Title: Making His Own Life

Part: 7

Author: Mlizhobie

Fandom: House, M.D.

Pairing: Wilson/OFC(Lorelai) & House/?

Disclaimer: Don't own House or any of the other characters except for MY original characters.

AN: This is a sequel to the story 'It's My Life'. Be an awesome person, read and review. A very special thanks to my Beta reader, she helps me thru my dreaded bouts of writer's block.

AN2: Greg & James have a conversation at work.

The next week at work James was sitting out on his balcony wasting time until he met with his next patient when he heard the door to Greg's balcony open. Glancing up he saw that the older man was attempting to hide from his team again and trying to be sneaky. When Greg noticed that James was sitting on his own side of their brick wall the look on his face changed. Greg came over to the wall and said, "Hey I can talk to you about this now I guess." James didn't know what Greg was talking about and looked at the man oddly before saying, "Talk to me about what House?"

Greg was quiet for almost a full minute, making James very uncomfortable as he sat waiting for his best friend to speak again. Finally Greg looked up and met James's eyes and said, "Lore's new boss, Andy wasn't it?" James furrowed his brow and nodded slowly. Greg was quiet again, thinking deeply about something. James studied his face intently, trying to figure out what was going through the other man's mind. Greg then focused back on James and said, "Well um, she's kind of hot." As James started to respond Lisa Cuddy burst through House's door and almost shouted, "Damn-it House, I told you to be in the clinic over an hour ago, not the ducklings! Get your ass downstairs now or I am giving your new computers to the children's wing."

James met Lisa's eyes and saw a hint of humor in them and knew that she wouldn't take the new computers that Greg had almost begged her for, but after last year's incident when she had put his new state of the art TV in the OB lounge, Greg didn't test her anymore. Greg grabbed his cane and spun around, before he made it to the door he half pouted and said, "Ok mom, just don't give my new toys away. I'll be good, I promise."

James was left sitting on his balcony speechless; Greg thought Lore's new boss was hot. That seemed very odd coming from Greg, the woman was attractive but didn't seem like Greg's normal type at all. For one thing, she wasn't a hooker and not in her 20s. James didn't really know what to do with this information, so he finally came to the decision, 'I'll keep it to myself for right now until he brings her up again.'

A few hours later Lorelai was walking back into the 'Make-A-Wish' offices after running a few errands when her assistant Riley came rushing over to her. Riley grabbed Lore's bags and almost drug her across the main office area, Lore was slightly taken aback at Riley's actions. When they were just outside Andy's office Riley pushed Lore in the direction of the door and said, "She wants to see you, now!" Lore met Riley's face and said, "What, why? What did I do, am I in trouble?" Riley shrugged and said, "Not sure, but I do know that you are supposed to go in as soon as you got back. So get in there!"

Lore gently knocked on Andy's half open door and waited for her boss to acknowledge her presence. Andy looked up and said, "Oh good, come in Lorelai and please shut the door behind you." Lorelai got increasingly nervous as she half turned to shut the door and met nervous glances with Riley, who was standing just outside the door. Lore sat in one of the two chairs facing Andy's desk she quietly asked, "Am I in trouble or something Andy?" Andy shook her head no, but looked up, sighed quietly before saying, "Lorelai, I wanted to talk to you about a situation that I have noticed. The other night at dinner you were with 4 doctors from Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital."

Not being sure where Andy was going with this Lorelai only nodded, so Andy continued, "Well I think it might look odd or like you, a representative of 'Make-A-Wish' were giving PPTH preferential treatment. That isn't acceptable Lorelai." Lore was stunned, Andy actually thought that her having dinner with her husband and their friends made it look like PPTH was getting special treatment. Lorelai sat silent for a few seconds to collect her thoughts and then said, "Excuse me I want to know if I have this correct. You think that my having dinner with 4 doctors from Princeton-Plainsboro, two of which I have children with, makes it look like we, as 'Make-A-Wish' are giving them special treatment."

Andy nodded, but before she could say anything Lorelai said, "What… where do you get off telling me who I can have dinner with? I am married to James and have been for over 10 years. Greg is his best friend and has lived with us for most of those 10 years. Then Allison & Robert are just friends of ours. James is the only one at PPTH that I deal with and I haven't ever given him special treatment here at work. I don't even know how I could! This hasn't ever been an issue before, Patrick knew that James was the head of Oncology at PPTH when I got married and didn't have a problem with it, so why should you? There isn't anything to have a problem with anyway!"

Another few uncomfortably silent seconds went by before Andy said, "Well as you have noticed I'm not Patrick and I have a problem with it." Again Lorelai was stunned silent, what did Andy expect her to do, divorce James? That was something Lore was completely unwilling to do. Then before either had a chance to say another word Andy's door opened and in walked Andy's assistant who said, "I'm sorry to interrupt, but that call you have been waiting for is on line 2, Andy." Andy nodded to her assistant and said, "I'm sorry Lorelai, but I do need to take this call. I want to continue this conversation later though." Lore stood, sighed loudly and said, "Whatever you say Andy," and left the room.

