Cuddy and House retiring, it can be a good thing right? Right? I mean, after all, she and House are creeping up there in age, and she wants to be able to take care of her family. I say that deserves a round of applause. Yay family! Yay Emma's baby being raised as a family affair! Yay... new Dean of Medicine and Head of Diagnostics?
It's bound for something beautiful, I promise you. You're going to enjoy it... I hope!
Review love, my compadres.*
Follow
If you lead, I'll follow.
This was the way they always seemed to work. They would walk in tandem through all of life, no one thought it was strange or amazing. It was how their life always worked: for twenty years.
Now there were two people in Cuddy's office: Cameron and Emma. Emma twirled her hair around her fingers, sitting happily in her mother's office. Cameron was freaking out, on the other hand, her blonde curls swept up into a bun. "Why are we here?" Cameron finally asked after ten minutes of sitting in her boss' office.
"You two have been found in favor with me." She answered.
"Do believe that's a quote from the Bible..." Emma mused. Cameron rolled her eyes, surprised by Cuddy's lack of response.
"Look, both of you are going to like this. I can promise you that."
"How do you know?" Cameron asked, quite frightened by the possible answers. So far none of the ones pulsing through her mind were good.
"I want you two to guess before I tell you." Cuddy started. "Get it right and there'll be a prize."
"You're... getting a dog!" Cameron guessed.
"New house!" Emma guessed as well.
"New House!"
"Employee?"
"Good guesses, but no. And Cameron... GOD no!" Cuudy exclaimed, tossing her hands to the sky. "Cameron, in case you don't remember I'm a little older than that."
"Then why do you have us in here?" Emma asked. "There's only a few times you've had the two of us in here, and it hasn't been since I was ten."
"It's important that you're both here, it effects your very existences." Cuddy started. "You're both getting a raise."
"A raise? Why?" Cameron asked.
"Are you objecting?" Cuddy questioned.
"No no. Not at all. Raises are good."
"So are promotions." She grinned at the two. "I want you two to be the Deans of Medicine." Hoopla rose. Cameron and Emma both cheered silently, their smiles growing immensely.
"And what about you, momma?" Emma asked
"I've been here as an administrator for, what, thirty-odd years? I've got things to do, people to see. You two, both of you, are a great team."
"When..." Cameron started but was quickly interrupted.
"Next week." Cuddy finished. "You guys will officially be the head honchos on Monday."
"And daddy..." Emma asked a last question.
"Same."
There was Foreman and Chase, seated side by side. House was looking distantly through the blinds, his silhouette was the only thing you see. "House, what's our case?" Foreman asked.
"And where are the girls?" Chase questioned.
"Objective mindset much."
"Workaholic much."
"Now, boys, we're here to talk business." House started. "And I intend to make it brief."
"That always sounds like a good plan." Foreman muttered under his breath. Then he enunciated more and said. "What's the plan?"
"I am leaving the hospital." House announced.
"For how long?" Chase asked.
"For forever. I'm retiring." House continued. "Cuddy and I, we've been here for as long as I can remember."
"More power to the both of you." Chase's half-hearted reply.
"Why now, of all times?" Foreman asked, quite concerned.
"Did you expect us to work here till our death? No no, we'd never do that." House smirked at the two. "You two should know better than anyone, you've been here almost twenty five years."
Had it really been 25 years? For Foreman, definitely. for Chase... wow that made him really old! "And that brings us here because...?" Chase asked quietly.
"I want you two to find a new team for the hospital." The two men turned to each other in shock. "AND split Head of Diagnostics."
"Split it?" Foreman asked. "As in, both of us?"
"No, one of you cut yourself in half and... YES both of you!" House finished, watching the two look at the floor sheepishly. "I leave on Sunday, it's my last day. You guys had better had a team together by then."
"And Cameron? And Emma?" Foreman asked.
"They get final approval. They're your bosses." House walked out and left the two with a file pile. "Better impress them."
It was the happiest day and it was the strangest day. Co-bosses? That was obscene! Who said that Chase and Foreman could work together like that? They bickered all the time, it made no sense to Wilson. He didn't know what House was thinking, or Cuddy for that matter. Emma and Cameron running the hospital? News spread like wildfire around the hospital and this wasn't the news anyone liked to hear. Both doctor Houses gone?
Well, he supposed, it was time for a regime change.
*Well, I hopeth you like. Review, and we'll meet Emma's baby soon. I still need names!*