It's twelve o' clock and I need your attention
It's like the alcohol making my head spin
Send me the one the room is a bottle
Keeping me hopeless 'til I wake tomorrow

Chapter 1: Hopeless

Cuddy was drinking alone in her office. She was avoiding House the whole week—House's last week. She didn't want to talk to him. She didn't want to see him. She just didn't know how to say goodbye. After that kiss, she didn't WANT to say goodbye. She wished House would be hers forever. But, no. He was leaving…

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It was twelve midnight. He should be gone by now. She thought. Cuddy and her liquor decided to visit House's office. Or ex-office. Cuddy thought.

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When Cuddy got to House EX-office, all lights were turned off.

"It's so dark. I need the lights." she said to no one in particular. In fact, she was in shock when someone else talked.

"Cuddy?" as the man said that, the lights came on.

"House?! What are you doing here?" she said, trying not to stammer.

"I wanted to say my goodbyes to my office." House said with a little laugh.

"Are you drunk?"
"Me? Drunk? I'm not the one holding liquor am I?"

"You are drunk, Greg."
"Well, so are you, Lisa."

Lisa. He called me Lisa.

"I think I have the right to call you Lisa now that we don't work together, don't you think."
"Uh, yeah. Sure."

Lisa. It sounds so… different when he says it…

"Since we're already both drunk and you're in my office… or should I say soon-to-be-EX-office, let's get more drunk together !" House suggested.

He ushered Cuddy into the sofa.

"One shot?" House offered Cuddy a shot glass of vodka. Cuddy drank it right away. Then, she stared at her empty glass.

"Nice…" House said. "I didn't see you the whole week, Lisa."

There he goes with the Lisa thing again. My stomach flops when he says it…

"Busy." that was all she said.

"Busy avoiding me?"
Cuddy looked up from her glass.

"Why would I be avoiding you?"

Silence. The room was filled with silence.

"More?" House asked. Cuddy gave him her glass.

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"Remember that time when I kidnapped the star of my favorite soap opera?" House and Cuddy burst into laughter. Now they were REALLY drunk.

"Ohmygod, yeah !" Cuddy said "I almost lost my job."

"It's a good thing they only made you pay 200 bucks."
"200 thousand."

"That's what I said !"

House and Cuddy started laughing again.