Chapter 13

A few months had passed since Dr. Harrington came to PPTH. She was sitting at her kitchen table, enjoying a cup of coffee and thinking back on her time so far at PPTH. There were ups and downs. The ups including helping to save so many patients, her new team and the work relationships with them and Wilson. Of course the down was a Dr. Gregory House. He was constantly doing something to get on her nerves. He was like a ten year old boy. The only good thing about him was his ability as a diagnostician. She started to think of all the pranks and smart aleck remarks that she had to put up with. She sipped her coffee and thought back on some of them. In hindsight, she had to be honest with herself and admit that some of the things were amusing. A small smile crossed her face as she thought of one of his more recent acts of immaturity. She and the team had been walking down the corridor to her office discussing a case, when they heard loud music coming from her office. They had walked in to the lyrics, "too sexy for my hat what do you think of that? I'm a model you know what I mean and I do my little turn on the catwalk. Yeah on the catwalk. I shake my little tush on the catwalk" and saw House shaking his tush as much as he could with his bad leg. It was quite funny to see actually, though she would never admit it. She remembered standing there not smiling and looking at the others. Foreman's look probably mirrored her own. Cameron and Chase were surprised. She then remembered trying not to smile. She felt the tug on the corner of her mouth and her left foot slightly start to tap with the beat. She knew she should be mad that House had invaded her office and privacy and helped himself to her iPod but she was mainly just annoyed. She started to nod her head ever so slightly to the music and no one would have noticed unless they were really looking at her. Foreman did notice. He was always watching her and her reaction to House. Harrington sometimes felt like a lab rat under his surveillance. She remembered how he started to watch her reaction to the music and House. She had decided to see what his reaction would be if she did something that Foreman probably thought wasn't 'her'. So she had turned to Cameron and started to dance also. Cameron was surprised but had obviously decided to go along with Harrington because she started to dance also. Foreman still watched as if watching an experiment, Chase was surprised and stared while House stopped shaking his 'touche' to watch in amazement. None of the 'boys' knew what to really make out of it. Harrington laughed to herself remembering the looks on their faces. They definitely didn't expect her to cut loose at work that was for certain! She had to admit to herself that she is a workaholic but that is how she is, a hard worker. It helps to forget things. Harrington looked up at the clock to make sure she had enough time for another cup of coffee and did. She again sipped slowly and thought back to last Monday. She had walked into the staff lounge and found a bunch of orderlies and nurses with House. It surprised her to see them in the company of House. Usually the staff stayed away from him whenever possible. She had stood there watching them for a few minutes. House had a chart in front of them and they were talking about dates. She soon found out that they had started taking some sort of bet on her. She even found out that House had dubbed her bloodsucker. She still didn't know all the details on it. Wilson wouldn't divulge the information to her, saying that it was to protect her feelings. She was mad at him and he knew it but he hadn't cracked yet. "Oh well" Harrington thought to herself. "I'll get it out f him soon enough." At the moment that she saw that House was really getting into torturing her through pranks she thought that maybe she should precipitate. She had never really done much goofing around in her life. She had some moments with her two friends that she grew up with and with….no she wasn't going to think about it. She shook her head and thought about what she had planned for today. Though the work load was a lot as usual, she was able to plan this past week a little joke on House. She quickly downed the rest of her coffee and smiled in anticipation as she got her things and headed for work.