Chapter 1

Gregory House sat at the desk of his office, feet propped up on it, reading a medical file, when his door opened. He peered over his reading glasses to see who had entered. "What?" he asked.

"You are not going to give a seven-year-old girl a brain biopsy!" Cuddy exclaimed, marching over to House's desk.

House took his feet down and looked at Cuddy straight in the eye. "Well good morning to you, too, Dr. Cuddy," he said.

"House, stop playing games!" Cuddy said loudly. "Why would you even think for a second that you could do a brain biopsy on that child without having me find out about it?"

"Because I know that all you're really thinking about right now is getting me in bed after work," House said with a wink.

Cuddy stood there, flustered. Then she blushed. "What happened to keeping our personal and professional lives separate?"

"Oh, they're still separate," House said.

Cuddy sat in the chair opposite her lover. "Why do you need to do the biopsy?" she asked, now all business.

"Well, Cuddy," House said. "She's sick."

"Duh, House," Cuddy said. "What's wrong with her?"

"Rash, persistent fever, sensitivity to light, and she's hallucinating. Hence why I need the brain biopsy."

"You don't need the biopsy, House," Cuddy negated. "You're bored and you want something cool to do."

House was silent for a moment before saying, "Touché, Cuddy."

"Find another way to find your answer," Cuddy ordered, standing up and heading to the door. "See you tonight." With a smile, she walked out the door and down the hallway.

House went back to reading the medical file on his patient. After five minutes, Chase threw open the door, Thirteen, Taub, and Foreman on his heels. "Girl's developed a constant cough, the hallucinations are getting worse, and her liver's failing," the Aussie told his boss.

"Why can't anyone ever knock?" House said, grabbing his cane and marching into his conference room. He wrote the new symptoms on the board. "DDx, go."

"Sarcoidosis," Taub said immediately.

"Lupus." Foreman.

"It's not lupus," said House. "Run markers for all diseases presenting with sensitivity to light."

The team left the room.

The first thing House did when he walked into Wilson's office was take his sandwich.

"You're welcome, I brought it just for you!" Wilson said sarcastically.

"I know you did," House replied.

"Why are you here, House?" Wilson asked, looking up from his paperwork.

"Bored, why else?" House said when Cameron walked in.

"Where's Dr. Hadley?" she asked House. "I need her help."

"Your girlfriend is running tests for me," House said casually as Wilson's jaw dropped.

Cameron stuttered. "She-she's not my girlfriend," she said nervously.

"I honestly don't care if she is or not," House said as Wilson sat silently. "But you're around a lot more often lately, you always stand near her, and you called her Dr. Hadley. A few months ago you were calling her Thirteen."

Cameron laughed, saying, "Damn, you're perceptive!" before closing the door and heading off to the lab.

"House, what the hell?" Wilson asked, dumbstruck. "How'd you get her to admit that?"

House stood gingerly and headed toward the door. "It's peer pressure, my dear Wilson," he said before exiting the room.

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"Heard you got Dr. Cameron to admit she's dating Dr. Hadley," Cuddy said as she walked out of the hospital with House later that day.

House laughed. "Wilson." He shook his head.

"How?" She took House's hand as they entered the parking lot.

"I just used my perceptive powers," House said, wiggling his eyebrows. "Wasn't that hard."

"That's pretty smart," Cuddy said as the pair reached her car. She turned to him. "My place?" she asked, hugging him tight to her.

"I'll be over soon," House answered, kissing Cuddy's forehead before walking over to his motorcycle. As he was climbing onto the machine, Cuddy drove up and rolled her window down.

"Yes?" he asked her.

"Bring clothes." Smiling suggestively, she drove off. House smiled and started up his motorcycle.

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"Wake up!" Cuddy said, hitting a snoring House in the head with a pillow.

House groaned. "What, woman?" he said, rolling over onto his stomach.

"We're going to be late for work!" Cuddy said, pulling her skirt up.

House gripped her skirt. "Late for what?"

"Work, House," Cuddy said hurriedly. "Let go of my skirt."

"I don't really want to go to work," House said plainly. "Let's stay here, give Marina the day off." He tugged her down on the bed.

"I don't want to stay home," Cuddy said, attempting to stand.

"Yes, you do," House said. "Don't lie."

"House, let me go."

House kissed Cuddy. "Do you want to leave now?"

"Um…" Cuddy laughed.

"Hmm? Hmm?" House said, suddenly excited. "Let's stay home!"

"But you have a case…."

"The team'll take care of it," House said.

"Well…" Cuddy said. "I guess it can't hurt…."

"Yes!" House said. "You can't resist me!"

