Title: The Laws of Attraction pt. 1
Prompt: #50. Attraction
Rating: PG-ish.
Summary: Thirteen ponders when exactly she liked Kutner, and why.

For Thirteen, the attraction was absolutely not initial. The first time she saw Kutner, she saw a guy who had gotten his daddy to pay his way through med school and beyond, just your average everyday conspiracy theorist nerd.

Of course, a lot of her assumptions about people were dead wrong, the assumption that Kutner was someone who expected things to be handed to him was especially wrong.

But it didn't excuse the fact that he was reckless, loud, (and a little strange).

She decided she liked him when he refused to be fired, flipped his number around on his chest and pulled a diagnosis out of nowhere. He had impressed House, so he had impressed her.

So Thirteen respected Kutner.

Of course, upon earning the slightest bit of respect, he electrocuted himself and nearly got fired. She was glad she hadn't made friends, (so she couldn't be betrayed by them).

The respect wore on, she still thought he was utterly ridiculous, to be honest, some of his ideas were terrible, but as the weeks wore on, he was dead on, several times, or at least a lot closer to the goal than anyone else.

Thirteen had sensed standing up to House had been a real thrill to him. Kutner was a risk taker to the point of being your run-of-the-mill masochist.

She liked that. She also liked that he respected her as a doctor and not as a pretty girl (because, face it, she was gorgeous and she got a lot of attention based on that fact) and he didn't ogle her, he actually didn't pay a lot of attention to her at all unless he had to.

Though she was a little offended when she had found out he had asked Amber out first.

Insecurity had always been her biggest fault (but Kutner had never been insecure, not since high school at least).

She respected Kutner, she liked Kutner.

She wasn't a fan of getting attached, she liked being able to keep things under the surface.

Of course she couldn't do that constantly. Everyone needed company.

She decided that Kutner definitely deserved to stick around after the first time they had sex (she couldn't call it anything else because that's all it had been).

It hadn't just been good (and it had) it had been fun.

Her scale for rating sexual encounters (it was a mental thing, she didn't write things down or anything ridiculous like that) didn't include a 'fun' rating.

So Thirteen liked Kutner (a lot).