AN: another chapter and let's hope that Huddyholic enjoys this one more than the first one. I do have a house/cuddy conversation planned in this chapter so hopefully she won't be mad at me.

"Oh look. You actually have a case of Typhoid fever. Your first week on the job and you have an epidemic on your hands." Cameron freezes in place as she hears a voice that she hasn't heard in years they both turned around as the saw the true master in all of his glory. That was included a new flame cane in his hand. Cameron was not expecting this encounter any time soon, so when she tried to form a sentence, but she was only able to form one word.

"House."

Chapter 2

She looked at him and noticed that he looked healthy, and that he really wasn't leaning on his cane as much as he used to.

"Now, Cameron I know it's been a few years since you've seen me, but hand off. I'm a married man now." Bell just smirked at him as he took the file out of his little sister's hands and looked through it. He continues to look at the file as Bell decides to tease him a little bit.

"This coming from the guy whose first marriage was a shame and the second one was shotgun." Bell knew the whole story about what happened. House had filled her in after she had decided that she was going to bug him until he cracked and told her everything. Contrary to everyone else's belief, she can be pretty conniving and manipulative. It must run in the family.

"It wasn't shotgun. We wanted to get married." House had no idea why he felt the need to defend himself from his sister. Maybe fatherhood had changed him. Something that he never thought would be possible; to have the ability to change, or maybe it was something that was in him the entire time. Who knows, all he knows is that he better get his little sister off his back before Cameron started to take interest in him again. He was sure Cuddy would kill her then him if that happened.

"Was she pregnant?" bell waited for a response from House as Cameron watched the two of them interact. It was strange but entertaining at the same time. Bell continued when House didn't respond. "Then it was shotgun. And what makes you think that this is typhoid? The test was negative." Bell folded her arms as she resigned from talking about House's personal issues since she was more worried about an impending epidemic that was on her hands.

"The symptoms fit." House states in a 'duh' like tone. He wondered if Cameron was getting to her. House closes the file and hands it back to Bell he then turns and looks at Cameron. "Check the blood work on the latest patient, run the test and I guarantee that it's typhoid." House gives them both that smug expression as Cameron just rolls her eyes and leaves the room. Some things just never change.

Bell sat back down on her desk and put her feet up. She gestured to her brother to so the same. She figured she might as well since he would do it anyway, she figured out that one real quick. "So, how's the family?" She figured she ask since she really hadn't seen the kids in a while. She was hoping to see her niece and nephews at the end of the week, but they were still too young to travel. She would have to make plans to fly out to Jersey to do so.

House sat down and put his feet up on his sister's desk as he answered her question. "They're good. Crying a little less, pooping a little more, driving us both crazy." House had to rub his face just thinking about it, at first he was glad that he came on this trip for two reasons. One was to spend time with his sister. Sure they talk on the phone at least once a week. He really liked talking to her, he like connecting with her. Someone who had the same thought process as him, but without all of the baggage. The second reason was to get a break away from the family, he knew that it sounded cruel, but he really did need one, but he was begging to realize that the longer he was away from his family, the more he missed them. He thought that was a strange feeling he had, he actually missed his family. "Luckily we're having sex again so that's making up for everything." Bell knew that He was deflecting, he may have his priorities straight, but he hadn't changed. She knew that he missed them, but then another thought popped into her head.

'Aren't you supposed to be in a seminar right now?" Cuddy has sent him out here for a reason. She would have gone with them but her sister couldn't watch the kids until the weekend. Also was a little hesitant about being away from her children for more than a day, but she also didn't like the fact that her husband was away from her. So if she found out that he was skipping out on this conference, which Bell knew she would, Cuddy was going to kill him. Just then House's cell phone began to play the imperial march theme from Star Wars. House opens his phone and answers in a low whisper.

"Hey, now's not a good time. In the middle of a conference." He had hoped that she was buying it, but he knew his wife was no idiot. And she voiced her opinion as such.

"House, we both know that you're not in that conference room, so why do you even try to make an attempt to try to lie." Cuddy sat at her desk in her office outside the clinic. Outside the door that said Lisa Cuddy-House MD, the clinic seemed to be fairly busy as nurses were moving backing and forth. "Even though I asked you nicely to take notes on these things because I here, at home taking care of both the hospital and our children." She figured she could at least try to guilt him into going to at least one or two of these things since she was on the phone.

"Which is why I paid Chase an extra $500 to take notes on the ones you wanted to attend. I maybe lazy, but at least I still get the job done." House said smugly He knew that bringing one of his employees to this thing. He didn't want to work but at least he knew what needed to be done. He wasn't a complete jerk. Bell's eyes lit up on that response as she just continued to stare at House as he talked to his wife.

"Was that the reason you wanted Chase to go with you instead of Foreman? So you would have someone there to take notes? Why am I not surprised?" Cuddy should be mad at him, she wanted to be mad at him, but he dotted his "I's" and crossed his "t's." So she was going to at least try to get him to do one last thing. "Are you still going to give your speech? Because I am not going to miss that. No matter how hard you try." She really wanted him to give a speech, and one that was not three minutes long.

