I know it's a short chapter but it clears up some things. Thankyou for your fabulous reviews. You guys are so sweet! Please R&R.
"There's a problem. Max isn't responding to any of the antibiotics we gave him," says Foreman. Cameron and chase look at House expectantly.
"Hm, alright. Go home, there's nothing you can do tonight," says House. He walks into his to find Kimee sitting in his chair.
"You're in my chair," he says.
"Well duh, Captain Obvious," replies Kimee.
They are quiet for awhile before Kimee opens her mouth.
"I heard on the grapevine that you took a certain doctor on a date," she pries, knowing full well what House's response was.
"Oh please, Wilson thinks just coz I paid for the Chinese food, it counted as a date," House replies sarcastically
"Ok even if Wilson was gay, he could do way better than you," Kimee retorts. She pauses for a moment.
"What happened with you and Cameron?" asks Kimee slowly. She knew House. If you pushed him too hard he just went back more. To get him to admit the truth you had to be clever and sneaky. She knew all his weaknesses, which made her want to use them against him, yet protect him at the same time.
House doesn't respond immediately. Kimee wonders if he plans to respond at all, but really he was trying to think of the right words to use. He sighs slowly, and then he finally speaks.
"We went out to dinner, and…I brought up…her dead husband," he says grudgingly, but he seems to be genuinely sorry.
"And then Stacy came back," Kimee said nodding.
"I heard on the grapevine that you already saw Stacy," says House, smirking. There was a long pause.
"Do you…do you still have feelings for Stacy?" she asked tentatively. House is quiet for a while.
"I don't know," he barely whispers.
"Do you have any feelings for Cameron?" she asks.
House doesn't look up. What could he say? He had spent so much time, shutting himself off from society, that he had forgotten how to be open. Stacy had made sure of that.
So he didn't say anything.
"Are you even over Stacy?" asks Kimee, her voice stronger.
"I don't know," he says at last.
Kimee gets up and walks over to him.
"Find out then," she whispers into his ear and then leaves him to think, think about the idea of letting someone in again…