Guess what. They still aren't mine. Big shocker I know. However, if you happen to know a way to change that let me know.
On a more serious note, my grandmother's house and those of her friends were destroyed with them inside in the tornados in Florida. She was fine, but one of her friends was not so lucky. They could use your prayers. Thank-you so much!
"What's with the shoes?" asked Chase.
Cameron arrived in the diagnostics department conference room in killer heels that screamed "I have a date."
"It's Valentine's Day. I have a date."
"You really think House is going to let us out of here on time to go on dates tonight just because it is Valentine's Day? He never has before, he's too much of--"
"I'm too much of a what Dr. Chase?"
House entered the conference on time for once, if for no other reason than to torment his staff since it was the day dedicated to love and he is opposed to the emotion all together.
"Never mind."
"That's what I thought. What's with the heels Dr. Cameron? Trying to get some? Bet you didn't need them when you got Chase."
"I have a date tonight. I am not even going to dignify your second question with an answer."
"Well, you better cancel. You have overnight duty."
"No, I don't. I checked the schedule last week, before I made the plans. Foreman does."
"That was before I found out my youngest duckling is trying to have a love life. Now we can't have that can we? What do you think Chase? Should Cameron be allowed to have a social life? Would that be beneficial to the department?"
"I think Cameron should be allowed to do whatever--"
"Oh your opinion is never right anyway, so what does it matter? It's settled then, Cameron, you have overnight duty. Who wants to call and tell Foreman the good news that he has the evening off? Oh! How about you Dr. Cameron?"
"House!"
"What? You're…you're I don't even have the words for what you are."
"I know, isn't great? I have rendered you speechless! Now, I just have to figure how to do the same thing to Cuddy. I can't give her overnight duty. I could cause enough trouble to keep her up to her eyeballs in paper work all night though. That would just as much fun."
With that House left to do no one knows what.
"That son of a bitch. I can't believe he did that," Cameron complained to Chase.
"That was low, even for him."
"What the hell did I do to him? Was his coffee too cold or something?"
"It has to be something more serious than that, you know that. You have worked for him long enough to know House doesn't work like that. He is much crueler. Something you did really pissed him off."
"Obviously, but what?"
Cameron went off to find the one person who may be able to shed some light on House's irrational behavior, Wilson.
When she got to Wilson's office she knock with the urgency she was unaware she felt.
"Come in," Wilson called.
Wilson wasn't sure who it was because it wasn't House's characteristic impatient banging, but he could hear the desperation of his visitor none the less. When Cameron walked in with a puzzled expression on her face he knew immediately the source of her problem. His friend and her boss, Dr. Gregory House.
"Talk to me."
"I have overnight duty."
"We all have it sometimes. It sucks, especially on days like today, but when you are a doctor it is part of life. You know that."
"I didn't, not until House saw my shoes."
"I don't understand."
"I am going on a date after work today, well I was, and just wore the shoes to work, House commented and I told him that I had a date. That is when he gave me the overnight duty. Foreman was supposed to have it. He told me that having a social life would be detrimental to the team. He just likes being a bastard. He gets off on making other peoples lives as miserable as his own."
"I am not going to argue with you. Most of the time I think you are right. But right now I think there is more to this situation than that. Let me tell you about a conversation he had I had a while back. I jokingly suggested that I may have already put the moves on you, and you should have seen the look on his face. It was anger, pure anger. As in 'How could you do that? She's mine,' kind of anger. That's when I told him he was in trouble, and I still think that."
"Are you saying you think House…likes me? He told me that everyone likes me but him."
"Isn't his favorite expression, 'Everybody lies?'"
"I see your point."
"Now the question is, what are you going to do with this information, other than not tell House exactly what it is you know and where you learned it from that is."
"No worries. Your secret is safe with me. And I still have to figure that out."
