A/N: Thank you very much for your reviews. I also noticed that many of you added my story to favorites or Alert list, and I'm SO happy about it! Anyway, if you could also leave a little review, it would be great:D
A big thank you to glicine who was my bouncing ideas for this chap.
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It had passed almost a month since the day Jeffry told Cuddy he wanted to invest his money on the research about rare child diseases.
Cuddy was very happy to know her baby was getting that amount of money, 500.000 dollars, just as appetizer. It always amazed Cuddy to know how much rich this Pitt guy was!
House was working on a case getting his ducklings go nuts every time they made a mistake, so he wasn't really paying attention to Cuddy. Of course he would stalk her or annoy her if Wilson wasn't nearby!
Pitt was far from Princeton, far from New Jersey actually and Cuddy was eager knowing this. And yet Jeffry couldn't get out of her mind…not because she had a thing for him, as House usually pointed out just to get her mad, but because he couldn't stop calling her every now and then.
One day, Jeffry had called at her office but didn't find her there to answer. A certain limping doctor, however, happened to be there waiting alone for his boss and decided, of course, that the better thing to do was to pick up the phone…
At the disappointed tone he could hear in Jeffry's voice, House answered giving the poor man the numbers of Lisa Cuddy. EVERY number. Not only her cell phone's one but even her home's!
So now Jeffry had another reason to speak with her, and Lisa, of course, couldn't tell him how much this bothered her because she couldn't risk losing his money.
It was a Monday morning, House was late as always and Cuddy was in her office going through her paperwork when she heard a knock on her door.
"Knock-knock?"
At the sound of his voice she jumped on her chair opening her eyes wildly, petrified at the sight of the man in front of her.
"Jeffry!" She said with a high-pitched voice. "I thought you were in Florida!"
"I was! But then I…I missed you." He told her peering intently at his shoes.
When he lifted his eyes toward her, his cheekbones were flushed and his teeth were biting his lower lip creating a weird pout.
"Oh.My.God!" was all she thought. She opened her mouth to say something but no words were said.
"Lisa I…" the sudden ringing of his cell phone distracted him. "Excuse me!" He was mortified but answered the call.
"Hello? HI!!"
Cuddy couldn't hear what the person on the other side of the phone was saying but she found pretty interesting the way Jeffry talked.
The man, in fact, turned away from Lisa, letting her face his back. He whispered on the receiver bending a little in order to move the phone away from Cuddy so that she couldn't hear.
"Yes, mommy..."
"Mommy????????????????????????????????????????" Cuddy couldn't believe her own ears! "That cannot be right!"
"I'm with her right now! I'll tell her…yes, yes…I was telling her…we…yes! Ok! Right…No, mommy, no. I ate it yesterday. Cook me your special dish with eggplants! Thank you! I have to go now! Bye!" He said in a loud whisper.
The Dean of Medicine was absolutely incredulous! A weird, fifty-year-old grow up man was wooing her and he NEEDED his mother, indeed, his MOMMY!
"That was my mother…" Jeffry blushed even more making his face look like a big red pepper.
"I told her about you, about…us…." His right foot made a little circle around his left one.
"Us?" She asked blinking twice.
"Uh-uh." He nodded.
"Uhm…Jeffry…there's no us." She said hoping this revelation wouldn't crack the guy out.
"Well, Lisa, I think you're wrong. We've been hearing each other for over a month, we have a wonderful professional relationship and a marvelous…"
"Right, Jeffry, it's professional." She said firmly cutting him off. She felt sorry for him but she couldn't continue this insane game with him.
"Lisa, I don't want you to think that I'm going too fast but I'd love to let you meet my mother!"
"WHAT?" she practically yelled.
"I mean - cough – what?" She said calmly, or at least she tried to seem calm.
"Yes! She'd love to know you and she is just too stubborn she'll eventually meet you. Please!"
Just three words were wildly hitting every part of her brain…"Oh. My. God!"
"I…Jeffry…" she was going to let him down and he knew it. His eyes fell to the floor admiring, again, his shoes while he started thinking lots of stupid things.
