When love came first

House MD fanfiction

Gregory House & Lisa Cuddy

"Hope"

When Lisa Cuddy walks in the hospital that morning, she feels nothing but happiness, the sun was rising and shinning into the blue sky, and she could only think how luck she is, she have a good life, she has her dream job, she is a doctor, she save lides everday , she has a daughter, a beautiful and lovely daughter named Rachel, finally she was happy, and then, there's House… god! Only god knows how much she love that guy, and they were happy, it took them twenty years, but there together now, happily together now! He took her hand on his, and she kissed his cheek, sweetly.

She was planning a dinner for them and for Rachel tonight, a simple family dinner, their little family. Ten years ago, she meets him, they fall in love, and then… tragedy, after they broke up, was Hope, and Hope die. It still was too painful for her to think about it. About everything, only her and House knew about her, about Hope.

There was three files on her table, but this one seems interesting, a fourteen years old boy suffer from a suddenly irritability, and during a school exam, he got so angry and irritability that he fainted, beside that, he seems to get insomnias, and feeling depressed, what was weird about his case, it was that Jackson, in it two months, gain an incredible short-term memory.

She took the file and leaved her office, walking to his office. And from suddenly, a beautiful brown hair girl walks toward her, asking her.

"Good morning, I was looking for Doutor Gregory House and Doutor Lisa Cuddy, if you could help me…"

"I'm doctor Lisa Cuddy" She looks at the girl "Why do…"

"I'm Hope… You daughter" She told her "I was looking for you…"

And after this, Lisa Cuddy suddenly feels her heart pounding fast and then, everything turns black…

As soon as House heard that this girlfriend had fainted, he practical runs, as fast as he could, when he reach Cuddy's room, he's heart finally settle down, when he saw her heart was good, her breathing was good, all her vital signals were good, she was good, he was so absorbed in his own thoughs that he didn't even notice the young girl sitting in a chair close to the door.

"It was an accident... I'm sorry..." She told him and he notice her. The girl was indeed beautiful, she had a long and strait light brown hair, a big blue eyes, he was wearing a pair of jeans and a white a red striped tank top.

"I was just looking for her and when I told she was my... and then..."

"I then, whatever you told her made her faint, so be careful, whatever you might be, if she faints again it is all your fault! What the hell did you tell her anyway?"

The girl look offended, of course but she didn't want to show him just that.

"In case you even notice, I'm really not I the mood for jokes, I was looking for Dr. Cuddy and for Dr. House, if you excuse me, I need to find him."

"I'm Dr. House! And you must be..."

"Hope" She told him, and House felt a shiver through his spinal cord "I'm Hope, your daughter"

"You're what?" His big blue eyes were in shock, and then his brain start to looking for answers, how? How could she be his little girl, Hope had died nine years ago. "I'm know you don't believe me, but I really am your child!"

"You died! You were way to little to survive, six hours after you born, you died! Hope just died!"

"I didn't! At least as far as I know, I still pretty alive."She took a deep breath "I didn't died, I was... never mind, I'm not looking for you to take care of me, or even to give me something, just to get me know. I really want to know who my biological parents are, just that."

"When you were born, you had a distinguish birth mark on your stomatch, exactly like mine..."

She just smiles at him at lift her tank top, and there it was, the same one, that girl was really her daughter, Hope...

"House..." Cuddy weak voice called him and make the both of them looking into her direction "I had this weird dream..."

"Hope is here Cuddy." He told her "We need to talk"

An hour late they were sitting inside of Lisa Cuddy office, with her door pretty closed.

"I didn't know Hope, you must believe me! They told us that you were dead!" She told her, Cuddy had her eyes in tears, that beautiful eight years old girl was Hope House, her daughter. The little girl she though had died years ago, that hole in her heart, caused by her daughter death, had finally start to heal. "And how do you end up yere?"

"I was taking into several foster family, but none of them took me as their daughter, to busy, I guess..." She told them "Only two weeks ago, I found out you were my parents and I search your names and here I am." She told her. "I kind of stole my file but..."

"You have it?" House ask her "The file"

"Yeah! I carried with me all the time. Here it is" She open her bag and handle him a black file. He didn't speak a word, but then got close to Cuddy and show her a name.

Arlene Smith.

"It's my mom maide name" She said out loud, in shock.

"She was the one who took Hope and give her to adoption." House state. "She was..."

"How could she!" Cuddy said "She was my daughter! How could she mess up with my life like this! I'm her daughter, and Hope is her granddaughter! She was..."

"We will fix this problem later, Lisa" He told her "Now we have to..."

"I simply want to meet you two, just... I've always dreamed about you two, I don't hold remorse or even blamed you! I just want to meet you. Both of you, just that. Of course if you want to get to know me."

"Oh Hope, I'm so sorry sweetheart, I just..." Cuddy said "Where do you live? What you do?"

"My name is Hope, I think that was the name you gave me, right?"

"Yes it was" House told her "We named you Hope cause you were very sick and your name..."

"It's a beautiful name" She told him "I like it"

"I've been living in some foster family, but most of the time in the orphanage, with the nuns. The last family that I've been was not good..." She told them sadly "and before I return to the orphanage and really want to meet you two, just to know who and..."

"You don't need to worry about that sweety, you won't go back there"

"So you run away right?" House asked her "from the house, the foster family?"

"No" she state "Gram is where, getting treatment for the ladies that are always there, I think there hookers, but we aren't allowed there."

"You definitely aren't going back" Cuddy state matter of fact "you are going home with us"

"Monkey before I could kick, really hard, the ass of that Gram, I need to do something really important, could you give me one tiny hair of you please?" He ask her "So me and Cuddy could prove to the cops, nuns, social assistents and therefore, that you are ours please" she handle him the hair.

