A/N I'm so sorry I didn't update earlier! I was really busy. But now I have more time, so I think I'll update more frequently :)

I wanted to explain in this chapter how it had happened that Wilson didn't know about Ana, since he and House are close friends, but honestly I don't know that yet. It's the only one thing I can't think of. But I'll try to come up with an explanation in chapter 5 ;)

Thanks to everyone for readnig and reviewing. Every review makes me want to write more and more, even if it says that my story sucks :)

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Enjoy!

House woke up, feeling something warm beside him. 'The warm' wrapped its arms around him. He looked at it and saw Ana. She must have come to him during the night. He gently pushed away from her, careful to not wake her up. He wrapped the sheets around her, took his cane, and limp out from the bedroom, grabbing clothes from the wardrobe. As soon as he left the room he dry swallowed two vicodins. He never took it in front of his daughter, he didn't want to show her his addiction.

He went to the kitchen and made some coffee for himself. Then he took some cornflakes from a cupboard and milk from a fridge for a breakfast for Ana. He placed it all on a table, than put some meds next to it. He glanced at the clock: 9:30 am. He had enough time to take a shower, before Ana'd wake up. She never slept longer than to 10 am.

He took those clothes, which he had grabbed from the bedroom before and went toward the bathroom. He took long, hot shower. The water was flowing down his body and he massaged his right tight to relived the pain. Finally, he turned the tap off and wiped the water off from his body. He got dressed, cleaned his teeth and limp out from the bathroom, without shaving or even brushing his hair. As he entered the living room and looked toward bedroom, he saw that Ana was just waking up.

He went there and sat down on the edge of the bed.

"Hi dad." Ana's voice was still sleepy.

"Hi Ana. How are you feeling?" He gently brushed away a curl of her hair from her face and kissed her on the forehead.

"Better." She answered him, smiling.

"Good. Now come on, you'll eat your breakfast and then we'll think about what to do today, okay?"

"Okay." Ana came closer to House and stretched her hands, waiting. House would normally asked her to walk by herself, not wanting to hurt his tight, but this time he carefully lifted her up and carried her to the kitchen. House sat her on the chair, poured some cornflakes into a bowl, added milk and gave the bowl to Ana. When she was eating, he prepared her meds. After breakfast, they went to Ana's room.

"So, do you have any special wishes what to wear today?" House asked his daughter.

Ana thought for a moment and answered smiling "I want to wear a red dress."

"A red dress? If I remember correctly, you don't have red dress."

"Then buy me one!" She said stubbornly but after few seconds asked more hesitantly "Can we go shopping, or should I stay home?"

House didn't want to go. He hated shopping. He preferred to buy on-line, but Ana loved trying the clothes on and walking through the shop like a model. And he knew how bored she was, after staying home all weekend and Monday, sick. He thought that she deserved some fun, so he agreed.

"No, we can go. But don't even try to ask me to try anything on!" He said smiling and then tickled her. The worst thing about shopping with Ana was that, when she saw any men's clothes in the window which she liked, she wanted him to try them on.

Ana was trying to get away from him. "Stop… tickling… me!" She gasped between outbursts of laughter. "Dad, please!"

"Okay, okay. Then let's go. I don't want to spend all day there."

They got in the car. House fastened Ana's seat belt, then sat down behind the wheel and drove off to a shopping center.

Cuddy gave them day off, until Wednesday, so Cameron dragged Chase out for shopping and to the cinema. They were together for a couple of months.

They'd been running round the shops for almost two hours. Chase started complaining after half an hour, so now he was almost begging her to stop and go to the cinema or home.

"The last one! Pleeese!" Cameron said and without waiting for an answer dragged Chase to the shop. It was for babies and kids. Cameron'd been pregnant for almost three months, but they didn't tell anyone. Soon everyone would know anyway: her belly was getting bigger. And now Cameron just couldn't fight the urge to get into the shop to look at those cute baby clothes.

A shop assistant came to them.

"How can I help you?"

"We're just for a second. We're just looking." Chase answered.

"First pregnancy, isn't it?" The woman asked.

"Well…yes. How do you know?" Cameron asked surprised.

"You're excited when you're looking at those clothes. During the second or another one, you wouldn't be so excited. Besides, you are young." The assistant answered, smiling and then she went at far end of the shop, back to the client she was waited on before.

After few minutes Cameron chose some clothes, and now they were going to pay at the cash desk. As they were walking next to the changing rooms, they saw young girl trying on a red dress. They wouldn't pay much attention to her, but then they heard her asking someone:

"Daddy look! I like this one. How do I look? Do you like it?" And she turned around like a ballerina.

"Yeah, I like it too. You look beautiful. Really." They stopped dead. This voice was familiar. Very familiar. They looked toward its direction.

"House…?" Cameron and Chase asked at the same time. The man looked at them. He seemed shocked first, then… angry? Anyway, it really was House. He was about to say something, but then the girl spoke to him again.

"Will you buy it for me?"

"Sure. It's the reason we came here, right?" Chase and Cameron were staring at him foolishly.

"And the second one?" He looked at him hopefully. "Pleeeeese, daddy please!"

"Well it depends. How much you want it?" House asked rising his eyebrow. The girl ran to him and hugged him.

"Ow, I think you don't want it at all…" He started, but didn't finish, because the girl hugged him more tightly. "Well, NOW I believe you want it." He winked at her, freeing himself from her embrace.

"So you'll buy me it?"

"You don't give me any other choice." He answered ruffling her hair. "Yeah, I will."

"Thanks!" The girl almost shouted and kissed him on a cheek. Then with a little help from the shop assistant, she changed into her own clothes, and House went with her to the cash, totally ignoring his employers.

While a few minutes later House and the girl left the shop, Chase an Cameron were still standing speechless in front of dressing rooms. Then Chase regained the ability to speak. His first thought was

"Was it real?" and he told this aloud.

"I… think so." Cameron answered hesitantly.

Still shocked and confused, they went to the cashes, paid for the clothes and went home. They weren't interested in going to the cinema anymore.