Chapter 20
"Daddy!" shouted Abby over the laughs of Alysa, "Why were you so mean to them?!"
"They deserved it," said House bluntly, "They were idiots."
"Am I an idiot, Daddy?" asked Auddy. Alysa laughed, again...
"No," said House smiling.
"Greg!" shouted Stacey running to her rarely seen boyfriend. "I got us some reservations at the Cafe Spiletto tonight!"
Greg nodded, "Great." He smiled.
What was wrong with him? Stacey couldn't help but wonder. He never said... anything... ever. Did he not trust her? Or was he just... mean?
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"So, how was your day... or your week, I should say." Stacey smiled. They hadn't had dinner in a while.
"Fine," said House, "I guess..."
"Oh come on..." started Stacey, "tell me..."
"Dr. Riley, my cardiologist left. He's pursuing a teaching postition."
"I thought you didn't like him..."
"I don't."
"So what's the problem?"
"He's not the only one who left..."
Stacey sighed. What was House doing to these poor fellows?! "Go on..."
"Dr. Hart left for the ER. Appearantly he doesn't feel capable of diagnostics." House shrugged as if he had no idea where Hart's actions came from.
Stacey stared at him. "What are you doing to them?! What did you tell them?!"
House gulped, and thought, "Nothing that wouldn't help them in the future." Well, it was true, right?
Stacey was disappointed in him, in them. What had she gotten herself into? She'd fallen madly in love with a guy she'd never gotten to see, a guy who hated himself and the world, a guy addicted to work. What was she doing?
"So..." said House, "How was your week, darling?" He smiled at that last word, it was obviously fake.
Stacey rambled on about her week, but House wasn't paying much attention. What HAD he done to them?! And why hadn't Mathiessen cracked... yet? What was he going to do with only ONE fellow on his team?