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CHAPTER 17

Kaitlyn woke up the next morning at about 9am. She realized it was Saturday and didn't really have anywhere to be so rolled over and went back to sleep. She woke up again at noon with a cane prodding her feet. "Move." said the owner of the cane.

"mmppmmhh" came an irritated reply. "Go away." The prodding continued relentlessly until Kate finally curled her feet up and was lying on the couch in a fetal position. "Go sit on the recliner," came a now irritated and whiney reply.

"Make me." Said House before sitting down with his bowl of Lucky Charms and turning on the TV to watch SpongeBob. Kate tried to drown out the sounds of the television by covering her head with her blanket, but it soon started to get really stuffy under there and had to come out for some air.

She dramatically threw off her blanket and sat there glaring at House. "Well good morning to you too." She huffed at House and got up to go brush her teeth. House just sat there with a satisfied smirk on his face eating away at his Lucky Charms.

See, Kate was NOT a morning person and despised people who woke up with a spring to their step in the mornings. She just could not comprehend how someone could be so cheery in the morning. It was usually best if no one spoke to her for at least thirty minutes to an hour after she woke.

She returned from the washroom after washing her face and brushing her teeth and plopped back down onto the couch. She grabbed the blanket that was now on the floor and covered herself back up with it. She sat there staring at the television screen trying to get the sleep out of her eyes. "You know, for a girl that slept for over 10 hours, you're pretty cranky." Kate slowly turned her head to look at House and give him a "Don't mess with me right now" look before returning her gaze to the TV.

House found this was hilariously funny and decided to egg her on to see how far he could push her before she snapped. "Aww, what's wrong Katie? Not a morning person?"

Kate just ignored him and focused on the commercial for Pampers that was currently playing on the screen. Having gotten no reaction, House decided to up the ante. He grabbed the blanket that was currently shielding Katie from the cold and pulled it off of her and wrapped it around him instead. "What? I'm cold." He replied innocently when he saw the look she was giving him. Kate tried to snatch it back from him, but he had expertly wrapped himself in it and was now wearing it toga style. So instead she growled at him, because she wasn't at the forming words stage of her morning routine yet and headed off to take a shower. House satisfied that he filled his morning annoyance quota returned to watching SpongeBob.

Kate emerged from the bathroom a good 45 minutes later wearing her favorite pair of baby blue sweats that had "Too sexy" written across the bottom and a matching baby blue tank top. For someone that was freezing less than an hour ago, she sure did warm up quickly. She had washed her hair too, leaving the bathroom smelling like the fragrance of lavender and jasmine. The bathroom was filled with steam and sans hot water when she was done with it.

"Took you long enough! I thought you fell asleep on the toilet."

Kate walked into the kitchen and grabbed herself a bowl of cereal and headed back to the living room. "Nope. But I did leave the bathroom smelling all girly for you. You can thank me later." She said smiling.

House rolled his eyes and went back to watching TV, however it didn't go unnoticed by him that she was eating breakfast and this caused him to smile on the inside.

After finishing her breakfast, Kate got up to wash her dishes and noticed House's bowl resting on the coffee table so she picked it up too and went to the kitchen. House raised an eyebrow at this but did not comment. After washing the dishes Kate made her way back to couch but not before first smacking House across the head.

"Ow! What the hell was that for?" he said rubbing that back of his head.

"That was for acting smart earlier. You know not to mess with me in the mornings House, so it's your own fault. You didn't really think that I would just let it go did you?"

House sat there pouting and rubbing the back of his head.

"Oh c'mon, I didn't hit you that hard."

"No, but it still hurt."

"Good. It'll serve as a reminder for the next time you try to pull something like that in the morning." Replied Kate laughing. She then proceeded to throw a pillow at House in a twisted form of calling a truce.

House grabbed it, threw it back at her and got up to disentangle himself from his makeshift toga. "I'm going to go take a shower and you Katie, for God's sake, make your bed!"

Kate was about to reply when he threw the blanket over her head and headed off to the bathroom. 'Oh well,' she thought, 'I guess he can figure out there's no hot water the old fashioned way.' and went about making her bed.