Couple of hours later.

"I think that's no doubt, she really is ours." House state as soon as enter Cuddy office.

"The social worker was here Cuddy, I've talk to them and we can take her home with us for now, by monday morning the lawyer will have all the papers ready... She need to do some medical check-up now" House state as soon as he enter her office, Hope was asleeping in Cuddy's sofa and she was crying her eyes out. "Hey, everything will be alright"

"How could she took her away for me House, how?" She said "she is beautiful isn't she, and we lost a lot of her life because my mother took her away, I'm so... I don't ever have a word for what I'm feeling right now"

Before he could reply, Hope slowly open her eyes and stare at her parent "what time is it? Gram is going to..."

"We will never need to worry about him come near to you ever again, I kick is ass pretty badly" House state "you're coming home with us, ok monkey?"

"Okay" she smiles at him, and for the first time in his life we felt a wave of love inside of him.

When they got home, Hope was amazed by her mother's house, was a huge and yet, lovely, house, painting in soft blue with a white fancy around it, outside was some playground, that mean that she probably had a little brother or sister…

Her thought were taken away by her mother voice "Welcome home Hope".

Inside a huge living room appeared though her eyes, some toys were on the floor, and pink doll house in the center of the living room, a girl.

"Hope, there a lot more we need to talk" House told her "But first we need to introduce you to a monkey…"

"Don't call Rachel a monkey House!"

She just smile at her parents discussion, "It's cute, you treat yourselves buy your last name"

"Hey monkey…" House smiled at the little girl when Marina appeared caring Rachel to the living room. Rachel smiled at House and he picks her up into his arms.

"Honey, you know House can't caring you around because his leg is sick…"

"It's fine Cuddy" He told her "Maybe you can go watching that pirate cartoon we love." He told her "And let mommy talk to Hope."

"Whuuuse Hop?" Rachel asked House

"Hope is mommy daughter" Cuddy told her "And House's too"

"Hi Rachel" Hope told her "You're very pretty"

"Big sis?" She ask Cuddy and she just smiled at her nodding her head.

"Yes Rachel, she's your big sister."

"I have a big sister like Maddie?"

"Hey, isn't that great?" House told her.

"House you're Hope's daddy?" She ask him

"Yap little monkey" He told her

"If she is my big sister, and mommy is my mommy, it mean you're my daddy too?"

"Well, not exactly, it's mean…" Cuddy told her but suddenly her eyes got tears "I want House to be my daddy!"

"Monkey, I can be your daddy" He told her "But this is a thing for life, you can't take it back never, pinky promise?"

"Pinky promise!" She kiss him happily "Can I call you daddy?"

"Yap monkey" He told her.

"I love you daddy"

Cuddy was now crying in happiness, that all she ever wanted, a family with House. They were her little family, she, Rachel, House and now Hope. Her little and perfect family.

"I will show your room sweetheart!" She told her "I will help you with you bag, where are the other ones?"

"I don't have more" She told her and Cuddy looked at her "Money is not much to buy that clothes, but it's okay." She smiled

"We need to shooping after all" she told her smiling "you will need more than a pijama and a change of clothes, for sure" she smiles at her eight years old daughter, Hope was indeed such a beautiful girl, with a long little sandy blonde-brunette hair and a piercing blue eyes, just like House's eyes, and she had the most lovely sweet smile ever "You don't have to do this, and mean, I want a family, but you have a daughter and..."

"I have two daughters, you're mine too and I love so much, there's a lot of things we need to talk about but I want you to know that no matter what I've always love you, ever since I know I was pregnant with you, and your 'death' was the worst thing that ever happen to me and to your father" she told her "I want to do this Hope, you're my daughter, and I want everybody to know that, you're such a beautiful girl, and I must say, you remind a lot your father, you got his blue eyes."

"Thank you mom" She told her and they hug each other. "They will never take you away for me again honey, I promise you"

"Pinky promise?" Hope just smiled

"Pinky promise honey" Cuddy told her sweeping her tears away.

It's been a week since Hope had been living with them, a week since Cuddy and House were getting to know her, and all Cuddy could say about her was that she was indeed the most wonderful girl she ever meet, Hope was a such a sweet girl, and a perfect misture of her and House, the girl had her smile and according to House, she was a mini Cuddy, but her eyes, she took that from him, she was a brilliant mind, sarcastic indeed but yet so brilliant. But today, Cuddy was fearing this day, she would confront her mother from what she did to Hope. They woke up early that morning, the first day of setember, in a week Hope and Rachel will be at school, and finding a spot in Rachel's school for Hope was a long shot. She had know it, but somehow House and her could actually find her a spot, with her perfect grades the school was more than happy to welcome her. "Cuddy?"

She was to much nervous to drive all the way to her mother's home, so she let House take the car. "Cuddy, everything will be fine"

"Yes mommy, if you want we can turn around and go home" Hope said, she was sitting in the backseat with a sleepy Rachel next to her.

"No way, we are going to talk to my dearest mother and letting her know that she won't see us ever again" she state very clearly "now, drive, as soon as I talk to her and soon as we came home". The trip was a peaceful one despite Cuddy's stressfull mood and two hours later they had finally arrive at her mother's home. Hope couldn't remember much of it, as she was sitting in her mother's car but the could recall her mother crying and shooting at the elder woman with her dad being really angry too. "Let's go home House" she told him as soon as the enter the car "and we will never be back here ever again" the two of them share a kiss, and he wipes some of her tears, a new chapter had just started...