A/N: Hey guys! Thanks for the reviews, and I just wanted you to know that this fic will have two completely different ends! One "real" and an alternatice one. Why? *evil grin* Read and find it out for yourself!
Chapter 11
Untold truth
The entire church fell silent. Nobody talked or did anything but to stare from the unexpected guest to the couple that was supposed to get married. Some old ladies fainted at the back of the church, since the person that walked in was considered dead by television and journals on several states.
Everybody was very surprised, but none of them even compared the the bride. She seemed to be in shock, although the bestman was giving a approval grin to House.
Cuddy blinked a few times, and looked around as if trying to believe taht seh wasn't the only one seeing the person that was standing in front of her.
She realized it was true, as he made his way toward her, but stopped, a few feet away, as if getting close to her could set some evil spirit that would kill them both.
They stayed there, eying each other, he waiting patiently for her to say something, while she was speechless.
"h..house?" She asked, and he nodded, giving her an evil grin.
She still couldn't believe. Had House... faked his own death? She felt her anger growing. If he did so, he would give him a good slap across his face and send him back to jail, where he belonged. But faking death was quite a impossible thing to do, even for House.
"Are you... alive?" he nodded. She felt stuped. Of course he was alive! What did she think he was? A ghost? She was rational, but didn't know what to think.
"I thought that you were dead!" She exploded, realizing that the only rational explanation was that one.
House flinched, he hated when she was mad at him, especially when he had done nothing wrong.
"I know. And I would have been dead days ago if it depended on your fiancée" House answered, mentioning the last party on a very angry tone. He then looked on Lucas direction.
The entire church looked on House's direction, and he had just recovered from the shock. If looks could kill, House would have been dead by now, but so would Lucas, since he was looking at him the very same way.
"What the hell is going on here?" Cuddy asked, getting in the middle of Cuddy and Lucas so they could stop glancing at each other. She looked angrily from one to another, as if waiting for an answer.
"So?" She crossed her arms.
"Turns out your crazy boyfriend wanted me to stay away from you, so he kidnapped me with the help of..." He looked at Wilson that was almost giving him a beg look not to. " a friend of his, and sent me to the looney bin again. Exactly the same looney bin you work now. And contacted some of the staff there not to let me see you, no matter what happened."
Cuddy almost burst of aughing, but then realized the anger and seriety on House's tone and looked to Lucas, with a very sad look.
"Lucas?" He heard Cuddy ask and looked down, seeming very ashamed.
"Look at me" He obeyed
"Is this true?" She snapped, with a very angry tone, pointing to House, that was grinning so happly, Lucas wanted to punch him the hardest he could in the face.
"I... He...I..." Lucas couldn't lie to her. He didn't know why. He had done it so many times before, I couldn't he do it now?
He gave another death stare to House and looked back to Cuddy, nodding.
"Oohhh!" The entire church exclaimed, but neither House,Cuddy,Lucas or Wilson seemed to have listened. They were completely focused on what they're doing.
After a few minutes of reflexion, Cuddy walked towards Lucas and House tensed up. He knew Lucas would try something and didn't want Cuddy to be so close to him. He could hurt her. And that was something House didn't want to watch.
When she was standing in front of him, she took her wedding ring off and placed it on Lucas' palm.
"I can never marry you after knowing that. You know how much House matters to me, he always did and always will." She said the last part a little lower so only the four of them could listen.
"It's all over Lucas. It should have never started to begin with." Lucas seemed to be in shock again, as Cuddy moved back towards House and Wilson.
"And you..." She said, when she got back to where she was before, pointing to House.
He looked up, but never on her eyes.
One part of him knew, for sure, that she wasn't mad at him telling her about Lucas. But the other part thought she was still mad, and worst, mad for the crash. He could have killed her and he knew it. He just couldn't handle looking in her eyes and seeing the look she gave him in court that day.
"House, look at me." He struggled a bit and obeyed, only to see her standing right in front of him.
"Never do that to me again." She said, starting to sob, and hugged him.
House felt his body warm up. How long had he waited and longed for that to happen? Since the last time they hugged, when they broke up. He thought that would never happen again, and the scent of her hair was just overhelming.
