You want me to Date You?

Chapter Three

When Cameron and Chase went to the patient's apartment they found a few things. One, that their patient was into BDSM and two that he had a large stash of breath-mints on hand in a drawer. Cameron ended up finding a class yearbook with contacts in it and brought it to the hospital. The team currently all sat around the large table in the diagnostics room calling the various phone numbers that they had found, hoping to find any family related to Max.

"Max... yes... Alright, I'm sorry to bother you." Cameron said with a sigh before she hung up her phone.

Chase quickly shot up his arm, "Yes, Max Parker. Great, we've been looking for you! I'm calling from the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Max a patient, and it's rather... He hung up on me."

"Did you tell them why you were calling them?" Foreman asked.

"I didn't even get the chance to."

"Then call them back."

House walked into the room from his office. "I'll do it." He said as he tossed his yo-yo at Chase and grabbed the nearest phone. "Hello, yes this is Doctor House, your son Max has passed away... yes, Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital." House nodded then hung up the phone. "There, now when they show up at the morgue, just send them up here instead."

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It wasn't until the next day that House was called into Cuddy's office. He currently stood across from a pair of very angry parents.

"You lied to them?!" Cuddy exclaimed.

Mrs. Parker nodded, "He told us that our son was dead."

House sighed as he leant heavily on his cane. "I was a white lie. Technically, all I did was call them a little early. Trust me, he'll be dead soon. Actually, If anything I saved you from being stuck in rush hour traffic."

Mrs. Parker narrowed her eyes at Dr. House before she grabbed for her phone in her purse. "I'm contacting our lawyer."

"Fine, just sign the consent form before you do, I even have a pen to make things quicker." House said, as he held a pen towards Mrs. Parker.

Cuddy sighed. "I'm sure that you still care about him. He is your son after all."

Mr. Parker huffed and crossed his arms as he leaned back on the couch that they sat on. "He has humiliated us and our family. Everyone knows about his perversion."

House nodded. "But you don't get off on embarrassment the way your son does." He crossed his arms over his chest, moving most of his weight to his right leg. "Before you haggle with your lawyer, put this into perspective. Humiliation comes in all kinds of packages. People finding out that your son's a perv, that's pretty high up there. People finding out that you'd rather let your son die than sign a piece of paper, where's that rank at? Your son would be in surgery first thing in the morning."

Mr. and Mrs. Parker glanced at each other before Mr. Parker relented and nodded. House nodded in return and put his arms back down, to lean on his cane once more and hand the pen to Mrs. Parker while Cuddy supplied the paper for them to sign. Once the form was signed, House walked to Cuddy's office door and opened it before he turned to face the couple once more. "You can visit him after the surgery is done." He said, and then walked out.

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Cameron smiled to herself as she sat at House's desk, going through his mail. 'I really do wonder what he hill have planned for our date. I'm still stunned that he even agreed to go on a date with me in the first place. Does that mean he's interested?' She was so engrossed in her thoughts and going through the mail that she didn't notice that Wilson had stepped into the office until he knocked lightly on the desk. She jumped before she looked up at him. "Oh, hey Wilson, how're you today?"