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Huddy at last guys! So so happy! I'm sorry if you all thought I died...just overly busy, as usual. This week is finals...and then no school! So I am pissed. I had a one shot I was working on and the damn thing deleted it on me...oh well. Yeah it was the drunken randomness one...oh well. It wasn't too good anyway. I'll make a nurse Jeffrey one or something really random...idk. Speaking of which, Nurse Jeffrey is doing every thing possible to fire House's ass! LOL. Alright. I got writing withdrawal, so here you go. Also, I spontaneously thought up a new fic while in the shower. I was like I need another story...hmmm and it hit me. LOL. So...yah. All my hard finals are done, all that's left is biology and english. And band and gym, but we do nothing. at. all.
Enjoy :/ :) :O :D
CHAPTER 8: What are you doing here?
"So, how have you been?" Natasha Remy asked House as they were going down the street in her blue Mustang convertible.
"Aside from having to deal with idiots with runny noses back at Princeton...I'm utterly fantastic." he replied.
"Runny noses?" she glanced at him with a raised brow.
"Yeah! Like seriously! People come into the Clinic with their kids, or themselves, and they have like a sore throat or a runny nose and think it's like...cancer! It's the stinking common cold people! Have a cup of tea and go to bed!" House ranted.
"Or crotch rot." Natasha added on with a smile.
"Don't even get me started on that! I think I should just pass out condoms to whoever comes into the Clinic!"
Natasha giggled.
Cuddy and Michael...
"So, Lisa, how is it working in a hospital?" Michael started up a conversation.
"Um...it has its ups and downs. I'm the Dean, so I have to...ehrm...pardon my French...bust my ass every day trying to keep everything from falling apart. I'm like never home at all, I have no social life..." she trailed off.
"Well, you have just an inkling of one now." he smiled warmly.
"I guess. But as soon as House and I return back from dinner, we've got to run back to the hospital and check on our patient. We've slightly taken advantage of our break time." she rolled her eyes at herself.
"Lisen, Lisa. I don't believe you've taken advantage of it. You are just so overworked that simply having a day to yourself feels like neglect to your patient. Believe me, you haven't taken advantage of it. You're just enjoying it."
Cuddy just sat there trying not to gape. This guy was fantastic. She barely knew him and he already read her like a book. She cracked a smile. It reminded her of the first time she met House.
"There you go!" he smiled at her reaction, completely oblivious that it wasn't toward him.
"I guess. But it still feels like I'm leaving it." she sighed.
"Lisa, you have to relax. I'm sure whoever you have filling in for you is doing a wonderful job of it."
Back in Princeton...
Wilson lay with his feet kicked up on Cuddy's desk, various snack wrappers and take out items strewn about everywhere. This was the life. No House, no Cuddy, just him and a huge office and all he had to do was sign paperwork. He sighed. He shouldn't have taken advantage over his position but...he couldn't help it. He knew what he had to do to run the hospital and keep it together. That's why Cuddy chose him. He just got overboard on the staying in the office for so long. Hey, as long as I get this cleaned up before anyone sees, I'll be fine.
House and Natasha...
"You sound like you've got like the best job in the world." Tash said absently.
House snorted. "Anything but."
"Why?" she prodded.
"For the aformentioned reasons, along with people being idiots."
She crossed her arms across her chest. "Really?"
He tapped his chin in thought. Tash giggled.
"The best part is staring at Cuddy's voluptuous assets all day. That's the only reason I go in. For my daily eyefull of ass."
She cracked up. House glared.
"So you like Cuddy." she stated out of nowhere.
"Who told you that?" he snapped.
"I can't just ask a damn question?"
He huffed. "Fine. But the following conversation never happened. This stays between us."
"What conversation?" she smiled.
"That's my girl!" he shouted.
"Ahem." she tapped her finger.
He took a breath. "Okay. So maybe I do have...feelings for a certain Dean of Medicine."
She smiled. He glared. "Cuddy. We've known each other since college, and the two of us have this...bond. And this "thing" between us stops any attempts of moving on. So, I have concluded that in the end we will end up getting stuck with each other...not that I care. I'd do anything for that woman." the last part slipped.
Tash just sat there. "Wow."
"Yeah."
The two sat in an awkward silence until they got to the restaurant. House slung his bum leg out of the car and hobbled out, stretching before grabbing his cane. Tash was right next to him as they went in to be seated.
"Table for two...Nancy." House read the name tag on the slim blonde waitress who was barely out of high school.
She smiled at him. "Would you like indoor seats or out on the patio?" she asked.
"Inside is fine." Tash said.
The two of them were seated at a table directly across from the restrooms...lovely.
Cuddy and Mikey
"I believe we're here, Lisa." Michael said as they pulled into a spot.
"Wow." Cuddy looked at the place.
"It used to be an Inn, a hotel. They converted it into a restaurant." Mikey said as they got out and walked inside.
"Would you like to sit inside or out on the patio?" the waitress asked them.
"Can we sit outside? It's such a lovely evening." Cuddy said.
"Sure." Mikey agreed.
The two of them were seated right on the edge of it so that they overlooked the road and all the various shops. That coincided with the sunset made the setting very romantic.
...
"I think I'll have a lobster." House said to the waitress.
