Chase was more than happy to spend the next 7 days in bed. It took that long for him to gain back enough strength, physically and magically. But that time wasn't wasted. Those sparks that Chase was awake were used to take care of business for Hanmo.
Besides catching Chase up on the business of the land they also began to talk about the coronation. As much as Chase tried to dismiss and ignore being royalty Kenneth wasn't going to let him get away with it.
Before Chase was allowed out of bed, the coronation and wedding had been planned. In one month the capital of Hanmo would be filled with people from all over the country. Nobel houses that no one had heard from in years would be there.
It was a week before the actual ceremonies when Chase called a meeting. Even Cameron had no idea as to the reason why Chase wanted to see her, Foreman and House in his Kenneth's workroom. Up to this time any meeting they attended was held in one of meeting rooms off of the throne room.
House, the last one to arrive started the meeting with a "So what are we all doing here?"
"We need to talk about our futures after the coronation." Chase answered.
"Well, you and Cameron will be married. What kind of future are we talking about? You two are going to run Hanmo, House is going to be your main advisor, and work closely with Tyra, and I'm going to take control of the army." Foreman explained.
"So you don't want to go back to Earth? Back home to New Jersey?"
There was silence in the room. It was the one topic they all had in the back of their minds but didn't really mention or talk about much to each other.
"Is that even a possibility?" Foreman asked softly. He had given up most thoughts of home. "We've been in Hanmo for about a year and a half. What would we be going back to?"
"And can we all leave? Don't we have to stay and run things? People know what we look like and they are going to need to see us." House wondered if Chase had lost his mind.
"When you first came here, I informed you how time travel differently between the two lands?" Kenneth questioned. At the nods he continued. "It's only been two weeks since you've gone to your conference." Kenneth explained.
"So not so much time has past. But how do we describe my leg, not that I'm not thankful, but I left missing part of my thigh. People are going to notice that it's back. And what about running this place?"
"Well." Chase started looking down at the floor for a moment. "How out of character would it be for House to lie where he was going? That he didn't go to a conference, but went to get some kind of radically, unproven method for re-growing thigh muscle?" Chase put the question out to everyone in the room.
"He's right. You would do something like that."
"And we were dragged along, because, he only wanted idiots he knew hovering around him."
"Trained idiots to actually know if something wasn't going according to plan." Cameron finished Chase's thought and smirked. "It's not out there."
They all looked at House. "What? I'm not that irresponsible."
"Do we really need to bring up proof to deny the fact?" Foreman asked rhetorically.
"Still not answering the running this place question."
"We think we came up with a solution." Chase said as a door opened. Everyone looked to see Chase walking through it, talking.
House, Foreman, and Cameron looked between the two Chases. The three of them were speechless as they continued to move their heads back on forth.
"Uhm. Okay. I didn't know cloning was something that they did here."
The air around the Chase in the room shimmered and turned into Stev. "Please tell me that's the only time he's done that." Cameron said, a little freaked out.
"Stev has only practiced that under our watchful eye." Kenneth explained, looking at the boy.
"We knew he could project an image of Chase and have it sound like him, but not to be so corporal."
"We worked on it." Chase explained. "We took that as a basis and worked off of it."
"Can anyone do it? How did he say exactly things that you would say?" House asked.
"No. He needs to have something of mine in order to pull it off. There is some blood and hair in a bottle around his neck. Unless you have that and know the words to the spell, it can't be duplicated." Chase answered.
"As for knowing what to say, that was actually his highness." At that both Chase and Stev pulled out a charm on a chain. "Those transmit voice."
"So it was really Chase talking?" Foreman asked.
"Yes."
"Does it travel over what ever is between Hanmo and Earth."
"Yes."
"Have you tried it?"
"Uhm. Yes we have." Chase answered. "I brought you these." He waved his hand and three cups of Starbucks coffee appeared. "It wasn't fair for me to go back and not bring back a souvenir."
House grabbed a cup and took a sip. "Better than a tee shirt." He sighed. Coffee was the one of the things that they didn't have on Hanmo that all of them missed about Earth.
"So Stev can act as you, and if he needs to talk he will contact you, using that communication thing?" Cameron asked.
"We'll come up with certain times that he needs to talk to me. Certain audiences and the such. Any other time, Kenneth can contact me and we can talk."
"And what about the rest of us?"
"That's the other part of this. We can do the same thing for you if you want. But I didn't want to assume. Roland can continue leading the army, Foreman."
"What about coming back?"
"Well as soon as my fellowship is up with House, I'm heading back here. I don't want to force anyone else back here. Its really up to you."
"And you don't have to decide at the moment." Kenneth added.
"When did you plan to go back to Earth?"
"Soon after the coronation and wedding. About a week after. Depends on how much we need to finish preparing."
"Honeymooning on Earth? Don't think I'm going to allow you too much time off." House commented.
"Sounds like you have it all settled." Cameron said as she turned and left the room.
The men didn't need to be an empath to know that Cameron was angry. "I think I better go talk to her."
A/N: We're coming into the home stretch here. Thanks to everyone who has stuck around. It's going to be a few days before I post again. Need to finish revising the last few chapters and dealing with real life.
