"I can't believe that you used the 'a cop, a nun and a 9-year-old boy walked into the ER' line as your opening." Cameron turns to House as the doors to the conference room closes behind them.

"Especially since we established that the nun walked into the clinic, the boy was carried into the ER by his parents, and the cop was taken in by ambulance." The team turns to Elliot disbelievingly. "What? Just clarifying." She retrieves her vibrating cell phone from her pocket and steps to the side to answer it.

"What does it matter how the case opened. The point is that I got through a conference without embarrassing the team or the hospital."

"So the comment about wanting to screw Cameron when you saw her in her dress the night of the benefit? What was that?" Chase asks, defending how embarrassed he saw that Cameron had become.

"That was a wake-up call for the audience," the team turns to see Angela and Alex approach. Angela continues on when they approach. "You might be Greg House, but parts of the departments were falling asleep in the audience. Hearing about how much you wanted to screw your gorgeous, younger Immunologist definitely got everyone's attention."

"See!" House exclaims, "It wouldn't look good for the hospital if everyone fell asleep during our speech. Thank you, Angela."

"You're welcome, Greg." She moves in to give Cameron a hug and gives House a kiss on the cheek in greeting. "All else aside, it was an interesting presentation. Out of curiosity, how much trouble do you think you'll get into if that comment about Alliso gets back to Dr. Cuddy?"

"Probably not as much as he was in when that case was over." Cameron supplies. "He was pulling triple clinic duty and lecturing in the diagnostics class for a month afterwards."

"So buy some tea, Greg. You're going to be doing a lot of lecturing in the foreseeable future." Alex teases.

"What are you guys doing here?" Cameron changes the subject before the conversation can get out of hand.

"Welcoming ceremony." Angela supplies, causing Cameron to grin widely.

"Really?!?"

"Really, little sister."

Cameron tries to cover her excitement and settles for bouncing in place momentarily. She stops and carefully schools her features when she sees the faces of her colleagues. Her siblings merely smile indulgently at her excitement. Cameron takes a deep breath to calm herself before turning to her colleagues.

"Our return train isn't until tomorrow afternoon, and we're not requited to attend the last intensive of the weekend. We can do what we want until then."

"Chase and I were discussing attending the last intensive regardless." Foreman supplies.

"I've got friends in port, I was gonna have dinner with them. That leaves you two to fend for yourselves." Reed gives her plans.

"Greg, want to join us for dinner?" Alex turns to House.

House enters the common room from his bedroom at the same time that Cameron exits hers. They look up and laugh at their similar state of dress - black from head to toe. Cameron looks professional in form-fitting black trousers and a crew neck top with black leather boots. House is in faded black jeans and a worn black The Who concert shirt, finished with his trademark Nike Shox. House limps over to take a closer look at the silver medallion that hangs around her neck.

"St. Luke?" House questions the patron saint that dons her neck.

"Patron saint of physicians." Cameron supplies.

"I thought you didn't believe in God. It goes without saying that you don't believe in his minions."

"I don't. But you have to put your faith in something. It was a gift from my grandmother; I was close with her. Now let's go, we don't want to be late." Cameron grabs the hand that House drops from her neck and drags him out the door.

The entire trip down the elevator, Cameron spends playfully smacking House's hands away from her. Entering the hotel restaurant, it's easy to spot the table of Cameron's siblings, because they're all dressed the same - black, with a silver medallion around their necks. House is quick to comment as they sit down.

"Religious folk would be quick to believe that this is some sort of cult gathering judging by our state of dress."

"This is never intentional." Maggie comments while digging in her purse.

"What is it? Everyone thinks that everyone else will remember the last time and wear something else, so they think that it won't hurt to wear black again?"

"Precisely." Maggie pulls a small jewelry box out of her bag - it's about the size of a ring box - and places it on House's plate.

"I'm flattered Maggie, but we're both taken, remember?"

"Just shut up and open it, Greg."

House opens the box to find a medallion inside. Maggie explains the significance as he pulls it out to take a closer look.

"The last person welcomed into the family gets to welcome the next one. It doesn't matter if you're Christian or not, we've all got our patron saint medallions, and what the medallion stands for is what matters."

"Gregory the Great?"

"Pope and Doctor of the Church; also the patron saint of teachers. The name is pure coincidence…unless your parents named you that after him." House looks up at each of the others around the table before slipping the chain over his head and then reaching down to take Cameron's hand

"So this means I'm in the family?"

"No, this means that if you ever get kicked out, you don't get back in." Alex supplies.

"And what if Allison and I get married?"

"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it."

House lets go of Cameron's hand to take a closer look at his medallion, wondering which saint all of the others wear. Cameron looks down at the hand he just released and notices something new.

"Um, Greg?"

"Yeah?" House knows that she's notices his gift, but continues to act in nonchalance.

"Are you serious?" House finally looks up.

"You're not going to make me get down on one knee are you? Because we've already established that isn't good for my leg, remember?"

Cameron stares at him, mouth open, barely able to squeak out "no" before House turns to face her, taking her hand in both of his.

"Marry me, Allison Cameron?"

Cameron remains silent, mouth hanging open, just nods her head in acceptance.

"Good." House faces the table again, taking Cameron's hand in his. "So what saints do each of you have?"

Each of the Cameron siblings stare at House in shock, wondering how he can behave so normally after proposing. At Alex's voice, Cameron snaps out of her haze and returns her attention to the conversation.

"Um…I've got Saint Thomas More."

"Ah, patron saint of Lawyers. Let me see if I can guess the rest of you." House turns to each of them in turn, "Normally I'd suggest St. Luke for you, Angela, but after what Ashley said last night, I'm going to go with Saint Michael; Ashley would be St. Vitus; Adam, St. Francis. What do you do, Maggie?"

"I'm a marriage counselor."

"Then I'd go with St. Valentine for you. And what do you do, Tyler?"

"I'm a counselor for an abuse shelter."

"That would make your saint…St…Adelaide?"

"I thought Allison said that you were an atheist?" Angela questions.

"I am, but you'd be surprised at the amount of random information floating around up here." House taps his temple. "Including lists of patron saints."

The siblings look to Cameron, waiting for her to comment, but isn't given the chance as Chase and Foreman approach the table. Since Cameron has her chin in her left hand with her elbow propped on the table, Foreman is quick to notice her ring.

"Hey everyone. Cameron? Is there something that you need to share?"

"Greg just proposed."

"WHAT?!" Everyone looks to Chase to see him staring at House and Cameron with his mouth hanging open in shock.

"Right." Foreman elbows Chase, shaking him out of his trance. "We'll just leave you with your family then. Congratulations." Foreman turns and pushes Chase away from the table towards the elevators. Once he's gone, Maggie turns to Cameron.

"Alright, how long did you two date, and who broke up with who?"

"We didn't really date per se. It was more of a friends with benefits relationship. And I suppose that I broke it off."

"You can tell…there's a man who's still in love with you."

"Too bad I'm taken." Cameron turns to House and gazes at him lovingly.

St Thomas More, patron saint of lawyers;

St Michael, patron saint of sickness and those in battle (the archangel);

St Vitus, patron saint of dancers;

St Francis, patron saint of ecologists;

St Adelaide, patron saint of abuse victims;

St Valentine, patron saint of affianced couples/engaged couples/happy marraiges/lovers/young people

Who wants to see the Cameron parents??? Cuddy's reaction??? General hospital reaction to the engagement??? If I get enough reviews, I might write one final chapter with all of that.