep!" she said as it was nearly turning midnight! House looked at her and nodded. He kissed her on the head and she fell asleep in his arms.
"Good Morning Dr. House, Dr. Cameron! How are we…" Chase stopped and looked of the two lying on the bed. He walked up to them, and tapped House on the shoulder. He opened his eyes and saw Chase standing there.
"You really know who to wake a person up in the morning!" House said, as he woke up Cameron. She opened her eyes and looked up at House, then she looked and saw Chase standing there.
"Hi Chase, can I go home now?" she asked as she saw the blood test results in his hand.
"Yep, the test results say that you are 100% healthy, and your oxygen levels are fine, just a week off work and relax!" he said as he signed the discharge papers!
"Really, I can go now?" she said. Chase signed her discharge papers and showed them to her. She smiled and hugged Chase tightly in the arms.
"Thank you so very much!" she said and she let him go. She got out of bed, leaving House lying there. She picked up her bag. Wilson walked in.
"So Chase told you the good news!" he said "I've already cleared it with Cuddy, you both have the week off, I'm going to look after Chase and Foreman for the week that you are gone House, so I have them working on a few of my cases! I never knew how easy it was to have a team of specialists working for me!" he said as House started to get out of the bed. He reached into his pocket and pulled out an empty bottle of happy pills. Wilson walked up to him and gave him four bottles of his pills.
"That should keep you out of here for the week, I also know that you properly have loads sitting around at home!" Wilson said as House popped two into his mouth.
"Thanks!" he said as he stashed the rest in his pocket. "You ready to go?" he asked Cameron.
"Been ready since yesterday, Chase helped me pack!" she said as she picked her bag up.
"Whoa, wait just a minute!" Chase said as he looked down at her arm. "Sit!" she looked at him confused, then realise that she still had the needle from the IV in her arm.
"Opps, guess I forgot!" she said as she sat down, and Chase removed it.
"Now you can go!" he said. She kissed him on the cheek, grabbed her bag and ran out of the door, she turned back and saw House standing in the room still. "Are you coming? I can't drive myself home now can I?" she said with a huge smile on her face. House gave Chase his DS and also her file.
"Finish the paperwork for Dr. Cameron's file and also put this back in my office!" he said, and he walked out the door and drove them home.
CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE
Once they got back to House's apartment, Cameron threw her bag down and took House in her arms and kissed him. House pushed the door behind him closed and Cameron pulled away, heading towards the sofa. House followed her, took her in his arms and kissed her.
"It's good to have you back!" House said in between kisses.
"It's great to be back here!" she said as she pulled away and laid her head on House's chest. She loved listening to his heart racing, it made her feel loved inside! "So, now that we have a week off work, how are you going to help me recover?" she said as she looked up at House. He looked down at her and smiled.
"Your wish is my command, I'll do whatever you want me to do!" he said, she smiled.
"What, no sarcasm Dr. House! Are you sure you don't need to go back to work, I'm sure Dr. Cuddy can give you extra clinic duty to sort out your illness!" she said to him.
"But Dr. Cameron, I'm on holiday and I'm not the one who is ill!" he replied.
"Well Dr. House, I think its time that someone checked you over!" she said as she slowly kissed him on the lips.
"Okay Dr. Cameron, if you have a free appointment, I'm sure I could stop by sometime for a check up!" he said kissing her back.
"I'll have to check my calendar, you see I have a busy week, recovering from my operation and seeing my fiancé that I may not have any room for appointments this week, how does next week sound to you?" she asked him as she started to undo his shirt.
"Nope, it could be too late, I'm may be dead by then, I have this sore throat that has been playing up for a few days now!" he said as he started to undo her sports jacket.
"Well, then, maybe I should take a look! You could be coming down with glandular fever or something even worse! May I recommend cough medicine and also drinking loads of water!" she said as she took her jacket off.
"You know, playing doctor has such a different meaning when you are a doctor yourself!" he said as he reached under her t shirt.
"Well, then, you just crossed the doctor, patient barrier, keep your hands where they are!" she said as she laughed and pulled House's hands away from her shirt. She walked into the bedroom, House took some of his happy pills and followed her.
The week off did House and also Cameron a lot of good! Cameron was better, and House, well he got a break from Cuddy and clinic duty, he couldn't ask for anything more! Cameron was in her office, what she was doing House had no idea, he was sitting in his office, he had brought a wedding magazine earlier without Cameron knowing, and was reading it, while trying to hide what he was reading in his office.
"So House, heard that you were back! Oh my god, what ARE you reading!" Wilson said as he looked at House trying to hide the magazine. It was too late, he had already seen it and was digging it out of House's hiding place. Wilson looked at it and laughed.
"You tell anyone and you're going to get a prostate gland check!" House threatened Wilson, who was stopping himself from laughing too hard!
