Dearest Readers,

"Because of Jack Daniels, I couldn't unleash The Beast."

Read on, Cherubs.

Over and out.

The Pondering

"Gregory House!" Chase shouted as he stomped into the conference room, slamming the results of their patient's blood work on the table. Cameron and Foreman looked up at him, confused. House quirked an eyebrow, not really sure what he did to make his lover behave like this.

"Yes?" Chase pulled something out of his lab coat pocket:

It was House's portable TV.

Cameron and Foreman tried to suppress their smiles as Chase gave house a pointed look.

"I found it in Coma Guy's room."

"What were you doing in there?"

"Looking for you."

"Oh shucks. I can't believe I left that in there. I always remember to never leave evidence of my existence in that room! You didn't change the channel did you? I need my General Hospital fix."

Chase's lips curled into a grin as he walked over to House, giving him the portable TV. House knew what that grin meant: Chase definitely did something that he didn't like, but knew that he wasn't going to get angry at him.

House examined the TV closely; nothing seemed to be wrong with it. Chase let out a quiet laugh as he took his seat at the table, picking up his crossword puzzle and putting the tip of his pen in his mouth. House gave Chase an eerie look before turning on the TV.

"I don't like you anymore." House groaned as he stared at the screen, definitely not seeing General Hospital. Chase's grin widened.

"Of course you do, oh and by the way…it's a marathon today." His grin widened even more at House's groan of misery.

"What is it?" Cameron asked curiously. House didn't answer.

"Yes, House, what is it?" Chase chimed in, clearly enjoying House's current misery.

"House?" Foreman asked, staring at his boss.

"It's…" He sighed heavily, "It's Jersey Shore." Everyone started to laugh heavily as House tried to change the channel.

"Can't do that!" Chase gasped through his laughter.

"Why?" House whined, upset that he couldn't watch General Hospital, but extremely glad to see Chase so happy.

"I locked it on that channel. Took me forever to figure out how to do that, but I did. If you want to change the channel, you'll have to get the password from me [1]." Chase said, going back to laughing. Wilson and Cuddy walked in and stopped, a bit confused as to why everyone except House was laughing.

"What's going on?" Wilson asked, looking towards Chase for the answer.

"I locked his TV on the MTV channel…there's a marathon of Jersey Shore all day today." Chase said as he started to calm down.

Wilson felt a smile tug at his lips as he looked at his best friend, who was looking at his TV like a lost puppy. Cuddy felt her anger disappear as she laughed behind her hand at House's defeat by Chase. She did come here to yell at House for being late, again, but maybe she could let it slide this time. The laughter in the room started to disappear just as Chase's phone started to ring. He pulled it from his pocket, not bother to look at the Caller ID.

"Dr. Chase."

"I'm watching you, Robert."

"Hey, Aura."

"You're absolutely no fun!" Aura cried from the other end of the line as she walked into the conference room, hanging up her phone. Chase laughed at her defeated face as yet another attempt to scare him failed.

"It's a bit hard to disguise an Australian accent over the phone, especially to someone who knows your voice so well." Chase said, dramatically leaning towards Aura and nudging her with his elbow.

"How can anyone watch this?" House asked, making everyone stare at him.

"What?" Foreman asked stupidly, making House sigh.

"How can anyone watch this crap? It's so fucking stupid. Wombat, please tell me the password before my brain becomes warped by this show."

"Nope." Chase said, childishly shaking his head, making his hair fall into his eyes.

"But I said 'please'!" Chase shook his head again.

"And I said 'nope'!"

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They sat in silence at the same table they always do every Friday night that they can get away from the hospital. Wilson eyed House, who seemed to be deep in thought. Although House was a master at hiding his emotions and complexity of his thoughts, Wilson knew when something was bothering him and he had an idea as to what was causing House to think so deeply.

"Can I see it?" He asked tentatively, assuming that House would know what 'it' is.

House reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out the ring box and placed it front of Wilson, who opened it and took the ring out, admiring it. It was obvious that House was keeping very good care of the ring over the past month since he bought it. The velvet on the inside of the box didn't have one piece of lint and the diamonds still sparkled brightly. He looked at the inside of the band, reading the words:

You are my sunshine in the dark

He smiled slightly, remembering the first time he read those words; it felt like so long ago that they sat here and he found out that House was going to propose.

"Have you…decided…uh…?" He couldn't find the words and House looked up and stared at the ring that Wilson had between his fingers.

"I've been thinking about it, but no…nothing is actually decided yet." Wilson nodded. After knowing House for so many years, he knew that house wanted the proposal to be perfect.

"How's Chase been doing? Health wise, I mean."

"He's doing much better. He's been eating everyday for about a month and a half…maybe longer and he's not as sensitive about gaining weight."

"Well that's good." Silence fell between them.

Wilson looked at his friend from across the table, hardly believing that this man was the same one he knew for so many years. Ever since Chase came to PPTH, he noticed a change in House. It was very small and to most people, there was no change at all, but he could see it. He saw the way that House looked at Chase and talked to him. He wasn't as harsh to Chase as he was to Cameron and Foreman.

Wilson could tell from Chase's first day at PPTH, things were going to change. He still remembered when House first came to his office to talk about his new duckling. Wilson cocked his head to the side slightly as he listened to House talk about Chase, very surprised that he wasn't degrading him or anything like he would to someone else, but instead, he spoke highly of Chase. He remembered hiding his smile behind his hand as he listened to House talk about Chase whenever he was in his office. Chase was really all House would talk about in Wilson's office. It was later on after Chase started working at PPTH that Wilson realized that House was making a special place for Chase in his heart. It took him a while to believe that House would possibly allow himself to be happy.

Wilson never thought that House would ever be happy again after the whole Stacey situation; but Wilson would not hesitate to say that House was more in love with Chase than he ever was with Stacey. House was devastated when Stacey left, Cuddy and Wilson knew that, but now Wilson thought that if Chase were to leave (he doesn't see this happening, but it could), House would not only be devastated…he would die. As horrible as it may sound, Wilson thought that House would become very suicidal if Chase left him.

Chase was House's everything.

There was more to House and Chase's relationship than what most people would know. They seemed to bring out sides of their personalities that would otherwise have remained buried. Yes, House is a critical, brash, frustrating ass, but now Wilson was seeing sides of House that he's never seen or haven't seen in such a long time. House was now being protective, caring, possessive, and happy.

House was actually happy.

Wilson looked back up at House who was still deep in thought. He smiled slightly. House had made it very clear that Chase was his and his alone. No one was allowed to touch him because Chase was his. No one was allowed to look at Chase in a lustful way because Chase was his.

Wilson chuckled. House was never possessive or protective of Stacey. Wilson thought about this for a moment and realized why that was: because not only was Chase more important to him, but House felt like he needed Chase to stay alive.

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Alright Gang,

Yes, this chapter was more of a "filler".

As always, patience and reviews/PMs would be appreciated!

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