Hiya people. I'm back, have you missed me. Sorry it took so long to update. my exams have just finished but I didn't revise like I wanted to. I now own House! Ok not literally but I have got the box set so I own a bit of House lol.
I owe this chapter to Hannah who was about to kill me if I didn't update soon so thats the reason your getting it now and not in the morning, i value my life too much to wait any longer.
Disclaimer:- Don't own House (sob sob sob) if I did I would be very rich and get some of you fan fic writers to write my storylines (just so that House and Cameron would get together) ;-)
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The Softer Side of House
Weezle13
Chapter 3
Everyone was board. It had been a slow two weeks since Cameron's near death experience. No body was dying of a mysterious illness, no one needed their expert help. Things had become so bad that House had willingly gone to clinic just so he could terrorize the nurses and patients.
House had finally dragged himself away, much to the relief if everyone, and was sat in his office waiting for Wilson to finish telling his patient that they were going to die so they could go to lunch. Wilson's treat of course.
Cameron, Chase and Foreman sat in the meeting room doing paperwork that, despite having no patients. Always seemed to need doing. Cameron had deliberately positioned herself so that she could easily see into House's office and so that House could easily see her.
Cameron kept looking up from House's paperwork to catch him watching her. He would quickly look down at his Gameboy yet she wasn't fooled and she could not help the elated feeling that she got from knowing that she had finally gotten to him (in a good way).
'Oh give it up Cam.' snapped Chase when he caught her looking at House.
'What?'
'He ain't going to change. You know that. Get over him.' He was still sore that Cameron would prefer House over him. House was a sarcastic, abrasive bastard who wasn't even that good looking while he was kind, sensitive, selfless and handsome. (a/n cough cough yeah right.)
Foreman just laughed slightly 'Yeah right. He just wants you to move onto him' Chase glared at this friend as Cameron giggled to hide her embarrassment. Luckily for her she was spared from answering by Cuddy's timely arrival. The team took one look at her angry face and the file in her hand and bent to their work and wished that they were invisible.
House, never one to back out of a fight with Cuddy, limped out of his office to meet her with a smirk on his face.
'I have had twelve complaints about you this morning. Twelve! House don't you know when to give up. You told an eight year old girl that she was going to die.'
House just smirked a bit more at this latest rant. 'yeah. I thought that her mum was going to have a heart attack. I've never seen a face go so red when I told her she only had a cold and to feed her some chicken soup.'
Cuddy was speechless. 'I can't believe you'
'It's why you love me. My Charming personality' for the second time Cuddy was speechless. House grinned and turned to limp back into his domain. Cuddy's wits returned quickly.
'Oh no you don't House. You can't limp away from this one. You have got to go and see Stacy and sort out the fact that you are being sued…Again.' House visibly stiffened and paused for half a step before carrying on. 'Oh and as your all so board I've brought you a patient.'
House turned and pouted 'Aw but all the saps you bring are boring.' he whined.
'I don't care. You will be involved with this patient. I mean meet them, be civil…erm…wait do your job.'
'But you also want me make them better.'
'Hay you could learn to multitask. Plus making you suffer is sooo much fun.' House just raised an eyebrow. 'she's forty with blurred vision, dizziness, nausea, headaches, blackouts…' House cut her off. 'Wow it's a tumor give her to Jimmy. I know how much he loves talking to you about how vulnerable he is with Julie. Hay you could be wife number four when he finally gets divorced.' Cuddy just continued 'and a rash that is spreading. Wilson cant find a tumor or a cause for the rash.'
Cuddy flung the file onto the table. House gave it a quick glance then blinked and picked it up, flicking through it. He snapped it shut and started to limp out of the room with an odd look in his eyes.
'Where are you going?'
'To do what you told me to. I'm going to see the sap…erm patient.' House called back as he limped out and vanished down the hall.
'I don't like that look. Follow him if he does anything stupid. Lawsuit stupid stop him. I don't care what you do kick his bad leg for all I care just stop him costing this hospital any more money then he already has.' with that she turned and left.
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The team quickly caught up with House as he limped down the hall 'What, she sent you
to baby-sit me?' he groused.
