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"You paged mistress?" House entered Cuddy's office in his usual manner. He noted a woman was sitting opposite her at the desk.
"You sent my sister to the morgue!"
"What..." House was baffled until he saw the woman turn around and face him.
The woman's hair was now matted and her eye makeup ran down her face. House smirked looking at her. He didn't care if she was Cuddy's sister, she deserved it.
"In my defence I didn't know she was your sister. Didn't know you had such an anal sister, thought you were unique."
He received a glare from both of them.
"Ah see, now I see the resemblance."
"I want this thing fired!" Cuddy's sister shouted turning back to face her.
Cuddy looked at her in disgust.
"God Tina! You really think the sun shines out of your ass don't you."
House was shocked. She was taking his side.
"What?" Tina asked.
"You look down on everybody!"
"I do not!"
"You do! Ok I'm not agreeing 100% with Dr. House's actions but I'm not disagreeing with them either."
"You're saying that thing is a Doctor?" She signalled towards House.
House was getting irritated by being referred to as a thing and would normally step in and put her down, but he was kind of enjoying Cuddy's insults towards her own sister in his defence.
"Yes. He is. And a bloody good one too. Plus he earns triple your salary, something you can only wish of doing."
"Well he should dress like one. He looks like a tramp."
"You look like a slapper. I could point you in the direction of a street corner?"
House's mouth dropped. He knew she could be evil, but that was brilliant he thought.
"You bitch!"
"Takes one to know one." Cuddy didn't care how immature she just sounded, her sister really wound her up at times.
"I'll be back in a minute, I'm off to get some jello to throw on you two." House turned to leave.
"You're staying!" Cuddy shouted.
By her tone House knew he'd be dead if he didn't stay and limped over to Cuddy's couch to get a better seat of the action.
"Why are you even here Tina?"
"To visit my sister. Wish I hadn't bothered!"
"Yeah right. You only visit me if you want something."
"I wanted to take you to lunch, but forget it." Tina stood and straightened her outfit.
"I don't doubt that." Cuddy said walking up to her.
Cuddy studied her face for a second when it finally hit.
"You want my car."
"What?" Tina was awful at looking surprised.
"I told mum that I was thinking of selling my car and treating myself to a new one. You heard and your here to take me to lunch to ask for it."
"I can't believe you would think that!"
The conversation was getting heated and they were on the verge of shouting.
"I haven't heard from you in two years when I lended you a grand! Of course that's what you want."
"Can I have the car?" House interjected.
"Shut up!" Both women shouted at him.
House did as he was told for once. Having two women with Cuddy's temperament was enough to scare anyone.
"So?" Cuddy asked.
"Ok I admit it that's why I was here! But I was going to offer you something in return." She smiled.
Cuddy rolled her eyes.
"Really?" She replied with no enthusiasm.
"Yes. You know Charles?"
"Your husband?"
"No, ex-husband. He passed away." Tina's smirk stayed.
"I'm not surprised, he was 100 when you married him."
"86 actually."
"Ok, I'm bored now." House interjected again trying his luck. "If you're not going to have a cat fight can I please go home."
"House, it's the afternoon. Go to work if you're bored."
"How does that cure boredom? My programme's on soon and it looks so much better on our TV than the crappy excuse for a TV in my office."
Tina turned back to Cuddy after looking at House.
"Our?" She picked up on it when he talked about the couple's TV.
"Yes." Cuddy replied. "He's my..." She paused. They were in a relationship but never called him her boyfriend before and knowing House he wouldn't really like that term much.
"Sex slave." House finished for her.
"Hmm.." Tina looked at him with disgust. "Anyway. Charles is my new soon to be Husband, and before you say anything he's 40. Anyway, his friend is perfect for you. I was going to set you up."
"I'm fine thanks. Last time you set me up the guy couldn't calculate how to split a bill that came to twenty dollars."
"He was fit though."
"I'm very happy with my... husband." Cuddy reluctantly spoke.
It's fair to say House's face was a picture of pure shock and confusion but he caught her look of "please play along." Normally he wouldn't and would love to just screw with her further but her sister was driving him crazy. He wished she was a guy so he could just smack some sense into her.
Tina looked at them both.
"Where are your rings?"
"I lost it while fin..." House began.
Cuddy knew instantly what he was about to say and showed a face of disgust before cutting him off.
"We don't wear them at work as it gets messy. Don't want to ruin them."
"Ok." Tina believed them. To be honest she wanted to get out of there seeing she wasn't going to get Cuddy's car. "I best be leaving then."
"If you have to." Cuddy said opening her office door for her.
Both women reluctantly hugged. She didn't hate her sister, just wished she wasn't such... well a bitch!
"Bye." Cuddy said a breathed a sigh of relief when she left.
"Thanks for that." Cuddy said passing House as she sat next to him on the couch.
"No problem. Why the whole husband act though?"
"Because she would never have let up on going to see her boyfriend's fit friend. I can't deal with her. She's such..."
"A bitch?" House finished.
"Yeah. Basically."
"Just watch the pasta."
"Why do I have to do it?" House whined.
"Will you answer the phone?"
"Fair point."
Cuddy was preparing dinner when the phone rang. House sat at the counter playing his Gameboy not offering to help. This was House don't forget.
"Hello?" Cuddy answered in the hallway.
"Lisa Catherine Cuddy why did you not tell me you were married?!"
"Hi mom."
"Well? Can I have an explanation please for why you married that employee of yours, House isn't it? I know you have always had a thing for him but..."
Cuddy looked up as she interrupted her mother. She could see House standing in the doorway to her kitchen holding another receiver with his hand over the mouthpiece. He looked at her questionably when he heard her mother say that last line.
