YOU AND ME - Chapter 5
After zoning out for a couple of minutes, I came back to and with Alex headed over to the receptionist to ask for them to point us in the direction of the surgical ward. "If you take the elevator to level three and take a left once you get off you'll find another receptionist. Then they'll show you where to go from there to find Doctor House." So, like he said we took the elevator to level three and started to head towards the desk. Before we even turned left, my uncle, House found us. "Mere?" He looked exactly the same as he did the last time I saw him eight months ago. "Hey Uncle H." I said enveloping him in a hug. "It's good to see you again Mere." Nodding into his chest, I squeezed him once more before letting him go. "This is Alex, hopefully Dad told you about him as well." A small smile graced his face, one that I knew people hardly ever saw. "Yeah, yeah he did. Come with me, we can go talk in my office and then we'll set you two up." Before he even finished talking, he had started limping back to his office. "I still can't believe that your Uncle is House." Alex had an astonished look on his face. Chuckling I said, "I know."
House's office was exactly like I expected. Pristine and assembled. Everything was tidily organised and stacked. His black lazy boy was still sitting in the right corner with a lamp hanging over it and the two bookshelves sitting across from it. Going and sitting behind his desk, he pointed to the two chairs sitting in front of it for us. "You know I could go up there and beat him with my cane for you Mere." Blushing I stuttered out a reply, "Bu-but...wha...what?" It was bad enough that I was always being talked about at Seattle Grace, but to deal with it here? I just wasn't ready. Sensing my discomfort Alex stepped in, "I was wondering what we would be doing today sir?" Taking the hint, the conversation steered away from me and my past love life and onto what was going to be happening.
We spent another twenty minutes in his office before, before he called in Cuddy telling her to show us where to go even though she was technically his boss. But House didn't really care, as normal. After a quick goodbye, we were gone. It was a quiet and peaceful walk to the interns' lounge, taking in everything that this hospital had to offer. Cuddy showed us where both our lockers where and our scrubs. "Thank you." She smiled before she walked away. Looking at Alex, I smiled. I was happy.
Our shift was coming to an end. We had ten more minutes before we could head home. I was drained from all the running around I had to do, but it felt good to be put to work. I was standing at the nurses' desk, introducing myself. "Hi, my name is Meredith." The man and women both smiled and introduced themselves as well. "I'm Lily and this is Jake. Nice to meet you, Meredith." After conversing for a few more minutes, I looked at my watch and realised that I could leave. After saying goodbye I was spinning around and walking back towards the locker room when I bumped into someone. Standing in front of me was the last person I ever expected to see again. I could tell that my face was probably screwed up in confusion when I asked, "Mark?"