"Is this Cameron's idea?" he asked sitting on his sofa.
"No, and if you tell her, I will up that prostate gland check with a tube stuck up your urethra for half an hour!" House said as he put the magazine in his drawer. He looked at Wilson and saw that he had a file in his hand.
"No, before you even try it, the answer is no!" he said to Wilson
"Come on, what could be worse?" he asked
"Doing clinic duty all day with Cuddy watching me with every patient and using her whip to keep me going if I don't cure them within a few minutes, oh wait a minute, maybe that wouldn't be so bad!" House said to Wilson.
"Shall I page her, can always ask her to bring the whip with her, sure she would love to do that to you any day of the week!" Wilson said as he picked up House's phone. House took the phone out of his hand and signalled to him to sit down, he took out his bottle of pills and swallowed two.
"27 year old female, rash on the neck, face and upper chest and constantly ill." Wilson started to say.
"Not my problem, take it up with Cameron, sounds like an immune system problem!" House replied, throwing him his softball.
"Spoke to Cameron, she has run some tests for me, but came back inconclusive. The patient is complaining of pain in her leg muscles and also her arm muscles, however the tests that we have done to find out the cause of these pains have come back negative!" Wilson said. House looked up at him. Wilson threw his softball back at him "Balls in your court!" he said, as he handed him the file. House took it.
"What is it with me and patients who have muscle problems, first Cuddy's nephew, now this women, please tell me she's not disabled is she?" House asked.
"Nope, she can walk, just muscle pain, rash and constantly ill!" Wilson said, as House's ducklings walked into the conference room. "Have fun!" he said and left him alone.
House picked up the file from his desk and walked into the conference room. The ducklings were throwing the nerf rocket to each other, and catching up on things that have happened the past week.
"So that's really it, I mean I had fun, well if you can call it fun, watching your sister getting drunk…" Chase was saying.
"Didn't know you had a sister Chase, is she as witty as you are?" House asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
"Even wittier, you know, you should meet her someday, she's a lawyer!" Chase said to House.
"As if I need one of those!" House replied as he walked up to the white board. "27 year old female, rash on the face, neck and upper chest and constantly ill also presenting with pain in her muscles in her legs and arms! Why me?" He asked himself as he wrote the symptoms on the board. "So fantastic three, what do we know that could cause these symptoms?" House asked the ducklings, sitting there.
"Muscular dystrophies can account for the muscle pain!" Chase said.
"Okay, but it doesn't explain the rash or the fact that she is always ill, it could be streptococcus and Lyme bacteria?" Foreman suggested. House looked at the two boys.
"Are you sure that you both didn't get your medical degrees from the internet?" House said to them. "Come on, other suggestions!" he said, looking at Cameron, she had been quiet all day, she knew this case already, and he was surprised that she hadn't made any suggestions. Cameron wasn't really in the mood for the case, she had met the patient and she was really sick and her heart went out for her. The tests she had done had already come back inconclusive, and this made Cameron even more confused as she really thought that she knew what it could be. She was looking at the table, staring at her coffee. She didn't want to drink it, she just had it there in her hands as it was then something to do!
"Could be a form of cancer causing the illness with the cancer being the real illness!" Foreman suggested.
"If it was that, then Wilson would have this case solved by now!" House replied to him.
"Okay, what about a pork tapeworm, I mean if we are just going to suggest what it could be and not do anything, then we may as well sit here all day!" Chase said to House.
"Okay Dr. Chase, if we want to be a big doctor, then go run the tests that we need for all the illnesses you think it could be! Put her on fluids and also I want a physical done on her, Foreman you can conduct that, also make sure that her brain function is okay! Right, that's it, let's try to make this person better!" he said and his ducklings walked out of the conference room.
CHAPTER FIFTY SIX
Cameron walked up to her office, she didn't want to see the patient, but she knew that she would have to get the patient history, House trusted no one else to do that apart from her. She sighed as she switched on her laptop and check her and House's mails. Her phone rang.
"Dr Cameron here." She said as she picked it up.
"34 year old female, loss the capability of using her voice this morning, however now it appears to be fine! Any ideas what could be wrong?" she heard House's voice on the other end of the phone.
"Nope, sorry, better get another doctor to help you with a consult!" she said as she tried not to laugh. House knew how to cheer her up, but now that they were going to get married and spent all their time together, he knew her, sometimes she thought better than she knows herself!
"Okay, then, I guess I could always ask Chase for a consult, oh wait a minute, he's busy with our new case, and so is Foreman! Wilson has clinic duty, the poor man!" he said.
"Well, that would be a good reason to get him out of there don't you think?" she said to him, he wasn't going to give up on this, and she knew it *please, for once let my pager go off!*she thought to herself. As luck had it, her pager did go off, she looked at the number and saw it was Cuddy.
