Right, so I've written chapter 12 aswell as this, and if you review, I will update soon, otherwise I tend to forget to do so. Please review, it doesn't take long, and I am truly thankful for everyone I get. They really make my day.
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They both awoke late, hours after the inn had finished serving breakfast, so they decided instead to walk into the town to find food. As it happened they were only 300m or so away from the town centre. That however was the easy part.
They reached the town square and looked around, where could they go to find food? There was a church, a library, a war memorial and a bank.
"This is it?" Sneered House, "I knew this place was small, but people have to eat!"
Cameron rolled her eyes, when his comments weren't directed at her they were actually rather amusing.
They walked a lap of the square, peering out each exit to see if there was any type of restaurant down each one, but all they could see was a rather pathetic little Internet café with just three computers.
Deciding to ask for some directions, Cameron approached the only people around; everyone else was at school or work. Which is where the group of rather rough looking youths should probably have been.
Unfortunately rather than receiving any useful information, she got a few insults, a few suggestive questions, and a lot of words she didn't understand.
"I guess that's what the English mean when they refer to 'chavs'' She said.
"Shizzle." Replied House.
Finally they got directions to the food court from a girl (or they thought it was a girl) with many tattoos and drawn on eyelashes.
Settling down at their table, they ate their sandwiches and viewed the map Cameron had pulled out of her bag.
"Right, she lives here, and we are," She paused and scanned the map, "Here, that's about," she paused again and pulled a ruler out of her bag, she measured the distance between the two places, and checked the scale of the map. She returned the ruler to her nag and withdrew a calculator, she typed in a few numbers "Half a mile or so away, shouldn't take us more than 15 minutes to walk."
And so they finished their food and left.
They passed a playground on the way, it was deserted and Cameron couldn't resist going in to have a go on the swings, she slid onto the seat and kicked her legs on make herself move, she was having problems getting any momentum due to not wanting to flash everyone her underwear, when she felt a pair of strong hands on her back, pushing her forward, she squealed in delight as the wind whipped past her face. Looking behind her she could see House almost smiling!
"Thanks House!" she shouted.
"Hey!" he replied, "Don't go getting ideas about me being nice! I just wanted to see if you'd fall off!"
She laughed and chose to believe her version of the story.
Carrying on a short while later, they managed to loose themselves around a series of twisting roads, but by following the smell from a not to far off fish and chip shop, they found themselves back on a main road again.
Soon enough, they found themselves opposite a pretty little white house.
"This is it." Cameron whispered in anticipation.
"What's this woman's name again?" House asked, he could remember countless amounts of medical jargon, but he never really saw the point of names, they were just meaningless words.
Cameron consulted the piece of paper with the address on and replied "Malekshahi Cameron."
House raised his eyebrows at the name, and Cameron explained, "She was given her mothers maiden name as a first name."
House snorted, "Now there is a set of parents who truly dislike their kid!"
Crossing the road, Cameron stood on the front step, too nervous to bring herself to knock on the door. For all she knew Malekshahi didn't live here anymore, or she was away, if so, they had come all this way for nothing. And even if she was here, she might have been telling the truth when she said she'd wanted nothing to do with Dan, she might not even want to sign the paperwork!
A minute later, she was trying to control her breathing, and working up her courage to knock, when she saw a wooden cane appear over her shoulder, knock on the door, and withdraw again.
Just seconds later the door swung open to reveal a petite brunette woman in a neat blue suit.
She gasped.
"Molly!" gasped Cameron
"Millie!" House mocked.
The young woman looked horrified, she'd been expecting her friends to come round, but instead she'd got the crazy old limping man and his daughter!
"Oh God! What do you want now?"
Cameron went straight into efficient mode.
"Malekshahi Cameron?" she asked.
"Not anymore, it's Malekshahi Strong again now."
Cameron nodded, "I'm sure you remember receiving a call from PPTH, saying that you ex-husband, Dan, was in a coma after being in a car crash?"
Malekshahi replied in the affirmative.
"Well, I know that you said you wanted nothing to do with it, but you see, Dan is my only brother, and I'd really hate for some silly old feud between the two of you ruin his chance of survival. I'm sure you understand what I'm saying."
"Yes, I understand. You've come all this way, so that you and your father can guilt-trip me into coming backk with you to sign legal documents to help a man who I never want to see or hear from again. Not gonna happen!"
A shocked silence fell over the young doctor; she didn't understand why this woman would want her brother to suffer! Before she could think of a reasonable reply, House interrupted.
"If, like you said, I really am her father, then what we did last night, and most nights for that matter, is really, really wrong!"
Now it was Molly's turn to look shocked. Were these people dating? Surely not!
Cameron blushed, and began to speak earnestly, "Look, Molly, I don't know all the ins and outs of your relationship with Dan, and truthfully I don't want to. I just want the best for my brother, and he's not going to get the best if a judge gets to decide what happens to him."
"I get it, but I have a life, and a job, and I'm not going to drop it all for Dan! I did that once, and I regret it, I'm not going to make the same mistake."
"I'm not asking you to, all I'm saying is that he needs a proxy who cares!"
"Well I don't! So please, if you'll excuse me, I'm busy."
Cameron was on the verge of tears, it wasn't meant to be this hard!
"I'm sure somewhere very deep down, you still care!"
Malekshahi snorted, what kind of idealistic world did this woman live in?
"Look, you don't know how Dan treated me, or what he did to me, so I'll decided whether or not I care."
Cameron blinked, no matter what she said, this woman wasn't going to listen, she didn't even understand what she was asking.
"Are you done now?" Molly asked impatiently.
"No, we're not done. So get your head out of your butt and listen." House said angrily, "This woman is not asking much of you, she doesn't want you to drop your life and fly out to Dan, and if you'd given her even the slightest bit of respect and listened to what she was saying, you'd know that. All we need is for you to sign one little piece of paper, and we'll be gone. Forever."
Malekshahi looked deeply offended, no one spoke to her like that!
"Fine." She answered stiffly, "I'll sign your stupid form. But you make sure when he wakes up, Dan knows I did this for me, not for him."
Cameron nodded gratefully, and pulled two sets of legal documents, and a pen out of her bag.
"Just sign here, and here, you get to keep one copy, I'll keep the other, and we'll be on our way," she smiled, trying to make this as easy as possible. She looked at House, to show she was thankful for what he'd done. But his eyes were trained on something inside the house."
"Being an air-stewardess is a full time job, right?" He asked.
She nodded.
"And it pays well?"
She nodded again.
"So there's no need to take up little jobs on the side?"
She shook her head, if she didn't know how desperate this man's girlfriend (as unnatural as that might be) was, she would have slammed the door.
"Do you like to spy on people?"
She shook her head and wished the petite brunet would finish her half of the signing so she could end the grilling.
"Have you been in a relationship since you got divorced?"
She shook her head, wondering briefly where this was going.
"Trying to connect to aliens?"
She shook her head.
"So you don't baby-sit, spy on people or try to pick up alien signals?"
This man was crazier than she had ever imagined, and she shook her head slowly, signing the papers and handing them back to her ex-not-quite-step-sister-in-law.
"Oh."
That was the last word exchanged between the two parties as the door was shut.
They began to walk away and Cameron asked, "What was with all the questions?"
"Oh," House replied, "It was nothing, I just wanted to know why she had a baby monitor in her hall."