A/N: I got my first speeding ticket last night! 68 in a 55 zone, needless to say, my parents are pissed. I don't know how frequent my updates are going to be after they get finished with me. Whatever, fuck them.
"How was she?" Cuddy asked, tucking away a stray curl on Zoe's face back behind her ear.
"Passed out twenty minutes after you left, I'd say she's down for the night. I would ask how the meeting went, but I don't really care." House said.
"It was boring, thanks for asking." Cuddy said, carefully putting Zoe's jacket on her sleeping form.
"I'm sure I'll hear all about it from Wilson, they're the highlight of his weeks." House said.
"Well thanks for watching her." Cuddy said, gathering Zoe up into her arms to carry her out to her car.
"I'll walk you out." House said, opening the door.
"Thanks." Cuddy said, readjusting Zoe on her hip as he opened the main door to the side walk.
Cuddy opened the back car door skillfully while balancing her sleeping four-year-old on her side and strapped Zoe in her car seat carefully. House watched, a bit in a daze, he knew that Cuddy would make a great mother but he didn't expect her to be so natural at it. Cuddy shut the door and turned back to face House.
"You're really great at that, you know?" House asked.
"Thanks." Cuddy said gratefully.
Her soft, pink lips must have just made him lose control but they just looked so inviting. He leant forward and let his rough ones crash into hers. She didn't fight back at all, she fell back into the same rhythm they had down back in college and her hands found the familiar spot in his hair as the kiss deepened. He subconsciously pushed her into her car and held her there until he ran out of breath, his forehead resting against hers as he regained his composure.
"Why did you do that?" Cuddy asked angrily.
"I could ask you the same thing." House said.
"What did I do?" Cuddy asked, still angry.
"Why do you push me away?" House asked, now in the same tone.
"I'm doing what any sane person would do after practically being jumped on the sidewalk." Cuddy said.
"You're doing what any scared person would do." House corrected.
"I'm not scared." Cuddy said.
"Then kiss me." House challenged.
Cuddy stood on her tiptoes and let her lips barely make contact with his.
"Like an adult, we're not in Junior High." House said.
Cuddy rolled her eyes and gave him a simple "No."
"You can't, here, watch." House said, bringing his head down and trapping her into a passionate kiss.
"Why do you keep doing that?" Cuddy asked just as angrily as before.
"Because I like you." House said simply.
Cuddy raised an eyebrow.
"And you like me too, and this could go somewhere." House said slowly.
"It could?" Cuddy asked.
"You check on your nanny every thirty minutes but you have no problem dropping the spawn off here for a five-hour board meeting, in my drug and booze infested apartment, I might add." House said.
"I trust you." Cuddy said.
"And that's exactly why this is going somewhere." House said.
"And why didn't it work out in the first place?" Cuddy asked.
"Lisa..." House sighed, closing his eyes.
"Exactly." Cuddy said, turning her heel and heading to the driver's seat of her car.
House wasted no time sitting in the passenger seat before she locked her car.
"What are you doing?" Cuddy asked.
"I'm chasing you." House said.
Cuddy rolled her eyes and drove towards her house.
"Barenaked Ladies?" House asked as he inserted the CD into the player.
"What?" Cuddy asked.
"Nothing." House said, flipping around the tracks.
"What are you doing?" Cuddy repeated.
"I told you that I'm chasing you." House said.
"Why?" Cuddy asked.
"Because it's something that I should have done a long time ago, better late than never, right, boss?" House asked.
"What do you mean a long time ago?" Cuddy asked.
"I mean, I shouldn't of left." House said, letting his hand rest on her thigh.
"It was for the best." Cuddy said.
"No, it wasn't." House dismissed as he finally made eye contact with her.
As much as Cuddy wanted to acknowledge what he had just said, she couldn't. "Now that your done chasing me, you can call a cab." Cuddy said, putting the car into park. House sighed as she exited the vehicle to round the other side to unstrap Zoe from her car seat and carry the sleeping child inside. Cuddy didn't even bother closing the door, she knew that he would be following her inside. Cuddy took her time changing Zoe into her pajamas and tucking her in, knowing that House was to be waiting on her living room couch.
Indeed, House was sitting on her living room couch flipping through one of Zoe's children's books that had been on the coffee table.
"Coffee?" She asked, strolling into the living room.
"It can wait." House said, pulling her on to the sofa next to him.
"Greg!" Cuddy squeaked upon being pulled practically on his lap.
"I want this, so quit resisting so much." House said, laying a kiss on her exposed shoulder.
"What am I supposed to do? This can't be one of your mind games, it took me a while to recover from the last one and I won't let you do that to Zoe." Cuddy said seriously.
"Firstly, I wouldn't do that to Zoe. Secondly, that last one that you're referring to, was never a mind game." House said, letting the kisses trail up her neck.
"House." She warned half-heartedly
"I thought that it was Greg." House said, his hands beginning to feel Cuddy up.
"Greg!" Cuddy squealed.
"That's better." House said, laying her back on the couch before he started to fumble with her top.
"Greg, upstairs." Cuddy said, well ordered.
House grabbed her hand as she led him slowly up the stairs. They crashed onto Cuddy's bed as practically one, their kisses were so fervent. Wasting no time, House threw off her top and started to work on that ridiculously tight skirt she paraded around in. Something about Lisa Cuddy in nothing but a matching set of a bra and undies was almost as good as her being totally naked, almost. Cuddy refused to let him be in the lead, tearing off his blazer and working on the buttons of his shirt she mumbled into his mouth, "you layer more than a damn woman." House started on the undies before she stopped him.
"I think you forgot the rules." Cuddy said, smirking.
"Seriously?" House asked, remembering this routine from their sexcapades in college.
"Just three words." Cuddy said, shifting underneath him.
"I want you." House offered.
"Nope." Cuddy said, kissing his neck.
He groaned. "Alright, alright, I love you." House said.
"You mean it?" Cuddy asked, looking up at him.
"I mean it." House said, kissing her inviting lips and he knew that he was hers. For the good or the bad, it didn't matter, he gloriously belonged to Lisa Cuddy.
A/N: Bam! That just happened. Review! :]