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Chapter 13

Day 70 (continued)

"I'm sorry kiddo, I know it's cold." House gave his eldest a sympathetic look as he squirted a second glob of lubricant on the girls exposed stomach. Soon, wand in hand, he was traveling along her abdomen; his eyes fixed intently on the black and white monitor before him. Allie's eyes were half open, half closed; she was still sleepy from being awoken so early.

Cuddy was sitting on a second hospital bed in the dim, deserted hospital room. House had insisted they drag a sonogram machine down to the floor they kept the coma and vegetative state patients. If there was one place they weren't going to be walked in on, it was in one of those rooms. "Greg?" She held Remy tightly in her arms, the top of the girls head damp from the tears flowing down her mothers cheeks.

House ran his free hand over his face and left it over his mouth as he pinpointed a spot on the girls stomach and began to rotate the wand in place. "How the hell is this possible." He breathed into his hand and then looked over and down at his daughter. She was smiling up at him through her half closed eye lids. "Peanut..." He whispered and had to look away, feeling his eyes grow puffy.

"She's pregnant, right?" Cuddy whispered over her daughters hair; her body rocking forward and back, causing the girls to as well. House looked at her and nodded; water now clearly evident in his eyes. "She died Greg! She can't be."

"I know Lisa, but look." He turned the monitor so the woman could see the clearly evident placenta standing out among the rest of her insides. With a small press of the wand to the girls stomach, a very small white figure appeared inside the darker placenta. As he rotated the wand she could see from different angles that her oldest daughter, her former senior ER attendant, was definitely pregnant.

Cuddy placed a hand to her mouth and did her best to repress the gasp of shock escaping up her throat. "House, looking at that she's gotta be at least 6 or 7 weeks along." The man nodded and removed the wand completely from his daughters stomach and went about cleaning the lubricant from her exposed flesh. "So it's definitely from our captor and not.. well, not from someone before we were kidnapped." Once more the man nodded.

"Come on wiggle worm." House playfully tugged the girls shirt back down and gripped her under the armpits, helping her to sit up. Throughout the entire ordeal, Allie hadn't taken her eyes off of her father. Now was no exception. As he helped her off the bed, she kept a grip to his arm and leant her body into his. House winced ever so slightly and pried the girl from his side. "Robbie, come take your sister please."

The boy, who was sitting quietly next to his mother, immediately got to his feet and held his hands out for Allie to take. The girl was reluctant to leave her father, but turned her gaze to her brother none the less. If there was anyone she trusted nearly as much as her father, it was Robbie. "Am I gonna get a turn?" Robbie asked as he lead Allie towards their mother.

House had already reached for Remy, bringing the girl partly into his arms. He wished more than anything that he could actually lift the girl up, but knew short of a miracle, his leg would never allow him to. He sat the girl down on the now vacant bed and looked back at his son. "Robbie, I highly doubt you need this test." At the boys sunken face, House sighed. "Alright, after your sister we'll take a little peek, ok?" Robbie instantly lit up and hugged Allie tightly; the girl sitting in the circle of his lap.

Smiling to himself at the boy's antics, House turned back to his baby. "You ready baby girl?" Remy smiled around the thumb in her mouth and nodded. She'd insisted Allie go first so she could see what was going to happen, and now that Allie looked unharmed, she felt less nervous. Taking this as a yes, he pulled up the edge of her shirt, bunching it under her breasts. "It's gonna be coooollddd" He sing songed as he shook the bottle and then began to spread lubricant on the girls exposed skin.

Remy squealed and began laughing, trying to wriggle away from her fathers hands. "Remy honey, your gonna get your shirt all slimy." He held the girl down gently for a few moments until she calmed down from giggling. After pushing her shirt up again, he took the wand and began the same procedure he'd just finished on his other girl. This time, when he found what he hoped wasn't there, he dropped the wand and shot Cuddy a desperate look. "Oh shit." Was all he could think of to say.

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