This story is inspirated by Maya's thread. I wanna say thank to Lisa, Maya and Fabi for the supporting. You are very nice to me!
And of course it's for Kim as well who is the best english teacher ever, my crazy twin and a really close friend of mine. :)
The ballroom of Westin Princeton Hotel was full of people: doctors, nurses and of course the rich people who donated a lot of money to the hospital.
House usually didn't like these events but this night was different. The last few months were really hard for him: his breakdown, the detox, Cuddy's hook up with Lucas.. It was just too much. Tonight, he just wanted to have some fun.
So he was there, standing in the doorway with his best friend and two beautiful women.
"Do you want a drink?" Wilson asked the ladies.
"Sure." Nora said smiling.
"It would be nice." the blonde woman answered whose right forearm was resting on House's left one.
"I'll bring the drinks, you just find a table." House said and limped away towards the bar.
"Two margaritas and two glassof scotch, please." he said to the barman.
The guy nodded then poured out the whiskeys and started to mix the coctails. House was looking at his friend who was walking around the ballroom and desperately tried to find a table but he wasn't successful so far.
"I'm helping with those." House heard from behind his back and he turned to face the owner of the voice.
"Hey, House." Lucas welcomed him.
House nodded. "Thank you, but I can take care of them by myself."
But Lucas ignored him. He took the drinks and started to walk towards Wilson. He saw him earlier with the two women and he was very curious who they were.
When the coctails were ready, House took them and followed Lucas. When he reached them the greeting part was already over and Wilson held his glass in his hand. After House had given the coctails to the ladies, he stretched out his hand to take his own scotch from Lucas.
"So, where are you sitting?" Lucas asked Wilson and gave the glass to House.
"Actually.. we are still looking for a table." Wilson answered.
"Well.. there is a lot of room at ours. You should join us." He offered because he thought House was really over Cuddy and he wanted her to see it too.
"I don't think.. " House started but Lucas interrupted him.
"Oh, come on.." he tried his best "there isn't any free place and you don't want to stand during the whole night, do you?"
House looked at Wilson who made a face that confirmed Lucas wasn't lying - the room was full.
"Lead us." House said.
Cuddy was wearing a long lightblue spaghetti-strapped evening dress with a V-cut. It was fitting her body well. Her hair was pinned up but some curly locks were hanging down randomly. She was wearing a silver necklace with a crystal pendant and matching earings.
She was sitting at an 8-seater table and talking to one of the most generous sponsors of the hospital. She was immersed in the conversation so deeply that she didn't notice when they arrived.
"I've brought some company." Lucas said.
Cuddy turned around and froze. For a few minutes nobody spoke. It was Wilson who broke the silence.
"Hey Cuddy. Let me introduce Nora. She is our neighbour.." he started to smile "..and my girlfriend."
Cuddy was surprised first because she didn't know Wilson has a girlfriend but then stood up, stepped forward and offered her hand to the woman.
"I'm Lisa." Cuddy smiled at her "Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too." Nora said and returned the smile.
Cuddy stepped closer to the other woman who was standing next to House. Cuddy was checking her quickly. She was a bit taller than her. She had a low cut black dress that ended right above her knees and her blonde locks were falling freely to her shoulders.
The woman didn't wait for House to introduce her, she gave her hand to Cuddy instead.
"Nice to meet you, Lisa. My name is Mira. I'm Greg's attendant."
House put his hand on Mira's waist and looked at Cuddy. "Actually.." he said smiling "she is my date."
There was silence for a few minutes again. This time it was Lucas who spoke first.
"Mr. Westwood.." he looked at the man who was sitting at the table but when he heard his name he rose up. "We've heard the ladies' name but you maybe haven't met dr Wilson.." he said and nodded towards Wilson "and dr House yet."
"Nice to meet you." the man said and the two friends nodded towards him.
"Well.." Lucas continued "since everybody knows each other we could sit down now."
"I support this idea" Mira said and stepped to one of the chairs. But before she could pull it out House was there and did it himself.
"Thank you, Greg." Mira smiled and took her place. House sat down to her right and the others followed their lead.
Except Mr. Westwood who went to search his wife instead.
"So.." Cuddy looked at Mira "where have you met?"
"At the cooking course." she answered and gave a smile to House but then turned to back to Cuddy and continued. "One day we were familiarizing us with the french gastronomy. We had to make "canard a l'orange". It's roast duck with orange sauce in English." she added when she realized that maybe they didn't speak French. "You know it's a very difficult meal. But Greg has a very good sense to the cooking, he was the only one who could make it perfectly. So I walk to him and asked for his help. And from the next class we was cooking together.. He's showed me some tricks."
She smiled at House mischievously and he smiled back at her. Then Mira leaned into a kiss but before she could do it.. "I'm the Dean of Medicine." Cuddy said out of the blue and Mira froze. There was only a few centimeters between her and House's mouth. Everybody turned to Cuddy but she ignored their surprised faces and continued "I lead a hospital. You know, it's a lot of responsibility."
"Okay, it was a bit weird." Wilson whispered to his friend. who was already grinning ear to ear because he actually found Cuddy's behavior very amusing.
"And Mira.. what's your profession?"
Mira was still a bit confused but she didn't want to be impolite so she answered.
"I'm a party planner."
"I bet it's a really hard job as well." Cuddy said with a sarcastic tone in her voice.
Mira didn't take it but House did. "Yeah, it is.." he said and waited for Cuddy to look at him then continued "..but don't worry, she still knows how to party." He winked at Cuddy who got the hint and made a grimace but didn't say anything. Of course except her, nobody knew what that sentence really meant.
It was a relief for everyone when the band started to play. When Nora heard the song she got to her feet and asked Wilson to join her on the dancefloor. Mira looked at House who was still holding Cuddy's gaze.
"Shall we dance?" she asked and started to rise.
"Sure." He said, drank a sip from his scotch then stood up, gave a last smile to Cuddy and followed Mira to the dancefloor.
"Do you wanna dance?" Lucas turned to Cuddy.
"Actually.. I'm not well."
"Is everything alright?"
"Yeah, I'm just tired and have a headache." She said and turned her gaze from the leaving House to her boyfriend.
"I'll bring you a painkiller." He stood up but she stopped him.
"No, thanks. I just wanna go home."
"Okay, then let's go." He smiled, took her hand and they started to walk towards the exit.