PART 9

To say that heads had turned the next day at work was like saying House was only a little grumpy from time to time. After the collective gasps and the exchange of money, the diagnostic department settled down. It was the remainder of the hospital that was still in shock. House and Allison got looks and heard all of the whisperers. The ones about blackmail, babies and sympathy. They ignored all of them. Wilson did his best to defend the couple, but he could only say so much. It quieted down in a few days.

Allison's OBGYN was a resident at the hospital, but she knew she could count on his discretion. Her appointment was Friday at 11:00.

"Allison Cameron to see Dr. Rock." She took her seat in the waiting room and sighed. Her heart was pounding, this was it, the proof. No more denial. A spark of light caught her attention and she gazed down at her ring. It was breathtaking and she still couldn't believe that House had asked her. Somehow she knew Wilson was in on it. Whether he had helped pick it out, helped pay for it, or something else. She knew he wouldn't just sit by and watch it happen.

"Dr. Rock will see you know. Right this way." Taking a deep breath, she followed the nurse.

She had her blood pressure checked, a little high, but that was due to stress. She peed in a cup, was weighed, (and House was worried about her losing weight!) and all the filling out of paper work was behind her. She sat in her gown (which didn't cover anywhere near enough), feeling naked, scared and alone. She should have had one of them come with her.

"Allison, hi," The doctor offered his hand. "How are you feeling?"

"Ok. Sometimes I feel ok, other times I can't get out of the bathroom."

"I see you got engaged, congratulations. Anyone I know?"

"You mean you don't know?"

"No...should I?"

"It's all over the hospital." she told him, amazed he hadn't heard.

"Well, we pretty much keep to ourselves up here."

"Dr. House." Allison waited for his reaction.

"Dr House? THE Dr. House? I heard he was gay." The last was added under his breath, but she still caught it.

"Well Dr. Rock, I can assure you he isn't, or I wouldn't be here."

"Right. I see you have left the medical history of the father blank. Do you need to have him fill it out?"

"No... I... ummm... I'm not sure who the father is."

"Ok. Let me get this straight. You are engaged to Dr. House, the most ornery doctor we have, but you don't know if it is his? Does he know that?"

"Dr. Rock, are we talking as friends or as patient and doctor?"

"What ever you have to say is confidential, Allison." he assured her.

Her hands were shaking, she never had to admit that she was sleeping with two different men before. Foreman had figured it out on his own, well with a little help. "It could be Dr. Wilson's also."

"So, it could be Wilson's OR House's?"

"Right."

"Ok; let me see here. They are aware of this?" She nodded. "Good. That will help. Well they are both in good health, relatively speaking. Why don't I give you the proper forms and you can fill them out at home, when you have the answers you need."

"That would be great. Listen, I don't want you to get the wrong idea here."

"You don't have to explain to me."

"I was on the pill. We are all in a relationship, committed to each other and clean. This is a shock for all of us, but we will find a way to make it work."

"I hope you do. Now lets see how far along you are."

"I'm not sure. 5 months ago, I think."

"Alright, you are on the four month pill so that opens us up to anywhere from 4 to 12 weeks." He got out the ultrasound machine and put a warm glob of goo on her stomach. He first checked the ovaries and also the fallopian tubes, all clear. Dr. Rock then examined her uterus and found the heartbeat. At the sound of it, she got tears in her eyes. "Interesting..."

"What? What is it? Is the baby ok?" She was starting to panic now.

"Paging Dr. House, paging Dr. Wilson to Exam Room 3. Dr. House and Dr. Wilson to Exam Room 3 please."

Allison sat in the room, her heart pounding entirely too fast so she was becoming light headed. She chose the clinic to break the news because it would be less obvious there - not as much glass. Greg was there only moments before Wilson. The noticed her pallor at about the same time. "Allie, what is the matter?" House asked.

"Is the baby alright?" Wilson questioned. This set her off, she started to cry, scaring them both even more.

"Hey, sweetheart, what's wrong?" House cooed. He didn't like the looks of this. It was in this moment he realized how much he was looking forward to becoming a father. He now feared that the chance was going to be taken away before it even happened.

Wilson gently took the ultrasound photo from her hand gently as she clung to House. He stared at it, trying to grasp what his eyes were seeing. He brain wouldn't work. "Ummm, Greg?"

Greg took the photo out of his hands and looked. Really looked at the photos. Baby A and Baby B. "Twins?" Cameron cried harder. "You're pregnant with twins?" He got a weak shake of her head to confirm. "Oh my God." he said and started to laugh. Both Cameron and Wilson looked at him like he was insane. "We are truly the most fucked up family I have ever seen. Twins. Never would I have ever imagined that one. Well I guess there is one for me and one for you Jim. What do you want? A girl or a boy?" Tears were coming out of his eyes and no one was sure if he was laughing or crying anymore. Wilson and Cameron joined him and they hugged, lingering somewhere between sobbing and hysterical laughing.

"I'm already 10 weeks." She added and they laughed more. Seven months to go, if they were lucky; if they didn't come early, twins almost always came a few weeks early.

"Well, I guess we'll need to bump up the wedding or you will be huge."

"Thanks, just what I needed. I'm already growing out of my clothes. Thank God my lab coat hides my stomach, though I may grow out of it soon."

"You can wear mine." Wilson offered. He got her best shove-it-up-your-ass look for his trouble. "Oh Allie, I love you." he said as he kissed her on the forehead. "Our baby will be the cutest thing? With your hair and my brains..."

"Well what about mine?" House whined.

"Your's will come out limping and snarking at all the doctors." James told House with a laugh.

"No, it will have Greg's eyes and Jim's hair , and my kindness. We are all intelligent so I will say that he or she will be quite smart."

"Great, so he's going to be another doctor playboy push over? Just what we need, another ladies man. Doesn't Wilson have that covered?"

"Not anymore. I'm a one woman man, and a one man's man too." He smiled at House and squeezed his hand. They spent the next 15 minutes taking about their future until Wilson's pager went off. Giving them both a kiss he left the room and Allison and House walked hand in hand down to his office. They both had a smile on their faces and were immune to the passing whispers.