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Pairing: Basically House/Cameron, others make an appearance.
Rating: Probably PG-13 I think, I'm not really sure.
Summary: What should have happened after Cameron's little speech in Honeymoon.
Disclaimer: I don't own them, I'm just playing with them for a bit.

Cameron slowly followed Mary into the café, she had always loved this place. It was so warm and inviting, she just hoped that it would be the same today. She wasn't really afraid of Mary, no it was more like intimidated by her. She carried herself a lot like House that whole I don't give a damn what anyone thinks attitude.

"How are you feeling?" Mary asked once they were seated at a booth in the corner.

"Good, a little sore but good." Cameron replied she could tell there was something else Mary wanted to say. By the way she kept looking around, and was fidgeting in her seat. Cameron took a deep breath quietly preparing herself for whatever it was.

"I uh I just wanted to apologize for the way I treated you when we first met," Mary's eyes darted around landing on everything but Cameron as she spoke.

"Its ok, I know you were just looking out for Greg." Cameron offered her a small smile she really did understand where she was coming from.

"No its not, I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions about you. I can see now that you really care about him, and he really cares for you. I just want him to be happy, he was hurt more than he wants to let on when Stacey left. I never really liked her to begin with, then after what she did to him with his leg. I can't say that I wouldn't have done the same thing, but she went about it the wrong way." Mary looked up to meet Cameron's eyes before continuing.

"In case you haven't noticed my son isn't really big on trusting people, James was the only person he let in after Stacey left. He managed to push everyone else away, even me at one point. He seems to be letting you in now, but if you hurt him you will have to deal with me." Cameron could tell by the look on Mary's face that she meant every word. She maybe old but Cameron was sure she could do some damage if she really wanted to.

"I'm not planning on hurting him, I worked to hard to get through to him to throw it all away." Cameron offered Mary a small smile, trying to reassure her that she wasn't going to hurt House.

"Well I wanted to clear the air, before I left tonight to go back home." Mary returned her smile before digging into her lunch that their server had just brought over.

The rest of their lunch was spent talking about, anything and everything. Mary trying to find out as much information as she could about the woman that had managed to break through the walls that her son had so carefully built up.

After lunch Mary dropped Cameron back at the hospital, she still wanted to check up on their patient. Besides all she had waiting for her at home was an empty fridge and a TV with basic cable. Cameron was making her way down the hallway towards Houses office for the second time that day.

Cameron smiled at the nurses as she passed the nurses station, she knew they were gossiping probably about her. Given the guilty looks they exchanged before hurrying off to help some imaginary patient. It didn't really bother her she knew people were talking about them. She knew they would be, anyone that didn't know House like she did would think that she was just using him to further her career. Not that she cared what they thought, the people that really mattered to her knew the truth.

Cameron pulled open the door to Houses office his blinds were drawn, he was sitting at his desk with his feet up. A deep jazz tune blaring from his stereo, his eyes were closed as Cameron made her way over to him. Cameron had learned long ago what his choice of music said about his mood, she knew that this particular song was usually reserved for when they lost a patient. Add to that the closed blinds, and that Foreman and Chase were no where to be found. She knew without having to ask that they had lost their patient. She couldn't help but feel guilty, that she wasn't there to help. Maybe she could of helped them figure it out sooner.

"You couldn't have done anything, the virus caused to much damage to his heart." Cameron looked up to see House watching her, he always did have a way of reading her mind.

"Where's Foreman and Chase?" Cameron asked knowing there was no point in arguing with him.

"I sent them home, there wasn't anything left for them to do. I didn't want them here to bug me." House replied sliding his feet down off of the desk, he used his cane and the edge of the desk to pull himself up out of his chair.

"Come home with me?" Cameron requested studying the pattern of the carpet. She knew that they all had their own way of dealing with the lost of a patient. Foreman and Chase would go out for a drink, House would take the patients file home and go over everything that was done to try and figure out what went wrong. Cameron would go home and clean her apartment from top to bottom while her silent tears fell. Cameron looked up to find House standing in front of her.

"Ok," House replied wrapping his arms around her, Cameron relaxed against his body letting him pull her in closer. She knew that this patient had gotten to him whether he wanted to admit it or not. They stood that way for awhile Cameron's head resting against Houses chest, his arms wrapped firmly around her, his cheek resting against the top of her head.

Neither one of them heard the office door open, nor did they see who was standing in the shadows of the office quietly watching them.

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