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Post by Lemurlou on Oct 15, 2006 16:42:11 GMT -5
Chapter 16
Cuddy shut her door behind her and deposited the keys on the end table. She'd felt the thin lump of that pink box all night, aching to know what it would tell her.
She threw her coat on the couch, half-running to the bathroom. Her stomach was about to trade places wither her esophagus.
Sitting on the toilet, she peed on the little stick. Such a simple action.
Cuddy waited, poised, all of her muscles tense to the point of pain. The results would take a minute to show. She made herself pull up her skirt, wash her hands, flush the toilet.
She picked up the dry end of the stick.
The results were clear.
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Post by house_crazy on Oct 15, 2006 16:51:00 GMT -5
AHHHHH! IS SHE PREGNANT OR NOT?!?!?! DO NOT TORTURE US SO!!!!! Please?
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Post by Lemurlou on Oct 15, 2006 16:51:40 GMT -5
Chapter 17
"You have a patient," Cuddy announced dryly, catching House's arm on his way to the elevator.
"You have a piece of news," House said, eyeing her with one eye squinted.
"I do not," she said, crossing her arms across her chest and looking at them.
"Yes, you do. But obviously you don't want to share. What's the case?"
"Sixty two year old man, severe diarrhea and migraines unaffected by OTC meds. History of minor facial tics, and he's a smoker. Came to the Cl-"
"I've seen this guy before," House said, pressing the up button. "And I'm a homophobe: afraid of doing the same thing again."
"Take the case," Cuddy said.
"Why?"
"To get your mind off Cameron." House stood, semi-paralyzed for a moment.
"I'm not taking the case."
"I beg to differ."
"Beg all you want, I don't want Mr. Bad Sushi."
"Take it, or I tell the hospital you're sleeping with your employee." House snatched the folder from her.
"Convincing arguement."
"Knew it would be."
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Post by house_crazy on Oct 15, 2006 16:59:47 GMT -5
Haha! More pleases! Is Cuddy pregnant or not??!?!?!? Need to Know....(heehee House epi!)
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Post by Lemurlou on Oct 15, 2006 17:10:24 GMT -5
Chapter 18
House couldn't decide who to be madder at: Cuddy or Wilson. Wilson seemed like an easier target, and his office was closer to House's current position.
"You told Cuddy?" He yelled.
"What did I tell Cuddy?" Wilson asked, setting his pen down.
"When you came in... after the Benefit. You tattled to Mommy!"
"House, I haven't spoken to Cuddy in..."
"Don't give me that bullsh*t!"
"No, I'm serious." House looked straight at Wilson. He looked confused rather than guilty.
"Then who did?" He asked, still slightly suspicious. Their eyes met.
"Who did Cameron's surgery?" Wilson asked slowly.
"Dr. Bergman."
"That's what happened." House turned his gaze skyward.
"The one time I don't live by 'everyone lies' I get screwed. And how did you know Dr. Bergman would know about... Forget it. That was one seriously convoluted sentence."
"I talked to Cameron. She told me what happened. She really loves you. Don't let go of that."
"Fine. She can help me maul Dr. Bergman."
"Maul the other Dr. Bergman."
"What is this, some sci-fi movie? He doesn't have an evil twin, does he?"
"No, he has a wife. Same idea, though. The problem is, his wife's a total a**hole. He shares everything with her, she shares everything with the world."
"Sounds like a real prize."
"Well, he thinks so," Wilson said.
"Cuddy didn't say to stop sleeping with her," House pointed out. "Cool."
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Post by Lemurlou on Oct 15, 2006 17:21:12 GMT -5
Chapter 19
House arrived at the doorway of the Diagnostics office. Chase was lying on the glass table, studying a crossword puzzle with a No. 2 pencil between his teeth. Foreman was writing a list of diseases that could cause rectal bleeds on the whiteboard.
"Patient?" Foreman asked.
"Seems like you've already got one," House said, motioning toward the whiteboard.
"No, that's what I do when we don't get a case for three weeks. I start making them up."
