Cameron woke up to the feeling of a warm hand against her forehead. Opening her eyes to find House hovering over her. Cameron smiled up at him shifting over so he could sit across from her on the coffee table.

"How did you get in?" Cameron asked once she was awake enough to realize she hadn't let him in.

"Chase and Foreman aren't the only ones that know how to pick a lock," House replied reaching into his pocket and pulling out Cameron's pain pills opening them House handed Cameron two pills and a glass of water. Cameron hesitated at first but after a look from House. She quickly swallowed the pills down, handing her glass back to House.

"How long have you been here?"

"Not very long, I knocked on the door a few times. Then I let myself in, you really should get a better lock. That one didn't even challenge me." House stood up handing Cameron her crutches before grabbing his bag and heading for her room. Cameron slowly pulled herself up then headed for her room.

She stood in the doorway for a moment just watching House move around her room. He seemed so at home there, he left his cane by her bed before hobbling over to the bathroom pulling off his shirt along the way. It was amazing what a difference a week can make.

Cameron made her way over to the bed pulling back the covers, and sliding in. She grabbed one of the extra pillows to put under her leg for the night. She couldn't help but smile at the image before her House was walking, well limping back to the bed in nothing but a pair of pajama bottoms.

"Take a picture it'll last longer," House said when he noticed her eyes trained on his shirt less body.

"Sorry," Cameron murmured as House slid into the bed next to her. Immediately reaching for her, pulling her over towards him a bit. Cameron let out a small yelp when his hand pushed into her side.

"Let me see," House pulled up her shirt to see a nasty purplish bruise that ran from just below her right breast to her hip. He gently ran his finger tips over her skin feeling the slight swelling. "Trade sides with me," House was out of the bed moving to the other side before she could protest.

"Better?" House asked once she was settled against him, her bruised side and broken leg now on the other side she was able to get close with out any pain.

"Mmm Hmm" Cameron murmured her pain pills starting to kick in, it was almost impossible to keep her eyes open. "Goodnight," Cameron whispered before drifting off to sleep. House placed a kiss on her forehead, and pulling her a little closer before falling asleep.

The next morning Cameron was hobbling down the hallway of the hospital towards Houses office. She was suppose to be on sick leave but she wanted to check in on their patient plus she was bored out of her mind. She couldn't stand just sitting around her apartment all day with nothing to do. Maybe she could get some paperwork from House to work on.

Cameron pulled open the door to the conference room, quietly taking a seat in the back. House was facing the white board adding their patients new symptoms to the list. Foreman and Chase gave her a quizzical look but didn't say anything.

"Came on people, what are we missing here?" House asked turning around to face his now silent team. He had to bite the inside of his cheek to keep from smiling when he saw Cameron.

"Dr. Cameron I do believe you have the day off. Couldn't stand to be away from me for a whole day?"

"I was bored, daytime TV sucks." Cameron replied ignoring his comment about missing him. Truth be told she did miss him, it had only been a week but she hated waking up alone in bed.

"Good then you can have lunch with me," Cameron's head snapped in the direction of the door. Mary was leaning against the doorframe with her arms crossed in front of her. Oh God not today! Cameron was starting to freak she really didn't want to have lunch with Mary, but she didn't have anything else to do. Unless of course House decided to bail her out, a quick glance at House told her that wasn't going to happen.

"Uh sure," Cameron slowly pulled herself up out of the chair, grimacing at the pain that shot through her leg.

"Dr. Cameron in my office now," Houses words came out harsher than he intended, but he wasn't going to watch her suffer out of stubbornness. Cameron followed House into his office she already knew what he was going to say. She hadn't taken her pain pills, she had stuck the pills he left for her by the bed back in the bottle.

"Take this," House offered Cameron a vicodin from his bottle, she didn't take it.

"I don't need it," Cameron argued half heartedly, shifting on her crutches trying to relieve some of the pain in her leg.

"Like hell you don't, now take the damn pill." House once again offered her the pill, but she pushed it back towards him once again.

"I can't," Cameron's voice broke slightly, she really didn't want to get into this right now. It was the only part of her life that she had managed to keep from everyone here, even House.

"Its easy, you open your mouth pop the pill in close your mouth then swallow simple." House missed the meaning behind her words, he was the addict not her.

"I use to have a problem with pain killers ok? I broke my arm when I was in med school and then I couldn't stop taking the pain pills. I ended up taking a semester off to go through detox, so I would rather just deal with the pain then go through that again." Silent tears were making their way down Cameron's cheeks as she finished her story. She couldn't look at him, instead she studied the pattern of the carpet. House gently cupped her cheek tilting her head up so that he could look into her eyes.

"How about some extra strong Tylenol then?" House asked using his thumbs to wipe away her tears. It wasn't really his thing he always thought it was kind of sappy, but then again Cameron had him doing a lot of things that weren't really his thing. Not that he minded.

"Ok," Cameron replied with a small smile, glad that he hadn't pushed the subject. They made their way back into the other room. Cameron answered the questioning look from Foreman with a simple nod of her head.

"You ready to go Mrs. House?" Cameron asked trying to sound like her chipper self once again.

"Yep lets leave these boys to their work," Cameron followed Mary out the door sending a small smile over her shoulder at the guys before heading out.

"Where to?" Mary asked once they were seated in her rental car.

"There's a great little café around the corner," Cameron suggested shifting in her seat to try and take some of the pressure off of her leg.

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