Baby It's All Right Now

About 30 minutes later, Natalie and Cuddy finished their lunch and left the restaurant. After Cuddy said her goodbyes to Natalie, she got into her car and pulled out her phone. She had decided to call House back and see what he had wanted earlier. It better not have been to ask if I was naked, Cuddy thought. He had done that to her on more than one occasion.

"Are you done having your sex affair with Wilson?" House answered his phone. Cameron, who was working on his hand, looked at him.

"Yeah, it ran a little longer that I thought it would," Cuddy said.

"Now I know you are lying," House said. "The words 'long' and 'Wilson' do not go together. I hope you had a fun time while I was BLEEDING to death."

"Bleeding?" Cuddy asked in a shocked tone. "What happened?"

"I almost sliced my hand off," House said. "Of course, you couldn't be bothered." He wanted to milk it for all it's worth.

"I didn't know that was why you were calling," Cuddy said feeling guilty, starting her car and heading towards the hospital as fast as she could.

"You could have answered and found out," House said. "Fortunately, Cameron was there to run to my aid." House gave Cameron a big smile and she smiled back.

"Cameron?" Cuddy asked. "Why did you call her? Why didn't you call Wilson?"

"I did, but he ignored me, too," House said. "Maybe you two were having a sex affair! Ow!"

"What's wrong?" Cuddy asked him.

"Cameron is not being gentle," House said. "I thought you were supposed to be the nice one."

"Stop being such a big baby," Cameron said to him.

"Are you going to let her talk to me that way?" House asked Cuddy. "You should be protecting me."

"When she starts beating you with your cane, I will yell at her," Cuddy said.

"Cuddy says that you are fired," House said to Cameron. Cameron squeezed House's hand a little.

"My bad," Cameron said with a smile as House pulled his hand away a little. "I guess I should learn to be gentler."

"Cuddy, have you been giving Cameron lessons on how to be mean to me?" House asked. "If you are, you must be a really good teacher."

"Will you just let her finish fixing your hand?" Cuddy asked.

"Fine, mother," House said.

"I will be there as soon as I can," Cuddy said. "I am about 10 minutes away."

"You better hurry because Cameron keeps undressing me with her eyes," House said. Cameron rolled her eyes. House gave her a wink.

"I will be there soon," Cuddy said as she hung up the phone.

When Cuddy arrived at the hospital, she asked a nurse where House was. The nurse told her that he was in exam room 2. As Cuddy walked towards the room, she saw Cameron come out of it.

"Cameron," Cuddy yelled a little to get her attention. Cameron started walking towards Cuddy.

"He has a pretty deep cut on his hand, but he is going to be just fine," Cameron said to Cuddy to make sure she knew that he was going to be okay.

"Thanks," Cuddy said to her as Cameron walked away. It upset Cuddy a little that Cameron had been there for House when it should have been her. She knew that was partly her fault for not answering the phone when he called.

Cuddy knocked on the exam room door and walked in. She saw House sitting on the table flexing his injured hand. She also saw the blood that was on his shirt, pants, and that was drenching a towel on the counter. Before House could say anything, Cuddy walked over to him and wrapped her arms his waist and put her head against his chest. House was a little thrown by this at first, but after he got over the shock, he put his hands on her back and rubbed them across her back. He then kissed the top of her head.

"I'm sorry," Cuddy said to him.

"For what?" House asked her.

"For ignoring your call and not coming to help you," Cuddy said.

"I was just teasing you Cuddy," House said. "I was not really upset." He felt bad that he had made her feel so bad.

"I should have been there for you," Cuddy said as she gave him a light squeeze. "What if you had been calling because of your leg or something worse?" Cuddy felt like crying, but she managed to hold back the tears.

"You don't have to be the one to drive me to the hospital if something happens as long as you are there to make me feel better later," House said. Cuddy looked up at him and the tears started to form in her eyes.

"I'll be there," she said as she put her head back down on his chest. House didn't really know why she was crying, but he knew it was probably better to keep his mouth shut about it.

"Will you drive me home?" House asked. There were a little too much emotion flying around in that room and he didn't want to catch it.

"You can stay at my place tonight," Cuddy said as she looked up again into his eyes.

"Does that mean you are not mad at me anymore?" House asked.

"You always told me when to tell you when I was mad and not just annoyed and I never told you I was mad at you," Cuddy said.

"Just extremely annoyed?" House asked. Cuddy smiled and nodded her head yes.

House lowered his head and kissed her a gentle kiss on the lips. They both had missed each other's kisses the night before.

"Will you promise me something?" Cuddy asked him.

"What?" House asked.

"The next time you need someone and can't get me or Wilson, call Foreman or Chase," Cuddy said. House let off a little laugh.

"Is Lisa Cuddy jealous of Allison Cameron?" House asked. "I guess that means the threesome is out." Cuddy pulled away from him to head to the door. She opened the door for him and motioned for him to move his butt.