Here for you

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They had rushed Erin to the hospital carrying her limp body through the doors of Princeton Plainsborough. They were now sitting in collective silence in a private room in the children's wards.

The only the sounds were coming from the machines attached to small little Erin.

Cameron was sat right next to her bed holding on to Erin Fragile limp hand, stears streaming down her face, thinking this was all her fault? How could she have missed something like that? How could she have been so stupid?

House was stood over looking the scene before him, both he and Cameron had refused to leave Erin alone, and had seen their little girl scream out in pain as the doctors did their tests.

They were now left with the fragile little sleeping girl that lay on the bed. He wanted so much to be able to turn back, to have read the signs earlier and taken her to the hospital as soon as the symptoms started, back to last night when she called out for them.

They were both good doctors, he was a renowned doctor the best in his filed, how could he have missed meningitis?

He had joked earlier to Cuddy saying it could be allot more serious than flu, but now he wanted so much to be at work with a healthy Erin up in day-care having a normal day.

Not sitting in this room waiting to see if she will ever regain consciousness, they had left it to late, and chances were not on their side.

Being a doctor during times like these were hard for the both of them, they knew the odds of her coming through this this with little or no permanent damage and the chances that she would make it at all, and it was killing them.

Tears sting his eyes as he thinks how different their lives would be without her how hard it would be go go home and have no Erin with them, she had been a fixture in their lives since they had brought her home.

How hard it would be to walk into her pink and fluffy room and not find Erin hiding in the cupboard ready to jump out at him, and have no excuse to sit all morning watching cartoons at the weekends with Erin sat right next to him.

His heart almost breaks as he imagines what life would be like without that little girl and he can't do it, he can't go back to the way things were. Before Erin.

Over the past two years his life had changed because of her and he can't ever remember being as happy as he was with his little family. She has been like his flesh and blood and has treated her as such, he couldn't live without her. Wouldn't live without her.

They had been sat for hours, she had been given the treatment, now everything was left up to her all she needed to do now was to wake up with everything in tack, it was all on her.

But looking down at her limp baby body as she lay on that bed, she was still a baby she was way to young to have her own life in her hands. 'It's our job to protect her from things like this; Cameron thought as yet more tears found it way to her eyes.

They treat patients with fewer symptoms than what Erin first presented everyday in the clinic. With overprotective parents bringing their children in with common colds, and sore limps. But with their own child they miss vital sign's of a serious condition. The headaches, the fever she had even complained about her neck and was slightly dehydrated and yet meningitis didn't even enter her mind until that rash came up on her back.

Cameron held onto her hand tighter, kissing it several times saying how sorry she was over and over again.

This glass doors open but neither House nor Cameron acknowledge the person entering instead their full attention was on the child before them.

Wilson stands by the door, with it still open, puts his hands in his pockets as he looks from House standing up watching over Erin to Cameron sobbing beside the bed. He knows what both their reactions would be when he say's "I think you two should go and get a coffee or something, you need to be strong for Erin when she wakes up" but he promised Cuddy that he would do it even though he told her exactly what they'd say.

"I'm not leaving her" was Cameron responds

"I'd rather be here when she wakes up" was House's angry response, giving him a death glare that if he had been one of the nurse's would have warned him out of the room, before they both return to their silent hells.

Wilson took a seat on the other side of Cameron and joined their silence before saying.

"It wasn't your fault, you couldn't have known she was this sick" he could see the guilt in both of them but his words did little to comfort them, if anything it only made it worse.

TBC…..

I don't have any medical knowledge so there may be some medical mistakes in there. please let me know. hope you enjoyed.