Hey there, sorry for the lack of updates on the weekend. Was just kind of busy but here it is, Chapter 5, I hope you like it.
And thanks for your reviews again. It keeps me writing this.
It's been four days, four days since they broke up, four days since she lost everything she had. Four days since she even saw her. For the last four days she had been working non-stop. She never went home. She worked about 14 hours a day and then went to her office drowining herself in paper work until she fell asleep with her head on her desk. She left the hospital once to buy some essentials at the super market like a tooth brush, some cosmetics to hide her lack of sleep and some shampoo to take a shower at the hospital. She could have just gone home and take her things from there but she just didn't want to.
She had an argument about it with Cuddy again yesterday but she fought her off pretty well.
It was late and Cameron was sitting in her office doing paperwork to keep her mind occupied. Suddenly she heard a knock on the door and without waiting for an answer her boss came in.
Cameron looked up, locking eyes with the brunette and turned back to her paperwork. "What can I do for you?" Allison asked her without looking at her.
"This has to end," her boss said.
"I don't know what you are talking about," she said, still not looking at her and still rifling through her files.
"You working that much and sleeping at your office! I won't tolerate it anymore!"
"Oh, first you have a problem with me not being able to work and now that I'm working hard, doing a good job in the ER and my paperwork AND House's, what should definitely be something satisfying for you, you have a problem with that, too? That's something I defintely do not understand, Dr. Cuddy," the blonde said, now looking straight into her boss' eyes.
"Okay fine, but you can't keep sleeping in the hospital!"
"It's not something I plan, it just happens. I'm sorry. Something else?"
"No, but when you finish House's paperwork, bring it up to Diagnostics and let them sign it," she ordered before turning around and leaving the office.
It was 11 p.m. when she finished House's files and she decided to bring it up now instead of the next morning so that she won't come across House or even a certain brunette.
She closed the last file and walked out of her office straight to the elevator. Exiting the elevator she walked up to the Diagnostic's office and opened the door. When she turned on the light she stopped in her tracks. There was Remy sitting in her chair, her head on her arms on the glass table sleeping. She saw her stirring because of the light and when the brunette looked at her, she felt her heart break once more.
"I...," the blonde started."I finished House's paperwork. You all have to sign those and bring them to Cuddy afterwards." With that the blonde threw the files on the table and turned around, ready to leave.
"What? You don't even ask why I am here, sleeping at our table?" Remy asked baffled about the blonde's behaviour.
"No," the blonde began to explain, the door handle still in hand and her back facing the brunette. "You would either lie to me about it or scoff at me. And I don't like any of those options. So I'm just...not gonna ask," she said, her voice cracking at the end and eventually leaving the office.
The blonde ran down the hall to the elevator, pushing the buttons like a psychopath. She ran back to her office and slammed the door shut behind her, breathing heavily, bending down and supporting herself with her hands on her knees.
I can't always react like that when I see her, I have to learn being around her without breaking down at the end.
She sat down at her desk trying to get back to her paperwork but thoughts of Remy were occupying her mind and making it impossible to focus on anything else.
When Cameron came to work that morning she felt just great. She hadn't slept that good for a long time now and she knew it had something to do with the encounter with a certain brunette at the bar last night. As she entered the ER she had a smile on her face and it grew even wider when she saw Remy standing in the hall talking to a nurse. They locked eyes and the brunette returned her smile, saying something to the nurse and then walking over to her.
"Hey there," she started, stopping when she stood right in front of the blonde, only a small amount of space seperating them.
"Flirting with my nurses, aren't you?" Cameron said, knowing exactly that it wasn't like that. She tried to look serious but as Remy looked at her with a raised eyebrow her mouth turned into a smirk.
"Sure I am. Like I said, the company is pretty good in the ER," Remy went with Allison's payful mood.
"Yeah, now I get it, you're here because of the nurses. Well, I think I'm interrupting then, right? Maybe I should leave you and the nurses alone," Allison said, winking at the brunette in front of her.
