Here for you

(3/?)

"Mommy…Mommy….daddy…..daddy" four year old Erin cries as she lays in her bed sweating and slightly disorientated from her sleep. She screams like this until she hears footsteps of her mother and her farther outside her bedroom an open the door slightly.

"Erin honey" Allison says sitting on the edge of the bed stoking the four years hair. Greg pours her a glass of water from the bedside table but doesn't't give it to her straight away, this was unusual Erin never had nightmares which is why both of them were up comforting her in the middle of the night.

Greg just hoped that this was not the start of her calling out for them every time she had a bad dream.

"Erin what's wrong? Did you have a nightmare sweetie?" Allison asks Erin shakes her head.

"My head hurts and I don't feel well" she says still weeping Allison puts her hand over her forehead. She pulls her hand away quickly then pulls the blanket down and begins to strip her.

"Greg could you pass the thermometer and some cold flannels?" Allison ask and is surprised that her already handing her the thermometer.

Greg then leaves the room to get the flannels as Allison continues to strip her and takes her temperature.

Greg enters the room holding a couple of cold wet flannel's when he see the worried look in Allison eyes and rush's over to Erin who was now huddled in her mother's arms her cheeks red with fever and dripping with sweat.

Greg handed her the flannels and Allison placed them on her head.

"I thick she coming down with the flu" she tells Greg, and as if on cue Erin starts a coughing fit.

"Yeah probably." Greg says "I was looking for an excuse to have a few days of. Sick child may as well be a get out of jail free card" House says placing a kiss on the top of Erin forehead.

"Greg" Allison says disapprovingly

"Anyway why do you have to stay home with her I might want to have a few days off" Greg gives her a yeah right look.

"Erin, who do you want to stay home with you tomorrow?"

"Greg" Allison warns

"I want mommy and daddy" Erin declares

"well it looks like we could both have the day off"

"We both can't be off because Erin has the flu. Cuddy will throw a fit" Allison tells him

"No she'll think Erin must be really sick if were both of work and will be to sick with worry to 'have a fit'"

"I want to sleep in your bed mommy"

"Sure only if daddy stops talking you can" Allison looks at Greg to shut himn with no avail.

"No way is she sleeping in our bed she got the flu" Greg teases Erin, Erin who is now sitting up on her mothers lap laughs and coughs all over him.

"I thought you wanted to get a few ay of work" Allison says with raise eyebrows.

"Sure I did, but I also wanted to be healthy" Greg takes hold of Erin and limps unaided out of the room with Allison following behind.

Over the past 2 and half years there whole relationship had changed all because of Erin. They eventually got married in a quiet little registry office, they bought a nice four bed roomed house with a garden which was further away then they hope from work but neither complained too much, they both legally adopted Erin which went by uneventful in Erin eyes, as she had already started calling them mommy and daddy and knew nothing different, Allison's fellowship finished but she stayed on at the hospital when Cuddy offered her a position in the immunology department which she enjoyed but it was no where near as exciting or eventful as working under Dr House. Living with Greg had become more domesticated and neither of them would have it any other way.

"Dr Cuddy I just phoning to inform you that I will not be able to attend work to today as Erin is sick"

"oh no, what's wrong with her" Greg smiled as he heard the worry creep into her voice.

"I not sure it seems to be very serious Allison will have to take the day of as well"

"Greg put Allison on the phone please, now" Cuddy saw right through house's little game.

"Allison is not able to come to the phone at the moment but I ca……"

"Cuddy it me" Allison snatched the phone from him. He had gotten up earlier than usual to make that

phone call before Allison woke up knowing she'll just ruin his plans for the day.

"Allison. Good" cuddy sounded relived "Was House playing games or s Erin really sick"

"No Erin is really sick but it's only the flu"

"Were not sure if it flu it could be more serious" Greg shouts over her through the phone making Allison move away from him.

"Greg will be in within an hour but I'm going to stay home to look after Erin" Allison could feel the evil looks Greg was giving her behind her back but she refused to look at him while she was still on the phone."

"Are you sure" Greg hears Allison side of the conversation.

