Part Two- Chapter 16
Cameron walked into PPTH early Monday morning, feeling refreshed from her relaxing weekend. She walked into the conference room and placed the coffee and bag of bagels and fruit that she got for everyone on the conference table. She then brought her cup of coffee into House's office and sat down at his desk to start sorting his mail and check her email. There wasn't a lot of mail from over the weekend, just a few junk mail items, and a couple requests to be a guest speaker at conventions and then a couple requests for diagnosis. Cameron laid aside all but the junk mail and then started to read through the requests for treatment. She was scanning the second one when Foreman and Chase walked in. Cameron called out to them to help themselves to the food on the table and heard a "thanks" before turning back to the letter she had been reading.
Once she was done with the letters, Cameron decided to check her email and after logging on she noticed that she had an email from Harrington. Every couple months, she received one from the woman who used to be the co-director of the department. Cameron smiled as she read Harrington's update on her time in Africa. The hospital that she was helping to open up was finally done and they'd be having the official grand opening of the new building that week. Cameron wrote Harrington back and told her about work and that she was learning guitar but not from House. They didn't really mention him that often and nothing really personal was said. Though Harrington had said that she thought that Cameron was the right one for House, Cameron didn't talk about him because she felt that it may still be weird for Harrington.
Just as she finished off the email and sent it, House limped into the room. He looked at Cameron but then his eyes darted to the left to avoid hers when she looked at him. She gave him a questioning look but then he announced that they needed to start on their diagnostic work. So she got up and joined the others at the conference table. She got a bagel for herself as House started to outline the symptoms of the current patient. They started to hash out what they thought that it could be and after an hour they finally agreed on a few possible problems that it could be. House divided them up to get tests done. He sent Chase and Foreman off to start some tests and then turned to Cameron.
"Could you go and ask Wilson for a consult? I think that he should be in on this if it turns out to be cancer."
"You really think that it could be?"
"It could be masked by these symptoms. May as well have the boy wonder in on this now."
"Okay." Cameron walked out the door and headed for Wilson's office. As she got to the door, it was closed and she didn't hear anything from inside. She decided that she may as well leave a note on his next for him. She put her hand on the door knob and found that it wouldn't move. She looked surprised at the handle. It was not like Wilson to not be in at this time in the morning and definitely not like him to have the door locked. Just as she was about to turn and leave, the door opened and Cuddy was standing before her looking a bit flushed. She startled when she saw Cameron and then looked a bit uncomfortable. Wilson was behind her and had the same look.
"Oh Dr. Cameron. Good morning."
"Good morning." Cuddy nodded to Wilson and said, "We can talk more about this later." Wilson cleared his throat and said, "Yes. Later." Then Cuddy said good bye to Cameron and left. Cameron and Wilson watched her walk away for a minute and then Cameron turned to Wilson. He looked a little uncomfortable for a minute and then invited Cameron into his office.
"Oh I just came to tell you that House would like your consult on our current case. Think you can come by and check our results and the patient? We can page you once the results are in."
"Oh. Yes that would be fine."
"Okay. Guess I'll see you later."
"Yes, later."
"Bye." Cameron gave him a questioning look and then turned to leave. As she walked down the hall she couldn't help but think about how Cuddy and Wilson had acted and looked. She also couldn't help but notice that his normally neat and organized desk was in a bit of disarray.
"I wonder? Nah, couldn't be." She shook her head pushing her thoughts away and went to find Chase and Foreman to help them with the tests.
