Chapter 10

Lost

They were driving forever it seemed, but only a little over half an hour had actually passed. Cuddy

couldn't drive and look at the map at the same time so Wilson had been appointed to act as the

navigator. Only problem was, none of the roads on the map seem to match the actual roads and

this was making Wilson's job extremly hard.

Chase had fallen asleep on Cameron's shoulder about five minutes into the drive and House was

trying to act as he was completely absorbed in his music, while secretly watching them in the rear

view window.

'What's the matter with you?' House kept asking himself, 'they aren't together, she told you that

herself.' Still House couldn't get rid of the nagging bit of jealousy he was feeling.

Besides his jealousy towards Chase, House also couldn't shake off the doubts he was having ever

since he had returned from his shower that morning to find Cameron gone from his suite.

House was so deep in thought be didn't even realise when his iPod was stuck in a loop playing

"Over and Over", that old Nelly and Tim McGraw song. He had never even listen to that song

before, it had come already programmed on the stupid thing.

House sighed and decided not to change the song, he wasn't paying attention anyway.

They drove on for another ten minutes in complete silence, except for the few times Wilson told

Cuddy to turn or not to turn and the one time House went ballistic on Cuddy for driving on the

wrong side of the road.

"Oh no!" Wilson gave out from behind Cuddy as they passed through a town near the sea.

"What?...that oh no better mean that you forgot something at the hotel or I am going to kill you

James." Cuddy said tensing up and anger barely concealed in her voice.

Wilson became very nervous after Cuddy's spoke, "I..." he gulpped audibly, "I think you should

pull off the road Lisa."

House, Foreman and Cameron had their eyes on Wilson.

"Why the hell should I?" Cuddy asked unable to mask her anger now.

"Lisa could you please just do it?" Wilson pleaded.

Cuddy pulled off to the side of the road, the town behind them. As soon as they were parked

Cuddy spun around in her seat to face Wilson.

With all eyes on him- except for Chase's that is because he was fast asleep- Wilson became more

flustered.

"I...aaah..." Wilson gulpped again, "I think that... we...uuum..."

They were all staring him down.

"We might have missed our turn." Wilson stated with a lot of effort.

"What!" Cuddy, Foreman, House and Cameron all yelled at the same time.

Chase jumped at this, "Wha...what's going on? Why did we stop? Are we there?" he asked looking

around very confused.

"No we are not there yet," Cameron supplied, "Wilson got us lost."

"I didn't...it...it's not my fault," Wilson stammered, "it's the map, it's not accurate."

"Let me see that," House said leaning over and grabbing the map from Wilson, "honestly Jimmy

we can't trust you not to screw up anything." House looked over the map and immediately started

to frown, it really didn't seem accurate.

"Wait," Foreman said finally speaking up, "how do you even know that we are lost?" he directed

his question to Wilson.

"House pass the map," Wilson said and took the map as House passed it behind him. Wilson

unfolded the map and started to point to a town on it, "see that?" he asked.

Foreman, and Cameron and Chase who were looking over Wilson's shoulder nodded. The town

was Port Maria.

"Well, that is the town we just passed and that," Wilson said pointing to another town Gayle, "is

where we are heading towards."

"How can you tell that's the town we just passed?" Chase asked, still to some extent asleep.

"We passed a sign." Wilson answered.

Normally everyone would have accused Chase of being stupid for asking a question, but they all

wanted to know if it possible that Wilson made a mistake.

Foreman, Cameron and even Chase sighed in anguish while Wilson redid his demonstration for

Cuddy and House. They were headed in the complete wrong direction, they were suppose to be

heading inland but some how they had found themselves going along the coast.

Wilson finished his demonstration.

"Easily remedied," Cuddy said after a few minutes of silence, "we just turn back the way we came

and ask someone for directions."

Chase, Foreman and Cameron nodded in agreement, Wilson was staring intently at the map and

House had returned to pretending to be listening to his iPod.

Cuddy did a u-turn and headed back into Port Maria. They passed through the congested

shopping area and the only people they saw were people selling and buying at produce stalls, they

decided not to ask these people. Soon they came across a group of people dressed in green

standing infront of a building marked Parish Council.

Cuddy figured that if they were from the council they might know the way, so she pulled up to

them.

Cuddy rolled down the window, "Hi," she said getting the attention of the group of people,

"could any of you by any chance tell us how to get to Gayle?"

The people talked among themselves, at first Cuddy thought she understood them, then she

realised that what they were saying sounded English but it really wasn't. After apparently deciding

among themselves a man who looked a bit older than the others walked up to the mini-van.

"Sorry," he said his voice heavily accented, "none of we know how to get there."

Cuddy gave her thanks and started to drive off, as they pulled out on to the road a shout of

"Shower!" was given by the majority of the group of people. Cuddy and the others who were

paying attention (Chase, Wilson, Foreman and Cameron) were confused.

"What the hell is that suppose to mean?" Foreman asked.

Wilson shrugged and Chase smelt his armpit. Cameron giggled as Chase tried to smell both

Foreman and Wilson, and was pushed back in to his seat by Foreman.

House chuckled unnoticed, wishing he could be the one pushing Chase. He probably would have

hit him in the head with his cane.

Cuddy was getting more fustrated by the minute, 'How could none of those people know how to

get there? It's not like Jamaica was big. It is just a tiny island. Hell how could we even get lost?'

she thought.

They drove on for about another Twenty minutes, with out seeing anyone else. Only other cars

driving by. Chase was falling asleep again on Cameron's shoulder, Cameron was concentrating on

holding his head up and House, Wilson and even Foreman had started playing -oddly enough- 'I

Spy'.

"Dr. Cuddy," Cameron said getting Cuddy's attention, "I think we are almost back in Ocho Rios, I recognise

that bridge at the bottom of the hill.

Cuddy sighed, Cameron was right. She also recognised the bridge. Soon they crossed the bridge

and was at a t-crossing, Cuddy saw some taxis parked at the crossing and was very relieved. She

pulled off the road and up to them. They were cab drivers they must know were Gayle was and

how to get there.

Author's Note: Thanks for all the reviews, I hope you guys will give me some more. Hope you enjoy this

chapter and the next chapter Getting There will be post very soon hopefully. Find out what

happens when they follow a Jamaican's directions.