After a few seconds, he hugged back, with the same intensity.
"aahhhhh!" they heard sounf and excited crowd and realized where they were.
They relutanctly let go, and House answered:
"I promise. I would have never done that to you if I had a choice."
"I know. You can do a lot of crazy and hurtfull things..." She stopped when she saw the hurt look on his face. "But I know you would never be able to do anything like that."
He smiled and got closer to her again. " You wanna now why?" She nodded.
"Because I love you, Lisa Cuddy, and I always will."
"oooh!" The croud exclamed and House gave a death stare to them. The got quiet again.
"I... I completely understand if you want to move on after what I did to your house, and I won't stop you. I deserve this. But I just thought you should know how I feel about you and..." Cuddy was smiling.
"What?" He asked, as she got even closer to him.
"I can't move on" She said
"Why not?"
"Because I love you too" And they kissed.
"!" Lucas scream interrupted the kiss soon as their lips barely touched.
They let go and looked to him, and House's eyes widdened.
Lucas was pointing a gun,right to where they were. His hands were shaking, but he was clearely trying to point the gun to Cuddy's chest.
House immediatelly stood protectively in front of her, and Lucas' gun also started pointing from Wilson, that was also trying to get close to Cuddy and help his friend to protect her, to House's chest who seemed to be glued to that spot.
"If I can't have her..." He gestured with the gun to House's back. " No one will!" He said, loading the gun, and letting it read to shoot. All he needed to do was to push the trigger, and House would be gone, forever this time. He regretted not killing him for real in the first place.
"Lucas, listen to me." Cuddy said, getting out of House's back, and standing in front of him, exactly on the gun's point.
"If you put the gun down now and leave, nobody is going to press charges agains't kidnapping or you carrying a gun." He kept pointing the gun to her chest, but at list he seemed to be listeing.
" We wont call the cops and you won't go to jail, things are going to be just fine for go, and never come back again, find another girl that will definetely like you for what you are, and maybe one day you can even start a family. How does that sound?" Cuddy asked, while House wondered how could she keep this calm.
He seemed to consider it, for a very good while. The people that hadn't ran away when he took the gun out were watching silently, praying for Lucas to let go of that wepon and go away.
"I'd accept that, but there is just one problem..." He said.
"What is it?" Cuddy asked, fear could be seen on her voice now.
" I don't trust any of you" He said, and pressed the trigger.
Cuddy closed her eyes, waiting for the bullet to reach her and the pain start, but be gone just as quickly. To things to be over.
"NOOOOO!" She heard House, Wilson and Rachel screaming, and squeezed her eyes shut with more intensity. She just hoped that House would be ok, and would take a good care of her. But Wilson would take care of them both, he always did.
She felt a tear streaming down on her face, but didn't whipe it away. The world besides her didn't seem to exist.
A few minutes passed and Cuddy didn't feel anything hit her, so she opened her eyes.
The church was a mess of people running to the entrance, Lucas was nowhere to be seen, but that mattered almost nothing now.
There was a figure on the floor, the clothes full of blood. Two other ones where besides it, crying and sobbing. She reconized the small one as Rachel and the other one as Wilson.
It suddently hit her that the figure laying on the floor, was House.
"House!" She screamed, and kneeled besides him.
Pain.. Pain on a way he had never felt before. But for the first time, it was ok. It was ok to be in pain, because pain was relieving. Cuddy was ok. He had saved her. Things were ok.
His breath deepened and he heard Cuddy calling his name and Wilson talking on the cellphone, probably calling an ambulance. His BP lowered and vision got blurry, and he had a sensation he would be far gone when the ambulance was there.
But it was ok, he had saved her. She was safe, and could start a new life. Make new friends and maybe get a boyfriend, start a family.
He felt a tear coming from his left eye.
He just wished he had got the chance to say how much he loved her, and was sorry for what he had done. That they shared one more kiss and smelled the sweet scent of her hair.
He wished he had never taken that stupid vicodin. Then, things would have been ok.
He heard the sound of an ambulance coming and everything went black.
A/N: Here it is! Very hard to write. Both endings are going to be on Monday, so we can say goodbye both to the fic and House. If you can do so... :,(
