Hello everyone! Sorry for not updating sooner but I had many things to do and not enough time... Anyway, here is the next chapter, ready for you to read! I hope that you are enjoying my story so far, and thank you all for your comments and reviews:-)
Chapter 36: A typical morning
The next morning House woke up by Cameron's gentle touch. He could feel her delicate fingers drawing lazy circles on his bare chest.
He wasn't able to suppress the small smile that grazed his features, something that didn't go unnoticed by her.
"What are you smiling at?" she asked him in a low tone and buried her head in the crook of his neck where she placed a soft kiss.
"Nothing…" he mumbled and hugged her closer to him.
"Yeah right… Come on, wake up! We have to get to the hospital." She replied and placed one last kiss on his lips.
"Oh, do we have to?" he whined and took her pillow and covered his head with it.
"We kind of have to… It's our job, remember?" she said and made her way to the bathroom.
When she emerged from the bathroom twenty minutes later she found House still in bed, lying on his stomach and snoring lightly. She smiled to herself and got dressed. Then she headed to the kitchen where she made breakfast and coffee. After having breakfast she wrote a note for House. She went to their bedroom, placed the note next to his Vicodin and after kissing him softly on the forehead she drove off to the hospital.
House woke up an hour later to the sound of his mobile phone. He reached out to catch it and brought it up to look at the screen.
1 New Message it wrote
"Of course it's you…" he mumbled when he saw her name written on the screen.
Wake up sleepy head!
"Well at least you let me sleep for a while…" he said out loud after reading her message and reached for his pills but grabbed her note instead.
You'd better get out of bed and come to work or I will send Cuddy to come for you…
P.S. there is coffee in the kitchen
Love, Allison
He smirked and dropped the note on the nightstand. He downed one pill and got out of bed, the hot coffee in the kitchen being the only thought in his mind.
He managed to drag himself to the hospital sometime before ten. He entered his office and found Anderson, Johnson and Gilmore sitting around the glass table.
Johnson and Gilmore were reading the new medical journal and Anderson was going through the department's mail.
The next thing that caught his attention was the small Christmas tree that stood in the middle of the table, decorated with Christmas lights and candy canes. When he cast his look around the room he saw that it was, too, decorated with many ornaments.
He smirked. There was only one person that would do al these things. And that person was definitely not in the conference room. But he decided that it would be fun to play with the minds of the three people that occupied the room at the moment.
"Good morning my little minions!" he exclaimed and took one of the candy canes in his hand.
"What are those?" he asked before they could respond to his greeting.
"Candy canes, I assume…" said Johnson and House turned to look at him intently.
"Candy canes? Are you three mocking me?" he asked with an incredulous look on his face, startling all of them.
"We didn't do it!" exclaimed Gilmore.
"It was already there when we came in!" continued Anderson.
"We have nothing to do with that!" concluded Johnson.
House just stood there, looking at his employees and smirking. It was hard for him not to burst into laughter while watching his three fellows mumbling incoherently, trying desperately to convince him that they had nothing to do with the decorations.
"Are you torturing your employees again?" came Cameron's voice and made everyone in the room turn to look at her.
"What can I say? It's my favorite pastime!" exclaimed House and handed her the candy cane he was holding.
"Yeah, I haven't lost my memory yet." She said and gave him one of her beautiful smiles.
"Ok people! I think I tortured you enough for this hour. The tree and the decorations are Dr. Cameron's doing so you are free to do my clinic hours!" he said enthusiastically and tossed his name tag to Johnson.
"You first…" he said and headed to his office leaving behind an annoyed Johnson, Gilmore and Anderson bewildered and an amused Cameron.
"You'll get used to it. I think…" she told them with a sympathetic smile and headed to his office. When she entered she found him stretched out in his big armchair.
"Did you have to threaten me that you would send Cuddy? I got really scared mommy!" he pouted and crossed his arms across his chest.
"Right…" she dragged out.
"Hey! It was scary!" he said defensively and caught her small hand in his much bigger one in order to drag her down and make her sit on his good leg.
"By the way, how come she hasn't barged in yet to drag me to the clinic?" he asked curiously.
"Oh, I got news for you…" she said, smiling mischievously.
"Do tell…" he said with a glint in his eyes.
"You are such a kid at times like these… Anyway… Well, our dear friend James and our administrator haven't come in yet." She concluded and she saw his eyes widen in surprise.
"You have got to be kidding me!" he said incredulously.
"No, I'm not…" she said, laughing lightly.
"Boy, they're in trouble…" he said and dropped his head on her shoulder in order to kiss the skin of her neck.
"You aren't going to let them live a day without mentioning it, aren you?" she asked him, already starting to get distracted by his ministrations.
"No way…" he mumbled and continued placing small kisses on her neck.
