Chapter 6

House and Wilson were sitting in House's office. House was currently eating the lunch he had taken from Wilson, and Wilson was currently telling him that he shouldn't just take his lunch. He was silenced when the door closed. House ate the last bite of Wilson's lunch, tossing the empty container and hobbled over to Cameron.

"Katharine, this is Dr. Wilson, the head of oncology." Cameron said, motioning to Wilson, who had stood up as well, wanting to make a fast exit. House had told him about how angry Cameron had been. This didn't look like angry though. "He is my boss's best friend."

Wilson sat back down slowly. "Hello." He said, grinning. "Weren't you Cameron's patient yesterday?" Katharine nodded.

"I already asked her that Wilson." House said, hobbling over to Katharine and Cameron. "I thought you were mad at the whole universe. I think you are turning into me slightly. You don't have the limp or the manly figures, but you do have the same attitude as me right now." House grinned. "Greg House." He said to Katharine.

"That's my boss." Cameron said with a nod. "He is the one that keeps on popping in the clinic. I am the one that checks his email and makes the coffee most of the time." Cameron chuckled.

Katharine's cell phone rang. It was her husband calling, wondering where she was. "Oh damn, go to go. I have your phone number in my cell. You gave it to me yesterday when you said to call if I had any other questions. Bye Allison!" With that Katharine was gone.

"Odd." House said, putting his free hand to his chin. He was clearly thinking about something. "Very odd."

"What's odd?" Cameron asked, looking at House with a quizzical look.

"You are only happy to see this Katharine person. When you see any of us, you get angry, why?" House asked, staring at Cameron. "Tell the truth. You're hiding something."

"Well, if you haven't seen somebody since high school, you'd be happy to see them too!" Cameron said, her voice raised, arms immediately crossing. "And I'm not hiding anything! I'm not sick, and everybody has their bad days!"

"You have had quite a few bad days lately Cameron. Something is wrong. You usually never have a bad day. You are acting different, and even you know that!" House said. "It is affecting your job, and I want to know what is! Cameron, I don't want somebody dying because you stare off into space! I don't want to fire you because you have an attitude! So just tell somebody what's wrong! Do something!" House said. He yelled the last part. "Or keep your problems at home! Your choice!"

"You're an ass." Cameron said in a low tone. She walked out of the room. Cuddy, who was going to pass the office, immediately moved over so she didn't risk dropping her papers again. At least this time there was no meeting to go to.

Cuddy looked through the glass walls into the room, to find a dumbstruck Wilson and House standing in the middle of the room, hand back on his chin. Putting two and two together, she deduced that House said something, causing Cameron to storm out of the room in anger. Cuddy walked into the room, making House look up from the floor. "What the hell did you do? I've never seen Cameron this angry since- ever!" Cuddy demanded, arms staying by her side.

"Well, I found it odd that Cameron was only happy with Katharine. Then we got into this whole conversation ending with Cameron calling me an ass, and then Wilson over here was stunned speechless." House said.

"But House actually cared for a second, and then he blew it." Wilson added carefully.

Cuddy sighed. "I'll go find her." With that, she walked out the door, wondering what she could say without getting too involved. It was her job to keep things under control, not mother everybody. She also thought of places she could be. Bathroom? Clinic? Cafeteria? She wasn't Allison Cameron, she wouldn't know that.

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"I actually cared?" House said. "Wilson, do you know me at all? I just wanted her to do her job!"

"You're in denial." Wilson said with a grin. "House actually cares about his employee. Call the press!"

"I can see that headline happening." House said sarcastically.

"You like her." Wilson said, putting on a smirk.

"Oh HELL no!" House almost yelled. "She's annoying. She cares too much. She is the exact opposite of me!"

"You were eager to do anything to get her back when she resigned. You agreed to go on a DATE with her to get her back, doesn't that say anything. I heard about the little kiss too. It was a good tactic on Cameron's part, I have to admit." Wilson said with a chuckle.

"She's a good doctor, that's all." House said, sitting down.

"Like I said before, you are in denial House." Wilson said. "I know you like her."

"Oh, so having so many wives makes you psychic?" House said.

"I never said that!" Wilson said, still grinning.

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AUTHOR: Another cliffhanger.