Sorry I have not updated for a while but this chapter is pretty long so I hope it make up for the wait!


Later after Rachel had left Cameron in her hospital room to get some rest, House came in and fell asleep next to her, having returned the baby to NICU. Everyone else on the other hand was down at the nursery trying to figure out which baby belonged to House and Cameron. Since the baby had yet to be officially named however the search was rather useless. Rachel wasn't even sure anymore which baby was her little sister, as they all kind of looked the same to her. Deciding to give up for the time being, the group separated heading for various places to sleep, exhausted after the last 12 hours. Which felt like longer if you added in the worry and stress over Cameron and the baby.

A few hours later found House rooting around for something in Cameron's room, trying to keep down the noise but not really succeeding. Waking up slowly Cameron looked around for the source of noise. Finding it she rolled her eyes and was about to say something up ended up coughing.

"Hey. How are you?" House asked presenting her with a cup of water, concern in his voice.

"Well enough considering I've been up for the past oh, 24 hours. Twelve of which were child birth, and only three of them sleep," came the groggy response.

Nodding with a slight smirk, House settled at the foot of the bed. Looking her over he saw just how tired she still was from the whole ordeal.

"Well I know you're tired but there are people just dying to see you. Think you can tolerate them for a bit?" he asked.

"Sure, may as well." She responded with a small shrug.

Nodding once House walked out of the room to go collect everybody, leaving Cameron to gather her thoughts. Thinking over how far she had come in the past few years, but mostly in the past year. She had dealt with Rachel getting sick, leaving behind Rachel's abusive father, Sam, who was now in jail. She had braved House and was now in a steady relationship with him, not to mention had carried his child. And of course was soon to marry the man who was the father of her second child. After all that had happened between her and Rachel's father, Cameron hadn't thought she'd have a chance for a normal life. Yet here she was, House had opened up to her and helped her to create a new family. It all seemed so unrealistic.

Snapping out of her thoughts, Cameron looked up and smiled slightly when people started to pile into her room. Rachel was the first one at her side.

"How are you mom?" she asked after gently hugging her mother, still worried over how tired her mom looked.

"I'm fine, sweetie." Cameron answered a bit groggily, while smoothing back her daughter's blonde hair softly.

Nodding Rachel offered a small smile, not sure what else to say. Moving to the other side Rachel let other people greet her mother, but stayed close.

"Well would you like to see your daughter now?" Cuddy asked with knowing smile. "She's been pretty much cleared by NICU."

"Yes." Both Cameron and House responded eagerly.

Nodding Cuddy left to go retrieve House and Cameron's seemingly unnamed daughter. After a few moments she came back in wheeling the small form of the Cameron-House baby. Gently Cuddy passed the baby into Cameron's arm, and watched as House instantly placed his hand on Cameron's shoulder.

Smiling down at their daughter, the pair did a quick inventory. The baby girl had House's deep blue eyes, and tufts of Cameron's dark brown hair. At nine pounds five ounces, she was the most beautiful thing Cameron and House had ever seen. A slight exception for Cameron, for when Rachel had been born.

"She's beautiful. Isn't she Greg?" Cameron asked looking up at her fiancé.

"No. She perfect," House replied with a soft smile, squeezing Cameron's shoulder.

"So have you guys picked out a name yet?" Cuddy asked expectantly.

"Yes. Everyone, we'd like you to meet Nicole Marie House." Cameron responded, giving everyone the name she and House had debated seemingly endlessly over.

With a quick nod, Cuddy and Wilson went to nurse's station to put the name on the birth certificate. Sitting up a bit more Cameron gave House a chance to hold his daughter. Smiling again, and in public no less, House took his daughter into his arms. As the ducklings and Rachel watched House, they smirked his rare smile was quickly becoming less and less rare.

The Silence was broken a few moments later when House's parents arrived. Rachel had also contacted them when she had sent out messages to everyone else at the start of Cameron's labor. She had known they'd want to see their first grandchild.

The first thing Blythe House did was look over her granddaughter and wiped away the tears that threatened to fall. Coming closer to the bed, Blythe peered over Cameron's arm, to get a better look. After gaining permission to hold the baby, she looked up at Greg.

"Well, what's her name?" She asked with an expecting look.

"Nicole Marie House." Greg responded.

At this time, Cuddy and Wilson came back from finishing the birth certificate and other paperwork and ushered the ducklings out to give the family some private time. Heading out the group went off to find a place to catch up on their much-needed sleep.

After the family had left, Cuddy came back and told Rachel and House they needed to leave so that she could show Cameron how to breast feed. While Rachel left quietly enough, House protested claiming it "was nothing he hadn't seen before." Cuddy wasn't backing down though, and House was kicked out.


Three Weeks Later…

After two more days in the hospital, both Cameron and Nicole had been cleared and able to go home, where Cameron went straight to work with Nicole. Setting up Nicole in her new crib, Cameron started to put away the different and memorable pieces collected from the hospital. House, who simply rolled his eye, went along and helped Cameron.

The first night Cameron had found it her duty to do 90 percent of the work even though House was eager to help with his newborn daughter and Rachel with her new little sister. Thought she was exhausted Cameron still shouldered the majority of the work with Nicole.

The Monday after she had been home for three weeks, Cameron planned to go back to work. Though she was still technically on maternity leave and wouldn't be allowed to actually work on the case should they get one. House wanted her to stay home and actually set up routine with Nicole, not the half one they had going. That and because Nicole would be with her she couldn't go past the office doors.

She was arguing with House, Sunday after dinner, saying she was wanting to go back this week. Pressing him to let her come back that Monday, long before her six weeks was up.

