Chase and Foreman notice and comment on Cameron's new jewelry almost instantly, and start asking the standard questions like 'how did he ask you' and 'have you set a date yet.'
House doesn't look up from the file in front of him, but says, "You can't wear that thing at work; it'll puncture a glove."
It is then that Cameron becomes aware she will definitely not be able to keep the resolution she made when Jim slipped it on her finger. But instead of forswearing it, she modifies it slightly. I will not fuck House again, once I'm married. How can she be held responsible for breaking a promise about something she can't control?
That night he pages her to an empty exam room and bends her over the table. He smirks through her first orgasm. "He only thinks you're his."
Cameron sits holding her mobile phone, in a white dress in a white room. My Wesley will come for me. She remembers when she first saw the film wondering how on earth Buttercup ended up married to Humperdinck. Ah, just like this.
As she's lead down the aisle by two pink-clad future sister-in-laws she barely knows, she scans for his face. But of course he's not there. This event is beneath his notice.
She hasn't been back from her honeymoon in Tahiti a week before she hears first the lock click on the lab door and then the cacophony of the blinds closing. And even though this is the moment she's been rehearsing for, if she could have said no she'd have said it every other time as well. He's standing silent behind her, waiting--who knows what he's thinking. He might know she's a sure thing. He might be quite sure he's about to be tossed in the hall. There's no surprise in his voice when her pants pool around spiked heels. "He only thinks you're his."