Friends with Benefits?
Disclaimer: This is a first try at House Fanfiction for me, I used to write a lot of X-files Shipper Fanfic, but I am definitely out of practice, so be gently. Comments and suggestions are welcome and a proof reader needed so please apply by messaging me.
Spoilers: This is a sort of spoiler to things I've read that maybe coming up in the near future in Season 3, but none is confirmed information so this is based after Insensative, at least a month or so later.
Oh and I don't own House, M.D. or his cast, they belong to FOX, lucky FOX!!!
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"You've got to be kidding me?" Cameron said with a distinct look of horror on her face. She had hoped it wasn't possible, that it was just stress or anything but what the reality was, she had also wished it wasn't Cuddy that had to deliver the "news", but whom else could she have gone to? House? Sure, who wouldn't want to be the butt of his sadistic jokes for an eternity?! Chase? HA! Forman? Not a chance! 'Oh God' she thought to herself, she knew she had to hold it together in front of Cuddy, "OK, Thanks, sorry, but you won't tell…" she mumbled as Cuddy stopped her.
"Doctor patient confidentiality, don't worry, I won't say anything, but Alison…" Cuddy said.
'Oh great, now she's calling me Alison' she thought as she was getting up to walk out of her office. "Dr. Cuddy, please I'm fine, I'll figure it out, it will be fine, and I don't need a lecture right now, please." She looked at Cuddy with eyes that could burn a hole right through her.
"Uh, OK, I'm aware you can handle this I just thought…. I just thought that since you came to me you might need someone too-"
Cuddy started to say, but Cameron cut her off. "No I'll be fine, I just wanted it to be kept quiet, sorry, but I just need to go right now," she said as she quickly made a b-line for the doors and was gone.
Cuddy sat at her desk and rolled her head back and closed her eyes, 'Cameron is pregnant, I suspect by accident, yet I can't even find a decent sperm donor and the ones I have tried have all ended up in failed IVF or miscarriage, uggghhh, it was just not fair!!' She thought as she sat there quietly almost on the verge of tears, but she had to remember that she wasn't at home where she could cry her eyes out, no she was at work so she had to compose herself. "Thank God it's Friday," she said aloud, thinking she was alone in the room….
"She's glad it's Friday and yet she looks as if she's going to cry?" He said in his oh so cynical tone. "Must be another blind date weekend Yippee! But really Cuddy, when are you going to admit that you're just happy to get away from me for the weekend?" he looked at her with those piercing blue eyes and suddenly she was crying, and I mean crying! He didn't know what to do, should he get up and leave her, should he ask her why, shit he was at a loss for words for once in his life! So he said the first thing he could think of, "Lisa!?" Suddenly she lifted her head up to look him straight in the face, she thought for a second, it threw her he never called her Lisa, not for many years now. "I'm sorry, Greg" it sounded weird coming from her mouth she thought, "I didn't mean to umm be so emotional, I just umm, well you know…." She stammered off and started to shuffle around the papers on her desk.
He sat there still staring at her, he didn't know what she meant by 'Um well you know' and why was she suddenly emotional, I thought she had stopped the fertility treatments, maybe she hadn't, maybe she was just PMSing, he'd lost track of her cycle ever since she started the fertility stuff. Now he was too curious though, she was not one to breakdown in front of him, he wanted to find the missing piece of the puzzle out, you know House it wasn't his style to let a puzzle go unfinished. He'd have to go about it with ease, she was sensitive apparently.
"Lisa, can I take you out for a drink, between friends?" his tone was not one she was used to hearing, not that she hadn't heard it before, it had just been awhile. It made her forget about her sudden outburst of tears only minutes ago, it made her wonder if that was his pity voice. No she had heard it before, no it wasn't his pity voice it was his I'm interested in something voice, it was the voice he used when he really wanted a good case, or when he thought something was worth knowing. He was phishing!! Cuddy thought to herself 'This could be fun, let's see how far he'll push to figure out what I know, that he wants to know'.
As he sat and waited for her to respond, or yell, or to do anything but shuffle the papers on her desk around and stare at him, it dawned on him that the reason he had walked into her office that day was that he saw a very shaken looking Cameron leaving from there only minutes before. Could Cameron and Cuddy have had an argument, or maybe even just a girly talk? Maybe she had scolded her and was feeling guilty, and then the naughty boss and young doctor scenario started in his twisted imagination…..
"House….House…GREG!" She yelled, as it was hard to get his attention. He turned and looked at her, a little slimy look if she had to gauge it, "Sorry I get lost in my mind sometimes, so are we on?" he asked in that same tone.
"Sure" she couldn't believe she'd agreed, but she thought 'what the hell else do I have to go home and do, it wasn't a blind date weekend like he had said earlier, she'd given up on those…
