Title: How can this be happening?
Summary: What if James was trying to raise three children on his own after losing the mother of his children?
Author: Mikesh
Disclaimer: Don't own House.
Part: 13
AN: Thanks to my Beta reader!!
AN2: Friday December 25th, 2011
AN3: Bold, italic means time change
This morning James, Ally, Greg, and the kids were spending Christmas with each other. Tonight they'd go to James's parents' house where they'd have dinner.
Anna, Johnny, and Greg Jr. woke their parents up at 6:30 in the morning. So to say Greg was grumpy was an understatement. He was pissy as hell. Ally had told him to just go back to bed but he knew that if he did then he'd really be in the dog house with her. So he just stayed up and grumbled some more about it.
"Daddy look!" Anna exclaimed holding up a doll.
James had a hard time holding back the tears. Not only was it hormones but also remembering. Lisa had gotten the doll two days before she was shot. Anna had seen it and wanted it. Lisa had gotten it because she thought that maybe the store may not have it by now. James had to do the rest of the kid's Christmas shopping. They'd only gotten that one doll that day.
"I see honey," James said.
He was currently wearing a blue work shirt untucked and black work pants. He'd gotten the shirt and pants from Greg and Ally. She'd seen it and thought that it'd match perfectly with the pants.
"I'll get it," Johnny said when the door bell rang.
"I'll get it," James said standing up and heading to the door.
He wasn't ready for what awaited him on the other side of the door. There stood Lisa Ann Cuddy.
Before James could say anything, he passed out. When he came to he was on the couch.
"Oh I thought you were someone else," James said seeing the woman leaning over the back of the couch.
"Shut up!!" the woman said leaning over the couch and kissing James with as much passion as she could.
"Lisa?" James asked sitting up and catching his breath.
"Yeah who else?" Lisa asked coming around the couch.
"NO! This can't be! You're dead!" James said getting worked up while getting up off the couch.
"James calm down!" Greg said.
"DON'T FUCKING TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!" James yelled.
"JAMES CALM DOWN BEFORE YOU PASS OUT AGAIN!!" Greg yelled.
That got James to take a seat again.
"James it's me," Lisa said.
"I saw them bury you!" James said pulling away.
"James I'm right here. I'm not dead," Lisa said.
"THEY FUCKING BURIED YOU 6 FEET UNDER!" James yelled while standing up.
Ally had taken the kids all out of the room because she thought that two to one James would get himself worked up.
"I don't know what to tell you, I'm right here," Lisa said also standing up.
"HOW!" James exclaimed.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?!?! YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!" James said shoving Greg against the wall as hard as he could.
He'd seen the look in Greg's eyes saying that he'd had something to do with this.
"GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME!" Greg yelled shoving James off of him.
"TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK YOU DID!!" James yelled.
"FINE YOU WANT TO KNOW!" Greg yelled.
"YES!?!?" James exclaimed.
"The heart monitor didn't go off, I pulled it that night. I gave her something to make her heart stop. After they took her out of the room I revived her," Greg said looking James straight in the face.
"What? Why?" James asked having to take a seat on the coffee table.
"Because I knew that you wouldn't let her out of your sight unless you thought she was dead. So she had to be dead," Greg said no longer being able to keep eye contact.
"How could you?" James asked letting the anger show in his voice.
"You think I liked seeing your face crumble like that? NO! I HAD TO DO IT!" Greg yelled like that made it all better.
"I don't even want to be in the same house as you," James said standing up.
"Hold on! James he had to do it because that was the only way we could get whoever was after you to come out," Lisa said.
"What are you talking about?" James asked looking directly at Lisa.
"We thought that it was someone after you. I guess we were wrong since they haven't made their move yet. Hell maybe they were after me. I don't know," Lisa said sitting down by now.
"So what now?" Greg asked.
"I'm coming back on Monday and we'll just see if we can't draw whoever out. I just know if I had to stay there one more day I would have went nuts," Lisa said.
"Someone like to fill in the pregnant guy over here?" James asked.
"What?" Lisa asked.
"Told you," Greg said.
"No you didn't," Lisa said.
"Yes I did," Greg said.
"Hello?" James asked.
"Sorry someone forgot to fill me in," Lisa said glaring at Greg.
"Well then," James said.
"Yeah so you're?" Lisa asked without having to finish the sentence.
"Yeah almost three months," James said smiling at the excitement in Lisa's eyes.
Lisa however noticed that the smile didn't reach his eyes.
"What is it?" Lisa asked pulling away from him.
"Tell her," Greg said when James was silent for a few minutes.
"No you go first," James said.
"James Evan Wilson," Lisa said.
"Not going to work," James said.
"Fine," Lisa said knowing when her boyfriend would break and when he wouldn't.
"I didn't go into a coma. Well I did but I came out long before my 'death' I told Greg to make it look like I was dead. He didn't want to do it trust me James," Lisa said looking him straight in the eye.
"He didn't?" James asked.
"No," Lisa said.
In the mean time Greg was standing over in the corner trying to protest but neither of them were listening to him.
"Is anyone listening to me?" Greg asked.
"No," Lisa and James said at the same time.
"So how exactly are you going to throw people off that it's not just you with blond hair?" James asked.
"I'm my evil cousin…don't say it Greg," Lisa said when she saw him open his mouth out of the corner of her eye.
"Are you going to tell her or am I going to have to?" Greg asked.
"What is it James?" Lisa asked getting scared when he got up ad wouldn't look at her.
"The baby….it…well," James said before getting interrupted by Greg.
"Oh for Christ Sakes! The damn thing attached itself to his liver," Greg said.
"What?" Lisa asked wanting to cry.
"Looks like you come back just to end up alone again," James said not being able to look Lisa in the eyes.
"No I'm not. You WILL stay around because I WILL personally bring you back to kill you myself," Lisa said.
"Lisa even with the best of doctors it's in his hands," James said.
"James, Greg won't let anything happen to you. Because I won't let him," Lisa said.
"And what am I supposed to do?" Greg asked.
"Not let your best friend die or find yourself on the unemployment line," Lisa said.
Greg knew she meant business because of the look in her eyes.
Later that night
By now everyone was ready for bed. It'd been a long and draining day for James and Lisa. Of course his family was all shocked when she showed up. Everyone including Ally was pissed off at James. Lisa tried to get them to see that it was the only way but they didn't buy it. Even Greg's own father was disappointed with his son.
"Make me a promise," James said.
"What?" Lisa asked already almost half asleep.
"That you and our children will move on. You won't hold back on life because I'm not here anymore," James said.
"No I won't because you WILL be here," Lisa said.
"I don't want to hear it. You are not leaving these children until I'm good and ready to go with you. And I'm not so you're not too," Lisa said facing James.
"Lisa…" James started to say before getting interrupted.
"No end of discussion," Lisa said planting a kiss on James's lips before rolling back over to go to sleep.
Next chapter: Lisa's first day back