A/N: So, like a loser, I was there on Quizilla or whatever taking a bunch of House quizzes…and then I came up with this half-brained Mary-Sue sort of idea. I'm trying to rework the cliché, here, It's not going to work, but I can try, as futile as my efforts may be. I don't even know what it's supposed to be about! Let's just see where we go with this.
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The cold air outside was making the rain turn into slush, the trees baying in the deep early March winds. The branches were tapping repeatedly on the glass window, whose drapes Cuddy had unfortunately insisted be kept open. Both Wilson and House glanced at them from time to time, as though itching to shut them. Cuddy sat with her back to the window, comfortably seated with the baby in her arms.
"Forty-five minutes left," Wilson announced.
"Let's call her Angelina," House proposed. The mugs of tea in front of them had lost their steam and were now even more frigid than the air outside.
"Let me guess," Cuddy began dramatically. "After…the actress? What about Jessica?" she countered sarcastically.
"Not bad," House suggested, feigning sincerity. "What about Anna Nicole? Or Paris?"
"I think we should name her after something a little more significant," Cuddy sniffed.
"Are you saying that Angelina Jolie isn't significant?" House asked in mock incredulity. "She's provided millions of teenagers with fantasies to last them for a lifetime!"
Cuddy's mouth dropped open, then she shut it again with an audible click. "Great. So we'll name our daughter after a masturbatory fantasy-provoker."
"I think that Cuddy, as the mother, gets dibs on the first name," Wilson intervened, eyeing his watch.
"And since she's getting my last name I shouldn't have a say at all?" House asked rather rpetulantly.
"No." Wilson sighed and sat back in the armchair he had been occupying for the past two hours. "There is such a thing as a middle name, you know."
"Olivia," Cuddy said. "I think I'll name her Olivia. Middle name, House?"
He stared at the ceiling for a good while, causing both Cuddy and Wilson to check it twice. "Sterling," he said finally, overtly enunciating each syllable.
"But that's a boy's name," Cuddy objected.
"And so?"
"Olivia Sterling House," Wilson repeated. "Has an interesting ring to it."
"We're an interesting family," House responded simply.
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