Author's Note: Okay! Hitting the big fifth chapter here! I know you all want to see what happens in one fell swoop but sighs, I can't write that much for one chapter so nanananananananana. Lol. I got carried away. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter and I decided what the sex of the baby is and what the name is. Only one person knows it and yes, it's a reviewer and she will know better than to write that she knows it in a review. Lol. If anyone has any questions about anything confusing that I'm writing, please bring it to my attention. I probably won't fix it because I'm too lazy but I'll notify everyone about it. Thanks and RonMione4eva… don't drink any soda while reading this.

As the sun came up and began to shine into the windows of a baby blue house about two miles away from PPTH, the only disturbance was two lone shadows creeping towards a door. One shadow motioned to the other to make a break for it and the second nodded. It crouched forward, ready to make a break for it when a hand and arm came out of nowhere and swept it up against it's chest.

"Daddy!"

Emma wriggled to get free from House as he carried her back into the house.

"Do you know how worried mommy and I were when we got up to wake you up? We thought somebody had kidnapped you!"

Tears filled the twins' eyes as they were reprimanded. House sighed and handed the she-devil off to Allison as Nathaniel followed dutifully behind his father.

Allison frowned. "We were so worried! And you made your father go all around the house!"

"We're sorry!" the twins sobbed. They hated being reprimanded and almost never did what they were in trouble for again unless House told them it was okay. Speaking of the devil, House was sitting in a chair rubbing his leg.

"No more outside adventures for a while. You're both grounded until we say so. Now go get dressed."

The twins trudged of to their room and Allison turned to her husband.

"I don't know what to do anymore."

"We grounded them. That's about all we can do until they're older."

House rubbed his leg a little harder and Allison eyed him. He was down to two pills a day and he often woke up with night sweats because of the pain. She didn't think he'd be able to get down this far but he had and it would make her very proud when he made the announcement that he had detoxed himself. To everyone else, even Wilson, it appeared that he was still a drug- addicted grouch. He caught her looking at him and smirked.

"Are you checking me out?"

Alison grinned. "I'd be able to do it better if you started walking to the bedroom to get dressed."

He stood up and began limping towards the bedroom, enunciating the swing of his hips and sticking out his butt. Laughing, she followed him to get ready for the day.

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Cuddy had finally hired a new day- care person so the twins were allowed to come back for the day. This left Allison relieved and House completely bored. His iPod was tucked firmly in his ears when he sensed the door open. Years of ducking Cuddy had heightened his senses so he could tell if someone was coming down the hallway. He opened his eyes to see a guy standing in front of his desk. He had dark brown hair and he looked to be about Allison's age. House pulled the earpieces off and shut off his iPod.

"Can I help you?"

"I'm looking for Allison Cameron. She's supposed to work in this department."

House frowned. He didn't like this man's tone.

"Did you figure that out from the sign on the door next door or did one of the cute nurses tell you that?"

"Huh?" the man asked, confused.

House rolled his eyes.

"Why are you looking for her?"

"That's not really any of your business."

Before House could say anything snappy back to him, Allison came walking through the door.

"House, I don't see any elevated…"

She trailed off when she saw the visitor.

"Call security."

House looked at her confused.

"What?"

The man held his hands up in a sign of surrender.

"Look Ally, I don't mean any harm. I –"

"Don't call me Ally, Steven!" she exclaimed. "You aren't supposed to be here. Now, you have five seconds to leave or I'm going to call security!"

House stood and sat on the edge of his desk, poised to defend Allison if this went where he hoped it didn't go.

The man called Steven took a step back, unwisely towards House.

"Don't you miss me Ally?"

Allison raised an eyebrow and made for the phone. At House's shake of the head, she took a step back. She knew he wanted to see how Steven knew her so well. Damn.

"Look you jackass," she told him. " I don't want anything to do with you. I don't want to see you, hear you, or even sense your presence."

Steven smirked.

"It wasn't long ago where you couldn't stop touching me and now you want me to believe this? C'mon, hun. Come back with me to New York and I'll forgive you for ever leaving me."

He made to move forward but stopped. He looked down at the restraining hand that House had put on his arm.

