A/N: Thanks to Pyewacket75, Fanny-Wan Kenobi and Carlypso for reviewing the last chapter.

I know it's a little short, but I wanted to update before the season finale…


It was three days till Christmas Eve and he still hadn't bought her a gift. There was so much going on, that he hadn't had much time to think of something. But he realized that today might be his only chance to buy her a gift, because tomorrow her brother was arriving with his family. So he had better come up with something. Fast.

And as luck would have it, he heard clicking high heels walking their owner towards his office.

"Cuddy, just the one I've been looking for."

"No, you can't give your patient malaria." Was her response without thinking.

"That's old news… I need you opinion as a woman."

Cuddy sighed and took a seat on his desk chair since he was sitting in his Eames chair. "Let's get this over with." She mumbled.

"I need some Christmas gift ideas for Annette."

"Oh…" She said surprised. "Well jewelry is always a good choice."

"Okay, I can do that I guess. I want to get her something special though. By the way this conversation never leaves this office." He added as an afterthought when he noticed how girly he sounded.

"Well that's not something I can help you with, I don't know her that well. Maybe you should ask Wilson, he's met her."

"What good are you?" He mumbled as he got up and started packing his bag so he could head to the mall.

"See you tomorrow House."

"Why are you here anyway, I was a good boy today? I solved my case."

"I just wanted a patient update." She said already on her way out.


House was halfway to the jewelry store when he remembered that Annette didn't wear any kind of jewelry. Great, he thought, he was just as screwed as before. He needed to come up with something new again.

And that's when he saw it the new Playstation 3. Yes, he knew it wasn't something you would usually give to the woman in your life, but she was always playing with his PSP beating his high scores. They could have fun with this, he thought.

After he had spent a lot of money on the Playstation and 4 new games, he left the mall. He drove to his apartment so he could hide the gift.

House and Annette spent the last evening alone together eating take-out and making out on the couch like a couple of teenagers. They even spent the night on the couch, which to his surprise was very comfortable.


At 10:25 they waited at the airport terminal for her brother to show up.

"Moster Annette!" He could hear someone yell and two pair of feet running towards them.

They started talking in Danish, but House recognized them as Jamie and Sophie from the pictures he had seen. They hugged and talked in hushed voices clearly talking about him, because the next thing he sees is Sophie turning towards him.

"Hello my name is Sophie, what's yours?" He was ready to mock her, but then he saw the same gorgeous eyes as Annette's looking up at him. From that moment on he knew Sophie would have him wrapped around her finger. He was also a little nervous about meeting Annette's family.

"Hi I'm Greg." He noticed Jamie hiding shyly behind his aunt's body only his head visible. "And that floating head must be Jamie." That got a giggle from Sophie. So far so good, House thought.

"Well aren't you gonna say hi to the rest of us." A voice behind them said.

The voice belonged to her brother. He was in his mid-thirties and wearing a black suit. In some way he reminded House a bit of Wilson, he had that same boy wonder smile.

Annette rushed over to him immediately hugging and the talking in Danish started again. To be honest he felt a little left out.

"Don't mind them, they're always like this every time we're here." A voice to his left said, it belonged to Thomas' wife he presumed. "Hi I'm Victoria. You must be Greg, Annette has told us so many things about you."

She was in her mid-thirties just like her husband. Her skin was really tanned like she had spent hours lying directly next to the sun, her white sweater did nothing to hide that. She had beautiful blond hair and brown eyes. And he thought he could hear a hint of an Australian accent in her voice.

"Hi, nice to meet you." Yes, he was overdoing it a bit with the niceness, but he wanted Annette's family to like him, as strangely as that sounded.

"You don't speak Danish, do you?" House shook his head. "Thank God. The last we were here I spent most of my time talking about Bob 10, Spongebob Squarepants and that boy with the arrow painted on his head."

"Mum it's Ben 10." Sophie corrected while laughing, even Jamie couldn't hide his smile.

"Yes, and the cartoon with arrow boy is called Avatar I believe. And I happen to like Spongebob." House said.

"Really? Jamie show him your socks!" Sophie said while walking to stand right next to House.

Jamie lifted his jeans up a bit and showed him his yellow Spongebob socks.

"Awesome! Sadly they don't make them in my size."

"Oh my God there are three of them." Victoria said with a sigh.

"Moster Annette did you know Greg likes Spongebob?" Apparently Jamie wasn't so shy after all.

"Yes, he watches it every morning before he goes to work." Annette said with a smile. "Anyway, this is my brother Thomas."

"Hi, it's nice to finally meet the man that my sister can't stop talking about." His Danish accent wasn't as prominent as Annette's.

House looked over at Annette and was very amused when he saw her cheeks turn a delightful rosy color.

"Oh shut up!" She said to House. "I saw you blush when Wilson told me that you really like me."

A/N: Moster means aunt in Danish.