Take It All Away

Characters are not mine. Based off the events of Hunting…

Another month had passed before Chase was finally released from the hospital, coincidently on his birthday, February 12th. As ten months in a hospital bed wreaks havoc on the muscles; he'd been through an intense course of physical therapy that had taken several weeks.

No one had heard from Cameron since Chase had talked to her the day he'd lapsed into the coma, she just seemed to have disappeared. She had left West Virginia days after he had and Dr. Yule had no idea as to where she had gone.

"Here ya go," Foreman said, helping Chase up the stairs to his apartment as the younger man was still a bit weak.

"Thanks." He said, standing at the door to his flat. "I'll be fine, though."

"Sure?" Foreman asked.

Chase nodded. "Yeah, House only gave you a little while off, and I'm sure you can't wait to get back to work…"

"Yeah," he rolled his eyes, "Just me and House, such a joy. I'm the only one there to torment…"

"Oh, you'll live." Chase teased, unlocking the door as Foreman walked away. "See ya!"

"Enjoy your time off!"

Chase sighed, stepping into the apartment he hadn't been to in almost a year. He was surprised to find it clean, cleaner than he remembered it and the furniture looked to have been rearranged sometime recently. Figuring Foreman must have come by to make it easier for him to maneuver around in; he walked into his room to collapse onto a comfortable mattress instead of that dammed hospital bed.

He expected to see the bed, bookshelf and end tables on either side of the bed in place, the black curtains blocking out the day's light as they always had done when he had to work at night and got home sometime during the early evening hours. What he didn't expect was to see someone asleep in his bed, nor the crib a few feet away from it.

"Chase?"

Okay, I know that was short, thought it was definitely longer than some other chapters… but there'll only be a couple more chapters of this to come. Sorry for lack of updates been busy with college stuff and other stories. REVIEW!