Title: Making His Own Life
Part: 6
Author: Mlizhobie
Fandom: House, M.D.
Pairing: Wilson/OFC(Lorelai) & House/?
Disclaimer: Don't own House or any of the other characters except for MY original characters.
AN: This is a sequel to the story 'It's My Life'. Be an awesome person, read and review. A very special thanks to my Beta reader, she helps me thru my dreaded bouts of writer's block.
AN2: Dinner out with House
James & Lore both got out of the jeep and saw Robert & Allison walking towards the restaurant. Lorelai quickly waved at their friends and Ally returned the wave, James & Robert both half waved. House was now out of the jeep and was still smirking. When Robert & Ally were within hearing range Greg rudely asked, "Have a nice long walk did ya?" Lore spun around and glared at Greg before saying, "Can't you be nice to anyone, ever?" Greg matched the glare and said, "How long have you known me now Lorelai, going on 12 years now isn't it? You know damn well that I love messing with everyone, so stop acting like its new!" Lore just rolled her eyes and headed for the door.
Ally caught up to Lore and fell into step beside her best friend before saying, "You know he's right Lore, we're all used to it." Lorelai sighed and said, "I know, but it gets old. And people really wonder why he is alone – he's always being an ass." From a few feet behind them Lorelai & Allison heard Greg say, "Yeah I can hear you talking about me Lore and you know you like it when I'm an ass." Again Lore sighed and asked Ally about her kids.
10 feet behind Lore & Ally; James, Robert & Greg were all walking at a slower pace. Robert was trying to come up with a topic to discuss with the other men. They did all now have the parent thing in common, as well as working at the hospital, but he still felt odd socializing with his boss after all these years. James & Lore were different – they were friends and he didn't have to answer to them at work.
Robert was off the hook when James spoke up first and asked, "Hey did you get a chance to talk to Allison about you guys having another baby?" He had talked to Allison about it almost every night that week and the night before they had finally come to a conclusion. Chase nodded and said, "Yeah, I asked her the other night and she was scared that I wanted another baby. Well I, of course, don't want anymore kids and we decided last night that we aren't having anymore." Greg looked between James & Robert as they spoke and couldn't contain himself when he said, "Thank God! Ally gets mean when she's pregnant."
Once they got inside their waitress showed them to their table and took their drink orders. Lore noticed that as the waitress listened to everyone orders that she kept watching Greg. Then when it was Greg's turn to speak the young woman flirted with him. Allison & Lorelai met each other's eyes across the table and smiled because they knew exactly what the girl was doing – the guys were all confused by their giggling.
After the waitress walked away James pulled Lorelai back and said, "What is going on with you two?" This only caused Lore to giggle louder and say, "Oh come on, you, of all people, didn't notice her flirting with Greg!" James's brow furrowed as he said, "What, no she wasn't. You're imagining things Lore." Allison then said, "Oh well her imagination must be very good because I saw the exact same thing – that girl practically sat in Greg's lap." Everyone now looked down the table at Greg and saw the older doctor flushed bright red in embarrassment.
When the waitress came back with their drinks the guys were now watching very closely to Greg's behavior towards the woman. Robert fought to keep from laughing, but Allison grabbed his knee and kept him quiet. James did much better at restraining his laughter and was very polite to the woman. Greg tried to act normally as possible, but it came out as a fumbling goofy act that was nothing like his normal behavior. This time when the woman left the table Lorelai looked at James and said, "See! I told you!" James & Robert both laughed and nodded saying, "Ok you're right."
A few minutes later the normal restaurant noise was interrupted by some screaming coming from the area of the bar. James stood up and looked to see what was happening. Near the bar stood their waitress and a man he guessed to be the manager of the restaurant. The manager looked very upset with the woman and screamed, "I saw it with my own eyes tonight Marley. You have been repeatedly warned about flirting with your customers. I have no other choice but to fire you. I can't make you listen to any other type of warnings, so that is final."
The waitress sighed loudly and didn't looked that phased by just being fired, but screamed, "You can't fire me 'cause I quit. I'm tired of wearing this damn flare and being so cheerful to all these people and their bratty kids. So here take your damn apron and lame ass flare. I would give you the uniform, but I don't really want to get arrested tonight for indecent exposure, so I throw it in the parking lot next time I drive by. You are right about one thing, I was flirting with a customer tonight, but that is none of your damn business who I flirt with you old geezer."
