Author's Note: told you I get this up before Friday. Enjoy, oh I was thinking that the next story could before about how House met his little sister. Let me know what you think.

"I'm going to get a few more whiteboards. We're going to need them." As Cameron walked towards the door and as she opens it, she sees a face that she hadn't plan on seeing at all. House being here for a conference there was a possibility that she him, but this was unexpected. So unexpected that, again, she could only say one word. "Robert."

Chapter 4

Chase just stares back at his ex wife. He hadn't seen Cameron since that night he signed the divorce papers, ended their short marriage. She looked the same, which was a good thing. It was nice to see a familiar face. "Allison. How are you?"

"Alright, what are you doing here?" Part of her wanted to slap him for showing up, but she realized that that wouldn't but fair since she was the one who ended things. But the truth was she didn't love him in a way that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. They both would have been miserable and she didn't want to do that to him. The whole Dibala incident was just an excuse to get out of it.

"House paged me. He said that he wanted the notes from the seminar that he missed." Chase spots House sitting in a chair across the room as he watches the exchange between the Ex-spouses. He sits and waits for Chase to hand him the notes as Bell stands next to her brother trying to figure out what was going on. Bell heard the accent the man gave and she had to admit, he was cute. She knew that he and Cameron had some sort of history the way the two of them were staring at each other.

"What up with Crocodile Hunter?" Bell stood with the patient histories in her hand as House sat next to her eating a bag of premade popcorn. "And where in the hell did you get that?" Bell swears that the man has everything in that damn backpack of his. Bell looks back at Cameron and the Aussie gent that was standing next to her.

"That would be one member of my team. Jen, this is Dr. Robert Chase. Chase, this is Dr. Jennifer Bell, head of the diagnostics department here and also my little sister. So have at her." Bell glared at her brother for a moment before she extended her hand to greet Chase. House continued, "He's also used to be married to Cameron. She left him to come back here." That put a shocked looked on Bell's face.

Bell looks at Cameron's face as she goes from a look of complete shock, to the classic 'I'm going to kill you' look. Bell says to Cameron, "This is your ex-husband?" Bell tries to think of what possible stupid thing that he could have done for her to leave him and move to Chicago. "What'd you do? Cheat on her?"

Chase's eyes almost fell out of his sockets from that statement. That though never even entered his mind during their entire relationship. He looked quickly back at Cameron who could not believe that Bell would ask such a thing. "What? No, I would never."

Bell smirks at the statement and then looks back at Cameron. "Then you're idiot for letting this one get away." Bell sits down next to House to watch the scene play out in front of them. There was a reason House brought popcorn, he knew this was coming and he wanted to enjoy the show. As soon as Bell sits, House holds the bag up to his sister and she grabs a handful of popcorn at looks at Cameron and Chase. This should be good, she thinks.

Cameron looks back at the duo that happened to be sitting down across the room. She mentally shakes her head as she notices that they are sitting in similar positions, both chewing on popcorn in the exact same way. She suddenly felt the tension rise in the room. "Do you guys mind?" she knew that House wanted to make Cameron as miserably as he possibly could. That's how he always was.

"No. Not at all. Can I have some more popcorn, Greg?" That response she was expecting from House, not from Bell. Sometimes she forgets who she's related to. So all Cameron can do is walk out of the room. Bell looks at House and asks, "On a scale of one to ten, how awkward do you think that was for Cameron?"

House smiles at his sister, "I would say about a thirteen. Speaking of prime numbers, any word from your girlfriend?" House looks back at Chase as he begins to recover from the encounter with his ex-wife. Chase was thinking how good she looked since the last time he saw her. But at the mention of thirteen's name shook him from his thoughts.

"Remy's fine. She's going through some side effects of the new medication, but she's doing better." Chase figured that he better shake the thoughts of his ex-wife out of his head before House catches him and gives him hell for it. "What kind of case do you have Dr. Bell?" Chase figured a list of symptoms could keep his brain occupied.

"Patients, as in more than one, are suffering from convulsions, respiratory duress, and other than the fact that one patient heart beat is slower, the rest have an accelerated heart beat. Right now we are treating the symptoms, but we still don't know the underlining cause." Bell knew what Chase was thinking and she figured that she could throw him a bone. She wasn't that cruel. "Right now I'm thinking poison more than infectious disease so, we're trying to see if the patients have crossed paths at some point in the last few weeks."