"I'm sorry Dr. House, I just got a page from Dr. Cuddy!" she said, with a hint of relieve in her voice!
"Ignore it, you're busy! I'm still waiting on your diagnosis regarding our new patient, I hope that you will be willing to participate in our next meeting!" House said. "Allison, what's wrong?" he asked her, she was shocked to hear him call her by her first name, especially at work.
"Nothing, Gregg, I'm fine, I have to go and see Cuddy!" she said as she put the phone down.
Cameron went to Cuddy's office, once she got in there, she saw Michael and knew that Cuddy needed some help.
"Dr. Cuddy, what can I do for you?" she asked.
"Hi Alli, I haven't got school at the moment, it's vacation time!" Michael said to her.
"Dr. Cameron, please can you look after Mikey for me for the day and also for tonight, I have a lot of work to catch up on. If you do this, I'll do anything you want!" she said, she could see that Cuddy really needed help, and also sleep!
"Okay, Dr. Cuddy, I'll do it, if you let Dr. House off clinic duty for a week! Also I will look after him tomorrow, and then make sure that you get some sleep!" she said. Cuddy knew that she drove a hard bargain, but she wasn't going to complain.
"Okay, fine, tell Dr. House that he has a week off clinic duty! Mikey be good for Alli today, and she will take you back home and stay at our place for the night okay!" Cuddy told Michael.
"Okay!" Michael said, and they left Cuddy alone. They went into the conference room, and saw House playing on the DS.
"Mikey, sit here for a minute, I need to go speak to Uncle Gregg okay!" she said, Michael sat down at the table, Cameron got him a bottle of water and went into see House.
"You have a week off clinic duty, you have me to thank for that!" she said, without waiting for House to pause the game or to acknowledge that she was in the room.
"Umm, thank you?" he said to her, surprised. He looked into the conference room and saw Michael sitting there, drinking the bottle of water. "Looks like you have a trainee doctor for the day!" he said.
"And also for the night, I have to baby sit and I wont be able to come home tonight, just though I should let you know where I will be!" she said to him, this time House did look at her, that was something he didn't expect.
"So you are giving up a day and an evening just so I don't have to do clinic duty for a week! You should've held out for a month at least!" he said.
"Oh no, and also tomorrow morning, I have him for two days so that Cuddy can catch up on the paper work! So hand over your DS and also a new game, he's completed Mario and needs something to keep him quiet so that I can do my job!" she said as she held her hand out for the DS. House sighed, turned off the DS and gave her some of the games that he had stashed in his drawer. He handed them over, but held them back before he gave them to her.
"I want something in return!" he said to her. She tapped her foot on the floor.
"What, a week off clinic duty isn't enough!" she said to him.
"No, I want you! You know that!" he said. She walked up to him
"You have had me for a whole week to yourself, you're not satisfied enough?" she whispered in his ear.
"Oh no, I'm satisfied, that still doesn't stop me wanting you more though! We need to talk about something!" he said to her. She grabbed his video games from his hand and kissed him on the cheek.
"Well, I guess it will have to wait until later! I have a child to look after!" she said.
"And what about me, you just took my DS!" he said as she went to go to the conference room.
"Play your game boy advance, I'm sure you can live without pictochat for a few days!" she said and she went into the conference room.
"Here Mikey, Uncle Gregg says hi too! Let's go, we need to visit a new person today!" she said as she guided Michael out of the conference room and went to see their new patient.
Cameron walked into the room, just as Foreman had finished doing the physical.
"Hello Judi, it's Dr. Cameron again. I need to ask you some questions okay, so we can find out what is wrong with you!" she said as she guided Michael into her room.
"Hello!" Michael said as he looked up from his game.
"This is Michael, he was one of our patients, but we helped him walk again, I'm kinda baby sitting him for the day now!" she explained to Judi.
"So tell me about yourself and your family." Cameron said. She sat there and listened, taking the patient history at the same time and also asking more questions. Once she was finished, Cameron looked at what she had written.
"I need to take some more bloods, if that's okay! Mikey, can you sit outside for me while I do this, you don't like this part remember!" she asked her.
"You were always nice to me, you didn't hurt me as much as the other doctor!" he said as he went outside. Cameron took the bloods and went to get Michael. He was waiting outside just like she had told him to.
"Mikey, I need to go to the lab to do some tests, why don't you go find Uncle Gregg and play with him?" she said.
"But I'm hungry, let's go get something to eat!" he said, Cameron looked at her watch, it was lunch time.
"Okay, let me start these tests, and then we can go get something to eat, you have to stay outside of the lab, you can't come in okay!" He nodded. Cameron went into the lab, set up the tests and went into the conference room with Michael.
