So i know how cliffhangers suck, so i decided i would update tonight and only have made you wait a couple of hours haha. hope you enjoy!
He gets up and rushes into the operating room and sees that she just flat lined. "We can't restart her heart while doing surgery and we can't stop the surgery because she'll bleed out. All our hands are full. We need you to focus on restarting her heart. You can't shock her because of us. You'll have to massage it. House had already quickly scrubbed up and cautiously put his hands inside her. He's never been this nervous. He starts to massage her heart while crying. Now he knows how Wilson felt about Amber. This continues for three minutes while Chase works on the surgery. He knows that if they don't get her heart starting soon, there will be brain damage. Or, she might not come back.
Suddenly, he feels her heart start to beat in his hands. He smiles, she might be okay. Once they stabilize her heart, Chase closes her up and sends her to recovery. They take out her ventilator because she's breathing on her own. House sits next to her bed holding her hand. He thinks how ironic it is that they're situations were switched not to long ago. He feels her hand move and looks up and sees she's awake. He stands up in front of her.
"Lisa?"
"Greg."
He bursts into a smile and kisses her cheek.
"You're okay. Do you know where you are?"
"Princeton Plainsboro."
"Do you know what happened?"
"Car wreck."
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He pages Foreman. Foreman gives her a neurological exam and everything checks out okay. He leaves and House kisses her.
"I was so afraid I was going to lose you."
"Now you know how I felt."
She looks herself up and down and sees her knee's broken and in a cast. House notices it too and smiles.
"Now you can be my cane buddy!"
She laughs. She also notices the scar all the way down her chest.
"Open heart surgery?"
He looks down. "You had major internal bleeding and then your heart stopped for three minutes. Chase got me out of the waiting room and had me massage your heart back to life while he finished the surgery."
She smiles.
"You saved my life."
She kisses him.
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"Wait, waiting room? You weren't in the viewing room?"
"No."
"Why?"
"I just couldn't watch. I also wanted you to have control over your body, didn't want to see it without your consent."
She smiles and blushes.
"Thank you. Well, I guess you saw the twins."
"Um, I wasn't particularly focusing on that. And they were covered by the surgical sheets."
"Thanks for respecting me. It shows how much you care."
They passionately kiss.
"You should rest. I'll be here."
She smiles and goes to sleep.
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The next day she insists on getting out of bed. House helps her out and gives her a cane.
"Don't rip your stitches please."
She laughs. He holds onto her waits without his cane and helps her slowly learn to walk with a cane. She starts to realize how hard it is and she even has an expert helping her. It must have been very hard for House to learn since he taught himself. She also realizes what he goes through everyday with a cane. She feels as if she's getting closer to him by learning this and having him teach her. She slowly starts to get the hang of it. She then insists that someone get House his cane so he doesn't have to hurt himself by walking any longer without it. Once a nurse brings it to him, he walks next to her.
"Now everyone will know how perfect we are for each other by our bonding over canes. Now you just need to get a cool one instead of these stupid hospital ones."
She laughs. She remembers as soon as he got out of the hospital after his infarction, he insisted on getting a "bitchin" cane and ditching the hospital one.
"You'll have to show me where to get one. How long do you think I'll need it?"
"Probably a month or so, it depends. Oh! And now you can have a reason to be mean to people like me!"
She laughs.
"I don't think I can get away with that like you do. Donors and other faculty don't like me like your boss likes you."
They laugh and kiss.
He leads her to the elevator.
"This is your new best friend. Lisa meet the elevator. Elevator meet Lisa."
She laughs and they get on. Suddenly the elevator stops. She looks over and sees that House his the emergency stop button.
"House!"
"What? Excuse me for wanting to spend time with you without peering eyes."
"I'm supposed to be going back and getting in bed."
"We're taking a detour."
"Greg, they need to monitor me, what if something goes wrong?"
"That's what I'm here for."
He slowly leans in and kisses her. Both of their canes fall to the ground as they put their arms around each other and deepen the kiss.
After a couple of minutes, they pull apart.
"Greg, you know I want to, but you know I can't because of my heart."
"Yeah, I know."
He gives her a quick kiss and unstops the elevator. They go back to her room and she gets back in bed. He hooks all the machines back up, letting her hook up her own chest monitors. She always thought that he would want to do things right away, after their first date. She thought that sex would make up their relationship. But, he's proved her wrong. He really does love and respect her.
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He goes over and ups her pain meds.
"I know what it's like after the first time using the cane, you're going to need this."
She smiles.
"Thank you."
He turns on the tv. "What do you wan to watch?"
She smiles. She's surprised that he's letting her choose, he's usually very picky about shows. She turns it to his favorite soap, which she's actually come to like after watching it with him. He smiles.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I want to know if Brock comes out of his coma."
They both smile and watch the show.
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Later on the nurse comes in with dinner and leaves. House turns to her.
"You call that dinner? You need to put more money towards meals."
She laughs.
"I'll be back, I'm going to get you some real food."
"Going to the vending machine?"
"Yep."
"Get me some powdered donuts!"
He laughs and leaves. He comes back a couple of minutes later with a bunch of snacks and drinks. They eat their dinner and talk.
please review! I sometimes imagine the beginning part in my head, and i wish the House writers would do something like it just so we could see Hugh Laurie cry. Of couse cuddy being sick would be bad, but i want him to cry over her. Though, i would definately start balling my eyes out too. So he should just cry over missing her at while he's at mayfield or somehting like that.