Chase nods in response and sits down and grabs a file and looks through the history. Both Bell and House smirk as Bell gets up and heads for the door. House looks up at her as she heads for the door. "Now where are you going? Don't leave me alone with him." Chase just looks at House slightly offended and then he suddenly realized that he didn't want to be alone with House either.

Bell shakes her head as she opens the door. "I'm going to check on Maters and Prichard to see how far they are on the lab work. And I need to check on Cameron. I'm sure she wasn't expecting Steve Irwin here to show up." Bell walks out the door. Chase looks at House as he just gives Chase an annoyed look. They both say nothing as they get back to reading the files.

Masters and Prichard are in the pathology lab going over the lab work when Prichard finally speaks up. "So that was your former boss?" Masters never really talked much about her experience working at in House's department. He had always wondered what it would be like to work with the man. And his curiosity was getting the better of him, especially as to the reason why she left.

"That was him. Really wasn't expecting to see him anytime soon." That was a shock, and she was partial glad that she wasn't the only one that was so. The look on Cameron's face indicated to her that she was still getting use to the fact that House was here. She also knew that Prichard was going to be asking a lot of questions, so she was trying to mentally prepare herself for the invasion. Luckily she didn't have to since Bell came into the lab.

"Any luck so far?" Bell was starting to get a little nervous; she knew that this could escalate at anytime so she needed to figure this out as quickly as possible. Prichard looked up from the microscope and towards Bell. As he shakes his head Cameron enters the lab with another file in her hand. "Cameron, please tell me that's not another patient." Bell didn't know how much more she could take.

"No, clinic patient. Just need to do some routine blood work." Cameron tells her as she sits down to get begins to work. Bell feels like Cameron is giving her the silent treatment so she shakes her head and sits in the seat across from her.

"Are you okay?" Bell was really hoping that the whole situation wasn't bothering that much. "I didn't know that Greg was going to bring your ex-husband here."

"You could have said something; instead you sat back and waited for the drama to unfold." Cameron was angrier with that than anything else. She could always handle anything House could throw at her. True it had been years since she's dealt with him, but dealing with House was like riding a bike. You just can never forget.

"You're right. I should have and I'm sorry. Sometimes when I'm with my brother, I forget who else is in the room. It's a strange way for us to bond and we're still getting to know one another."

Cameron looked at her and knew that Bell's apology was sincere. That was the difference between Bell and House. Bell shows a little more compassion than House. Don't get her wrong she knew House had compassion, but he didn't show it in a normal way. He always had to be unique in his own way. "Just makes sure he doesn't throw any so-called 'charity cases' at me."

Bell just smirks fat her and nods. "And I'll also keep your Aussie of an ex-husband away from you, if you like." The two of them just chuckle at that thought as Masters' head pops up.

"The man-whore is here?" Bell and Cameron both stop and then look at Masters waiting for her to elaborate on the last statement. Masters at this point had put her eyes back into the microscope.

"What do you mean 'man-whore'?" Both Cameron and Bell asks simultaneously. Bell asked out of curiosity and Cameron asked because she was thinking that there was no way Masters was talking about her husband. She meant EX- husband. Before Masters could respond, all of their pagers go off at the same time. Prichard and Masters are the first ones out of the room as Cameron and Bell follow after.

By the time Cameron and Bell get to the isolation room, Masters and Prichard were already in the hazmat suits and began to resuscitate the young woman who had gone into respiratory arrest. Bell goes in and preps herself as the two younger doctors had continued performing CPR on the patient.

But by the time that Bell had gotten into the room, it was too late. Patient had died and Prichard had to call time of death. Bell had lost patients before, but this one had seemed different. She stood there at the foot of the bed with Masters and Prichard on either side. She stared down at the body that used to be her patient. As and Prichard was taking the patches and turning off the monitors, that's when she saw it. Bell moved closer to the body as Cameron stands on the outside looking on wondering what the hell she was doing.

"Jenn, what is it?" Now Cameron was as curious as the rest of the team as Bell went to open the robe of the young woman.

"This wasn't here before. Look at the skin." Masters and Prichard lean in to see that the skin on the woman's torso was blue. "Bluish skin means lack of oxygen. She suffocated from the inside out." The team members and Cameron look in shock. They were trying to figure out how in the world they missed something like this. "Check the other patients; make sure the skin coloration is normal. And get them all on pure oxygen." Masters and Prichard set off on their tasks as Bell exits the isolation room. She tears off the suit and heads over to Cameron. "They were poisoned. We need to find out with what because time is starting to run out."