"Right, let me guess, you want pizza!" she said, he nodded and she rang up and ordered him a pizza and herself a salad. Once their order had come, they started eating. Cameron left Michael in the conference room and got her laptop and brought it back down. Once she had finished her salad and did some research in the internet, she remembered about the tests. Chase walked in and saw her working, and Michael playing House's DS.
"Chase, I need to ask a favour!" she said, looking desperately at him.
"What?" he asked, curiously.
"Can you look after Mikey for me, I need to go do some tests in the lab. I'll be back in a few hours!" she said, pleadingly.
"What do I get for it in return?" he asked her
"What is it with men and wanting something from me! Okay, I'll buy you lunch tomorrow, please, just do this for me!" she said, she was nearly begging. He nodded and she went to the lab to do the tests.
CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN
Cameron loved being in the lab, here she could be left alone to her own thoughts. The tests were still running, so she got out the ones that were already done and started to work on the results, to see if there was anything. She looked at the test results, she knew what was wrong, this was going to be the quickest case that they have solved! She ran back into the conference room, she saw Foreman and Chase with their heads in the books and Michael with the DS on, still playing.
"Mikey, don't you think you should be doing something more than playing? It's not good for your eyes!" she said. Michael looked up at her.
"I didn't bring any books with me!" he replied and he turned back to the game. She went into House's office and saw him watching TV.
"You know, you and Michael could be brothers, are you sure you two are not related?" she said with a smile on her face.
"Dr. Cameron the only time that you are sarcastic with me is that you know what's wrong with our patient!" he said, he switched off the TV and walked into the conference room.
"The blood tests, they reveals an abnormal high level of muscle enzymes, especially the CPK, SGOT, SGPT and LDH. She has muscle damage from the inflammation!" She explained to the team.
"Then that backs Chase's theory of Muscular dystrophies!" Foreman said.
"But that still doesn't explain the rash!" Cameron said.
"I want a biopsy done on the rash, and give her the meds she needs for the Muscular dystrophies just in case, and watch how she is overnight!" House said as he walked back into his office.
"That was easy, what's rocked his boat today!" Foreman said. He and Chase looked at Cameron.
"What, I'm just engaged to the man, do you think I know the workings of his mind?" she said as she sat down with them.
"Yes, plus you were very quiet this morning, what's going on!" Chase said.
"Nothing is wrong between the two of us! Oh my god, I can't believe I'm having this conversation with you both! Go do what House told you both to do!" They left and she walked into House's office.
"You said we needed to talk about something?" she asked. House stopped throwing his softball in the air and looked at her.
"You this morning, you were very quiet! I was just wondering what was wrong, I mean you and a new case, you're normally the first to suggest something!" he said to her. She came and sat down beside him.
"I have things on my mind!" she said, as she looked up at him.
"Then tell me and I will help you get through it!" he said to her as he put his hands on Cameron's. She looked up at him and smiled.
"It's the wedding that's on my mind, we haven't set a date yet, and I was beginning to think that you may be having second thoughts!" she said to him, He took her in his arms.
"No, I'm not having second thoughts, I just wanted to get you better first and settled in back at home before we could talk about it, I mean that's what I wanted to talk to you about, setting a date so we can start to prepare other things!" he said as he kissed her on the lips.
"Gregg, Cuddy is going to have our jobs if we are not careful!" she said as she kissed him back.
"She's busy! Just let me have a moment with you, to make things better!" he said as he continued kissing her.
"Dr. House, I do think that you are trying to seduce me!" she said as she stood up.
"Is it working?" he said. She smiled and winked at him.
"See you tomorrow Dr. House, hope you can sleep well without having me to protect you!" and she walked out of House's office, leaving him with his mouth open in shock.
CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT
Cameron came in to PPTH the next day with Michael in tow. It felt weird that she slept in a different apartment without House being there! She took Michael up to her office and switched on her laptop. She checked her e mails and there was an e mail from House sitting in her inbox. She smiled as she opened it.
"Missed you last night, wish you were there!
Left you something in your drawer in your desk!
Love Gregg"
She opened her drawer and saw a present she opened the box and saw the most beautiful necklace sitting in it. It was gold with a purple diamond hanging from it! She smiled as she put it on, and headed down to the conference room, taking Michael with her. The boys were already in there, still trying to solve what was wrong with their patient.
"I thought that we had already cured her?" Cameron asked, as she saw the three of them arguing! House looked up at her.
"No, Chase's theory was incorrect, she hasn't responded to the meds that he gave her, and the rash is connected with the muscle damage, so he was wrong!" House said. "So, we need other theories, what is causing these symptoms to the girl!" House said as he looked at his ducklings. His eyes lingered on Cameron's necklace. *that really looks good on her, I wonder what she looks like with just that on!* he thought to himself, he could hear the ducklings talking to him, but he wasn't hearing any of it.
