A/N: Thank you for the reviews! Sorry for the long wait…

Her day started a little different than usual. Normally Cuddy got up at five, did her yoga for an hour and then she had to get ready for work. Usually House would make breakfast while she was doing some last minute paperwork or talking on the phone to her assistant.

Today though everything was different, after spending most of the night scared to death, she had first fallen asleep at four in the morning and hadn't set her alarm. This led to waking up at eight when Marina opened the front door. Cuddy dressed in a hurry and sped off to work.

"Good Morning!" She said as she rushed past the reception desk and opened the door to her office.

"Ah Dr. Cuddy, I was just about to call you!" Her assistant Camilla said.

"Yes I'm sorry I overslept." She went behind her desk and put her laptop on it and waited for Camilla to tell her today's schedule.

"You have a meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Grant in 30 minutes and then the pharmacy needs your signature, after lunch you have clinic duty and then you and Dr. House need to sign his new contract before you go home today." She gave Cuddy the contract and went back to her own desk again. So, Cuddy had 30 minutes before her fist meeting, which gave her enough time to apply her make-up and to answer some emails. Her confrontation with House had to wait until lunch time.

She entered his office 3 hours later but it was empty, so she walked to the conference room where his team was eating Chinese from the restaurant down the street.

"Do you guys know where he is?" She asked them.

"I saw him 20 minutes ago in the pediatric wing drawing pictures with some boy." Chase said while at the same time stealing a piece of sweet and sour chicken from Thirteen's carton.

Why would he be there? She asked herself as she hurried off and hoped he still was there. Maybe the boy was the reason for the lying or maybe he was simply looking for a new hiding spot, he would blend right in.

She reached the nurses' station and before she could ask a nurse told her exactly what she wanted to hear. "He's in room 2034." Cuddy nodded in thanks and walked down the hall.

Cuddy stood outside the room watching as both the boy in the bed and House in the chair slept. It looked like House had been reading to the boy, because there was an open book on his stomach. But why was he spending so much time with the boy?

She entered the room quietly, so she could take a look at the boy's chart before House could lie to her again. Cuddy was now sure the boy had something to do with House lying to her.

And the boy's chart did nothing but confirm her suspicion, House had made notes in the chart all through the night. As she read on she had to blink back the tears the history of the boy was heart-breaking. She glanced at the name Jack Edwards, wait a minute, that was the boy from yesterday the patient from the clinic. Everything made so much more sense now, House was the one who had reported the abuse.

She walked closer to House and leaned down to softly kiss him awake, she didn't care if anybody saw her. She was just so proud of him right now.

"Wilson I told you before, Cuddy will catch us." She stood up straight and gently ran her fingers against his chest waiting until he smiled, but then she went in for the kill and twisted his right nipple.

"OW!" Could be heard all the way down at the nurses' station but nobody cared, it was House's scream after all. "Is this because I didn't call you yesterday?" They hadn't noticed Jack was awake and watching them curiously, but there was also some fear after House had screamed like that.

"Yes it is, that Wilson comment was the final straw. It's okay that you had to stay with a patient, but please call me the next time." She placed her hand gently on his shoulder.

"I promise I just left my phone on my desk. And I-" House looked to his right and noticed Jack watching them with interest. "Good morning, kid. Did I wake you? I'm sorry it was all her fault though." That earned him a kick against his shin from Cuddy's pointy shoe. "Alright alright I will shut up now." House winked at Jack showing him that he wasn't serious and that Cuddy hadn't hurt him. Jack did relax, but kept his eyes on Cuddy. "This is my boss Dr. Cuddy, a big part of her job is to run after me and suck all of the fun out of my day."

"Which I wouldn't have to do if he actually did his job." House rolled his eyes and Jack couldn't stop the smile that broke free. "House, can I talk to you outside for a minute? We'll be right back okay?" She said that last part to Jack and pulled House up from the chair and held on to his hand all the way out of the room.

"Do you want to talk here or should we go somewhere else?" Cuddy asked, knowing that the sight of them together still was the biggest gossip topic of PPTH.

"Come on." He said and led her to a door behind the nurses' station. He pulled her inside before anybody could see them and locked the door so nobody could disturb them.

And he didn't have to wait long before she started to talk.

A/N: I did start on the next chapter but it may take a little longer before I can update again, because I have some very important college essays to write.