"What do you want?" Isabella asked
"I want you to be my spy" House replied
"Your spy?" Isabella said confused.
"You want me to go to NY or not?"
"Of course"
"I want you to spy on Eric Foreman. I want you to give me information about his cases and his attitude"
"What?!! No way!!"
"Ok, no deal then! Goodbye!!" And House stood up from the desk and headed to the door
"Wait!" Isabella stood up and went next to him. "I'll do it, you are lucky that my department is next to his" At that, House smiled.
"Good girl! Now, here's what we do" House and Isabella headed to the desk again. "You'll have to use your feminine powers and be very nice with him. He's new in the hospital and he still does not know how everything works and does not know a lot of people. Would be nice to have someone to start socializing with"
"I think I can do that"
"Once you get to know a little bit, start asking him about his work and his cases. Maybe he may need a consult someday. Have some coffee with him and have some small talk, you know, family, weather, blah, blah, blah, so he won't believe that you are a workaholic, always talking about work" Isabella smirked at that
"Why do you wanna spy on Eric Foreman?"
"You ask too many questions. I want a weekly report on everything and if something big happens, a daily report"
"I do remember you that I'm head of Gynaecology, I do have work to do too"
"Use one of your subordinates" Isabella rolled her eyes.
"I think I could arrange something" Isabella sighed
"Foreman was one of my ducklings. He resigned because he didn't want to be me. I told him he was not ready but still he left"
"He's not ready, he's gonna crash"
"I know, I just wanna know how he crashes and how he demoralizes and realizes that I was right and he will hate me more than he already hates me. But sooner or later, he'll come back to me and I would have ammunition ready for him. I didn't like the way he challenged me, now I have to take revenge"
"Whoa, that sounds creepy"
"We have a deal or not?"
"We have a deal"
"Good, second term. There's no way that Dr. Cameron could have told you about my tastes unless she knows the person well. She's very discrete. You are close to Dr. Cameron, right?" Isabella sighed and moved her eyes to the balcony. "Come on, Isabella, we are pals now, you can tell me" House said and nudged her playfully.
"Why is she not working here anymore?"
"I'm the one who asks the questions" House said defiant
"And I'm the one who knows where Allison is!!" Isabella answered in the same tone Because that is what you want to know, right?" House broke eye contact and started to pace up and down his office.
Little did they know that someone was observing them. House kept in silence and kept pacing up and down his office trying to come out with an intelligent answer but he couldn't think of any. Suddenly, he stopped near the glass door giving his back to Isabella.