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Parking outside his apartment building, Cuddy looked at House. "Wilson said it's clean, no more Vicodin inside." She explained softly.
"When did you see Wilson?" He looked over at her, his eyes glazed slightly.
"At the hospital, you know, he called me insane"
"Why? Because your helping me? He's an asshole and I'm going to tell him that." House was getting defensive
Shaking her head, "Don't, he's just trying to look out for both of us." Cuddy said softly as she placed her hand on his leg. "Ready to go get your clothes?" House nodded at her.
"I'll take my suitcase in, take dirty stuff out of it and then put my clean stuff in it." He explained as he opened his door.
"Sounds good." She smiled as she got out of the car and grabbed his suitcase from the trunk, then followed him inside. She set his suitcase on his bed, she didn't want to take over, so she sat on the edge of the bed and watched as he moved around his bedroom, grabbing several t-shirts and lounge pants.
He had to open his case yet and he didn't want Cuddy to see his purchase yet. Looking at her as he set the lounge pants on top of the t-shirts he smiled. "Could you please grab me a glass of water, I'm feeling a bit dry." Perfect excuse to get her away from his case.
"Sure." She smiled back and left the room, making her way into the kitchen.
House quickly unzipped the suitcase and grabbed the small jewellery box putting it in his bedside table drawer at the back he shut it and turned back to the case before Cuddy came back with a glass of water. "Thank you." He smiled and took a gulp before setting it on the bedside table. "Now to figure out what is clean." He grinned as Cuddy rolled her eyes.
They spent another ten minutes, making sure he took his shower stuff along with plenty of light loose-fitting clothing. Going over to the other side of his bed her reached down into a box and smiled as he looked at her picking the box up. "He didn't take my porn stash!"
Cuddy glared at him. "You do not need porn at my house." She raised an eyebrow. "If you do, then there is definitely something wrong." She added.
"Oh, relax Cuddles, I'm leaving it here for the lonely nights you leave me for work dinners or fancy parties." He winked at her.
"Did you not get the memo? Now we are together, you have to attend all those things too." She grinned back at him.
"Damn it, you've got an answer for everything, don't you?!" He huffed as he grabbed the handle of his suitcase. "Let's go." He paused as he got his cane in his hand. "Remember, you still owe me a blow job." He smirked leading her through his apartment to the front door.
"As I said earlier, works two ways Honey, I know you can't wait to go down on me too." She couldn't help but smirk at him, she enjoyed the playful bantering between them, knowing that his mood was going to be extremely low in a few hours.
House held the door open for her as he found the dead bolt and flicked it down, making sure his keys were in his jean pocket before letting the door shut behind them.
Cuddy's house was warm and inviting, House had only been past a couple of times, mainly to piss her off and get the okay to do procedures that he actually did need, he had never been further than her hallway, She had told him to go in ahead of her and sit down in the living room while she sorted everything out, doing as he was told he stretched his bad leg out and began rubbing it, having his jeans on was not helping him so he stood again, taking his jeans off he threw them over the back of a chair along with his jacket and sat back down in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, his hand instantly going to his leg to ease away the pain that was starting to get worse. He needed something to distract him, to get his mind away from the constant pain. He could hear Cuddy making a couple trips to her car and back inside, finally he heard the lock on the door drop, knowing that she was in finally he closed his eyes and put pressure on his leg with his hands, trying to not groan out in pain.
Cuddy had taken everything in from the car, setting it all on her dining table she began to put her grocery shopping away, some of it was chilled and a couple bits of frozen so she quickly managed to get it all put away before she started on sorting the medical equipment, making sure she knew where everything was in case she needed to grab it quickly later on. Grabbing House's suitcase, along with her own she walked to the living room doorway and looked at him.
"Come stretch out on the bed. That couch is going to do nothing to help you." She said softly.
Looking up quickly, House hadn't heard her approach him. "Dr Cuddy! I've only been in your home a few minutes and you are already whisking me off to bed." He smiled, trying to keep it happy and light-hearted.
She laughed as she walked away through to her bedroom, setting both cases on the floor under the window, she knew that he would just follow her. "Says the man who's stripping already." She turned and saw him settling himself onto her bed.
"The jeans were restricting my access to my leg; it's beginning to ache again." House explained as he rubbed it again.
"I got some biofreeze cold therapy pain relief gel from the store, thought it might help." Cuddy walked over to the bed and sat on the edge as she looked at him. "Want me to go get it?"
"I'll try anything right now." He admitted.
"Or what about a bath? I could run you a bath!" She suggested, she wanted to do anything to help relieve his pain.
"A bath sounds good actually." House knew she wanted to do anything to help, and right now he was ready to accept her help.
Cuddy nodded. "I'll call you when it's ready, you like lavender right?" She asked as she walked towards her bathroom, she looked back and smirked at him.
House let out a small laugh and shook his head at her. "Again, I repeat, I'm a man!" He remembered telling her that when they were on their way back from the distillery in Scotland.
"Oh honey, I know your all man." She shouted from the bathroom, the taps running as she selected the muscle soak salts and sprinkling them into the warm water.
Hearing her words, he smirked, "Don't you forget it Cuddles." He closed his eyes for a moment, awaiting her call from the bathroom, in all honesty he was looking forward to soaking in the bath, his leg was hurting.
Cuddy turned of the taps, making sure the water was hot enough, she didn't want it to be too cold for him as that wouldn't help his pain. The smell of muscle soak filled the bathroom, the window and mirror had steamed up with the heat, happy that it was all ready for him she moved to the door and looked over at her bed. "It's ready honey." She said softly with a smile on her lips.
House smiled over at her and nodded, having to move his leg with his hands, he got off the bed and hobbled over to the bathroom. "You are going to have to help me get in there, you've got no support bars." House spoke out as he looked at the steam rising from the bath.
"That's no problem." She nodded. Cuddy knew that he would need a little assistance. "Get naked." Cuddy slipped her thumbs in the elastic of his boxer shorts and pulled them down, helping him out a little.
"If you wanted to pay your debts you could have just said." He pulled his t-shirt over his head, leaving him standing naked in her bathroom.
"I will repay my debts later on, sex endorphins will help with the pain later, and right now, you are going in the bath while I cook us a nice meal." Cuddy stood up and then kissed his lips softly.
"I don't know if I will be up for food."
"It will be a light lunch, something that you will enjoy but won't weigh on your stomach too much. Plus, you need something on your stomach when you start throwing up later."
"You're right. Now help me in the bath." He put his hands on her shoulders, stepping one foot in at a time then slowly sat down carefully.
Cuddy guided him down until he was sitting in the bath, water swooshing around him. Making sure he was okay, Cuddy stood up again. "I'll be back soon, shout if you need me" She smiled and walked out of the bathroom.