Chapter 11
Disclaimer: All characters were given to me once, as a present, but stupidly, I sold them to the highest bidder.
Pairings: House/Cam all the way!
A/N: My friends are influencing me way too much; they hate Chase. He's my favourite character, yet I'm bad mouthing him.
The males all seemed a little surprised at Cameron's choice.
"What's wrong with it?" she asked defiantly.
"Nothing," Foreman replied. "It's just…an unexpected choice."
Cameron wondered why they thought this. Truth or Dare had been her favourite childhood game. Her friends hated playing with her; she was too imaginative, they said.
The others hadn't said anything, so Cameron recited the rules.
"OK, there's two ways of playing this. We can take it in turns to ask each other, or we can gang up on a poor victim."
"Gangs," said Chase at once. Trust him, Cameron thought. He was always one to want protection.
"OK," said Cameron slowly. "Nothing dangerous, basically. And don't ask anything you wouldn't want to answer."
"But that makes it so boring!" House complained.
"Oh, fine!" Cameron relented irritably. "Just be prepared to answer anything that comes your way." She gave a cunning grin. "You better be careful what you say."
House just raised his eyebrows in response.
"Who's first?"
"Cameron."
She didn't know who volunteered her, but she agreed readily.
"Truth or dare, Cameron?" Foreman asked.
"Truth," she said eagerly. Wilson didn't see the need to consult his team mates, but by their expressions, it would've been the first question they asked anyway.
"Did you mean what you said to Chase?"
"That's…a matter of opinion," she said tactfully.
"Who's opinion?" Chase demanded, while House complained.
"Oh, come on. There must be something in the rules that say you have to give a straight answer."
"Well," she said slowly. "Obviously the guy's hot. You, you're not talking about his aesthetics, you're talking about if I want to jump him. I don't.
Chase was looking fairly taken aback.
"How the hell did you know I said that?"
Cameron smirked.
"Looks like Chase's isn't the biggest mouth."
Chase glared at Foreman.
"You told her?" he demanded.
"No," Foreman answered, recoiling slightly, "I only told Wilson."
It was Wilson's turn to turn away.
"Gossip spreads fast in hospitals," Cameron told Chase smugly.
Chase scowled.
"You're cute when you do that," Cameron laughed, punching his arm playfully.
Chase flushed.
"Ha. It's my Aussie charm."
"Too bad I hate foreign accents," she sighed dramatically. He looked at her in surprise.
"You do?"
"You're so gullible."
Sounds of mocking laughter reached their ears.
"Nice one, Cameron," Foreman chuckled enthusiastically. Chase glowered.
"We are not amused," House said, trying to imitate Chase's accent. Chase crossed his arms defiantly.
"That's unfair," he said crossly. "Victoria was a British queen."
"Then I need to say it with a British accent," House said. He was enjoying pushing all Chase's buttons.
"Please don't," he said, frowning.
"We are not amused," House tried again.
"You suck at acting," Cuddy told him.
"What the hell, it's annoying Chase," he said happily.
"We've gone way off the topic here," Cameron said, as Chase pulled a face.
"Who's turn?" Wilson asked. Cameron noticed he'd been rather quiet through all of the discussion.
"Chase!" she cackled. Chase was seemed extremely unhappy, and Cuddy was looking at her, strangely surprised. Cameron was still laughing madly, and the others were quite scared.
Cameron suddenly stopped.
"OK, Chase, truth or dare?"
"Truth," he said warily.
"Playing it safe, huh, Chase?" Foreman teased.
Chase's mouth remained shut.
"What shall we ask him?" House mused.
"Nothing too harsh," Cameron insisted.
Once again, Wilson saw no need to verbalise his ideas.
"You like anyone on the team?" he asked. Cameron was interested that he would ask this straight away. Normally, he was a pretty private person, who respected other's feelings. She supposed he was tired and didn't really care about anything other than getting out of the shop.
"What kind of question is that?" Chase asked incredulously. "The only one I don't like is House."
"That's not what he meant and you know it," Foreman demanded, pointing an accusing finger at him. Cameron expected House to be offended, but he looked mildly amused.
"You wanna know, too?" Chase slipped his hands casually in his pockets, stood up, and leaned against a nearby wall.
His colleagues were giving him strange looks.
"What? I feel weird having my hands in my pockets if I'm not leaning on a wall. The wall completes the picture."
The team exchanged meaningful glances. When no one spoke, Cuddy broke the silence.
"Go on, then, Chase, tell us," she grinned.
"Yeah, I do."
One simple sentence, that shocked them all into silence, though nobody knew why exactly. They were all expecting it.
"Who?"
The question came from all sides of the circle.
"One question," Chase said, and shut his mouth again.
"Oh, come on," House said, "isn't it obvious?"
Cameron shot a grin over at Cuddy when she saw House's cold glare at Chase.
Cuddy rolled her eyes. Cameron was playing with House's feelings; never a good idea. She shook her head warningly.
"Play it safe," she mouthed to her.
A/N: livetoeat06: Yep, we have Blockbuster's over here.
Lijep: Ha, I'm glad you're happy! I still like Chase/Cam though. I couldn't decide before, but all my reviewers were going 'No! Not Chase/Cam, put her with House!' so I did!
Paige fan: If you consider tomorrow…today, then yes!
Lucy: Yeah, I was thinking of that dare…I was completely annoyed at the repeat! I have a feeling they're drawing it out, then they'll stop it over Christmas, to continue next year.
Daphne Queen: Actually, your story did give me that idea…Thank you. I liked it too.