You want me to Date You?

Chapter Seven

The dinner at Cameron's home ended up ending on a good note with good food and relaxing company. House found himself thinking back on that day as he sat in Cuddy's office, sitting in the chair across from her desk with his arms across his chest, brooding.

"House, I don't want to hear another word about this. I know it is Stacy but her husband is suffering abdominal pain and fainting spells. No sign of tumors, no vasculitis." Cuddy said with a sigh as she closed her laptop shut.

"Why does it have to be me that treats him? Isn't there another hospital?"

"I can see you're interested in the case House. He's been to three different hospitals and seen five different doctors already." She watched House sigh and look down at his cane as he decided to play with it. "I'll give you a week off clinic duty if you just take the damn case."

"Even if that is tempting, when you first handed me the case on Monday he cancelled his exam twice. What makes you think that he will be willingly treated by me?"

"I pulled some strings, are you happy? Just get up to your team while he's looked over in his exam room." Cuddy stated as she stood.

"Three weeks off clinic duty then."

Cuddy rolled her eyes. "Fine... just go do your job."

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House walks into the diagnostics room and saw that all of his team was present. Cameron stood by the white board while Chase and Foreman sat at the table. "Did any of you get the file for the case?" he asked.

Foreman nodded as Cameron moved to sit down and House took her place beside the white board. "Past tests revealed nothing that would cause abdominal pain or the mood swings."

House grinned. "Then we're done! What do you think ball game or the zoo? I don't care; I just want to hang with you guys."

Chase rolled his eyes. "Shouldn't we do more testing? I assume that you don't believe that the other doctors tested for everything."

House sighed. "I guess." He drawled, "The wife of this guy believes that he's sick."

"The woman you used to live with?" Cameron questioned; which caused House's eyes to land on hers and stay there.

"Stacy... and yes." House replied. "Go ultrasound his belly. If that's negative, CT his abdomen and pelvis, with and without contrast... and whatever else you can think of that should be done." House watched as Foreman and Chase left the room before he walked into his office. It wasn't long before he heard the predictable tiny knock that he was expecting. "Yes Cameron?" he asked as he turned to face her.

"Are you okay? Having to treat him knowing that she's here..."

House took a deep breath before he held out his hand and Cameron took the steps it took to take his hand with her own. He gave her hand a small squeeze. "I'll be fine."

Cameron nodded. "Just know that I'm here okay?" she asked softly. At his nod she squeezed his hand in return before she slowly let go and turned to walk out into the hallway and catch up with the rest of the team.

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Chase walked into Mark's hospital room with a clipboard in his hand. He nodded to both Mark and Stacy and cleared his throat, "We did a CT on your abdomen. There's nothing that would explain the stomach pain that you're having."

Stacy nodded as she scooted her chair closer to Mark's bed. "So what do we do next?" she asked.

Mark rolled his eyes. "I'm leaving. How many more tests do they have to do on me for you to be convinced that I'm fine?" he questioned as he looked between Chase and Stacy.