Please Forgive Me
Chapter Eleven
"If you're calling me this early to ask if I'll look at a new patient, you can just hang right up and call me back after ten," House said curtly after answering his phone when its ringing woke him up. "Even then I doubt I'll agree to whatever your demands are."
"House, you need to come in right now," Cuddy answered nervously on the other end of the line. "It's Cameron. The bastard who took her has just brought her in, kind of."
House sat up on his bed and then asked, "Kind of? What do you mean, kind of?"
The Dean of Medicine shook her head as she replied, "I don't really know the whole story, but you just need to come in, if you really do care about Cameron and Chase at all. They both need you."
"I'm on my way," the narcissist responded finally after taking a minute to think, then immediately hung up.
At the hospital…
Once the two doctors arrived back at the hospital and ran inside, followed a few minutes later by the security officers who were still dragging Carl Burton between them, Chase was immediately cut off by Cuddy and Nurse Smits who blocked him from the operating room where his colleagues had carried his wife into, while Foreman kept going to help his friend.
"What the hell are you doing, I need to get in there!" Chase cried out angrily as he glared at the women standing in his way.
Cuddy answered sternly, "I know that you want to be with her, but you know that you cannot operate on your own wife. You are way too close to this. Wilson, Taub, and Thirteen, and now Foreman are all in there with her right now. I've called House. He's on his way in and you know that they will all do everything they can for her."
Chase struggled to push past them as he replied coldly, "I don't give a damn about your rules! I spent the last few days believing she was dead. Now that she's actually alive again…"
"I know," Lisa stated with concern and then knelt down in front of the Australian when Chase cut himself off as he started to collapse until the women helped guide him into a chair nearby. "Believe me, I know. Listen to me, Robert. She's going to be alright now. You'll see. If you insist on being in there, you can keep an eye on her surgery from the observation room."
"Can I get you anything?" Janice asked nervously as she looked down upon the young doctor she was standing over. "Some water? Coffee?"
Chase simply shook his head, then the nurse walked away as Cuddy placed her hands gently on his knees for comfort like she had done days ago inside her office, and spoke up saying calmly, "We've all noticed you sitting in the chapel almost every night since Cameron's gone missing. It seems as though God has answered your prayers. The man who took her brought her back to us and he will finally pay. I need to go oversee to this bastard's care. Dr. Hourani is treating him for the beating. Don't worry, I won't allow you to catch any flak for what you did. I would have done the same thing and we all know House has done far worse. If he gets to get away with all that he does, then I can see to it that you can too. Now go. I'll be in soon."
As she started to walk away, Chase stood up again and called out to her while he responded, "Cuddy, tell Hourani to take his time. That bastard deserves to suffer for as long as possible."
"I think I can do that," she said with a sad smile.
"House has really rubbed off on her," Nurse Smits stated in observation when she came back and handed Chase a cup of coffee despite his earlier refusal for one. "Please don't tell her or House I said that. I'd never hear the end of it. Come on, honey. Let's go see your wife."