Lorelai quickly headed back to her own office on the opposite side of the building and attempted to shut the door behind herself. Riley was right on her heels and asked, "What happened, are you in trouble?" Lore looked up at Riley and said, "Just give me a little bit will you Riley? I need to calm down before I talk about this." Riley put up her hands in defense and said, "Ok, sorry. I'll be out here at the desk when you need me." She then turned and left the room, silently shutting the door and leaving Lorelai alone in her office.

Sitting and quietly fuming about the conversation she had just had with Andy, Lorelai only grew more and more upset. This was the stupidest problem she had ever heard in this office and didn't know what Andy was trying to prove. How could her being married to James give off the impression that she was giving PPTH preferential treatment? For awhile Lore tried to put the conversation out of her mind, but after 45 minutes of unsuccessfully trying to organize release forms Lorelai grabbed her phone and dialed James's office.

James was going over a patient's file at his desk when his phone rang, so he grabbed it on the second ring and said, "This is Dr. Wilson." Lore started right in as soon as James answered, "How in the hell does our being married make it look like you get special treatment? I mean come on, what kind of special treatment could I give you from this office? I don't even deal with Greg, Ally & Robert, so she is talking out of her ass about them. But damn-it James, she has a problem with our being married!" James knew he wouldn't be able to get a word in until Lore had finished her rant, so he leaned back in his chair and waited as calmly as possible for her to stop.

When she had finished spewing out everything on her mind, James sat back up and said, "Hey kid, now that is all off your chest care to explain who you are talking about?" Lorelai took a deep breath and this time she was much calmer when she started, "It's Andy, she called me into her office and told me that she didn't like that I was having dinner with 4 doctors from PPTH. I didn't know what she meant, so I asked yeah I was having dinner with 4 doctors – 2 of which I have children with – who all work at the same hospital. She then said it looks like I am giving you preferential treatment and has a problem with us being married."

Now James was just as confused as Lorelai and said, "What? How could you be giving anyone, let alone me, preferential treatment? What are you going to do, give my patients better wishes or something? You don't decide what they pick!" Lore half smiled and said, "Thank you! I'm not crazy. I mean seriously, you're the only one at the hospital I deal with besides Lisa and she wasn't even with us. Where does Andy get off telling me who I can marry, have children with, or be friends with? This is overstepping things a bit isn't it?"

James sighed and said, "Well I would think so, but whatever. What does she want you to do anyway?" Lorelai took a turn at sighing and said, "We got interrupted so she wants to talk about it later. But I swear to God if she even says I can't be friends with Greg, Ally & Robert or if she mentions the word divorce I will jump across her desk." James laughed but said, "Whoa kid, hang on you aren't going to be jumping across anyone's desk. Calm down and take a breath. Oh damn-it my pager is going off and it's Greg. He won't shut up until I call him, so I need to go now Lore, but we'll talk about this at home. Love you kid." Lorelai did as James asked and took a breath and said, "Ok, thanks old man, love you too."

Fishing his cell phone out of his lab coat pocket James dialed Greg's cell phone and waited for the older doctor to answer. It was the third ring before Greg answered with, "You busy Jimmy-boy?" James grinned and said, "Nope, just defusing Lorelai before she knocked her new boss out, why?" Greg's surprise was evident in his voice when he said, "Defusing Lore, she hasn't wanted to deck anyone at her office in quite awhile. This Andy lady must be a bitch if Lore can't handle her." James rolled his eyes and thought back to the conversation he had just had with his wife and said, "Yeah, this lady is a piece of work. But it isn't important right now, what did you need Greg?"

Greg was stuck in the clinic and James could hear people talking in the background. Greg sighed and said, "The daycare just called me and said that Immy's acting funny, feels warm and doesn't want to eat. I'd go up and see what was going on, but Cuddy has turned herself into my shadow and won't let me leave until 4:30. So could you go see what's going on with Immy?" James instantly said, "Yeah, sure I'll head there right now. I hope she isn't getting what Jay had last week. She's a little monster when she gets sick." Greg agreed with James and said, "Yeah, she's just like her old man. Shit Cuddy has another patient for me, I gotta go. Thanks Jimmy."

James closed his phone and shoved it in his pocket as he left his office. On the way to the elevators James glanced back to the Diagnostics conference room and saw House's team all doing busy work and trying to stay awake. Smiling to himself, James hit the down button for the elevator and waited. A bit later James was walking off the elevator onto the 2nd floor, heading towards the daycare center. Slipping in the door quietly James could hear Immy's tired crying coming from the napping area of the center. One of the workers in the main room saw James and said, "Oh hi Dr. Wilson, what can I do for you?"