"Well, we've got one now. Come with me."
"Where are we going?"
"Cameron's hospital room."
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Post by house_crazy on Oct 15, 2006 17:31:17 GMT -5
Don't kill Cameron! ARGH! More please!
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Post by Lemurlou on Oct 15, 2006 18:07:39 GMT -5
they're just going to do the differential with her. so they can, you know, stop the discussion b/c of triangual buttons.
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Post by Lemurlou on Oct 15, 2006 18:37:20 GMT -5
Chapter 20
Cuddy could remember every detail of the last evening, after she'd seen the stick. Washing it off, then carrying it around the house with her. She brushed her teeth, changed, and picked up her telephone, all with the stick clasped in a free hand.
There was a phone tree. It always drove Cuddy crazy.
"You have reached the Princeton Reproductive Clinic. To make an appointment, press one. To confirm and appointment, press two. To cancel an appointment, press three." She pressed three.
"Hello, this is Rose," the pleasnat young receptionist answered. "To whom am I speaking?"
"This is Lisa Cuddy." Rose's formality dropped.
"You doing all right?" she asked.
"I've never been better," Cuddy told Rose. "I need to cancel that next round of IVF."
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Post by house_crazy on Oct 15, 2006 18:48:20 GMT -5
Yay! Cuddy is pregnant! Or something went terribley wrong....and what triangular buttons? I only heard of buttons....ah well. Satan strikes again!
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Post by Lemurlou on Oct 15, 2006 19:09:21 GMT -5
Chapter 21
"Cameron's our patient?" Foreman asked with disbelief.
"No, but she is part of the Team. And, you know, I thought she should get to play doctor sometimes." With a sigh, Foreman pushed open the door to Cameron's room.
The three paused for a moment. Even House, who'd seen her late the previous afternoon, was shocked. Cameron looked awful. She was weakly propped up against her pillows, dark, grey bags underlining her eyes, a urine catheter snaking out from underneath her blankets. She didn't move when they entered.
Foreman was the first to approach her.
"How're you feeling?" he asked. No response. "Everything alright?" he tried again. She nodded a little. Chase came up to her and asked more inane questions. House felt like he was on some other planet.
He wanted to hit Cameron, tell her to snap out of it, that she just had a clot and really, truly she was fine. And he wanted to go over to her, kiss her, tell her that she was sick but he could cure her. Because he could. Right?
But he didn't do anything. He sat there and watched. And eventually, out of sheer exhaustion and stress, he fell asleep.
He dreamt about the night of the Benefit. It was the best night he'd ever had. And the days after.
But then she got sick. The embolism. House woke with a start.
The embolism wasn't an illness. It was a symptom.
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Post by Lemurlou on Oct 15, 2006 19:21:35 GMT -5
i always confuse you, kiwi and lorenzo. i'm really sorry about that. think threesome-buttons. think stop the differential.
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Post by house_crazy on Oct 15, 2006 19:30:10 GMT -5
There was no 'stop the differential' button speak! Was it CCH? (If you dont' get it I'll explain later) But that chapter was really good! More please!
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Post by Lemurlou on Oct 15, 2006 19:33:56 GMT -5
Chapter 22
House went over to Cameron, thinking she was asleep. No. Just half-closed eyes, looking even creepier in the moonlight.
"Cameron,"
"Call me Allison," she rasped.
"Allison," House choked on the words a little. "Why aren't you out of bed?"
"I'm in pain," she told him. "I don't want to move." Eyes drooping. Voice drooping.
"Lie down," House said, removing the pillow. Her head flopped unexpectedly to the bed.
"Owww..." she moaned. House used his hand to lower her head gently to the mattress. He hopped over to her midsection and placed a hand on her abdomen. She screamed, and he drew his hand away as if he had placed it on a flame. But he'd felt swelling, around the liver.
Which confirmed his theory that the embolism was a symptom. But what was the "it hurts to move" and "my internal organs are twice the size they should be" about?
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Post by house_crazy on Oct 15, 2006 20:09:16 GMT -5
Poor Cameron! More please!
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