Desperation - Chapter 57
Desperation
by Shippercrazed/FanFicCrazy
Title: Desperation
Chapter: 57
Author: shippercrazed/fanficcrazy
Rating: MA
Warning: Explicit Content. For Mature Adults Only. 18 years +
Pairings: House/Cameron
Summary: This AU Hameron fic takes place at the end of the Tritter of the ARC. Cam walks in on House and Cuddy in a compromising position and can't handle it. This story deals with attempted suicide and how it changes a relationship forever. House/Cameron
Desperation
Chapter 57: Teddy Bears, Tigers, and Kittens, OH MY!
“TAMPONS!” exclaimed House.
Cameron hit him in the arm and replied, “Well what do you expect? I WILL be needing them shortly…unless you plan on buying new furniture each month?”
House looked at her with a disgusting look on his face and cried, “Ewwwww! I can see it now. I better go through this list pretty carefully. You’re going to turn my apartment into some girly frou-frou place! Next thing I know it will be filled with tampons, bubble bath and smelly candles. And I’m telling you right now, I draw the line at stuffed animals!”
“What do I need a stuffed animal for when I got my own teddy bear lying right next to me?” Cameron teased as she pinched House’s cheek.
House reacted with faux indignation and said, “O.K., now you’ve gone too far woman! Prepare to pay the price!”
House leaned over, dropped the list he was looking at, and started tickling Cameron unmercifully. “No. Greg. Please.” Cameron continued laughing uncontrollably and thrashing around.
“Am I a teddy bear or a tiger? Come on?”
“Ok. Ok. You’re not a teddy bear. You’re a KITTEN!”
“Why I oughta…..” House threatened as he laughed with her and continued to tickle her.
“EH HEM!”
Both House and Cameron stopped, and looked up like guilty 6 year olds having just been ‘caught’. For there in the doorway to her room, stood James Wilson; hands on hips in his now famous ‘Super Jim’ pose.
“You know House, I prescribed BED REST for Dr. Cameron, NOT RECESS!” chastised Wilson in his most stern voice.
House and Cameron looked at each other, looked back at Wilson, then back at each other…and then burst out laughing.
Wilson shook his head and threw his hands in the air, muttering something neither one of them could quite make out, and started to walk away.
House yelled, “Hey Jimmy, hold up! I need to talk to you for a minute.” He grabbed his cane and slid off the bed.
He turned around and immediately said, “Ally, I’m just going to be out in the hall. I’ll be right back. If you need me, I can hear you yell for me, OK?”
Cameron nodded her agreement, even though her eyes conveyed her fear. House leant down and gave her a quick kiss before turning and limping as fast as he could to catch up to Wilson.
As House rounded the door into the hall, he saw that Wilson had in fact stopped when he had called to him and had been watching them thru the glass wall.
They both walked just past the glass wall so Cameron could not see them talking and stopped to talk. They both kept their voices down due to the topic.
Wilson looked at House with concern in his eyes and asked, “She’s afraid to let you out of her sight isn’t she?”
House sighed and answered, “Yes. I had to have Foreman come up and sit with her this morning while I went down and got us some edible breakfast from the cafeteria. I don’t know how she’ll get over this, Jimmy. I know she was assaulted, but she wasn’t beaten or raped. God knows I’m not belittling what she went through. In fact I want to kill the S.O.B. for even putting his hands on her at all. It just seems like her reaction has been so much stronger than I would have thought.”
“Well, you’ve got to understand that even though she is acting ‘happy’ and ‘OK’ while you are with her, two weeks ago she was lying dead in the ER from taking her own life. So you have all that emotional garbage; add to it the fact that when she woke up from the coma she had the bombshells waiting for her that you loved her, she couldn’t speak, she couldn’t walk, oh…and she wasn’t dead. Then Parker comes along and adds his two cents worth in…Hell, I’m surprised Allison isn’t up in the Psych ward right now. She’s got one hell of a long road in front of her House. I sure hope you wait for her like she has waited for you.”
House should have been mad at the last comment, but he knew Jimmy was right to say it. As for all the rest, House was feeling guilty that he hadn’t put the puzzle pieces together that were right in front of him. When Wilson laid them all out in front of him like that, and he realized what she really had been through emotionally as well as physically in just two short weeks, it brought tears to his eyes. He quickly blinked them away.
“Jimmy, you have a problem with me taking her home this afternoon? I want to get her out of this hospital environment to somewhere where she might feel more protected and safe. Plus the food won’t kill her.”
“Did you get rid of all your vicodin?”
“I’m going to Ally’s this morning to pick up some of her things, then I’m taking them to my apartment so I can shower and change. I figure I’ll go thru and make sure all the medications are locked away in this cabinet I have.”
Jim lowered his voice even more and said, “Don’t forget to lock up razor blades (that is if you’ve ever used any). I know you keep a gun at work, do you have one at home as well?”
House was looking pale.
“House!”
“Yes. Yes I do. I’ll lock it up as well. God, Jimmy. This all seems surreal. She seems fine now except for being afraid of Parker.”
“I know House. Remember her letter. All that time she seemed fine then, too. Better safe then sorry.”
“You’re right,” House said as he started to walk back towards Cameron’s door.
As an afterthought he stopped and turned back to his friend and yelled, “Hey Jimmy! I’m going to need help getting her home this afternoon. You up for cutting out early on a Friday?”
“Sure. I’ll get all her discharge papers ready for around three.”
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House went back in to Cameron’s room and paged Foreman. While he waited for him to show up, he sat next to the woman he would be living with at least for an indefinite amount of time while she recuperated.
“Ally, I’m going to leave as soon as Foreman gets up here. I’m going to go pick up your things first and take them to my apartment. While I’m there I’m going to shower and change and take care of a few things, so I should be back here in a couple of hours. If you need me, or get frightened, you can always call my cell phone, OK?”
“O.K.”
“Now, if I’m a little late, don’t panic because you do realize this is giving me full snooping access to your apartment, and that is one gift I don’t plan on passing up on,” House teased as he raised and lowered his eyebrows several times.
“OK smartass; just remember that what goes around comes around. And I’ll be at you’re apartment VERY shortly with a whole lotta time on my hands……”
House spotted Foreman walking towards the door, so he grunted, “Women!”, and then leaned down and quickly kissed Cameron good-bye and then strode out without so much as another word.
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