"Dude. What gives?"

House frowned and stood up between him and Allison.

"I don't give. I don't give patience and I don't just give my WIFE away so you better explain yourself or I won't give you anything but pain."

Steven blinked, taking in the words.

"Your wife?"

House nodded. Steven let out a bark of laughter.

'Oh this is too good. You married your boss, Ally? And I thought you were better than that."

Allison shook her head in disgust.

"I am. And I'm still better than you. I don't want you Steven so why can't you believe it?"

"You went to me when your husband was dying. You came to me. You trusted me. I was your confidant and then you suddenly leave after he dies. Why?"

Allison stepped forward and took House's hand into her own.

"Because I had to move on and I couldn't be with you."

"But why!"

"Because you're a conniving, sadistic man and I don't want that."

Steven stared at her for a minute and then stalked out the door, a string of four letter words following after him. House turned to Allison.

"Who the hell was that?"

After sitting down in one of his chairs, she sighed.

"When my husband was dying, I turned to Steven. Steven was his best friend and didn't mind since we were both having a rough time. Once my husband died, I found out that Steven had a drug problem and a girl hitting problem."

House recalled that even though it had been months after her husband had died, when he interviewed her for the first time, she had had a large bruise just on her neck. His anger at the man deepened and he vowed to rip him apart the next time he saw them.

"I left him and a few months later, he came after me and tried to take me back with him. Hence the bruise on the neck that you so kindly stared at while you interviewed me. I got a restraining order and he got even by slowly destroying my credibility at all of the hospitals I interviewed at. He claimed to be a patient that was psychologically damaged by me when I did evaluations. Thanks to your impatience, I got the job before he could call here."

House smiled at this and didn't tell her that Steven HAD called just after he had interviewed her. It was actually one of the reasons that he hired her. He had thought that she was a slightly less insane version of him. Guess he was wrong. He wasn't going to admit it though.

"And I haven't seen him since that day until now."

Allison looked up at him.

"Are you mad?"

House shrugged. "There's nothing to be mad at. As long as you don't cheat on me when I'm dying, I really don't care. What I do care about, though, is what we're going to name this little House. As I seem to recall, we just barely named the twins so this time I want to be ready."

She smiled and he knew he had successfully changed the subject.

"Ally?"

He grimaced.

"Sarah?"

He groaned (no offense to those named Sarah)and an idea struck her.

"Lottie?"

Lottie. Hmm. That might work.

"And if it's a boy?" he asked. "How about William?"

She grinned and he knew they had a plan. He grabbed his cane and stood up, picking up his work bag.

"How about we go home a half hour early? Chase and Foreman will know where we are and there's no patient so they shouldn't have a reason to come looking for us. There aren't any good soap operas on anyway."

She laughed and grabbed her bag too.

"Nice to know I'm more important than a few stupid soaps."

House snorted.

"You aren't. I just want to see if the twins made the new person cry yet."

Laughing, she shook her head and they went up to the day care.

Apparently, the new day care guy had been found in the bathroom during naptime by one of the kids. He had been trying to hang himself. The twins just stared up at their parents innocently. House tried not to grin, he really did. But the twins made it too easy to pick apart the rest of the staff. After apologizing profusely to the man, Allison pulled the kids and House onto the elevator. House watched her shoulders shake and thought she was crying.

"Allison?"

Laughter spilled from her as she shook her head.

"You… are going…to be in soooooooooooo much trouble… with Cuddy once she gets a hold of you."

House grinned in spite of himself. Let's see Steven come back. All he had to do was let the twins loose on him.

Another chapter down! Yay.

Kyo: You suck. And why am I in a House fanfic anyways? Hello! I'm a Fruits Basket character and I seriously doubt anyone will know what you're talking about.

Me: (Thinks about it) You're right! One second

After much scuffling, House pops into the picture.

House: What?

Kyo: (stares) Dude… who are you?

House: I am one of the main characters in this story. Who the hell are you?

Kyo: You're like that damn rat, you know! Damn it. I'm out of one story and into the next. Put me back WOMAN!

Me: Ahhh. Can you feel the love?