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Chase ran into the conference room, hoping that he wouldn't be too late today. Jocelyn had tripped outside the apartment and Chase had to clean the scrape and have her put on a new pair of stockings. At least the trauma of day care had finally passed.

It took two months for Jocelyn to believe that her father would come back for her at the end of the day. And if he couldn't make it someone would come for her.

Chase breathed a sigh of relief seeing that no one had shown up yet. He had just started to make the coffee when the rest of the team had come in. Once he had his cup he sat back down and took out some booklets to look at while waiting for House.

As usual House was late, but needed to make an entrance. "So when's the party?" He asked as he dropped his bag into his office and came back to the conference room.

The three of them looked at each other, confused.

"The birthday party." House clarified, going to get himself a cup of coffee. "Who made it?" He needed to know if it was safe.

"Chase did. Who's party?" Cameron asked.

"You don't know?" He turned around. All three doctors shook their heads. "Oh this is good." He moved to sit down at the head of the table. "So let's play a game. 20 questions."

"House."

"Chase. It's not like anybody is dieing."

Chase ignored his boss and continued to look through the brochures. It was the beginning of the summer and Chase knew that his daughter would have to start school in the fall. It was the picking of the school that was most on his mind these days.

"Is the person male?" Cameron asked, finally giving into House.

"No."

Chase listened with half an ear, more interested in the schools.

"Is it someone we have met?" Foreman took a break from the newspaper.

"Yes."

"Someone we know professionally?"

"No."

Chase was reading about the qualifications for a small private school that was actually just a few blocks from the hospital. It specialized in gifted children. There were tests that Jocelyn would need to take. The class sizes were about 10 children and the children were mixed by both age and knowledge. While the studies were well rounded and covered all the necessary classes, it also allowed the children to study something that were interested or gifted in. They only took children over the age of five. "Crap. Jocelyn." Chase looked up and over at House. "She'll be five in two weeks."

House grinned and nodded. "Good job. And you weren't even paying attention."

Chase's head hit the table. "How could I have forgotten about her birthday? If it wasn't for the age requirement for the school I would never have thought about it."

Cameron moved her chair closer to his and put an arm around his shoulder. "It's alright. You've had a lot on your mind." She tried to soothe.

"I'm sure her mother forgot about her birthday too. I'm no better than Darlene. She hasn't even mentioned nor did anything about her birthday. What does one do for a five year olds birthday?" Chase looked up at Cameron.

"Don't you remember your fifth birthday?" Cameron asked.

Chase tried to forget the clown that had scared him during his party when he was five. Till this day clowns still freaked him out.

"It wasn't that long ago Chase. What? Just two years ago?" House teased.

"That was different. I'm sure things have changed over the past two decades. Plus what does one do for a girl's party?"

"You never went to a girl's party?" House wasn't ready to let this up.

"Ewww, girls have cooties. You're a doctor, don't you know that?" Chase shot back.

Foreman and House both broke out laughing at that. Cameron at first looked disgusted then joined in the laughter. Chase also grinned. "So who's going to help me plan this? Cameron?"

"Even though I have cooties?" She asked feigning anger.

"Oh, cooties leave the female body after age 13. Something about hormones and the such. Didn't you learn about it in med school?" Chase again took the innocent role.

"Fine. I'll help. Being I have nothing else to do at the moment."

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In the end it had turned out that Jocelyn would get three different parties.

With Jocelyn's actual birthday falling out on a Sunday, he had the three parties spread out over a four day period.

Chase was worried about her reaction to being the center of attention. He had spoken to her about it, as did the psychologist that Jocelyn was seeing every other week. While she said that she would be okay, Chase still wasn't confident.

For that reason he chose diagnostics first. If she freaked out the adults wouldn't be as upset as the young children would be when she had her party at daycare.