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Chapter One- The Morning After

Lisa Cuddy rolled over onto something. No, someone. Cuddy looked up to find her employee, Greg House lying next to her naked. Cuddy screamed and fell out of the bed. House stirred at the sound of Cuddy's shriek. House opened one eye and looked at the clock. Cuddy stood up and brought a hand to her pounding forehead.

"Jesus Christ Cuddy its 6:30 in the morning, where did you learn to scream like that? Girls Gone Wild?" House asked. Cuddy's eyes bulged out of her head.

"Six thirty? I'm naked and its six thirty in the morning we slept together." Cuddy inferred. House looked at her suspiciously.

"Is it my turn to state the obvious now?" Cuddy glared at him, turned and walked out of the bedroom heading towards the bathroom of House's apartment. House chuckled to himself as he heard Cuddy empty her stomach contents. "Hangovers are a bitch aren't they Cuddles?" House yelled from the bedroom.

"Shut up!" Cuddy yelled back as she was splashing her face with water. How the hell did I end up in House's bed last night? Cuddy asked herself.

"You are going to that oncology benefit!" Cuddy yelled at House in her office.

"In case you got confused Cuddy, I'm the diagnostician, my bff Jimmy is the oncologist."

"You wanted your own department, all department heads have to attend hospital functions. If you actually set foot in a board meeting you would know that." House shrugged and Cuddy signed, but suddenly had an epiphany.

"There will be an open bar." House smirked. Yes! Cuddy internally cheered. He's going; I thought we would have to negotiate clinic hours.

"Sweet! House opened the door to leave and shouted. "Oh! And Cuddy make sure you bring your edible underwear to the oncology benefit tonight!" All of the nurses outside of Cuddy's office immediately zoned in on her. Cuddy buried her head in her hands and sighed dramatically.

At seven o' clock House arrived at Princeton Plainsboro true to his word. House immediately scanned the room looking for Cuddy and when he saw her, his mouth dropped. Wearing a royal blue dress with a v neck to accentuate her "twins" as House calls them, with her ebony hair loosely curled Cuddy looked stunning. After making a pit stop at the bar, House limped over to interrupt Cuddy's conversation with a donor.

"Cuddy, you happy I showed up?" Without waiting for an answer from Cuddy, House answered for her, "Good I'm going home." House was about to walk away when all of the sudden a slow song started playing.

"Care to dance?" The donor asked Cuddy. Cuddy nodded. Jealousy reared its ugly head inside of House as he grabbed Cuddy and limped as fast as he could onto the opposite side of the dance floor.

"Hey! What was that for?" Cuddy yelled.

"I was protecting you." House mumbled. Cuddy's face contorted into the hyena look.

"Oh yeah, from what, a big scary donor is going to eat me?" Cuddy sarcastically commented.

"He was never really interested in dancing with you; he just wanted to see how far he could reel you along." House said referring to the donor. Cuddy smiled, this was House weird twisted way of asking to dance with her. So, Cuddy pushed her limits and snuggled closer to House. Surprisingly, House didn't pull away. When the song ended, Cuddy lingered, still clinging onto House's chest. House went bold, and kissed the top of her head. Shocked, Cuddy immediately pulled away.

"What was that for?" House shrugged.

"Just a way of saying thanks for dancing with me." House said, avoiding eye contact with Cuddy. Cuddy nodded and chastely kissed him on the lips. House started to pull away, but instead found himself mesmerized and sunk deeper into the kiss. Pulling away from lack of oxygen each of them looked at each other unsure of what to do.

"I'm sorry I…" Cuddy got interrupted by House's lips crashing onto hers. After making out for five minutes House pulled back and brought his lips up to her ear.

"My place?" Cuddy nodded and ten minutes later they arrived at House's apartment. House barely opened the door when Cuddy jumped him. They each shrugged off each other's clothes on the floor while their tongues dueled on the way to the bedroom.

So it all started with a dance. Cuddy mused. House banged on the bathroom door with his cane, scaring Cuddy.

"Hey Cuddy do you want breakfast?" House said through the door. Cuddy opened it, and nodded. After eating her bagel and drinking her coffee, Cuddy said goodbye to House heading off to work.

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