Tickets to a Play

Author's Note: I don't own House or any of its characters. This is my second fic, the first one being a HouseCameron. Please read and respond.

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The door closed behind him and he hobbled into her office. "Cuddy, I have tickets to a play, Saturday night." Dr. Gregory House said. He was an employee at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, as well as the head of the Diagnostics department. He had a scraggly appearance. He had unshaved stubbles on his face and had dark blue eyes. He walked with a cane. Lots of people would call him an ass.

Dr. Lisa Cuddy looked up at House, her icy blue eyes meeting his, a look of surprise on her face. Dr. Cuddy was a beautiful woman. She was an extremely kind woman, who was the Dean of Medicine at the same hospital. Her shirts were usually lower cut. House adored making comments about her breasts and rear end. "Um, sure, what's it on?" she asked, still getting over the shock of him asking her to a play.

"Recreation of Romeo and Juliet." House said. He didn't really go to plays, especially these types, but he got the tickets from a patient, and didn't feel like giving them away. Dr. Cuddy heard the name, and the surprised look came back. Her eyes still hadn't left House's.

"What time, and what day?" Dr. Cuddy asked suddenly. She began moving papers around on her desk absentmindedly, not knowing if House was trying to suck up to her for something he had done, or to get off clinic duty. She knew he avoided the clinic at all costs, and did insult the people there a lot. He just completed his case, so he probably needed a new reason.

"Tonight, 6:30." House said, sitting down in a chair in front of Cuddy's desk. "Just dress casually, it doesn't make a difference, seeing how we won't be the center of attention and all, we could go naked and nobody would care." Cuddy rolled her eyes, but couldn't help grinning.

"See you then. " Dr. Cuddy said. "By the way, you still have an hour of clinic duty left." She stood up and decided to walk to the clinic with House, to make sure he goes there and not back to his office to play his Gameboy or watch General Hospital. He could do that in an office too, but she would make sure he called a patient before she left.

They walked out together and to the clinic, where House grabbed a file and called in a patient. Satisfied, Dr. Cuddy left the clinic and walked to House's office, where his three ducklings were sitting at the differential table, doing various things. Dr. Allison Cameron was going through House's letters, Dr. Robert Chase was doing a crossword puzzle, and Dr. Foreman was drinking coffee and giving an answer to a crossword question every now and then.

Dr. Cuddy walked in the room, the door closing behind her. Dr. Cameron looked up from the letter she was reading. "Hello Dr. Cuddy, how are you?" she asked. The other two, who didn't pay attention to the door, greeted her as well.

"I am pretty good, you?" Cuddy replied, taking a seat. "What was the diagnosis of your patient?" She asked. House only asked her to do various tests, but never told her what the diagnosis was.

"There was a growth hormone deficiency." Dr. Cameron said. "Where's House?"

Dr. Cuddy grinned. "Clinic. He seemed to go voluntarily. Then again, he's House, and he already got what I wanted, I think…"

"What did he want? There's no case, so there are no tests." Dr. Foreman asked, now interested. He put his now empty coffee cup down and even Chase stopped doing his crossword puzzle.

"He asked me to go to a play, and I said yes." Dr. Cuddy said, grinning even wider. "It is Romeo and Juliet, so I was a bit shocked at first. I never even knew he went to plays."

"He asked you to a play, and you said yes?" Dr. Cameron asked, a grin spreading across her face. "I wonder what this means. I wonder what him asking you means, and what you saying yes means. You two like each other." She was now even more interested than before.

"There's no way they like each other. They bicker too much." Chase said, chuckling and crossing his arms. The crossword puzzle fell to the floor, to be abandoned there for a while.

"Love presents itself in different ways." Dr. Cameron said, gently pushing on his arm. "And, House hasn't loved anybody since Stacy, give him a break." It was her turn to chuckle.

"I don't love him!" Cuddy said, still grinning. Dr. Cameron gave Dr. Cuddy a look. Dr. Chase and Dr. Foreman stared right after her.

"Oh you do too love him!" Cameron said, now laughing and pushing on her arm. "I've known you two have liked each other way before then, but this proves it!"

'Ok, so you are right there, but I'm not saying anything. Well, it's more like a crush.' Dr. Cuddy thought to herself, chuckling.

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