Author's Note: Thanks for reading and reviewing and now on to chapter two!
Chapter Two-
The day was almost over; another half an hour and she would be at home relaxing. She grabbed her bag off of a chair and set it on the table so she could put her cell phone away and take out her gloves and hat. Sure, it was a half an hour until work was officially over, but she figured she could try and sneak out a little but before hand. Unfortunately, this plan wasn't going to work. The most she had done was get her hat on before House limped into his office.
"Whoa, where are you going?" he asked, "Not sneaking off are we?"
Damnit, there was no chance of her leaving now. Sighing a sigh of defeat, she pulled off her hat and took a seat, "Not now."
"Hey, I'm all for it. Actually, I was just about to do the same. We'd better hurry before Foreman or Cuddy shows up."
So, they did manage to leave early and Cameron was extremely happy. Today had been a bit stressful, especially with Cuddy breathing down her neck the whole time. She respected Cuddy, but completely dreaded spending great amounts of time in the same room as her; it was a bit intimidating. When she finally got to her apartment, she was glad to be home and she settled down to have a cup of tea and relax on her sofa.
Luckily, the next day went by just as quickly at the previous evening had and she was walking out to the parking lot when she ran into the patient's friend Matt. She headed over to him to say hello.
"Hi, I'm Dr. Cameron from yesterday, how are you?" she greeted.
"Oh, hello; nice to see you again," he replied, "I'm looking for Dr. Cuddy."
"I'm not sure where she is right now; I was just about to leave. What did you need her for?"
"I was just wondering how Virginia's doing, but I have an idea. How about you and I grab coffee and you could fill me in? I don't like being here; I get kind of nervous around hospitals."
"Oh well, I don't know. I don't want to be out late; I've got work to do."
"Please, just coffee. It'll be my treat," he tried to persuade her.
"Well, alright," Cameron smiled and they headed out to the parking lot.
When they arrived at their cars, Matt spoke up, "I know a great place; they aren't too well known, but they have the best coffee."
She shrugged, "Lead the way."
After twenty minutes, Cameron was getting a little bit worried. Eventually, though, they pulled into the small parking lot of a small dinner that seemed out of place in the Pinebarrens. In fact, it didn't even look like it was open save for the two lamps over a small counter.
She got out of her car and walked towards Matt, "Are you sure about this?"
"What, you aren't a city girl are you? This place is the best."
"Actually, I'm from South Jersey, but this place gives me the creeps. Still, if you say it's good." She shrugged.
Matt insisted 'Ladies first' as they headed up to the front door. She tried to open the door, but it was locked. Noticing the 'Closed' sign for the first time, she started to turn around to tell Matt, but felt a sharp pain and fainted.
House walked out of his office when he noticed Foreman and Chase walking down the hall. He approached them with a confused look on his face.
"What happened to little duckling number three?" He asked.
"You mean Cameron?" Chase asked.
"No, I'm talking about your mom; duh, yes, I'm talking about Cameron. Where is she?"
"No idea," shrugged Chase and he turned to face Foreman.
"Don't look at me. The last time I saw her she was in your office putting some papers in a folder and then checking your email. I left after that to go get the test results. Why so worried anyway?"
"No reason, except if she left and Cuddy didn't catch her…" he started, "Cuddy just saw me trying to leave and I got a lecture."
"If I was Cuddy, I wouldn't let you leave either," Foreman put in.
"Don't you have some results to look at or something?" House asked sarcastically and then left them there as clueless as to what happened as when he had first approached them.
House just continued limping down the hall and noticed Wilson walking a few yards ahead of him. He hurried to catch up, but got tired just before he could reach him so he stuck out his cane and poked Wilson on the shoulder.
"Oh, its you." Wilson said, "What's up?"
"I'm bored; can I hang out with you until it's time to go home?"
"I've got work to do and so do you. I thought you'd be intrigued by that woman who was attacked. Don't you like odd things?"
"It wasn't that interesting. We fixed her and she'll be out of here whenever she is "fully" recovered. Besides, Cameron was taking care of her and Cameron's not here. Look's like I'm not the only one who doesn't do their job."
"Cameron left? That's odd; I just saw her half an hour ago. Are you sure she's not just off doing her job and you didn't notice because you were playing your Gameboy or something?"
"Well I'm not a stalker you know… I'm not going to go and ask everyone in the damn hospital where she is."
"Yeah, so what do you call what you're doing now?" Wilson said with triumph.
House rolled his eyes, "Fine, I'll go do my job."
Wilson turned down another hall and House just kept walking forward; he figured that he would end up somewhere he needed to be or at least somewhere interesting. Unfortunately he ended up running into the last person he wanted to see; Cuddy.
"House, what are you doing?" she asked.
"It's called walking."
"Well walk your way over to a place where you're supposed to be or else you might as well just go home. At least Foreman and Chase are doing something productive around here."
House murmured a "yes" under his breath and Cuddy gave him a weird look. Still, he had achieved what he had set out to do since he first walked in the door this morning; to leave.
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Author's Note: Well, I know they are short, but that's the end of chapter two and chapter three will be up soon and hopefully a bit longer. Trust me; they'll get longer as they go along. I just wanted to end here so I can start the next chapter with the good/more interesting part with Cameron lol. Well, please review and let me know what you think. D Thankies!