Title: In a pickle
Summary: House's newest duckling finds herself questioning her feelings for her boyfriend when her ex walks back into her life.
Part: 3
Author: Mikesh
Disclaimer: Don't own House, MD characters except for the OC's
Warning: contains rape (well sort of you'll see when we come to that)
AN: Takes place Wednesday July 31st, 2010
Over the last couple of days Sam had been keeping eye on Kevin's room to see if he had any visitors. There was one person she wanted to see and until just twenty minutes ago she had yet to see her.
It was because of her…not her but the other woman that Sam was currently fuming in the girl's bathroom.
Twenty minutes ago
"Excuse me can you please tell me what room Kevin Gills is in?" the woman asked approaching Sam at the nurses' counter.
"I'm sorry only family is allowed," Sam said noticing the little girl with her that could be no more then a year old.
"Oh we are. This is his daughter and I'm his girlfriend well wife in two weeks," the woman said big smile plastered onto her face.
"Oh well let me show you to his room then," Sam said putting on a fake smile.
Once she showed them to the room she sent the back of Kevin's head a glare that no one saw or so she thought. Little did she know she had.
End flashback
After she left the room, Sam headed to the bathroom where she was still currently at. It's not that the woman didn't seem nice but she couldn't believe that he was replacing her like that! And with her of all people!!
'Bet the little tramp was seeing him while we were together. I hate that piece of scum!! I HATE HIM!!' Sam thought to herself.
But as much as she may want to believe that, it didn't help that there were tears sliding down her face right now. Thankfully Sam heard the bathroom door open before she embarrassed herself.
"Oh hi," the woman said smiling.
"Hi," Sam said giving a weak smile before turning back to the sink.
"May I ask you a question?" the woman asked.
"Sure," Sam said.
"Is he going to be alright? I've never seen him in this kind of shape in the year we've been together," the woman said.
"We're doing everything we can for him Mrs…" Sam said trailing off realizing she didn't even know her name.
"Name's Sandy," Sandy said.
"Where's your daughter?" Sam asked noticing for the first time that the little girl wasn't with her.
"Oh she's not mine. Her mother walked out on them when she was just a couple of days old. But she's with her daddy," Sandy said.
"Oh," Sam said.
"But you want to know the truth?" Sandy asked.
"What?" Sam asked not sure she wanted to.
"As soon as we tie the knot next week she's going to live with his mother. We've both talked about it and he's decided that it'll be better for us and my children. That way we can give my children all the time to adjust to living with me again. For the last five years they've been with their dad because the State found me unfit. I did some time but it's in the past now. And maybe some day she'll come back to live with us but for now its better this way. That way we can focus on our family. She'll be in good hands with his mother. And when I met them he told me her name and dude who in their right mind gives their daughter the name Lisa Jean Gills? So we…well I changed it to Sue Lee Gills. That's so much cuter don't you think?" Sandy asked like the total ditz she was.
(AN: sorry if that offends anyone)
"He just let you change her name?" Sam asked pissed off that her daughter's name was changed after she and Kevin not this girl and Kevin decided on her name.
"Well it took some time but he's grown used to it now. But I mean could you think of all the teasing she would have been put through?" Sandy asked.
"Excuse me," Sam said leaving before she decked this woman for even suggesting that her daughter's name was bad.
Sam was headed to Kevin's room when her pager went off. So she headed to the conference room.
"Yes?" Sam asked.
"Tell her!" Ally exclaimed.
"What's going on?" Sam asked.
"Greg!" Ally said looking ready to kill.
Thankfully Robby was with Uncle Rob so he didn't hear his mommy yelling at his daddy.
"Ok. They tested his blood the day he came in and he had traces of cocaine and pot in his system," Greg said.
"So what?" Sam asked while thinking You're a dead man Kevin!
"Ask her," Greg said jerking his thumb towards his wife.
"Allison?" Sam asked confused.
"I thought you deserved to know because we are all a team and if we're going to get him better then you need to know everything too," Ally said not telling her the real reason.
"Ok," Sam said keeping her anger in check for the time being.
Over the next couple of days Kevin didn't show signs of getting worse. Greg was wanting to get him out of his face when he had a seizer and stopped breathing. Thankfully they were able to get him breathing again. That of course didn't put Sam at ease. It didn't put his future wife at ease either seeing her future husband almost die in front of her and their daughter's eyes. Sam wasn't there when it first happened but she was outside his room while they were working on him. The only thing she kept thinking was 'Don't die you son of a bitch!' Thankfully he hadn't died. But they did now have another thing to add to the list on the white board.
It was a little shocking to Sam to see her ex so pale when not even 24 hours ago he was bouncing his daughter on his legs and tickling her. Now he was laying in the bed with a tube up his nose and no one knew if he'd be walking out of the hospital or if he'd be coming out in a body bag. His girlfriend and daughter were spending as much time as they could with him now since they didn't know if he'd even be around next week.
