House heard his phone ringing, alerting him to the light shining on his face, he flipped it open, then closed and put his face into the pillows. He was just about to drift off to sleep, the door banged open, he heard little feet, and someone very small jumped on the bed besides him, then someone much, much larger hit the bed, almost bouncing him. He slowly unscrunched his face and looked at Rachel and Rob. The smaller girl was smiling genuinely, and Rob was smiling sickeningly sweet smile. "Why Greg," she started loudly, "you don't look so good!"

He put his hand on her face and pushed her back, "Go away."

"Can't, we're going to the zoo."

He opened one eye at a time slowly, "She wasn't kidding about that?"

"Nope." She shook her head.

Rachel grabbed House's hand and started tugging. She said quietly and excitedly, "Come on, you gotta get up!"

"See, Greg, she's all excited, and dressed, and we've been waiting for you to get up. Don't you know that children can't wait very long when promised animals and treats?"

House looked from his cousin to his girlfriend's daughter. She was giving him puppy dog eyes, "Pleeeeease." He had always had a soft spot for Rob, and right now, Rachel looked exactly like her. He actually heard, "Please Greg." A half hour later the were standing in line to get into the zoo.

House put on sunglasses and was leaning heavily on his cane. "I think you guys should get me one of those wagons and pull me around."

"I am not pulling your fat ass around," Rob told him.

"Language," Cuddy reminded her sternly.

"Sorry." She bent down and said into Rachel's ear, "Don't repeat anything I say." Rachel looked up and nodded. "Good girl."

"So what do you want to do when we get in there?" Jessica asked her.

"See the monkeys!"

"Monkeys are awesome!" Rob exclaimed, drawing the attention of many of the of the people in line around them. "What? Girl can't get excited about monkeys?"

"You're silly," Rachel told her.

"Oh yeah? Am I silly when I do this..." She did a handstand and took a few steps, then stopped and looked up at Rachel. House adjusted himself and poked Rob in the stomach. When she started to fall back, she arched her back and rolled. She laid on the ground, her fingers intertwined on her stomach, and looked up at House. "I could have hurt myself," she stated.

"And it would have been amusing."

"Yes it would have," she agreed and accepted her sister's hand.

"That's not nice," Rachel told him.

"She's starting her monkey training, I'm helping."

She shook her head, "No."

House shot an accusatory look to Rob, "What did you do to her?"

"Same thing you did to me," she shrugged.

"Come on Rach," Jessica put her hand out to the little girl, who grabbed it. "These people are crazy."

"Come on Mama," Rachel reached back for Cuddy's hand as well. She smiled at her daughter and walked forward with them.

"Why did you pushed me over?"

"Because you made me come here."

"Because you didn't go to Lisa's thing," she defended, her voice raising a little.

"Because I was drunk."

"Because you're an idiot!"

"When did you start yelling at me? You never yell at me."

"I always yell at you."

"Not like this," he shook his head. "You sound like Cuddy."

"Oh god!" The look on her face was a mixture if shock and horror. She started patting random points on her body, "Ugh. Get it off, get it off! Is it gone?"

He looked over her carefully, "Maybe." She started walking again and shuddered.

"What's wrong?" Cuddy asked when the two caught up.

"I had some Lisa on me," she shook her head, "it's gone now." Rob lifted Rachel up and settled her onto her hip and walked forward, leaving Cuddy and Jessica confused. "So, did you want to get a wagon?" She asked Rachel, who shook her head. "You sure?" The little girl nodded. "Well maybe we should get one, then you can pull me and Greg around."

Rachel giggled, "No way!"

Rob sighed, "Alright."

Jessica leaned over to Cuddy's ear, "We're going to need a wagon-"

"Yeah," she nodded.

"But she doesn't want one." House said.

"You obviously haven't done this in awhile," Jessica said.

"She wants to run around, but she will get tired, and carrying her the whole time we're here will get tiring." Cuddy explained. He nodded. Sure enough, Rachel did want to run around. At first, the twins kept up with her. To House, it sort of looked like herding. They let her climb to get a better view, but always kept her from going to far, same thing with her distance from her mom, they obviously had practice with this. She stopped to watch the monkeys for a rather long time. This whole, trip, was turning into torture for House. Being hung over, plus all the walking they were doing, was really hurting his leg. He put a hand against the rail and put his forehead on top of Cuddy's head. "You OK?"

"Head hurts, leg hurts."

"Maybe we should get you a wagon."

"That's why I suggested it."

"Gift shop time!" Rob announced.

"No, giraffees first!" Rachel pleaded.

"Let's bounce," she put her hand out and Rachel took off.

House groaned and started walking. Cuddy slipped her hand into his left, "Do you want to sit down for a minute?"

"No, I'm good."

"OK, tell me if you need to."

The rest of the afternoon was kind of amusing for him, watching Rob and Jessica play and run around with Rachel. Rob used her complete lack of caring about her image for good and not evil, and Jessica played Mommy, to both of them, superbly. They went to the gift shop after seeing the giraffes. It must have been the best day of Rachel's life. She got anything and everything she asked for that Cuddy let her get, including, but not limited to, a monkey backpack, a little stuffed giraffe to go with the one she had at home, a plush robin, Icees, a churro, a hot dog, cotton candy (both pink and blue), and an elephant hat. "Are you guys competing for most liked, sort of relative?" Cuddy asked them, to which they both looked at each other and replied coyly, "Maybe."

Rob and Jessica most definitely were not. They bought him a very large stuffed dolphin, a monkey backpack, "So you and Rachel can match." and when they were leaving the store, Rob slapped a baseball cap on his head and pulled it over his eyes. The hat, he later learned, had and picture of a cougar, and said, "I 3 cougars." To which Jessica pointed out that Cuddy was younger.

"Yeah, but they didn't have a hat that said 'M.I.L.F.' because it's not an animal. And technically, she was, but she's reformed now."

Cuddy rolled her eyes, "Well thanks." She took Rachel's hand and walked ahead with Jessica.

"Why is there no word for you?" Rob asked House.

"Because I'm that amazing."

"Seriously, you only date younger chicks."

He chuckled, "Did you just call Cuddy a chick?"

"Well, she's like 9 years younger than you. Eh," she shuddered, "that was so wrong."

"What?"

"Everything in Lisa's sexual history."

"Well that's not something you hear everyday."

An: I may have another chapter up tonight, and hurray, Bombshells is on tonight!