Evaluation (House/Cameron) - Chapter 18
House took a look at Cameron, he hadn’t been that close to her for…how long has it been? She looks so beautiful, oh, that familiar strawberry scent, so sweet!. Cameron felt his eyes on her and when she moved her head to look at him, he quickly moved his head to look straight to Elle. Elle was observing them all the time and couldn’t help to smile.
“Wipe that smile off” House said and Elle raised her hands in surrender. “Get to the point!”
“Ok” Elle sighed. “I’ve treating you both at the same time”
“WHAT?!” House and Cameron said at the same time
“I’m glad you also agree on that” Elle paused. “After your respective evaluations, both of you ask me to continue with the sessions, what else did you want me to do? I’m a doctor, I’m here to help, I couldn’t say no. This situation also took me by surprise, believe me!”
“You could have made me to go and see, Dr. Fleming” Cameron said
“That would mean starting fresh, you’d have to revive everything all over again, that brings back the pain. No progress at all”
“I knew it” House said with a little smile.
“What?”
“I knew there was something behind and silly me, I kept talking and talking” House protested.
“Look, Greg, she didn’t know I was treating you and you didn’t know I was treating her. I’ve never used any information you gave me in order to make you talk. I’ve always used my experiences and guesses, everything you have told me is because you’ve wanted me to tell me. I’ve always been clear on that, always nice and easy, you were the one who decided what to tell me and what not to tell me”
“So, he doesn’t know anything I said about him” Cameron said
“Now, I know why my ears have been burning…” House said
“No” Elle said with a little smile. “Look, after weeks and sleepless nights thinking about you, I’ve come to the conclusion that you needed some help, a little push. You both are denying something that’s obvious, you connect when you are together, can’t you see it? Why do you deny it? Is it wrong falling in love? Are you prejudiced? Is it because she’s younger than you? So what?” Elle said looking at House. “Is it because he’s a cripple? So what?” Elle said look at Cameron. “You both know the answers to those questions because you have told me. We all make mistakes in life but those errors shouldn’t make us stop. We’ve learnt from them but they don’t stop us. You both are doctors, you’ve both have lost patients maybe because there was an error in the diagnosis or maybe because it just had to happen sadly and still, death hasn’t stopped you from being doctors because you have assumed that it’s something that it could happen sometimes but most of the times, there’s life” House and Cameron listened carefully and every now and then both stole a glance from each other. “Experiences make us wiser, we all learn from our mistakes and try not to make them again. Taking chances have risks, yes but if we don’t take them, we’ll always be wondering what it could have happened. The fact that your previous relationships didn’t work doesn’t mean that yours won’t unless you try. Having the door open to happiness is something that cannot be wasted. If I were you, I’d take that chance” Cameron smiled. “You are both damaged people, you’ve made each other suffer and you have hurt the other more than once. Consider me a romantic, but you are the perfect characters of a true love story. There’s no deep and true love without a bit of hurt and suffering” Elle finished. Cameron looked at Elle with a look of hope in her eyes while House was looking at the floor, thinking. “Still thinking about the Stones puzzle, Greg?” Elle said and House looked at her. Suddenly, Elle stood up and searched something in the closet. “As I see the cat got your tongues and you cannot voice your feelings for each other, here you have the letters you wrote for me, the letters you wrote for each other” Elle left House’s letter in front of Cameron and Cameron’s in front of House. “I’m gonna give you some privacy, so you can talk, kiss, whatever you want. You won’t leave until you don’t resolve this, I’ll be outside keeping guard, you have no way out, don’t hate me, please. You’ll thank me for this eventually” Elle got closer to House and whispered in his ear. “You can’t always get what you want and if you try some time, you opened your heart in that letter, Greg, you get what you need, you get her” And Elle left them alone after closing the blinds of the whole office.