Well this is the next chapter I wanted to get it out before school started.
Later that day Cameron was curled up on her hospital bed listening to "Best of You" by the Foo fighters on House's ipod. She had the volume turned up loud enough for the song to drift out into the empty room. Her fingers tapping along with the song against her stomach, she closed her eyes letting the music wash over her. She wasn't really tired, but she didn't really have anything else to do. A nap seemed like her best option.
She didn't hear Foreman knocking on the door, or see him cautiously pop his head into the room. Once he saw that she was decent he opened the door all of the way guiding the white board that Chase was pushing into the room. He wasn't really sure what they were doing, he was just following along with what House had told him to do.
Cameron opened her eyes a few minutes later to find Foreman and Chase sitting by her bed watching TV. Reaching over to the table she stopped the ipod before pulling the headphones from her ears. Looking around the room for House she came across the white board, she figured Foreman and Chase must have brought it in with them.
"What are you guys doing in here?" Cameron asked breaking their attention away from the TV.
"House told us to meet him here," Chase replied with a slight shrug before turning back to the episode of cops he was watching.
"Well where is House then?" Cameron asked trying to figure out why her hospital room was turning into House's conference room. She was very grateful at that point that House had gotten her a pair of scrubs to wear instead of one of those horrible hospital gowns.
"He's in with the patient,"
"He never sees patients, why is he in with this one?" Cameron asked no one in particular, House always seemed to find a way to surprise her.
"Because babies are just so damn cute," House replied from the doorway before limping over to the bed holding a bag of food in his left hand. Cameron was almost drooling when she smelled what was in the bag.
"Yes its for you, now eat and stop drooling." House stated pulling a burger from the bag and handing it to her.
"I love you," Cameron murmured happily around a mouth full of her burger.
"Are you talking to me or the burger?" House asked pulling a Ruben and another burger for Cameron out of the bag.
"Depends, did you remember the chocolate?" House pulled a Hershey's bar out of his coat pocket, chuckling softly when Cameron quickly snatched it from his hand.
"Here's your lunch, you better eat it before Cameron finishes hers," House tossed the bag of food to Foreman, who took out his food before passing it over to Chase.
"So what's the chocolate bar for?" Chase asked watching Cameron break the bar up into little pieces.
"Its for my burger," Cameron answered in a "duh" tone of voice, before sticking a few pieces of chocolate on her burger. Chase scrunched up his nose in a look of disgust as he watched Cameron polish off the rest of her burger.
"So how's April doing?" Cameron asked once both of her burgers were gone. She had grown quite fond of the little girl even though she was sick, she always seemed to be smiling.
"Ahh, well that's the point of our little lunch here. The boys can't seem to figure out what's wrong with her so I thought I would give you a shot." House moved over to the whiteboard, sliding it over in front of the bed. He quickly wrote down the patients list of symptoms, before turning to Cameron and the rest of the team with an expectant look.
"Come on people what are we missing here?" House asked hooking his cane against the side of the whiteboard. They had finally figured out that it was an allergic reaction to an herbal supplement that her mother was taking, that was being passed to her through her breast milk. Cameron was the one that had put it all together. House sent Foreman and Chase to take care of the patient after he was called back to the clinic by Cuddy.
Stacey had been wandering around the maternity ward for about twenty minutes trying to find Cameron's room. She didn't want to ask anyone where her room was, she had already fed the rumor mill enough. She just wanted to pop her head in and make sure she was okay. It wasn't that she cared about Cameron, but she did care about House and she knew how much Cameron meant to him.
She knew House loved Cameron probably more than he ever loved her, and Cameron had to love him to have gone through all of the crap that House put her through. She knew better than anyone how hard he worked to keep people out, Cameron seemed to be the only one that was able to break through to him after the infarction.
Peaking her head around the corner she saw House, Foreman and Chase leaving one of the rooms. She quickly ducked into an empty room to keep them from seeing her, she didn't feel like having to explain herself to House. Besides, he probably wouldn't let her get within ten feet of Cameron's room, after the way she had acted when she found out about their relationship and Cameron's pregnancy. She knew that she had acted like a jealous fool, but she couldn't help herself. Yes she had moved on and she was happy with her husband, but there was still that part of her that saw Greg as hers and no one else's. She now realized just how selfish she was being. She still loved him, but she didn't want to be with him. If Cameron made him happy then that's what mattered.
Figuring she was in the clear she peaked her head out the door, checking to make sure no one was in the hall. She didn't see anyone in the hallway so she quickly crossed over to Cameron's room. This was the tricky part. She didn't want to upset her, but she wasn't planning on saying anything to upset her. So she quickly opened the door slipping inside before she lost her nerve.
"If your looking for Greg he's not here," Cameron made a point of using his first name, she didn't want Stacey to think she wasn't on the same level with House that she was. She couldn't help but be on guard around her.
"Actually I was looking for you," Stacey stated as calmly as possible, she tried to ignore the hostility in Cameron's voice. She knew she probably wasn't her favorite person, but she wanted to move past that.
