One or Two Things I Know for Sure

A/N: This chapter is for my lovely Mix-Me-A-Martini because your reviews always make me smile.

Chapter 3 Annabel

"So you're sure you can't just hold it in for… three days or so?" House asked, hands on the steering wheel with a side glance at his fiancée which only granted him a nasty glare.

"House, I don't care that Lisa is winning the damn bet, just drive!" Cameron arched her back slightly and bit her lip, her breath in short gasps as she moaned through gritted teeth.

House pouted, but looked back ahead. The ride to the hospital was easy and fast, it was two fifty in the morning after all.

If you asked House, the nurses were being overly friendly and annoying. It was too early for anyone to be that happy. It didn't matter how much they liked his fiancée or how much they wanted to see how he would act as a father.

It took four snide remarks and one jab with his cane, but finally they all left and he could swear Cameron wanted to call them back and have him leave, when he asked for the fifth time that morning if she was sure this was labor.

"It's a simple question" he tried to defend himself, trying to hold back a grin when she glared again. It was easier to try and be a pain in the ass, than to pretend that this wasn't scaring the hell out of him.

"I swear, one more time and I want you out" she said, just a moment before another contraction hit. She tried to remember whatever the damn breathing technique was, but everything just went blank and all she could think about was the pain.

House took her hand, sat himself next to her and kissed her hair.

"It's really hard to be mad at you when you are being sweet" she tried to joke at the end of the contraction, her muscles un-tensed slightly and she leaned slightly into his body.

House chuckled and kissed her hair again.

"You know I'm just all talk" he said and pulled away slightly to push a strand of hair from her face "but if anyone asks, I was a jerk about the whole thing"

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Thirty-two hours and forty-seven minutes later, they were joined in the room by two nurses and a gynecologist who must have been on his fifth 'one more push', House was sure his right hand was broken and Cameron was tired and sweaty and promising pain to a part of House's anatomy. That's when one big push later a little girl was screaming.



House gasped, Cameron smiled, and the baby cried.

"Congratulations! She's perfect!" the gynecologist pronounced as they placed the pink baby on Cameron's stomach.

"Wow" House whispered, looking down at the tiny person who had calmed down slightly, hazy blue eyes and a patch of light brown hair.

"She's beautiful" Cameron says, with tears on her eyes and if anyone said House cried as well, they were lying. His eyes were simply irritated, that was all.

His hand wasn't shaking when he cut the cord, it was just sore from Cameron squeezing it.

He wasn't amazed by that little life; he was just making sure that all fingers and toes were there.

And he wasn't crying.

But when she was placed in his arms, so tiny and perfect and his, he smiled and kissed her little nose.

"I though she wasn't going to have you wrapped around her little finger" Cameron smiled and gently ran her fingers along her daughter's arm. Her eyes shining and her face flushed.

"She doesn't, I'm just thinking of all that money I lost" Even he saw passed that line. But it was okay because his daughter was in his arms.

"Right Annabel?" he asked the little girl, who just looked up at him and yawned.

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If anyone is confused, Annabel was their first daughter. Maddy (Madeline) is the second, and I'll get to the third girl next chapter.

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