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House sighed as the movie ended, "I should probably get home."
"Are you sure you'll be able to drive? We drank a lot of wine."
"Was that your plan all along? Getting me drunk so that I'll spend the night here."
"Maybe" He chuckled and nodded his okay to stay over.
"Do you want to watch another movie?"
"No I'm actually pretty tired, let's just go to bed." He wasn't actually tired, but he knew that she needed to sleep more than four hours.
"Okay then… the bedroom is through that door." He nodded and went to the door behind him.
It turned out to be another big room. The bed was in the middle of it. The left corner was filled with a big closet. As he turned to his right he saw a little table which had some picture frames on top of it. There were pictures of two kids a boy and a girl both of them were smiling. The boy seemed to have the same color of eyes as Annette. And the girl had the same hair color as Annette. There was one more picture it contained a younger Annette, she was smiling up at him she also had her arm around a young man in his 20's. He had the same eye color as the girl in the other picture. That must be her brother, House thought.
"That's my brother Thomas," she confirmed "he lives in London with his wife Victoria. And those," she pointed at the two kids "are my niece Sophie, she is 6 years old, and my nephew Jamie, he just turned 5 last week."
"Are you keeping in touch with them?"
"Yeah, they were here two months ago. My brother and I have always been close. What about you?"
"I don't have any siblings. My dad was in the military and my mom had her hands full with me I don't think she could've handled another one all by herself."
"Do you keep in touch with your parents?"
"My dad died a year ago. I haven't talked to my mom since the funeral." She sensed that he really didn't want to talk about. She squeezed his shoulder and walked through a door, to what he assumed was the bathroom.
House kept staring at the pictures. Since his return from Mayfield, he often wondered what his mother was up to. But he wasn't quite ready to tell what he had been up to.
"Aren't you gonna get ready?" She was leaning against the door frame.
His thoughtful expression turned into a smirk "You're just waiting to get in bed with me again, aren't you?" She rolled his eyes at him and disappeared into the bathroom again.
As he entered he was again surprised how big the room was. He could see why she thought the apartment was too big for one person.
"Here I found an extra toothbrush." He looked at the color "Sorry pink was all I had."
"Just don't tell Wilson." She giggled.
They brushed their teeth together it felt really domestic, but surprisingly it didn't scare him, it just felt right.
"I think you looked cute with your princess toothbrush."
"Oh, you're going to pay for that." With quick reflexes he wet his hands and splashed ice-cold water in her face.
"Hey!" She gasped. House limped as fast as he could to the bedroom he needed to hide.
"You're in big trouble, mister!" Annette yelled. As she entered the bedroom she had to giggle at his hiding place. He had pulled the blanket over his head, but his feet were still showing. It reminded her of playing hide-and-seek with Sophie and Jamie.
"Mmmh, let's see maybe he is hiding in the closet." She walked to it and opened the door "Nope, maybe under the bed." She bends over to take a look "No just his shoes, well that just leaves the bed." She walked to the bed and took a seat next to him. Slowly she tugged the blanket down.
"Hi cutie!" She beamed down at him.
He smirked again "Okay that's enough out of you!"