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She bursts into a smile when she sees House playing with all the cancer kids. He is seated with a bunch of kids around him reading books to them. A little girl brings him another book.
"Dr. House! Read this one!"
"Okay, one more, but that I have to hang out with Jeffery. I promised I would color with him."
Cuddy stands in the corner with tears in her eyes. He really has changed. He willingly chose to play with these kids, not knowing if she would ever come and find him. She also can't believe that he knows their names and is reading to them. He really does like kids, and he's good with them too. She smiles, she's never seen this side of him before. She laughs as he starts handing out lollipops, but pretends to keep the last one for himself instead of giving it to a little girl. He tries to make her jump for it. Finally he gives it to her and Cuddy sees not only that he likes kids, they like him too.
As she watches him color with Jeffery and interact with the children all she can do is picture him with their children. Maybe a little girl with her hair and a little boy with his. And they both have his piercing blue eyes, her favorite trait about him that she would want for her kids. She has to admit to herself that she never really wanted to be pregnant with any other kids than his. Their kids would be beautiful and perfect.
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She snaps out of her thought by seeing him staring at her. She smiles at him through the tears.
"I'll be right back Jeffery."
"Okay, Susie has your cane."
He laughs as he sees her pretending to walk with his cane like he does.
"Hey Susie, I need that!"
She laughs. "Why do you need this stick to walk Dr. House?"
Cuddy starts to walk over to interfere, she knows that he hates explaining what happened to him. She stops halfway there when she hears him starting to answer.
"Well, you know how your chemo kills bad things?"
"Yeah."
"Well something like that killed things in my leg and we had to take them out."
"Oh, okay."
He smiles and pokes her.
"So, come on, fork it over."
She laughs and gives it to him. Cuddy is surprised by how he relates to the kids when he can hardly relate to adults. He walks over to her.
"Hey."
"Hey."
He leads her outside of the room and puts his hand on her cheek and lightly kisses her while wiping her tears away.
"Are you okay?"
She smiles and passionately kisses him. They pull apart.
"You are really good with kids and you really do like them. I'm just surprised."
He smiles. "I do have a soft part inside me. I'm trying to bring it out. I'm trying to show you how committed I am to you. How much I love you."
They kiss again.
"You know I hate to end this, but I told Jeffery I'd be right back."
She smiles. "Go ahead, I'll see you later."
They kiss and he goes back inside. She lingers for a second and watches how he lets some of the kids sit on his lap, even though it might hurt him. Though, the kids also know to be careful around him. She goes back downstairs and sees a bunch of pictures of churches on her desk. She smiles, he really is interested in planning the perfect day for her.
She sees a sticky note on top that says, "Wilson and I thought that you'd like these better than an inflatable one."
She laughs, only House would consider an inflatable church. She goes back to work. When the day ends, House comes into her office.
"You ready to go?"
"Yeah."
He takes her hand in his and they walk to the car.
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The next day they go to Macy's in order to register for the wedding. They are given their price guns and someone explains to them the process. They are then free to look around the store. They start walking and House turns to Cuddy.
"So, I can scan anything in the store and someone will buy it for us? No matter how expensive?"
She rolls her eyes. "It has to be reasonable and something we would actually use."
"So that means a pool table is out of the question?"
She laughs. "Maybe you can ask Wilson to get us one."
They make their way through dining sets and surprisingly House seems interested in what they are choosing. She even sees him scanning some things himself that he likes. She smiles because he does like a lot of the same things she does, they are very compatible. He does have his moments though.
"I don't see the difference between egg shell white and ivory. It's a conspiracy."
"They are different colors. I don't see how you can't tell them apart."
"Well I like ivory because it sounds better than saying you painted egg shells on your wall."
She laughs and they choose the ivory. They are walking on to the next section when House suddenly veers off. Cuddy looks questioningly and then sees that he's heading for lingerie.
"Greg, do not scan anything!"
"You said that it had to be something we would use. We would use this!"
"You can't expect someone coming to our wedding to give us lingerie as a gift. You can buy it yourself."
"Fine. So, who gets to pick out what you wear on our honeymoon night? Is it supposed to be a gift from one of your friends, or do I get to pick it out?"
"I want you to be surprised so I will pick it. But you can pick out an outfit for me to wear another night."
He smirks. She laughs as he spends the next couple of minutes thoroughly looking through all of the outfits. Finally she sees his eyes light up. She starts to walk over.
"No! You can't see it!"
"Okay, chill."
He buys the outfit and ties the bag closed.
"Okay, we may continue."
She laughs and grabs his hand as they continue walking.
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They come to the bedding section and Cuddy gets the scanner ready.
"Wait, you're going to let someone else by our sheets?"
"We will have picked them out, they will just have paid for them."
"Yeah, but I don't want to have to think about the person who bought them every time I lay down."
She rolls her eyes. "Seriously?"
"What if your grandmother gives them to us or something? Do you really want me to be thinking about her in bed?"
She laughs. "Fine. We'll buy the sheets. Anything else that we have to buy instead of someone else?"
"No, everyone else can pay for the rest of the stuff."
They both laugh and finish their scanning.
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