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Chapter Eight

Chase sat opposite Lilley in the cafeteria gazing at her intently; she looked a lot like her mother, but had her father's eyes. It was the same with her brother, he had only seen him for a few moments before but he had seen the same mix of Cameron and House as he saw now. She sipped her coke slowly looking around her feet swinging in mid air as she sat back on the bench.

Chase shook his head in disbelief. He and Foreman had kept in touch with Cameron over the years, they hadn't seen her much a couple of times in the past years when she had travelled back for a weekend. They had never visited her, which was partly there fault and partly hers. He assumed that's why they didn't know about her children, it was then that he realised House may not know. Snapping out of his daze he leant forward and got the girls attention.

"You like the soda?"

She nodded. "Yeah, its nice."

"Good. So is it just you, your mum and Chris?"

"Yup. We live just outside of the city and in the morning mum drops us off at school on her way into the city to work."

"Cool!" He swallowed. "So what about your dad?" She shrugged and he continued to probe. "You don't speak to him?"

She shook her head. "We've never met him."

"Oh. Do you know his name?" She shook her head once more and sipped her drink. "Are you not curious at all about him?"

"Nah not really. I've got mum, and Chris, and Uncle Johnny is like our dad kinda…" her face suddenly brightened and she pointed at Chase. "You look like our Uncle Johnny. You'd like him, he's soooo cool!" Chase nodded before finishing his drink, crushing the can and throwing it in the bin. He stood and held out his hand.

"Ready to go see your mum and brother?" She looked at him her eyes filling with fear again he nodded at her. "It will be fine, don't worry. I'll be there." She looked him in the eye and took his hand.

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Allison sat next to her son's bed clutching his hand, watching the monitors carefully. Standing up she let go of his hand and drew the blinds closed, and shut the door. Opening the rucksack Lilley had packed her Allison pulled out the fresh underwear and began stripping. As she pulled her pants up the door opened and Allison heard a rather uncomfortable cough as she grabbed her sweater and tugged it over her bra and turned to find Lilley stood holding a rather bashful Chase's hand. Lilley looked at her mum.

"Is he dead?" Allison shook her head and bent down to the little girl.

"Oh no he's not dead, he's just sleeping. He'll be alright." She then realised that after Chris had collapsed all her attention was naturally on him rather than looking after her little girl also. "You were so brave before, it must have been very scary. Mummy's sorry for leaving you, she was just trying to make Chris better." Lilley nodded and smiled running over to the chair next to Chris' bed and jumped into it.

"It's alright, Chase took me to the cafeteria and we had a soda!" Allison turned to Chase and smiled.

"Did he now?" He nodded his hands shoved into his pockets. "That was nice of him, I hope you said thank you." Allison continued to stare at Chase realising that his eyes were fixed on his shoes he was still embarrassed. Allison nudged him with her shoulder and said quietly. "It was nothing you hadn't seen before!" Chase looked at her shocked and she smiled. "Thank you for looking after Lilley." He shrugged.

"No problem. How is he?"

"He's alright. Well he will be when he wakes up and we get him on treatment for the leukaemia."

"Mum!" Lilley cut into their conversation and Allison turned around. "He's waking up!" Allison and Chase moved over to the bed and Chase began checking his eyes and things while Allison stroked his head.

"Hey soldier, how you feeling?"

"A little tired."

She nodded and looked at Chase who nodded at her. "I'll get Wilson, he can start the treatment." She thanked him quietly and then grabbed the rucksack turning to her children. "I'm going to go and freshen up ok? If Uncle Jimmy comes, just tell him to wait till I'm back ok?" They nodded and she left, leaving them alone. Chris turned to Lilley.

"How gross was it?"

"Really gross, you were bleeding from your ears, mouth and nose! It was so sick." He laughed.

"Bet it was cool." She didn't answer and instead she climbed onto his bed next to him being careful of the wires and cuddled next to him, he nudged her. "Lill?" She shook her head.

