Chapter 5

Cameron guiltily sipped the hot chocolate Wilson had bought for her. They'd been out of the maze over an hour with no sign of Chase and Foreman. Wilson had walked off to throw his empty cup away, and House moved closer to talk to her.

"You were right, Cameron, this is fun," House commented. He was obviously pleased with himself.

"Yes, this is exactly what I had in mind when I suggested it. Humiliating other people is so much fun," Cameron said icily.

"That's the spirit," House agreed, and Cameron huffed at him. Wilson walked back to them and smiled apologetically.

"I just saw a flag waving. Maybe they decided to give up," Wilson said. Cameron wasn't sure who was trying to console, her or House. If what House said about Wilson half the time was true, probably both of them.

A few minutes later, an embarrassed Chase and an extremely angry Foreman followed one of the maze employees from the exit. Both men looked very cold and Foreman was covered in mud.

"What happened?" Wilson asked.

"He fell," Chase said.

"No, you fell. Into me. Pushed me in the mud," Foreman spat out. He turned to Cameron, "Can we go?" She merely nodded her assent; she wanted to apologize but he didn't seem like he was in a forgiving mood.

Cameron and House got into the car, but there seemed to be some trouble with the rest of the group getting in the backseat. Chase didn't want to sit next to Foreman, because Foreman was covered in mud. Wilson offered to sit next to Foreman, but that seemed to make Foreman even angrier. He insisted that since Chase was the one who knocked him over that Chase should be the one to sit next to him. Cameron turned and gave Chase such a pitiful look that he agreed and let Foreman climb in next to him. Foreman immediately began squirming in his seat, rubbing up against Chase as much as he could manage until Chase was nearly as filthy as he was.

Luckily for everyone else, House had apparently had his fill of annoying people for the day, and decided to listen to his Ipod on the drive home. Also luckily for everyone else, House wasn't used to be up this early in the morning, so he quickly fell asleep. Unlucky for House.

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When the car pulled into the lot at Cameron's building, the four conscious occupants sat quietly. House was still sleeping, the volume on his Ipod turned loud enough for Cameron to hear snatches of the music. Cameron twisted in the seat to look at the men behind her.

"Are we really sure we want to do this?" Cameron asked.

"Cameron, you don't think he deserves a little payback? Come on, its not just what he did to us, he ruined your day too," Foreman said. "Are you really that much in love with him that you can't see that?"

"I'm not in love with him," Cameron protested. "That has nothing to do with it. If we try to pay him back, he'll only get mad. If he's going to pull this sort of stuff when he's in a good mood, I don't really want to know what he'd do if he was angry."

"She does have a point," Chase said. He had no desire whatsoever to have House angry with him ever again.

"I have an idea," Wilson said quietly.