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"What happened?" Cuddy asked. House was already on his way to the elevator, not even bothering with asking what had happened.

"I'm not sure, as soon as I saw her I rushed up here." She could see by Wilson's expression that it wasn't good.

House didn't even wait for them at the elevator, he stepped into it as soon as the doors opened. His eyes were big and he looked like a lost little boy. Thoughts kept flashing to him, what if she already was dead? He didn't even have the chance to say goodbye and that he loved her. No, he had to stop this negative thinking. Everything was going to be okay.

The elevator stopped on the second floor and a couple of people got off and two entered the elevator "Hurry God-dammit! Don't have all day." He barked.

Finally the elevator stopped on the ground floor, everybody let House get out first, wondering why the grumpy doctor was in such a hurry.

House reached the ER, Wilson and Cuddy already there and waving him over. He was surprised that they didn't look so worried anymore. House's heart on the other hand was still hammering in his chest.

As he reached the curtained area he could see why they were relieved. Annette was sitting on the hospital bed talking with a woman standing next to her while a doctor was stitching up a wound on her right wrist.

"What happened?" He asked still slightly out of breath from rushing down to the ER.

Annette looked at him and then looked down again. "She fainted, because she hadn't eaten anything all day." The still unknown woman explained.

House released a sigh. God he was relieved, he knew why she wasn't eating. "I told you to eat something this morning." He scolded gently while limping over to the bed and taking a seat next to her. He wanted to reach out to her, but Annette still needed to explain how she got the wound on her wrist.

"So who the hell are you?" He asked the woman.

"I'm Karen Miller my office is next to Annette's." House nodded "So you're Greg? It was me who dragged Annette to that speed date event."

"Right! I remember you." Wilson suddenly piped up "You were the woman who lost her cat to cancer."

House ignored them, instead he tried to get Annette to look at him, but she could be very stubborn.

"It's alright let me finish that." He said to the doctor who looked oddly relieved to get away from House.

"Can you give us a minute?" He asked Karen, Wilson and Cuddy. They nodded and left them alone.

He touched her wrist gently looking if the other doctor had done a good job, which he knew he had, but he needed time to think about how to broach the subject without his usual rudeness.

"How did you cut your wrist?"

"When I fainted, I had a glass of water in my hand and it shattered when I fell and I landed on it." She mumbled quietly still not looking at him. He closed the wound off and then ran his fingertips down to the center of her palm.

"I'm sorry that I didn't eat anything today." She said and finally looked up at him. He could see that she was about to cry.

"Hey… it's okay." He stood up and opened his arms for her "I'm not mad." He said softly. Annette slowly stepped closer to him, he hugged her to him inhaling her sweet vanilla scent which had become so used to the last month.

"It's okay, babe." He whispered softly when he felt tears hitting his neck. House gently ran his hands across her back trying everything in his power to calm her down.

He also needed to feel her close to him again, the thought alone that he could've lost her made his heart start beating faster again.

"I'm sorry." She said again, but he knew this time she apologized for her tears.

"It's alright that's just the shock." He answered still running his hands along her spine. They stood holding each other until Annette was totally relaxed in his arms.

Then suddenly the curtains were ripped open "I'm sorry House we need the space." The ER attending said.

"Come on I'll drive you home. We need to talk about something." She looked up at him in a mixture of confusion and fear.

"Don't worry I'm not breaking up with you." She squeezed his hand in relief.

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20 minutes later they entered Annette's apartment.

"You take a seat." He pointed to the couch "I'll get you some water."

Annette found it a little amusing that he felt so at home at her place, but then again she couldn't blame him they spend most of their time together at her place anyway.

"Here" He placed the glass on the coffee table and took a seat next to it.

"So… Why didn't you eat anything today?" He wanted to start slowly, so that he could keep his and her yelling to a minimum.

"I didn't have time." House could already see the stubbornness lurking in the back of her eyes.

"Why?"

"You know why, I rushed past you this morning because I had back to back lectures."

"Right, I remember. Do you remember what I shouted to you before you slammed the door shut on your way out?"

She nodded and looked down at her hands "You said, you need to eat something."

"And when I say something, it's usually right." He said softly and hoping that it didn't sound too bossy.

"When I was a student I often didn't eat all day and I was fine." She hoped that this was a good enough excuse.

"You're not in your twenties anymore. Your body needs the energy it gets from food and drinks. So you've to remember to eat and drink."

"I know." She looked up at him "I guess the stress didn't help much either, because that why I forgot."

House was stunned she knew what the problem was all along "Yeah, you need to cut back or you're gonna end up in the ER again. God, I was so worried when Wilson said you were in the hospital." House stood up pacing the room

It tore her apart seeing him like this, she knew it was hard for him showing his emotions.

Annette stood up and stopped him from pacing by standing in front of him "It's okay, nothing happened to me." She placed her hands on his chest.

"Something worse could've happened. I mean you could've been in a car or walking across the street and been run-" She silenced him with a soul-searing kiss which took his breath away by the emotion it held.

"I'm okay." She repeated in a whisper.

House nodded and hugged her to him as tightly as he could without crushing her too much.

"Even though I've only known you for a little more than a month, I don't know how I would've coped if you weren't here anymore."

He looked at her and swept a stray curl off her face behind her ear. "I didn't think I would fall for a woman again." He said and touched his forehead with hers. House closed his eyes, he was ready to whisper those immortal words he knew he felt halfway through their first date not so many days ago.

He released a breath and swallowed his pride "I love you…" He whispered and buried his face in her neck inhaling that reassuring vanilla scent.

Annette squeezed him even closer to her and waited for him to lift his head off her shoulder. When he finally did she gave him a dazzling smile "Jeg elsker dig." She said with tears in her eyes. House had an idea what that meant, but waited for her to translate and smiled when she said "I love you too…"

It didn't take long for them to head to the bedroom.