Lots of views on my first Chapter, thanks! Sorry it was so short, but here is the second instalment. Please leave reviews!
Cameron sits on the couch in her apartment. Her hands are distracted playing with the golden locks of the four year old in her lap. Suddenly she was alarmed by the little coughs coming from the little girl. Cameron turned her toward her. "You okay there chandlee?" She asked.
"My throat hurts," she said lightly.
"Lemme see, open real wide, say ahhh," Cameron never thought having a baby would change her so much. But, she wouldn't change it for the world. Raising Chandler on her own was the best thing that's ever happened to her. After her divorce with Chase she found out she was pregnant. She was scared to say the least. She didn't tell Chase, she thought that was for the best. Five years later she has a four year old daughter, and a day doesn't go by she doesn't wonder what if she had told Chase. It just didn't seem right, she divorced him for good reasons and it needed to stay like that. Keeping this from him was hard especially having to go through the whole new mom thing alone. But, it's only made her stronger.
Chandler opened her mouth for her doctor mommy to see. Her throat was red and swollen. Cameron reached over and grabbed the thermometer she was keeping nearby. "open," she stuck the thermometer under her tongue. Soon beeping her thermometer read 100.9.
"That's good enough for me. Come on," She picked up her baby Chan and headed to Chicago Mass General where she worked.
Meanwhile…..
Robert Chase was finishing up his meeting with his new team at Chicago Mass General. He was thrilled to be starting a new job in a new city where he can start over. His old boss House died the last year and that just pushed him over enough to finally get away. He'd miss the crazy cases and Cuddy and Wilson and the whole team, but for once in his life he was making a decision for him. He needed to get out. His new team seemed rather bland compared to where he was coming from. But maybe that way he can finally start getting on with life and not having to worry about House or anything.
He was walking down a hallway and found himself getting lost. He was insanely tired and just needed to find the parking lot. This hallway seemed to never end and he somehow ended up in the clinic. He stopped a nurse who didn't look TOO crazy busy.
"Sorry I'm looking for a way out of here," he at himself laughed a little.
"Actually straight out that door," she may have said more, but after looking towards the door he saw her. He didn't believe it at first, but there she was. The woman he spent five years getting over was sitting across the room. And all of a sudden all the progress he made not thinking about Allison Cameron every second had suddenly disappeared. For the first time in five years she was sitting right across the room, looking more beautiful than ever.
"Thanks, excuse me," he pushed the nurse aside and started making his way toward Cameron. She was flipping through a magazine clearly not actually reading anything.
"Excuse me, miss what's the quickest way out of here?" He asked her. She recognized that adorable
Aussie's voice anywhere, but she didn't believe it. She looked up confused, and then her suspicions were proven true.
"Chase.." she said almost whispered. She couldn't help it she was shocked her ex-husband was standing right in front of her. What was he doing standing right in front of her? She knew Chase was a fan of big romantic gestures, but flying out to Chicago after five years and stalking her down to the hospital when she wasn't even working? That was a little much.
"Well, it's good to see you too?" Chase said. Cameron had not said a word yet, she was just staring at him in disbelief.
"I'm sorry, it's just… what are you doing here?" She asked halfway hoping his answer would be to peruse her in his generally romantic ways, halfway dreading that that would be his answer.
"I got a job… here. You don't work here do you?" He asked. Of course he goes to start over and get his mind away from Cameron, and who should he run into? Cameron, of course. She wasn't in work clothes or scrubs even, she was sitting in the clinic waiting room with the rest of the sick people of Chicago.
"I do, but not right now I'm… kind of here with… someone," She told him. Shoot, how was she going to explain her daughter to him? She'd be back out any minute. Chandler had be insanely independent from the moment she could walk. She'd grown up around the hospital, so now that she's four she thinks its time she sees the doctor alone. She always made sure her good friend Anthony was her doctor for checkups and sick days like today. Her stubborn child thought she could handle any big bad scary doctor, but she always made sure it was him just in case she was just putting up a brave front that day. And of course, mommy is allowed to go with her when there are needles involved (once again the four year old makes all the decisions here).
"Like a husband someone?" Chase asked honestly out of curiosity. But it wouldn't hurt him a big if she hadn't moved on yet either.
"No no, no husband, no boyfriend," She told him trying to get off the subject.
"We should catch up, maybe get a drink sometime?" He knew he was going on a long shot, this was his ex-wife he was talking to.
Cameron then thought about when the last time someone asked her to get a drink was, since she couldn't remember she couldn't help but say "I'd actually really like that," she gave him that genuine Cameron smile and he gave her his little Aussie smirk she had loved so much. Before she could think again a little Chandler came skipping out of a clinic room and hopping into Cameron's arms, lollypop in hand, with Dr. Portland (Anthony) behind her.
"Looks like someone picked up some strep throat, here's a prescription. And one last hug to get Uncle Anthony through the day?" Chandler happily reached over and hugged her doctor. Chandler looked at the odd grinning man in front of her and whispered to her mommy, "Who's that?"
"This is Dr. Chase, he an… old friend of mommy's," She explained leaving out how her and Chase had had a no strings attached simply sex relationship and as soon as he wanted more she dumped him. And how had constantly perused her till she agreed to go out with him one day. He dumped her when she wouldn't go on vacation with her after she found the ring in his sock drawer. And how they got engaged and almost called off the wedding when she wouldn't destroy her first husband frozen sperm. The marriage had only lasted about six months or so when she left him for killing a dictator. Even though all of that wouldn't really be 'old friend' material, she just left it at that.
"Nice to meet you Dr. Chase," The little girl stuck out her hand to be shaken. Chase took it and told her, "Call me Robert,".