She then spun on her heel and headed for the backroom. Less than a minute later she stormed back out of the kitchen with her purse in hand and passed by Greg's end of the table. As she passed Greg she handed him a slip of paper and continued for the door, that she flung open and as she exited the building she screaming, "Screw you guys, I never liked working here anyway!" Another minute later she was in her car and squalling her tires in the parking lot as she left.
By this time James had sat back down and like everyone else in the restaurant was speechless. Greg was the first to make a movement or sound when he opened the piece of paper the woman had handed him. Looking at what she had written him Greg began to laugh and looked back up to the four people seated with him at the table. James couldn't stand the suspense any longer and snatched the paper from Greg's hand and read the short note. Looking back up at Greg, James's mouth was hanging open. He stared at his best friend and incredulously asked, "How in the hell do you do that?" Greg didn't answer, he only continued laughing.
Lore, Allison, & Robert were all still clueless about what was going on, so Lore stole the note from James and read it over. She looked up and said, "You got her number! Oh my God, you flirt with our waitress; cost her the job and you still get her number!" Allison & Robert both had to read the note to believe what they had heard. None of them could fully accept what had happened and watched Greg act like nothing had happened.
It took about 10 minutes before Greg had finally got everyone talking normally again and not focused on the newly fired waitress's phone number. The 5 of them were joking and laughing like they did this dinner night all the time – no awkwardness or any type of weirdness between the friends at all. James & Robert were both helping Greg 'scout' girls they all thought were hot. Lorelai & Allison were both telling them just how incredibly slutty they all were.
They spent an hour going over every single woman in the restaurant Greg still hadn't found anyone he would've wanted to spend any amount of time with. That was until the door opened and in walked another group of people. Greg glanced across the room and thought some of them looked familiar. Lore looked up at Greg and saw that he was looking over towards the door; curious about what he was looking at Lore also glanced over at the door and instantly recognized everyone who had just entered.
It was a group of people from Lorelai's office and her new boss, Andy. She groaned loudly and gained James's attention. He looked at her oddly and said, "What's wrong?" Lore nodded towards the door and said, "A bunch of people from work brought Andy to dinner – here!" She had told Ally about her new boss and being passed over for the job, so the Chases knew about Lorelai's feelings. Greg was the only one at the table who didn't know who Lore's new boss was and that she didn't like the woman one bit. Sensing that he wasn't being told something Greg looked around the table oddly and said, "Ok what the hell is the problem?" Lorelai looked back towards Greg and said, "I just told James, a bunch of people from my office brought my new boss here for dinner." Greg looked back to the group and now recognized the people from Lore's office.
A few people in the group from Lore's office looked around the restaurant and noticed Lorelai. They told the rest of the group that they had seen Lore & James – so the majority of the group headed towards their table. Riley was at the front of the group and greeted everyone at the table and explained whose idea it had been to bring Andy to dinner. Greg wasn't sure who this Andy was and for some odd reason he didn't feel comfortable that Lorelai was working for any other man than her previous boss, Patrick.
Then the crowd parted beside Riley and up walked this gorgeous woman with long dark brown hair and amazing green eyes that rivaled Lorelai's. Greg swallowed loudly and felt his mouth go dry when he watched this beautiful woman walk towards Lorelai. He was really surprised when he heard Lore say, "Hi Andy. Oh this is my husband James, the couple over there is Allison & Robert Chase, and the man at the end is Greg House. Everyone, this is our new director Andy Walker." Andy greeted everyone at the table and quickly put things together and said, "James Wilson, wait you're the head of oncology at…um which hospital is it again, I'm sorry I'm still learning the hospitals here."
James smiled and shook his head slightly before saying, "It's alright, you're still new here and yes I'm the head of oncology over at PPTH. And everyone else here, well besides Lore, are also doctors there too. Greg is the head of diagnostics and Ally & Robert are on his team." Andy's eyes went wide as she said, "Oh wow, I must have hit the doctor jackpot tonight. Four doctors, two of which are department heads all in one place, it's really nice to meet all of you. But we should let you get back to your dinner and quit interrupting. See you next week Lore." Lorelai smiled and nodded to her boss and agreed that she would see everyone on Monday.
When the small group of Lore's coworkers had gotten out of earshot Lore again groaned and said, "God, I really don't like her. She is trying way too hard to be everyone's buddy and it irritates me." Ally chimed in and said, "Yeah she did seem overly nice." James & Robert both shrugged and agreed with their wives. Greg on the other hand just sat, silently looking across the room at Andy as she laughed and talked with the people at her own table. There was something about this woman that intrigued him, an odd mysteriousness about her. He wanted to spend time with her, get to know her and talk to her, but if Lorelai couldn't stand her that any hope of that was shot out of the water.
