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Epilogue - 14 years later.

"Allison, we are going to be late!" House paced the floor of their living room, his hand grasped his cane and he rubbed the stubble on his chin. Maybe he should shave? The thought crossed his mind but then his eyes glanced at the clock and he sighed once more and shouted again. "Allison for God's sake!"

"I'm coming, will you calm down! And stop pacing, you're wearing the floor away!"

He stopped dead in his tracks and started muttering under his breath while tapping his foot; he stopped as his eyes fell upon the woman who had entered the room. Dressed in a yellow sundress with a big yellow sun hat on, her hair was flowing loosely around her shoulders and her feet were fixed in white sandals. Her eyes were outlined gently and her smile made him go weak, despite waking up next to her every morning he was still overwhelmed at how beautiful she was. She twirled gently.

"Do I look ok?"

He nodded. "You look fine."

She walked forward and fingered the jacket of his suit gently and leant up giving him a soft kiss on the lips. "You look very dapper too."

He kissed her back before grabbing her hand. "Great, come on we're going to be late!"

She laughed and pulled her hand away, "Hang on I have to get Evie."

"Oh right, the sprog, I forgot."

She walked away rolling her eyes while he stood holding the door open, as she returned two minutes later carrying a three year old in her arms. The little girl in her arms smiled broadly when she saw him, wearing a cute red dress her brown hair was pulled back into a French plait and she held her arms out toward House.

"Daddy!"

His frown slipped off his face quickly and he leaned forward and kissed the little girl on the head.

"Hey Evie, you ready?"

She nodded. "Yup!"

"Great lets go."

He held the door open and let Allison carry Evie out of the door and down to the car park while he shut the door. Meeting her down in the car park they fastened Evie into her car seat before climbing into the front and starting the car. As he pulled out of the car park Allison reached her hand across and rested it on his thigh.

"Greg, slow down. Remember, we have a little person in the car so we don't want to crash ok?"

"We're going to be late!"

"We have two hours Greg!"

Sighing he gently eased off the accelerator a bit so they slowed down to a more reasonable speed. Allison nodded and moved her hand off his thigh and to the radio, pressing a few buttons she put Johnny Cash on, both adults couldn't help smiling as they heard a little voice in the back singing.

"I fell in to a burning wing of fire, I went down, down, down and the fwames went higher."

Glancing in the mirror House saw Evie swaying in her car seat singing along to the song, Allison laughed and caught House's eye and both of the smiled.

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An hour and a half later and they pulled the car to a stop. House jumped from the car and practically ran in the direction of the entrance. Sighing Allison got out the car and unfastened Evie from her car seat. Lifting her to her hip she locked the car and walked after House. Evie giggled.

"Why has Daddy ran off?"

"Because he's excited honey."

"This is a big building Mummy."

Allison smiled, her daughter was so cute she was always smiling now a days. "Yes this is a university, its where Chris lives."

"Ahhhhh." Evie snuggled onto her Mum's shoulder careful not to make the hat fall off. When they reached House he was holding two programmes and finding their seats. Walking in between the rows of seats Allison sat down next to him.

"Thanks for waiting for us."

"We were going to be late."

"House. We are one of the first families here."

He didn't say anything but Evie crawled from her Mums lap to her Dad's and wrapping an arm around her he held her steady on his knee while his other hand rested on Allison's thigh.

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Forty-Five minutes later when everyone was sat in their seats, including the graduates their principal made his way on stage. As he welcomed everyone a loud roar of a motorcycle interrupted him. Every head turned to look and see where the noise was coming from. They didn't have to look far.

A Harley Davidson motorcycle pulled up and a young girl jumped off the back. Pulling off her helmet she revealed long brown hair with electric blue flowing through, styled in a cool but messy way. Her boots reached her knees, her jeans were torn and her Queen top was tucked in to her jeans and hung off her loosely. But it was her smile that caught everyone's attention; it was a smile that lit up the whole place. As she made her way across to her family she waved at the principal.

