A/N: Sooo sorry this took so long. I've been busy… I hope you enjoy this chapter! Thank you for all your great reviews!

Disclaimer: see chapter one

House waited outside of Mike's room patiently, just as he'd promised Cuddy. He didn't know why she hadn't wanted to see her father, or why she had changed her mind and actually took the plunge into Mike's room, but if she didn't want to talk about it he would leave it alone. He could only hope that maybe one day she would confide in him enough to tell him. But for now he would support her in any way he could, even if it meant all he could do was stand outside a hospital room and wait for her to come out. He was curious as to what that would be like. Would she come out smiling and carefree, or would she come out in tears. He had no idea, although he much rather preferred the former. He didn't know what he would do if he saw her crying. He'd probably march into that room and punch her father right in the face, sick or not.

As House waited he spotted Wilson making his way over. "Hey." said Wilson. "What are you doing?" he asked upon seeing House propped up against the wall next to Mike's room.

"What are you doing?" House asked, avoiding the question with another question.

Wilson looked around uneasily. "I thought I'd run some tests on Cuddy's father to confirm if he has…" he didn't want to say it out loud. He'd dealt with numerous cancer patients over the years, but when it affected someone he knew, or in this case someone one of his friends knew it was always a difficult thing for him. "Or doesn't have…" he added hopefully.

House nodded. It had to be done. But when Wilson reached for the door handle to Mike's room House stopped him by grabbing his wrist, causing Wilson to look up at House's stern face. "Later." House told him. Wilson understood and released the door handle as House released his wrist.

"Page me when she's done." Wilson wanted to stay and support Cuddy when she emerged from Mike's room, but the protective look in House's eyes told him that was House's job and no one else's. "And House," Wilson addressed House in a serious tone of voice, "Don't do anything stupid." House's expression was clueless. "You can deny it to me, to Cuddy, to yourself even, but you do like Cuddy." House's face remained emotionless. "I know you do." he stated clearly, "What I don't understand is why she feels the same way about you." A look of disbelief flashed momentarily across House's face. "She needs you. Especially right now. So don't screw this up." He didn't wait for House to respond. He merely turned and retreated back down the hallway he had come from, leaving a highly confused House in his wake, speculating the whole way the events that were taking place in that room.

The breath rushed out of her lungs from the first moment her eyes made contact with her father. It was almost like a slap to the face. To see her father lying weakly in a hospital bed. The once powerful man, now completely vulnerable and contingent on machines to keep him alive. After all these years this is what it all came down to.

"Lisa." Mike looked surprised to see his daughter.

Cuddy didn't know what to say. It had been so long since she called him dad that it seemed foreign to her. So she decided to skip with the formalities. "I can't stay long." she lied. "I have a lot of work to do." she watched as he nodded weakly and continued, "I just…I needed to know…" Now that she was actually here she didn't know what to say. It was so different in reality than how she had always imagined the confrontation between herself and her father would be. "What happened? Between us." she asked quietly. Mike took a labored breath and extended his arm to pat the empty seat next to his bed. She accepted his invitation and sat down next to him, anxiously awaiting his next words.

A/N: I don't like making these chapters so short but I decided to post this as it is instead of making you wait any longer. School is starting and I won't have much time to write, but I'll try my best to update as soon as possible. Leave me a review! And I don't know if I mentioned this before, but anonymous reviews have been enabled as well! Just tell me what you think!