Title: What Date?
Characters: Kutner, Thirteen, House, Taub, Foreman
Prompt: Tease
Rating: PG-13ish.
Summary: Kutner and Thirteen go to the movies, as friends, but everyone assumes the worst (best?) and must ask.
"So how was it?" Taub inquired leaning over the table towards Kutner.
"…What?"
"Your date with Thirteen."
"What date? It wasn't a date…" he said, sounding a little confused.
"Right."
"No, really, it wasn't a 'date'," he said, using his fingers to trace quotation marks in the air. "We just went to a movie, as friends."
"And afterwards?"
"I went home, and she went home. That's all."
"Mating habits in young ethnic males, discuss," House said frankly as he stumped in.
Thirteen rolled her eyes, Kutner looked confused and Taub laughed.
"So, a date last night?" he said, thumping his cane on the table beside Thirteen's coffee, causing it to spill a little.
"No," she said steadily, sliding her coffee away from the reach of House's cane. "Movies with a friend."
House didn't actually think that either of them would call it a date, nor was it intended to be a date. He just enjoyed seeing his fellows squirm.
"Come on. Everyone knows the routine, boy takes girl to the movies, buys her popcorn, yawns and puts his arm around her and girl lets him into her apartment for a night that totally pays for the five dollar bucket of popcorn."
"How about, girl meets boy at theater, buys her own ticket, hates popcorn, buys herself some candy instead, shares with boy maybe a little, watches movie with no lame pick-up moves and they both smile, hug, say good-bye, and go their separate ways."
"That doesn't happen with two heterosexual, or bisexual even, people of the opposite sex go out alone together."
"Okay, we did throw M&Ms at the movie screen a little. We were the only people in the place."
Kutner laughed, and Taub and Foreman both just shook their heads in disbelief. They couldn't believe that any straight, sane male could go somewhere alone with a woman that attractive just as friends.
"I'm still not completely convinced."
"It was totally platonic," Kutner said.