Monster trucks and Motor bikes
Disclaimer: Pfft yeah I own House M.D…Oh Hell No!
A/N: Oh my god, I am sooooooo sorry -gets ready to duck flying objects-. I actually forgot that this still had a chapter to go -duck-. For some reason I just always had it in my mind that it was finished, until someone mentioned it to me…Well I don't even think the original readers of this story still even like House anymore lol, but I would like to thank every single person who has read, reviewed, and supported me through this story and I really hope you enjoy the end : )
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Cameron gazed out upon the sea of gob-smacked people and gasped, her feet and brain failing to work together to get her down the stairs.
Being the object of attention like this had always made her feel as if she were naked, exposed to everyone, and vulnerable to what they may throw at her…Obviously she had not been thinking clearly when she had choose the dress she was wearing, she really hadn't given it too much thought.
'Shit! Good going Allison!' She cursed to herself.
Sensing her obvious unease, Doctor Carter whispered to her, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah." Cameron smiled hesitantly as she slowly brought one foot in front of the other…Willing the strength to fill her unstable body as she made her way down the stairs.
She scanned the crowds of slightly familiar faces as they stopped their various games of poker and blackjack to watch her arrival. Her gaze fell to the bar to where she saw Foremen, Chase and Wilson also watching her. She followed the bar until she saw two bright blue eyes watching her intensely…She gulped and continued on her path as Carter slipped his arm into hers. She saw jealously quickly flash through House's crystal blues as he did this.
She watched his face tense and she grew giddy that she wasn't the only one affected by the other person. She saw him grumble some snide comment before turning back to the bar, and Cameron quickly pulled her arm from Carter's.
"Oh, our table is this way Allison." Carter told her, trying to regain her arm once they were finally at the bottom.
Cameron gave him a smile but pulled her arm away slightly so he couldn't take it. "I'll catch up soon…I just wanted to say hi to some people."
Carter didn't seem to like this idea but he let her go anyway. "Okay…The cardiology table is next to oncology."
Cameron watched as he walked off in the opposite direction, before she made her way over to where Foremen, Chase and Wilson seemed to be in deep conversation. They suddenly stopped however, once she cleared her throat to announce her presence.
"What's going on guys?" She asked them suspiciously.
"W…What? Nothing's going on!" Wilson stammered quickly.
"Yeah just talking medical jargon." Foremen added before looking to Chase who was watching their female colleague gob smacked. "Close your mouth Chase."
Cameron quirked a brow at Chase as he snapped his mouth shut before turning back to a very anxious looking Wilson who was looking from her back to House as if he was watching a tennis match.
"What are you three up to Foremen?" She asked bringing her hands to her hips, awaiting a response.
"I already told you…Nothing!" The neurologist rolled his dark orbs "So…I see you came with Carter."
"Yeah I needed a ride while my car is getting fixed." Cameron shrugged "And since you all had dates…" She trailed off, realizing that these 'dates' were nowhere in sight "By the way, where are your dates?"
The two male ducklings quickly both turned to Wilson as he gulped "Um…We were stood up."
Cameron quirked a perfectly sculpted brow "What, all of you?"
Foremen tried not to smile. "Yep."
Cameron was growing increasingly confused "Are you serious?"
"As a heart attack." Chase quipped in his Australian accent "Ask your little cardiology buddy how serious that is if you don't believe us."
Cameron continued to watch the three men suspiciously, before Wilson spoke up "So you barely know Carter…Why wouldn't you ask House for a ride instead?"
"Are we talking about the same House?" Cameron laughed. "No Carter asked me actually because he didn't want to be the only one in cardiology to arrive alone as he is the only one who isn't married."
"Excuse me." Wilson told the three ducklings as he rose from his seat and made his way towards House.
"Later Wildog!" Chase called back in the coolest voice he could muster.
Foremen let out a loud groan of frustration. "Chase if you try and sound cool one more time, I'm going to jam you into a freaking kangaroo's pouch and bounce you back to Australia!"