"Yes I can, House," Cuddy replied smugly.

House kissed her softly. She couldn't resist.

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"Where's House?" Foreman asked as he looked around. Chase, Taub, Thirteen, even Cameron, they were all there. There was no House. Foreman looked at his watch—12:23 PM. He should be here, Foreman thought.

"No idea," Chase said, not really paying attention. The team had found out what was wrong with their patient the night before.

"Maybe he's with Cuddy," Taub said. "She didn't come in today."

Thirteen and Cameron were deep in conversation, and didn't hear what Foreman had said.

"I'm going to call," Foreman stated to no one in particular.

"Don't," Taub said. "It's not like we have a case or anything. He'll just raise hell when he gets back. Don't risk it."

Foreman hesitated before deciding to instead finish some paperwork.

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"No one's called today," Cuddy noticed as she came back into the room. She'd left to feed Rachel.

"I figured they might not," House said, looking at the clock. 2:30 PM. "They're pretty predictable.

"How so?" Cuddy asked, climbing into the bed next to him. "Tell me what they're doing."

"Well," House said, stroking Cuddy's hair softly with his calloused hands. "Foreman wondered where I was. Chase said something short, but he wasn't paying attention because he was texting his latest fling. Cameron and Thirteen are together. Again. Foreman got no response from them. Taub didn't want me to chew the group out for calling me when I'm not there, after he suggested that I was with you. He told Foreman not to call."

"Foreman listened to Taub?" Cuddy said incredulously.

"Yup. They're a lot alike, they listen to each other."

"Hmm. Good to know."

"Mhm," House said, sounding tired.

"What's up?" Cuddy said, reaching up to touch House's face.

"You wear me out, woman!" House said laughing. "You're insatiable."

"Am I now?" Cuddy said. "You love it, you know it."

"I can't lie, now can I?" House said.

"Nope," Cuddy answered. "Because I know when you are."

"Oh really?"

"Of course. I know you."

"I slept with Wilson's mom. And sister."

"Wilson's mother is dead and he doesn't have a sister," Cuddy responded matter-of-factly.

"Oh, you're good," House said. "But that was a stupid lie. I've got much more that are harder to see through."

"Oh really?" Cuddy said. "Well, I learned from the best." She smiled.

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Foreman, Taub, Chase, Thirteen, and Cameron turned their heads to the door, hearing the song "Lovely Day" wafting down the hall and recognizing their boss's voice.

"Case?" House said, throwing his bag into his office.

"Nope," Chase replied, on his phone.

"Bye."

House walked down the hallway and into Wilson's office.

"Yes?" Wilson said without raising his head.

"Nothing," House said, plopping down on the couch against the wall, minding his leg.

"Then why are you here?"

"No reason," House said. "I don't have a case. Thought I'd visit."

"What do you need, House?" Wilson pressed. "I don't have the time. There's a board meeting in a half an hour that I need to be ready for."

"Nothing," House repeated. "I'll go. Bye, pansy." House walked out of Wilson's office and towards the elevators.

Taking some flowers from the nurses' station, House entered Cuddy's office to find her in a state similar to Wilson's.

"Hey," he said, sitting on her couch. He put the flowers in a vase on the coffee table.

"What do you need?" Cuddy asked, organizing papers on her desk.

"I'm bored," House said. "I brought you flowers."

Cuddy peered over at the flowers and at House. "Thank you for the flowers from the nurses' station, House," she answered, giving him a peck on the cheek.

House laughed. "How'd you know?"

"Because I know you," she said, sitting next to him. "And I see them everyday when I go to my office."

"Damn, should've figured that," House replied.

"Yup. So what do you need again?"

"Nothing. I'm just bored."

"Don't you have a case?" Cuddy asked.

"Apparently they solved it while we took the day off," House replied.

"Which we shouldn't have done, by the way," Cuddy said. "I'm so unprepared for this meeting today." She rested her head on House's shoulder.

House looked down at her. "If you're so unprepared, why are you sitting here laying on me?"

"You're comfortable," Cuddy said. "And I'm just going to wing it."

"So you enjoyed the day off?" House asked. "Conceded to my amazing powers of persuasion?"

"Of course."

"Well, we'll have to do it more often then!" House said, taking his girlfriend's hands. "How about once a week?"

"Nope," Cuddy said. "Once a month."

"That's still a lot of time for us to spend together," House said happily.

Cuddy smiled, excited to know that House planned on sticking around for some time.

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"House, where were you?" Foreman asked when House returned.

"Well, I visited Wilson, Cuddy," House said. "And then I went out for a bit."

"Yesterday, House," Foreman pressed. "Where were you yesterday?"

