Chapter 2

Cameron's eyes went wide and she obliged immediately. As she took off at a stride down the hall there was click of a gun right by House's ear. Slowly he turned around and came nose to barrel of a gun.

'Hi' he said

'Call her back' said Clark

'Who?'

'You know who, your pretty little lap dog.'

'Well' House said 'if she's my lap dog than you must be pretty jealous I mean' he glanced over his shoulder at Cameron 'just look at her.'

'Call her back, along with the other three lab rats!'

'Wow, you just went from lap dog to lab rat in under ten seconds! Impressive, but I'd say you're lowering your standards a fair bit…'

'Call her back NOW!' he growled, House frowned

'Okay, okay, sheesh, no need to be rude about it!' he turned and called down the hall catching her just in time 'Cameron!' He said 'on second thought, just come back for a minute.' She shot him a confused glance from the end of the hall then began to walk back. House looked back at Clark 'you happy now?' just then Cameron appeared at the door

'What's up?' she asked as House ushered her in and closed the door. She froze when she saw Clark with the gun and her eyes went wide.

'I know that's what I said' House said. He did as he was told and closed the blinds of the private room.

'Now' Clark said, he turned the gun on Cameron but still looking at House 'you have sixty seconds to round up the other three ducklings or I'll shoot her.' House watched him carefully

'You've never held a gun before' he said.

'So' Clark replied

'Well it's a bit more complicated then point and shoot…'

'House?' Cameron said

'Yes dear damsel in distress' House replied

'You know it wasn't that long ago that you had this gun to your head.'

'What's going on in here?' came a familiar Australian accent

'Ah' Clark said 'right on cue! Come in' he pushed the gun harder against Cameron's head; Chase came into the room followed by Foreman and Wilson.

'Andrew' Wilson said (which was Clarks first name) 'what's going on?' Clark spoke forcefully

'You guys did something to me, and now I feel worse than I did when I came in! You're killing me and I want to know how!'

'Gimme, Gimme never gets don't you know your manners yet?' House muttered, this phrase received sharp looks from all over the room 'What?' he said. He stood up from leaning on the doorframe and stepped forwards 'you know another thing that doesn't get is putting a gun to the head of your doctor.' Clark didn't move 'besides, you wont shoot her anyway, you look flustered kid, you don't like guns.' Clark grabbed Cameron's wrist and pointed the gun at House

'Try me' he challenged, House was about to speak, but Cameron got there first.

'You're dying Clark' she said 'well… at least you were.' Wilson jumped in.

'We suspected that you had a rare form of liver cancer to start with…' Chase cut in

'But you were also on a great deal of drugs which would attack your liver functions…' Now it was Foreman's turn to jump in

'Uppers, downers, street drugs medication drugs, you name it you had it in your system…' Cameron pushed back in

'So to determine what was what we flushed out your system with steroids, but it reacted with something we didn't detect before in your system…'

'Turns out it was an airborne virus which targeted your liver cancer and made you sicker' Foreman concluded and finally House had a chance to get a word in

'I think we can fix it now, but we wont do it as long as you keep holding my Diagnostician hostage.' Finally he let her go, she strode towards her colleagues and moved between House and Wilson; he caught and held her gaze for a moment and didn't like what he saw.

'Now we need to do surgery to fix you up… Foreman started, but he didn't get to finish.

'You know I take it back' Clark said 'I won't let you "fix" me you're the reason I'm like this in the first place, probably exactly the way you planned it, right Allison?' Cameron looked up shocked; she never told this man her first name.

'Excuse me?' she said

'Don't play dumb with me Allison' he said pointing the gun at her again 'but I will enlighten everyone else, the name is Andy Clark' he looked back to Cameron as the color drained from her face 'now you remember, tenth grade in the library, you never forgave me for that and this is your version of revenge!'

'I didn't even know it was you!' Cameron cried

'Bull!' he shouted back and with that the gun went off…