"Would you like some clam chowder with that?" she asked.
"Why not. And a coke, please." he added.
"And you, ma'am?" she turned to Tash.
"A steaming plate of crabs." she smiled. "Same sides as House."
"Alrighty." she winked at House and swayed away.
"Lobster?" she arched a brow.
"It's a seafood place! I can get whatever the hell I want!" he whined.
She just laughed.
...
"I want lobster." Cuddy said right off the bat.
"Somebody must like their seafood." he chuckled.
"I absolutely love it. It's a perfect excuse to get it." she smiled.
"I'm quite fond of it as well. I think I am going to join you." he said.
"Go right ahead."
The waitress just happened to stop at their table right after that and they put in their orders.
Cuddy sat back for a second and tapped her fingers on the table.
"I'm going to go use the ladies' room, Mike. I'll be back in a few." Cuddy snatched her purse from the ground and got up.
"I'll be right here." he smiled.
Cuddy wound through the restaurant until she finally found the restrooms. She almost bashed into the door because she was too busy oogling at a particular head of diagnostics digging into a huge lobster with another woman.
When she finally got through the little hall and found the women's door, she dug her phone out of her purse and texted him.
He jumped as his pocket buzzed beneath him. He wiped his hands off and pulled out his phone to see 1 NEW TXT MSG- CUDDY. He opened it: wtf are you doing here?
House started to choke on his lobster to the point that Tash had to beat him on the back until he calmed down.
Cuddy had her phone between her legs as she was attempting to wash her hands. It vibrated and she spazzed and smashed into the sink as a tingle of pleasure shot through her body. She had to put her phone there...
The message was from House: i shud be asking u the same thing
She stood in the bathroom and replied: i'm out eating with Mikey!
House's phone buzzed rather loudly on the wooden table.
"Who on Earth are you texting?" Tash looked up from her pile of crab.
"Um...Wilson. He's the oncologist at Princeton and my bestie. He wants an update." House lied. "Business."
"I know how that feels. They never leave you alone..." she snapped a claw.
House let out his breath. That was a close one. He responded as quickly as possible: well i'm stuffing my face with lobster with tash! what did it look like i was doing?
Cuddy smiled at that remark. Only he would say that... come to the bathroom.
House choked on his drink and spit it across the table upon Cuddy's latest message. in the women's room? naughty cuddy. getting a bit frisky, are we?
She had to give him credit. That one made her roll her eyes. you are unbelievable. i didn't mean that. theres a door that says restroom and when you go in it's not leading directly to a specific gendered bathroom. it's a hall with two doors to the mens and womens room. go in there.
House rolled his eyes and sighed. This better be good. He stood up and stretched.
"Gotta drain the snake. BRB." he said femininely. Tash rolled her eyes.
House entered the small corridor and poked open the women's room door just enough to whisper in. "Cuddles?"
Cuddy perked up upon hearing his sexy raspy voice. His whispers were erotic. They were gentle compared to his personality. She met him out in the corridor.
"House!" she gritted.
"What? You're interrupting my dinner?" he hissed back.
"Why are you here?" she asked.
"We planned to come here to eat! I had no idea you were coming also!"
"Ugh." Cuddy growled.
"What is with women and that noise?" House cut in.
"What noise?"
"UGH. Whenever women are disgusted they make that phlegmy noise."
She rolled her eyes. "What are we going to do?"
"I don't know." House said softly.
Cuddy just shrugged.
"You know, I wish that all of this date-make-each-other-jealous crap would just stop. It would have been much nicer if it was just you and me eating together. We wouldn't have to secretly meet and hide from our dates." House blurted.
Cuddy's jaw dropped. Did he just admit his feelings?
"Really?" she whispered.
"Yeah." he said.
Someone came in to use the bathroom and they had to get past the rendezvouing couple. House stepped back and let the woman pass. But, he stumbled on his cane in the narrowness of the corridor trying to get back to where he was standing before and fell against Cuddy, pinning her against the wall.
"Um..." House said.
"I think I should go back out to Mike. I've already been in here too long." she whispered against his face.
"Uh...yeah. Natasha is probably wondering where I am too."
They stared at each other until House gently gave her a warm, lingering, caring peck on the cheek. Cuddy closed her eyes and slowly opened them when she felt him back away. He started to head back out to dinner.
"House...wait..." she softly called after him. He paused and turned around to face her. She slowly came up to him and reached up and returned his peck. He sighed contently. When she lowered herself back down, they smiled at each other. A genuine smile with no fakeness behind it.
The woman that came in before came out of the bathroom and gave them a nasty look because they were practically up against each other.
"Alright. Let's go before they think we died." House spoke up.
Cuddy chuckled, then frowned. "Wait. You have to go first so Natasha doesn't think we..."
"I gotcha." he winked at her and walked out.
Cuddy sighed. She was falling in love with House. How the hell was she going to go back put there and focus on Mike?
So yeah. I decided to end it here. It seemed awkward to me if I just continued on. I was listening to like ridiculously beautiful piano music and the emotion poured out so it got a little romancey and mushy. But, there hasn't been any Huddy in this story at all yet, so...yeah. I'm booting someone next chapter! Hahahaha. Hope it was okay...
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