Chapter Eleven

House looked around the office at anything but Chase. It was awful. He seemed to be moving into House's line of sight.

James and Eric looked between their antsy colleagues.

"Okay this is ridiculous, the girls will be here soon, what is going on?" James asked exasperated. Chase put his head in his hands.

"Oh yes that's it hang your head in shame!" Chase looked up. "He took advantage of my sister!" Eric and James both looked around at Chase.

"I did not!"

"In my house!"

"That isn't what happened!" yelled Chase standing up.

"SO YOU DENY YOU WERE IN MY APARTMENT THIS MORNING!" House bellowed.

"No, but I didn't take advantage of her!" Chase yelled back with just as much ferocity.

"Oh, so now you are saying my sister is a slut, is that it?" House yelled back brandishing his walking stick as a sword. Chase narrowly missed it.

"I didn't say that." Chase had now reached the point were he looked like he was going to launch himself across the room at House.

"What on earth is going on?" Lisa Cuddy's voice cut through the room like a knife. All four men turned to look at the door where Lisa was standing. House felt like he had just been winded.

She was wearing a long red dress that had a lit up to the knee in the skirt. It was off one shoulder and had a long sleeve on the other arm. She had a black wrap over her arms and her hair was pulled back elaborately in a Grecian style bun with a piece of her long black hair falling down her back. She was staring at them with a look that could have turned them all to stone.

"He started it!" House said innocently pointing at Chase.

"I don't care who started it, I'll finish it!" She said quietly "Come on, Cameron and Evelyn are waiting in the hall." She turned on her heel and walked into the hall. The men followed them into the hall. But Chase stopped dead when he saw Evie.

He seemed to have lost all the movement in his legs. Evie was wearing a long royal blue dress that had off the shoulder sleeves. It was tight and fitted her figure well, at the knees it bloomed into a full amazing skirt. Her hair was pulled back on one side. Chase swallowed hard and walked over to her.

"Hey," was all he could manage to choke out.

"Hi," she said quietly to him smiling, looking up into his eyes.

"Come on, we are going to be late." Cameron said quickly looking at her watch.

The group walked through the Hospital to the new wing.