"It wasn't cool. It was scary, I thought you were dead." He sighed and shook his head cuddling next to her.

"No, I'm not dead." She tutted.

"Well obviously!" At that moment Chase re-entered with Wilson, they spoke quietly together for a moment before Allison returned. Once she did the let up the brakes on Chris' bed and wheeled him out of the room, Allison turned to look at Lilley.

"Stay here. Or in the cafeteria ok? Don't go off with anyone!" Lilley didn't have a chance to say anything else before all four people had left. She was left alone again, sighing she contemplated obeying her mother but then she walked slowly out of the room before running to the end of the hall and turning left.

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She made her way along the corridor running her hand along the wall. Finding the elevator she waited till the doors opened before stepping and reaching as high as she could to press a button. The elevator slowly made its way upstairs, people got in and then got off. She watched them all, none of them seemed to notice her, she was invisible.

Thinking this herself she kicked a man in front of her in the shin, after a very nasty glare and a curse muttered under the mans breath Lilley decided she wasn't invisible after all. Finally the elevator beeped and she looked at the light above and pushed her way through the people in front of her till she was out of the elevator. The ward she was on was surprisingly noisy, there was moaning and groaning, someone was screaming and there were a lot of nurses and doctors running around hectically.

She didn't feel scared, although the noises would normally send people hurrying as fast as they could back into the elevator, instead she felt curious. Making her way slowly down the corridor she saw into one room and saw one man sat on his bed rocking back and forth muttering under his breath, his eyes looking wildly around the room. Walking into the room she walked slowly up to him her eyes wide with amazement. He didn't see her until she was stood right next to his bed; turning his head madly he stared at her.

"Little girl in the room. There's a little girl in my room. Ooooh she a bad one, I can see it. She the devil child. She come for me. Ooooh no!" She swallowed and shook her head.

"I'm Lilley. I'm not a devil child…Ahh!" She yelped as his hand shot out and grabbed her wrist almost lifting her off the bed with her arm. She stared at him, her eyes wide with curiosity, she wasn't scared, just shocked. She didn't know how long he had held her there, he carried on muttering talking of how she was a devil child, but the next thing she knew a cane banged down onto the rail of the bed next to her. The man in the bed jumped and let go of her wrist turning to look at House.

"Oh it's the doctor man back, doctor man, crazzzzy doctor man!" House nodded at the guy.

"Hello Tommie." He turned to Lilley and led her from the room, once outside he turned to look at her pressing the elevator button. He was right, she was the spitting image of her mother, and this time she didn't have sunglasses on, he could see her eyes. He waited for her to lift her eyes from looking at the ground to look at him, and his own eyes widened as he saw them, she spoke softly.

"Are you mad?"

House stared at her, stared into those eyes, into his eyes. There was no mistaking them. He shook his head and pressed the button once more, anger flooding through him.

"No. But what were you doing on the psych ward?" She shrugged.

"I don't know. My brother has gone for treatment, my mum went with him and I started to wander. I guess I got lost."

"You didn't get lost. You came up here."

"I pressed the highest button I could, I didn't realise it would be here." She stared defiantly at him, her face matching his."What where you doing up here?"

"I'm a doctor, I'm allowed to come and torment the psych patients." She giggled and he stared at her once more and the elevator doors pinged open, she walked in and House looked at her.

"What floor where you on?"

"Three." He nodded.

"Well I suggest you go wait for your mum there." He pressed the number and the doors slid shut, they stared at each other and he heard her say.

"Bye!"

After staring at the gold doors for a moment he turned and moved along to the next elevator and pressed it and waited for it to open before stepping in. His anger building he hit the button and went to go find Wilson.

Took a while to update I know...but I have an excuse it was my birthday on tuesday.

And i have some bad news, im going away tomorrow for two weeks and unless i can get in an internet cafe to update your gonna have to wait two weeks.

Anyway hope you liked this chapter.

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