(AN: this takes place the day of the seizer just to let ya know)
Little did Sam know as they broke for lunch that in just two short hours she would be ready to tear Kevin limb to limb for what the test results were about to show.
Two hours later
Since Sam still had an hour of clinic duty left to do she did that after lunch. It was while she was coming back up stairs that her beeper went off. So as fast as she could she got her butt up to the conference room to find out what it was.
"Read these," Allison said handing the test results over.
Sam only had to read the results once before she saw red. To find out Kevin had traces of Zinx and pusx in his system. On their own they weren't any harm to someone but together they had one of three side effects. The first was the person would get a high that would last for hours, the second was a seizer like what happened to Kevin, and the third was death. So as fast as Sam could she stormed out of the conference room. It never occurred to her that it was a little strange that no one except for Allison and she were in the conference room. Greg was still out to lunch with James, Foreman and Chase had gone to do clinic duty since Allison said she'd take care of it. They didn't question her because of the look in her eyes.
As Sam turned the corner to head to Kevin's room she saw his future wife and daughter leaving the room. She waited until they were on the elevator to go down before she stormed into his room.
Kevin was awoken from his light snooze by the door slamming shut.
"Oh it's just you," Kevin said going to turn around again before he found Sam's hand on his shoulder forcing him to face her.
"Why?" Sam asked knowing that yelling wouldn't get her anywhere.
"Why what?" Kevin asked.
There was no way he was going to make this easy for her. He was going to make her say it.
"Why did you take it?" Sam asked.
"Take what?" Kevin asked.
"THE FUCKING DRUGS!" Sam yelled putting her face very close to his.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Kevin said.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about," Sam said.
"No I don't and I would greatly appreciate you to move because I was trying to sleep," Kevin said.
"You're the same old Kevin. Won't talk just hides behind the mask," Sam said.
"Yeah and you're still just the same old Sam. You have to fix everything. Even when it's none of your business," Kevin said.
"Yeah you're right it's not but my daughter is my business. And when her father tries to kill himself then it becomes my business," Sam said.
"She's not yours. You gave that right up the day you walked out on us…her," Kevin said.
"Yeah and if I'd known you were going to try and kill yourself a year later then I would have ended it," Sam said.
"You're just cold and heartless as you were a year ago when I watched you walk out on her. I thought maybe you would have changed but I guess not," Kevin said.
"Yeah that's me the cold and heartless bitch who didn't end her daughter's life. But yes I'm cold and heartless never the less," Sam said.
"You're the one that walked out on her when she was barley two days old. You had her and then tucked tail and ran. You're just a little chicken shit that couldn't handle parenthood," Kevin said.
By now he of course was sitting up in bed.
"And you're the one that told me to go. All you said was go Sam I'll take care of her. It'll be fine go," Sam said.
"I told you that because I knew she'd be better off without the likes of you," Kevin said.
"I didn't want to leave! I HAD to leave!" Sam said.
"WHY?" Kevin yelled.
"Because I had too," Sam said.
"Yeah because you're a fucking chicken!" Kevin yelled.
"Yeah that's me the fucking chicken," Sam said.
"See you admit it!" Kevin yelled.
"You want to know why I had to leave?" Sam asked.
"YES!" Kevin yelled.
"I HAD TO FUCKING LEAVE BEFORE I FELL TOO IN LOVE WITH YOU! YOU GET IT YOU FUCKING JACKASS? I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU AND I KNEW YOU'D BREAK MY HEART SO I HAD TO LEAVE!" Sam yelled.
"You what?" Kevin asked not sure if he'd heard right.
"I FUCKING LOVE YOU, YOU FUCKING JACKASS!" Sam yelled.
"If you had loved me you wouldn't have left," Kevin said.
"I had to leave. I couldn't do it. I couldn't stay there and be around you when I knew you didn't return my feelings," Sam said.
"No you left because your career was more important then your own daughter," Kevin said.
"YOU FUCKING DICKHEAD!" Sam yelled.
If it hadn't been for James who pulled her away from him then she would have slapped Kevin.
"What the hell is going on?" James asked pissed that his girlfriend was about to assault a patient.
Thankfully he and Greg had been coming back from lunch and heard them. James was afraid to know what would have happened if they hadn't come in.
"It doesn't matter," Sam said.
"When you're about to assault a patient then it does matter Sam," James said.
"Look James it's nothing just a disagreement. Shouldn't be nothing new for you with House," Sam said.
"Hey!" Greg said from the corner where he was enjoying the show.
"Sam it does matter. Tell me what happened," James said.
Sam could see the concern in his eyes and it broke her heart to know she caused it.
"So what was it?" James asked when a few minutes later Sam had yet to answer him.
"I'll tell you later but right now I just need to be alone. I'll call you later tonight," Sam said kissing James on the lips before walking out.
"Well looks like the shows over," Greg said leaving before he got paged by his wife.
