A/N: Wow. I'm incredibly impressed with the response to the first chapter. It certainly motivated me to write this one faster. Thanks for all the positive comments, and for showing interest in this story.

I'm sorry this chapter is a little on the short side. Theoretically, they should be getting longer pretty soon.

Thanks to all who read and reviewed!

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"Dr Cameron?" Lisa Cuddy's voice answered, awake now, and very surprised.

"Yeah."

"Wow. It's been what- 5 years?" Cuddy asked, still slightly shocked."

"Something like that." Cameron replied with a hollow laugh.

"So, how are you? Things working out?"

"I'm going through some stuff right now."The younger woman replied, hesitantly. "I guess I just missed Princeton. I wanted to see how you all were doing."

"Well, what can I tell you? Foreman left after his fellowship was up. He's working at Hartford Memorial now, in Connecticut. Wilson got divorced and re-married again, and divorced again..." She trailed off.

"And House?" Cameron asked, almost afraid of the answer.

"He's still here. He's...he's not doing so well, Cameron. He refuses to hire any more fellows for his department. He hasn't been to the clinic in weeks. He won't even talk to Wilson anymore. I don't know what to do with him." Cameron felt a stab of compassion for House. "But what about you?" Cuddy asked her. "How's your job going."

"I quit, actually." Cameron replied. "This past week. It was a good hospital and all, and the pay was decent, but it wasn't...home. I didn't really belong there."

"Did you belong here, Cameron?"

"I think...I know...I did." She replied. "I felt like I was really important there, like I was really doing something, which was basically the reason I wanted to be a doctor in the first place."

"I see." Cuddy thought. "Well, Cameron, I have a proposal for you. Please hear me out before you say anything."

"Okay," Cameron replied, wondering what Cuddy could possibly have up her sleeve.

"You miss home, and you're not doing too well. House misses you, and he sure as hell is going nowhere fast. My diagnostics department is way under budget. What if you came back to work here, as an equal to House? You'd have a higher salary than when you were a fellow, of course, and you and House would share his office and the diagnostics room. You'd get to be back here, and I'm sure it would improve his mood a lot more. What do you think?"

"Honestly? I think it sounds like a great idea. But-."

"What?" Cuddy interjected.

"Can I think about it and call you tomorrow?"

"Of course, Cameron."

"Thank you."

Cameron hung up the phone and sat back at the kitchen table, once again twirling the coffee mug. The thought of going back to PPTH was the happiest one she'd had in a long time, but she wasn't sure where she stood with regards to House. They'd gotten along fairly well, but she had always been just a little in love with the brilliant diagnostician. She wasn't sure she could face all that again. Feelings for House aside, she'd jump at the chance for this job. A world-renowned hospital, a job where she could really make a difference. It was everything she had been looking for, and she would take it, she decided. She could deal with House later. Satisfied, she crawled back into bed and finally fell asleep.