Disclaimer: I still don't own House.

A/N: Okay, I did some amnesia research. Probably not enough - but I think at least enough for it to make sense why they're doing what they're doing. I know amnesia is an old chestnut - but House is still House - so he should make an interesting case. And if you're wondering why House would make the assumption he did - forget what you know about House and Cuddy and just look at the actions. Holding his hand, him letting her hold his hand, what she said to him - about owning his ass (Yes, she means due to the Tritter arc - but he doesn't know that.) - about him not doing that to her again. waggles brows I think those symptoms would speak to a Greg House that doesn't remember about the infarction, etc., etc.

It felt like everyone's eyes were on her. Wondering why? Why did she spend the night watching over him? Why had she held his hand? Why did House think they were together? Why didn't he remember? Why hadn't she removed herself as his attending?

Why? She didn't even know if she could answer that herself.

They were all there. Her, Foreman, Chase, Cameron and the new ducklings. Yet the conference room felt awkward. Without House or at least Wilson, it didn't seem right. Not to mention she could feel Cameron's eyes drilling into her. Chase speculating on whether there was money to be made on this or not. Thankfully Foreman cleared his throat and drew everyone's attention away from her.

"House is suffering from retrograde amnesia." He frowned. "At this point I'm not comfortable making the call on whether it's post-traumatic or not."

Cameron was the first to protest. "It has to be post-traumatic… The deep brain stimulation caused a complex partial seizure."

"I'd agree – except for where his memories stop." Foreman made eye contact with her. "House doesn't remember anything past being in college. The only person here he has any functional memory of is…"

"Me…" Cuddy said breathing out. "What I don't understand is why…"

Foreman smirked. "He's solving puzzles. He's adding two and two and …"

"...Coming up with ten." She cradled her head in her hands.

"Basically he remembers waking up and Dr. Cuddy being the only one there, visibly upset. In fact every time he's regained consciousness she's been there. Apparently, that plus some comments that he misconstrued in their conversation – and added to the fact that at the time, that he remembers they were…"

"Close." Cuddy snapped. Remembering how huge the crush she'd had on House back when he was a living legend who'd deigned to take an interest in her. It didn't really surprise her that if all he remembered was her watching him with dreamy eyes when she thought he wasn't looking, then engaging him in verbal warfare when he was. "Oh god…"

"Shouldn't someone straighten him out?" Chase said with a frown.

"If we were certain that it was post-traumatic – I'd think it would be fine to tell him what happened and the truth about him and Dr. Cuddy." Foreman admitted.

"Except if it's a dissociative amnesia that's a reaction to Amber's death and thinking he's going to loose Wilson's friendship…" Cameron sighed and looked at Cuddy, wondering how the older woman was going to deal with this. "It may be his brain's way of dealing with his loss. Instead of dealing, he's forgotten it all – he's in a strange way focusing on what he's got left. Forcing him to deal with that by telling him what happened – we could make him worse."

"Exactly…" Foreman said apologetically. "And he knows amnesia isn't really a reason to keep him in the hospital." His attention was on Cuddy now, and she cringed under it. "I've convinced him we need to monitor him due to the skull fracture and the brain bleed – but it's not going to last." He paused. "You don't need to let him continue in his assumption about you and him."

"Except if I call him on being wrong about us – it could make things difficult for getting him through this, getting him to cooperate." Cuddy frowned. They all knew what a pain in the ass patient House made. "And on the flip side if I don't and he finds out…" She pinched the bridge of her nose. Even when he wasn't himself, House could still give her a headache.

Foreman watched as Cuddy tried to sort it out in her own head. A slight smile crossed his face – the funny thing was – he might be wrong on the details, but he didn't think House was that far off from the truth.