Thanks again for the reviews. Had some time to finish this chapter so you're lucky enough to have a quick update. I can't say the medical stuff in this chapter is completely correct, I'm a physicist not a doctor, but I have researched a little so it should be accurate enough for the purpose. Hope you enjoy anyway, things will be starting to get interesting in the next few chapters.

House sat at his desk staring at the list of symptoms written on the white board he had moved into his office. After being dragged into the clinic he had then been dragged back out after being assigned a case, much to his relief. Twirling his cane in his right hand he considered the symptoms again, something wasn't adding up. It wasn't helping matters that a certain immunologist was making herself known in his thoughts. He had definitely underestimated her earlier, a part of him forgetting how much she had developed during the years. He hated how not knowing exactly how she felt about him was bugging him so much. Of course, he refused that the reason why he needed to know to be anything other than answering a puzzle. Truth was, he had missed her presence during differentials, missed how she would sort through his mail every morning, missed how he would enter his office and fine a mug of coffee waiting for him. That was what really bugged him. She was meant to be missing him, not the other way round.

As if fate itself was plotting against him, the woman in question appeared at his door, calmly walking in. House stopped spinning his cane and placed it beside him as he watched her approach.

"Checking the clinic didn't make me suicidal?" he asked, leaning back slightly in his chair.

"Brought you this" Cameron smiled, handing him a cup of coffee identical to the one he had brought her earlier. "You said you'd need one after clinic so like the kind, generous and thoughtful person that I am, I brought you one...The fact that a party has just been brought into the ER with food poisoning and I didn't fancy being vomited on has nothing to do with it" she grinned, mimicking House's own earlier excuse. He grinned back at her.

"Thanks" He said taking the coffee.

"Tough case?" Cameron asked, looking at the board.

"All my cases are tough" House shrugged "not easy food poisoning and head wounds like the ER get" he added. Cameron glared at him. "What? It's true" he defended.

Cameron ignored him and read the symptoms on the board instead. "Could be Crohn's" she suggested.

"Already thought about it, test came back negative. My lackeys are in the process of testing for intestinal infections" House replied. Cameron considered the board again.

"What about Celiac Disease? Would explain the unexplained anaemia, abdominal pain and fatigue" she said after a moment.

"But wouldn't explain why she's currently dying, also it's genetic, no mention of it in either parents history"

"Just because there's no mention doesn't mean they don't suffer from it, symptoms for Celiac's don't always make themselves known, and since when have you started to trust patient's histories anyway?" Cameron countered "As for the dying thing, Celiac Disease results in greater chance of developing Adenocarcinoma. Cancer fits."

House looked at her intently before picking up his phone. "Test her IgA, tTGA and AEA levels in her blood and biopsy her colon...yes for cancer, what else you idiot" He put down the phone and looked back at Cameron. "You're wasted in the ER you know that right" he said. "Not that I'm saying you're right, an infection fits just as well"

Cameron just smiled and shrugged. House leant back in his chair once again, observing her thoughtfully.

"What if you come back and work here" he suggested.

"House... you've already tried this once. I left for a reason" Cameron replied. House shook his head.

"I offered for you to come back into your old position, now that'll never work as it requires one of my team to be sacked and you'll be too guilt ridden to do any work. I'm not offering that now. I'm offering for you to come back as a sort of partner say. Obviously I'll still be boss of you but you'll get a say in what cases we take, get to order the team." He explained. Cameron considered the man in front of her for a moment.

"Why do you want me back?" she asked. House sighed, knowing he should've expected that question.

"I need someone here who actually cares about the patients. My team are idiots, don't argue with me enough and care more about looking good to me than the person they treat. Foreman doesn't want to be here, I'm not that stupid not to notice him looking for other vacancies, once he finds something he's out of here. You've just proven that you still have the ability to think outside the box and you can't deny that this is more exciting than the ER" he answered.

Now it was Cameron's turn to sigh. "House, don't get me wrong, I'm really flattered by the offer but I did leave for a reason like I said. It's true, sometimes I miss the excitement here, the challenge, but I don't miss the extra stress it caused me, the rollercoaster of emotions...I have to move on from this job" she replied, looking anywhere but at him. "Anyway, I better get back to the ER, only said I'd be away for a few minutes" she added before hastily turning to leave.

House nodded and watched deep in thought as the younger doctor made her way out, there was something she wasn't telling him.