Gossip Queens
An update! "Finally" you say...read on
As soon as the door started opening without so much as a knock James Wilson knew his guest was his best friend.
"You know knocking would be nice before you come in." He said without even glancing up from his work.
"Knocking wastes time. This is big." House said limping over to the couch and lying across it.
"What is?" Wilson asked intrigued. Obviously House had some juicy gossip to tell him otherwise he would've waited till lunch.
"Imo is engaged!" House exploded with excitement but by the look on his face, House hadn't finished.
"That's great House. You're gonna be poor Noah's father-in-law, but it looks like you have something else to say." Wilson said leaning forward.
"I just caught her kissing the head of paeds, Dr. Huntley or something."
"Chris Hunter?" Wilson asked surprised.
"That's the one." House smirked as he gulped a Vicodin pill.
"That is big. But aren't you supposed to be infuriated that your daughter has just cheated on her fiancé?"
"I blame you for that."
"Me?"
"Yeah, if she hadn't spent some of her early years around you, she wouldn't have known what cheating on someone is."
"Yeah, because I sat her down at the age of two and taught her the ins and outs of cheating on someone."
"Well I'm sure Joseph got the same speech."
"No, I did not teach my son how to cheat on someone. Neither have I taught your daughter those ways."
Both men sighed and paused in thought.
"Did she explain why she kissed him?" Wilson asked House.
"Because she was scared."
"Oh. That's not good."
"Why is that not good for the obvious reasons? I don't speak cheater lingo."
"Being scared is part of the reason why people cheat. Just keep a close eye on them House otherwise this'll get worse."
"Well what if I get a case? Then how am I gonna keep tabs on her?"
"I've got some friends at the Nurse's station. How about I get them to keep check on her?"
"Friends or lovers of yours?"
"I love my wife."
"You loved all your wives, didn't stop you cheating on them though."
"I am a settled man House and don't start this 'cheated on all my wives' speech. Julie cheated on me remember?"
"One out of three. How many did you cheat on? Two out of three was it? Actually Leanne might be cheating on you which would make it fifty-fifty."
"Shut up House. Haven't you got a daughter to be spying on?"
"It isn't spying. It's surveillance." House replied simply as he limped out the door.
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Two weeks later
Monday morning rolled around and everything was back to normal. Noah was working the evening shifts, Imogen was working practically every day and Toby was back to full health. House was buried deep into a case and Cuddy was making sure that the hospital and her husband were in check.
Imogen hadn't seen much of Dr. Hunter since their kiss, but she saw it as a good thing, because it meant he tempt her to thinking anything else would happen. What she didn't appreciate was that nurses kept visiting her and asking about dosages for patients meds about ten times a day, sometimes she wished she could do it all for them, but then she wouldn't have got any of her paperwork done.
"Miss House?" asked a timid voice from the doorway. "How much Warfarin is Mrs Beckett taking?"
"It depends on her blood pressure Becky, but I deal with paediatric patients, not geriatric patients."
"Oh sorry. But how much does she need?"
"Give me the chart." Imogen snapped. She snatched it out of Becky's grasp and looked up. "Three milligrams. But next time ask the doctor in charge of that ward."
"Sorry to bother you Miss House. I'll remember in future."
The office door closed and Imogen had had enough, the nurses were driving her to insanity and what she thought they deserved was a little payback for wasting her time.
Imogen walked over to the Nurse's station and leant over the desk casually, she called over Olivia, a fairly new nurse to the team and said,
"I've just been told there's a chicken pox outbreak in a school, patients coming into the clinic will be arriving shortly. There's been a request for all the nurses on this floor to go and prepare for them."
"Oh no." Olivia said now panicking as she scurried off to inform the nurses.
"Peace and quiet." Imogen smirked as she walked over to Dr. Hunter's office.
She tapped on the door and heard a muffled voice asking her to come in.
"Oh, Imogen. Is there a problem?" Dr. Hunter asked looking up at her.
"No problem, just wanted to see if you've got anything for me to do, I've finished my work."
"You really are a hard worker. You got the work Friday, had the weekend off and finished already."
"What can I say?" Imogen shrugged with a smile playing on her lips. "I'm just very efficient."
"To be honest I thought you would've wanted to avoid me."
"Why's that?"
"Because of you know...and your dad catching us. I thought there'd be some awkwardness."
"It was just one stupid kiss. It didn't mean anything right?"
"No no, of course not." Dr. Hunter replied as he felt his muscles relax.
"Well if there isn't anything better to do, I better do...something. I'm sure you're swamped with work."
She leant over the desk to shake his hand and he rose up and kissed her on the cheek.
Silence echoed throughout the room and they remained as they were, Imogen moved her head and her lips found his.
One seemingly innocent kiss had turned into a second more deadly kiss in the spiral down into unfaithfulness.
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