Cuddy had a really busy day and being with House for a little while today made her feel a little bit better. She was really looking forward to go home and see those two people that made her life so special. She stopped at the driveway, stepped out of the car and went inside. When she opened the door she saw House and Rachel sitting on the floor right in front of the TV and talking about the cartoon 'Tom and Jerry'. Rachel loved it and every time it was on, there was no way to get her to watch something else. And to see House actually caring about her was always great, almost fascinating.

"Hi, I'm finally home..."

"Hey, we missed you...And guess what..."

"What?" Cuddy asked a little suspiciously.

"I'm taking Rachel to work tomorrow..."

"Okay...Can I talk to you for a second?" She said and he immediately got up and went to her.

"I know what you're gonna say but I had to say something to calm her down..."

"Why? What happened?" She said hysterically.

"She was complaining that we never spend time together as a family and that we never come from work sooner and I offered that I could take her to work with me..."

"Couldn't you just say that you'd take her somewhere else like the playground or anything? This is going to ruin our plan..."

"Don't worry, I've thought it through..."

"Really?" She said doubtfully. "I'm listening..."

"I haven't really thought it through...Look I'll just take her there whether they'll like it or not..."

"Oh...You're such a sacrificing father..." She forgave him and kissed him. "But, you know, this also means no sex tomorrow..."

"Damn it..." He stood there thinking of tomorrow and that no sex thing. He was kind of sad...

He didn't even notice Cuddy kissing Rachel on the cheek and cuddling with her after a long day.

"Hey, I wanna cuddle too..."

"Take a number..." She said, smiling, when she was sitting on the floor with Rachel, tickling her.

"You wouldn't believe what happened to me today. Wilson almost busted us..."

"How come?"

"He knew that the fight wasn't true. I don't know how he does that..."

"So what did you do?"

"I yelled at him and told him that I lost you and all that stuff that I would say if I did..."

"And he bought it?"

"I was so convincing..." Rachel wanted to watch Tom and Jerry again so Cuddy stopped cuddling with her, took off her coat and sat next to House on the couch.

"You're my hero...You saved our fake break up..." She said, smiled and kissed him...

The next day-

It was around 7am, Cuddy was already up and she was looking for her shoes. House was, as always, in bed still asleep.

"Hey," She leaned over and woke him up. "Have you seen my shoes?" She asked quietly. House opened his eyes and he saw right into Cuddy's cleavage. That was a nice morning...

"Wow...You gotta wake me this way every day...It's so...peaceful..."

"Stop it...Have you seen my shoes?"

"I think they were in the kitchen under the table..."

"Why would they be in the kitchen?"

"Because I put them there..."

"Why would you put them in the kitchen?" She was really annoyed...

"Because, I wanted you to bend down to me to ask me about that and I could see the ladies..."

"You sure deserve no sex...And don't forget, you're taking Rachel to work today..."

"You think I'd forget?" He said, closed his eyes, huddled under the covers and wanted to go to sleep again.

"Don't even think about sleeping...Rachel's up, I didn't call Marina today and you have to take care of her..."

"She'll eventually get tired and-" And he started to snore to annoy her even more.

"Hey, get up! I need you to function..."

"Okay..." And he finally got up and stood next to the bed.

"I'm going, kiss me..." She came into the bedroom, stood in front of him and closed her eyes.

"You sure deserve no kisses..."

"Hey, we probably won't see each other all day, come on, kiss me..."

"Okay..." And he kissed her passionately like he did on the roof..."Do you have a time for a quickie?"

"I'm already late for the board meeting...But when I come home tonight, it's gonna get wild..." She kissed him again and she almost ran to her car. House went to the bathroom and he washed his face. After he dressed to his usual clothes, he went to check on Rachel. She was up and she was playing with her doll.

"Hi, did you sleep good sweetie?"

"Yeah." She was smiling.

"You're going to work with today. Excited?"

"Yes. Am I going to meet your team?"

"My team? Yeah, of course. But you know what? Maybe we should prepare you for that..."

At work-

House went through the entrance with Rachel, holding her hand so she wouldn't get lost and he just walked through the lobby like this was happening every day. Everybody stared at him, Rachel stared at them and when they finally got to the elevator, it was a blessing. In the elevator was Rachel kind of nervous from the constant stares and she asked:

"Daddy, why are those people staring at me all the time when I'm with you?"