"In a place," House said shortly. He turned to Chase. "Go home."

"What?" Chase said, finally looking up from his phone.

"Nothing, I needed your attention," House replied. "Figured it'd shock you if I told you that you could go home."

"Thanks," Chase said, slumping.

House already had Taub's attention. He turned to Thirteen, who was busy talking on the phone.

House walked over and grabbed her phone. "Your girlfriend will be by to see you later. Bye," he said to Cameron, pressing the end button.

"Thanks, House," Thirteen said sarcastically. "I actually didn't feel like being on the phone or anything."

"Well then, I saved you from a boring conversation!" House said. "I need a case."

"There are no cases, House," Chase said.

"Go find me one," House replied. "I don't care how easy it is. Go!"

His team walked out of the room and he walked into his office. Sitting in his chair and lifting his legs to the top, he fell asleep.

About an hour later, he heard someone calling his name. Opening his eyes slowly, House smiled at what he saw.

"Hi, Cuddy!" House said happily. He pulled her over to him and sat her gingerly on his lap.

"Where's your team?" Cuddy asked, leaning tiredly against her beau. "I figured I might see them."

"They're working on cases," House explained. "I think I scared them into not bothering me."

"That's something you do quite well," Cuddy agreed, a smile in her voice.

"It's my job," House said. "I have to do it well."

"Of course you do."

They sat silently for several minutes. Then the door opened suddenly and House's team walked in. Cuddy jumped up, quickly turning red.

"Don't worry about it, we've known since it started," Thirteen said. "House, we found a case."

"Cool," House said. When he noticed Cuddy looking at him, he said, "Wasn't me!"

"You two have been taking off the same days and you go to her office a bit more now, House," Taub said. "It's kind of obvious."

Cuddy nodded slightly. "I'll leave you guys to this, then," she said, leaving the room silently.

"What's the case?" House said apathetically.

xxx

House didn't go home that night, the case was too intensive. On her way out, Cuddy brought him some dinner. She gave him a kiss, said, "Goodnight," and went home for the night.

It was 7 AM before House decided to go home. Extremely sleep deprived, he decided to take the shortest distance and drove to Cuddy's.

Cuddy, clad in a robe and a towel on her head, answered the door. "House, what are you doing here?" she wondered.

"Didn't want to risk driving home," House responded. "I need sleep."

"You taking the day off?" Cuddy asked as they walked back to her bedroom.

"No," House said, shrugging off his coat and falling into the bed. "I'll be in around noon."

Cuddy took off House's sneakers. "Okay," she said. "Morning, House."

"Love you, Cuddy," he responded, half-asleep.

"Love you, too, House," Cuddy answered. She got dressed and headed off to work, letting Marina know that House was welcome.

xxx

"You're late," Chase said the next day as House walked into the conference room.

"And Foreman's an ass," House said. "Are we done stating the obvious?" Foreman looked at House dubiously.

"We have a case," Thirteen said, handing House the file.

"Oh my, you're actually here today!" House said sarcastically. "I'm so excited!"

"House, shut up for once and just read the file," Thirteen said.

"Oh, someone's tense!" House teased. "What happened, did you and Cameron have a fight?"

The team looked at Thirteen in shock, which prompted her to say, "I'm not dating Cameron!"

"Sure would explain why she's here so much," Taub said quietly.

"And why she only talks to you," Chase said, a hint of jealousy in his voice.

"I'm not dating Cameron!" Thirteen reiterated angrily. "God, leave it alone."

The men just stared.

"Can we get back to the case, please?" Thirteen said, taking a seat at the table. The others followed suit. She continued. "The patient's a 25-year-old male, pain in the head, neck, and arms, hair is falling out but no presence of radiation, chills but his temp is normal…."

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"House!" Cameron said as she spied him heading to the clinic and Cuddy's office. She sped up as he tried to limp away. Touching his arm, she repeated. "House, hey!"

"Oh, hi, Cameron," House said. "I didn't see you there." He desperately looked for an escape, failing to find one.

"Come here!" she said angrily, pulling him hastily into an empty patient room.

"What the hell?" House asked her. "What do you want?"

"Can you not out me until I've told everyone else?" she said curtly. "I'd rather not have everyone know right now. Stop being an ass!" With that, she walked out of the room.

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A/N:

So, how'd you all like it (if you even read it xD)? I personally don't like my style of writing, but I guess it's up to the person reading it. I promise there'll be much more, but I don't know how fast I'll update. Hopefully soon. But anyway, keep reading if you liked it. Be honest if you review, and give me tips! I can always implement something to make this story better :) I love you all 3