Where Is She?

The girl winced when Cuddy touched her arm.

"Did someone hurt you?" Cuddy asked her in a whisper. The little girl didn't do anything.

"I need you to answer me sweetie," Cuddy said. The girl merely looked up at her with sad blue eyes.

"What's your name?" Cuddy asked, but once again the girl didn't answer. She just looked away from Cuddy.

"It's okay," Cuddy assured her. "I am not going to hurt you."

The girl didn't turn back towards her. Cuddy returned her focus back to the girl's shoulder. It would have to be put back in place and checked for nerve damage.

"Where are your parents?" Cuddy asked. The girl shrugged her shoulders.

"Are you here alone?" Cuddy asked. The girl slowly nodded her heard yes.

"I know that your arm probably hurts, right?" Cuddy asked and the girl nodded her head yes.

"If someone hurt you, I can protect you from them," Cuddy said trying to get the girl's trust.

The girl didn't do anything.

"Right now I am going to take you to a doctor that will fix your arm, okay?" Cuddy asked.

The girl's blue eyes widened in fear and she looked right into Cuddy's eyes.

Cuddy could feel her heart melting.

"I'll be with you the whole time," Cuddy promised. "Do you need help getting up?"

The little girl nodded and Cuddy reached down and slowly helped the girl up, making sure she did not touch her left arm. Cuddy reached out her left hand and the girl grabbed it with her right hand.

"It's okay now," Cuddy said. "No one will hurt you here."

The little girl looked up at Cuddy with her bright blue eyes and Cuddy wondered who would ever hurt such an innocent child.

Two hours later, House was shocked that he still hadn't heard from Cuddy. He had avoided his clinic duty and even watched the new episode of General Hospital.

He had expected Cuddy to hunt him once she found out that he was skipping clinic duty.

He hadn't actually seen Cuddy all day. He knew that it shouldn't bother him that she hadn't been looking for. Even though he knew this, it still did bother him. House wasn't stupid, though, so he had no desire to go seek her out to get more work.

He decided to move to Plan B. He went to go see Wilson.

"Have you seen Cuddy?" House asked as he barged into Wilson's office without knocking.

Wilson glanced up from the paper work he was doing. "Do you have a case?" He asked.

"Nope," House replied simply as he plopped down into the chair across from Wilson's desk.

Wilson put his pen down knowing that House was not going to leave unless he spoke to him.

"I haven't seen her since this morning, when she came in here looking for you to yell at you I presume," Wilson replied.

House nodded his head. "I skipped my clinic duty today."

Wilson put his hand over his mouth in mock surprise. "You skip clinic duty? That is so unlike you," he said sarcastically.

"She didn't hunt me down and make me do it either," House said.

"And that upsets you?" Wilson asked slowly.

"No," House snorted. "I just hope this means she had given up on trying to change me."

Wilson rolled his eyes. House would do anything to get out of work.

A half an hour later, House headed to Cuddy's office. She wasn't there.

He started to feel something was wrong. He then tried to push that feeling away saying that everything was fine. He decided to go back to his office and surf the Internet.

He knew he needed to get his mind on something else.

As he was walking back to his office, he thought he heard a familiar voice in one of the patient's rooms.

He stopped by the door and listened closely. That was Cuddy's voice. She seemed to be reading something. House could tell it sounded like a children's story.

He peered in the door. House saw a young girl lying in the hospital bed with the covers pulled up around her shoulders.

Her eyes were closed, but House couldn't tell if she was asleep or not. The girl's left arm was in a sling.

Cuddy sat on the bed next to her reading a book.

House then saw Cuddy close the book. After sitting there for a few minutes, Cuddy sensed another presence in the room and turned around to see House in the doorway.

"House!" Cuddy exclaimed slightly embarrassed as she saw House staring at her.

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