Disclaimer: I own nothing, FOX owns it all. I just want to play with them for a bit.

House swung Cuddy's office door open with his cane and walked in. His exuberant entrance and the slam of the door against her office wall made Cuddy jump and snap back into the present reality. Feeling a bit embarrassed about being caught daydreaming, especially by the very person who was the subject of her musing, Cuddy quickly sat up in her chair, straightened her blouse, and began shuffling through the papers on her desk.

Cuddy quickly responded to his brash entrance, all the while keeping her head down and her eyes averted, pretending to be completely involved in her work.

"Ever heard of knocking House? I know it would be considered a very adult thing to do when entering into another's office, but hey, I should know better than to expect age appropriate behavior from you. "

House took a few steps in and stopped. Tilting his head slightly right, he narrowed his eyes and quietly studied her body language, ignoring her trivial dialogue; an obvious attempt to hide whatever she was thinking about before he came in.

After a few moments of silence, Cuddy realized that House knew something was different and decided to make another attempt at throwing him off. She cleared her throat, raised her head and attempted to address him with her usual Cuddy humor.

"What is it House? I am very busy and I have neither the time nor the desire to engage in our usual banter. So, if you'll excuse me.."

House cut her off mid sentence. "I beg to differ."

He made his way to a chair in front of Cuddy's desk and sat down, making sure her annoyance with him was present.

"Excuse me?" Cuddy responded with surprise as House ignored her current busy state.

"No, excuse me. I seem that have interrupted at very tender moment a few seconds ago. What Cuddy? Can't wait 'til your lunch break to have a sex fantasy like the rest of us?"

House commented as he began grabbing papers off Cuddy's desk and reading them.

Cuddy stammered a bit before finding the right words. "I wasn't having a sex fantasy you retard. And give me those back!" She quickly leaned over her desk, smacked House's hands and retrieved the papers.

"Ouch." House rubbed them as if she had really hurt him while giving her an "I'm sorry mommy" look.

Cuddy let out a tired sigh as she looked at the Man child in front of her.

"You ever heard of being lost in thought? You know about work or family. I am head of a hospital and that can be very time and thought consuming."

House quickly responded. "Nope, not with the smile you had on your face."

Cuddy became unsettled. "Oh no", she thought, "He saw me."

She hept her calm, she sisn't want him to see her sweat. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Cuddy straightened herself in her chair and began to go through her paper work again, trying to ignore House.

"Well then, let me see if I can educate you. Shouldn't be hard, me being the brilliant diagnostician that I am and you being a simple minded administrator."

"House." Cuddy's tone showed annoyance as she kept her head down pretending to be concentrating on her work.

House continued. "See the only other time I've seen a smile like that was, well on me when I'm thinking of you in the shower, or late at night…"

Cuddy looked up during his rant in disbelief.

"Oh my God." Her look was that of disgust and amazement that he was saying such a thing.

"Please let me finish, I was just merely giving you an example of myself. No, the last time I saw that look on your face was when we were in college…when we briefly dated."

"You didn't know me back then House, just like now." Her words were solid.

House sat up straight in his chair and looked her in the eyes.

"See, you, and when I say you I mean women who haven't had a date or sex or real companionship in years, only get that school girl grin when thinking of someone of the opposite sex. When you're smitten with soemone. So the question is, who is occupying your thoughts?" House was so intrigued and watched her face carefully, hoping to see some sort of reaction.

Cuddy looked up and responded responded coolly, "Wrong again."

"You mean you were thinking of a ...woman, not a man? Cool! Please feel free to unburden yourself, go over every detail. I'm here to help. Wait let me just close my eyes so I can get a visual."

"Goodbye House." Cuddy rolled her eyes returned her attention to her work.

House quickly opened his eyes and looked at Cuddy.

"Oh come on Cuddy, don't be a tease."

"Goodbye House." Her tone a little louder and a little more firm.

"Alright." House knowing that he had reached her limit of his annoying questions, at least for the morning, decided to head to his office.

"But I'll be back. Remember to think happy thoughts Cuddy."

And with that he stood up and left her office.

When out of view, Cuddy stopped pretending to work and covered her face with her hands.

She let out a deep sigh and wondered how she was going to distract House from investigating her….

This was definitely going to be an interesting day.