"Where is everyone?" Chase asks.
"Dunno. House is always late, isn't he anyway?" Foreman says not looking up from the newspaper.
"So what do you think of Kimee?" Chase says.
"Chase…" Foreman says scoldingly.
"What?" Chase says innocently.
Foreman rolls his eyes.
"Well, she's pretty, I guess. Exactly like House personality-wise, though," he says looking at Chase.
"Except she could probably kick your ass," Chase say.
"Hey, House could kick your ass and he's got a cane," Foreman says.
"Yep, and it's very useful for pointing, jabbing and hitting with," House says walking in and dropping his bag on the table.
"Where's Cameron?" Foreman asks.
"You tell me," House says. "Any new cases?"
"Yeah, 22 year-old, female, absence seizures, abdominal pains and sleeping 18 hours a day," Chase says handing House the file.
"Oh sounds fun," House says frowning as he reads the file.
Just then Cameron walks in, flustered.
"Sorry I'm late," she says.
"What, car trouble?" Chase says grinning at Foreman. He throws up his hands in defeat.
"Get over that already!" he says exasperated.
Chase just smiles sheepishly.
"No," Cameron says giving him a look that would scare the bravest person on earth into a coma.
After coming up with a few possible diagnoses and ordering a series of tests, the three young doctors get up to leave when Kimee comes storming in, looking ready to start a fire.
"House!" she screeches (yes, screeches.)
"Uh-oh!" House says in mock-terror.
"Erhem, where were you last night?" she asks menacingly.
Cameron looks down, blushing but no one notices. House doesn't even flinch.
"I come back, right, at 2 in the morning, and so fortunately, I have forgotten my keys," Kimee says.
"What were you doing out at 2 am?" House says.
"It doesn't matter," she says putting her hand up to quieten him. "The point is I was there for, like, 2o mins knocking on the door, calling your phone until I gave up and went over to Wilson's place and crashed there!"
"So sorry. Really, I mean it. Staying in the same place with Julie? Nightmare," House says shuddering.
Kimee glares at him icily.
"So? Where were you?" she says, hands on her hips.
"Ah, wouldn't you like to know," House says smugly.
By now Cameron was almost shuffling her feet like a guilty 10year-old.
"Shouldn't we go test the patient now," Cameron says.
"What? No way, this is really–" Chase says before being ushered out by Cameron followed by Foreman.
Kimee is still standing there, looking up at House indignantly
"So?" she asks.
"You know I don't know where you get that terrible trait of nosiness," House says walking into his office.
"Fine if you're not gonna answer, I'll have to fill in the gaps for myself. You were with someone. A woman, last night," she's rather smugly.
"Right… so where do you get that whacked out idea?" House asks.
"Well, you have the smell of perfume all over you–" Kimee says.
"It's called cologne. A guy's gotta smell good or else all is lost," House says matter-of-a-fact-ly.
"And you're wearing the same thing you wore yesterday," she says pointing at his clothes.
"You actually don't know me that well do you?" House says incredulously looking at his shirt. "I don't get time to do laundry. I am a very busy man." House says.
"And finally you're not actually denying it," Kimee finishes off with a look of self-satisfaction on her face. "Believe me House; you cannot keep me from anything. I will find out what you were up to last night. Don't you remember? I'm related to you," she says before walking out haughtily
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So why had House and Cameron kept quiet about their blooming relationship? The two had decided it was too early to tell everyone, especially Wilson and Kimee, especially Stacy even. It had been more of a silent agreement, with Cameron knowing House wasn't full ready for anything at the moment, and she didn't want to push him (she had tried that before and look where that ended up). In time once they had decide where things were headed, they would act no different to each other, and that suited them both fine, Cameron knowing that she would be mocked by Chase and Foreman, and House knowing that he would be mocked by Wilson and Kimee.
But at least something was happening.
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Another shortie, but hopefully a beautie. Ok even though you can imagine anything on FanFiction I don't know whether I can ignore this: I just watched "Daddy's Boy" the other night and when House said he was the only child, I kinda realised how that would impact my story! Aaargh! So I really need your advice.
Should I just keep pretending House actually has a brother, let alone a niece OR should I go back and change it so that Kimee is actually his cousin, which I know huge age difference but I have a cousin who is like almost 20 years older than me. Maybe she can be his cousin's daughter. Just please reply and help me out!