A/N: This is the longest chapter yet and it's all fluff...so..have fun reading it..it's going to be a few days before I will upadte again..still need to work on my other story so..have fun with the six pages of fluff. Fluffy Bunny!
Chapter 9
"You guys have a new case. One of you is going to have to call House and get him to come in, because I'm not doing it for you," Cuddy said throwing the file at Foreman, before turning and leaving.
"You know, you'd think that she'd be happy that House hasn't been here to piss anyone off," Foreman said as he looked over the case file.
"You get to call House."
"Rock, paper scissors?"
"Coin toss?" Chase suggested, pulling a quarter from his pocket.
"2 out of 3?"
"Sure, heads or tails?"
"Tails."
"How'd I guess that?" Chase caught it and flipped it on to the back of his hand. "Heads."
"This is looking up for me," Chase said as the other doctor flipped the coin in to the air a second time.
"Tails." They both held their breath waiting for the last flip to be completed. "Tails, looks like you spoke to soon. Call him, maybe if you're lucky Cameron will answer." Foreman let slip that information. He hadn't been sworn to secrecy, but he was sure that House would have wanted to be the one to tell him.
"Cameron? Why would Cameron answer the phone? What's up?"
"Nothing. Just call him so we can get the show on the road."
The first thing Chase heard after the phone was answered was a child screaming in the background.
"What?" House's terse response came through.
"We have a new case and Cuddy wants you to come in." Chase said quickly. He could tell that House was not in a good mood.
"I can't. You'll just have to tell me what's wrong." He said as the crying lessened.
"House, Dr. Cuddy is the one-"
"Chase, listen closely. I can't come in right now. I don't have a car seat for my car and Cameron won't be back for, like, an hour. If Cuddy pushes the fact that she wants me to come in, then she can find a baby sitter that Cameron would approve of. Now tell me what the case is."
"Foreman took it, I haven't even looked at it yet."
"Well, call me back when you have had a look at it and when you've done a patient history." House said and then hung up, before Chase could add something else.
Chase found Foreman finishing up the patient's history.
"House coming in?" Foreman asked leaving the patient's room.
"Nope, we're supposed to call him back."
"Did you tell him that Cuddy is in a mood?"
"Nope, 'cause he's in a mood."
"Great, just what we need," he said as they entered the conference room.
"I think his mood was more based on the screaming child that was left with him."
"Cameron left Charlotte with him?"
"It appears that way. I'm told to tell Cuddy that if she insists that he come in, she is supposed to find a suitable baby sitter, one that Cameron would a prove of."
"I can't see that happening today. I thought that yesterday when they went shopping that would have bought another car seat."
"Are they dating or something? Cause you seem to know an awful lot here that you're not sharing."
"Yes, they are. They have been together at least 6 months. But I would guess that if you talked to Wilson he would know more."
"Actually I don't know anymore than you do." Wilson said entering the room.
"How did they tell you?" Foreman asked.
"I went to House's Monday night and after a minute I saw a kid sleeping in a play pen, asked who she belonged to and then Cameron came in and said they were out of condoms." Both Foreman and Chase made sour faces.
"Thank God that is not how I found out. They were fighting and then all the sudden Cameron yells out that they're together. But then later I heard her tell him that he could take her temperature."
"Thank you for sharing that information. I now have images in my head that I don't need. Thankfully the kid isn't theirs so I don't have to think about them-"
"Chase stop. Why are you here Wilson?"
"House called. I wanted me to see what kind of case you have and if you really need his help."
"We called him because Cuddy told us to. Now if she asks we can say that we called." Foreman said.
"You caught him at a bad time. Charlotte tripped over herself and her head hit the coffee table. And instead of buy a second car seat yesterday, Cameron bought two high chairs."
"They're that serious that she's buying everything in twos?" Chase asked, surprised to find out more information on his co-worker and boss.
"Yup, they were here yesterday and talked to Stacy about doing adoption papers."
"Are you sure? Cause that's what they were fighting over on Monday. House wanted to use Stacy to draw up a new will for Cameron and she didn't want to use Stacy."
"Positive, Cameron didn't look too upset, but she wasn't happy either from what I hear. Anyways, you guys should call House and tell him about your patient, before he blows another gasket." Wilson said and then left the room.
"What happened here?" Cameron asked coming into the apartment seeing a bag of frozen vegetables lying on the coffee table.
"We had a little accident. Charlotte tripped over herself and had a meeting with the coffee table." He whispered from his place on the couch as the baby slept in his arms.
