Yes! I finally got some reviews. Thank you to everyone who read and wrote reviews for the last chapter. It was great to get some feedback. I hope you enjoy this Chapter, I'm already looking forward to the next. Please let me know if you have any thoughts on how it should progress.

Oh, and I have watched the kiss scene like 500 times since last week. Great episode, I can't wait for tomorrow. Hope every mom out there has a great Mother's Day.

As usually I don't own anything, including anything by Dave Mathews Band.

Wilson tried not to scare his friends as he walked into the kitchen but failed miserably, both women jumped at the site of him. Cuddy spun around to look at House standing in the doorway. She saw the large smile that was spread across his face. Cuddly let out a small giggle and smiled back at him, but then realized that they hadn't heard the doorbell.

"House, how many times do I have to tell you stop using my key!" Cuddy yelled across the room.

House stood there looking at Cuddy. This is the person he remembered from so long ago, the gorgeous girl that he saw from across a crowed frat house. He denies that he has feelings for her but he is lying. Everyone lies. Just friends, is what he had always told himself. Well, that's not exactly true; he had told himself for a very long time that he didn't deserve her. Cuddy was special. Women like her were one in a million. She deserved more then some self-loathing, cripple who treated her like dirt most of the time. Yet there she was standing looking at him, trying to be angry but failing miserably. Lisa Cuddy was always there. She was the constant in his life.

"Well, may be you should hide it a little better then." House snapped out of his reflection. "Nice performance by the way. Who ever could you be singing about?"

"Ha, I wonder."

"Should we leave you two alone? You know so you can finish "fighting"" Evie used air quotes when she said fighting.

Cuddy stopped what she was doing and turned to Evie. Her hands were on her hips, as she began to give Evie the riot act.

"Ok, you know what were are going to lay down some ground rules right now. You both," She said as pointing to Wilson and Evie, "can stop with all the hint dropping. We are going to sit down have a nice meal and catch up on told times. Got it?"

"Sure, Cuddy got it." Wilson said as he stocked up the fridge with what he had bought.

"Got it." Evie said, "But one more question Lisa."

"What?"

"So the stick that is shoved up your butt, does it ever get loose?"

"OH, SNAP." House chimed in as he took a drink of his beer. " I think we might get to see a cat fight tonight Wilson."

"Shut up, House." Evie and Lisa said in unison.

Wilson opened up the first bottle of champagne, pored half a glass full and then added the cranberry juice. He handed one to each of the women. Neither had said another word to each other. Without taking their eyes off one another, they down the first glass in one drink. They then nodded their heads at each other and continued to finish dinner up. Wilson stood watching the scene play out before him, not completely sure what had just happened. He had never seen the two women fight before and honestly he wasn't sure that was what he had just seen. House just sat next to Rachel with a big smile on his face.

"Jimmy, could you please get me another drink?" Evie sweetly asked as she headed to the dinning room with everything to set the table.

"Ah, yeah, sure."

"Oh, me to Wilson." Cuddy asked as she walked by to get the mac n' cheese out of the oven.

Wilson turned and gave House a quizzical look. "Don't ask me dude, they have always been this way."

Cuddy and Evie had gone about getting dinner ready without every mentioning the incident again. The four friends now sat around Cuddy's dinning room table. Cuddy had but Rachel next to her, to her surprise House had sat down on the other side of her daughter. Evie and Wilson had also noticed this event but per Cuddy's warning hadn't made any comments.

"So, do we say a prayer or just dig in?" House asked as he grabbed a piece of chicken.

"Just, eat." Cuddy made her plate and a small one for Rachel as well.

"What, the para . . ." House saw the look Cuddy was giving, "Rachel doesn't get any chicken."

"I just started doing solid food a couple of weeks ago. She doesn't need any meat just yet." Cuddy rubbed he little girl's face.

