Titled: Pain in my heart chapter 13
Author: curseofavalon
Rating: R (mostly for some swear words)
Summary: turning points
Authors Note: comments, reviews and critique are very welcome.Pairing: Huddy
Disclaimer: I don't own House or its characters Fox does tho, I just used them shamelessly for this snippet. The song Rain by Patty Griffin was used without permission by the artist. Thanks to her for a beautiful song.
'Care to tell me why you are here?'
Wilson requested while crooking his head to look at House shuffle through Cuddy's papers.
'Rhetoric question?'
One quirked eyebrow, sigh by Wilson. House one, Wilson zilch.
The shuffling stopped and Greg simply remained in his spot, sitting it out.
'Ok, care to tell me then why Cuddy is back early from her vacation, as are you?'
'She wanted the whips and hot wax, I simply wanted to cuddle.'
He added to the effect by giving his pouty look, lower lip quavering slightly. Jimmy plopped down on the couch, throwing his hands up in surrender.
'She'll kill you if she finds you in here House.'
'I'm close to it but it'll be easier just to call security.'
Sure enough Cuddy stood at the door, black pine stripe power suit, skirt ending an inch above her knees, flawless make up, 'Fuck me' High heels, and fire in her eyes. It had him semi hard almost immediately while Wilson bit his welcome back and then left the office with tail between his legs.
She hung her coat and purse, checking her cell for calls and then motioned for House with a bored wave of her hand to leave. He stayed.
'House, I have no time dealing with your 'quirks', so just leave'
She drew inverted comma's when saying quirked, shuffling through papers, definitely not looking at him. She stood next to him behind her oak desk and quick scanned the memo's. Wilson had left everything in a neat order, still she reshuffled things, simply to keep her occupied.
'I want my license back.'
'I want world peace and a cancer cure. None of that will happen soon either. Live with it.'
'I need my license to treat your precious patients, to keep donors walking in here so you can creep up their asses and get the precious money.'
'Your tantrums are getting weak House. Leave or I'll call security.'
She was royally annoyed by now. Her neckline held the flush she usually had when arguing with him, her little hands working stacks back and forth, avoiding him at all costs.
'I'll be back. This suspension will have to run out sooner or later.'
House finally left her then, hobbling from her office agitated. Cuddy slumped back in her chair rubbing her temples, a faint headache pounding behind them, surely about to get worse over the day. He was right, she snorted, no news there. He would get his license back in another week and make sure she paid dearly for her defiance.
For the past week Lisa had herself locked up in her house, thinking, crying and cursing him. By Friday she had felt utterly alone. A small part of her had hoped he'd see his mistake, come to her, they'd make up and be ok again.
Its hard to know when to give up the fight
Two things you want will just never be right
Its never rained like it has to night before
Now I don't wanna beg you baby
For something maybe you could never give
I'm not looking for the rest of your life
I just want another chance to live
House was House though, he didn't come to her place, they hadn't made up, another chance gone.
It was actually not so shocking that in this state of mind she was easily bribed into a date with someone she had met before Don. Stress at that time had her so bound that she reclined over and over but Lisa knew now was the time she needed to get out of her place, forget, let go.
House strolled through the Hospital with a superior glint to his eyes. He was back, officially, unstoppable. Go tell it on the Mountains
He stopped abruptly in front of Cuddy's office, thinking a detour to his route to diagnostics would do his gloating mood some good. He smirked and went into her office, sans the knocking.
'So I'm back, no thanks to you by the way, so I wanna drop in to my patient say Hi and sorry for nearly putting him in a coma, you wanna come?'
His spirits were up in stratosphere and he actually meant it more as a query to be friends with her again, putting extra cheeriness in his voice. He waited but no reply came. Cuddy simply kept writing something, not looking up.
'Ok what has a guy to do in here to get some attention?'
Now she did look up. To the clock on her desk. Cuddy then stood and went over to her coat rack, getting dressed swiftly.
'Lock the door when you leave Dr. House. I know you still have that key.'
He was left dumbfounded, staring after her. Where the hell would she be going to at this time of the day. She usually had lunch in the cafeteria, but she wouldn't need her coat for that. To say House was curious would've been an understatement, so he did what would quench his curiosity the best.
House looked through her day planner on her computer, easily hacking into it, she still hadn't changed the password. Just as easily he found out where she was.
She sat laughing, across a fairly handsome guy, with dark curly and cropped hair, perfect white teeth, sparkling eyes and athletic build. Lisa was smiling, at him and his jokes.
All he thought as he stood watching them through the glass window was, that it wasn't fair. It wasn't fair she was with Whitey, laughing her Cuddy laugh for him. It wasn't fair that she was doing this to him. And then he felt it, the familiar pang in his chest, a broken heart breaking again. It almost floored him, the realization hit him full force.
He was jealous.