"House, Dr. House wake up!" Cameron shouted to him.
"Huh? What's going on?" he said as he shook his head. Cameron went and got him a cup of coffee.
"Did you sleep last night House?" she asked him as she gave him the cup of coffee.
"No more than normal!" he said as he took two of his pills.
"You're lying!" she whispered to him. He sat down with the ducklings and looked at the white board.
"It's staring at us in the face, one condition that can appear to be several different conditions at once!" he said as he looked at the symptoms. He didn't like this, he knew that it was going to be something that they could figure out, maybe it was just a question of time, but he wasn't sure!
"Polymytositics!" Cameron whispered.
"I'm sorry Dr. Cameron, what did you just say?" House asked her.
"Polymytositics! That's what's wrong with her! This will explain the rash, the muscle pain as her muscles have weakened, if we don't treat it now, it can affect her lungs and also her heart! We need to run the urine tests again, to make sure that it hasn't affected her organs, an EMG to rule out any other muscle damaging diseases, a chest x ray to make sure her lungs are still okay, also a mammogram and a PAP smear to make sure that it isn't spreading!" she said to the team.
"We also need a muscle biopsy to confirm that!" Foreman added.
"Do it, do all of the tests! Dr. Cameron, isn't it time that you were wrong for once?" House said to her.
"Why you want to bet on a person's life? You seem to do that so often, but I won't do that, I don't want to take your money!" she said.
"No, it's just that you have either been studying or you're smarter than you let people on to think that you are!" House replied.
"There's more to me than just good looks Dr. House! Come on Mikey, we are going to make a person better again!" she said, as she and Michael walked out of the conference room. House turned to the other ducklings.
"Okay, which one of you two gave her the brainy pills!" he said. They looked at House confused.
"I knew that she was smarter than she looked, I thought that she had proved it enough times!" Chase said. "I'll start doing the tests!" he said as he walked out.
"I'll go get the muscle biopsy sorted out!" Foreman said as he left House in the conference room alone.
House sat there, he didn't know how to react, either Cameron was smarter than she let people to think, or she was going to take another speciality! House smiled, remembering the reason why he hired her! Well, the reason he told her anyway! She was smarter than she looked, House knew that it was a matter of time that he showed him how smart she really was! He loved that about her, not only was she sexy, but she was damm intelligent, hell, she could sometimes give House a run for his money! He walked into his office, still grinning to himself. He picked up his softball and threw it into the air. *Man does she make me happy!* he thought to himself. He waited, he knew that his ducklings were going to come back with the results when they were done.
The tests took up most of the following day, Cameron was starting to get tired, between looking after Michael and doing the tests to prove her theory correct, she didn't get much sleep, Michael was having nightmares! She was worried about him, and she kept reminding herself to talk to Cuddy about it. Chase came into the lab, she looked up.
"Chase, I need you to run the rest of the tests for me please! I have to go and speak to Cuddy about something!" she said as she walked out of the lab. She walked to Cuddy's office and knocked at the door.
"Dr. Cameron, how are you?" she asked her.
"I'm fine, listen I need to talk to you about Michael, he had some really bad nightmares last night, I was wondering, does it happen often?" she asked Cuddy.
"He has some really bad ones, but he seems to have no recollection the following morning!" she explained to her.
"He has gone through a lot, listen I'm here if you need me, that goes for both of you!" Cameron said as she walked away from Cuddy.
"Dr. Cameron, thank you for looking after Mikey for me the past day, I really appreciate your help!" she said.
"What are friends for!" Cameron said as she walked out.
Cameron went back to the conference room to see Michael.
"Mikey, do you remember anything about last night?" she asked him. He looked up from his book.
"No, what did I do?" he asked her. Cameron shined a light in his eyes, he appeared to be fine.
"Mikey, I know that you are not going to like this, but I want to take some blood from you!" she said to him.
"Does this mean I have to go back into hospital?" he asked her, she could tell that he was scared.
"No, I just want to test something out that's all!" she said as she got out the things that she needed from the meds cabinet in the conference room.
"Now, just count to ten, and once we are finished, we can go and get a chocolate bar, okay!" she said. He nodded as she took his blood. Just as she was finishing up, Chase came in.
"You were right! It is Polymytositics! We should start her on the treatment!" he said. He looked at House sitting in his office, grinning to himself. "What's he so happy about?" he asked Cameron. She looked in and saw what Chase was going on about.
"I have no idea! Listen, I need to ask another favour, run these bloods for everything regarding memory loss, I want to find out something!" she said.
"And what do I get in return?" Chase asked she rolled her eyes up!
"Damm you Chase, this is serious, I'll take you out for a drink if that's what you want!" she said as she handed him the blood samples. He walked out of the conference room, and gave her the test results. She walked into House's office, he stopped throwing his softball.
"So, were you right?" he asked her. She just nodded.