House sat there and looked at Bell as the familiar smirk began to form on his face. "Well, here's the thing. There might be a typhoid outbreak and they need to find the source." He knew she wasn't going to go for that, but since he was not there, he might as well mess with her a little bit. But Bell wasn't going to have any of it.

"Contrary to your belief, Greg it's NOT TYPHOID! So stop trying to piss off your wife and give your speech." Bell said as she stood up and stared at House. Bell throws the file back at House and chuckles as she hears Cuddy laughing through the phone. "One, one patient doesn't have a fever, and for it to be an epidemic there would have to be more than two people having the same set of symptoms. Besides, you only want the diagnosis, since when do you try to find the source?" Bell knew what he was doing; he really didn't want to go to that conference and was desperate to do anything to get out of it. Bell moves closer to House as he tries to catch the file. Bell grabs the phone from House and begins to speak to Cuddy. "Lisa, hi. How's my favorite sister-in-law?" She figured she might as well annoy him in the process.

Cuddy leaned back into her chair and smiled, she knew House's sister enough to know that she would make sure that he would give his speech. She liked her from the moment she met her. 'Well, other than my husband trying to manipulate his way out of a conference, I'm doing pretty well. Will you make sure that he gives his speech?"

"I'll put it up on ustream so you can watch it." When Bell made that statement, House's eyes shot up and he began shaking his head. He really didn't want to give that speech. "Actually what you can do is have everyone gather in the main auditorium and broadcast it to everyone there." Bell smile, she loved to watch him squirm. They really were related. Bell heard Cuddy laughing and then agreed to the idea.

"Sounds perfect, I know that Wilson would want to see it. Thank you for the idea. I'll talk to you later." And with that Cuddy hung up the phone and started chuckling to herself. House was going to get even with Bell; she could feel it in her bones.

Bell closed the phone and tossed it back to House. He just looked at her as if she had clubbed a baby seal right in front of him. Which was strange because he was the type of person that would normally not care. "You are so going to get it." The wheels in House's head had already begun to turn as Bell just stood there with that signature smug look on her face. Then her pager went off.

A few minutes later, Bell was in the ER and walked towards Masters and Prichard. They both had scared looks on their faces as they were talking with Cameron. "What's going on?" She asked calmly as Masters stood there, Prichard was a little impatient so he spoke first.

"I think we have an epidemic on our hands. Two more patients just came into the ER and we're setting them up in isolation." He knew he shouldn't have said it so loud, but it needed to be said. Even if it did mean that there might be a panic.

"Don't say that too loud." She already knew he heard it she just hoped that he wouldn't make a big deal about being right. Who the hell was she kidding?

"Did someone say epidemic? I think someone owes me money." House shouted before he even entered the ER. Masters seemed to tense up at the sound of his voice. Apparently he had that effect on a lot of people. Cameron was looking at the file again as Bell rolled her eyes at the sound of her brother's voice. Masters' voice cracked as she began to ask.

"Is that who I think it is?" She was hoping that it wasn't but she the chances were slim and she looked at both Cameron and Bell answered at the same time.

"Yes" Bell knew that this was going to be interesting and she hoped to God that this wouldn't get messy. House walked towards Bell and her team and stood next to his sister. Masters stood in disbelief as she looked at her former boss right in front of her. Bell spoke before House could get another word in. "And don't start on the Typhoid thing because we don't have any evidence that says that's what it is." That's when Cameron spoke up.

"It's not, the test just came back negative for Typhoid. Whatever this is, we better figure this out soon or we're going to have a bunch of dead people on our hands." Cameron handed the folder to House as he looked it over. Cameron knew that this was his territory and Bell was going to need all the help she can get. She had a well-renown diagnostian at their disposal and she was going to make sure that Bell used it. "It's your call, Jen. What do you want to do?"

Bell stood there in the midst of what was to be the beginning of the storm she knew what she had to. She was good, but she wasn't an infectious disease specialist. So, she made the only call she could. "Get the patients up to isolation, get the blood work, and meet me in the conference room for the differential." Bell turns to look at House and simply states to him, "Greg, you're consulting, this is my team, my department. You can give your opinion, but ultimately I run the show. I can watch you and control this situation at the same time. I'm not Cuddy. You understand?
She had to talk to him like he was a puppy, but it seemed to work as he nodded in response. "Good besides, you do something stupid and Masters is going to tell." Bell glances back at masters and smiles. Masters nods as she and Prichard head off to do their tasks. Bell looks back at Cameron, who seems to be impressed.

"I'll get the patience set up in isolation and I'll let Daniels know about the situation." Bell nodded at Cameron as she walked away. Bell then stood there alone with House, in the middle of the ER. And House spoke again.

"So what do we do know boss?" House had to ask, he was going to have to wait until after this crisis was over to get even with his sister. Right now they needed to find out what it was that people have. Bell looked back at him as they began to walk back towards the elevators.

"We get to work."