A/N: Thanks for all the reviews i love them. As promised i update soon so have fun with chapter 3.

Chapter 3

Cuddy was walking down the halls of PPTH her hand supporting her 5 month along belly instinctually. Something she did more and more often now, most of the time it was subconsciously. House on the other hand used every chance he got touching her belly. It was still strange for her to see him with his guard down. He was still a misanthropic jerk, but when they were alone in her office or in an exam room he changed for a few moments. He would gently put his hand on her growing abdomen without a comment and after a few moments he would retreat the hand and become his usual self again. It was nice for a change to see that House still had something human about him.

Cuddy was on her way to the clinic because House had paged her for a consult earlier. Long ago she gave up on telling him to stop calling her for his sheer entertainment. Opening the door to exam room 2 she looked around, no patient, only House with his PSP in the corner of the room.

He looked up from his game and greeted her, "Finally. You know if I really needed your consult the patient could be dead by now!"

"I was in an important meeting with the psychology department." she said ignoring him since he never really needed a consult.

"Talking about me?" he asked with a smirk.

"Not everything is about you, and stop using their lounge to watch your soaps!" She added as an afterthought.

"But they have this huge plasma screen TV!" it couldn't harm to whine a bit, he thought.

"You are disturbing the patients. Find another place to …" She stopped herself, this pregnancy was making her soft! She quickly covered her slip by changing the subject.

"Since there is no patient, what do you want?"

"Oh contraire, mon amie! There is a patient! … Right there!" he pointed at her.

"Me? I'm not sick" she shook her head at his insanity.

"No, but you are pregnant and I happen to be a doctor, and I want examine you!" he stated.

"Why?" she was feeling good and her next appointment with Dr. Williams was scheduled for the next day anyway.

"Cause I want to know if the devils offspring is male or female" there was a bet going and a bit of cheating would not harm he thought.

"Sweet House, but the answer is NO!" she started to turn.

"You don't want to know?" he asked and she stopped at the door.

"No. I don't. It doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl as along as their healthy I don't care"

"You sure?" he wrinkled his eyebrow doubtfully at her.

"I am!" and she left. It didn't matter though he was already thinking about ways to persuade her of the opposite.

When she left the room she was thinking about what House had said. Did she not want to know what the baby was, really? She wasn't sure anymore. Maybe she would ask Dr. Williams tomorrow. Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen and she cried out in pain.

House heard her cry out and was by her side in an instant. She sat down on the floor holding her belly protectively tears streaming down her face. He yelled at the nurses to get a gurney. Cuddy lye down on the gurney looking at House, a fear in her eyes so strong, it hurt him too. They took her to the OB/GYN ward, House limped as fast as he could to keep up with them.

When she was wheeled into the exam room House stopped not sure if she would want him with her. Her eyes locked with his till the door closed. It was too late to enter now. He was such a stupid moron he wanted to be with her, holding her hand telling her everything will be fine but he was to big of a coward to follow. Dr. Gregory House who doesn't even know how to spell rules or manners was too spineless to follow the woman he…. He stopped himself dead in his tracks. What was he thinking? Cuddy was the devil, as he had pointed out so charmingly to Wilson more than once before, but maybe, and this was a big maybe, the troops that guarded the big wall between love and hate took a pause and it was his chance to do something! Find out what she thinks, tell her what you think, but then he shook his head at the moronic thought. She hates him, and she told him to get over her and stop dreaming about her. Ha! If he was able to control his dreams he would be dreaming about Carmen Electra! At some point he had started pacing once again and was abruptly stopped by Dr. Louis, one of the best OB/GYN's in PPTH.

"Dr. House, Dr. Cuddy asked for you." House didn't even think, he just went to her. Better to check for himself he thought as he pushed the other doctor out of his way to get to her room.

She lay in a bed her belly still exposed and all he could do was stare at her.

"House stop starring at me, your freaking me out!" her voice was still tear filled, but stronger, less desperate and tad bit snarky.

He closed his mouth and looked at her questioningly "Everything ok?"

"I had some light spotting and I've been put on bed rest for at least two weeks, but 'he' is fine" she smiled as she said the last part.

"He?" he said, trying not to show how relieved it made him feel to hear that everything was ok.

"I thought you'd want to see for yourself?" she pointed to the ultrasound device beside her bed.

He moved over and put the sensor over her belly. She didn't watch the monitor like he did she was watching him instead. She tried to find out what was going on behind that brick wall he had built up over the years.

He checked for everything he could think of, and everything looked fine to him. Mesmerized by the vivid movement of the baby he didn't recognise Cuddy's piercing glance.

"Looks like everything is perfect." he said and she smiled at him. It really seemed like he cared about her, or at least the baby.

"I'm not to sure about the "he" part though," he grinned, "could be a girl too. It's to hard to tell at this angle and with all this movement."

"It's a he! I'm his mother, I know!" she said, knowing deep down she was sure it was a boy.

"And I'm a doctor and I tell you it could be a girl too!" he pouted.

Suddenly it made sense to her, "You want it to be a girl!" she grinned.

He studied her but didn't answer, suddenly he turned and left her alone in the room. It wasn't true he didn't want it to be a girl, did he?

TBC