'Yep' Cameron said with a straight face. House grinned slightly Chase and Foreman, who were walking slightly behind, missed it but Cameron saw and had to suppress a grin of her own as they stopped outside of the patients room and looked through the glass walls at the stunningly beautiful woman sat up in bed watching a small boy who was sat next to her playing with a Gameboy.
'Wow. She is… is wow.' House turned to Chase with a frown.
'You try and screw her or so much as show that your interested in her as anything other then as your patient. Either of you and I will make your working lives miserable and I will personally remove your balls with a dull rusty knife. Got me?
'Why do you want to do her?'
'she's not my type. Prefer brunettes.' with that revelation he limped into the room leaving the ducklings to follow in his wake.
The woman looked up and smiled 'Hi' she said softly. At her greeting the kid, who must have been about five, looked up, made a sound like 'yay', dropped his game onto the bed and launched himself at House.
House just bent slightly and scooped him up. 'Hiya Squirt. You beaten my high score yet?' the boy giggled 'did that ages ago.'
'Oh really. I'll have to have a rematch then.' He put him down and lent over to kiss the woman's cheek. 'Hi Sam. You not feeling well or something.' asked House as he sat down in a chair. The boy instantly grabbed his Gameboy and sat on House's knee carefully in an obviously practiced move.
The patient, Sam, watched this with a smile before turning back to the conversation 'Greg House, the greatest diagnostion in the world had to ask someone sat in a hospital bed if their not feeling well. Gods I wonder where you came up with such a crazy idea.' her smirk mirrored House's who was about to snark right back when her smirk was replaced with a wince of pain when the game beeped loudly.
House sighed. 'I know I'm going to regret this but… do you want me to look after him' he motioned the boy 'while your stuck up in here.'
Sam smiled with relief then looked at the child. 'what do you say Harry.'
'Yeah! Please Mum let me.' the boy cheered when she nodded and asked 'can we go out on your bike. Pleeease.'
'Oh what about Towser.' Harry's face fell and House softly asked 'where is he.'
'Outside. They wouldn't let him in. he's been out there all morning on own. Can he come and stay with us too?'
'Separating you two is a near impossible task. How about you, me and Towser go get some lunch and leave Mum in peace so she can get her tests done.'
Harry looked at Sam 'Go on I'll be fine. Go give Towser something to eat.'
Harry jumped off of House causing him to wince. He slowly stood up from the chair using his cane as a leaver and looked at his team. 'Do the tests. Get a background. The usual.' he eyed Chase and Foreman 'if I found out that you've screwed up or anything, I will kill you'
'That's not an idyll threat either he will literally rip you limb from limb. Slowly and painfully.' Sam informed them gleefully.
The two men looked stunned at this. Chase swallowed trying to bring some moisture to his suddenly dry mouth. House was a formidable enemy even with the bad leg. That just gave him a reason to carry around a stick to hit people with, and the look in his eyes suggested that he would use it to bring most amount of pain that he could. ' why wasn't Cameron included in that death threat?'
'Because, Brit, she is doing the background as usual and using her powers of niceness gets the patients whole damn life story. I'll see you in a bit Sam. Come on Brattling.' Harry hugged his mum then took House's free hand.
It was then that Cameron was struck by the boy's eyes. A clear ice blue colour that seemed to penetrate right through her to her soul. Had House fathered a child and not told anyone? Or, or what?
She looked at House and was captured by his eyes, she knew that he knew what she was thinking, he always seemed to know what she was thinking. He shook his head so slightly that she almost missed it but his eyes told her that he was telling the truth. She had to trust him but why they weren't together he rarely said anything that was none work related so why should she care so much.
Because you love him said the part of her brain which wouldn't let her forget that fact and let her move on with her life.
House left with the boy leaving the team with the new patient and millions of questions. A chuckle filled the silent room and the three doctors turned to Sam who just laughed a bit more at their faces. 'Hi' she said at last 'I'm Samantha Kalowski. Call me Sam.'
'I'm Doctor Cameron and this is…'
'Drs Chase and Foreman I know Greg told me.'
Suddenly Chase couldn't keep the question in. 'How do you know House?' yet he wouldn't get an answer Sam's eyes were going in and out of focus, she was rapidly blinking then she slipped into the waiting darkness as she passed out.
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Sorry to end it there, thought I would keep you guessing.
Please reveiw it helps the writing process.
Have fun while I'm gone.
Weezle13