Foremen rolled his eyes, Chase pouted slightly, and Cameron couldn't help but laugh at her coworkers' little fight.
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Wilson sighed ruefully as he slumped down onto a bar stool next to his miserable friend. "You know she only came with him because she needed a ride."
House barley acknowledged the oncologist, instead taking another long drink. "Nice try Jimmy, but she could have come Dumb or Dumber, or you…She wanted to come with Carter."
Wilson sighed. He couldn't really just say to House, 'Well actually she had to come with him because Cuddy, Foremen, Chase and I are running bets on weather Cameron and yourself are together or not…So we all said we had dates so she had to ask you, you egotistical miserable bastard'. "Cameron is a good person House…Carter told her that he didn't want to turn up alone since he wasn't married…"
"Pfft." House injected. "Carter is so married."
Wilson quirked a brow in the diagnostician's direction. "Do you know that for a fact?"
"Well if that hideous tie that so wasn't bought by a man wasn't a dead give away, then the evident tan line around his ring finger should be." House pointed out. "Also you can see a circle in his front pocket…Either it's his wedding ring, or he is planning on getting some tonight and he has the smallest sexual gargoyle on record."
Wilson scrunched up his nose in disgust. "Wow…You're really obsessed with this guy."
House disregarded Wilson's comment, before, "I swear on Steve McQueen's life that Carter is married…And you know how much I love that little guy."
House put his hand to his heart for emphasis, and Wilson looked down sadly. "What?" House asked gruffly."
"Nothing you would care about." Wilson rolled his eyes. "Julie and I are getting a divorce."
House opened his mouth to reply, when Cuddy joined the two. "Whoa, Cuddy that dress just screams 'looking for a home, inquire within'."
Cuddy merely rolled her eyes in disgust before turning to Wilson. "Hi."
"H…Hi." The oncologist stammered, taking in her appearance. "N…Nice dress."
"Thanks." Cuddy blushed slightly.
Wilson knew that House was about to say him so he beat him to it. "How about he get Cameron, Foremen and Chase, and we'll all play a little game?"
"Okay." Cuddy agreed, knowing it probably had something to do with the plan.
House shrugged his shoulders and got to his feet. "Sure, whatever." He sighed and both Wilson and Cuddy gasped in shock that he actually was willingly agreeing to play.
"Great." Wilson gleamed as he lead House and Cuddy towards an empty table and gesturing for Cameron, Foremen, and Chase to join them. "Over here guys."
The three ducklings merely shrugged their shoulders and took their seats at the table.
"Okay." Wilson started as he joined the group at the table. "The game is called 'I've never'. We go around the table and say something we've never done, and anyone who has done that thing, has to take a shot of Tequila…Last person to the bathroom wins."
He paused and looked around the table of nodding participants, before looking to House's mischievous smirk and rolling his eyes. "Whatever you want to say…Don't!"
"Oh but it's too easy." House pouted.
"Shut it!" Cuddy scolded before letting a smile grace her features "Chase, why don't you start?"
The Australian thought carefully for a moment, before, "Okay then…I've never done drugs."
House, Wilson, Cameron, and Cuddy and quirked a brow in disbelief, before Foremen laughed, "Not so cool anymore are you?"
Cuddy and Wilson both swallowed their shots first, mumbling 'college', and House merely pointed to his leg before drinking his. Nobody even bothered to look surprised when Foremen swallowed his, but Wilson and Cuddy both gasped when Cameron hesitantly drowned her shot-glass.
She looked up to House's smirking face and quickly looked down as she felt Chase blush next to her. "Oh my turn? Um…Okay, I've never been stood up on a date."
Wilson, Foremen, and Chase all cut their eyes in mock-anger at Cameron and she giggled as the three of them drowned their glasses simultaneously.
"Oh, that was mean." Foremen teased "I'll get you back for that."