"How bad is it?"
"I put the peas on it as soon as it happened, so it's better than what it could have been."
Cameron rolled her eyes. "How bad?"
"She has a nice black eye." He said as he shifted Charlotte so Cameron could look at her eye.
"Oh my God. She didn't break anything did she?" Cameron asked, taking her first look at the bruise. She didn't want to touch the tender area, because she was worried about waking her up.
"No, she fine it's just bruised. We need to get a second car seat. Chase called while you were gone. We got a new patient and Cuddy wants me to come in."
"I didn't even think about taking it out of my car, I'm sorry. I did stop and buy one on my way home though. We just have to install it."
"Thanks."
"I'll come in with you. I'll take her up to peds and get her looked at and then I'll come down and help."
"Allison, she's fine and you don't need to come help. I'm sure that the other ducklings and I will manage just fine with out you."
"A) I'm a worrier and you know it and B) I want to go back to work. I know it's only been 4 days, but I miss it."
"I'm sure you won't be saying that when we get there."
"Did you two manage to get a history this time?" House said entering the conference room.
"Yes, and just for the record Cuddy was the one who told us to call you before we even read the file," Foreman defended himself.
"Yes, well Cuddy can bite me. And next time read the file and take the history before you call. You never know what you might be interrupting something important."
"How is Charlotte? Wilson told us about her hitting her head."
"Well, mommy freaked out a little when she came home to a black eye, but everything is fine."
"Mommy? Cameron know you call her that?" Chase asked, keeping his other snide comments to himself.
"Nope, but since you want to know about my personal life I'm sure that I can find something for you do. Like a month of Sundays in the clinic. On with the patient. What does he or she present with?"
"Jennifer Abbott, age 35, complains of a stiff neck, headaches, and some numbness in her hands. She also has a fever of 102.3. We've already scheduled an LP to check for meningitis." Foreman said before his counter part could dig himself any deeper.
"Good, good. IV fluids for now. She having any shortness of breath?"
"Not that she said, but we can keep an eye out for that."
"How is our little princess?" House asked as soon as Cameron opened the door. Charlotte's head was curled in to Cameron's neck.
"She's fine. They offered to X-Ray her head for me, but I said no. I also picked up the paper work to put her in daycare upstairs."
Foreman and Chase sat there and watched what was going on. When Charlotte heard House's voice she perked up enough to see where he was.
"Why don't you show Chase and Foreman here what her eye looks like and then we can get back to business."
Both sat stunned as they saw the huge bruise around her eye.
"She just hit a table?" Foreman asked as he reached towards her. She recoiled further into Cameron. Foreman pulled back not wanting to frighten her.
"She caught the edge just right. Just before Chase called." The realization of that statement stopped the wonderment of why House was extra cranky.
Cameron looked at the white board to see what their new patient had.
"The boys here are going to do a lumbar puncture and are going to call us when the results come in" House redirected to the other doctors, "If Cuddy comes in, tell her I said you were smart doctors and you can handle the case yourself. If you run in to problems call me."
"Are you jerking us around?" Chase asked.
"Nope, call me when those results come back and I'll tell you what to do next. Also find out if Ms. Abbott has been out of the country in the last couple of weeks."
"What does she have?"
"I won't know until you do that test and get that info since Dr. Foreman failed to do it the first time around. Now hop to. it. And please don't let me say that ever again. Ok, I'm going home."
"We should stop for some baby Tylenol. I'm sure that when she goes to bed tonight it's not going to be pretty. That's on the side of her face the she sleeps on." House made an ouch face as he held the door for Cameron to go through. "I forgot, I called Ronnie to cancel the apartment search and start a house search. But while I was on my way home I think I found the perfect house."
"How did that happen? You take same route every time you go that way."
"Traffic was bad on my way back so I took the side streets. I found this one story about a block from a park. The neighborhood looked good, but I want to ask Ronnie about it. And for now she's 18 months old, I don't need to be thinking about schools yet. Who knows how much it can change in 4 years anyway." House nodded as Cameron continued to talk. "Say, you do know what she had right? The patient?"
"I know what she has, but there really isn't anything I can do about. Once we find out if she was out of the country and the test results come back I'll know for sure what we're dealing with. She'll just be on IV fluids and we'll make her as comfortable as possible."
"And if she hasn't been out of the country?"
"Then she's screwed cause I don't know what she has. Come on let's get out of here before Cuddy makes me stay and we can stop by and look at your house."
"Great. I think you'll like it."
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