Chapter 3-

Disclaimer- I don't know anything.

Cameron's POV

Lying to House like that sent a fire blazing through my veins, and the moment he left the room I burst into tears. What was I thinking? I'd always wanted House to say something like that to me. How he wanted me. I could never have imagined him to ask for something even more than that, a family. If I'm being completely honest, I think it scared me; a declaration so great, from a man so seemingly self-involved. Maybe I was wrong about him. If I wanted this as badly as I did maybe I could make it work. But was I too late?

House's POV

After hearing what Cameron had to say I was shocked to my core. This wasn't the Cameron I had grown to love over the years; this was some completely different, maybe the opposite of the Cameron I knew. I would have liked to think it was the hormones or the experiences that had changed me, but I didn't trust myself to make an objective judgement. How could I not be objective? You see, this situation had changed me to, but I had changed for the better and become someone more like Cameron, and I think Cameron had become someone more like me.

Cameron's POV

After lounging around in self-pity for well over an hour I decided to page Chase, not only did I feel lonely, but Chase had said he wanted to talk to me about something, and I think I wanted to tell him about the baby and maybe even talk to him about House. I would trust Chase with my life.

Moments after he was paged, he ran into the room, gasping for breath.

"What's wrong?" Chase exclaimed, sounding exasperated, "I thought something was wrong!" He repeated himself seeming dazed.

"Sorry for scaring you, but you said you wanted to talk, and I actually wanted to talk too," I explained, feeling slightly embarrassed that I had rattled him so much, but it was nice to know one person in the world actually cared for me.

"Yeah. I did," Chase began, "Ally, since the moment I laid eyes on you, not only did I see how beautiful you were inside and out, I fell in love with you for who you were as a person, and just everything about you. I know you have had a crush on House, but he doesn't deserve someone as warm and caring as you, and I don't want to be the only one who sees that any more. Ally, I think over the years we've known each other, I've slowly been falling in love with you, and I just wanted to know if there was any chance you felt this way too because otherwise I need to think of myself and try to move on with my life." Chase sighed, his eyes glinting with what might have been tears. Chase may have put up a strong front, but I knew what he was really like on the inside.

I felt a tear gently splatter down my face as I stared into those deep blue eyes of his. What could I do? I wasn't in love with Chase the way he was in love with me, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings this way and destroy the friendship I thought we had, a friendship I needed right now. But I also needed to tell him I was pregnant. And even if I did decide I could try and make a thing like this work, I was still disappearing from the state in a week. If I was telling the truth, I knew how I felt about him, about the baby and about House, but I didn't know if I was ready for everything that was to come if I voiced my decision. I rubbed my fingers against my temple in agony.

Seeing the look of distress on my face, Chase interjected, "Ally, you don't have to answer now, I know you've been through a lot and I'll let you rest. Oh and what did you want to tell me?" Chase wondered

I thought about telling him about House and the pregnancy as I planned, but I now knew that that wasn't an option until I was ready to talk tomorrow about everything.

"Don't worry Chase. We can talk tomorrow, I think I need to rest now," I lied, just dodging the question.

"Of course, I'll leave you in peace." He mumbled, staring at the floor as he walked out the room. Deep down I think he knows what my answer will be, but I needed to talk to House before I talked to Chase. I needed to let House know how I really felt. I think I was going to give this family thing a chance after all.

Chase's POV

After telling the woman I was so deeply in love with how I was feeling, it felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders after all these years. Yet, I couldn't help but feel that I wasn't going to like what her response was.

At least you put yourself out there. I thought to myself.

Deep inside me I knew that the only explanation for her disregarding me was because I wasn't House, you didn't have to be a mind reader to know that she was in love with him and I think everyone but House knew this. I used to think that House knew it, but recently I'm not so sure. I felt my heart flutter as I thought of Ally, and knew that tomorrow she would explain her answer to me in a way that even I couldn't be unhappy with, because anything that came out of her mouth left me in ore.

House's POV

My pager beeped and I saw it was from Cameron, This shocked me, but at the same time made me feel angry, as I still hadn't allowed time for the news to sink in that Cameron was leaving and killing our child.

I marched towards her room and gritted my teeth.

"Yes." I stated bluntly as I entered the room, "What do you want?"

Her eyes were red and puffy, like she'd been crying and she then began to hiccup over her words.

"House, I need to tell you how I really feel…"