"As much as I like that I really need to check on my patients…" she said and got up from his lap before he could tighten his embrace around her body.
"Fine… your loss…" he said.
"What are you going to do?" she asked him.
"Are you kidding me again? I don't have a patient, my team is completing my clinic hours, Cuddy isn't here yet to torture me, this is heaven!" he exclaimed, raising his eyebrows at her and making her laugh.
"Ok, but when you get bored don't barge into my office…" she said and made her way to the door.
"I wouldn't bet on that!" he shouted and saw her waving her hand at him without turning back to look.
He smiled to himself and turned his TV on. He knew that it wouldn't take long till he did exactly what she told him not to.
Indeed, it didn't take long time for House to get bored. He tossed his IPod on the desk, took his cane and started making his way to Cameron's office.
But he didn't get the chance to get there since, when he got out of his office, he saw Wilson outside his office door struggling to unlock it.
Time to have some fun… he thought and changed his direction to his best friend's office.
"Oi Wilson!" he shouted and made Wilson turn and look at him.
When he faced House he saw a wide smug grin on his face and he knew from that moment that he was going to have a long day…
"Good morning House…" he replied and turned his attention back to the keys he was holding in his hand.
"Had a good night last night?" he asked and took the key from his friend's hands and unlocked the door.
Wilson stared at him in disbelief for a moment and then entered his office, followed by House who went and lied on the sofa that was in the room. Wilson ignored him and went to sit on the chair next to his desk after depositing his bag and coat.
"Either you got really lucky last night and you are toying with me or something went really bad… Did she make you sleep outside on the rug?" House said and turned to observe Wilson who was now reading something and smiling gently.
He got up much more quietly than the average man who walks with a cane and snatched the small piece of paper out of Wilson's hands.
"Hey! That was mine!" he exclaimed.
"Exactly. Key word here being was." House said took a minute to read the note.
Thank you for last night
Love, Lisa…
"Now, that's what I call juicy! I could make copies of this and hand it out." He exclaimed cheerfully but stopped abruptly at his friend's glare.
"But I think I won't because Allison is going to get mad and then I won't get any…" he added thoughtfully and made Wilson smile lightly and shake his head.
"You are never going to change, are you?" asked Wilson and received a look of utter bewilderment from House.
"But I am adorable the way I am, why change?" he asked and collapsed again on the couch.
"So I take it last night went well after all…" he said and Wilson gave him a wide smile.
"Please erase that goofy smile from your face; I can't tolerate all that sappiness!" said House with his usual sarcastic tone.
"It didn't go well… It went excellent!" Wilson replied and the smile on his face grew even wider. "And thank you for your help…" he said and his tone turned serious.
"Not my plan. Alison did the entire job, I thought you two were going to either kill each other and stain my carpet or shag on my couch… Thank God, nothing like that happened." He said and got up from the couch.
"Yeah, I know that, but you actually behaved yourself." Wilson said gratefully. "Does that mean that the great Gregory House is maturing?" asked Wilson playfully.
"In your dreams! Anyway, got to go! Cuddy is here so I need to hide… See you around Jimmy boy, you are buying lunch!" he said and exited the room, leaving behind a smirking Wilson.
"Cameron was in her office, doing some paperwork when she heard a soft knock on the door.
When she looked she saw Mary and Blythe looking back at her with wide smiles on their faces.
"Come in!" she said and both women entered the office and went to give her a hug and a kiss.
"Hey, what are you two doing here?" she asked them. "Don't tell me you went shopping again!"
"No sweety, we just thought that you would need some help and here we are!"
"Are you two going to check on my patients?" she said, adopting House's tone.
"You spend way too much time with my son! We are here to help you with the wedding preparations! You know, there isn't much time left till Christmas." Said Blythe.
"Oh, yeah, right. By the way, I hope you didn't wake up the whole neighborhood when we called yesterday and told you." Cameron said with a teasing smile.
"Well… It's not every day that our kids get married…" said Blythe shyly.
"And besides, it wasn't too late…" said Mary.
"Riiight…" Cameron dragged out, the smile never leaving her lips.
"Sooo, back to our point! We are going to plan everything and you are just going to pick up your wedding gown and Greg's tux." Said Mary in an authoritative tone.
"Yes mother…" replied Cameron playfully making the older women laugh.
The three women continued talking about the plans for the wedding when a loud knock this time interrupted them. When they turned to see who it was at the door they saw none other than Greg House.
"Since when do you knock?" asked Cameron when he entered the office.
"Since I want to get on your nerves for banging on the door?" he asked teasingly and leaned down in order to place a quick kiss on her lips.
"Are you here to listen about the wedding honey?" asked Blythe, not that she didn't already know the answer.
"Who me? I'm just hiding here, don't mind me…" he said and went to lie on the couch.
