Hello, here is another chapter for my new story and you'll get lot's of backstory so there isn't much dialouge but be patient, it's all relevant, at least I hope so!

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Chapter 2- Daddy?

The Previous Day

On Saturday afternoon, Stephanie Jane Cuddy, 16 years of age, walked through the Lobby of her mother's hospital, Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. It was big, welcoming and saved a lot of people. And Stephanie was extremely proud of her mother. Especially since she raised both Stephanie and the hospital single-handedly. It was a very prestigious job to be the Dean of Medicine, and Cuddy had been the second youngest and first woman. 'Now that really was an achievement.' Stephanie often thought. She also knew the staff of PPTH respected her mother greatly, and were proud to be part of the hospital as well.

Stephanie always knew that her mother had gone to an anonymous sperm donor to have a child, but that didn't bother her. She had her mother, she didn't need anyone else. She had her mother's dark curls, which she wore long down her back, her mother's incredible blue eyes, though Stephanie's were a shade brighter it seemed, and she could imitate perfectly her mother's furious glare.

Just as Stephanie came to her mother's office she was nearly knocked over by the door being forced open so swiftly. She knew only one person who would do that.

Dr. Gregory House.

The hospital's most troublesome doctor, many staffers couldn't think why Cuddy let him stay at PPTH adn let him get away with so much. Her mother always said it was complicated, and it was something to do with how they were friends in college and how Cuddy felt guilty for playing her part in House's illness. Stephanie thought House was quite funny sometimes and she admired him for saying what he thought, Stephanie wished she could be that free and confident at times.

Also Stephanie felt bad for House. She would hate to be crippled, she had often seen him watching her when she was skateboarding just outside the hospital, and she knew that look of envy. Wishing he could be active as well. From what her mother told her, House had been very athletic before being crippled.

So whenever House was difficult, Stephanie remembered that little fact and it worked, she found herself not so mad at him for yelling at her mother. She also understood that their little bantering was how it worked for them. Her mother was one of the few people, Stephanie included, that could match House's wit. Many other staffers just crumbled to the ground or did their best to ignore him, but were unsuccessful which was why nobody or hardly anyone liked him. Her mother said that was how she and House communicated but Stephanie knew it was something more. She could see when her mother truly loved someone and she did love House. And Stephanie wouldn't be too surprised if he felt the same way.

But there was always one thing about House that bothered Stephanie. He could look her in the eye and tell her the truth about what she needed to hear, tell her to get over her teenage problems, make jokes to her face.

Except whenever he first saw her.

Whenever his eyes first came to land on her, he always averted them for a couple of seconds, before firing off at her again. Stephanie hadn't thought anything of it as a child, but now at 16 she wondered if it meant something more.

Anyway back to that day, and Stephanie stepped out the way to narrowly avoid being whacked with the door then bowled over by Greg House, who was storming out of her mother's office. He didn't even notice her as she watched him limp to the elevator.

Stephanie smiled and went inside the inner sanctum. "Trouble in paradise?" She teased her mother.

"Hey Steph. Don't even ask. Another risky procedure, just once can't he have a safe, simple one. But no, that would be too mundane for Gregory House. 'Super Doc'." She said in a sarcastic tone. Stephanie smiled and rounded her mother's desk, giving her a quick hug.

"No worries Mom. You know he'll save another life and that will of course mean, you being able to promote your wonderful hospital some more. See he is good for one thing."

"Unknown publicity." Cuddy guessed. And it was true, many times she had used House and his department as a promotion for donors when showing them round the hospital. She never actually let them meet House but explained what he did, and low and behold a lot of them had heard of him and were impressed.

Stephanie pulled her iPod from her bag and began listening to some music before she heard her mother curse. She pulled one of the plugs out and grinned. "What's wrong Mom?"

"I was meant to give House these papers." She said holding up a folder. "I don't have time to go traipsing after him, I've got a meeting to get to."

"I'll take them then. You go have your meeting and when you're done we can go home. Alright?"

Cuddy nodded and hugged her daughter, passing the folder over. She knew Stephanie would make sure they arrived at their destination. She couldn't trust House to do so, knowing him they would end up in the bin.

As Stephanie arrived at the office of House she didn't see him there, but with quick glance at the clock and she guessed he was off bothering Dr. James Wilson now. Wilson was the only person House could truly call a friend. Stephanie liked him though, he was funny, friendly and kinda geeky. And he put up with House, which said a lot to most people.

However House's team were there. Eric Foreman was reading a Medical Journal, he was the member most like House, everyone thought, but still nicer. Stephanie liked him, because he was a good doctor and for people working at her mother's hospital that was what they needed. Robert Chase was snoozing in a chair, Stephanie had to smile at that. He was alright, forever after House's approval though Stephanie could see he was never gonna get it, but she liked his perseverance. And Allison Cameron was on the computer probably checking through House's e-mails. Stephanie didn't really like Cameron. She didn't hate her, but she didn't like her either. Sometimes she could be too nice and other times she was bitchy and a pain, she used moral arguments to try to manipulate patients, and those times even Stephanie had been on House's side.

Still Stephanie proceeded in and handed the folders to Foreman. "Hello everyone. Can you make sure House gets these." Foreman took them and gave the teenager a smile. "Specific orders from my mother."

"No problem Stephanie." Foreman said. Stephanie smiled and left the room, quickly walking towards the elevator. But halfway there she remembered she had left her book in there the other day when she was chatting with the team. So she turned on her heel and approached the room again, this time no one saw her though.

"Foreman, I did a DNA test." She heard Cameron say.

"Cameron, do you realise how angry they're gonna be about that?" Foreman said irritated.

"I just had to know. Everyone thinks so anyway. The eyes, the intelligence, they're both obsessed with music and they both wear Converse." Cameron argued.

"Yeah absolutely, that's some real parent-child bonding right there." Foreman joked.

"Look, neither knew I got their DNA. But I checked and House is Stephanie's father."

"WHAT?" Stephanie heard herself scream. It was then that Foreman and Cameron turned to the door, Chase woke up startled, House and Wilson arrived at to a silent office and Stephanie realised it wasn't a dream.

So she did the only thing she could think of. She ran.

"What the hell just happened in here?" House demanded, already guessing.