It's Up To You

10:15am

When Wilson finally ran into Chase again, he remembered what Cuddy had said.

"Hey, Chase," Wilson said with a smile on his face. "How are you doing?"

"Okay, what's going on?" Chase asked. "What did Cuddy say to you?"

"Something about younger men..." Wilson said slyly.

"Do you think that House said something to her about what I said yesterday?" Chase asked. "She gave me a really funny look this morning."

"Why do you think that House had to say something to her?" Wilson said. "You're a good looking guy."

"Did she say that?" Chase asked. "Do you think she likes me?"

"You have always been kind to her," Wilson said, trying to not laugh.

"That's because she is my boss," Chase said. He really hoped that he had not given her the wrong idea. He liked Cuddy, but not in that way.

"You should have shown more fear with her," Wilson said, barely keeping his voice sounding normal from all the internal laughing.

"What about House?" Chase asked. "She went out on a date with him." Just as he said that, Wilson and Chase saw House getting off the elevator and walking to his office. They both walked after him.

"Good morning, my peeps," House said as he walked into the room next to his office. Cameron and Foreman were sitting in there doing paperwork.

"You seem perky this morning," Foreman said.

"You know it," House said winking at Foreman. "I feel great today."

"House, did you say something to Cuddy about me?" Chase asked as he and Wilson walked into the room. House saw the big smile on Wilson's face and knew that Cuddy must have said something to Chase. He decided to play along.

"Why would I be talking about you on my date?" House asked innocently.

"She was acting really weird this morning," Chase said. "She was acting different towards me. Are you sure you didn't say anything?"

"She probably just has a hangover," House said to Chase, remembering Chase's comment about if Cuddy came in with a hangover, he would know that meant House had gotten her drunk and they had sex. "She is probably just not thinking straight." Wilson started laughing. He had held it in as long as he could.

"What?" Chase asked confused.

"Come with me in my office," House said to Wilson as he started to laugh.

xx

Wilson walked into House's office and House shut the door behind him.

"What did Cuddy do to Chase?" House asked.

"She hit on him," Wilson said.

"And now he thinks she's in love with him?" House asked. Chase was more gullible than he thought. "What a dork." Wilson wiped the tears from his eyes.

"Forgetting about Chase for a moment, let's talk about your date," Wilson said, changing gears. "Cuddy said that you only kissed her on the forehead."

"You told me to take it slow," House said as he put his feet up on his desk. Wilson couldn't believe that House had actually listened to him. He was shocked, but happy at the same time.

"The only problem with that is now she thinks you may not be interested because she was expecting to have to say no to you," Wilson said.

"I just can't win, can I?" House asked.

"You need to ask her out again," Wilson said.

"So she definitely gave you the perception that she wanted to see me again?" House asked.

"Ooooh, yeah," Wilson said nodding.

"I guess I could take her to see that stupid music on ice thing," House said. Wilson gave House a big smile. He could tell just from that sentence how much he really liked Cuddy. House did not like to do anything that he didn't like.

"You might want to keep the word stupid out of it when you ask her," Wilson said. "Remember you have that seminar tonight, though."

"You want me to ask her to go to that?" House asked with a sarcastic tone.

"I am saying not to skip it or you will make your new girlfriend mad," Wilson said.

"It was one date, Wilson," House said. "I don't think that really makes her my girlfriend." He wasn't ready to start using that word again. Wilson smiled.

"I bet you will change your mind about that after a couple more dates," Wilson said.

"If she can bear to go out with me a couple more times, maybe I will," House said. "Of course, I will also have to look past the fact that she is the devil."

"With that body of hers, you will," Wilson said.

"It's Satan's way of toying with me," House said with a laugh.

"There could be worst ways," Wilson said. "He could make it so that Chase thinks that you're hot." They both started to laugh.

"Poor Chase," House said.

"We all thought you were bad enough, so a House/Cuddy mixture might be horrible for us, though," Wilson said.

"Does that mean you don't think we should have children?" House asked. "Little blue-eyed Jews with nasty senses of humors."

"At least they would be good-looking and smart," Wilson said. He didn't really know if the world was ready for a little Cuddy/House. "You might just want to have her raise them."

"And let my kid have a perverse sense of guilt?" House asked. "No, thank you."

"Maybe you should raise them so they have a perverse attitude about of how people should interact with each other," Wilson said.

"It's not my fault that everybody lies," House said. Wilson's pager then went off. One of his patients had come in to ask about their drugs.

"I have to go," Wilson said as he got up from his seat. "Go talk to Cuddy sometime today." After Wilson had left, House picked up the phone to do something he had never done before—get tickets to an ice show.