Title: Protection
Rating: M
Pairing: House & Cuddy
Words: 825
Part: 2 / ?
Genre: Romance / Drama
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Part 2 - At The Station
Cuddy was sitting in silence next to a still slightly drunk House. They had been at the station for just over an hour and were currently sitting in a small office that belonged to the head officer. Cuddy had repeated everything that they had seen and heard while House joined in occasionally with sarcastic comments and stared at the breasts of the female officer. The minute that Cuddy had mentioned the name they saw a look of excitement crossed the faces of the people in front of them. The officers finally decided to introduced themselves properly, by their first names, and then explained that the man whose name they heard was some kind of major drug dealer. After that they had excused themselves with the promise that they wouldn't be long. That was nearly 40 minutes ago.
Brian walked into the room with a small smile on his face. "Right we've arrested Crash and he's going to be charged with murder."House looked up. "Great. Can we go now? It's just that I have places to be." Cuddy went to tell House to shut up but stopped when she saw the look on Brian's face. "Why can't we leave?"
Brian looked down at his feet. "We need both you and Gregory to be witnesses at Crash's trial." "You know where I work. Let me know when I need to be in court and I'll make sure that both I and Doctor House are there."
"Unfortunately it's not that simple… Crash is one of the biggest gangsters around. He has contacts all over America, contacts that won't be very happy to discover he's inside.""So what are you saying?" Cuddy knew exactly what he was saying but hoped that she was wrong. She really really hoped that she was wrong.
"You and Gregory House are going to need to go into witness protection." Silence.
Up to this point House had been happy just to let the conversation happen around him but finally felt he needed to contribute to this conversation. "So you want us to be witnesses at a trial when it's going to get us killed? Why on earth would we do that?"Brian sat down. "Well I'd like to say because it's the right thing to do but if anything I hear about you is true then that's not going to make a difference so put it like this. You are a witness. They want to kill you. We protect you. You aren't a witness. You've seen them murder someone so they still want to kill you. We can't protect you." "They? I thought this was one guy?" Cuddy was hardly speaking above a whisper now.
"Crash is one man, but his gang… we don't know how big they've become but we suspect they have nearly a thousand members all over America." Brian was sweating slightly.
"So what you're saying is that we have no choice? You want us to just leave our jobs and our friends, and our family and disappear?" House was becoming bored of this now. There was no way that he was going to be going into witness protection and he wanted to go and have another drink.
Brian sighed. "I've looked at you two on the file. You're both good at what you do. We'll write you fake references and you'll be able to get new jobs. Possibly even together. Neither of you have a family, neither of you have any friends…" "How dare you" Cuddy was annoyed now.
"With all due respect Lisa you were out with this prat. If you had any friends other than the people you work with then you would have had better offers tonight." House and Cuddy turned around as Kate re-entered the room. Cuddy wanted to argue that it had been because of a bet but knew that it wasn't the point. If she hadn't been out with House that night then she would have been at home alone.
"For now we'll put you in temporary accommodation, we've had officers go back to your homes and pack you…""Hey I haven't actually agreed to this yet" House was getting more and more aggravated.
Cuddy looked up at House knowing how much he hated change and knowing that this must be killing him. She wanted to leave over and hug him but she knew that that wasn't what he wanted. "House we have no choice." The reality of what was happening finally started to dawn on Cuddy and tears began dripping down her pale cheeks. Kate came over to hug her.
House didn't speak.