"Okay, then put her on high doses of corticosteroids to help her out. You better explain to her the condition she has and also that the treatment may last for years. If these don't work, then put her on immunosuppressive medication." He said.
"I think that we should put her straight on the immunosuppressive medication, it doesn't have such bad side affects as the other medication!" Cameron said.
"Fine, put her on Methotrexate and take her bloods to check her liver and bone marrow to make sure that they can handle it before giving her the medication! If she gets worse as time goes on, put her on IVIG" House said to her. He smiled at her. She didn't smile back. "What's the matter?" he asked her.
"It was a form of immunodeficiency and I couldn't have diagnosed her!" she said.
"You did, in the end! It just took time that was all!" House said as he walked up to her. "Diagnosing people is harder than it looks, the symptoms that she presented could have been many diseases, you just managed to narrow it down to one, and it was the right one!" he said as he put his arm around her. House guided her to the sofa and sat her down "It doesn't make you a bad doctor, this illness needed time to manifest itself, at least you managed to narrow it down to one, instead of ten different illnesses that it could have been. You of all doctors know how this illness works! You got there in the end, and that was all that matters!" he said as he looked into her eyes. She sighed and smiled.
"Thank you Dr. House, you're right, I did get there in the end!" she said as she stood up. House grabbed her wrist and pulled her back down onto the sofa. She looked at him, puzzled. "Gregg, I need to go to fix the patient!" she said as she tried to stand up again, he pulled her back down again.
"I'm hungry!" he said with a gleam in his eye.
"Then you know where the canteen is, take Michael with you, he hasn't had lunch either!" she told him, she smiled as she knew that wasn't what he meant! House moved in closer to her, she could feel the heat from his body and her heart started to race.
"Alli, you promised me a chocolate bar!" said a voice at the door. She turned and saw Michael looking at her. House moaned silently so that Cameron could hear it.
"Okay Mikey, then we have to go see a patient, just wait for me in there for a few minutes, get a bottle of water out of the fridge if you want one!" she said and watched him go back into the conference room. She turned back to House.
"Damm Cuddy, you should've held out for two months!" he said as he went back to his desk. Cameron came up behind him, and she pressed her lips hard against his. This made House blink with surprise. She held her lips there for a long time, until she felt House relax a bit.
"A taste of things to come, I need to thank you for the necklace!" she said and walked out of House's office, leaving him sitting there shocked.
CHAPTER FIFTY NINE
The rest of the week dragged on for House and his ducklings! Cuddy had convinced Cameron to look after Michael for the whole week, but not before Cameron had convinced Cuddy to give House a month off clinic duty! She agreed, so Cameron was stuck on baby sitting duty all week as well as working. This seemed to make House more unbearable than he already was, as he didn't see Cameron at all, as she was staying at Cuddy's apartment to look after Michael. Thank god their patient was better, and that they didn't have a case, so Wilson got venting of the anger and not his ducklings! Friday approached, Cameron came into work Michael with her. She went up to her office and turned on her laptop. Michael made himself comfortable on her sofa and. He was still having nightmares and his blood tests had come back normal, Cameron was worried about him. She looked up from her laptop and saw him sitting there reading to himself. She closed her laptop and walked up to Michael. She put on her pager and offered him her hand.
"Come on Mikey, I want to show you something!" she said. He put his book down and took her hand. She took him up to the roof.
"Wow!" he said as he looked over the edge at the hospital and the skyline. Cameron sat down on the bench that was up there Michael joined her after a few minutes.
"You miss your mum don't you?" she asked him.
"Why did she leave me with Auntie Lisa?" he asked her.
"She was sick remember, she couldn't take after you properly! It was nothing that you did, don't think that for a second! It wasn't your fault!" she said as she held him in her arms. "Listen I need to give you some medicine to stop you having the bad dreams that you are getting!"
"I'm having bad dreams?" he asked, surprised.
"Yes, you don't remember them the following morning, I think I know why. I need to speak to your auntie, she needs to help you meet a nice women that I know so that she can listen to you!" she said, he begun to cry. She picked him up and carried him back down, comforting him at the same time.
Cameron took Michael to the conference room and left him there with Chase and Foreman. Before they had a chance to object, she left Michael and walked out. She went to Cuddy's office and explained to her what had been happening the past week and also what she did. She handed Cuddy a bottle of medicine.
"This should put him in a dreamless sleep, it has no bad side affects, he only needs a 5ml spoonful every night before he sleeps. You should see that he will get better and also be brighter in the mornings and not look so tired! He blames himself for his mum leaving him with you, he needs to speak to someone!" Cuddy sat there.
"Thank you Dr. Cameron, this is the second time that you have helped Michael and myself since I've had him! You really are a brilliant doctor, you know how to reach your patients. I cant thank you enough!" she said to Cameron.
