It was the 27th, and Ace and her gang have just finished school. Ace finally got her blue hair design, and now looks exactly like Wolf. Our story will pick up at about 10:00AM. Ace is in sitting with a bunch of other kids her age that made Platy's Plan in the lecture hall. She was hoping for some cute guys, but that wasn't gonna happen. Well at least she would get to annoy House all summer. Cameron and Chase are having a small problem. Chase didn't know about it though… Foreman's relation ship was working out great. The wedding was planned for December.
Cameron sat in the Lab. She didn't know how to tell Chase. She started crying. House walked in.
"Cameron, what's wrong?" She didn't answer.
"Do you want to talk to Chase," he asked. There was something in his voice she didn't normally hear. What was it?
"Cameron, do you need to talk to Wolf?" She nodded slightly.
"I'll go get her," he said in a caring voice. That was it, caring. She never heard him 'caring.' Well, he cared about the patients. But this was different. More like a... father?
"Thanks, House," she said in a small voice. He half smiled, and walked out.
"Cameron, you okay," came Wolf's voice. She heard her sniff. She saw Cameron crying hard.
"Oh, Allison what happened?"
"How do you tell your boy friend that you missed your period?"
"What," asked Wolf.
"I don't know how to tell him. Oh, Julia, could you help me? Please?"
"Of I'll help. But Al, you gotta tell him," she said.
"I know," she said.
Meanwhile, in the PPTH lecture hall.
"Hey Cuddy," screamed a voice.
'Great, just what I need, House Jr. running around. Well she in not getting diagnostics. She isn't…' But Ace's voice interrupted her train of thought.
"Can I work with House," she asked.
"No. Last time you did, you became a match maker. I'm not running a dating service."
"Oh, come on, they were meant to be, not much longer till Chase knocks her up…"
"Awww… the Aussie is taken," asked a voice in the back of the room.
"Yep, with the pretty one, Cameron."
"OK, does anyone want diagnostics," Cuddy asked.
"Cha, me…" Ace said. "You don't want me matching up all of oncology…"
"Hey you have to tell them who da boss is," said House, walking in.
"Dr. House is in the house," said Ace.
"Never again," said House. "You might want to let Ace join my team."
"Why," said Cuddy, a bit annoyed. What was the girl gonna do?
"Ummm… she may black mail us."
"WHAT!"
"Haha, now's I don't gotta," said Ace with a proud look on her face. She turned to the boy next to her, "Don't you love cameras."
"What, you got pictures, how the hell?"
"Yes, you admit it!"
"We didn't admit it," said Cuddy.
"Lis… Cuddy, er, just give her what she wants."
"No, House, she doesn't…"
"Cuddy, I do have proof, like the fact this is a problem. Also, you are being recorded."
"What?"
"Will you give me the position already?"
"Yes yes, you got it, just go, and not a word to anyone." She wrote it down. Ace smiled.
"The whole damn hospital knows anyway. Hurry Cudds… your baby is sick." She left. House followed her.
"Go look for Cameron in the lab, she was crying."
"Thanks House." And she ran toward the Lab.
Cameron was still crying when she got there.
"I don't know how to tell him. Oh, Julia, could you help me? Please?"
"Of I'll help. But Allison, you gotta tell him," she said.
"I know," she said.
"What happened," asked Ace. Cameron and Wolf looked at her.
"I think I'm pregnant," said Cameron.
"Oh sweetie," she put an arm around the doctor.
It was probably a strange sight. Two 'punks' comforting the hospital goody-goody.
"I don't know how to tell Rob."
"Just tell him."
"What, you don't think it would be a shock."
"It would be a shock, no matter how you break it to him. " Cameron stopped crying.
"Do you want me to get him," Ace asked.
"Yes, I guess," she said.
"I'll be right back."
Ace went to the conference room. Chase was there doing a cross word puzzle. He looked up.
"Oh, hey Ace."
"Cameron needs to uh… talk to you about something er… private, she is in the Lab," she said.
"What happened," he asked getting up and leaving.
"Because I can answer you when you are running," said Ace, rolling her eyes. Foreman looked worried. He got up too.
"You sit," said House from the back.
"What, just because you don't care—"
"Foreman, sit," said Ace, and he did.
"Wow, you have him trained." The teen left for the Lab.
When she got there, Chase was already hugging Cameron.
"What's wrong, Ally," he tried to smile.
"I… I… m…m…missed my p…" She didn't have to say anymore. Chase's face dropped. He looked at the tears on her face.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm not upset I just…" She didn't know why she was crying.
"You are scared," Ace supplied. "It's ok Cam…" Ace was right.
Chase kissed the still crying Cameron. He didn't know what to say. He hugged her. She was shaking hard.
"Oh, Ally, don't be scared. It's okay."
"I'm not ready to be a mother," she sobbed.
"You'll make a great mother." This was Wolf.
"But… but last time…" Ace walked to Cameron.
"Cameron, you can tell us."
