A/N: I think I pissed a few of you off...sorry about that. We get one answer in this chapter.

Chapter 12

Wilson burst into the differential room "Where the hell is House!"

Foreman, Cameron and Chase shared a quick look.

"I've been paging him all damn morning! Where is he?"

"Um, it's Wednesday." Foreman offered.

"Well, thanks for the update." Wilson snapped.

"Dr. Wilson…" Cameron began gently.

"It's almost 11, it may already be too late…"

"Too late for what? He never gets back before noon." Chase was getting annoyed.

"He meets with Dr. Nolan every…"

Dawning broke on Wilson's face. "Wednesday…right…I know that." Something else occurred to him. "Dammit she did this on purpose…" He stormed out just as dramatically as he'd come in.

"I told you something weird was going on." Foreman said after a brief silence.

"You have such a flair for the blatantly obvious." Cameron congratulated him. "Okay, back to business, where are we going for lunch?"

"That's it…no recriminations…no platitudes…no someone's gonna get hurt?"

"I think there's a good possibility someone's going to get hurt Greg. It goes hand in hand with life."

"Deep." Greg sighed and leaned back in the chair. "I…I don't want to hurt anyone."

"But you will?"

"That sounded like an awful lot like a question."

"I'm not a mind reader. I was guessing that's where your thoughts were headed." Nolan leaned forward. "I'm not worried about you hurting anyone."

"Wow! Me neither." He stood up. "See ya next week."

"Sit down please."

"I knew that was too easy."

"Greg, I have concerns about the situation. Lisa needs all the facts, so she can make an informed choice and so she can help the child, if indeed that's what she chooses to do. She's an amazing woman, but she has her own limits. And the children are young and resilient. You, in your own unique way, care about both of them…"

"Hey…" He protested.

"Shut up Greg, you aren't fooling anyone."

"I don't think you're allowed to tell me to shut up…that's totally frowned upon in The Head Shrinkers' Code of Conduct."

"Probably, I haven't reviewed it recently." Nolan gave him that. "You might not love them yet, but don't pretend you don't care. You care about your aunt or none of this would have been set in motion. You care about the girl or you would have walked away instead of playing this game. And you care about the baby, because she's an extension of one of the two people in this world you love…"

Greg studied the carpet.

"I'm not worried about you hurting them…"

"I get it…you think I'm going to get hurt."

"It's a concern," Nolan admitted. "but you knew that already."

Lisa sat at her desk typing an email. She didn't bother to look up when her door opened.

"So!?"

She tilted her head toward the questioner, while she continued to type.

"Tell me you didn't do it."

"I didn't do it."

Wilson collapsed in a chair before her desk. "Thank God."

"What didn't I do?" Lisa asked innocently.

"You didn't resign."

"Oh that…yes…I did." She went back to her email.

"You didn't, because you'd be packing up your desk if you did."

"Wilson, there's no reason to pack up my desk, I told them I'd be willing to remain until my replacement could be hired."

"That could take months."

"hmmm." She continued typing. "Actually, I was thinking at least a year…but yeah."

Wilson spluttered… "This is asinine, you can't do this…"

She turned slowly, meeting Wilson's aggravated gaze. "I can and I did…however…" She let it hang there between them.

"What?"

"They didn't accept my resignation. It turns out that since House and I have been 'carrying on' for 'years' and it hasn't caused any 'significant' problems…they are willing to look the other way."

"But…"

Her face broke out in a full grin. "They were able to convince me to stay."

"My god woman, you almost killed me."

She laughed her deep throaty laugh. "That's your own fault. You weren't supposed to know."

"You could have just told me your diabolical plan."

She shook her head. "No, I couldn't…I wasn't sure. It was a gamble."

"But…"

"I wouldn't have done it, if I wasn't willing to accept the consequences. I've put my heart and soul into this place for years, but now…now my priorities just aren't the same. I'm done sacrificing my personal life."

"Wow…" He smiled. "You're renegotiating your contract aren't you?"

"Yep. It seems their may be room in the budget for an Assistant Dean of Medicine after…" Her pager went off before she could explain. "I've got to go James…go and enjoy the rumor mill."

"You Dog." Chase chortled as House came in.

"You Wombat." House ventured. "Am I playing the right game?"

"How long have you been living with Cuddy?" Foreman asked.

"We're hurt you know…us your original team, and you couldn't tell us…"

"Do you know how embarrassing it was to hear about this from Nurse Brenda?"

"What…what are you talking about…I am not living with the wicked witch of the west."

"Well, as a wise person once said. 'Everybody lies.'" Cameron threw her arms around his neck. "I'm so happy for you guys."

"I hate to break your little bleeding hearts…but…"

"Cuddy resigned." Wilson said ominously from behind him. "After she outed the two of you to the board."

The room went quiet, they all watched as House paled. "She didn't."

"She did…lucky for us all they didn't accept her resignation." Sensing something was up, the ducklings made a quick exit. "That's why the entire hospital knows the 'truth'."

"She didn't need to do that…" House sat down at his desk. "There's no reason for the board to know."

"House, she almost threw her career away because of you and you can't even tell her what's going on."

"She just won't calm down. I'm sorry to call you on her first day."

"I'm glad you did. What happened?"

"One of our grandparent volunteers was working the play ground. She was telling the kids to be careful on the slide and she called Paige the wrong name…and Lisa she's one of the nicest women I've ever met…Paige just lost it."

"Did she…"

"She kept yelling 'My name is Paige' and ran off. We found her a few minutes later, but she was hysterical. I'm afraid she's going to make herself sick."

"Paige?" Lisa entered the nurse's office. Paige was on the floor in the corner sobbing. "Paige, its Lisa."

The girl looked up through swollen, red eyes. Lisa opened her arms, and Paige scrambled into them. "I want to go home…" she whimpered.

"I know baby…" Lisa lifted her up, rubbing her back slowly.

"No." Paige insisted. "I want Nana…"

"Okay…okay, let's go see your Nana."