"Mom, I'm not married."
"But Tina said..."
"I told Tina to get her off my back. How did you know it was House anyway?"
"She described him as a tramp posing as a doctor with a limp."
House mouthed 'nice' to Cuddy which made her silently giggle.
"What do you mean it?"
"What?" Cuddy was confused.
"You asked me, how did I know it was House. You're together aren't you?" She stated rather than questioned.
Before Cuddy could answer, House shouted with his hand still over the mouthpiece of his receiver so it could be heard through Cuddy's but from a distance.
"Sex muffin! These whips won't lash themselves!"
Cuddy pointed towards House then with the same finger pretended to slash her neck, basically with the glare she was giving him, House was a dead man.
He gulped and limped fast towards the bedroom after putting the receiver back from the lounge.
"Lisa! Did he say what I think..."
"Mom, he's joking."
"So your with him?"
"Yes."
"How long?"
Cuddy's thoughts were going wild. How long exactly had it been now...
"Shit."
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing. It's been about four months. I was just shocked, has gone so fast. Look mom I got to go." Cuddy said hearing the pasta boiling over.
"OK, well phone me soon so we can have a proper chat."
"Sure thing. Love you."
"Love you, Bye Lisa."
Cuddy placed the phone back and took a deep breath in as she hurried to turn off the pasta.
"HOUSE!!" She screamed heading towards the bedroom.
As she walked in she noticed the light was off and the room was empty. Suddenly she heard the door slam behind her and she was surrounded by darkness.
"House. I obviously know that's you."
He remained quiet as he made his way slowly over to her, abandoning his cane by the door.
"You're not mad." He breathed on her neck as he faced her.
She jumped back slightly and had a sudden case of de-ja-vu.
"What's this, re-enactment of the supply room?"
"I guess you could say that," He said as he kissed her neck.
"I hate you."
"I hate you too."
They both smirked as they found each other's lips.
"I thought you were hungry. You pestered me for half an hour to make you food." Cuddy said as she pulled away.
"I am, but now for something other than pasta."
"How do you know you're going to get it?"
"Because it's me, I always get what I want."
"You can't always get what you want." Cuddy spun around and took a step away from him.
He grabbed her arm and pulled her back into his chest in one swift movement.
"But if you try sometimes, you get what you need." He began kissing her neck again as he laid her down on the bed.
"You're an ass." She smiled up at him.
"Ass you love."
She rolled her eyes and pulled him down on top of her into another air constricting kiss to prove in fact he was an ass that she loved.
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Suddenly an overwhelming pain struck his stomach, thigh and head. He began to hear something, it was muffled at first... but he could swear he heard... was that the wombat he thought?
"Well done guys, now can we stitch him back up before anything else goes wrong. After that it's straight to the neurology. He needs a full work up, Cuddy's worried after he fell hitting his head."
Cuddy's worried about him? House thought. Suddenly a more pressing matter hit him. As his pain hit 10/10 on the scale he thought, stitch him up?!? Was he... no... he couldn't be...
"Wait what's this..." a nurse began.
A tear fell down House's face out of the corner of his taped eye.
"That's a tear," Chase began. "Shit! He's awake. House is awake."
Cuddy suddenly shouted over the telecom device. She was still watching.
"Who the fuck administrated the dose to put him under."
A nurse slowly raised her hand.
"You're fired!"
Go Cuddy, House thought still suffering through the pain. He was unable to move, he was grateful that someone had seen the tear that he didn't even realise he cried. It was just a reaction to the amount of pain he was in.
"For fuck sake he's not on any pain medication yet! Put him back under!" Chase shouted.
House heard Cuddy mumble something just as he fell back into unconsciousness...
"Please House, don't leave me..." Her voice faded......
House suddenly woke up surrounded by darkness as he sat up in bed. The reminder of the amount of pain he was in when in surgery made his stomach churn. But a smile appeared on his face when he remembered what Cuddy had said to him as he was drifting back into unconsciousness.
He had refused to believe what he had heard even after talking to Wilson that time in the hospital...
"You know how she feels about you, so if you feel the same..." Wilson began.
"I don't know how she feels about me..." House interrupted.
"Oh bullshit you don't."
House was taken aback by Wilson's sudden change of tone. He looked back up at Wilson.
"You guys slept together, kissed her a few weeks ago and I won't be surprised if you have kissed since. Not to mention what she said to you while you were awake on the table."
"How do you know about that?" House asked.
"Chase was there and heard it too. So you can't deny it as a drug induced dream or anything. It started the rumour mills up again about you too."
"I'm gonna kill that wombat."
House smiled at the memory. He looked to his right to see Cuddy beginning to stir. She turned over and opened her eyes.
"You ok?" She asked sleepily seeing him sat upright staring at her.
"Fine." He still had a smile on his face as he laid back down beside her, now facing each other. He put a hand on her bare back and gently rubbed up and down.
Cuddy turned to see the time. It was four am. She groaned as she turned back to look at House still smirking at her.
"Why are you up so early and why have you got that stupid smug grin on your face?" She smirked herself and raised an eyebrow. Her voice still groggy from not being fully awake.
"Just had a dream, that's all."
"About?" Cuddy was interested but closed her eyes. It always took her ages to fully wake up.
Before House could say another word he heard a light snore come from Cuddy's mouth.
He shook his head and chuckled. He leaned over to kiss her on the forehead.
"Love you Lisa."
As he closed his eyes and began to drift back into a deep slumber he heard a very faint murmur...
"Love you too Greg."
(No mean cliffhanger this time! Just Huddy! lol)