"Why not? I have enough energy to go back to work and look after Nicole." She snapped.

"No you don't and I want you to set a definite routine with Nicole so that me and Rachel can help with her." He argued right back "I would also prefer not to be left with a baby because my fiancé dropped dead from exhaustion." He added his sarcastic touch coming back.

"How about Tuesday?" she asked knowing full well that Monday was now out of the question.

"Fine. Only if you're not working." He said knowing she wouldn't really like his answer.

"What do you mean?" She asked confused as to why she'd come back but not work.

"I mean, Allison that you can come in but are not allowed to work. No differentials, no treating, no charting. Nothing. You sit on the couch and look pretty."

"Thank you!" she said enthusiastically and gave him a big passionate kiss.

"Jeez, I wish I had good news for you everyday," he responded once they pulled away from the kiss.

When Tuesday morning came around, Cameron got into the car everything she would need packed up and in the back seat. After dropping off Rachel at school, House, Cameron, and Nicole headed over to the hospital. Once there they almost immediately ran into Cuddy, who was not pleased in the least to them there with Nicole no less.

"House!" she yelled "I told you that Cameron couldn't come in till Friday at the earliest."

"Tell her that." he shot back. "I wanted her to stay home, but she wanted to come in and hang out on my couch," he shrugged.

"At least I got her to agree to not even participate in differentials or anything. She actually seems to be addicted to being here. I don't know why," he added as an afterthought.

Cuddy rolled her eyes at House and looked at Cameron, with a hard stare. After making Cameron swear once more that she wouldn't attempt to do any work, Cuddy let them go. Once Cameron and House had finally made it to the office, having been badgered by Wilson in the elevator, with a speech similar to that of Cuddy's. Cameron could already see a pattern to how her day was going to be.

Chase and Foreman were no exception, looking at her as soon as she walked in to the conference room.

"What are you doing here?" Chase and Foreman asked in unison.

"Getting out of the house," she answered. Foreman raised an eyebrow to this. No way was she coming here and not going to work in some way, even if it is just participating in the diagnosis.

"What?" Cameron asked once she saw Foreman's face.

"You don't seriously think that if you come here you are going to be doing no work," he stated more than asked.

"Well, Greg said that if I stay in his office the whole time that I am allowed to stay so that is what I'm going to do," she responded with a roll of her eyes, not really liking the arrangement.

"Than why are you still in here? Not that we don't mind having you here," he asked.

"Greg told me about the poisonous coffee he's been forced to drink each morning because Chase was making it. After it is made I will be going with Nicole into the next room," she answered. This wasn't exactly the welcome she was looking forward to.

Cameron made her way over to the coffee pot and waited for the coffee to brew. Yawning continuously overt he pot, she felt like she might fall asleep standing and waiting for the coffee to finish.

"Baby been keeping you up all night?" Chase asked, concerned by how tired she looked.

"Yeah, and all day too," she answered, her voice strained by lack of sleep.

"You should rest, we can take care of the squirt for a while," Foreman offered.

"You guys are working I can't possibly ask you two to take care of her right now. Plus, I would really like to see one of you breast feed her when she wakes up in probably 20 minutes or so." Cameron said with a small laugh.

"We'll call you when she gets hungry or if we need to leave. But we don't have a case and we both don't have clinic duty till later to," he said.

"At least try, you look like crap." he added.

"Gee thanks," she responded.

"So, what do you say? Try and get some sleep," Chase coaxed.

"Fine. But if anything goes wrong you better wake me up," she said and made her way into House's office where he had situated himself with his iPod and gameboy.

He looked up at her and saw that she didn't have Nicole.

"Where's Nicole?" he asked.

"Foreman and Chase are going to watch over her while I get some sleep," she answered. He nodded and went back on to his game and music while she made herself comfortable on the couch and drifted off to sleep.


One hour later…

Cuddy had come up to give House a new case. The team had started to work out a diagnosis, but decided to break for lunch after an hour with little done. House came into the office with Nicole starting to whimper for her lunch. Waking up Cameron as gently as he could before passing his daughter to her mother.

"Want some lunch?" he asked while Cameron proceeded to started to breast feed Nicole. House couldn't help but stare at her breasts; they hadn't had sex since the middle of Cameron's third trimester. He was more that just a little deprived in his mind.

"Yes please. The usual?" she asked.

Nodding House left to get food before he did something not really appropriate for his office made of glass.

Rocking Nicole back to sleep after feeding and burping her, slipping her daughter back into her car seat, Cameron watched her with a loving smile. Turning away only when House's phone went off. Answering it so it wouldn't wake Nicole.

"Hello?" she answered.

"Hi, is Greg there?" someone on the other end asked.

"Umm… He is currently working. Who is this?" Cameron asked.

"I'm Angelica, I am returning Greg's call from earlier. Can you have him call me back please?" she asked.

There was a long pause. Cameron felt like ending her life at that very moment. Almost everyone in the hospital knew who Angelica was.

"Hello? Are you still there?" Angelica asked.

"Yeah, I'll tell him for you. Bye," Cameron answered and hung up the phone.

She fell on the couch and curled up in a ball and cried for what seemed like hours to her. The blinds were closed in House's office so no one noticed.

Foreman walked in and saw that Cameron was crying. Not knowing what could have gone wrong in such a short span of time, he went to comfort the hysterical Cameron.

"What the hell happened?" he asked once she calmed down a bit.

"Angelica, House's hooker, just called House on his cell phone, saying she was returning his call." She said between soft sobs.


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