Give Me A Chance To Be Near You

January 7

1:45pm

House was sitting in his office playing with his ball when he heard Cuddy walking down the hall in her high heels towards him.

"Hello, mistress," House said without turning around to look at her when he heard her open his door. "How are you today? I haven't done anything, so at least I am assuming there won't be any yelling." Cuddy walked up besides him.

"I know you haven't done anything," Cuddy said as he turned to look at her. "That is the problem. The clinic is backed up."

"My team is working as hard as they can," House said.

"You could…I don't know…help them," Cuddy said. "It might go by a lot faster."

"You could think that, but then again, you would be wrong," House said standing up from his seat. "I am a cripple, so I would probably just slow them down."

"All you would have to do is sit there and listen to people," Cuddy said. "You wouldn't even have to stand up."

"Do you want to make some sort of deal?" House asked her.

"Depends on what the deal you are thinking up consists of," Cuddy said. She knew never to agree to any kind of deal with House before knowing all the details. Who knows what his warped mind would think up.

"I get 10 minutes off clinic duty for every time I have to stand up during the consults," he said. "That includes if I have to get up and walk to a nurse to give her a sample to send to the lab. It also includes if I have to stand up to give any person some sort of treatment." Cuddy stood there for a moment thinking about the deal. She had to make sure she erased any loopholes that would cause him to stand up 50 times during every consult.

"It is a deal, but you have to take notes on why you stood up and I get to decide if it is a legitimate reason," Cuddy said to him reaching out her right hand. He took her hand, but instead of shaking it, he pulled her into a kiss. He wrapped his left arm around her and pulled her closer to him. She put her left hand on his chest.

"That's how I like to seal deals," House said to when their lips parted.

"Remind me never to send you to board meetings," Cuddy said with a smile. "I don't think the other members will like that from you."

"That's just because they are jealous they can't have me," House said. He leaned down and gave Cuddy another kiss, this one a little more tender. He was shocked that she hadn't stopped him on either kiss, since they were at the hospital and anyone could walk by at anytime.

"Would you like to come over for dinner tonight?" Cuddy asked him when they finished kissing for the second time.

"Are you a good cook?" House asked. "Stacy's food used to taste like poison. It is okay if you suck. We can invite Wilson over to be the chef so we can focus on other things."

"I can cook," Cuddy said to him. "My mother taught me well." Cuddy had spent many nights in the kitchen with her mother learning how to cook. Her mom believed that the house is where a woman should be, not at a workplace.

"Is she the one that taught you how to dress, too?" House said quickly receiving a punch from Cuddy in the chest.

"Do you like lasagna?" Cuddy asked, changing the subject. House thought about it. "As long as there is parmesan cheese."

"I have some," Cuddy said.

"House, can you…," Cameron said as she walked into his office. She saw that House and Cuddy were standing really close to each other. "Umm…I need you to look at a patient that has some weird symptoms." Cuddy grabbed House's right arm and gave him a shove.

"Duty calls," Cuddy said. "When you are done with her patient, go to the clinic." Cuddy walked by Cameron and gave her an almost bragging kind of smile.

"This better be good," House said to Cameron as they started walking out his office. Cameron couldn't tell if he was actually mad or just pretending to be mad. Either way, she wanted to know about him and Cuddy.

"So are things going fine with you two?" Cameron asked House, trying to read him.

"Why do you care?" House asked.

"I was just curious," Cameron said looking away from him as they entered the elevator.

"You know curiosity killed the cat," House said.

"You are going to kill me for asking you?" Cameron asked looking at him again.

"Things are going fine," House said hoping that by answering her, she would drop the subject. Cameron looked him over to see if she thought he was lying. House noticed and turned to her and gave her a big smile. He didn't want her analyzing him. "So what is wrong with your patient? Is it anything contagiously deadly, because I have plans for tonight."

"With Cuddy?" Cameron asked.

"The patient's problem is that they were with Cuddy?" House said. "Is it sexually transmitted?"

"No, I meant your plans," Cameron said. "Are you taking Cuddy somewhere?" House grabbed the chart out of her hands. They got out of the elevator and walked over to exam room 5.

"Ask him if he has gone mountain climbing recently," House said as he handed her the chart and started to walk to another room.

"Why?" Cameron asked. "You think he ran across something up there?"

"I think he has the bends," House said.

"What if he hasn't gone mountain climbing?" Cameron called back.

"Then come and find me," House said. "We will deal with it then." House opened up exam room 2.

"Hello, Mr. Bell," House said cheerfully as he closed the door and looked through the man's file.

xx

"Either he had sex with Cuddy or he is going to have sex with Cuddy," Chase said to Foreman as they witnessed the scene.

"I just hope this doesn't blow up in all our faces," Foreman said. "House will take it out on us if things go wrong and he is already an ass so who knows how bad he will be."

"Cuddy could definitely make our lives miserable, too," Chase said back to Foreman. "I guess we will just have to keep an eye on them."

"We won't have to," Foreman said. "Cameron will be stalking House so we can just ask her."

"I don't think she likes him anymore," Chase shot back.

"Where have you been?" Foreman asked. Chase wanted to believe that Cameron was over House. He was happy that House was dating Cuddy.

"He is a total jerk and Cameron would never want to actually go out with someone like that," Chase said as he picked up his next file. "Plus, I think House has made it pretty clear to her that he is not interested." Chase walked away from Foreman. He had to make sure that Cuddy and House stayed together so that House wouldn't go to Cameron on the rebound. He knew that if Cameron thought House had gotten his heart broken, she would want to be their to try to make him feel better.