Chapter 21

AN: The pressure is really on now as I got an A for English so I'm now expected to write top notch stuff lol. I've made Cameron quite OOC because she's more interesting that way… oh well to the story!

It was now the evening and Katrina had cried herself to sleep. She had then entered a world full of Greg related dreams. Most of them encountered Dr. Cameron, and she and Greg were laughing behind Katrina's back. On a few occasions James had entered these dreams, but he just stood and observed what was going on refusing to get in the middle.

In reality House was back at the apartment drowning his sorrows once again. Women where worth too much hassle he thought to himself, you let yourself fall too far and you end up screwing up.

Cameron on the other hand was sulking. House had disappeared and for some reason and Dr. Wilson was still sitting by the patient. She decided to worm some information out of Wilson while Katrina was asleep, no doubt he was bored just sitting there staring into space.

She walked into the patients room with her head held high refusing to leave until she got some answers.

Dr. Wilson turned round to face Dr. Cameron and gave her a tired smile.

"Hello Allison."

"Hi Dr. Wilson."

"You've been here long enough now to know I prefer being called James."

Cameron ended up cutting right to the chase. "Do you know her?"

Wilson wasn't prepared for a question like that and he was very taken aback. He shifted his weight on the chair and hoped she was good at keeping secrets.

"Yes."

"How?" she enquired.

"We met in London ten years ago. She's mine and House's friend."

"Is that why he took her case?"

"Are you going to tell Cuddy?" he asked slightly scared, he didn't want House to lose his job on top of everything else. He'd just lost the love of his life. (NB: He knew Katrina before Stacey. Therefore Katrina is love of House's life.)

"No, this is for personal benefit." Cameron assured him.

"Yes. This is why he took her case."

"You three must be pretty close then."

"Yeah."

"Do you love her?"

"What kind of a question is that?" he asked taken aback by her bluntness.

"I can tell, those fleeting looks, the way you look lost since she came here, it all points to you being in love with her."

"Yes I am." He sighed "But she doesn't love me back. I'm back with Julie anyway."

"Congratulations. So how does House feel towards her?"

"I don't know." Wilson lied "He's not one to share feelings with anyone. Not even his closest friends."

"But you must know something, anything. Are they friends or does he feel the way you feel about her?" Cameron pressed.

"Hey! Don't shoot the messenger here. House is unreadable and that's the way he prefers it." He said raising his palms in surrender.

"Do you know where he's gone?"

"Your guess is as good as mine."

And with that Cameron turned on her heel and walked out of the hospital, she was going to get to the bottom of this, even if she had to kill for it.

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She arrived at apartment 221B and started hammering at the door.

"House! I know you're in there."

"Go away!" He shouted in a drunken stupor. But the banging continued and his headache started to escalate in pain. Cursing he hobbled over, opened the door and glared at her.

"What do you want?" he asked swaying a little on his cane.

"I know she's your friend."

"Wilson tell you did he? Oh well. Go tell Cuddy" he paused for a second in fake thought "but wait a minute. I'm off the case! So it doesn't matter whether I'm friends with her or not!"

"Why are you off the case?" Cameron asked confused. "Does Cuddy know you're friends with her?"

"Cuddy knows nothing of my relationship with her." He paused again at looked at the pavement "We had an argument." He admitted solemnly.

His leg was growing tired so he sat on the step and looked up at Cameron.

"It had to be a big fight if she wanted you off the case. What was it about? Maybe I can help."

He chuckled then burst into laughter; Cameron found this highly disturbing and took a step back from the manically laughing man.

After he had calmed down he began with,

"It was about you actually."

"Me?" she asked more confused than ever.

"Yeah, you. It was because I kissed you."

"Why would you have an argument about that? It isn't as if you're together…"

"Oh, but we are. Well were." he snapped "I shouldn't have done what I done. It was kind of a rebound action I never should've taken." He looked up to see tears in Cameron's eyes but he continued on "There can never be anything between me and you Allison."

"Why did you kiss me if you were with her?" Cameron said quietly brushing the tears from her cheeks.

"I don't want to go into it."

"But I need to know! Why did you kiss me?" she repeated; anger rising in her voice.

"Because I made a mistake. I made the wrong judgement. I thought she was cheating on me with Wilson." House said turning slightly pale.

"So that kiss was nothing to you? You didn't feel anything?"

"At the time it was a kiss of pure revenge… at that point in time Cameron; I would've kissed Cuddy if she was standing in front of me." He got up from his sitting position and turned to look at his door "Is this conversation over now?" Cameron said nothing. "Good I have a date with the toilet." he finished with and quickly hobbled back into the apartment just in time to reach the toilet.

AN: Sorry I've made you wait so long, internet went down for 2 weeks, I'm giving it to you like this but I may add some more to it, so keep a look out for any changes.