Bad Case Of Loving You

January 9

8:00am

"Are you okay?" Cameron asked House when she saw him walking into the clinic. She knew that something must be up for him to be at the hospital so early.

"Good morning to you, too," House said to her, grabbing the doughnut in her hand and ripping it into two. Cameron could tell from the lines on his face that he hadn't slept very much the night before. She saw him looking towards Cuddy's office.

"She's in there if you want to talk to her," Cameron said to him. House finished eating his doughnut before speaking again.

"Does she seem angry?" House asked.

"Like you, she looks tired," Cameron said. When Cuddy had come in that morning, she had pretty much ignored everyone and went straight into her office.

"Should I go in there?" House asked Cameron in a serious tone. He wasn't sure if Cuddy was pissed at him for being risky with a patient or for not calling and answering her messages.

"If you really like her, you need to straighten this out," Cameron answered him. She still had some feelings for House, but she also wanted him to be happy. "If you don't want to be with her, you need to tell her that, too." House nodded and walked towards Cuddy's office. Cuddy was reading through a proposal when she heard a slight knock on the door. When she saw House standing there, she waved him in and got up and walked to the front of her desk and sat on the edge of it. She tried to read his face, but she couldn't figure out what he was thinking. House walked towards her, but stopped a few feet from her. He stood there for a couple of seconds, looking down at the ground.

"People don't change," House said to Cuddy after that pause, causing her to furrow her brow. She didn't like how this was starting. "I am going to continue to do risky things with patients and piss off you and all your staff. That is how I am. You will eventually get sick of me, just like Stacy did. I will most likely hurt you." Cuddy just looked at him. "I am not saying this stuff just because I don't want to hurt you. I am also saying this because I don't want to get hurt again." Cuddy looked at him and saw the pain in his eyes.

"You think that after one argument that I am going to break up with you?" Cuddy asked. "When I agreed to go out with you, I knew that we were going to fight sometimes. We are two very stubborn people."

"I don't want things to change between us," House said to her.

"Nothing is going to change," Cuddy said. "You will still be the ego mantic and I will still be the Dean that has to deal with you."

"But things will change," House said. "I don't know if we can separate work and our personal lives and that is going to be a problem."

"I think we can separate them as long as we handle our work problems better than we did yesterday," Cuddy said. She would not let them break up over something like this.

"How?" House asked. He had been thinking about it all night.

"We will have to make sure that when I have to yell at you, I will not overreact like I did yesterday," Cuddy said.

"I guess I will have to try not to be so stubborn when I want something," House said. "Even though I was right." House gave her a smile to tell her that he didn't want to stay mad at her anymore.

"Yes, you were," Cuddy said, smiling back to tell him that she wanted the fighting to stop, too.

"If you ever start getting really, really angry at me and not just annoyed, please make sure you tell me," House said. "If you don't tell me something is wrong, I won't be able to fix it." Cuddy nodded to tell him that she would. House walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her to hold her. She smelled so good. Cuddy wrapped her arms around his neck. Cuddy glanced over House's shoulder to make sure that no one could see them, and then she gave him a kiss. House held her closer to him.

"I think we should have some make up sex," House said to her, squeezing her butt.

"I would like to point out that this is an annoyed look on my face, not an angry one," Cuddy said as she rubbed the back of his neck. House leaned down and kissed her again. He moved his arms to her hips and started rubbing them.

"I am going to put a different look on your face tonight," House said wiggling his eyebrows.

"A look of boredom?" Cuddy teased him.

"A look that anyone who talks to you the next day will know exactly what I did to you," House said.

"Which reminds me, please do not go around telling everyone about our sex life," Cuddy said.

"But Wilson wanted to start a newsletter," House whined to her.

"Anyone that subscribes to it will be fired," Cuddy said.

"But we were going to send it to your mom," House said.

"Any part of our sex life will not be mentioned to any member of my family," Cuddy said. She would just die if anyone heard any details about her sex life. She knew that she would kill herself if she heard any sex talk coming from any of them. "That includes your 'jokes,' too."

"Will you please tell my dad that I am a stud in bed?" House asked her.

"If he asks me, I will tell him," Cuddy said, really hoping that John House was not the type of guy to ask a girl that. Cuddy's pager went off.

"I thought I told you to leave your vibrator at home," House said. "I don't my team to think that you need it." Cuddy pulled her pager off her skirt top and looked down at it.

"Board meeting," Cuddy said. "Since you are here early, you can go work on clinic duty."

"Look!" House said. "This is an annoyed look on my face, too." Cuddy gave him another quick kiss and then pointed towards the door.

"I hate it when you point," House said.

"That is the only way some children learn," Cuddy said to him, patting him on the head. House walked over to her and gave her another kiss before he left.

"Try not spending the whole day thinking of me naked!" House screamed before he opened her office door. Cuddy really hoped that nobody heard that. Cameron saw House walk out of Cuddy's office with a smile on his face. Part of her was happy to see him smile and another part of her was sad that she had not been the one to cause it. She was at least happy that if he did not want to be with her, he at least would not be alone. Maybe there was some hope for Gregory House after all.

"Get that stupid grin off your face," House said to her as he walked back to her. He could just picture the fairy tells running through her head.

"I take it everything is okay now?" Cameron said. House nodded yes to her. Cameron gave him a slight pat on the back and then left. House then turned his attention to Cuddy leaving her office. She gave him a smile and walked towards the elevator. Everything is okay, he thought to himself. He just wondered how long it would last.

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This is the end of the first part of the series. I will start the second story in the series tomorrow. The story will be called All You Need Is Love. Stay tuned.