Author's Note: If you are curious about the meaning of the shower thing, it is just a way to build up on the
story and delay the inevitable. That is House loves Cameron.
Disclaimer: I wished that I owned House (on a shooting star and in a well) and Hugh Laurie too ;-)
but I still don't.
Chapter 11
Getting There
There were in total four taxis parked at the intersection of the t-crossing, the cars all had
open doors and the drivers were sitting under a shed off the side of the intersection
conversing.
The taxi drivers all stopped momentarily and watched as the mini-van pulled of the road
and a woman stepped out of the driver's seat. They watched, some of them with their jaw
hanging as a woman, with a great pair of melons and a nice ass, from what they could
came walking towards were they sat.
Cuddy stopped at the side of the road in front of where the taxi drivers sat. She looked
down at them, as the location of the shed they were sitting under was lower than the road,
and gave them a once over. They were a scrappy bunch and two of the four looked very
dirty and unkept.
"Hello," she said, addressing them with a tone way warmer than she was actually feeling.
She made to say more but was cut off by an albino man who walked up to her.
"Hi," the albino said offering his hand, "them call mi Reds."
Cuddy did not know if it was the smell of cigarettes or the albino's odd appearance that
caused her to hesitate, but she did and after a few seconds leaned forward to take the
man's outstretched hand. Unknowingly she gave him a perfect view down the front of her
blouse.
Cuddy might not have noticed the view that she gave the albino but the other taxi drivers
and House, Foreman, Cameron and Wilson (who were watching Cuddy's progress) did
notice.
The other taxi drivers walked over to Cuddy and the albino and began ogling her and
crudely flirting with her.
House looked over the back of his seat to see Wilson's reaction, he look flustered and was
currently avoiding looking at House or in the direction that Cuddy and her assailants were
standing.
House returned to watching Cuddy and the taxi drivers, from what House could see (as
they couldn't hear what was being said) she looked extremely uncomfortable.
Groaning, House opened the passenger door and exited the mini-van.
'Great,' he thought, 'Wilson being a coward as always, at least if things go wrong I get to
show off for Cameron.' he mentally cursed himself when that last part came to mind. He
just didn't know why all his thoughts kept going to Cameron recently, especially since she
had fled from his hotel room that morning.
Cameron watched as House walked up to Cuddy, she leaned forward watching what he
was about to do forgetting that Chase was now laying as best as he could across the seat
with his head in her lap. She was reminded of his presence by his moan of discomfort, she
leaned back to avoid squashing his head and resumed watching through the mini-van
window.
House limped up being Cuddy unnoticed by neither Cuddy nor the taxi drivers, he threw
his arm around her shoulder and gave it a squeeze to prevent her from jumping.
"Hi honey," House said smiling and looking Cuddy deep into her eyes, "did you get
directions yet? the kids are starting to get fussy."
Cuddy did a silent prayer thanking God that the mini-van windows were tinted and they
had winded them up earlier and turned on the air conditioner because of the heat.
"No sweetheart," she said smiling and putting way more emphasis on the word
sweetheart than needed, "I was just about to ask these guys."
House who had remained looking in Cuddy's eyes turned his head to look at the taxi
drivers and immediately feigned a look of surprise to see them standing so close.
"Oh!" He said surprise in his voice, "didn't see you guys there. The wife, the kids and I are
headed to..." he trailed off not knowing exactly where they were going, "Where are we
headed again, hon?"
Cameron was getting very jealous watching House with Cuddy, she knew he was just
helping her out and Wilson was with Cuddy now but she was still jealous, as she had
always suspected that Cuddy and House had a history.
Cuddy was feeling a bit uncomfortable with pretending to be intimate with House, but she
still played along as the taxi drivers were a little too aggressive for her.
"We are headed to White River Valley and we need to get to Gayle," Cuddy finished for
House.
Two of the taxi drivers had already gone back to sitting under the shed when House had
showed up behind Cuddy, the other two who still remained were the albino-Reds-and
another who introduced himself as Markie-Mark. House wanted to say something
sarcastic about the New Kids on the Block, but forced himself not to as he didn't want to
give away his role.
"Gayle?" Reds gave out, "right place unnuh stop. Is Gayle mi run go."
Cuddy was wondering why Reds was mixing languages, but as she was glad that she was
getting directions was content with letting it slide. House on the other hand knew better
than to think that the man was mixing languages and so ignored it.
"Alright make mi tell you," Reds said after thinking about how to give the directions, "you
go straight down this road," he said pointing down the road turning off the main road
to from the intersection, "then when you reach down de bottom there so you going to see
one likkle road go so," he pointed straight in front of him, "and one road bend gone so, he
pointed to his right.
Cuddy was already starting to get confused and the man had only just told them to take
the first right turn they came across.
"Then," Reds continued, "you going to go straight and don't come off a de road. You
goin' see de police station when it come and one road goin' so," he pointed to his right
again, "and one road going so," he pointed straight in front of himself, "don't take the one
dat go so," he once again pointed right.