"So are you going to tell me what happened?" James asked crossing his arms over his chest and looking Kevin in the eye.
"James look there's stuff in my and Sam's past that doesn't concern you," Kevin said.
"When you have a fight with my girlfriend then it does," James said.
"Look it doesn't concern you," Kevin said meaning the conversation was over with. Any other information would have to come from Sam's mouth.
"Fine," James said leaving the room.
Meanwhile Sam was at her apartment thinking things over. She knew she had to tell James what was happening but she was afraid that when she did tell him, then he'd walk away. She couldn't bear loosing another guy she loved.
After several hours Sam finally called James at work to find out he'd already left for his house. So after calling his cell and finding him at home she left to head over there.
James's house
"Hey," Sam said.
"Hey. Come on in," James said.
He was currently wearing jeans and a short sleeve shirt with a beer in his hand.
"Look James after what I have to tell you I won't blame you if you never want to see me anymore," Sam said.
"Sam what is it?" James asked.
"Sit down," Sam said.
After she and James had taken seats on the couch, Sam started talking.
"A year ago tomorrow I had a little girl. Actually Kevin and I had a little girl," Sam said.
"What?" James asked feeling he wasn't going to like where this was headed.
"Our patient is the father of my little girl. The same little girl that's been in his room with him and his girlfriend. To make a long story short he was my manager…ok one of them. Anyhow I fell in love and ended up pregnant with his child. He told me that he would take care of her and everything would be fine. But nothing is fine!" Sam said letting a few stray tears loose.
"Sam why are you telling me this now?" James asked pulling her into a hug.
"Because you have a right to know. If anything happens to him then I have sole custody of her," Sam said.
"Sam nothing is going to happen to him," James said.
"James you don't know that. Hell if his wife has her way then my daughter will be raised by his mother," Sam said.
"What? Sandy? That's not his girlfriend," James said before realizing he'd spoken too late.
"How do you know?" Sam asked.
"Sandy is Jack's ex girlfriend," James said knowing he couldn't lie to her.
"What?" Sam asked pissed off.
"To fully understand I have to tell you this. When I was 21 and Kevin was 14, I married Sarah his older sister. She was my first wife. Things were great until Kevin's 18th birthday. His father kept pressuring him to join the military like he had. That's when it hit the fan so to speak. She was there to support her brother and defend him from their father. We grew apart and finally separated. We finally divorced a year later. She got pregnant with George's child and the woman that's been in his room is his nephew's girlfriend well ex girlfriend. I know that because I've kept in contact with him just to make sure that things are going ok. He didn't tell me that it was Jack's ex girlfriend, Sarah did. She's not happy with her brother for it but it's his life and she is 18 so she's legal age. Yes I've helped him when he's gotten into trouble. Yes he puts up walls just like House but just like House it's because of his past. Now I'm not saying that's an accuse for his behavior but just give him a chance," James said.
"Wait Jack's only 15 the last I knew there was only one Jack in the family," Sam said.
"No it's Tom's son Jake not Jack sorry," James said.
"Tom's sons Jack and Jake are twins and they're only 15 years old," Sam said.
"Sorry his brother in-law Tom not brother Tom. His sister Maggie's oldest son," James said.
"Ok I know who you're talking about now. He has a lot of siblings doesn't he?" Sam asked.
Yes she knew that Kevin had many brothers and sister but was surprised that James knew them all too. There were quite a few with the step and half siblings.
"Yes he does. Too many in fact at times. I never know how he keeps it straight," James said.
"Seriously he has it wrote down. But I don't blame him. I'd get them confused too if I was him," Sam said.
"I know I would," James said.
"So wait a minute Sandy and Jake broke up when? Because the last I knew they were still dating," Sam said.
"They broke up shortly after high school. Decided to date other people. And I guess she decided that she wanted Kevin. I really don't know though because Sarah didn't say and I didn't ask," James said.
"So wait a minute here you've known this whole year about my daughter and you didn't bother to tell me?" Sam asked pissed off that her ex's ex brother in-law didn't bother to fill her in.
"What did you want me to do? Come up to you and ask if you were the Sam that my brother in-law knocked up? That would have been a great idea," James said pissed off that Sam didn't seem to trust him.
"Wow that's so great that you don't bother to tell me that our patient is your ex wife's brother. Thanks James. I thought we had something but you're just like him," Sam said getting up and leaving before James could say anything.
'Well you did have that coming,' James thought to himself.
Even though he did have it coming to him it didn't make him feel any better. Yes he kept in contact with Sarah too but most of the stuff he learned was from Kevin not Sarah. He'd heard about the baby from Kevin himself when he'd told James some things that were on his chest.
After leaving James's place Sam decided to go home for the night. She knew if she went to see him then two to one then she'd just beat him to a pulp.
AN: Yes Kevin is the same age as Sam just to let u know.
Next chapter: They have a heart to heart…or something like that.