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Monday morning came way to quickly. Kate was still getting used to the whole getting up early thing considering she never woke up before 11am if she could help it. And House, well House was House. He would never go into work if he got his way. He would be more than content to do his differential diagnoses from home via lots of cool technological gizmos as he puts it. However, he wouldn't get to enjoy his daily banter with Wilson and Cuddy and we all know how much he loves that! He could always annoy them with phone calls all day long, but that leaves them the option of hanging up on him and also doesn't really have the effect he's going for. He wouldn't get to see their shocked and appalled facial expressions at something he has said or done and let's face it, that's half the fun.

So they were both up and ready to go by 8:45 am and this morning Kate wasn't all that grumpy from having to wake up early as it was her first official day at PPTH.

"C'mon House, let's go! We're gonna be late!" yelled Kate from the front door where she had been waiting for the last 45 minutes. House was taking his sweet time in his bedroom and kept yelling 'Almost ready! 5 more minutes!' for the past half hour.

He finally emerged and took one look at the pissed off woman standing by his door, smirked and replied, "Sorry, had to iron my shirt." He had actually been in his bedroom for the past half hour trying to get to the fourteenth level of his most recently acquired game.

Kate took one look at his severely wrinkled shirt and was about to explode but thought better of it. They would stand there arguing for ages and before she knew it, House would make her late for work on her first day. So she forced herself to smile, which was really difficult because she really wanted to walk over and smack him around a couple of times.

"That's okay House. But now that your shirt is all wrinkle free, do you think we could go?"

House was a little surprised and disappointed that she didn't take the bait. He thought about telling her that he had to use the little boy's room before they left, but was actually a little afraid of her right now. She was smiling which would suggest that she was not mad, but her eyes were shooting daggers at him and the combination of the smile with the crazy eyes was well, a little scary.

House grabbed his keys from the side table and limped towards Kate. "After you Katie." He said while gently pushing her out the door.

"Finally!" said Kate exasperated.

She walked over towards his car and stood there waiting for him to open the door. When he didn't follow her towards the car she turned around to see what was keeping him this time. She turned around just in time to see House clipping his cane to the side of his motorcycle and hopping on.

"Umm, what are you doing?" asked Kate.

"Well, I thought it was obvious, but maybe not. I'm taking the bike to work today." He said as if he were talking to a four year old.

"And how am I supposed to get to work?"

"Oh, did you want me to drive you?" asked House innocently.

"HOUSE! Don't mess with me right now! I'm not in the mood."

"Would I do that?"

"Yes! House this is not funny. We have less than ten minutes left to get to work on time!"

House couldn't help chuckling at her, but took pity on the poor girl. "Okay, okay. Don't get your panties in a knot. Hop on." He motioned while patting the seat

Kate walked over to House and was about to get on when she suddenly stopped. "I need a helmet."

"Well, aren't we needy this morning."

"House!"

"Okay, okay. Here, put this on." He said taking off his helmet and handing it to her.

"Umm, okay. But then what will you wear?"

"Don't worry about me. I've been told I have a thick head." He said smirking.

Kate, who was already sitting on the back on his bike got off. "I'm not wearing your helmet."

"I don't have cooties you know. And frankly I'm a little upset that you would think so." House responded while wiping away a fake tear.

"Shut up House. I'm not going to protect myself while putting you in danger."

"Fine." He said grabbing his helmet back and putting it on his head. "You can ride without one. I promise not to kill you."

"I'm not going to put myself in danger either."

"Well, I think we have a problem then. One helmet, two heads. What to do?"

"Let's just take the 'vette then."

"Nope. Taking the bike today."

"House!" whined Katie.

"Katie!" whined House back just to be annoying.

"House!"

"Katie!"

"Fine! Just go! I'm calling a cab!" yelled Kate grabbing her cell phone out of her bag. She hoped that he would back down, get off his bike and take the corvette into work. However, she was sadly mistaken.

House readjusted his helmet, started up his bike, and hollered "Okay! See you there!" before speeding away. He looked in his side mirror as he was driving away and saw one extremely pissed off looking Katie standing with her cell phone in hand.

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