House also sighed ruefully and quickly drank his before smirking in Cuddy's direction. "As pathetic as this game is…You're still not allowed to lie."
Cuddy rolled her eyes before turning back to the group proudly "I know it may be had for some of you to digest" she paused to throw a look to House "But I'm like Cameron, I've never been stood up…Your turn Foremen."
"Okay." The neurologist said smugly, looking straight at Cameron, and she gulped. "I've never had a crush on my boss."
Cameron blushed and swallowed her shot before her eyes met House's. The moment was quickly broken however, when Foremen looked in the Australian's direction "Drink up Chase!"
"Shut up!" Chase tossed back, and even House had to laugh.
Wilson looked down to his drink for a moment, before taking a shaky breath and swallowing it. When Cuddy noticed this, he sent her a small, knowing smile and she let out a soft gasp before smiling back. The three ducklings were to busy to notice this, but House exclaimed in their direction "What the hell was that?"
Foremen's, Cameron's, and Chase's heads all popped up and Cuddy blushed before Wilson quickly detracted the attention by throwing a smirk back House's way. "I've never had feelings for one of my employees."
Since Foremen's, Chase's, and especially Cameron's eyes were all on House, nobody even noticed Cuddy take a shot. Except for Wilson however who smiled in her direction as she blushed before turning back to House.
The diagnostician rolled his crystal blues and grumbled and he drowned his shot, and Cameron let a tiny smile grace her lips.
"Hey, who says I'm talking about you?" A smirk danced across House's lips as he looked to an oblivious looking Chase.
Everyone started to laugh, but Chase failed to catch on "Huh?"
Their laughter was interrupted when Doctor Carter cleared his throat from behind Cameron. "Hey guys…Mind if I join in?"
Everybody (Cameron included), but especially House, had looks on their faces that clearly read 'No!', but Cuddy, not wanting to start any disputes within her hospital smiled "Sure Carter…You know how to play?"
"Yeah, I used to play this in college" he explained as he squeezed into the table next to Cameron, and House had wanted to use his cane in a very unpleasant way on the cardiologist "So…Can I go next then?"
"Um…Sure." Cuddy smiled hesitantly.
"I've never…" He trailed off to view his ring finger "I've never been married."
House had really wanted to kill him. Not just because he knew that Doctor Lucas Carter was, in fact married, but for another, much more important reason…And she was sitting opposite him, her head dropping lower with every second that passed.
Cuddy, Foremen, and Chase all had satisfied smiles on their faces that they didn't have to drink, but Wilson drowned his glass, before sighing ruefully and repeating it twice.
Nobody even bothered to notice House swallow his glass but all eyes seemed to be on Cameron.
"Sorry I have to go." She mumbled softly before leaving the table quickly.
Apart from House and Wilson, everyone looked genuinely confused. The oncologist sighed and gave House a 'go after her' smile. House grumbled and got to his feet before he started to follow Cameron, his cane 'accidentally' hitting Carter on his way.
"So I guess she losses then?" Chase asked in confusion.
Foremen rolled his eyes at his colleague before cutting a glare to Carter "What the hell was that about?"
Carter slowly got to his feet "I'm sorry…I didn't mean to upset her…"
"Just go please." Wilson said with a hint of anger in his voice as he watched the cardiologist walk away. He then took two walkie-talkies out of his suit pocket and put one on the table in front of Foremen and Chase before taking Cuddy lightly by the arm. "Come on."
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It didn't take House long to find her.
He knew where she would be, and he was right.
He hobbled out of the fire escape, and onto the roof. He scanned the area for a few moments before he saw her. She was standing with her back towards him, gazing over Princeton, as if she was some religious figure about to free her disciples.
A shiver went all the way down Cameron's spine as she felt him walking…or limping rather closer towards her back. House rested his hand on her shoulder, and she fought every instinct not to lean back into it, to seek the comfort it could provide. She refused to turn around. Despite what she had said before, she couldn't face him now. Her strength had left her. She tried to tense her muscles, and when this didn't work, she quickly turned to face him.
