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The next few days passed without incident, apart from the celebration of Chase and Cameron's baby news, and House getting bored and trying to burn Vicodin just to see what happened.

"Stop that!" Cuddy scolded him. "You need to be careful with those House, or you'll run out," her voice softened slightly now, "and you know what happens when you don't have them"

"You raise a valid point Cuddles" said House, not mentioning his recent realisation that, with or without his pills, his leg always seemed to hurt less when she was around. He reached a hand out towards the fire in order to try and retrieve the now melting Vicodin, but Cuddy slapped it away.

"Damn it House! Do you have a death wish or something?"

"What can I say? I'm a daredevil" House shrugged. "Yesterday, I set Wilson's pants on fire"

"Yes," said Cuddy, rolling her eyes, "because he was smart enough not to leave you in charge of the flare gun Taub found"

"Uh-huh. Don't understand why he was so mad though. He wasn't wearing them"

"No, because he was having a wash!" Cried Cuddy, gesturing to the sea. At that moment, Foreman approached them.

"Hey, you two. Taub's trying to gather everyone by the plane to talk about something. Says its important."

"Well, I'm going to get straight to the point" Taub began after everyone had gathered. "We're running out of food" Everyone gasped, except for Chase and Cameron, who weren't paying attention because she was giggling as he kissed the back of her neck, prompting House to wack Chase across the shins, causing the younger man to yelp. Cameron glared at him.

"What?" he said defensively. "I can't very well go hitting you now can I? You're a girl, and you're pregnant"

"So," Taub continued, ignoring the interruption, "does anyone have any ideas?"

About an hour later, Taub, Foreman, Chase, Wilson, and Amber were preparing to go on a fruit hunting expedition. House was staying behind under the guise that he was calculating how long the food they did have left would last them, but it was really because he wanted to stay with Cuddy, who had offered to stay behind with Cameron. Chase had already become extremely overprotective, and had decided that the untamed bushland was no place for his pregnant girlfriend. Kutner and Thirteen, who had been spending quite a lot of time together on the island, were sitting a little way apart from the others, sharpening sticks in order to try their hand at spear fishing.

"Thanks for volunteering for fishing duty with me" said Thirteen.

"No problem" said Kutner. "This'll be more interesting than fruit hunting, and at least if we don't catch anything it won't be completely my fault"

"Are you trying to say that you'll blame me if you screw up?" said Thirteen, fixing her eyes on Kutner in a deadly serious glare. Kutner gulped. No girl had ever had quite the effect on him that Thirteen did. She was intimidating him and completely turning him on at the same time.

"No, uh, no way, I w-wouldnt blame you" Kutner stammered. Thirteen smirked.

"Calm down there buddy. I was only messing with you"

"Well most people laugh when they make a joke"

"I'm not that big on laughter" said Thirteen, turning her attention to checking the sharpness of her stick.

"Yeah, I can see that" Kutner paused for a second, thinking. "You know what? Everyone needs a little bit of laughter in their life. I'm going to help you, Thirteen. Somehow, I'm going to make you laugh"

"Well, good luck then" said Thirteen, sounding unconvinced. "I'm going to get changed. The sticks are sharp enough now" As she walked off towards the plane, which had come to be used as a change room, among other things, Kutner sighed to himself. How the hell was he going to make Thirteen laugh? She rarely even looked close to laughter. He thought about this until Thirteen returned, tapping him on the shoulder.

"You ready to go Kutner?" Kutner looked up, and gasped, his mouth falling open. Thirteen was standing over him, looking incredibly hot in a black bikini.

"Kutner?" she repeated, waving a hand in front of his face, "Earth to Kutner!" Kutner broke out of his trance, pulling off his shirt.

"Yeah, I'm ready" he said, blushing slightly.

"Damn it!" Kutner yelled as his stick scattered a school of fish, without killing any, for what seemed like the millionth time.

"Maybe it's time we tried a different approach" said Thirteen, who had not had any luck either. "Try focusing on an individual fish, instead of stabbing aimlessly into the school"

"Right" said Kutner. Eventually, he found another school, chose a fish, took aim, and struck. Unfortunately he missed, hit a rock, broke his stick and slipped over, landing on his butt. He cursed himself for looking like an idiot in front of Thirteen, until he looked up at her. She had a strange expression on her face, which slowly changed into a smile, before finally breaking into a fit of laughter. He'd done it. He'd made her laugh when he wasn't even trying to. Thirteen, still laughing, walked over and offered him her hand, but instead of helping him up, she slipped and landed beside him. Now they were both laughing. Holding on to eachother's hands they managed to stand half-way up, before Kutner slipped again and landed on his back, pulling Thirteen down on top of him.

"Crap" Kutner thought. "This is awkward. Just laugh it off and walk away,laugh it off and walk away". This was what Kutner wanted to do. What he actually did was say...

"You're beautiful" Thirteen stared at him for a second, and Kutner blushed furiously, having no idea what she was thinking.

"I, uh," he stammered, "I.." suddenly, he was cut off by Thirteen's lips pressing against his. His eyes widened in surprise, but he soon closed them, wrapping his arms around Thirteen's waist and relaxing into the kiss. When they finally broke apart, Kutner smiled.

"I told you I'd make you laugh" he said. Thirteen just smirked and leaned in to kiss him again.

Unbeknownst to the new couple, this entire scene had been witnessed by House, Cuddy, and Cameron.

"Told you so" House teased, sticking his tongue out at Cameron, who shook her head.

"They haven't gotten that far yet, it's only their first kiss"

"Maybe, but, look at the position they're in" said House, waggling his eyebrows suggestively, once again earning eye rolls from Cameron and Cuddy.