"I thought it was your wedding too." Said Blythe to her son.
"Really? I didn't know that, thank you for the useful information!" he replied and lied back down on the couch.
"You know that you'll have to go and pick up your tux, don't you?" asked Cameron, raising her eyebrows at him.
"I knew that I had forgotten about something when I proposed. Damn…" he replied in his usual tone making Cameron roll her eyes.
"Well, don't worry about that either. I have a good friend where you'll go this week to buy the tux and the wedding gown. I've already called her and you are going on Wednesday." Stated Mary seriously.
"Wednesday? What about the soccer game I want to watch?" asked House with an incredulous look.
"Greg!" Both Mary and Blythe said, scolding him.
"Don't worry, I have that one covered. He is going to be there on time." Said Cameron reassuringly.
"Oh yeah? And what makes you so sure?" he asked and stood up in order to stand in front of her.
"Trust me, you are not going to like the consequences if you don't go…" she stated and he leaned closer, their faces now inches away, his hands resting on either side of her chair.
"Are you threatening me?" he asked in a low tone.
"Maybe…" she replied in the same low tone.
"Ahem, I think it's time for us to go." Stated Blythe and made them break their eye-lock.
"Yes, many things to plan. Oh, honey, you need to tell me how many people you are going to invite so we can pick up the invitations…" said Mary.
"Oh, not many… Some relatives and close friends. We are going to call you tonight and tell you exactly the number."
"Okay sweety…"
"We'll see you two tomorrow!" said Blythe and kissed House and Cameron goodbye and after Mary did the same the left the hospital.
"Am I supposed to get worried about all this?" asked House when their mothers were out of sight.
"I don't think so… They really want to make this perfect for us and plus we won't have extra job in our hands. They are helping a lot…" said Cameron and stood from her chair and went to sit on House's good leg.
"But I still have to go and pick up my tux…" he whined and rested his right hand on her swollen belly.
"It would be kind of weird if our mothers went to try on your tux, wouldn't it?" she said with a smirk and claimed his lips with hers, capturing them in a gentle and lazy kiss.
"I knew you would be here!" Cuddy's voice made them break apart and look at the door. There stood their boss, with her hands resting on her hips and an authoritative look grazing her features. But they both had to admit that there was something different about her that morning.
"Oh, Cuddles! I was wondering when you would barge in here. How are the girls this morning?" asked House and earned a slap in the arm from Cameron.
"Guess who is looking for you! CLINIC. NOW." She said seriously.
"I checked my e-mail… No one by the name Clinic Now was looking for me. Tell him that if he wants to desperately communicate with me to call my office. I'm sure that Anderson or Gilmore will pick it up." he said with a smirk.
"Very funny House…"
"And, anyway, I thought that you had a good night yesterday, why do you keep torturing me?" he asked with raised eyebrows.
"Because you keep torturing me about the same thing! If you actually did your job things would be a lot easier for everyone!"
"Yes, but it wouldn't be fun… If you didn't have me avoiding the clinic then you would get extremely bored and a bored administrator isn't a productive one. I'm doing you a favor!" he said seriously.
Cameron laughed and Cuddy shook her head, a small smile grazing her lips.
"Well, that's an inventive excuse, don't you think?" asked Cameron and stood up.
"I think I am going to check on my patients. See you later Lisa, maybe lunch if you are free?"
"I'd love to. See you later Allison."
"Good luck with him…" said Cameron and started for the door.
"What about me? No 'see you later Greg', no 'I love you', no nothing? I'm hurt right now; I can't go to the clinic…"
Cameron just shook her head and left the room leaving House and Cuddy behind.
"So how is Wilson?" asked House before she could talk.
"No matter what you ask you are still going to the clinic." She said defiantly.
"You are no fun…" he pouted and got up.
"Are you going to the clinic?" Cuddy asked hopefully.
"In your dreams!" he shouted back as he exited the office "It's lunch time, I'm going to harass your boyfriend!"
Cuddy shook her head and followed him out of the room.
"For the last time, stop stalking me, I will not have sex with you, I am with Allison now!" he shouted making every head turn to look at them.
"Will you just stop being a baby for one minute?" she asked him and came to stand in front of him, effectively blocking his way.
"Fine. Talk."
"I just wanted to say thank you… for last night…" she said in barely above a whisper.
"Allison. Not me… And I'm not that stupid to ruin my friends' relationship, I wouldn't do anything stupid." he replied.
"Yeah, I know… I'm going to talk with Allison later…"she said and started heading for her office.
"Does that mean that I don't have clinic duty today?" he asked hopefully.
"Not a chance House. Clinic is waiting for you." She said and left him standing in the middle of the corridor.
"Anderson! Clinic!" he yelled and started heading for his own office. It was definitely going to be a long week…