Ok, another chapter done, and still no reviews. So, I hope you like. Let me know if you do. The dinner party will be next and it will be a lot of fun. It might be a couple of days before another update. I have to devote all my attention to the bachelor party tomorrow night! Hope everyone enjoys the new episode.

Thanks for reading!

Evie checked her patient in then went looking for Cuddy. She found her sitting behind her desk working on files. She is such a workaholic but Cuddy wasn't always like this. She used to be a lot of fun, going out for drinks, staying at parties until 2 in the morning and "dancing it out" after a horrible day. It wasn't a coincidence that her nickname is Party Pants. Evie was suddenly feeling very guilty about being gone for so long. She knew that her best friend was having a hard time in her life recently. It occurred to Evie that this is where she needed to be, not just for a job but for her life as well. No one realizes that changing your life also changes the lives of the people around you.

"Hey," Evie walked into Cuddy's office.

"Hey, right back at you." Cuddy got up and walked over to her sofa. Evie went and sat next to her.

"So, my patient is here and House's team is rerunning every test. And a bunch of new ones."

"Well, that is what you wanted him to do right?" asked Cuddy.

"Yeah," Evie let out a big sigh and but her feet up on the coffee table.

"Ok, I know that sigh, what is wrong?"

"He was right. House was right. I screwed up. I know better then to just cut on someone. The right course of action would have been to stop and figured out why. Now, if she dies I will always wonder if I had stopped would she still be alive." Evie turned to look at Cuddy. "I have gotten soft and stupid, he was right."

"So what pisses you off more, that you were wrong or that he was right?" asked Cuddy with at slight grin. Evie paused and then let out a small laugh.

"Well that is easy to answer, him being right." Evie hung her head again and softly said, "I'm sorry Lisa."

Cuddy was surprised by what her best friend had just said. "Sorry for what?"

"I'm so sorry that I haven't been here for you. I know you have had a hard time lately. I could hear the pain in your voice and I just sat on my ass."

"Oh, Evie, you did nothing wrong. You were always there on the other line if I needed to talk. Hearing your voice on those hard nights helped more then you will ever know."

Evie looked up at her friend with tears in her eyes. Cuddy pulls her into a big huge. "You are a great friend who needed to find her own way. I never resented you for that. I knew you needed to get away from here to clear your head."

"Well, I'm back and I'm not going any where." Evie squeezed harder.

"I hate to interrupt this lovely moment." House yelled as he stormed into Cuddy's office. "BUT we do have a very sick patient that needs our help."

"Oh, so know it is OUR help." Retorted Evie as she wiped the tear from her eye.

"Well, since your sorry ass is now staying I thought I would get some use out of it." House ignored the tears that he saw in Evie's eyes.

"My team is running test and gathering more information. I don't think we will know anything for a while. She seems to be stable for now.' House told the two other doctors

"Ugh," Evie groaned as she stood up, "I need to cook. Lise do you mind?"

"Ah, do I mind if you cook me dinner? Are you crazy, go for it. Here are the keys to the house. Rachel's sitter will still be there. I have about another hour before I can leave." Cuddy was saying as she shuffled through her purse to find her extra key.

"Hey, good Evie cooking, I want to come." House spoke up.

"I don't think so." Replied Cuddy

"But Mom, I'm hungry too!" whined House.

"Do you think it turns her on for you to call her mom?" asked Evie, "Oh, wait that's right it turns YOU on!"

"Ha, Ha. I'll bring Wilson and booze." House wiggled his eyebrows at Evie.

Evie turned and gave Cuddy the please do this for me look. She wanted to have a chance to hang out with Wilson. May be getting a read on how he felt about her.

"Damn, ok, but you better bring some good booze. OH, and you HAVE to be nice to Rachel. I will throw your sorry ass right out if you aren't." Cuddy said with a big smile on her face.

"Sounds like a date. I will go get Wilson. See you in about an hour." House walked quickly out of Cuddy office.

"Well, this is going to be interesting." Cuddy sat back behind her desk.

"Oh, don't worry I will make sure you keep your pants on." Evie winked at Cuddy.

"Very funny, but I doubt what will be an issue."

"Yeah, you aren't as much fun as you use to be." Evie was trying to get a reaction from her friend.

"Nice try missy, but I'm not falling for that reverse psychology. Now go get out of here. You have dinner for four to cook and I have just a little more work to do."

"Fine but I'm not giving up on making you have more fun." With that said Evie left to go pick up everything she need to cook. Hopefully dinner wasn't going to be the only thing heating up.

The rental car Evie got form the airport wasn't as nice as hers but it would do for now. She would have to hire a moving service to get all of her things to New Jersey. Damn, Evie hadn't really thought all of this through when she had left Michigan that morning. All of today's events were such a whirlwind. Needless to say that announcing she would move here and work for Lise had not been on the to do list. Evie couldn't believe that she was walking around a grocery store buying food to cook for her friends and that she would be staying here with them. The thought did make her smile.

Evie had decided to make a big dinner of comfort food. Cuddy would say that she hated it but Evie knew that deep down she would be in heaven. She also knew from experience that House would be happy as well. On the menu was a dinner of fried chicken, macaroni n' cheese, and collard greens with a dessert of apple pie a la mode.

"Yeah, I'm going to need more then an hour." Evie said out loud to no one.