"Black shoes, oh, look at those laces! Great ones! Mom chose them! They're not pointed, they are expensive and wow my feet fit perfectly in these shoes! Shoes, shoes, shoes…lalalalallaaaa, I always wanted to be a monkey…"
He was being delirious and he noticed it just as Cuddy did, even if she couldn't hear his thoughts. What the hell was wrong with this man?
His eyes were full of sadness and she couldn't resist.
"Ok…" She finally said giving up.
Jeffry clapped his hands and jumped with joy hearing the good news! "Oh God! You said yes! Mom is going to be so excited! I need to go now but I'll come back soon, dear!" he squirmed and gave a quick wet kiss on her cheek leaving a very perplex Cuddy alone in her office.
"What the hell did I do to deserve this?????" She told herself looking desperately at the ceiling as if to wait for a good response from God.
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House was walking down the hallway when he spotted a very excited Jeffry running toward the main door.
"Hey dude! You're back!" House wanted to go to Cuddy and ask her about her new secret fiancée, it was just too funny looking at his boss's face when Jeffry's name was mentioned.
"YES!"
"Are you high?" House asked noticing Jeffry's dilated pupils.
"Uh?"
"Did Cuddy drug you? Did she abuse you? Did she tell you she was going to play with you and then took out her handcuffs and whip?"
At the puzzled expression of Jeffry House remarked "I knew it! She always does it! Cunning woman…"
"Does she own this stuff?"
"Of course!" House could almost hear the sound Pitt's blinking eyes were doing, as in a cartoon.
"Oh…well….actually I just told her that she's going to meet my mother!" A big smiled showed his rabbit teeth.
"And did she say yes?" House asked incredulous.
"YES!" Jeffry laughed as a crazy man so that people passing by watched him carefully and scared and House felt the need to mouth to them "psychiatry", giving them a solemn nod.
"Interesting. She never met my mom, so I guess this is a serious thing…" He said in order to evilly feed Jeffry's hopes.
"What thing?"
"THE thing between the two of you!" He explained as if to a 5 year old.
"Yes, I think so. Well, Lisa said ours is just a professional relationship, I hope it is not."
"Oh, Jeffry Leffry! Don't be so sad! Uncle Greg is gonna help you. Come on! When do you think she'll meet your mother?"
"Tonight. She's a great cook and I'd love to invite Lisa to dinner with me and her."
"Is your mother like you? Because if she is, I'm so sure Cuddles'll love her!"
"Yes, she is!" Jeffry answered excited. "Why do you think she'll LOVE her?" Pitt asked giving House a slight hit in his ribs with is elbow. A move House absolutely didn't like. His glare told Jeffry, who murmured a soft 'sorry'.
"Jeffry Leffry, the way she's acting with you, it's the very same way she acts when she likes someone….a man…"he moved his eyebrows suggestively.
"She says is just professional but she's lying. Trust me!"
"Oh Dr. House! You're such a good friend!!!" with this, Jeffry gave House a VERY tight embrace in front of EVERYONE in the main hall of PPTH, then he left without saying anything else.
An enjoyed Wilson appeared in the clinic. "Oh, Dr. House!" He said with a dreamy voice. "You're my hero!!! Dr. McCane!"
"Stop it!"
"You should look at you! Anyway, everybody saw you, now they'll think you're human! Oh Gosh, Cameron will believe she changed you, she'll probably adopt you!"
"Or she'll rape me…who knows?!" House said sarcastically. "Go back to work."
"Ok, I'll go tell Cuddy you just embraced a donor!"
"He's not just a donor, Jimmy. He's Cuddy's husband-to-be!"
Wilson started laughing hard. House looked at him with suspect. "Yeah, he's such a dumbass!"
"Yeah, and you just HUGGED him!" Wilson went away before House could retort. In the mean time all the clinic' patients were looking at House , nurses amused.
"What? Don't you have your own business to mind?" the limping doctor barked before going to his office.
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A/N: Everybody ready to meet Jeffry's mom?
Pitt's mom presence was inspired by Glicine. Thank you, hon!
Please, remember to push the purple button!