"I really want to thank you for doing this for me, Briella. After Amber, well I was hoping he wasn't going to leave, so I never really made plans for what could happen." Lisa Cuddy said as she spoke to her new employee from across the expanse of her desk.
"Of course, It was luck that brought me here. I've been looking for a job in Jersey for a while now. I just wish it wasn't under these circumstances…" Briella drifted off.
"Are you sure there's nothing we can work out with him?" Cuddy wondered aloud.
"I've tried to speak to James for two weeks now; nothing is getting across to him. He thinks he needs to get away from everything here." A sad smile crossed the new doctor's face.
"I understand. Welcome to our team Dr. Wilson." Both women stood and shook hands.
Briella left Dr. Cuddy's office and walked to what was her new office. If she looked hard enough at the door, underneath the raised metal of her name were the remnants of the last man to hold this office. With a small sigh, she pushed the door open.
"Holy Shit." A man exclaimed from inside the office.
"Oh God, House what are you doing here?" Briella believed herself to be defeated.
"Hoping Wilson was coming back through that door…" House replied zoning off slightly.
"I don't know if James is ever coming back House." Briella resigned as she sat at his, well now it belonged to her, desk.
"Well, what are you doing here?" House asked cautiously. She was the ONE person he could never be himself around.
"Same thing you are Gregory. I'm being a doctor." Briella smiled as she relaxed into her seat. House was always uncomfortable around her.
"The director of Oncology? Really?" House tried to be sarcastic.
"I was doing it back in Chicago. You can leave now." And much to Briella's surprise, House got up and left, leaving her sitting there until she picked up the phone to leave a message with a certain James Wilson.
"James, it's your sister. Look, seriously, I can't do this job, I was the director of Oncology in Chicago for like 3 months and that was because the lady went on maternity leave. I'm a diagnostician with a specialty in psychiatry and a Ph.D. in Oncology. Damn it! James I cannot do this. Get your ass back here, please." Briella hung up and hung her head in her hands.
"Am I interrupting something?" An accent picked up from her doorway.
"Rob!" Briella spoke his name softly and went running into his open arms.
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While deferring with his new team, House looked out from his window and saw right into Wilson's open blinds. Her lips, those beautiful pink lips locked with his lips. Her brilliant, impossibly blue eyes connected with his blue eyes. There was a fire between them that even House could see, and it hurt.
"Chase has a girlfriend?" House posed the question amidst the arguing.
"Chase has been engaged to Wilson's sister for over a year now House." Foreman said and returned to his conversation with Thirteen over why the current paitent did not have lupus.
"How come I never knew this one Blue Eyes?" House wondered across the sky.