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Prompt: Hallowed ground...
A/N: Prompt 2 written for 5_prompts on LiveJournal. Based on Season 3 Episode 9, "Finding Judas."
Whatever his reasons were, it was still irrelevant. In pain or not, he was an ass, plain and simple. The only difference was the Vicodin. With it, he was barely tolerable, constantly belittling his staff as well as nurses and fellow doctors. It was really no wonder she was always receiving demands to remove him from the hospital. And that was the bright side. Without the meds, he was far more than just another ass, as she had recently learned.
He had gone out of his way to drop anchor on her, and not in a joking way. No, she knew how it was when he was joking, even if he was trying to make the joke seem like it a flat-out insult. His eyes would light up like those of a child with a box of candy, and he'd practically skip down the hallways with laughter when he was done.
But this was time had been different. The way he'd stared down at her with malice as she cradled that suffering child in her arms... It had been horrid.
"It's a good thing you failed to become a mom, because you suck at it!"
Those words were stuck in her head, dark and torturous. Maybe he'd been right. Maybe she wasn't meant to have so great a gift to raise and cherish. Or maybe, if one were looking at the situation through House's eyes, she just wasn't good enough to be mother to a child. She was, in a word, unworthy.
Even if he hadn't meant a word of it, if he had simply spoken out in anger and pain, it had still hurt more than anything she'd felt before. With the absence of a knife, having been armed only with words, he had cut her, causing her to question that which she desired most.
If anything, he'd crossed the line of most importance, walking upon that which she had deemed to be hallowed ground...
Although I've seen the episode several times, it never ceases to shock me how House willingly attacks Cuddy about her fertility issue.