I had a two day staff planning session, so I didn't get a chance to write some of this fiction during that time. To make it up to you all, here is two new chapters and I will try to write two more tomorrow.

Lovely To See You

7:00pm

Cuddy heard House knock 'shave and a haircut' on her front door. "Let me in!" House yelled as Cuddy opened the door. "Something is freezing off, woman! I would hate to lose my favorite toy." House walked in and gave Cuddy a hug and a quick kiss on the right cheek, his actions shocking her a little.

"That would be a shame," Cuddy said as she walked back in to the kitchen. "I have everything almost ready."

"It actually smells like food," House said as he followed her into the kitchen.

"That is because my poison doesn't have a smell," Cuddy said giving him a wicked smile. "You won't be able to taste it either."

"I told Wilson I was coming over here, so if I die suspiciously, he will order an autopsy," House said walking up beside her and looking at the food. "Unless you two are working together, that is."

"He is hiding in the closet right now waiting for you to die," Cuddy said. "We just hope you fit in his trunk."

"I should have known you two were out to get me," House said shaking his head.

"Will you give me a hand?" Cuddy asked House pointing at the plates. House started clapping his hands. Cuddy gave him a smile and shook her head.

"I didn't know you needed reassurance every time you did something," House said as he picked up the plates and put them on the table. He looked around the room. "You have a really nice dining room." House had been in her house a few times, but when he was there, he wasn't really interested in seeing the dining room. "Of course, my apartment only has really three rooms, so anything is an improvement." Cuddy brought the rest of the food into the dining room to join him. She was a little shocked when he pulled out her chair for her.

"You're just trying to be a gentleman to get into my pants," Cuddy said as he sat down in his chair. He gave her a big smile.

"I know why you really invited me over here," House said nodding his head in a knowing nod.

"To poison you," Cuddy said with a smile. "You shouldn't have been so mean to me at work all these years."

"I know you like the back of my hand," House said as he looked at his hand. "What the yell is that?" Cuddy laughed. House shrugged his shoulders.

"Do you hate me for what I did to your leg?" Cuddy asked him out of the blue.

"No," House said. "You did what a doctor should have done. I probably would have done the same thing at that time if the situation was reversed."

"But you hate Stacy for it," Cuddy said to him. "Why don't you hate me?" House looked at Cuddy for a moment. He always knew she felt a little guilty for his leg, but he never knew that she felt this guilty.

"Because being a doctor is different than being someone's girlfriend," House said picking at his food.

"But I was your friend," Cuddy said. House looked at Cuddy right in the eyes.

"You didn't do anything wrong," he said.

"I always felt I did because you were so angry and unhappy after the surgery," Cuddy said. "I knew that is not what you wanted."

"I was angry and unhappy at the world, not you specifically," House said wishing that there was some way to make her see that he didn't hate her. She had always been there for him, even when he didn't deserve it. "I was angry because my leg hurt and Stacy left me when I needed her the most." Cuddy looked over at him and saw that he was uncomfortable talking about this topic, but was trying.

"Do you still love Stacy?" Cuddy asked in a low voice, having to know the answer. "Would you ever go back to her if she was willing?"

"For a while when she started working here again last year, I thought I did, but then I realized that I loved what we used to have and that part of out life was never going to happen again because too much had changed," House said. Cuddy couldn't help but smile. She knew his answer could have gone either way and it had gone her way.

"When did you start liking me?" Cuddy asked keeping the smile on her face.

"Did you really ask me over to interrogate me?" House asked.

"These are questions that I want to know the answers to," Cuddy said.

"I don't know the answer to that one," House said.

"So what's your favorite kind of music?" Cuddy asked changing the subject.

"That's one of the things you really want to know?" House asked raising his eyebrows. Cuddy nodded her head yes. House looked at her with a puzzled look. She was in a weird mode.

"British Invasion stuff I guess," House said. "I can pretty much listen to anything."

"I like 60's music," Cuddy said.

"That's good because if you said you didn't, I would have to leave now," House said.

"So if I would have said I love Britney Spears, it would have been over?" Cuddy said. She saw a big grin form on House's face. "Stop picturing me in a school girl outfit." House faked a shocked look and gave off a little laugh.

After dinner was over, House and Cuddy went into her living room and sat next to each other on the couch and watched The Wizard of Oz on TBS. House put his left arm around Cuddy's shoulder.

"Did you know that in one scene from this movie, some people say that you can see a munchkin hanging himself?" House said showing off his knowledge during a commercial break.

"What?" Cuddy asked. "There is not a scene like that."

"There is too," House said.

"Don't you think that they would have edited that out?" Cuddy asked.

"It wasn't a real hanging," House said. "It was actually a giant bird in the background."

"A giant bird?" Cuddy asked.

"They got all this exotic animals because Oz was supposed to be an exotic place," House said.

"I don't know how you became a doctor," Cuddy said. "Apparently, you have spent so much of your time reading about useless information."

"I am the king of useless information," House said raising his chin for the distinction. Cuddy gave off a laugh. "You will never know when you will need to know that in the song 'I am the Walrus,' Paul says, 'bury my body'."

"I know," Cuddy said in a valley girl voice. "That information might save somebody's life."

"You think you are so funny," House said as he picked a pillow of the couch and started to smother her.

"Get out of the closet and help me Wilson!" Cuddy screamed when he pulled the pillow away from her face. House started to laugh. He pulled her back into a sitting position and put his arm around her neck again.

"He is not in there with a camera is he?" House asked looking towards her coat closet. "He might need a bigger camera." House winked at Cuddy. When the commercial ended, Cuddy was thinking about how she hoped that the movie would end soon.