James smiled and said, "I just talked to Greg and he said that someone had called him and told him that Imogen was acting oddly and felt warm. He is on clinic duty this afternoon, so he sent me down to check on her if that's ok. The worker nodded and said, "Sure that's fine Dr. Wilson, you can go on back." As he headed back to the napping room James saw the bathroom door open and out walked his daughter. Nina smiled widely, ran towards him and said, "Daddy!" Leaning down to pick her up James hugged the small girl and said, "Hi sweetheart." James continued to walk to the napping room and said, "Baby can you go draw or something for a bit, I need to go check on Immy. She's acting kind of funny and I want to make sure she is ok."

Nina nodded and said, "Yep I'll draw you a pitcher Daddy. I think Immy's getting sick Daddy; she didn't eat lunch today. You go check on her and make her better." James grinned and said, "Ok baby girl, I'll do my best to make Immy feel better." Placing Nina back on the floor James watched as she headed over to the group of children at the art station and got out some paper. He then turned and went into the back room where his focus was again turned on Immy's crying.

The worker in with the toddlers smiled when she saw him enter the room. She was sitting in one of the rockers holding Immy and trying to calm the fussy child. James walked over and lifted the girl from the worker's arms and said, "Hey monkey, come see Uncle Jimmy." Immy wrapped herself around her Uncle Jimmy and was somewhat calmer. James looked around the room and saw 6 other sleeping toddlers on their mats, one of which was Immy's twin brother Isaac. James thanked the worker when she let him have the rocker and said, "Yeah, we'll be fine in here."

When the worker left the room James relaxed and started rocking Immy. He quietly asked, "Do you hurt anywhere Immy?" The small child in his lap looked up at him, nodded and said, "My head and my belly." When James saw just how glassy her bright blue eyes looked he sighed heavily and felt Immy's forehead, she felt almost hot to his touch and it concerned him. She was rarely sick, but when she did get sick, it was bad. He gently continued to rock and brushed Immy's light brown hair away from her face. The child was considerably calmer than when he had first entered the room and before long she was sound asleep against his chest.

James sat for another 20 minutes to make sure Immy was asleep before attempting to move. He then carefully stood and headed for the door. The worker saw him exit the room and approached him, ready to take the sleeping girl from his arms. James shook his head and quietly said, "No, I'll take her back up to my office with me. She'll just get fussy again if she wakes up. Besides if she is sick I don't want her to get anyone else sick too. I'm just going to be in my office anyway so she can sleep up there." The worker nodded and got Immy signed out for James. As she finished up the paperwork James explained to Nina what he was doing and that he would be back later to get her & Isaac. She nodded and kissed both her father and little sister before they left.

When James got off the elevator and headed for his office his cell phone started to ring from inside his pocket. Quickly shifting Immy so he could grab the phone, James pulled it from his pocket and answered with a hushed, "Yeah?" Greg didn't understand why he was whispering so he asked, "Why the hell are you whispering? Did you go check on Immy?" James sighed and said, "Yeah, I have Immy with me. She feels feverish and didn't eat anything at lunch. I brought her up to my office and she can just sleep for now. I'm done seeing patients today anyway." Greg scrubbed his face roughly and said, "Yeah sleeping is probably the best thing for her right now. Call me if anything changes, I'll be back upstairs in an hour or so." James agreed to do so and hung up.

Opening his office door James realized that Immy might need a blanket so she wouldn't get cold. He thought for a moment and then remembered the bags of supplies they kept in the conference room for all the kids and maybe there would be a blanket in there. Turning James started for the conference room and saw Allison standing at the nurse's station. Walking up behind her, James said, "Hey Ally can you check to see if there's a blanket in the kids' bags. I think I'll need one for Immy."

Allison turned and saw that James was holding the sleeping girl, she reached out and gently brushed Immy's face and said, "Sure James, hang on." A few minutes later Allison returned and laid the blanket over the girl in James's arms and said, "She doesn't look that great James." James sighed and nodded before saying, "Yeah I know, but Greg is stuck downstairs until 4:30, so I'm going to keep her with me until he can see her and decides what he wants to do. Besides she's comfortable and resting, so that's the best we can do right now anyways."

James then went back to his office and closed the door. He wanted to keep things as quiet as he could so the little girl could rest as comfortably as possible. He laid her gently on his couch and adjusted the blanket so it would completely cover her. As hard as he tried he couldn't force himself back over to his desk to get back to the paperwork he had been doing before talking to both of the sleeping child's parents. He sat on the floor in front of the couch and silently watched as the toddler slept.

Next chapter: What is wrong with Immy? And what is going on with Lorelai's boss?