Everyone began to eat dinner so they didn't notice as House leaned over towards Rachel. "Don't worry, squirt, I got your back. I'll make sure she doesn't turn you into one of those veggie lovers." With that said House snuck Rachel a small bite of fried chicken.

Little did House know that Evie had heard and seen everything he had just done. She knew that he would never show it to anyone, including Cuddy, but he cared about Rachel. Evie also knew that he cared about Cuddy. House has always been an odd creature. Even when they were all in college he was different. You know House cares about you if he fights with you, plan and simple. The more he fights, the more he cares. Which in the case of Cuddy translates to love. Evie had moved the iPod dock into the dinning room before they had sat down. As the foursome sat around the table the live version of Slow Rider came over the room. Cuddy and Evie immediately looked at each other.

"Great Song. This is on your iPod?" House stopped shoving food in his mouth for a second.

The two women started to laugh at House's comment of the song. It was at that moment, they realized that what had happened early was ridiculous and laughed harder.

"What are you two crazies laughing at?" House was very confused his two friends.

"Nothing." They both said at the same time which only caused them to laugh harder.

"OH, come on now don't be that way. Share the joke with everyone." House snuck another piece of chicken to Rachel while Cuddy wasn't looking.

"Ok, you really want to know?" Cuddy asked House.

"Oh, please, mommy tell me."

"This same song came on earlier before you got here. Evie and I both said how it reminds us of you." Cuddy continued to eat the food on her plate

"Or at least how you see yourself." Evie added.

"Wait, can you start it over. I need to hear this." Wilson finally spoke up. Evie started the song over so Wilson could hear what Cuddy and her were talking about.

"Ah, yes, very interesting and very House." Wilson threw in his two sense.

"OH, what ever." House but his head down and continued to eat.

Wilson, Cuddy and Evie all were laughing at this point, which made House even more upset. Until he realized how stupid it was to be mad at the comment. House started to laugh as well and then Rachel started to giggle at everyone else's laughing. Once dinner was done they just sat talking about medicine. Evie enjoyed hearing about some of the extremely weird cases that House had gotten over the years. Cuddy broke up the fun finally when she began to clear the table.

"Great dinner, Evie, thank you." Cuddy walked past her friend into the kitchen.

"You never fail to deliver, do you?" Wilson asked as he also took dishes to the kitchen.

"That's what all the guys say to you don't they." House hadn't moved from his seat.

"Yep, 100% satisfaction." Smiled Evie as she took House's dishes from him.

"Good job, it was excellent." House looked into her eyes as he made the comment barely above a whisper.

Evie just smiled as she too walked into the kitchen. Leaving House alone with Rachel. He turned to look at the little girl sitting next to him, a parasite living off the love of a woman who wasn't her mother. Yet with each little giggle, smile and burp House found himself wondering why he always made parenting seem like a horrible thing. He picked up Rachel and carried her into Cuddy's living room. He sat down on the couch, placing her next to him. House could hear everyone else in the kitchen cleaning up the mess from dinner. He turned on the TV, trying to find something good that was sure to piss Cuddy off.

Evie walked back into the dinning room to get Rachel but to her surprise she was gone. She then heard noises coming from the other room. When Evie turned the corner she saw House sitting on the couch with little Rachel sitting next to him. He wasn't necessarily paying attention to the child but he wasn't ignoring her either. Evie quietly walked back into the kitchen.

"Hey, Lisa."

"Yeah, did you get Rachel?" Cuddy turned toward Evie.

"Ah, no, not exactly." Evie responded with a smile, "Go look in the living room, quietly"

Cuddy started to her living room with a very confused look on her face. Evie stepped in to help Wilson finish up cleaning the dishes.

"Ah, are you going to tell me what that was all about?" Wilson took a step closer to Evie.

"Well, when I went to go get Rach and she was gone. I heard some noise coming form the living room. Low and behold I found House and her sitting on the couch watching TV." Evie explained to Wilson.

"Really?"

"Yep, and Cuddy needs to see it first hand." Evie washed the last dish.

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