Chapter Ten

The next day, Cameron was checking on the team's current patient with Chase. As they were checking the patients vitals, Chase asked,

"So who's this guy that you were out with the other night?"

"I believe that is none of your business."

"I just want to look out for you."

"You really don't have to." Cameron said, not looking at him.

"Come on Cameron. Someone has to look after you and make sure you aren't rushing into things with this guy. It may as well be me." Her head snapped to look at him, anger flashing in her eyes.

"You think that someone has to be you? How do you figure that you are worthy of that job? I think that I can take care of myself, thank you. I'm a big girl, Chase. And anyway, all I did was have drinks with Brian and play pool. Nothing else. I just met him for gods sake. I think that it's about time that I have some fun without getting harassed."

With that, she quickly left the room leaving Chase watching her go.

--

House was sitting at his desk when Cameron came into the conference room in a huff. He watched her go to the coffee maker only to find it empty.

"ARG!! Why is this always empty!"

"What's your problem?" House asked, approaching her.

"My problem is that no one else around here bothers to make coffee. Or leave some for anyone else."

"What crawled up you're a and died?"

"Don't start with me House."

"Seriously, what's wrong?"

"Chase just got on my case about the guy I met the other night. He thinks that he can give me advice."

"Hey, he wants to get in your pants."

"House"

"It's the truth. He probable doesn't like it that you didn't give him a chance."

"I know." She started making more coffee and then sat down at the table to wait for it to brew. House sat down next to her and they sat in silence. Cameron was deep in thought and House had an urge to help her out of her mad mood. He chalked it up to the influence of Samantha in his life.

"So want to have a thumb war?" House asked Cameron. She turned to him with a look of surprise, confusion and amusement on her face.

"What?"

"You heard me. Want to have a thumb war? It can get your mind off things."

"Sure why not." With that, they grabbed hands and starting saying,

"One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war." They started and Cameron won the first round. She smiled and House said,

"Best two out of three." They kept playing, forgetting about the coffee and not noticing that Foreman and Chase had walked into the room. They stood watching them. Cameron cheered after winning another round.

"oh yeah! I rock!"

"I let you win."

"Yeah, sure old man. I got skills and you know it!" Cameron said, laughing.

"Hey it worked. Your bad mood is gone."

"It is. Thanks."

They saw Foreman and Chase watching them and laughed.

"What?" Cameron asked.

"Nothing. Just didn't expect to see you playing thumb wrestling with House." Foreman said.

"We were bored. Decided to pass the time." Cameron said dismissingly. Harrington walked in then and addressed them all.

"So how is the current patient doing?"

"Good. We took her vitals and she's doing a lot better. I think that she'll be able to go home in the next few days." Chase answered.

"Good."

"How is that one patient you and Wilson have? He doing any better?" Cameron asked.

"We switched treatments and hope to see results soon."

"That's good to hear."

"Okay gang, we have a knew file for a patient and I was hoping we could go over it before leaving for the night. So please take a seat and we can get on with this." Harrington said. Everyone one took seats and Harrington passed around the file for all to read. They all got to their work and were quickly absorbed in the symptoms of the patient.

After a couple hours, they decided that they discussed it all they could for the night and that it was time to go home.

"I'll tell Cuddy to have him transferred here." Harrington said.

"Sounds good." House responded. Foreman and Chase started to get their things together and Cameron took off her glasses and stretched in her chair. She brought her hands down when her cell started to ring. She riffled through her bag and finally found it and bringing it out.

"Hello? Oh hi! Yeah I'm fine. Thank you. How did you get my number? Oh really. I see. Hmmm…that sounds nice. Uh huh. Yeah, sure. I'll see you at 7:30. Bye Brian."

The others watched Cameron talking and watched her face light up. She had a huge grin on her face when she hung up.

"Was that him?" Harrington asked her with a smile.

"Yes it was. He wants to take me to dinner tonight."

"Nice! Have fun."

"Thank you."

Chase just gave her a look and turned and walked out the door. Foreman said goodnight to everyone else and told Cameron to have fun before leaving. House just sat looking at Cameron. He broke out of his thoughts when Harrington called his name.

"Greg."

"Hmmm?"

"You there? I asked if you were ready to leave."

"Oh yeah, sure." He got up and then turned to Cameron.

"Have fun tonight. Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

"And we all know that isn't much." Harrington said.

"I agree." Cameron said.

"Great I'm being ganged up on here."

"Oh you know you like it." Harrington said and Cameron laughed.

"That's besides the point. I was just trying to be nice. I knew I shouldn't have tried that. Never works for me."

The two women laughed and Cameron said,

"Ah, it's okay House. At least you weren't acting like Chase. Don't worry, I'll have fun tonight but not too much. I have to be here to make the coffee remember? I really don't want to be fired." She smiled at House.

"That's my girl."

Harrington just laughed at them and grabbed her stuff and House's.

"Well, I'm hungry and I'm sure that Cameron would like to leave so that she can get ready for her date. Let's go Greg."

"Fine. You're paying for dinner."

"Don't I always?" Harrington laughed as they walked out the door after waving good bye to Cameron.

Cameron laughed to herself as she watched them go. She then grabbed her own things and left, looking forward to seeing Brian later that night.

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Cameron approached her car and saw Chase standing by it. Dmmit. What does he want now?

"Chase…"

"Cameron, just listen. I'm sorry for earlier today. I just care for you and was upset that you don't share my feelings. I won't bother you anymore about this guy. Can we still be friends?"

Cameron sighed and said, "Sure. I'm sorry too."

"Well, I better let you go. I'll see you Monday."

"Thanks Chase. See you Monday."

She got in her car and started it, giving Chase a good bye wave before pulling away.