Frankly, it was enough to put House of his Ruben, even if it was perfectly made with no pickles. Wilson and Cameron's model-like girlfriend had done nothing but talk and flirt for the entire meal. On the more positive side Wilson was too far gone to notice House stealing the fries from his plate, and likewise with Cameron pushing her fries onto Alyssa's.
"You could just give me those you know" His condescension was not easy to miss, and Cameron blushed and stared down at her plate. She had hoped he wouldn't notice her offloading the food she had, and she knew that Chase's comment about her weighing only ninety pounds would come back to haunt her..
"I'm not that hungry really- I had a huge breakfast"
"You've lost weight recently" He mentally kicked himself as he spoke, great, you now sound like her dad…
"No I haven't, and anyway it's not like you to notice trivialities"
"Well then it must not be trivial" She looked away from the table, desperately hoping he would change the subject. Of course this being House there would be no exit in sight. He had been noticing her weight loss in recent weeks- his observations had nothing to do with caring about her in any way, shape, or form, but as her employee he was entitled to question her ability to do her job. At least that's what you like to tell yourself…
"I'm fine, really. Really." She kept eye contact with him, warning him to back off, but he didn't take the hint and stared back, daring her to look away.
"We need to go and finish off our shopping" Wilson broke in and the sudden speech broke the concentration of both House and Cameron. House could have killed him at that moment in time- best friend or not.
"Yeah Alli, we should go too…" Alyssa's voice was like honey- smooth and captivating. It made House inwardly retch.
"Hey, we don't have that much shopping left to do, and me and Greg were gonna take Sean to the park- do you wanna come along?" Wilson was definitely in full flirting mode today and House wondered if it would be Wilson or himself who broke the news that he was married.
"Sure, we'd love that wouldn't us Alli." She gave Cameron a look which dared her to disagree.
"Yeah, why not" She spoke tiredly, as if she was trying to summon up some energy. It was at that moment that house realised that he may have actually broken her. He had noticed over the past few months that she didn't approach her job with the same passion that she one did, and he realised, albeit too late, that he missed her idealism, however misguided it was.