"Oh no, there's always time left for a beauiful blonde ER head. You should know that."
"Why's that?"
"Well because I'm here a lot and there are also good looking nurses in the clinic," she said smirking at the blonde.
Cameron was quite speechless. How could she possibly answer that. She turned her head to look at the ground but suddenly she smiled and locked eyes with her companion again knowing exactly what to say.
"Sure, but like you already said, the clinic is full of those annoying parents and complaining patients. So you take the ER, beautiful nurses and no annoying and complaining."
"Good point. Haven't thought about it that way. It seemed so much easier to blame it on the beautiful blonde leading the department. But maybe you are right," the brunette said smiling.
"Actually, I also have a job, so I should go now. See you soon, Allison," she said, winking at her once more and then turning around, walking towards the elevator. These words were kind of an insider for them now, so it seemed. Cameron looked after her and locked eyes with the brunette once more before the elevator doors closed.
Finally it hit her. What was she even doing here that early. Obviously she wasn't here to help out, the blonde thought to herself. This may get really interesting, her thoughts continued and brought a smile on her face.
"Oh my god, I will totally kick her ass for conjuring up that goofy smile on your face," she heard someone muttering behind her.
"Good morning to you too, House," she said taking a file from the nurse station and looking at it.
"So you break up with Chase for a little girl action. Good for me," he said smirking.
The blonde didn't even bother to look up from the file to answer him. "It's not what you think, House. We're just friends."
"Sure you are, at least now," were his last words before he hobbled to the elevator.
Cameron just shook her head and started to work. About half an hour later she saw Remy entering the ER walking over to her.
"Hey," she said. "What gives us the pleasure to have you here."
"I don't really know," she said looking a little counfused. "There's no case for us and House send me down here saying something about paging him when the show starts. I didn't really get it."
"Oh no, well I do. He thinks we…" she trailed off.
"Really? Oh, well that explains a lot. Why does he think that?"
"Well, he saw us…talking this morning," the blonde said, a little unsure if that's a problem for Remy.
"Oh," was all the brunette offered as an answer.
"Do you care?"
"Huh?"
"Do you care if he thinks that?" Allison tried to make her question clearer for the brunette.
"No, why should I?" The brunette was beyond confused.
"I don't know, I just thought…well because you don't like him knowing things and well."
"Actually it's better for me if he pries about this, he will stop prying about other things," she said shrugging. She took a file and locked eyes with the blonde once more for a silent goodbye before she turned around and went to her first patient.
Remy worked a lot in the ER those days. House always sent her down. When they eventually had a patient, Allison was dissapointed because she knew she would see the brunette less than before.
The blonde decided to go on her lunch break, returning her last file at the nurse station and signing something a nurse gave her, when she heard someone talking to her. It wasn't exactly talking. Someone whispered in her ear. And it wasn't exactly someone. She knew exactly that it was Remy. That smell was intoxicating, her breath on her ear and her neck made her shiver.
"Up for lunch with me," the brunette had whispered, not backing off.
Allison still felt her breath and knew how near she was. She tried to breath in deep to form a correct sentence. She opened her mouth but nothing came out. She turned around and saw Remy smirking at her, her face only inches apart from her own.
"I…I'd love to," she answered after a while, totally lost in the brunette's eyes.
"Great, let's go then," Remy said, walking out of her personal space and towards the cafeteria. Allison was still standing there in a stupor, not moving an inch. The brunette turned around, smiling.
"You coming?"
Allison looked at her and shook her head to bring herself out of the daze the brunette pushed her in.
"Sure," she said, smiling shyly, following the brunette.
Allison remembered everything about that time. How they had lunch with each other every possible time, how they by chance met in the lobby in the evening and talked before they walked to their cars and seperated in the parking lot. After a while Cameron finally fell asleep, finding peace for that night, dreaming about Remy, about how things could be by now, but won't...
Defintely the longest chapter so far. Hope you liked it. Please leave a review and tell me what you think about it.