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Disclaimer: House MD is property of David Shore and Fox TV, only the plot belongs to me.

Haunted

Chapter 2: Promises

The night passed with out granting Cameron anymore sleep. Every time she closed her eyes she saw Lily's tortured blue eyes pleading with her as her flesh melted away. She noted the dark circles that graced her eyes as she looked at her tired form in the bathroom mirror, sighing she applied a little more make up then usual to cover them up.

There was a slight chill in the air, which was not at all unusual for New Jersey, as she walked to her car, the cool breeze felt relaxing as it blew through her hair. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the wind kiss her with its gentle touch. She opened her eyes again as she heard the sound of metal hitting pavement, squatting down, she retrieved her fallen keys. As she stood back up she saw the reflection of a young girl on her window. The little blonde haired girl appeared to be about one year old and remarkably like a healthy Lily Gale.

Cameron spun around, the little girl giggled as she played with a bug in the middle of the street. "Lily?" Cameron said in nothing more then a hoarse whisper as she took a step forward. No, Lily is dead, this is some other little girl. Cameron told her self as she slowly inched forward. The little girl continued to laugh and play as Cameron stooped at her side. "Hi." She said in a shaky tone, the resemblance between the little girl and Lily was uncanny. "Let's get you out of the road." She reached down and picked up the little girl who smiled up at her with bright blue eyes.

She giggled and coed some more as she showed Cameron the bug she was playing with. Cameron's face scrunched up in disgust as she saw the maggot curling around in the palm of the blonde headed girl's hand. "Those are nasty, you don't want to play with those." She said as she brushed it out of her hand. The little girl smiled as Cameron as she turned her attention back to her shining blue eyes returning the smile. As the girl's

Smile widened Cameron noticed another maggot, this one crawling on her face. She reached up to wipe it away, as she did a section of skin came with it. There was no blood, no bone, just maggots.

Warm tears fell down Cameron's face as she screamed. More and more flesh began falling away as maggots and worms crawled out of the holes. The shimmering, laughing blue eyes melted a way as a large worm crawled out of the left socket and went in to the right. Cameron released her hold letting what was left of the girl fall to the ground. As it hit the pavement it was nothing more then a puddle of insects. Cameron could feel her stomach churning, as she stared at the squirming, slimy creatures before her, it took all the strength she had to keep from throwing up.

A loud noise penetrated her ears tearing her attention away from what used to be a little girl. As she looked in the direction the noise had came she saw a large truck heading for her, quickly she moved out of the way as it came barreling past. Leaning against her car she took a deep breath and let it out slowly, noticing a few people staring at her with nervous or worried countenances.

"You're late." House said by way of greeting as Cameron walked through the doors of the clinic. She was pale and clearly shaken by something, had she been doing meth again? "Been playing with the bugger sugar have we?"

"What?" Cameron looked at him confused before brushing it off. "No, I didn't sleep well last night." She said as she continued past her boss towards the elevator.

"The Devil's Dandruff will do that to you." House called after her causing a few of the newer nurses to stair at the immunologist as the doors closed her inside the elevator.

Chase and Foreman were sitting inside the diagnostics lounge 'researching' as Cameron entered the room. Chase looked up from his crossword with a mumbled good morning through the pencil in his mouth. Foreman nodded a hello and went back to staring out the window.

She returned the greetings and sat in her normal spot as she pulled out her lap top and went to check her mail. "Did they find anything out on Lily's autopsy?" She asked, trying not to sound like she actually cared about it.

"No." Chase said as he took the pencil out of his mouth and tossed it onto the glass table. "But they did keep a sample of her infected blood to run tests on. They turned the body over to her mother this morning."

"Are you okay, you look tired?" Foremen inquired upon seeing the paleness of Cameron's skin and the dark circles beneath her eyes.

"Fine." She shrugged and continued typing.

"A little girl died yesterday. It's okay if you're depressed." Chase said as he gave her a sympathetic look. "I didn't get much sleep last night either."

"Same here." Said Foreman as he poured himself a fresh cup of coffee. "I think what bugs me the most is we couldn't figure out what it was that was killing her."

"Do you think this is going to be another Esther for House?" Chase said as he leaned back in his chair.

"Probably." Foreman sat down at the table with the other two ducklings sipping from his black mug. "But I hope we never see whatever the hell that was again."

"Hey, Cameron…" Chase turned his attention to her, she was staring off into nothing tears beginning to gather in the corner of her eyes. "Cameron?" He leaned forward putting a hand on her shoulder.

There was a blonde haired, blue eyed girl sitting in the corner of the diagnostics lounge. It was the same little girl Cameron had seen in the street outside her apartment except now she appeared to be four or five.

"Come play with me." The little girl laughed as she held up a doll. "We can play doctors and you can fix my dolly. She's very sick. All her skin is going away." The little girl smiled at Cameron as she held the doll close to her as if she were trying to comfort it. "Where does your skin go when it goes away? I used to have pretty skin like my dolly's, but it went away too." The rash that Lily presented with started forming, then came the legions. It was all Cameron could do to keep from screaming as the legions faded into the infected, puss filled wholes. "Where did my skin go?" The little girl asked, her mouth only being held together by nerves and sinews.

"Cameron?" She felt a hand on her shoulder and jerked out of the hallucination. "Are you sure you're okay?" Chase asked in a worried tone.

"Fine." She said in a trembling voice as she looked at her colleagues.

"Is that why you're crying?" Foreman pointed to the tears running down her cheeks.

"I'm fine." She said as she quickly wiped them on the sleeve of her lad coat. "I'm just a little tired is all."

"Maybe you should go home and rest." Chase said as he looked into her melancholy blue eyes.

"No, I'm fine. Really." She said with a sad smile. "I just need some fresh air."

Cameron stood on the roof looking out over the landscape of Princeton. The little girl was Lily after all. She can't tell anyone she's hallucinating or they'll think she's crazy, maybe she is crazy. But if she was going to help Lily she needed to be able to do something and not be doped up on Haldol and strapped to a bed on the third floor psych ward. The only reason she could figure why Lily was haunting her was so that she could find out what had killed her and what had killed her father, maybe then Lily could find peace. "I'll find out what killed you." She said to the air as it brushed over her face. "No matter what it takes, I promise."

Tbc