A/N: This is my reaction to the season 6 finale. I was going to put it in with my [admittedly] unfinished collection of stories, but it needed to stand by itself.


He looked like a child.

Blue eyes stared up at her from a dirty face, and she couldn't help but wonder what she was doing, admitting that she loved him. This could destroy everything that she had worked towards. She had ended it with Lucas, Rachel needed her more than anything, and she had a life to live. House was an ex-drug addict who had just lost a patient, who he had convinced to have an amputation against his better judgment, who had white pills gleaming pure and unblemished in the palm of his grimy hand.

But House looked like a child, and Cuddy was going to risk everything one him.