House took in his surroundings. He was surprised at how much Nolan's office stayed the same. He would have expected a different picture to be hung, or new chairs, but it was all exactly how he remembered it looking, and felt oddly comforted by it.

"Would you like me to start?" Nolan asked.

"You can if you want," House shrugged.

"It's good to see you."

"You probably say that to everyone."

"True, but, I only really mean it for some people."

House smiled at Nolan amused by his answer. He inhaled and spoke. "Cuddy asked me to dinner Friday night, at her place."

Nolan leaned forward in his chair, "is this the first time you'll be at her new place since the incident?"

"Since I drove my car into her old house? Yes, it is."

"Was this her idea, or yours?"

"It was hers."

Nolan widened his eyes and got out of his leaning position to one more comfortable. "This is good."

"How is it good? What if I do something stupid again?"

Nolan furrowed his brow at House, leaning forward again, "you want to move forward and past this with her don't you?"

"Of course I do."

"Then, you'll have to know where she lives eventually. The fact that she has become comfortable enough to invite you over and take that step is good."

House fell into silence. He stared out the window while holding his cane in his right hand, bouncing the tip of it on the floor rhythmically while thinking over how this was good. He stopped after his fifth bounce and held his cane steady, and his eyes found Nolan's again. "The thing that bothers me is it seems soon."

"Is it though? If you think about how long it has been since she worked at Princeton with you, to the time she came back, and then the time it took her after coming back to get to this point, is it really too soon for you? Or, are you not sure you want this to happen, afraid that you'll push her away again somehow?"

"How do you know all this if this is the first time I've seen you since," House paused thinking back, "since the last time I've seen you?"

"Scott gave me notes."

House scowled, "that Scott has a big mouth."

"It was better than the alternative; wait for you to tell me everything and that could take months. We're both trying to help you, House. He shared his notes with me the same way I shared mine with him to get to know you. To know what we are dealing with."

House didn't retort back. He saw logic in their note sharing and steered the conversation back to what was on his mind. "I don't want to push her away."

"Then accept her offer, go to dinner, and see what happens." Nolan watched House as he looked at the table that sat in between them and started bouncing his cane again, thinking over the advice he was just given. "Is there anything else that has been bothering you lately?" Nolan asked, trying to get House to talk more by having him focus on something else until he is ready to talk about Cuddy.

"Are you trying to hint to me that we should be talking about something else?" House inquired, stopping his cane from bouncing again while looking away from the table, back at Nolan.

Nolan shrugged, "I don't know, are you getting along with your team? Are there any patients you want to talk about? I know some of them can bother you if you have a hard case."

"No, my team and I are fine, and my patients have been cured."

"Okay," Nolan made himself comfortable in his chair. The tactic of a different subject didn't work so he had to push a little harder to start the conversation that he knew House wanted to have. "Then let's talk about Cuddy. Start from the beginning. What was going through your mind when you saw her show up as your visitor when you were a patient in the hospital?"

"Didn't you just tell me you have notes on all of this?" House asked, trying to get out of a conversation he wasn't sure he wanted to have yet.

"I do. But, I'd still like to hear it from you. You may be feeling something that aren't in these notes, and I'd like to find out what they are," Nolan replied calmly, pushing a little more.

House sighed and mirrored Nolan by making himself more comfortable, knowing that when Nolan talks to him the way he just did, there won't be anyway he can weasel out of talking. House began telling him the story of being admitted into the hospital and finding out Wilson had made the call to Cuddy by her showing up and what had happened since that day...