Chapter 20: WTF

"Mussolini was right!" House stated as he sat down at the conference table with the other men of his team, "where the hell is she?" he asked when he realized that the dose of estrogen wasn't present.

"Cuddy gave her the rest of the day off," Chase stated, folded his hands behind his head and learned back in his chair seemingly very proud of himself. "You could do the same with us now that our case is closed."

"Why would Cuddy do that?" House asked ignoring Chase's second comment.

Chase smirked.

"What is going on with the two of you? Please tell us, this is not another Cameron fiasco is it?" Forman asked.

"Cameron wasn't a fiasco, she was a stepping stone and, secondly Vicki is nothing like Cameron…at all." Chase stated defensively.

"Oh if anything she's more exotic like you," Taub mocked.

"Vicki, you call her Vicki? Yuck..." House practically gagged. "She's stolen your manliness, not that you had a lot of that, you pretty little thing you, but still…EW!"

"Whatever, say what you want, I know I can't stop you." Chase said with a shrug. "Can we get back to the case, or lack there of, and ultimately sending me home as well?" he asked.

"The case is over, true, did anyone catch it when I said Mussolini was right? How did she know that? Did she come up with that theory all by herself or did you help her?" House asked mockingly as he spun on Chase again, "also you can't go home. The mocking is about to begin." House added and cleared his throat, "And this is because you call her Vicki. So where does she keep your balls in her hand bag?" he asked.

"What I can't call her by her first name?" Chase asked skeptically, "what kind of a relationship do you have when you call your girlfriend by her surname and not her given name? Besides, Victoria prefers Vicki anyway."

"Ew!" House stated again.

"So it has progressed to Boyfriends slash Girlfriend status with the two of you?" Taub asked.

"It's complicated," Chase confessed as there was a commotion in the hallway.

"What the hell?" House asked as he turned to see a pack of female nurses as well as doctors crowding around Cicciliano and a baby carrier, "well that was quick, how did you skip the mandatory nine months?" he asked as Cicciliano came into the office beaming with pride and waving away the well wishers.

"It's called adoption," Victoria stated, placing the carrier on the floor and freeing the infant from the buckles and straps.

"Gimme, gimme," Chase stated excitedly and was handed the little bundle.

Victoria smiled proudly, tears in her eyes as she wrapped her arms around the seated Chase's shoulders and kissed his cheek.

"So this is where we start." He beamed up at her.

"What?" Gasped the crowed.

"We've decided, because we work together and know each other pretty well…" Chase started.

"And we know what works and doesn't work in relationships for ourselves that we'd do things a little differently." Cicciliano smiled.

"You were too impatient and couldn't wait and just make the babies yourselves?" House asked as he looked over into the infants face and saw that the baby was definitely not from New Jersey.

"No, the plan was to skip the whole messy relationship period, set some ground rules and dive in head first." Victoria explained.

"We do well with order and are ready for anything as Doctors, so we decided to see if we could make the family unit work first and let everything else fall into place." Chase smiled as he cradled the baby in his arms.

"Her name is Mia, and she's from Haiti," Victoria added as Forman looked over Chase's shoulder.

"How very multicultural of you but you know, once you have kids, the sex is the first thing to go." House stated.

"Sex is so trivial," Both Chase and Cicciliano stated at the same time. "Co-existence is the key."

"So who wins the bet?" Forman asked as Chase and Cicciliano looked around in mock confusion.

House through long and hard for a moment, "I guess Wilson, no one bet on them going insane and deciding on nesting rather than fucking…who told you we were betting on this…" House asked accusingly.

"Cuddy," Chase stated.

"But this isn't a prank," Victoria smiled, "We really did adopt a baby."

"So then Wilson didn't win!" House stated and redistributed the money to the people in the room.

"That was the blue file?" Taub asked.

"Yes," Victoria answered.

"Let's go show Wilson," Chase stated excitedly as he stood.

"What about the case?" Victoria asked

"Our patient is fine, tests confirmed Graeck-Imerslund," Chase stated proudly.

"Man, we're really having a good day!" Victoria giggled, grabbed the carrier and followed Chase out of the office.

"It's all a ruse!" House stated and rushed after them.

"The baby looked real to me!" Taub said and pocketed his two hundred dollars, "What should we do now?"

"Sneak out and buy a baby gift?" Forman asked in the form of an answer.

"I'm in." Taub stated and away they fled as well.