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Let me tell you about a conversation he had I had a while back. I jokingly suggested that I may have already put the moves on you, and you should have seen the look on his face. It was anger, pure anger. As in 'How could you do that? She's mine,' kind of anger. That's when I told him he was in trouble, and I still think that."
"Are you saying you think House…likes me? He told me that everyone likes me but him."
"Isn't his favorite expression, 'Everybody lies?'"
"I see your point."
After talking with Wilson, Cameron headed off to find her boss and source of her problems. She found him coming out of Cuddy's office looking particularly pleased with himself, which led her to wonder just what trouble he had caused for the Dean of Medicine.
"House! We need to talk!"
"We talked earlier, remember? When I told you that you have overnight duty. Or do you have amnesia? Should I send you down to the clinic? I think Chase is down there right now covering my hours, I am sure he'd love to give you a physical."
"Sit it and shut it," Cameron commanded.
Slightly taken aback House did as he was told.
"I want to know why you gave me overnight duty. And not some bull about how me having a life outside the hospital is bad for the team. We both know that's crap. You have an ulterior motive. You always do. Nothing with you can be taken at face value. You manipulate everyone to get the results you want."
"Okay, how about I am worried about your heart getting broken?"
"I don't think so. Try again."
"Why do I think there is an answer you are looking for? Have you been talking to Wilson? Don't tell me he broke the guy's code again!"
"Guy's code?"
"Yeah, bro's before ho's."
"Your romanticism never ceases to amaze me."
"But you keep coming back for more."
"Yeah, I am a sucker for punishment. But you are avoiding the question at hand. Why did you assign me overnight duty? The truth."
"Okay fine. I don't want you to go on dates."
"Why the hell not? You have made it perfectly clear there is no possibility of any relationship besides the one of mentor/mentee, which describes it at best, so what business is it of yours who and if I date?"
"Well, I certainly can't have one of my doctors coming in to work with a hicky, now can I?"
"House, I am almost 30, not 16, besides, I am capable of using foundation and wearing turtlenecks when necessary."
That comment caught House off guard and it took a minute for his brain to process what he had just heard coming out of his usually sweet and proper fellow's mouth.
"Besides, that is still a lousy reason for you not to want me to date."
"You have been talking to Wilson, haven't you?"
"So what if I have? If you haven't said anything incriminating why would it matter?"
"Fine, I don't want you to date."
"We have established that. What I want is for you to tell me why."
"You already know the reason, you talked to Wilson."
"So you are the jealous type. Now the question is, do you want me, or do you just not want anyone else to have me?"
"I wish I could tell you."
"What, are you trying to tell me you don't know whether you want me or not?"
"God yes I want you Cameron, every straight guy who meets you does, but I need to figure out whether it is lust, like, or something else."
Cameron knew what the something else was implicitly. She also knew House well enough to know that that certain four letter word was not spoken from his mouth on a regular basis.
House meanwhile had grown quiet. He couldn't believe he had almost spoken the unspokenable word. For him it was a worse word than any curse word could be. Cameron was really getting to him.