It was two weeks after Hurricane Pamela ravaged the Eastern seaboard. Two weeks of pure bliss for both James and Allison. Two weeks that would inevitably be a long future of happiness or a life of hell. Today was the day they decided to finally step out of the shadows and tell everybody that they were an item and planned to be so for a long time to come.
"I am glad we decided to be open to everyone today James."
"Me too Ali, but I am worried about Greg though. He will likely drown his sorrows and double his dosage of Vicodin when we tell him, because he won't have me to lean on so much anymore when he has problems with everyone, including you, along with life in general. I have been trying to equal out my time between the two of you out of work. I know that you understand this completely, and always will, but Greg on the other hand, won't stand for it. If it is alright with you, I have made reservations for everyone at The Biltmore to let them know?"
"Yes that is fine with me. Will give me the chance to show off my new dress that I bought. I know that everyone will be fine with us as a couple, and will understand completely when we do break this to House, if you want to spend a bit more time with him, but, please, don't make it a habit of doing so, he will take advantage of it, and insist that you hang out with him more often than you should and end up disregarding me altogether. I don't know if I could stand it if you did. I thought that Greg was the guy for me, had my heart so set on the match, that I nearly overshadowed you, the true love of my life. I know I don't deserve you, but, please, give me a chance to show you that we could last?"
"No, you don't deserve me, as I don't deserve you. But we fit together. Greg will get over it, eventually. Now why don't we get ready for work, and head in. I am eager to get this day done and over with. I still have some things to teach you."
"Teach me? Oh, please, no more Hebrew? No more Jewish holidays or anything like that?"
"No, it has nothing to do with any of that..." waggles his eyebrows "but, now that you mention it..."
"Oh no you don't." Allison ran screaming down the hall with James hot on her trail. When he caught up to her, Allison was about to run into her bedroom and slam the door shut on him, when he grabbed hold of her, and slammed her against the wall and proceeded to punish her for running away on him.
"You know the punishment for running away on me."
"Yes I did, didn't know any other way to get you to make love to me without spelling it out to you."
"Good girl, now show me how you plan to apologize."
After they were done, shower taken, dressed, and breakfast eaten, they drove, in separate cars to work, her in a bright red 2002 Chrysler Sebring JXI convertible, him in a silver 2005 Chrysler 300C. James wanted a brand new Dodge Charger Daytona, but it didn't seem practical for the line of work he does. Sure he could easily afford the payments and the insurance, tax, and tags. But it would have been to flashy for him, so he went with the 300C instead, roomier, classier. Allison went with the Sebring convertible for the usual chick reason for getting one. She always wanted a convertible, and found the Sebring to be the most popular one ever sold, and figured they were the "IN" car, so she bought one. It was easily priced, tax, tags and insurance were reasonable. They had arrived within a couple minutes of each other. Allison went to park in the general employee parking, while James went to park in his reserved spot. He would have to talk to Cuddy after tonight to see about getting Allison a spot right next to or very close by his. Of course right after he got parked and got his briefcase and jacket, Greg came up and parked next to him in his spot.
"You know you are going to kill yourself before you have a chance to fully appreciate that 'Vette?"
"Right, just like you told me that taking too much Vicodin would do the same thing? Don't believe you anymore Jimmy."
"Oh cut the crap. I have reservations at The Biltmore, 7:30 tonight for everyone. Bring a date if you want."
"What's the occasion?"
"No occasion, just wanted to give everyone a chance to get away from work for a while, and concentrate on other things. If you want to talk about work while there, be my guest, but I will expect you there tonight."
"Why is it that I have to park in the bumfuck nowhere while you two get the good spots?"
"We have more important roles in this establishment than you do."
"Touching Greg. I think you know the reason why Dr. Cameron."
"Yes, unfortunately I do, Dr. Wilson. I hate it. Oh well, at least I get my exercise, walking that far to get into the building and that much farther to get to my car to get home."
All three walked in companionable silence to the building. Once they got there, James went one way with a wink to Allison while her and House went to the diagnostics ward to ready themselves for the day. Allison walked over to the kitchenette area and started the coffee before she went to sort out Houses' mail and email. The coffee was just getting ready to drink when Chase and Foreman came into the room. It was Chases turn for breakfast, so he brought in Burger King drive-thru. Everybody dug in while they were going through their previous case and how they could have diagnosed the symptoms quicker and found better treatments. After breakfast was done, Chase and Allison went down for their obligatory two hours of clinic duty. Meanwhile, James was sorting through his mail and going through past patient records and new ones. It took him about an hour to do this, and after he was done, he went into the Oncology ward to see his patients. He spent a good deal of the morning in his ward, speaking to concerned parents and harmlessly flirting with the nurses. He knew that Allison wouldn't mind him doing so. They both had to keep to themselves until their relationship was out in the open. Thank god he only had to wait 8 hours to do so.
"Dr. Wilson to exam room 3 for a consult, Dr. Wilson, exam room 3 for a consult."
Great, House is the only one to page him for a consult, but, he thought, House isn't in the clinic right now. Not the time of day for him to be in there. That only left one other person. Allison. He flew out of the ward and to the elevator in record time. When he got down on the first floor, and walked into the clinic, it was bare. He casually walked into exam room 3 and closed the door. Once he did, he was grabbed from behind and hauled to the exam bed, and ravished on the spot.
"I missed you, so the only way to get you was to page you down here."
"Damn woman, should have just came to my office and paged me on my pager. It would have been better that way."
"Yea, but I know you keep that thing on silent, because of House. I wanted to get your attention."
"Well, you have it now, what are you going to do with it?"
"Oh I have my ideas..."
They spent the rest of the morning in that exam room, showing each other how much love they had for the other. Once noon rolled around, they walked to the cafeteria to have lunch. They strolled in and waited in line to be served. When they got their food and paid for it, they walked over to a table and sat down. While they were eating their lunch, Foreman, and Chase came up to them and joined in. Foreman gave Allison and James a conspiratory wink, while Chase rambled on about the latest case they were working on.
"Why don't all of you come to The Biltmore tonight at 7:30? I have a table reserved for everybody there, so we could all unwind from our stressful week."
"Sounds like a good idea to me, free food is always a good thing."
"I'd be honored to come."
"Sure, Dr. Wilson, I would love to come"
"Great, now all I have to do is get Cuddy to join in, and we are all set. See you all then."
With that, James left and when he was behind Chase, he gave Allison a wink and then lipped I love you to her. The afternoon went off without a hitch. No new cases to work on, so everybody was in the clinic doing their civic duty to the hospital. Cuddy had readily agreed to appear at the dinner that James was hosting. Everybody's going to be there, so all there is now is to let everyone know about his relationship with Allison. Oh god, I hope I am doing the right thing here.