"Don't worry, they're staring at me. They're trying to figure out how a cripple like me can raise a kid like you..."

They walked out the elevator and went straight to his office to avoid another bunch of stares. But they can't avoid all the stares. Certainly not the ones from his team. When they walked in, House holding that tiny hand of Rachel's in his and Rachel in her pink dress, nervously smiling, the whole team was speechless.

"Hey...uhmm...people?'"

"Who are those people?" Rachel asked quietly.

"Those are my slaves. You can ask them to do whatever you want and they'll do it..."

"Really?"

"We can try it...Ken! I meant Chase, go get her some ice cream from the cafeteria..." Chase, confused, didn't move.

"Chase, I'm not kidding." Chase really got up and with a look on his face like he didn't understand, he left the room.

"You can sit in his chair if you want." Rachel somehow climbed on the chair and sat, listening to her dad.

"So do we have something even looking like a case?" House said sitting in the chair next to Rachel.

"No, we could say that we've hit kind of a dry spell..." Taub answered, while Foreman and Thirteen talked about this situation.

"Perfect...Hey gossip girls! Sorry to interrupt your meeting but could you not to talk about this?"

"No we can't...By the way, how come you get Rachel when you broke up?" Thirteen asked.

"It's like a divorce, I get to see Rachel AT LEAST once a week..."

"This is weird. Cuddy wouldn't let you-"

"Why don't you just stop asking pointless questions and go get me some case." Now the whole team didn't understand. They all got up and went to the ER to look for a case, even though they knew they weren't going to find any. House and Rachel stayed in the office.

"They listen to you like that?" She asked curiously.

"They have to. It's their job to listen to me. You know what? It's pretty boring in the outer office when we don't have a case. We'll just go to mine. I've got Pacman..."

"Yay!" Rachel screamed happily. She loved those things.

After a few minutes playing Pacman on House's computer, Rachel was a little tired, so she took a nap in his chair.

Chase came with her ice cream from the cafeteria and he didn't look confused anymore. He thinks he's figured it out. Oh, yeah. Another speech from 'a good friend'. Why do they need to know everything? Okay, I've got lots to say about that.

"I brought the ice cream. Oh, great, she's asleep." Chase said when he walked in.

"It took you too long. She couldn't wait anymore."

"Just like Cuddy used to."

"Oh, snap..."

"You didn't break up."

"Don't make me do the same thing I did with Wilson. By the way, he's not gonna come to work anymore..."

"I followed you last night. You went to Cuddy's house. And why would you do that?" Chase said with a smile of victory.

"I went to pick up a few things I left."

"You just came in and the nanny left you alone with Rachel. Cuddy came a few minutes after you. And still nothing."

"We were fighting for a while."

"Right, I haven't heard of a fighting method that includes 'cuddling' on the couch."

"You looked into the window? God, you're even worse than me. Why did you even do that?"

"Wilson came yesterday, saying something about calling off the whole thing and that he was wrong about you two...And I didn't believe it. And I wanted to make sure that he's right. I owe Foreman some money over this."

"How much?"

"1000 dollars..."

"What? Were you drunk when you were closing the bet? What did you bet over?"

"They said you'd break up right away and I said that you two would last for a loooong time. And apparently I was right."

"You believed that Cuddy and would be together even though were such an insane couple."

"I knew that after a long time alone dreaming about her, you wouldn't let her go..."

"These moments are the reason you work here. Although you really pissed me off how you found out."

"Why did you do that? You want people to think that you're not together. It doesn't make sense."

"Something happens, people get bored and they need a different thing."

"I can understand that you'd get bored. But Cuddy? This whole family thing is exactly what she always wanted..."

"Obviously she didn't..."

"And neither do you..."

"That's not really true..."

"So why were you bored?" House panicked. He didn't know the answer to this question. Why were they bored if being together was what they wanted?

This was kind of a long chapter, don't you think? I'm going away with school for a week (and I really don't want to). I won't be here until Saturday and next chapter could be here on Monday but probably later. I'm so sorry and when I get here I'll try to write something. Bye...