Chapter 9

When he arrived at the house, he saw Karen with clipboard in hand, directing movers and making checks and notes on the board. He would really have to take that from her and hide it.

She greeted him with a smile and a quick kiss as she waltzed by him on the trail of a mover with a box.

The piano movers were still there setting up the piano. House walked around and inspected the instrument to make sure that they hadn't scratched it.

The movers finished their work soon after, leaving a trail of boxes behind them.

Within the hour, the furniture store delivered their sofa and chair. They still had to pick up the stuff at IKEA, but Karen planned on doing that the next day when Donna was with her. House really wasn't any good with carrying heavy boxes. Plus Wilson was coming to help as well.

Once the movers and the deliverymen were gone, House looked around, trying to find Karen.

He finally located her in their bedroom. She was putting the sheets on the bed.

"Now that is a good idea!' he told her. "Get the bed ready."

She grinned at him. "That's not why I was making it. When you move, the first thing you should do is make your bed. Because, at the end of the day, you'll be exhausted and you won't feel like making it. This way it's all ready!"

"This way, if you want to stop dealing with boxes and take some time out to have sex, it's all ready!" he said.

"You know, there is a lot of work to do."

"Yeah, yeah, I know."

She laughed, then looked at him, considering. Greg House was not a man you forced to do anything he didn't want to do. He was also quickly bored if it wasn't intellectually interesting or otherwise stimulating. The last thing she wanted to do was to make him bored or unhappy.

"How about this?" she asked him. "You go get us some lunch while I finish up here. Then once the cable people have gone, we could, uh, 'christen' the house."

"By 'christen' do you mean…?" He broke off when he saw her smile.

He smiled as well. "Sounds like a plan to me. What do you want to eat?"

"There's a Wawa a few blocks over. Just get some hoagies. I'll take a shorti – roast beef, no onions, with oil and sweet peppers."

"Pretty specific."

"I know how I like my hoagie."

He nodded and headed out the door. She finished making the bed and headed into the bathroom. She pulled out towels and set them up in the closet. Later on they'd want to shower and not have to look for towels. She kept some in the box to be distributed in the kids' bathrooms. Then she placed toiletries – hers and his – into the medicine cabinet. There would be more to set up here of course, but this would give them their immediate needs.

Just as she was leaving the bathroom, she heard a knock at the door. She let the cable installers in and directed them where everything needed to go. There would be a DVR in the family room and in the master bedroom. She knew that House would want to record his own shows and not have to compete with the kids. There would be basic cable in the kitchen and the kids' rooms. There would also be the modem for the internet and land line telephone as well. As the man got to work, House walked in with lunch.

He had apparently stopped at a liquor store as well as the Wawa, since he had a six pack of beer with him. They went to the back deck to eat where the cable installer wouldn't be.

Besides the sandwiches, he had gotten a large bag of chips for himself and for her, a bottle of water and a pack of carrot sticks.

"Aw, that's sweet Greg. You know I need my veggies."

He cracked open a beer and said, "No problem."

They ate in silence and then returned to the house where the cable installer was just finishing and having her sign the work order. She did so and as the man left, checked something off on her clipboard.

"Okay, all clear." She said, smiling at him.

"Is sex with me on the clipboard?"

"No, of course not."

"Maybe you should add it. I don't want to mess up your schedule."

She put the board on the counter and smiled. "Schedule's over for the day."

"Really? You're not going to do anymore unpacking?"

She shook her head. "Not today. Tomorrow Donna and James will help us. Why do all that extra work by ourselves when we'll have two more sets of hands then?"

"I like the way you think." He leaned over and kissed her, then took her hand and led her into the living room.

"Greg, it's a new sofa!"

"Double christening. New house, new sofa."

"Okay, but wait a second." She ran out of the room and came back a few seconds later with a sheet.

"What the hell?"

"Do you mind if we don't get sex stains on the new sofa in the first twenty-four hours that we own it?"

He shrugged. "As long as there is sex, I'm good."

She spread out the sheet, then took his hand. "Sit down."

He did and she reached for him and quickly undid his belt and the zipper of his jeans. He rose slightly so that she could push them down with his boxers. When he was exposed, she kneeled in front of him and took his cock into her mouth. She worked on him to his immense joy for several minutes as he got harder and harder. When he was rock hard, she pulled her own shorts and panties off and climbed onto his lap. She guided him inside her and she started to ride him.

He cupped her ass as she rode and leaned back against the pillows of the sofa. Oh, this was definitely good. A comfortable place to sit while a sexy woman rode him. She took her time and enjoyed the exquisite feel of him as she moved up and down on his cock. Every time she pulled up and then slid back down, he thought he would die.

After what seemed like forever, but a forever they didn't want to end, she couldn't take it anymore and let go. As soon as he felt her contract around him, he let himself go and emptied himself into her as she rode out her orgasm.

He leaned back and held her against him. She relaxed as she put her head on his shoulder, both of them completely spent and satisfied.

At last they moved and fixed their clothes.

Karen said, "I'm just going to finish with our bathroom. Our room should at least be comfortable for us."

House grinned. "Yeah, we'll be needing it later. I'm going to go make sure the cable guy did the job right. I'll be in the family room."

"That's nice of you to check on the cable company's work. I know how hard that will be."

"You have no idea."

She spent most of the afternoon setting up her personal things in the bedroom and bathroom. She wouldn't have the chest of drawers until the next day, so she couldn't do all of her clothes, but she could hang things in the closet and arrange her shoes. She hung up some of his clothes too, his suit jackets and some shirts.

House spent the afternoon napping in the family room.

When she found him there, she woke him gently and said, "Come on, let's get cleaned up and go get some dinner."

He nodded. They showered and went to a local sports bar for dinner. Then they returned to their house and made love again in their bed. They were holding each other as they fell asleep together for the first time in THEIR home.