It was another day in the PPTH and people weren't talking about anything else than House and Cuddy. But it was a good thing. Nurses finally had something to talk about and, as always, gossips about the ones with power were the best.
And gossiping always makes people separate in two different groups. There were those who thought that Cuddy had finally made the right thing by breaking up with House. Those were the people who hated him. But there were those who thought that Cuddy had made a mistake. Those who knew something about their relationship. Like Wilson...
House was just coming to work and luckily, he didn't run into Cuddy, because if they had to be together, they'd have to pretend that they hate each other. But he wasn't that lucky and on the way to the elevator, he ran into Wilson.
"Hi, do you know what the whole hospital is talking about?" Wilson was trying to talk about Cuddy as he walked into the elevator with House.
"I'm guessing about the new nurse? Did you see those huge-" House deflected.
"No, they're talking about you and Cuddy..." He interrupted him.
"And do you wanna talk about that nurse?"
"Not particularly, but I'd like to talk about Cuddy if you don't mind..."
"I do mind...But I'm still open to a conversation about Cuddy's boobs. I've got lots of things to add, like photos..."
"What the hell happened?" Wilson was almost yelling when he was following House to his office.
"We had a fight, we broke up, the end..."
"I saw you two together, you can't tell me that everything is okay!"
"Why are you so upset? She wasn't going out with you..."
"I just want you to be happy. And I can't believe that you screwed up such a great chance for a normal, happy life...
What did you even do that she got so angry?"
"This is not of your business!" House yelled at him, pretending he was mad. He threw his bag on the chair and he stormed out of his office. Wilson couldn't believe that this was happening. They were such a great couple. What the hell happened?
But Wilson didn't know anything about what was going on. He didn't know that House and Cuddy had made a scene just to make everybody else think that they had broken up, just because they were bored with being ordinary people.
House hadn't seen Cuddy since he went to sleep. He was glad that he could see her again, when he met her at the clinic.
The only think that bugged him was that every time since their fake fight, she wouldn't look at him in public. It was hard to tell her that he was somewhere waiting for her. So they handled by charts. She always came to his office, handed him a chart and inside was a blank paper for what they had to say to each other. Anyway when he saw her, he didn't say anything and he just watched her. Her hands constantly writing something, her smile that appeared at work so rarely, her lips that were so seductive, that he couldn't wait to kiss her again, her body he knew so perfectly, that when he looked, he could remember how it feels to touch every inch of it...Stop dreaming you idiot and tell her you wanna see her in private!
Luckily, she spotted how he stared a long time ago, so when he returned to his office, she was already on her way to 'set up their meeting'...
While House was dreaming, his team was in their office and they were talking about him and Cuddy...
"This sucks...I mean for him...and for her. Did you see how pissed she looked? She's like that every day, I'm kind of scared
that something is going to happen. Like that she'll cut the whole department. She looks like a harpy these days..." Chase was being pessimistic.
"I'm sure she'll be fine. Look at House, he's been in a good mood since they broke up...Yeah and since we're on that...Chase, you forgot to pay up the other day. I figured it was just because of the shock but now I'd really like those— How much was it? 500 dollars? No, that can't be right...Oh, yeah, it was 1000..." Foreman didn't really feel for House and Cuddy...
"You bet Foreman for ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS?" Thirteen and Taub couldn't believe...
"They seemed so good together, I just believed in them...And I'm not paying. We bet a year ago, it doesn't count..." Chase defended himself.
"It counts 'till they break up. Come on..."
"I don't have 1000 dollars on me just like that..."
"The ATM in the lobby is working again..." Thirteen suggested.
"Why? I mean...Why?" Chase couldn't believe how quickly she sold him...
Their conversation ended as House walked in...
"Anything new with our patient?" He asked.
"We diagnosed our patient an hour ago." Chase answered blankly.
"Oh, great, now I don't have to do anything..."
"The hell you don't..." It was Cuddy standing in front of him with her bossy look and a chart indicating that he really did have something (or someone) to do...
She handed him the chart. "That patient is really annoying. Probably because you let him wait for three hours after you told him that he needed a heart surgery right away, otherwise his head will explode. Stop jerking patients around. He could sue us..."
While she was talking, House was reading what she wrote...
I saw you staring at me at the clinic...I love this shirt...It makes you look super hot...Meet me on the roof in ten minutes XD
I love you
And he replied...
Can't wait...and I hope you're wearing those red thongs...Those make you look super hot...I love you too
The team was staring at him, because it was really long time ago since they had seen him writing something into a patient's chart.
"This patient has another symptom that he forgot to mention. He's also a big baby...And a hypochondriac-"
"And a board member so you have to treat him..." She said with her bossy voice that turned on House so much...
"Or what?" He said provocatively.
"Or I'll make this place for you a living hell..." She said and walked out of the office. The team was, as always, staring at House. For some reason, they thought he would explain what had really happened.
2 minutes passed and they finally realized that there's not going to be any explanation. Unless they ask...
"What happened between you two?" Chase asked.
"Does it interest you?" House said and went to his office without expecting a response.
"Actually, it does..." Thirteen said.
"So what?" He answered and closed the door to his office.
10 minutes...I can't wait anymore...Screw it, I'm going. At least I'll be the first one there...He walked out of his office and he went to the roof. While he was waiting for her, he thought about this 'magical' place. The last time he had been here was when Stacy came back. But he didn't love this place, because it was the place where he went when he was with Stacy. He loved it because the view was great and every time he was here, he felt this beautiful peace that nobody could ruin. Except the one and only person – Wilson...
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Wilson asked when he was on the roof with House.
"I'm taking a break. The real question is - what are you doing here?"
"I just followed you here to talk to you about Cuddy...See, nothing special, nothing new..."
"Oh now I get it! And I wanted to tell you something but I just don't remember...Oh yeah, I know, it was – GET OUT. I don't wanna talk about Cuddy. Not now, not ever and certainly not with you..." He snapped at him to avoid a conversation where he'd probably tell him the truth.
"I get it, you're upset, but you'd feel a lot better if you'd talk about it." Wilson was trying to convince him to tell him, because he was just dying to know...
"There's nothing to talk about so just go..."
"Okay, but if need to talk about it, I'm here..." Wilson said and he went back downstairs. But on the way he ran into Cuddy who just wanted to go upstairs to meet with House. Unfortunately she ran into the only person she wished she hadn't.
"Hi, where are you going?" Wilson asked curiously.
"I'm just going on the roof..."
"Why?"
She didn't know how to answer this so she told him the first thing that came to her mind when she met an oncologist.
She leaned a little closer to him and she whispered.
"I'm just going to grab a smoke..."
"You? Because of the break up?"
"It's been everything so hard on me lately, that I just can't handle it without any 'help'."
"You know you shouldn't..."
"I know and I'll quit as soon as I'm out of the post-break up depression...don't worry, I'll be fine." She assured him.
"If you're going to smoke, where are your cigarettes? And a lighter?" He asked suspiciously.
"I keep it all on the roof. I don't want the hospital talking about what a big hypocrite I am." She made up another ridiculous lie.
"Okay..." Wilson didn't believe her. He could believe that they broke up, but no way Cuddy's going on the roof to smoke without cigarettes and a lighter the exact time House is there. Something was going on and Wilson has to find out...
