Chapter 36
House entered the office of Wilson without knocking and then smacked his cane on his desk.
"Are you ok?" Wilson asked, taken aback.
"I'd like to know why you enjoy annoying me!" House said frustrated.
"I've not done anything" Wilson said defensively.
"While I walked down here, I felt almost like Mel Gibson at the Oscars! Every nurse was staring at me!".
Wilson chuckled amused at the thought of House at the Oscars.
"Are you having fun?" he asked angrily.
"What do you want from me? You want me in tears?" Wilson asked frustrated.
"It's all your fault. You talked about my story to flirt with some nurse or with some dying patient!".
"Hey I told you, I haven't done anything. Stop...By the way, Cameron is really pregnant?".
"WHAT! No, she isn't! I'd not have had the time to make her..." House babbled, sitting on a chair and whirling his cane "Ok, what else? I already know the rumor that she's dying...".
"Well in general, there's a lot of confusion around. Someone thinks that you're Wellins from Geriatrics and I don't know why. Oh, I've heard that you're doing it to make Cuddy jealous".
"Good, we hit bottom. These rumors must end" he said seriously.
House stood up and opened the door. Wilson stared at him confused.
"Do you want to screw everything up again?" Wilson asked afraid.
House didn't answer and closed the door loudly.
"We've stopped the infarction" Chase reported, reaching him outside Wilson's office.
"But now she's jaundiced. The liver is getting worse" Foreman cut in.
"Where's Cameron?" House asked, looking at them.
"Clinic. Have you heard us?" Foreman asked annoyed.
"Sure, jundiced and liver".
House went away, followed by them. Foreman smirked when he saw some nurses and doctors watching House, sneering.
"This situation is absurd..." House muttered frustrated.
"House, we'd like to know what do you want to do with our patient" Foreman said, still smiling.
House felt nervous, people was still staring at him. Chase was smirking like an idiot and House knew that Foreman already knew everything. He couldn't focus now.
"Budd-Chiari" House said after a while.
"You've said it just to say something?" Chase asked sarcastically.
"No, no, wait. It doesn't match with the anaemia and the Urosepsis" Foreman said.
"When she's arrived here, she was anaemic; and for the Urosepsis, well, we were wrong".
"You were wrong" Foreman corrected him.
"Ah, I see: when I'm right, you take the credits; when I'm wrong, everybody runs away" House pointed out.
House approached the elevators still followed by Foreman and Chase.
Cameron came out from one of them in that moment and House looked at her, surprised.
"What are you doing here?".
"They told me that Ally was getting worse" Cameron said, confused.
"Ok, it's the Budd-Chiari" House informed her.
"It's not the Budd-Chiari. You've said it because you were nervous because of the nurses staring at you" Foreman said annoyed.
House turned and glared at him. Foreman smirked amused.
"Sure, I love saying diagnosis at random! I've said the Budd-Chiari, go treat her!" House ordered.
House turned suddenly and collided hardly with Cameron.
"Sorry, you're ok?" House asked.
Subconsciously, he grabbed her hand. She glared at him, wanting to remind him where they were. Some nurse pointed at them both amused and astonished. Foreman and Chase chuckled.
"Oh God! You come with me" House pulled Cameron's hand and got into the elevator "You treat the patient!" House barked at Foreman and Chase while the doors closed.
"What treatment? We still don't know what she has" Chase said, confused.
Suddenly, Foreman ran to the stairs. Chase followed him.
"Where are you going?".
"House is going to do some crazy thing and I want to be there!" Foreman said smirking.
House reached the hall of the hospital with Cameron, who was watching him astonished.
"What are you doing?" she asked afraid.
"We have to end this story" House informed her.
House went to the nurse's station and took the microphone.
"Good evening everybody! I'd like to have your attention for a minute or two" House said, his voice echoed through the hospital.
Every person in the clinic looked at him, confused. Cuddy went out from her office, glaring at him confused, followed by Wilson who was with her in her office.
Foreman and Chase arrived there just in time.
House smirked and turned to Cameron, smiling at her.
"I've always wanted to be an actor" House whispered to her "Good! Now that you're listening to me, first I want to thank you, doctor Cameron and I are delighted to be the subject of the hospital's gossip. But I want to correct some news I've heard: she's not dying; I'm not Wellins from Geriatrics!; she's not pregnant; I'm very good in bed, apart from my leg; she won't have a pay rise because she's going out with me; I'm not sleeping with Cuddy! Who said that! No offence, Lisa. Ok, now I want to say that yes, doctor Cameron and I have a relationship and it's none of your business, but since I'm sure that you don't understand it because you're not so smart, I'll show you my point practically".
House left the microphone on the counter and turned to an astonished Cameron. He smirked.
"Are you joking, right? Don't do it, please" she almost begged him.
"Relax, you liked it the last time".
House kissed her. There. In front of everybody. After some moments, he moved away.
"Good, now, run!" House said jokingly.
Cameron stayed motionless for a few moments, then she noted that everybody was staring at them shocked. Foreman and Chase were staring at them with eyes wide open. Cuddy was shocked while Wilson was smiling widely.
House looked around nervously.
"The show is over! You can go away now!" he barked.
Nobody made a move, so Cameron turned from him and almost ran away.
"House! In my office, now!" Cuddy shouted angrily, pointing to her office.
House went to her nonchalantly. He knew what was going to happen. He entered the office and Cuddy closed the door loudly. House sat on a chair and Wilson stared at him smiling. Cuddy sat behind her desk and put her head on her hands.
"I was serious when I said that I won't sleep with you" House said smirking.
"Please, shut up! I think that you've talked enough for today...What the hell were you thinking?" Cuddy said, fuming.
"Hey, I've only given a practical proof!" House whined.
"You can't go around kissing people!" Cuddy ignored his comment.
"In the 7 years that I've been here, I think that this is the first time I kiss someone here, right? You've always told me that I've to be more gentleman!".
Cuddy looked at him frustrated and angry "Wilson, out" she ordered seriously.
"No, Wilson stay, I need a human shield!" House said faking fear.
Wilson didn't move and Cuddy rolled her eyes. Defeated, she stared at House. She didn't know what to do, she couldn't recognize the old House in that moment.
'Or he's crazy...or he's in love...finally' she thought.
"No favouritism, no scenes like the one just seen. I don't want that your personal life influences your work, am I clear?".
"Perfectly" House nodded.
"I warn you, don't make me regret it or I'll make your life a hell" she said seriously.
House's pager went off in that moment.
'Room 302, now! A.'
"Ok, I've to go now. A beautiful woman with green eyes is waiting for me" House said, standing up.
"Ok, go to the patient. House, behave!" Cuddy warned him again.
House bowed theatrically and went out.
"Are you sure that he's going to the patient?" Wilson said, smirking.
TBC...