Thanks to everyone who read the first chapter, I tried not to be too slow with this one, I would love some reviews please!
Cameron watched Chase for the rest of the day. He hardly spoke and was distracted in almost everything he did. As soon as it was 5 o'clock he was out the doors.
"Don't you think Chase was a bit weird today after he saw that woman?" Cameron asked Foreman.
"He was probably just upset because House got me to administer the medicine to the patient. My guess is he will be back to normal arrogant self tomorrow," Foreman answered.
"He looked like he was about to cry! Don't you care?"
"Not really," answered Foreman, heading down to the clinic.
Chase was waiting for the woman down the road in a bar. "Hey Rita!" he called as she walked in the door. Rita Chase was his cousin, his Dad's brother's daughter. The only family she now had was Chase after her parents died.
"Hey!" she said taking a seat next to him at a table, "You ok? Are you still upset about your dad?" Chase stayed silent, with tears appearing in his eyes.
"Did you know he had cancer?" Chase blurted out, obviously not comfortable with the conversation.
"No, he didn't tell anyone except his girlfriend," she said, watching Chase down his glass of wine in two over-sized gulps.
"Your parents died, and you don't seem too upset?" said Chase, grabbing a handkerchief out of his pocket and wiping his eyes.
"It was 4 months ago now. I'm trying to move on. That's another reason why I came here," Rita said, also looking like she was about to burst into tears.
Cameron wondered for the rest of the day what was wrong with Chase and why she was the only person who seemed to wonder who the woman was.
The next morning everyone came in as usual, sitting down in the conference room. After the morning conversation Chase and Cameron headed to the lab, while Foreman when to check on the patient.
"Who is she?" asked Cameron, peering down the microscope.
"Who's who?" Chase asked taking a seat in front of his laptop.
"The blonde girl in the lobby yesterday you hugged," Cameron further inquired.
"How come you're the only one who cares about me?" Chase said in a mope.
"Foreman tells me she had an Australian accent. Is she family, they seem to think an ex-girlfriend?"
"She is my cousin. Her parents died in a car crash a couple of months back and now I'm her only family left,"
"That was easier than I thought it would be," Cameron said, "is there anything I can do to-"
"No I'm fine," interrupted Chase.
House called Cameron into her office. "What's up with Chase?" he asked, sitting in his chair with his feat on the desk.
"Since when did you care about Chase, you are always treating him like crap more than the rest of us," Cameron answered.
"Something is messing with his ability to do his job. First of all when his Dad died, now something else. He talks to you, what is it?"
"She is her cousin," Cameron said.
"She must be some really bad cousin to make him this upset,"
"It's not her,"
"Then what is it," replied House picking up his Nintendo DS. Cameron turned around and walked out of the room.
"27 year old male, apparently struggling to come to terms with the arrival of cousin," House stated to Wilson over lunch.
Wilson answered, apparently knowing he was talking about Chase, "what makes you so interested in his business?"
"I thought I was interested in everyone's business?" House answered Wilson, looking at him take an oversized bite out of a greasy hamburger.
"You seem to like his business the most," Wilson answered before taking another mouthful.
"What can I say, It's the juiciest,"
"Let me just say this, maybe you should pull your finger out of his pie a bit," Wilson shoved the last of his hamburger in his mouth, almost choking on the shredded lettuce.
More coming soon!