House was listening and watching intently and Cuddy was getting more confused.
"Afta you do that you goin' pass one church and then you goin' see one, what you call it,
yes one fork. You goin' see one bridge go so," he pointed to his left, "and one road go
so," he pointed to his right, "anything you do, don't go cross de bridge go so," he pointed
right again.
Cuddy was a little lost, she just hoped House was paying attention and understanding
because she couldn't.
"Don't turn off de road, alright cause you going to see one road, no two road a go so," he
pointed left, "but if you go on them road you nat goin' to catch Gayle. Afta you pass them
two road there you goin' reach Bamboo Walk Square were di shop dem at, you keep
drive, alright."
Cuddy wasn't getting anything he said, he talked so quickly and she was getting a
headache.
"You get mi so far?" Reds inquired.
Cuddy watched House nod, she was indisbelief that the man actually expected them to
understand.
"Good, so mi say don't come off di road, alright," he eyeballed House and he nodded
again.
Cuddy made to walk back to the car, House could handle it and she didn't need a headache
right now. As she walked away she noticed that Markie-Mark had returned to the shed
with the other drivers.
"When you drive some more you goin' soon see on spring wata bottling place, when you
see dat you know you gone de right way," Reds continued telling House, "next afta you
drive a likkle while you goin' see a part where no road no at no more. You nat to worry
cause then you soon reach Gayle..."
Cuddy had by then climbed back into the nimi-van.
"How's everything?" Cameron asked her after she had shut the door.
"I have no idea," Cuddy said honestly, "House is getting the directions."
Cuddy looked around to see Wilson trying not to look at her. Cuddy just returned to
watch Reds give the directions to House. It looked even weirder to just be watching
Reds' gestures than it was to be hearing him as he gave his extravagant directions.
"...so afta you pass there so going finally reach another crossing, then you know you reach
Gayle, cause dat crossing is where Mas Garvey have him hardware store and you goin'
also see one bar there so too," Reds told House finally finishing his directions.
House was grateful for the absence of the man's voice, seriously! For some one who didn't
have much to say, he sure did say a lot.
House mumbled a half thank you and started to limp back to the mini-van.
"Why unnuh neva just go out a White River and then drive dat way?" Reds inquired before
House could make his escape to the mini-van.
'Does he have to comment on everything?' House asked himself, but was a little curious as
to what the man would say.
"Where exactly is White River?" House turned to ask.
"Well dis a Rio Nuevo, White River is in Ocho Rios," Reds clarified.
House groaned with fustration, he was definately going to kill Wilson later.
"You want mi tell you how to get to Gayle from White River?" Reds asked.
"No! I think we got it," House said and limped, more quickly than a cripple should be able
to, back to the mini-van.
House had barely closed the car door before telling Cuddy to just drive.
"Geez, that man is an idiot!" House said looking around with an incredulous expression on
his face.
House tried to catch Cameron's eyes but she immediately looked away. Instead he
distracted himself by telling off Wilson for the White River mishap.
Cuddy drove to the bottom of the road and did the only thing that she had understood
from the albino's directions, she broke the corner.
House was hoping that he could get them to Gayle because he had fazed out for a while
during the albino's directions. He knew that probably should feel guilty, but he just didn't.
Wilson felt guilty for not going to rescue Cuddy himself, he wondered how he expected to
get their relationship off on a good footing if he couldn't even do something as ridiculously
simple as give her a little support. He then scolded himself, 'I don't even know if what's
going on between us can be classified as a relationship.' he thought, and then he felt even
more guilty for thinking that.
Cameron didn't want House to see that she was experiencing any form of jealousy,
especially since she knew she was being stupid. She kept her eyes down and watched ran
her hand through Chase's hair, he really did have great hair and it was almost comforting
to be doing that. Chase was almost like a kid sometimes, a very big kid but a kid none the
less.
Foreman could feel all the tension in the air and tried desperately to ignore it, that was
hard however since he seem to be caught in the middle of it and it almost felt suffocating.
He had a nagging feeling that it would just get worst so he decide to just follow Chase's
lead and try to catch up on some of the sleep he had missed the night before. Chase was
an annoying nit sometime, but other time he had the million dollar idea.
The only way Cameron even knew that Chase was alive was because she could feel the
rhythm of his breathing against her thighs and the slight moan he had given when the had
driven from the intersection. Deep in sleep Chase was wondrously bliss as he was unaware
of the tension between his bosses and co-workers.
House glanced at Cameron through the rear-view mirror one last time before taking on
Wilson's old role of being the navigator. She was so young and beautiful, and it hurt that
she hadn't stayed that morning. Not for the first time, House wondered if he was just too
damaged to be with her and karma was coming back to get him. House sighed and forced
himself to look away and push aside his thoughts.
'At least we are getting there now,' House thought as he told Cuddy not to turn off the
road when they approached the police station.
Author's Note: So this chapter better be good because I spent a lot of my 'practice math' time
writting it. I hope to post the next chapter as soon as possible and I am calling it so
far: Please tell me we are not still Lost!
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