KK, Chapter 9 and 10 are together because chapter 9 is extremely short. This is the final chapter in this story; please Read and Review and Thank you for hanging on till the end. You're praise is unbelievably appreciated so here we go…

Chapter 9

Two weeks passed into nonexistence, Andrew Clark raked in two accounts of attempted murder and resisting arrest as well as possession of an illegal firearm. He was taken into custody and had a trial date set up. This news reached Cameron by way of the duckling postal service and almost instantly everyone began to see a change. She finally started sleeping by herself in the hospital; she ate and looked much more chipper than she had before. Wilson, being seemingly tuned to the feelings of the human race, saw a significant change quicker than anyone else had, she still hadn't told anyone but him about her incident with Clark in the tenth grade and yet she could speak his name without that shiver of pure deep rooted hatred.

Cameron took solace in the fact that her friends at work didn't treat her any different than they had before that fateful morning. House started treating her like a total idiot who didn't know what she was talking about again (she took this as a good sign), Foreman and her got back into their regular, daily, bantering, and Chase started to poke fun at her condition. Even Wilson treated her like he treated everybody else, speaking as the voice of reason for the clan again.

As soon as she was capable of doing so, her and the four boys went out for dinner at the nearest Steak and Ribs Joint. Cameron had never had a better time that she could remember. After an few hours she had leaned over to him and asked Wilson to take her back to the hospital, but, lets just say, they didn't quite get that far.

The next day House was the first to spot their guilty faces and officially gained perfect blackmail power over them both, he had Wilson doing his clinic duty for the next week, but Cameron had argued her case with her injured arm and had gotten herself a rain check, but she didn't doubt that House would forget any time soon.

Chapter 10

Six weeks passed in total before Cuddy finally allowed Cameron to go home, partially because she insisted on doing work when she was at the Hospital, so Cuddy decided to send her home. She was to leave after shift on Friday.

House walked into the conference room near the end of shift to see the rest of the team gathered around chatting merrily, and in the center of it all was Cameron with her arm in a sling. But despite that, she looked the best she'd looked in the past month. Her hair was tied back in a half ponytail and she was wearing make-up, she looked alert and awake and all the color had returned to her face. She was leaning back in her chair laughing at something Chase had said when Foreman looked up and spotted House. Foreman nodded at him and elbowed Wilson in the ribs, he looked up and Chase and Cameron Followed. Cameron caught and held his gaze only for a moment but it seemed enough, Chase jerked his head towards the door and the other two men nodded then go up and followed him out, Wilson glanced at House on the way out, but he didn't return the gaze. Cameron rose off her chair and walked towards him, not breaking the gaze, she reached inside her pocket and pulled out a fifty-dollar bill, which she handed to House. He took the money and looked back at her

'What's this?'

'I bet you fifty dollars that you couldn't take an easy case, you won'

'No I didn't'

'Yes you did, you took mine.' House looked at her for a moment then handed the bill back out to her

'Contrary to popular belief, you were never just a case.' He said. There was a moment of silence before Cameron stepped towards him and did something she thought she'd never get the guts to do. She pulled him into a one armed hug, and to her shock, he returned the gesture. The door opened as they drew apart, Wilson cleared his throat and Cameron turned and smiled at him.

'You coming?' he asked she nodded at him and looked back to House, she closed his hand around the bill

'Keep it' she said then she turned and walked towards Wilson. He placed a hand on her back and said something in her ear, she nodded and strode off.

'And the one and only House makes his amends' he said before closing the door and following her out.

'What was that all about?' Wilson asked catching her just outside the door, he stepped around her and placed both hand on the wall behind her trapping her between him and the wall.

'I owed him money' she said with a smile

'Yeah, that all?' he teased moving closer to her and keeping his hands against the wall she smiled bigger

'Yeah' she replied, she glanced over his shoulder to make sure no one they knew from work was watching. She looked back at him through the top of her eyes watching him carefully, there was a moment of silent teasing and Wilson took one last step forward and kissed her. Cameron felt wonderfully like a schoolgirl at that moment as he kept her trapped gently between him and the brick wall. She kept her arms down as she kissed him back for one reason only. She savored the moment then with a quick movement she broke away and jabbed him in the ribs.

'Aw!' he said jerking back and catching his ribs, she slipped away from him and stepped back.

'Can you catch me?' she teased as she walked backwards

'You don't know where the car is' he replied

'Who ever said that?' and she wheeled around and took off. She felt so great for the first time in weeks as she heard Wilson's footsteps pounding after her, and she laughed, for the first time in the past two months, she laughed whole heartedly.

House sank into a chair and put his feet up on his desk examining the note of cash in his hands, somehow he knew that money would taunt him until he really fulfilled Cameron's request, though he would never admit that to anyone. She didn't count, in order to make amends for real, he had to take a case for the people, he had to prove that… in truth… he really did care.

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