Through the Grapevine

"Hey Chase, wait up." Foreman called as he ran towards the rapidly closing doors of the hospitals elevators.

With the ring of a small bell the door opened to reveal an almost full elevator with Chase at the front of the group of patients looking thoroughly smug.

"So, you didn't want to stay either?" Chase asked cockily.

"This doesn't mean that I think they're gay." Foreman replied with a sigh as the elevator doors closed and the lift began its descent.

At once the entire elevator fell into an interested silence, every occupant captivated by the Doctors' gossip.

"Oh, but it means you think it might be a possibility." Chase said knowingly.

Foreman replied with a stare, not ready to agree that there may even be a possibility at the moment. In his opinion there was a little too much evidence swinging the other way.

"Just give it up they're gay." Chase said with a smile.

"What about Cameron?" Foreman said with a sigh, unhappy that he was falling into this conversation. He didn't normally care about other peoples personal lives but Chase was intent on proving his point.

"House is over whatever the hell it was between them. You heard him this morning, they've both moved on. And Wilson did seem pretty happy about it, shouting 'Yes' and laughing his head off."

"I'm still not…" Foreman said quietly.

"Look," Chase said as if he was beginning a closing statement, "They are always hanging about together most of the time in House's office with the blinds drawn. House was pretty cranky when Wilson moved out of his place for what ever reason that was. Wilson was more than happy to hear that House was making fun of Cameron for sleeping with someone instead of trying to corner me and beat me to a pulp with his cane."

Foreman allowed himself a brief smirk at the memory of Chase running scared and hiding from House at every turn for almost a month.

"But Wilson's been married and House was with Stacy." Foreman countered with the last of his defence.

"Yeah, Wilson has had three failed marriages and House hates Stacy, and by association, all women for his leg." Chase said smugly, glad that he knew something that Foreman didn't, "They're so doing it."

Foreman rolled his eyes, still unconvinced, and waited for the elevator doors to slide open to reveal a rather quiet looking hospital lobby.

With a nod both Foreman and Chase headed off to the cafeteria knowing that the clinic would already be over-staffed for the number of patients. The rest of the people in the elevator filtered out, the last of which to leave was a rather gleeful looking male nurse.

Time to put Dr Wilson out of the picture so I can get some action he thought, as stepped out and set to work letting the entire hospital know this latest gossip.

The elevator was only empty for about 40 seconds as the hospital administrator entered with a murderous glint in her eye hit the button for the diagnostics floor.

The other elevator signalled its arrival at the ground floor just as the doors closed making the administrator disappear from the view of several gossiping nurses.

James Wilson stepped into the lobby with a thoroughly pleased smile on his face.

Today was going to be a good day he thought, as spring in his step as he drew closer to the nurses station intent on catching up on the latest gossip with his favourite nurses.

He smiled at the first, with his usual charming grin.

She smiled rather sadly and sweetly before ignoring him and going back to work.

Smiling at the second he received an angry and hurt looking stare before she stormed off.

The third only glanced at him before bursting into tears and bustling away with anguished yelps with every shake of her shoulders.

The fourth was not a regular but he smiled and said hello in a normal voice in attempt to find out the latest from the grapevine. For which he received a wink, a smile and a slip of paper with a cell number on it, before Michael damn near skipped off to the clinic.

"Call me when it's over honey. I don't think it'll last. " He'd said.

What the hell was going on!? He thought moving as quickly as he could from the nurse's station.

He soon found himself in the cafeteria.

Silence descended on the room as soon as he walked in.

Out of the corner of his eye he could see one of the hospitals male nurses smiling widely as they comforted the girl that had cried when he'd smiled.