"Please leave me alone House." She whispered, her voice wavering as she nearly cringed against the railing.
"Do you really want me to do that Cameron?" He sighed, shaking his head lightly. "I cant believe that you would let a little comment like that get to you…Well I guess I can, considering it's you." Her eyes shaded over with a mixture of embarrassment, tinting her cheeks a bashful rosy hue, and with a twinge of fury at his audacious and disrespectful words.The fear began to vanish as she found he was attempting to play with her mind and infuriate her like he usually did, which seemed to be working. "It happened years ago Cameron. You really need to let it go…Let him go."
"How dare you!" She muttered, her brow set and eyes reeling. "You know absolutely nothing about what happened!" Cameron crossed her arms against her chest and felt an oncoming burst of rage tear throughout her system. "This is a new low, House…Even for you."
"Careful what you say, Cameron. You wouldn't want your 'little innocent girl' image to be ruined, but I actually think that went out the door when you agreed to come to this little shindig with a married man…But I guess you'd like that, bring back memories?" He leaned closer towards her again, seeing the flush return to her cheeks as he smiled devilishly. Before she could react and prevent him, he dove in for a short, yet hot and frenzied kiss, tempting her lips and tongue, teasing her senses.
She broke out after a suspended moment, pulling away and promptly slapping him across the face in a huff of indignation. Cameron didn't move away, her legs wouldn't allow her but simply watched him slowly move his head back after the strike and return to watching her. "Ouch! Damn it Cameron! How many times do I need to tell you not to beat up cripples?"
Again he lowered his mouth onto her's, this time she responded, returning the fevered kiss and dancing her tongue with his, their lips parted and passion overwhelming their bodies.
Cameron's mind getting the better of her, she broke away, panting for breath and watching his pleased reaction as she resumed her modest posture and expression "You're Drunk." She exclaimed sadly, before turning on her heals rather quickly and heading back down the fire escape and into the hospital, leaving a totally drunk and bewildered Greg House in her wake.
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Wilson checked to make sure that the coast was clear, before he gestured for Cuddy to follow him into the dark file room.
"I cant believe you're actually letting us go through Carter's file." He smiled "You know you're a lot cooler that House gives you credit for Cuddy."
"Really, you had me when you said that this could improve House's mood." Cuddy let out a small laugh. "It's not even that illegal what we are doing…It's only to see if Carter is married or not."
Wilson quirked a brow as Cuddy flicked on the light "Okay, where's Cuddy and when is she coming back?"
"You probably hear a lot of things about me from House." A smirk danced across the Dean of Medicine's lips "They're not all true."
A smile played at Wilson's lips as he watched Cuddy open the filing cabinet that read 'Staff'. "Y…You know this has been kind of fun" the oncologist stammered. "With House and Cameron, if they ever go on another date, I'm sure they'll need supervision…Maybe, we could do this again…Without Foremen and Chase next time."
Cuddy suddenly turned from the files and she shared Wilson's smile "Yeah…I'd like that."
"Good." Wilson looked away, feeling rather embarrassed.
Cuddy blushed and turned back to Carter's file. "Wow." She smiled "House was right."
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Foremen and Chase had remained at the table after Cameron had ran off and House had followed her.
They had watched her return to the party moments later looking as if she had wanted to cry, and had immediately made her way over to the cardiology table to slip into a seat next to Carter.
They had watched House also return a little after her, finding his original seat at the bar, stealing secret glances, and grumbling under his breath as he watched Cameron laugh with Carter.
And even they were turned off by this, by the confirmation that they had just received from Wilson confirming that Carter was, in fact, married.
"Hi there Doctor Chase." Foremen suddenly snapped his eyes to the Australian who was currently becoming the object of affection, from a clearly intoxicated Doctor Ridley from Radiology.
