Disclaimer: Still not mine. Damn

AN: the next chapter will pretty much pick up where this one leaves of. probably with the patient getting worse and House getting an epiphany out of nowhere. but for now, enjoy!

Since when?

Wilson burst through the House's office balcony door in a frenzy, panting heavily; his chest rose and fell at a rapid rate. He wrecked his brain for words but was at a loss.

"Good, you're here, took you long enough. I need a favor. My patient needs a-"

"Screw the favor! What the HELL was all that about?! You had her right there, why did you stop?! Did she say something? Did you say something? You did, didn't you? W-what-"

"Slow down! You're going to burst a valve. First sit down and breathe before you have a heart attack."

Wilson sighed hard and slouched down in the nearest chair."Well for one, I don't like to be watched while I have sex, it's not my type of thing and B. she's a all high on hormones and wouldn't let me finish what I started.

"Why?"

"Because the team will be arriving in…" House looked at his wristwatch, made a confused expression, rattled it and looked at it again. "Damn thing stopped. What time is it?"

Wilson sighed again and checked his watch, scratching an annoying itch on the back of his head while doing so. "Quarter to four"

"Then they'll be here…soon, I guess. Unless the patient is having another heart attack which I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet. Which brings me back to the favor-"

Wilson was bewildered. How long had this been going on? Why hadn't he noticed? Was it all an act? It couldn't be, it was too real and House wasn't that good an actor.

"How long have-"

"Since mid-July. I stopped by her house one night to ask for permission to open up a kid's head and biopsy a piece of his brain and stayed for drinks. One thing led to another and I ended up staying for the next…" he gave Wilson a calculating look and counted with his fingers." … 2 days."

"Two days! That's a lot of sex"

"Two words, Jimmy. Fore and play"

"I really didn't need to know that. So… you are in a relationship?"

"God no. We're just together for the sex."

Wilson was baffled, his jaw dropped to the floor in disbelief. He never thought Cuddy would even consider that option. House would take that offer any day but… never Cuddy.

"Close your mouth, you look like an idiot. And I'm kidding. Cuddy isn't that desperate."

"So you are in a relationship?"

"We're not labeling it."

"Ohmigod! You are in a relationship!"

"Don't act surprised and don't tell anyone. People already think we're doing it and I'm not about to give them the satisfaction of being right"

"Actually I'm more surprised you're in a committed relationship and not just sleeping together. But, at least, now I understand why you shaved"

"That's what you wanted to know this morning? Jeez, how clueless can you be? Yeah I did shave. I'm starting to regret it now though. Did you see her? She hardly said anything about it and she's not letting me do anything anymore. Jimmy, if you knew what she'd let me do the first few days-"

"Stop, I don't want to hear the intimate details of your sex life."

"Suit yourself"

"But what I meant by the whole 'you shaving thing' was that you did Cuddy a favor because she asked you to. You did it because you care about her and it makes you happy to see her happy. It's not just the sex and the foreplay anymore; it's you… actually caring about someone else's feelings, about her feelings."

"You're just enjoying this because you finally get to bust my balls about being in a relationship"

He was enjoying this. House had been called heartless and callous before but seeing him with Cuddy brought a wicked smile to his face. Yes, the ball busting moment was now his and he got to lecture House to death about the good and bad things (but mostly the bad things) of being in a relationship. The only downside to his great revenge plan for so many years of analyzing his romantic life was that there really weren't many bad things about being with Cuddy. Not many at all.

After that small comment, House stayed silent. It was true and he knew it. It scared him to care like he cared foe Cuddy again. The last time he had 'let someone in' he had been hurt emotionally and physically. He might act like a jerk around everyone but he still cared about people. Maybe not all people but a select few. Obviously, he had some trust issues to get over. Still it scared him to be open and Wilson was the only person he trusted enough to actually call a friend. But Cuddy… no not Cuddy, Lisa. She was always there for him and he had never noticed. Lisa was there when he had no one to talk to and she always asked if he was ok. He trusted her and, dare he say, he loved her but, he'd never tell anyone that, not even her, until he was good and ready.

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