"I was just doing my job!" she said and walked out of Cuddy's office.
She went back into the conference room and saw the boys playing catch with the nerf rocket. She sat down and took part.
"Dr. Cameron!" she heard House's voice shout. She jumped, that was something she didn't expect. She went through her memory, trying to thin about things she hadn't told House this week, three things popped to mind, she sighed! The boys looked at her.
"Looks like someone is in trouble with the boss man!" Chase said "So are we still on for a drink tonight?" he asked her. She shot an evil look his way.
"Don't push it Chase, otherwise I'll send you in there! House sounds hungry and I'm sure he doesn't mind who he eats at the moment!" she said as she stood up and walked into his office. "Maybe you should shout a bit louder Dr. House, I don't think that they heard you in the clinic!" she said as she sat on his sofa. "What did I do?" she asked her.
"I don't know, I haven't seen you all week, so you tell me what you did!" he said as he threw his softball to her. She took a deep breathe in.
"Okay, let me guess! I forgot to tell you that you have a month off clinic duty, also I re opened a case without your permission, however I have forwarded it on, so that's no longer our case and also I've asked Michael to be the ring bearer for our wedding! I think that kinda covers it!" she said to him as she threw his softball back at him.
"My, we have been a busy beaver this week haven't we!" he said to her "I just wanted to see you and also to ask you to download SWE3 onto my laptop for me please!" he said as he pushed a chair to his computer. She stood up and got to work on that.
"Anything else I can do for you Dr. House?" she said as the download was working. He smiled and moved his chair to hers.
"Well, there is one more thing!" he said as he put his hands under her lab coat.
"Sorry, access denied! You have to wait until later, oh and I'll be home late, I'm going out with Chase for a drink because he did some favours for me, so I owe him!" she said as she walked out of his door.
Five pm approached. Cameron gave Michael back to Cuddy, she didn't want to leave him, and he didn't want to go, but she knew that he was in very good hands. She went up to her office and got changed quickly, hung up her lab coat and went to the conference room to get Chase. They went to the bar where Cameron had one of her first fainting spells. They ordered their drinks and sat down.
"I feel sorry for Michael, I mean the nightmares were not doing him any good! I hope that Cuddy got everything sorted out for him!" she said as their drinks arrived.
"I'm sorry, you have to fill in the gaps here for me!" Chase said and Cameron started to explain to him her week looking after him.
"Poor kid, but you did the right thing, you know that!" he said as he reached out and placed his hand on Cameron's. Cameron's heart skipped a beat, she ignored it and pulled her hand away from Chase's.
"No, Robert please stop pursuing these feelings that you have for me!" she said to him, he took a deep breathe and nodded.
"Allison, I know that you have feelings for House and no matter what I do I can never change that, but what you have to realise is that I have feelings for you and no matter what you do, you cant changed them!" he said to her as he looked into her eyes. Cameron kissed him on the cheek, he wanted more and she knew it, but she couldn't give it to him, and he knew that!
"I'm so sorry Robert, sometimes I think about what if things were different, but to be honest, I'm really happy, please be happy for me!" she said to him. Chase took her in his arms.
"I am happy for you, I just wish that there was someone who I could be happy with, as you are already taken!" he said as he let her go.
"You'll find someone Robert, I'm sure of it, I mean someone like you will not stay single for long!" she said to him. "Now, tell me about your sister!"
CHAPTER SIXTY
Cameron got back to House's apartment around nine. She was happy to finally be back somewhere she recognised. She opened the door and went into the kitchen to get a glass of water.
"What, no hi honey, I'm home!" Cameron laughed, nearly spitting out the water that she had in her mouth. She turned around and saw House standing in the doorway, she smiled.
"I'm sorry, I thought that there was no one home!" she said, she knew he was there, as she could hear the TV before she opened the door. She put her glass on the side and walked up to House, she put her arms around his waist.
"So did SWE3 give you what you wanted?" she asked him as she looked up at him.
"Well, you know that actress who plays Padame, she's really hot!" he said as he undid her leather jacket. She pulled away, and gave House a pretend 'you hurt me' feeling. "Oh well, I guess you don't need me!" she said as she flinged her hair playfully in House's face and walked past him, taking off her jacket and showing House a very revealing top that she had on. House's mouth nearly fell to the ground *god she looks so hot, and so tempting!* he thought to himself. She sat down on the sofa and began to watch TV. House swallowed one of his pills *I'm sure I can think of something to help me take the pain away from my leg!* he thought as he went over and joined Cameron on the sofa.
"I'm sorry, can I help you?" she asked House as she turned the TV off. House raised his eye brow up at her, she smiled. "Well…" she said, waiting for a reply. House put his arms around her waist and pulled her towards him.
