Chapter 29
"House, what are you doing here?" Cuddy asked, still in shock at seeing him standing outside of her dorm room.
"I want to make this work." He replied simply, his eyes searching her face and hoping that she hadn't given up on them, or rather him after the way he had talked to her on the phone last month.
"I want that too." She told him with a soft smile.
He gave her a small smile in return.
"Good, because I really didn't want to drive -" House started to say, when the smile on his face suddenly disappeared as his eyes traveled away from her face and past her shoulder.
"Who's that?" He asked, his voice taking on a far more serious tone after spotting the figure of a man lying in Cuddy's bed and inside the dimly lit dorm room.
Cuddy felt her stomach sinking; she hadn't done anything even remotely wrong, however..…
"It's Jason, he -"
House turned away from her before she had even finished her sentence, his long legs making it hard for her to catch up with him as she chased him down the hall.
"House, stop!" She told him when she finally was able to grab hold of his arm.
He turned around wildly and faced her, the distance between them cut down to a few inches as he towered above her.
"What for? Looks like you've already got someone in your bed, unless of course you wanted to for broke and fuck both of us tonight?"
Cuddy felt like she had just been slammed into by a semi, her body trembling from the impact of his words.
"Fuck you." She replied to him without hesitation, her eyes staring back at him with a mixture of anger and disbelief before she turned and walked away from him.
She would NOT cry in front of him, no fucking way she would let him have the satisfaction of seeing how much he had hurt her just now with his demeaning choice of words.
"Shit." House cursed under his breath, knowing the instant had seen her reaction to his accusation whatever the hell Jason was doing in her bed hadn't warranted how degrading his comments had been to her just now.
"Cuddy, wait!
He was now chasing after her, down the opposite end of the hallway as she quickly headed back to her dorm room.
"Cuddy, I'm sorry-"
He took hold of her arm just before she reached the door and felt his own arm nearly being yanked out of the socket as she fiercely pulled her limb free from his grasp.
"No you wait, you son of bitch!" Cuddy told him as she spun around to face him, her index finger now pointed squarely into the center of his chest as she backed him into the wall behind them, her eyes, free of tears and wild with aggression as she prepared to defend her honor.
"You come here, telling me how you want to make things work between us one minute and then accuse me of screwing Jason before you even give me a chance to explain things?" She shouted at him.
It was only then that Cuddy had noticed the small crowd of students forming around them, their eyes wide with disbelief.
"What?!" Cuddy asked the group, her chest heaving, her mind sharpened and ready to cut down any one of them if they dared to speak to her in returned, her eyes zoning in on the one person who did speak as the other people around them watched in awe.
"I'll admit it, I acted like a jerk to just now, but you have to admit you would have done the same thing if you had come to see me and found me with another girl in my bed." House challenged over to her, ready to block any attempts by her to slap him across the face as he knew the surprising strength she harnessed within her petite, five-foot, four inch frame.
Cuddy narrowed her eyes at him, her jaw clenched.
She wanted to kill him, but there was also a part of her that could not entirely deny his rationalization either after she had run it through her head."
In her brief seconds of silent, House took the opportunity to challenge her even further.
"Go ahead Cuddy, deny it. Tell me you wouldn't have called me every name in the book if you would have found another girl sleeping in my bed and I'll kneel down before you, and all of these idiots who apparently have no social life and kiss your feet." He said to her, keeping his eyes locked onto hers, their audience, hanging on their every word they were saying to each other.
Cuddy reached for his arm, holding back a grin when she saw him flinch...ever so slightly. "Come on." She said, before pulling him down to the end of the hallway, rolling her eyes a second later as she heard a few groans of disappointment from the group of her fellow students they had left behind.
"You were amazing just now by the way- "House started to say to her with a grin as she led him towards the last door located on the floor.
"Shut up." She told him, reaching for the doorknob to their left with her free hand and pulling him inside as second later.
Cuddy breathed a sigh of relief when she found the student community room empty and quickly closed the door behind them.
"You had no right to say what you just did about me, no matter how angry you were." She told him, getting up in his face again, her slender hands now bawled into fists.
"I'm sorry for saying what I did, but I'm not sorry for thinking the worst when I saw Jason in your bed." House replied.
"Why is it so hard for you to trust me?" She asked him while throwing her hands up in the air.
"I do trust you." House said, "I just don't trust Jason." He tried to explain.
"This has nothing to do with Jason, you either trust me or you don't, it's that simple." Cuddy argued back at him.
"That's easy for you to say because you've never felt what's it's like to have someone you trust hurt you, or screw you over." House said in his defense as his deepest fear came rising up from inside of him.
Cuddy rested her hand on his chest. looking up at him and wondering if he really understood what had just happened between them.
"House, I've trusted you more than any other person in my life, and just a few minutes ago, you hurt me more than anyone else in my life ever has, so, according to your logic, I should just give up on you before you can hurt me again…right?" She countered.
He held their gaze for a few seconds, his blue eyes tracing over every feature on her face.
He had been selfish, and angry, and yes ...deeply hurt at the thought of her being with someone else, and as all of those thoughts seeped into his brain, he moved past her, leaving her behind.
Cuddy closed her eyes as she stood alone in the room with the open door now between them and her heart preparing her for the worst .
And then, House spoke once more, his words moving up from behind her as he stood inside the hallway.
"Lisa Cuddy is the smartest person I know, and I'm a fucking idiotic. Also, the only penis inside of her vagina for the past two and a half years has been mine." He shouted down to the group of students who had been watching them earlier and who were still standing there, quietly whispering to each other.
"Are you insane?" Cuddy asked him as she walked out into the hallway with him.
He pulled her close. "It's all you fault if I am." He told her with a grin, a sudden high, rushing through his veins as the girl in his arms looked up at him with a cute, but somewhat irritated expression.
"Actually, the people standing down there are going to think I'm crazy for being with someone like you. Good thing I don't give a fuck what they think." She whispered up to him before she leaned in and kissed him, feeling his strong arms wrapping around her waist and pulling her close to him as the rest of the world faded into the background.
