***
"House! Your department is funded to have three fellows. You already interviewed nine fully-qualified candidates, just pick two more and be done with this process," Cuddy yells.
"Cud…dy! I have Chase and we're doing fine. I don't need to babysit two more fellows."
"One case a month is not fine. At least when you didn't have a fellow, you had a handful of consults a week."
"Well, your boy arranged those for me. What do you want me to do lure him out of med school?"
"Of course not. Ask Dr. Chase to actively look for cases, not just work on the onesI shove by your door."
"Can't."
"Can't or won't? Don't give me the excuse that Dr. Chase can't do it because you and I know that's a lie. "
"The cases he finds are boring."
"Then at least reply to your consult requests. I'm getting complaints from other doctors that you haven't been responding to their mails."
"Again, blame your son. I told him not to answer those damn mails. Now, these idiots have unrealistic expectations of me."
"Why can't they expect the same level of service? You now have a very qualified fellow on your staff."
"You want me to trust that idiot Chase to answer my mails?"
Already tired of arguing, "House, hire two more fellows and make sure you can trust one of them to answer your mails. Or else…"
"Or else what?" House raises his eyebrow and reminds Cuddy "we do not bring work home."
"I was just going to say …or else, do your own job! Why can't you answer your own page; read your own mail; and do your own paperwork like the rest of us?"
Wilson is by the nurse station waiting for House to come out of Cuddy's office. He asks Nurse Brenda "how long have those two been at it?"
Brenda replies "the screaming? About half-hour. I really don't know why she puts up with him at work and at home."
Wilson smirks and replies "arguing is their version of foreplay."
A younger nurse who is standing nearby interjects; "I heard Dr. House is very well-endowed and great in the sack- that's why she puts up with him." Brenda almost snaps her own neck to give the young nurse a dagger look. The young nurse immediately scurries away, while Wilson can't stop sniggering. He thinks to himself "I bet House spread that rumor himself."
Back in Cuddy's office, House is about to yell back at Cuddy when he sees her wince and starts rubbing her belly.
"Lise, what's wrong?"
"I think the babies are playing soccer. They've been kicking none stop since you got in my office."
House places a hand on Cuddy's tummy and feels a twitch. He then puts the other hand and feels a faint flutter on the upper part of her belly. Meanwhile, he sees something move at Cuddy's mid-section as if somebody is poking at it. This is the first time he has ever felt and seen the twins move and he can't help but be in awed.
Cuddy even catchesa glimpse of a smile on House's face.
All of a sudden, House declares "I need to see them now!"
Cuddy quickly reacts "What? Greg, you can't just run a sonogram on me whenever you feel like it."
"Why not? They're playing soccer on a limited playing field. I want to make sure that they're all right."
Cuddy immediately realizes that House is probably just excited to see the babies move. She initially felt the babies move when she was about 16 weeks, but couldn't share the experience with House until now. She gives in and says "I'll agree just this one time. Don't get any idea that you'll have unlimited access to my uterus."
House smiles and states "Ok, meet me in the room next to the coma guy."
Cuddy asks House if the room is available and if there's even a sonogram machine in it.
House simply nods and gives her a smug smirk.
***
As House is leaving Cuddy's office, Wilson grabs him for a quick consult.
"No can do buddy. I got places to go, people to meet."
"House, it'll only take fifteen minutes of your time."
House looks over at Cuddy and she gives him a nod informing him to stay and she'll wait.
Cuddy passes the two doctors on the way to the elevator. Even though she's now 20 weeks pregnant with twins, House still can't help but check out Cuddy's ass as she walks by.
House follows Wilson in the exam room and blurts out "I felt the twins move for the first time just a few minutes ago."
"Wow! What did you feel?"
"I felt a faint twitch and a flutter. Lise said they've been kicking the whole time I was in her office."
"Maybe the babies now recognize your voices and get excitedwhenever you two bicker."
"Yeah? It's so real. I mean being able to touch the babies not just see them on the sonogram. It's…it's awesome."
Wilson smiles at the realization that House has called them babies, not spawns or fetuses.
Cuddy takes a peek at the room next to the coma guy and notices that it's equipped with an ultrasound machine as House promised. She makes a mental note to herself to check if anyone has reported a missing sonogram somewhere else in the hospital.
Before long, House limps in to the room and locks the door behind him.
"You got Wilson all squared away?"
House nods and instructs Cuddy "come on take your clothes off and hop in the bed for me." He stops for a second and grins "Ok, that sounded way hotter than it supposes to be."
Cuddy smiles at House's remark, takes her maternity pants off andlays on the bed as instructed.
House lifts her shirt up a bit and gently places the gel on her belly. He turns on the sonogram machine and fiddles with the transducer.
Cuddy feels the babies moving again and says "I think the babies now recognizes our voicesand tend to go crazy when you're around."
House smiles and replies "Yeah, Wilson just said the same exact thing."
Cuddyis about to quiz him as to when Wilson made the statement when House shushes her.
House has spotted the babies. One of the baby is up top in the breech position, while the other is transverse laying sideways.
The top baby is definitely getting acquainted with Cuddy's ribs and is kicking like crazy. The bottom one has more restrained legs but very active hands. Both Greg and Lisa begin laughing when the bottom baby starts waving at them. House nicknames the twins the Beckhams—the top one for its kicking skills & the bottom one for mugging at the sonogram.
"I'll be darned! Do you see that, Lise?"
"What Greg?"
House points at something on the screen and says "hmm…I guess, you'll have to put up with a House full of boys."
