*Hello, my Cavies!
Cavie-definition: a guinea pig like animal. Or in my case, people that are reading Cave House!
There shall live Emily. They shall come home. He shall continue with the delusional hallucinations. Cuddy shall continue to watch. I shall stop using "shall". Good, we're on the same page so far.
This is having a lot to do with Foreman. You'll see why, my preciousnesses.*
Gettysburg Lives
House staggered into the room. "Diagnosis." He barked at the team, who was all sitting calmly at the table. Cameron snapped up as he spoke.
"You've been gone three weeks. Where have you been?" Like an angry mother, she scolded him.
"I've been out. And about. With Cuddy." Chase chuckled and Foreman purely laughed at House's obscene answer.
"That's absurd." Chase replied.
"Though it DOES remind me, where WAS Cuddy?" Foreman asked cautiously.
"Like I said, she was with me." The laughter rose even higher. "Is that so HARD to believe?"
"Well, yes." Chase admitted dropping the chuckle. "She would be caught dead within four miles of you, much less going WITH you somewhere."
"Little Emily bids to differ." House smirked wickedly. Foreman's jaw dropped to his chest.
"You got Cuddy... Pregnant?" State of shock was written in his eyes.
"No, we just named the hospital." Relief swept over the team. "But what if I did..."
"House, you're not yourself. What has gotten into you?" Foreman asked.
House got a glimmer in his eyes like he was about to give a rant. "When did slavery end?"
"Is this one of your racism things?" Foreman shouted with judgement.
"Answer the dam question."
"End of the civil war."
"That's all. Continue with your lives."
House walked out and left his team in bewilderment.
...
It was the end of the civil war. Emily was young and barely knew life with a slave. Her parents had freed their one slave years ago, he wasn't honestly happy with them. But she remembered every time she visited Uncle Robert and Aunt Allison that they had a slave, a slave named Eric. He worked in the stables, where Emily frequently rode horses. Only when her parents took her down to North Carolina, that is. That was when she played with Adelaide and Mary, her two cousins.
When slavery ended with the Gettysburg address her family went back down to see her aunt and uncle. To the ten year old's surprise, Eric was gone. "He said he was going to fight against us with the northerners a while back, but he never left. Now he's gone for good." Aunt Allison mused.
The mirage then fades out.
...
"Today it was the end of the Civil War." He told Cuddy as soon as he shut her office door.
"Write a book." She offered. "People would love to read this."
"But then Emily would miss me." He pouted.
"Emily and I both know you'll come back."
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