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House found Chase on the roof a little later leaning against the railing looking over the side. "Don't jump. Its not worth it?" House said lightly. "On second thought maybe it is." House made his way over to Chase and leaned on the railing next to him.
Chase didn't acknowledge him at first. He just continued to stare down on the ground below. House followed his line of sight, wondering if there was something specific that was holding his attention.
He saw the group of three on a picnic bench not too far from the hospital. He assumed it was Wilson, Foreman and Cameron. It was a little hard to tell from this distance, but who else would be in a trio of a black male, white male and a white female. House let out a sigh, he hated silences.
Just as he was going to say something Chase broke the silence. "But I love her."
"Loves a bitch. And so is Cameron."
"I shouldn't blame her. There is no one to blame. It was an accident and no one is to blame."
"That sounds like a load of psychobabble if you ask me. Did they say anything about feeling at that rehab place you were at?"
"And I didn't make it easier. Pushing her away, not letting her in." Chase hung his head.
"When I woke up from the coma, I knew something was wrong right away. Stacy was nowhere to be seen. She had promised to be there when I woke up. I knew it was asinine and juvenile, but she promised and wasn't there. I was upset at that."
Chase looked at House with a confused look on his face. "Feelings don't make sense."
"Is that why you close yours off?"
House paused for a moment. What answer should he give Chase? The truth? Some aspect of the truth? "There were other issues, but that's part of it."
"I tried to not let it bother me. I tried to close off, and it just bit me in the ass." Chase shook his head. "I should go apologize." Chase pushed himself back up and took hold of his cane that was leaning next to him.
"Again, what are you apologizing for?"
"For snapping at her. Calling her a selfish bitch."
"Selfish bitch I can see. But she provoked you. She wanted to hear your thoughts and feelings before. And now that you want to share them, she doesn't want to hear them? Sounds fishy to me."
"Huh?"
"If she's only willing to listen to you when it's convenient for her, what does that say about her feelings towards you?"
"I'm getting relationship advice from you." Chase scoffed.
"Wilson's done it."
"And it earned him three divorces." Chase turned serious for a moment "So you think that we shouldn't get married.
"What you do, or don't do is up to you. But maybe this accident was a way to see how you would both react in times of crisis."
"Dr. House, are you saying it was an act of G-d?" Chase was shocked once again.
"I've learned never to look a gift horse in the mouth. If you want to name the horse, god, then go for it. I'm just saying an opportunity presented itself. See what you can learn from it." And House stood up and moved back inside, leaving Chase to wonder at the last statement on his own. Already he had shared too much with the younger doctor. It was time for Chase to make some decisions on his own, as opposed to just doing what was expected of him.
Cameron stopped as soon as she got to the bench outside of the clinic. She didn't want to run too far, in case Chase was following her. It wasn't really fair for her to run far, if she wanted him to follow her.
"Cameron." The voice that called her name wasn't the one she wanted. She didn't turn around as the voice came closer and sat down next to her on the bench. "You okay?" He asked looking at her.
"I'm fine." She answered Foreman.
"Of course, because being called a selfish bitch in front of the whole clinic would make everyone fine." Wilson joined them a second later.
"I knew I shouldn't have let him talk to me. I knew the moment he came back to work, there would be trouble." Cameron stated, angry at what was going on.
"Well you didn't make things exactly easy for him either." Foreman added.
"So you're going to take his side?" Cameron bit out.
"I'm not taking sides. I'm here to make sure you are okay."
"No one cared about me when Chase was sick. Now that he's better we can worry about Cameron."
"Get off your high horse." Wilson was starting to get tired of Cameron's 'woe is me' attitude. "Ever since Chase was injured all you spoke or seemed to care about is how this was going to affect you. Did you even think how Chase was dealing with everything?"
"Why shouldn't I be worried about how it affects me? Chase and I were supposed to marry. Of course it was going to affect my life."
"But it isn't and wasn't about you. It should have been about Chase all along. He was the one who was injured. Did you even think about how Chase was handling any of it?"
"You didn't seem to care much either." Cameron went on the defensive.
"We aren't the ones who were engaged to him at the time." Foreman added. "You are right. We didn't really give him enough time to heal emotionally. Part of that could have been because we are jaded from working with House."
"If you can use House as an excuse why can't I?"
"No one is making excuses." Foreman tried to reason with her. "I'm trying to understand why you are giving Chase such a hard time, when all he wants to do is talk to you. Maybe he plans on explaining. But you aren't giving him the chance to."
"He had close to 4 months to talk to me. My life doesn't revolve around his schedule."
"Maybe that's the problem." Wilson added. "Maybe it's a good thing that Chase was in the accident. He got to see what type of person you really are." With that Wilson stood up and walked away.
"You all hate me. You might as well go with him." Cameron said looking at Foreman.
Foreman knew that at this point there was nothing he could say to help Cameron or to have her listen to him. With one more look at her, he stood up and followed Wilson back inside.
