Author's Note: The chapter I originally planned to post would have been too long, so I decided to turn it into two separate chapters. I hope you enjoy this part. By the way please excuse all the errors in my writing.
Chapter 9
What Cuddy wanted to do
It was around ten when everyone, including a very exhausted Chase, made their way down to the breakfast lounge. Cuddy was the first there, followed by Cameron, next was Wilson, then Foreman who was extremely pleased with himself, next a usually perfectly groomed Chase with his hair sticking out in some places and lastly House who arrived almost an half an hour after everyone else.
Cameron watched as House limped towards their table, she searched for any sign of emotion, she wanted to see if it mattered to him that she had escaped from his suite. Instead she was face with a House how was uncharacteristically jovial and intentionally avoiding any sort of eye contact with her. Cameron sighed and finished the last of her breakfast, 'If only House wasn't so emotionally dead,' she thought. All she wanted was to know that it matter to him if not just a little bit.
House hobbled up to the table, grabbed a seat and proceeded to attack what was left of Wilson's eggs.
"Glad you could drag yourself out of bed House," Wilson said pulling House's attention to him, "you could get your own food for once." He rescued his eggs from House's clutches while not missing the fact that his friend was avoiding looking anywhere near Cameron.
House tried to stop Wilson from taking away the eggs but barely missed, "No fair Jimmy," he whined, "yours taste better."
Wilson sighed easing his plate towards House and signaled to the waiter. The waiter came over and he ordered some more eggs, it was no use arguing with House especially if he wanted him in a good enough mood to tell him about Cameron.
House was about to say something to Wilson about him being a sucker when he was cut off by Cuddy.
"Now that everyone is here," she said sending daggers at House, "I have decided that since today is an off day that maybe we could all do something...together!" she interjected before House could say something sarcastic.
Everyone was looking around the table in an uncomfortable silence at Cuddy's suggestion.
"What did you have in mind Lisa?" Wilson asked breaking the silence.
House was now shoveling down the eggs which had just been delivered, stopped with his fork midway to his mouth. He did not miss Wilson calling his boss Lisa, he eyed Wilson suspiciously and when he finally got eye contact mouthed "Lisa?"
Wilson blushed, but thankfully this went unnoticed by everyone else at the table, 'So much for not letting House find out,' he thought, 'now I'll never hear the end of this.'
"Tubing," Cuddy said getting both Wilson's and House's attention back to the matter at hand.
"What's that suppose to be?" Chase asked stifling a yawn.
House suddenly got an almost unwanted flash of Cameron in a very itsy-bitsy black bikini. Well..almost unwanted because he was trying not to think about Cameron in anyway, that included half naked.
"That little wombat," he said before Cuddy could answer Chase how was addressing her, "is this cool thing where they put you on a rubber tube and send you down river, over rapids and everything. Cuddy I didn't know you like to take a walk on the wild side, or is that the twin's thing?" his eyes rested on her bosom.
Cuddy ignored him, she had better concerns that the snide remarks of Gregory House to deal with.
"That exactly is what tubing is," Cuddy said.
"Oh, back home we call that rafting," Chase said with a shrug.
Cuddy chose to ignore Chase also. She looked at each one of her staff members, "Anyone willing to give it a try?" she asked.
"Are you shitting me?" House asked glaring at Cuddy, "I maybe a cripple but I already half way there."
Cuddy still tried to ignore House but couldn't resist passing a small smile in Wilson's direction, which House didn't miss.
"Sounds fun," Chase said stifling another yawn and totally oblivious to the tension at the table.
House jumped, or rather tumbled, out of his seat, "Great the Brit is in lets go already!" he said towering over Cuddy in his excitement.
"Not British," Chase said rather sleepily and without much effort.
"House sit down!" Cuddy snapped at him.
House pouted, "But, mooommy."
Cuddy really wasn't in the mood for House's childish behaviour, "How about it Allison?" she asked turning away from House.
Cameron shrugged, "I guess it could be interesting," she answered, not really caring one way or the other.
Cuddy nodded and looked over at Foreman, who nodded in agreement. She didn't bother to ask Wilson, somehow she knew he would agree.
"Ok, why don't we all meet back down in the lobby in about twenty minutes." Cuddy said getting up.
