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Thirteen weeks had passed since Cameron's pregnancy was confirmed. They hadn't made a big deal of telling the whole hospital in fact they only told Wilson, Cuddy, Foreman and Chase. It wasn't that they weren't happy they just didn't want it to add to the gossip mill.
That was all over when Cameron started to show, the first one to notice was Stacey, of course. She had been watching Cameron like a hawk for awhile trying to figure out what it was that was different about her. Until one day when Cameron was reaching for something on the top shelf in her office causing her shirt to pull tight over her expanding stomach. Stacey just happened to be walking by at the time, Cameron turned in time to see Stacey's stunned face. She offered her a tight lipped smile before heading off down the hall.
Cameron was making her way through the mall heading towards the toy store where she had left House while she went clothes shopping. She had grown out of most of her clothes, and House wasn't willing to share his anymore. She found him waiting by the door with his free hand full of bags that he supposedly bought for the babies.
She couldn't help but love his excitement, he had talked her into buying a house a few weeks after the first ultra sound. It didn't really come as a surprise to her that he would want to buy a house. They had already discussed getting a new place, someplace bigger where they could create new memories instead of living the shadows of the past. Cameron's words of course, House just wanted a backyard with a pool and Jacuzzi.
Now they were just waiting to move in, it was a fairly large house. Four bedrooms three bathrooms and a large den, that would probably end up being a play room. With a large screened in heated pool and Jacuzzi. The house was in the suburbs so to speak, but there wasn't any of those crazy nuts telling you what color to paint your mailbox or what kind of fence you could have.
"What did you get?" House asked looking like kid on Christmas, as he looked through her bags for anything besides clothes. "Clothes, clothes oh and look more clothes." House muttered adding her bags to his pile.
"That's what we came for, what did you get?" Cameron asked eyeing House's bags most of them were from the toy store.
"Stuff. Come on, I know you're hungry by now," House knew the mention of food would distract her from just about anything at this point.
"Mmm yeah, lets go the food court. I'm in the mood to mix and match," Cameron said excitedly her mind already coming up with all of the wonderful concoctions she could create to satisfy her cravings.
"When aren't you," House muttered following along after her happy that his plan had worked. He didn't want her to find the small bag from the jewelry store that he had hidden in with the toys and ruin her surprise. That and he was too nervous to think about her finding it right now.
A few days later Cameron sat in the conference room listening as House rattled off their patents newest symptoms. She was too distracted by the intense almost crushing pain that radiated from her back and across her stomach. House's words all seemed to blur together as her pain intensified, Cameron called out to House just as another wave of pain hit her.
"Greg?" It came out weaker than she would have liked, but the use of his first name got Houses attention instantly. He turned around to see Cameron clutching her stomach, her features drawn together in pain. House took two large steps and was at her side in an instant the pain in his leg not even registering.
House began barking orders at Foreman and Chase before turning his full attention to Cameron. Little beads of sweat were breaking out on her forehead, as she tried to catch her breath around the pain. Cameron let out a shaky breath as the pain subsided, closing her eyes for a moment.
"Alison open your eyes for me," Houses voice broke slightly, which he quickly tried to cover with a slight cough.
"Its to soon, I should have listened to you. You told me to take it easy, but I was to busy trying to do it all and now our babies are going to suffer." Cameron rattled out in one breath, unshed tears glistening in her eyes as she looked up at House.
"Listen to me, you are going to be fine and so are the little munchkins," House sat in the chair next to Cameron pulling her against him, Cameron wrapped her arms around his middle resting her face against his chest as she let her tears fall. He couldn't think about what might happen if the twins were born now. They were both doctors and knew the chances of survival for a baby born at twenty five weeks, let alone twins.
Foreman and Chase arrived a few minutes later with a wheel chair, after securing a room for Cameron on the maternity floor. They both abruptly stopped just inside the room. Cameron and House had been together for over a year, they kept it all outside of the hospital. It was rare sight to see Cameron and House touch let alone clinging to each other the way they were.
"Your chariot awaits," Foreman announced trying to lighten the mood, Cameron smiled against Houses chest before pulling back. The pain had subsided, so Cameron was able to move to the wheel chair fairly easily.
A few hours later Cameron was laying in her hospital bed with two fetal monitors strapped to her stomach. Her head was pounding a side effect of the drugs she was given to stop her labor, but she refused to close her eyes. Instead she watched the babies heart rates for any change, they had managed to stop her labor with a combo of drugs, but the drugs had there own side effects.
"How are you feeling?" Cameron looked up to see House heading towards the bed with
Foreman and Chase in tow. Cameron offered a small shrug in reply before turning her attention back to the monitor. Silent tears were streaming down her cheeks, she didn't bother with wiping them away. She was to busy trying to figure out where she went wrong, what she had done that had caused her to go into labor so early.
She was so preoccupied with her own thoughts that she didn't hear House move closer to the bed. She didn't even notice him until he was lifting her shirt. He motioned Foreman over, who was pushing an ultrasound machine that House had, "borrowed" from one of the other rooms. House slipped the fetal monitors off of her, handing them to Foreman in exchange for the ultra sound gel and wand.
"Lets see how the munchkins are doing," House moved the ultra sound wand over Cameron's stomach as the screen came to life with a grainy black and white image. Much like the first ultra sound House kept the screen turned away from Cameron, wanting to shield her from any bad news.
"Looks like I can look forward to three more months of getting kicked in my side while I'm trying to sleep," House grumbled, turning the screen around for Cameron to see. She knew it just his way of saying the twins would be fine.
"You could always sleep on the couch," Cameron offered grinning up at House, she couldn't keep from laughing at the crestfallen look that passed over his face at the suggestion. Her laughter quickly died away with a swift kick from one of the babies , one of their little feet visible on the right side of her stomach.
"See? Jeeves is on my side," House pointed out, wiping the ultrasound gel off of Cameron's stomach and handing the wand back to Foreman, "I bet Wooster here is on my side too, aren't you?" House asked patting the other side of Cameron's stomach and receiving a kick in reply.
"House are you still on that kick?" Wilson asked having heard what House said from the door way.
"Yes, and its not a 'kick' they are perfectly good names," House defended his choice in names sending a glare in Wilson's direction, before turning back to Cameron's stomach to fasten the fetal monitors back into place. They weren't totally out of the woods yet.
"Greg wants to name the twins after two guys on one of his favorite shows," Cameron explained to Foreman and Chase who were watching House like he was some sort of escaped psychiatric patient. Not that this was anything new, but Cameron figured she might as well help them out when she could.
"You have to admit Jeeves and Wooster House has a nice ring to it," House tried to persuade Cameron to let him name the twins.
"Oh yeah it just rolls off your tongue, do you want your kids to get beat up in school?" Wilson asked shaking his head slightly at Houses odd choice in names.
"Oh yeah like having a normal name kept you safe," House quipped sliding into the chair next to Cameron's bed. "What do you say I name this set you can name the next?" House asked nudging Cameron with his elbow.
"I tell you what you gain forty pounds, and then have to push something the size of a watermelon out your…"
"And on that note I think we will be going," Wilson interrupted Cameron before she could say what they all knew was coming. He quickly ushered Foreman and Chase from the room offering House a sympathetic smile before closing the door.
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