"Ok I'll phone you later if Erin still not well enough to go to day care but she looking pretty bad today so I'll doubt she will be."

"Okay" and then she took the phone from her hear and hung up.

"You traitor" was what she heard as soon as she joined him sitting on the couch. She cuddled up to him putting her head in the crock of his neck and wrapped her arm around his waist and although he was angry at her he put his arm over her shoulder.

They sat like this for a few mantises before Greg started to get up.

"Well I might as well get ready to go to work then since you traded your own freedom for mine" Greg said bitterly. Allison just smiled and made room for him to get up.

"oh I forgot to tell you" she says casually "Cuddy gave us both the day of any way. She said there was no point in you going to work if your going to try to escape at your first opportunity." Allison lays down taken advantage of the full sofa to her self and reached for the remote. Greg moved her feet and sat down putting her feet the rest on his lap.

"Oh you just forgot did you."

"Yeah, I did" she laugh's looking straight into the sticking blue eyes as if to challenge him, he takes the bait and tickles her feet holing them in place as Allison squirms about laughing uncontrollably.

"stop it" he hears her say but continues, he does not stop until she is practically on his lap with her feet finally out of his grasps. Instead hands are running fingers through her hair possessively.

He could make love to her right then, and she'll let him she was so beautiful, and was with someone like him. No matter how hard he tried to fix her puzzle, he always came up with two or three pieces still missing.

Before he was able to kiss her he heard the sound of tiny feet creep in.

"Morning sweetie" Allison got of his lap and walked over to Erin placing her hand on her forehead.

"My head hurts" she moaned "and I can't find botsie" referring to her pink rabbit. Allison picked her up and held her close to her.

"Did you look under your bed?" she nodded

"well did you look in our room?"

"No daddy said I wasn't allowed to bring him into your bed"

"Oh really, when did he say that?"

"When botsie wet the bed. He said that if he can't use the potty he can't sleep in your bed anymore"

Allison sat down on the sofa still holding Erin, just as Greg got up and made his way into the kitchen.

Allison smiled down at her little niece noticing not for the first time how mush she looked like her. Her brother had of course shared some resemblance to her but not as much as she and Erin now shared.

When people had stopped her in the streets and say things like she looks just you, or you got such a beautiful daughter at first she couldn't see it but as she grew older the resemblance was uncanny , and she couldn't really blame them for making that mistake.

Erin had House were like two peas in the pod he would talk to her like she was an adult and she was unfazed by it. She would nod her head an pretend like she knew what he was talking about and answer him even if it made no sense.

She adored him and hated being apart from him, on her first day of day care Greg had took her in, and she cried the whole day saying she wanted her Daddy, she got her self in a right state that they ended up calling him out of clinic duty and up to day care so that he could comfort her. After that Allison had to drop her off, she still cried at first but was more consolable. It was like that at home as well when she had a nightmare she would always call out for House but when she hurt her self it was always Allison, Greg was not in the least bit sympathetic if she fell doing something she wasn't suppose to be doing and would treat the wound while giving her 'I told you so' look.

HCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHC

"Mommy whose that?" Erin was pointing to a picture that was sat on the bedside table of her brother and his wife, she had told Erin before about her father but she was too young to understand and take it in, she had put picture of them up in her bedroom so that she would know what they looked like but being four years old she still couldn't understand how that could possibly her mommy or daddy when they looked so different from the mother and father she knew.

"That's my brother and his wife remember" she was laying on the edge of the bed looking at the photo while Allison got dressed.

"your mommy and daddy" Erin sat up looking confused sat the only mother she had ever known.

"oh" was all she said, Cameron knew she still didn't understand and just but didn't feel she was ready to be told everything just yet.

"My head still hurts mommy" she lay back down holding her head. Cameron came and sat by Erin's curled up little body as she felt her head, her temperature had been going up and down all day and the coughing seemed to be getting worse.

Allison called for Greg to bring her Erin's medicine, while she pulled the child's top over her head. She was just pulling the t-shirt off when she noticed red blotchy rash on her back.

Greg came in to find his wife in shock as she pick up little Erin and screamed at him to get the car keys as she made her way to the front door.

TBC……….