If anyone has any ideas about 'future' events, let me know. Someone mentioned bringing Debra back, and I wasn't going to, but I think I might even bring back his father and add more drama.

Please let me know if I get off base again, but NOT if they're out of character. I just mean time continuity or erred in something I've said.

Ok, this is a little boring, but the next chapter should be good.

Steph

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

"No, House. I'm not kidding. Cameron is going to need someone with her for at least two weeks," Cuddy said as she and House sat on her couch in her office.

"No way. I'm not going to do it," he told her defiantly.

She knew it was going to be a hard sale, but she already had a backup plan; two, actually.

"House, you have Cameron at your place for two weeks and I'll take off two weeks of your clinic duty. Besides, she'll need 24-7 care and I think that's a fair deal."

House looked at her thinking over her offer.

"A month."

"No," Cuddy answered.

"Three weeks."

"No," Cuddy said again firmly.

"That is just so unfair!" House exclaimed as he stood up and put his hands on his hips.

"One week," she changed the offer.

"You first offered two weeks," he pouted.

"House, the truth is with her emotional state that if she were to be forced to believe what she believes to be reality too suddenly, it could jeopardize her recovery. She has to allow her memory to come back gradually, not overload her with it all at once." She hesitated before she continued.

"Two weeks, and if you challenge me again it will be zero weeks."

House sighed heavily and walked out of her office. He hated to negotiate with Cuddy because most of the time he'd always back down or get less of a deal than he really wanted. He hadn't seen Cameron since he first arrived back from Michigan so he decided to pop in to see her.

As he was walking down the hall on her floor, it suddenly hit him that he was hungry. He went to the cafeteria and ordered a dry Reuben for himself and a chicken salad sandwich for Cameron. He proudly waked back to her room and put Cameron's sandwich on the tray. He sat down in the chair next to her bed and started in on his sandwich; he was really getting tired of Reuben sandwiches and kept staring at the chicken salad sandwich.

Ah, why change a good thing, House thought to himself. She looked better and better every time he saw her and he was relieved. He just didn't know how to deal with Cameron, especially if he had to spend so much time with her. At the moment he wished he was doing clinic duty rather than having to deal with her.

"Greg, if you want my sandwich you can have it," Cameron said, bolting House out of his thoughts.

House put his sandwich on the tray and stood at her bedside.

"How are you feeling?"

"I'm good. I am so ready to go home. Thanks for the sandwich," she said as she reached for it and took a bite.

House saw how awkward it was for her to eat at the angle her head was set so he pressed the button to elevate her torso.

"Thanks. Cuddy said I can go home Wednesday," she said then her face contorted as if she were in pain.

"You need something?"

"No, I'm okay. I'm tired of sleeping. I've been talking with Brenda; she recommended an in-home nurse to take care of me at home."

House inwardly jumped for joy. He'd still have two weeks off clinic duty and Cuddy would never know.

"Greg, Cuddy already knows I turned her down so don't get any ideas in your head."

House's spirit suddenly died.

"I'm looking forward to spending time together. It seems like we haven't done anything in such a long time."

That's because we haven't done anything together.

Two days later, House is at Cameron's bedside packing her bag of clothes she'd been wearing the week before, when Chase, Foreman and Cuddy came into the room. Cuddy held a bouquet of flowers with a 'get well soon' balloon attached and handed it to Cameron. She smiled and thanked them. Foreman helped her into the wheelchair and led her out of the hospital with the others in tow.

"Now, Cameron, you take it easy. You have the next six weeks off and we'll miss you. But we'll come to visit," Cuddy said as House left the group to get his car.

He wasn't ready for this: he couldn't even handle his best friend stay with him more than one night and here he had Cameron stay with him for two weeks. He made a mental note of keeping a list of delivery food restaurants by the phone so at least he could feed her. He had no idea how he was going to help her with everyday tasks.

He'd have to do something so beyond his character that he felt sick to his stomach, but he had no choice. Something reminded him of what his cousin, Debra, told him: '…she may just be 'the one' for you…'

She was also right in the fact that he had pushed those he cared about away, even his best friend. Was this a test for House? Could he be selfless and give her the attention and care she needed while she recouped, and until she gained her memory back?

He would have to try. He'd hate it, but he would try.