"No, I want to forget it."
"No, you don't. You want remember… him?" Cameron nodded.
"What was his name," Chase asked.
"Ryan James Patrick," she frowned, "He was three months old. My husband had just died a few months earlier. I got up to check on him one night, and…" She began crying to ard again.
"Oh, Ally," Chase said. He wiped the tears off her cheek. Cameron hugged him tighter.
"I'm so sorry," Ace and Wolf said together.
"He was so little. It was my fault. If I checked on him more often…"
"Ally, I'm sure it wasn't your fault. I know it wasn't your fault."
"He was so beautiful," she whispered. A nurse walked by and looked at the group.
"I wanna go…"
"OK, where to?"
"I just wanna get out of here."
"You wanna go to the conference room?"
"I guess," she said. They left and walked towards the conference room.
CONFERENCE ROOM
House saw Cameron coming down the hall. Well, he saw Wolf's and Ace's bright red hair bobbling their way towards the door. He thought about leaving, but figured that wouldn't really help. He looked at the two red heads, and noticed for the first time, the uncanny resemblance between the two. Just then the gang walked in.
"Are you okay," Foreman asked as soon as Cameron walked in.
"Yep, she's just dandy," said Ace, "Which is why she is crying. Are you the doctor who asks a kid with a broken leg if it hurts?" She stared at him. "I'll bet you ask House if his leg hurts."
"Umm… Sorry for trying to help."
"Go get me a Midol, that would help," said Wolf.
Cameron sat down on a chair. She asked House if they had a case.
"Nope, sorry. Hey Foreman, go find one."
"Why me?"
"Because Cameron is obviously stressed, which means she and her boyfriend aren't going anywhere. Wolf is her best friend, and the littlest duckling isn't qualified."
"I'm a duckling, how touching," said Ace, flattered.
"Of course, you have given me enough migraines."
"It's not like I shot you up with nitroglytheryn(sp). You did that yourself."
"Who tells you these wild stories."
"WILSON," they all said, and Ace added a "Duh."
"Well, Foreman, go, be gone," said House.
"Why can't you go?"
"Cuddy's radar is on. I can't take anymore sex from that woman." Ace was the only one who knew he was really sleeping with her, and when they didn't treat each other any differently. People pretty much forgot the rumor, despite what she told Cuddy.
"I'm not looking for sex," Cuddy said from the doorway. "Try, Clinic Duty."
"Nice cover," said House and gave her the thumbs up.
"Now!"
"5 more minutes." But then Cuddy noticed Cameron crying, so she stopped arguing with House long enough to figure out what happened.
"Dr. Cameron, what's wrong?"
"Oy, Cameron, if I tell you a funny story would you stop crying," Ace asked. "K, so I was at CCD, right? Well we were doing a trust exercise. My leader goes 'If you give us something important, we will let you see inside this box. What is in the box will make you completely happy.' So no one guessed what it was, and no could decide what 'important thing' to give, so the leaders said cell phones. Of course, I forgot my cell phone. So I ask if I can just give something important. They go yes, so I look around in my purse, and I got nothing. So this guy was all bugging me, that I HAD to of had something. So I was waaaay PMSing, and decided to mean. I gave him a tampon."
It had the desired effect. All the men turned red, and all the women laughed.
"What was in the box," asked Wolf.
"A bible, gag me." At this everyone laughed, except Chase.
"What is so funny," he asked. Which, of course, made everyone laugh harder.
"I don't get it…"
"Well, I'm a deist, for one. The bible is just a collection of silly stories about talking snakes."
"You don't believe in God," Chase asked, surprised. He figured everyone believed in something. Even Cameron said God, and made references to him all the time.
"Wells, here what did it for me: You have free-will! As long as you are straight and don't abort and don't sin.If you use your free will, you will go to hell. What the hell does a fetus being a life have to do with believing in something/one that is all powerful?" Everyone, except Chase, nodded in agreement.
"Do any of you believe in a higher power?"
"Well… I just said I was a deist, but whatever…" Chase looked sort of stunned. He went from almost becoming a priest, to having friends who don't believe in God at all.
"Are you being stubborn, I'm saying I believe in a 'higher power' so to speak just not the same way you do."
"You guys know that if your wrong about this whole big picture thing, you are going to hell, right," asked Wilson, who had walked in a bit ago, but hadn't said anything.
"No, because if your God is all forgiving, then he would forgive us for not believing in him," said Cameron. She was finally distracted from the whole pregnancy thing. It was really fascinating watching her boyfriend fight with a 14 year old girl over religion.
"You don't believe we have an after life?"
"No," Ace said bluntly.
"There has to be something though."
"Law of Conservation of Mass kind of thing. We are reborn but we don't remember the old life."
"This is all fascinating, but we have to get to our case," said House.
"You don't have a case," said Cuddy.
"I do now," and motioned for everyone to turn around. They looked out to see a boy seizing on the ground outside the room.
"Robby," Ace asked looking at the kid.