"I hope that Chase didn't see you in that top, I would start asking myself how did he keep his hands off you!" House said as he began to kiss Cameron's neck. She closed her eyes and relaxed.
"I've missed that!" she said as House stopped. "Is that it?" she asked him.
"So tell me what it was like in Cuddy's apartment, I want to know everything!" he asked her. She hit him playfully on the arm.
"I'm sorry, that information is NOT for sale!" she said and she stood up and stretched. "Well, I'm tired, looking after a 10 year old boy isn't what I call easy, and then to come back here to a bigger kid!" she said as she looked at House. He pretended to hurt. She smiled at him and went into the bedroom she was shortly followed by House.
Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. Cameron and House had finally set a date for the big day and were starting to get things moving. Cameron was surprised that House really got into doing this, it was in fact starting to bore her! Cameron was doing clinic duty *now I know why House hates this so much!* she said as another whining patient walked out of the exam room. She went up to the nurse's desk and put the file that she had just finished with on the 'out' pile. She put her hands to her temples and started to massage them. She closed her eyes and she felt a pair of male hands replace hers on her temples as they continued the massage.
"Stressful day Allison?" the voice whispered in her ear. "How about I take you out for lunch?" he said.
"Dr. Chase, are you trying to tempt me to go out to lunch with you!" she said with her eyes still closed.
"I'm buying, if that makes it anymore tempting?" he said to her as she relaxed some more.
"Okay, that does make it sound more tempting!" she said "Dr. Chase are you sure that you went into the right branch of medicine?" she asked him, he was really good at this!
"No, I'm just really good with my hands!" he whispered into her ear. She laughed. "Now, shall I make lunch plans?" he asked her.
"Sure, sounds great!" she said, she didn't want Chase to stop, she didn't realise how stressed she was from everything that had happened in the past few months! He stopped and she opened her eyes.
"I'll come and get you in just over an hour, I'll page you okay! Here, have this! I hope that will tie you down until then, I don't know if you had breakfast this morning, also it will stop you snapping at your patients! Have fun!" he said and walked off.
Cameron watched Chase walk away. She looked at the energy bar and opened it. She began to eat it and started to think about Chase, he always knew what she wanted, what she needed. She shook her head *no Allison, snap back to reality! He's doing this on purpose! He wants to confuse you, well it's working!* she thought to herself. She directed her thoughts back to House, he was properly sitting alone in his office, playing a game as always! She then had a brilliant thought! She put down the file that she had in her hand and walked to House's office. She knew that Cuddy was out all day in meetings, Foreman and Chase were also in their own offices as they both had paperwork to finish. She walked up to House's office, and saw him playing his DS. She walked into his office and began to shut the blinds around the windows and doors so that no one could look in.
"Dr. Cameron, are we avoiding clinic duty? That's unlike you!" House said as he looked up from his game. She smiled and continued closing the blinds. She took off her lab coat and also her jacket to reveal a low cut shirt that she was wearing underneath them. She hung them up and sat on House's sofa.
"Well, I guess I could go back to curing the sick!" she said as she looked at him. House looked at her, more interested this time!
"Dr. Cameron, are you trying to seduce me?" he asked her as he sat down beside her on the sofa.
"Why, is it working?" she said as she began to undo his shirt. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. He wrapped one of his arms around her head and held her there, with his other arm he put it around her waist and moved her closer to him. Cameron let out a slight moan as he did this, she knew it was House that she wanted, not Chase. She heard a beeping sound in the background, she knew it wasn't her pager, it was House's. She reached into his pocket and got out the pager. She opened one eye and looked at it.
"Ignore it!" he said as he tried to take it away from her. It was the ER extension number, followed by Foreman's number. She pulled away.
"Damm it, why now!" she said as her pager went off. She went to her lab coat and got it out, it had exactly the same message on it as House's pager did. Cameron went to the phone and called down.
"This is Dr. Cameron can I speak to Dr. Foreman please!" she said as a nurse picked up.
"Dr. Cameron, you and Dr. House need to get down here right away!" Foreman said as he got to the phone.
"What is going on? I have clinic duty and Dr. House is busy at the moment!" she said as she turned and saw House doing up his shirt.
"I don't care, we need you down here now, we have another epidemic on our hands!" Foreman said, Cameron just put the phone down, and turned to face House.
"What's wrong, ER out of bandages?" House said as he put his arms around her waist.
"There's another epidemic! We need to get down there now!" she said as she grabbed her lab coat, not bothering about her jacket. House followed her into the lift.
"You know, people are going to stare at you in that top!" he said as he checked her out.
"Well, that would take their mind off the epidemic then, wouldn't it?" she replied, blushing.
"What epidemic?" House asked as he pulled him into her with his arm. She smiled, the lift door opened and she pushed herself away from him.
"Until later!" she said as they headed down to the ER area.
