Chapter 34

"House," said Chase as he entered the office. "I've gotta talk to you..."

House rolled his eyes. Here we go.

"What is it?" asked the usual, worried Cameron. "What's wrong?"

Chase took a deep breath and let out a great big wombat sigh. This was going to be hard to explain, and he couldn't help but feel that he'd be doing House's (and maybe even Cameron's) clinic duty for the next month or two. "Now, before I tell you, promise you won't get mad?"

Cameron and House glanced in each other's direction before sending daggers back to Chase.

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Foreman had made his way down to the clinic to finish off his hours now that the hospital was back in full swing from the Chase-Cameron Kiss. Still, he couldn't help but hear the words 'Chase,' 'Cameron,' or 'Kiss' anywhere he went. The words of gossip were usually coming from a nurse, but you'd be surprised how many doctors liked to spread the rumors as well...

"Dr. Foreman," smiled Nurse Katie, "Come back to finish off your hours?"

Foreman nodded, but not before casting an uneasy glance in Brenda's direction.

"What was that for?" asked Katie who was now looking curiously at Brenda. Nothing got past this woman, well, at least no look or word...

"What was what for?" retorted Foreman as if nothing had happened. He simply signed into the chart and grabbed a file quickly before anyone made him spill his guts about the conversation he had overheard in House's office.

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Cuddy was flustered. She was shaking her head back and forth in her office. Her elbows were rested on her desk and she had her temples rested in her fingertips. She was trying to concentrate, but she couldn't.

"Would you stop?" said Wilson. "It's going to be okay..."

"This is not going to work," said Cuddy, "Nope. Definitely not going to work." Her distress was becoming very obvious, and Wilson was doing his best to comfort her, but it wasn't working out very well.

"Why are you fretting so much anyways?" asked Wilson. "If it DOESN'T work out, then all that happens is people find out that Chase isn't sleeping with Cameron... how does this affect you?"

"BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL THINKING I'M SLEEPING WITH BRENDA, MORON," shouted Cuddy. A few patients from the clinic cast a glance towards her office, as well as a few nurses (but not our favorite two, darn). Cuddy slapped her palm to her mouth. Definitely shouted THAT too loud. "It's not going to work..." she mumbled in hysterics again. "And people will think I'm sleeping with the head nurse!"

"Shhhh," mumbled Wilson. He put his finger to his mouth to quiet her down. He was looking around to see if anyone was still looking. No one. Cuddy got up from her desk and started pacing her office. Wilson put his hands on her shoulders to stop her in her tracks. "Stop. Please. You're going crazy over nothing. It WILL work, and... wait, why do people think you're sleeping with Brenda?" Cuddy sighed.

It turns out the reason behind the rumors was standing right outside her office door, well, walking by. She'd managed to catch a glimpse of Wilson... with his hands... on Cuddy's... chest?! No way. Back to your stations, everyone, we've got some new dirt on the hospital administrator!

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Chase looked at House and Cameron once more before talking. Their glares were making him more nervous than Katie had already made him with her comments. "Would you two stop staring at me like that?"

"SPILL IT, WOMBAT!" shouted Cameron and House in unison.

Chase was taken aback by their threatening and rather odd sync. "Okay," said Chase, "I may have ACCIDENTALLY... now I did say ACCIDENTALLY... told NurseKatiethatyoutwoweredating." Chase turned around to run away.

House thought he had heard something about Chase and Katie dating, but he wasn't sure. "What was that?" asked House. Cameron looked up at Chase as well.

"I... ACCIDENTALLY... told... Nurse Katie that you two... were... dating," said Chase. He took a deep breath before turning to leave.

"You WHAT?" shouted Cameron. "But we had a plan! How could you? How is that an ACCIDENT?"

House was a little upset by the fact that the nurses now knew about him and Cameron, which meant that the whole hospital would soon know, but hey... this scene between Chase and Cameron was priceless. Besides, since when did he care what people said? All he cared about was what they did. And right now, he was very please with what Chase and Cameron were doing...

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Foreman had emerged from an exam room, ready to get his next file, when Katie stopped him.

"What was that look you gave Brenda for?" Her curiousty piqued now after seeing Foreman's response to Brenda, not to mention her new gossip about Wilson and Cuddy.

Foreman sighed and rolled his eyes. "Promise you won't tell anyone?"

Katie beamed. "I promise!"

Foreman looked around to make sure no one was listening before he summarized the conversation he'd heard in House's office.

"Wait," said Katie when Foreman had finished. "So Chase and Cameron are dating...? But they're breaking up... because Chase slept with CUDDY?"

Foreman nodded.

Katie huffed. "That doesn't make sense at all."

"Why not?" asked Foreman.

"Because," said Katie, "I just heard from Chase that House and Cameron were dating and I just SAW Wilson practically cupping Cuddy. I mean... this really doesn't make sense!"

"Maybe," said Foreman, eager to get to the bottom of this, "Maybe Chase AND Cameron were cheating on each other! Chase was sleeping with Cuddy, and Cameron with House? And now that they're breaking up, Cameron is going to House? And..."

"That still doesn't explain Cuddy," mumbled Katie.

"Well," said Foreman with a shrug, "Maybe Wilson just couldn't resist her low-cut top." He meant it as a joke, but Katie wouldn't take it that way, of course.

Katie giggled before heading back to her nurse's station. Time to tell Brenda the news.