"Sorry. Carry on." Sliding in next to her mum she whispered. "Sorry, traffic was awful."

Allison rolled her eyes and House grinned at her, while Evie wriggled on his lap.

"Lilley!"

Lilley smiled and reached out taking Evie off her Dad. "Hey kiddo! How you doing, you going to watch out for Chris?" Evie nodded and leant against her sister.

The principal cleared his throat before carrying on, he rambled for a few more minutes before they got around to giving out the qualifications. After half an hour Chris' name was finally read out.

"Christopher Cameron – House, qualifying with a doctor of medicine degree" As Chris walked up on stage dressed in his robes to receive his certificate, Lilley stood up still holding Evie and cheered loudly, once again everyone looked at her but she didn't notice.

"GO CHRIS!!!"

Her brother turned on stage and smiled at her, and she smiled back. Their parents sat in their seats their hands joined with matching smiles on their faces.

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Once the ceremony was over Allison and House stood talking to Lilley who had Evie on her back. Allison touched the blue in her daughter's hair.

"I like this, its very cool!"

"Thanks. Tom likes it to."

House's head whipped around. "Who's Tom?"

"My boyfriend. Oh Dad you'll love him, he's great, he plays the drums in another band and he's great and he has this little girl who's about Evie's age, she's so cute."

Allison smiled as she saw House's jaw line tighten and his knuckles whiten on his cane.

"That's nice sweetie, but what happened to Will?"

"Oh, we broke up."

"When? How come you didn't tell me?"

"We only broke up two days ago, then I got with Tom. We are so in love, I think he's the one."

House rolled his eyes. "You thought every one was the one."

Lilley frowned "Well I'm sure of it this time! Oh here comes Nicole. Hey Nic." A young woman in a white dress made their way over to them and greeted them all, before Chris made his way over.

Allison hugged her son tightly and told him how proud she was of him. Evie gave him a hug and a kiss and told him she thought he looked funny in a dress. Lilley laughed and said it wasn't the first time he had worn a dress, but they wouldn't get in to that. As Chris turned to House he held out his hand, which House only stared at before pulling his son into a hug.

"I'm so proud of you. Well done." Chris nodded and hugged his Dad back. Then he turned to the young woman who had joined them and gave her a fiery kiss on the lips, which she returned happily. Pulling away he smiled at Lilley.

"Better late than never eh?" She rolled her eyes.

"The traffic was bad."

"I bet, how's the band going?"

"Its great, we are playing in New York next week, but till then I'm staying here with you guys." Chris finally hugged his sister.

"Good, you don't spend enough time at home these days. Too busy with your band and boys, how is Tom?" As he asked her Allison butted in.

"How do you know about Tom?"

"She told me."

"When?"

"Like three weeks ago." He smiled at his Mums outrage of not being first told before laughing. "I'm only kidding, she only told me last night on the phone."

Allison relaxed and Lilley, Chris and House did a joint eye roll, House pulled Allison to him and kissed her cheek before speaking.

"Come on, let's go for dinner. Ronnie's ok with everyone?" Everyone agreed and started walking but House held Allison back. "Look."

She turned her head and watched the site in front of her. Nicole was walking on the end, holding Chris' hand whose other hand held Evies, while Lilley held her other one. Between them they were swinging Evie up and down in the air cheering and laughing. Allison smiled and rested her head on House's shoulder before he tilted it up to meet his lips, after a tender kiss he smiled at her.

"Are you happy?"

"I am. This is all I ever wanted."

"I love you."

She nodded before leaning up to kiss him once more; as their lips joined they heard a collective groan of disgust. Turning their heads they saw Lilley and Chris covering Evies eyes while looking like they were going to be sick, Chris shook his head at them.

"Come on, if you can manage to detach yourselves from each other, some of us would like dinner." House rolled his eyes while Allison nodded.

"We're coming, don't worry, and just get in the car." As they turned to climb in the car Allison turned back to House and grabbed his lips with hers. After several seconds she pulled away smiling.

"I love you too."

Epilogue over.

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