"What can I do for you?" Cameron asked as she shifted on the bed to sit up, she just wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible.
"How are you and the baby doing? I know you had a bit of a scare."
"I'm fine and so are the babies," Cameron emphasized the word babies, not very many people knew they were having twins. So she figured it would be a good way to throw her off balance.
"Babies?" Stacey asked a bit perplexed, she didn't think that Greg would have kept something like that from her. Then again they weren't exactly on the best terms lately.
"Yeah twins," Cameron replied with a smile her hand going instinctively to her stomach.
"Well Greg's dad is a twin so I guess they run in his family,"
"Yeah he mentioned that after we found out," Cameron offered Stacey a small smile she wasn't really all that bad of a person. Besides, there was still so much that she didn't know about House, it might help to have Stacey as a friend. Well maybe not a friend but at least someone she could talk to. Even if she didn't trust her.
"So have you picked out any names yet?" Stacey asked taking a seat in one of the chairs next to Cameron's bed. She was slowly starting to relax, Cameron seemed to be open to talking to her at least she hadn't kicked her out.
"Well, Greg wants to name them Jeeves and Wooster,"
"Why on earth would he pick those names?"
"Their the main characters on one of his favorite TV shows." Cameron replied, she was happy that she knew at least one thing about House that Stacey didn't. She tried not to think of it as a competition, but she just couldn't help it.
"That sounds like Greg. You're not going to let him are you?"
"Not for their first names, but maybe their middle ones." Cameron replied pulling back the covers and sitting with her feet hanging off the bed. She was a bit dizzy when she first stood up from laying down all day long. "I'll be back in just a minute the babies seem to be playing soccer with my bladder." Cameron said as she slowly got up from the bed, and waddled into the bathroom.
House walked into Cameron's room with her release papers. He knew she was dying to go home. He came to an abrupt stop just inside the room when he saw Stacey sitting in a chair by the bed and Cameron wasn't anywhere to be seen.
"Where's Cameron?" House asked walking over to the bed, he made a quick check of the room for any signs of a struggle.
"She's in the bathroom," Stacey stated trying not to let Greg bother her, she really wasn't planning on him finding her in here like this. She could see that he was trying to figure out why she was here and what she wanted. She was just about to answer his unspoken question when Cameron came out of the bathroom. She didn't miss the way her face lit up when she saw House leaning against her bed.
"Are you ready to go home?" House asked holding up her release papers.
"Dear God yes. I thought I was going to go insane if I had to stay here another day."
"You are still on bed rest and you are only aloud out of bed for trips to the bathroom." House reminded her, even though he knew how much it was killing her to be stuck in bed.
"I know, now come on. I can't wait to get out of these scrubs, I never thought I could miss my clothes so much."
"Foreman's bringing a wheelchair by so you might as well sit back down until he gets here," House stated patting the bed next to him, Cameron slowly lowered herself back onto the bed.
"I think I should probably get going. Alison don't forget my offer, I meant it." Stacey said standing up and heading towards the door.
"I won't, thanks," Cameron called out before the door closed.
"What offer? Does she want us to be swingers? Because that wouldn't really be an even trade. I mean come on have you seen Mark?" House asked scrunching up his face in a look of disgust at the thought.
"No she didn't ask us to be swingers. Although I find it slightly disturbing that you have put that much thought into it." Cameron murmured as she scooted back on the bed resting lightly against House's side, she couldn't resist the urge to be touching him in some way when ever he was around.
"What? I get bored, weird things pop into my head. So what was her offer?" House asked lifting his arm for her to scoot under, his hand finding its way to her stomach.
"She just told me I could call her if I needed anything, she knew that you would be busy at the hospital." Cameron tried not to let on that she didn't trust Stacey any further than she could throw her.
"Well, now wasn't that nice of her," House replied with his usual dose of sarcasm. Stacey knew how to play people and even though he knew Cameron could take care of herself. He couldn't help but worry that Stacey had some sort of ulterior motive.
House made his way thru the hospital as quickly as he could, occasionally stopping to wait for Foreman to catch up. He was slowed down a bit by the fact that he was pushing Cameron in the wheelchair. House stopped in front of the elevator jabbing the down button with his cane. He couldn't wait to get out of the hospital, he had spent the past two days answering questions about how Cameron was doing. He was trying to leave without having to deal with anyone else but the elevator wasn't helping.
"Cameron how are you doing?" House turned around with a groan to find that Wilson was now waiting with them for the elevator. He jabbed the down button a few more times hoping they wouldn't be spotted by anyone else.
"Good, I'm glad I'm finally getting out of here." Cameron replied ignoring House's insistent tapping of his cane against the elevator doors.
"Shouldn't these things be faster, this is a hospital for crying out loud." House muttered before jabbing the down arrow with his cane once again.
"House stop before you break it," Cameron said grabbing his cane to keep him from whacking the elevator again.
"Can I have my cane back now? I know how much you love the hardwood but I kind of need it." Cameron rolled her eyes handing House his cane so he could get into the elevator.
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