A pinkish tinge crept upon Chase's cheeks as he watched the attractive doctor flick her blond locks in a flirtatious way. "Oh, Doctor Ridley…Hey."
"Oh call me Amanda." She smiled as she lightly held onto his muscle. "I've have always loved your accent Robert." She whispered. "It's very sexy…What is that? British?"
"Y…Yeah." Chase stammered, as the women blew him a tiny kiss before turning and leaving.
Once Doctor Ridley had left, Foremen rolled his almond orbs in his colleague's direction. "You hate it when people call you British."
"Yeah, but Dude," Chase pointed out to the neurologist "She was hot."
Foremen opened his mouth to respond, when Cameron appeared to be coming their way. "Hey Cam? Can we talk?"
Cameron quirked a brow. "What's up?"
"You have to know that I'm only telling you this because I care about you." Foremen sighed ruefully. "But Carter is married."
"He is not!" The immunologist said in a huff of indignation "Foremen, why would he even lie about something like that?"
Foremen looked to his friend in sympathy. "I'm sorry, but it was in his file."
Cameron made no verbal response instead, excusing herself before heading towards the door.
The two males then watched House follow and Foremen took out the walkie-talkie that Wilson had given him.
"Beauty has left the building." He spoke into the electronic device. "And The Beast has followed her."
"Roger that." He heard Wilson's voice reply.
It was up to them now…No more spying
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They were a train wreck.
And they knew it…Everyone else did too.
Everybody else knew they were headed for disaster, but no one cared to mention it…Because there's something morbidly fascinating about witnessing a tragedy first-hand.
They were like one of those couples on television that you hated with every fiber of your being, but at the same time, secretly rooted that they would finally be together.
"Cameron, he only wanted to get laid!" House grumbled as they faced off outside of the hospital.
"I'm sure that wasn't the only reason he asked me when we was married…" Cameron trailed off.
"Cameron, he was so desperate to get laid, I wouldn't be surprised if he crawled up a chicken's ass just to do so!" House injected.
Cameron's anger was growing at his sarcasm. She had wanted to scream. She had wanted to yell. She had wanted to cry out to the heavens to ask what she ever did to deserve developing feelings him
Oh right, she didn't believe. Karma's a bitch.
Cameron pursed her lips together, and she lowered her head as a few curls fell over her face. "I cant take this anymore…I have to get away for the sake of my sanity."
House quirked a brow. "What are you saying?"
"My fellowship is almost done here." She sighed ruefully. "I was offered a job in New York…And I'm going to take it."
"You can't do that." House told her as he took a step towards her, and Cameron's heart rate increased exponentially.
"Why's that?" She asked, she knew better to expect him to say that he didn't want her to leave, but maybe keeping the conversation alive could shadow some of the tension that lingered there.
"Because," He smiled, as he used his cane under her chin to meet her eyes. "There's no monster trucks in New York."
Cameron had to laugh, and as if she couldn't control herself, she wrapped her tiny arms up around his neck and pulled him down to her lips.
She coiled her fingers in his scruffy, brown hair as he ditched his cane, wrapping his arms around her waist and pushing her against the hospital wall. The 'P' in 'Princeton Plainsbro' proving to be a perfect support.
The kiss started slow and soft until House licked at her bottom lip and began tracing it with his tongue begging to deepen it. She obliged, and he slid his tongue deep into her mouth pulling the two closer together. Everything they had both been fighting for the past year all exploded in one breathtaking kiss.
Feeling rather overwhelmed, House pulled away and Cameron let out a small whine as he did so. His twitched up at the look she was giving him.
"Why did you stop?" She asked with labored breath.
House let out a small laugh as he traced her tear-strained cheek with his thumb. "I thought I'd give you a chance to catch your breath."
"It's caught." She said quickly as she pulled him into another kiss.
And neither of them could hear the eruption of squees that came from Wilson's direction as he, Cuddy, Foremen, and Chase crept back into the hospital.
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