"They all mumbled their agreement and followed her towards the elevator.
Surprisingly less than twenty minutes later, the always late Dr. Gregory House was the first in the lobby. He was leaning up against the lobby desk playing with his PSP when Wilson entered the lobby.
"House," Wilson said walking up to him and leaning himself against the lobby desk.
House didn't look up to acknowledge his presence. Instead, "Hey Jimmy boy," he said still concentrating intensely on his game, "the devil woman a firecracker in bed isn't she?" he said referring no doubt to Cuddy.
Wilson barely stopped himself from mentioning Cameron, "How should I know House," he said looking at House pointedly, "I don't exactly make it a habit of sleeping with my employers or my employees."
House did not miss the knowing tone of Wilson's voice. He was about to answer Wilson when Cameron and Cuddy entered the lobby.
House's and Wilson's breath caught simultaneously as they saw the two women.
Cameron had change into a pair of really short shorts and was wearing only her bikini top with it.
The lavender colour of her bikini was perfect against her light skin and even though she was nowhere near the same class as Cuddy when it came to breast size, House could not pull his eyes away from the extent of soft skin which was exposed by her bikini top. She was so slender and she curved in all the right places.
Cuddy on the other was wearing jeans and a very thin t-shirt over the bikini she wore. The jeans she wore were not just any old jeans, they hugged her hips, emphasized the length of her legs and for lack of a better term tightened her ass. Wilson groaned, as images from the night before flashed in his mind.
House although preoccupied with gaping at Cameron did not miss Wilson's groan.
Neither Cuddy nor Wilson had noticed the looks House giving Cameron, but Cameron was painfully aware of them.
"House, Wilson," Cuddy acknowledged them as she approached the desk, "there is a tour which should leave the hotel in about a hour," House started to sulk, "we won't be going with them though. I think it would be more fun to drive there."
House who had started to cheer up started swinging his cane around while his PSP game was on pause.
"Drive?" Wilson asked a little uncertainly.
Cuddy nodded.
"Do you think you could find the way?"
"Dr. Wilson, we are on a relatively tiny island. How lost could we get?" Cuddy asked. She looked from both House and Wilson and then over to Cameron who had been silently retreating from the argument. "I got a map anyway." Cuddy said signaling to the approaching Foreman and Chase.
Wilson filled Chase and Foreman in as Cuddy talked to the receptionist.
Cuddy returned to where they were standing, with a set of car keys and started to lead them out of the hotel.
"What's that?" Chase suddenly asked pointing at the small bag that Cameron was carrying.
"Clothes," Cameron said as if it was obvious.
"For what?"
"For changing into afterwards Chase." Cameron said looking at him in disbelief.
"To change into..." Chase said quite cluelessly, "why would we need clothes to change into?"
"Chase we are going tubing down a river, don't you expect to get wet?" Cuddy said cutting in.
"Huu...m, I'll be right back!" Chase shouted over his shoulder has he rushed towards the elevators.
"Yeah, me too," both Wilson and Foreman said hurrying behind Chase.
House, Cameron and Cuddy waited for several minutes before the guys showed their faces once again. Wilson and Foreman both carrying backpacks and Chase carrying his clothes and shampoo under his arm.
Chase took Cameron's bag and put his stuff in it, he carried the bag out to the parking lot. House felt bitter, he couldn't believe he was jealous because he wasn't the one sharing Cameron's bag and carrying it.
Cuddy led them across the hotel parking lot and toward a silver monstrosity.
"A mini-van? You rented us a mini-van?" House turned on Cuddy in disbelief.
"It's the only thing short of a mini-bus that I could find to fit all of us," Cuddy said walking around to the driver's seat.
The very mention of a mini-bus shut House up. There was no way he was going on one of those again.
They all filed into the mini-van House in the front passenger seat complaining about not getting to drive and women drivers, Cameron and Chase in the third row talking about something that Chase had done at one time or another and being watched secretly by House, and Foreman and Wilson in the second row saying as little as humanly possible.
It was almost noon when they drove though the hotel gates, none of them knowing what a long day it would be.
Author's Note:Ok, so the next chapter will be entitled Lost. Plz read and review :-)
