In the Shadows 4

Fresh Wounds

Hey guys it's been two days since I updated, or has it been three? I don't know. I'm just happy you guys seem to enjoy it but I would still appreciate more reviews. It's really nice to know the somebody is enjoying your work. Anyway so this chapter reveals some of Cameron's secrets but definitely not all of them. I also might send her suitcase back. She would probably appreciate that.

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Cameron tried to out-stare House. She realised that she wouldn't be able to and looked to her feet.

"Nothing happened, House. Go to sleep." She turned to get into the bed she had left a few moments prior but something stopped her. She tugged at her hand but House had gripped her arm like a vice and was showing no intentions of letting up.

"House..."

"No, Cameron. That guy did something to you and I want to know what. He beat Ellie and he hurt you too. Why? Tell me Cameron." He grabbed her other wrist and made her look into his eyes. He could now see the hurt that lay beneath them, the damage that he had known was there, but didn't see. Cameron, who was the most honest and caring person he knew, had lied. He felt bile rising in his throat and struggled to keep it down as he realised the truth in his own words. Everybody Lies.

"I deserved it. He didn't do anything wrong, I was just really naughty when I was younger and he had the job of punishing me." She closed her eyes when she said this for fear of looking into House's eyes and seeing judgement. He would see though her lies, she knew he would.

"How did he 'punish' you? Did he beat you? Hit you and kick you? Or did he throw you out? Make you sleep outside? Maybe he..."

"Raped me." Cameron's words were choked and House felt the oxygen leaving his lungs as she confessed. He felt the pain she had hidden rise up to the surface and it sickened him. The fact that he couldn't leave this alone had caused her this pain she was in now. She would feel this pain for at least a month, the fact that she had confessed meant that she probably wouldn't be able to look him in the eye and that fact that she was filled with anger and hurt meant that she wouldn't be able to talk to him anymore.

"He raped you?" House's words were whispered and he fell to the bed as the impact of her words truly hit him. She had been raped; assaulted in the worst possible way and she was still this strong, beautiful doctor.

"Yes. From when I was eight to when I was eighteen. I left after that. I left Ellie by herself. I left the boys to fend for all. The boys were only fifteen, thirteen and ten! Ellie was ten as well! She had to fight not to be raped and beaten within an inch of her life by a man three times her age!" Cameron was screaming by the end. She was completely livid and had started to pace.

"But it wasn't your fault!" House exclaimed a frown upon his face as he watched Cameron blink to keep back the tears.

"I wasn't there for them! I wasn't there to protect them and I still aren't! Rick is still with Ellie and she's still getting hurt!"

House forced an unwilling Cameron to the bed. She broke down as soon as she was off her feet, tears falling freely and her not doing anything to stop them. House looked at the woman with great sympathy. She hadn't told anybody. House knew she hadn't. Ellie wouldn't still be getting beaten and raped if the police knew about Rick. She would be able to talk about it somewhat easier. House wasn't sure about the second reason but he was sure of the first. It was enough reason for him to act like a human for the first time in years and squeeze her hand.

"I'm sorry." Was all he could muster up. He was going to say 'it's okay' but it wasn't okay. It had never been okay from the time she was eight and it would never be okay again. Cameron would never forget and it was something that would constantly pain her.

House felt a murderous rage towards Rick; he had raped his nieces and beaten his nephews. Wait... wasn't Cameron's father with her uncle at the bar? Surely he knew? Why would a person have drinks with somebody who had raped his daughters? Beaten his sons?

"What about your father? Why was he talking to Rick at the bar if he knew? Didn't he know? Did you not tell him?" House was more musing to himself than asking Cameron but when stiffened, and climbed into the hotel bed she had claimed previously, he became suspicious.

"You told him." House knew the moment he had seen her face that she had. Her heart was broken and he could see a tear run down the side of her face onto the pillow.

"Yes." She turned away from him and squeezed her eyes closed. She didn't want to feel this pain. It was one thing to talk about Rick, but another, much worse, thing to talk about her father.

"Allison..." He couldn't help it; it slid off his tongue so easily and it sounded so right. Her first name made Cameron forget about Rick and her father for a moment. She almost smiled, but refrained from doing so.

"Leave it, Greg." She out emphasis on the 'Greg' and House didn't miss her mocking tone for a second. It wasn't a light mocking tone, it was one that deflected; one he had used many times before. He realised that she was just like him. She was even acting like him. This made him want to scream but he just stood still, too shocked to make a sound. Cameron, the caring one, the good one, was turning into him. A misanthropic son of a bitch. It made him shudder slightly, even if the hotel room was warm. No amount of warmth could help him, but it wasn't him who needed help. It was Cameron.

But he didn't know if he would be able to help her.

Hey thanks to all my readers so far. I've got 32 different countries reading and I can't believe it! It's so great so please review and tell me what you think!

I thought I'd update because I nearly died yesterday and it cured my writers block. The bus I was on was on the tracks when the train came and the barrier was bashing the top of the bus but luckily the train stopped about ten meters away and I'm alive!

How about that for a near-death experience!

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