A half hour later Robert's cell phone rang and it was their frantic babysitter. Apparently Marcus had eaten a huge bowl of ice cream and threw up all over the kitchen, so the sitter was freaking out and both kids were crying and wanted their parents. Robert quickly told the sitter that they would be home as soon as they could and hung up. After explaining what was happening to Allison, the Chases excused themselves and left.
James & Lore were still talking about Andy for awhile after Robert & Ally left, but then James noticed just how quiet Greg had gotten. He watched as the older man silently played with the ice in his glass. Lorelai also looked down at Greg and tried to read the expression on his face, he was lost deep in thought and apparently discouraged about something. James tried to lighten the mood and threw a cold fry at Greg, it landed directly in the glass right on top the ice Greg was playing with. Greg, who hadn't been paying attention, furrowed his brow at the sudden appearance at the fry and looked up to see two pairs of eyes watching him.
He looked around a bit and said, "Where are the wombat & the princess?" James just shook his head and laughed quietly. Lore grabbed Greg's arm and said, "They left almost 15 minutes ago, looks like you're a bit distracted." Greg half smiled and said, "Yeah sorry, just thinking…" Lore & James looked at each other again for a second before James said, "Thinking, thinking about what?" Greg shook his head slightly and almost too quickly answered, "Nothing sorry. Hey why don't we go get wasted and find me a hooker instead of sitting here all night?"
Lore again grabbed Greg's arm and said, "No Greg we aren't taking you to get drunk and find you a hooker." Greg quickly starting pouting and said, "Aw, but Mom that's not fair; I finished all my vegetables!" James was again laughing as he said, "Yeah come on Lore, where's the harm in going for a few drinks? We don't have to get him a hooker, but we can get a couple of drinks before heading back home. The kids are in very capable hands and we don't have to be anywhere." Lorelai rolled her eyes and gave in saying, "Ok fine, but I get to chose where we go!" Both James & Greg allowed Lore to pick the bar and they headed for the jeep.
Almost 20 minutes later James & Greg were staring at the front of the bar in disbelief while Lore was giggling like a 12 year old. James looked at his wife and said, "A karaoke bar? Are you kidding me Lorelai?" Lorelai shook her head and said, "Nope, we are going in. You don't have to perform, but you can have some drinks and make fun of people. You'll like it, I promise!" James & Greg exchanged glances again, but James still wasn't sure about the choice in bar. Greg, on the other hand, loved the idea of getting to drink and make fun of people in public without getting yelled at.
So Greg opened his door to the jeep and started to get out. Lore followed Greg's action and also got out, leaving James to groan loudly and say, "Damn-it you two, this isn't fair. I hate these places, it's like watching that show from before Jay was born… what was it again… American Idol. It's a really bad episode of American Idol, without that rude British guy." Greg tapped his cane on the front of the jeep and said, "Well if you want a rude British guy, I can do my best impression of a British accent and God knows I got the rude thing down pretty good. Come on Jimmy-boy have some fun."
It wasn't long before they were all seated at a table near the back of the room and Greg & James were both laughing at the drunken woman on stage belting out an old country song by Faith Hill. The woman was mutilating the song and it honestly sounded like two cats fighting. James took a long sip from his beer and leaned over to Greg and said, "They should use this on suspects during interrogations, before the second verse the guy would be spilling his secrets and begging them to make it stop." Greg laughed and then said, "No, I know… they could use it in torture camps for war criminals." James laughed and said, "That's just cruel and unusual Greg, no one should have to be tortured with this!"
Over the next two hours later Lorelai had had to move everything from their table to another so Greg wouldn't have anything to throw at the bad singers. The guys had both started in with their bad British accents and were yelling for the singers to 'Shut Up!' just like Simon Cowell used to on American Idol. Just as Greg was about to order another round of beers for them, Lorelai grabbed his arm and stopped him from motioning to the bar tender and said, "No, I think its time to head home now boys. We've had quite enough fun for one night and our moms are probably exhausted from being with our children this long.
James quickly sobered and agreed with Lorelai saying, "Yeah you're probably right kid. You're mom has to be worn out and Greg's mom probably has Immy & Isaac tied to their beds by now." Greg started to whine to stay longer, but Lore slapped a hand over his mouth and said, "No, we are leaving now. So unless you are walking your ass home, you're coming with me." Greg quit fighting about going home, but to get Lore's hand off his mouth he licked it. Lore yanked her hand away from his mouth and quickly slapped his shoulder saying, "God, you are such a child."
Next chapter: Greg & James have a conversation at work.