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04/02/2007 11:06:00
[info]walnutgingertea
Cook County Hospital
It's Cameron's first 'official' day at work (those few covered clinic hours for her boss don't officially count for her) and she's in House's office, arranging items on the credenza that sits in front of the window along the back wall. She's shifted a couple items to make room for the small fishbowl that contains water, some small blue rocks, a little castle and a single goldfish.

Her back is to the door while she brushes dust off the credenza and straightens the books and House's various toys and trinkets - Magic 8-Ball, mortar and pestel, Lupus book that she suspects holds less about Lupus than about, say, Vicodin.

Her next step will be the adjoining conference room. When she had peeked in there before, it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't what House would want either. For one, there is no whiteboard and this - this is a very bad thing. She's already put in the call for one and was waiting for it to be delivered.

One of the other things on her list is the ugly wallpaper - it needs to go.

But, for the moment, she's feeding and watching the fish. It doesn't really do much though - it's a fish.

Tags: allison cameron, greg house

 
Comments
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/02/2007 13:13:37  

"Is that some sort of morbid curiosity?" Watching the fish in a fishbowl. Eerily reminiscent of the fishbowl office at PPTH. They'd already discussed it. She should know what he's talking about.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/02/2007 18:24:38  

"No," she says with a shake of her head before she turns around to see House - the typical House that she's used to seeing at work. "I was just making sure it wasn't going to die in the first five minutes." That's why it's in the shade of the aforementioned Lupus book, to keep the poor fish from boiling in his bowl. "Our first patient shouldn't be your new pet," she says with a smile.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/02/2007 21:57:29  

"Don't tell me you've named it already. Let me guess something utterly ridiculous like Goldie or Fishy." House went around her to sit at his desk.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/02/2007 22:09:07  

She doesn't stop smiling and shakes her head. "No. You get to name it."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/02/2007 22:41:06  

"It reminds me of Chase." House looks at the fish and makes a fish-face at it.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/02/2007 22:47:23  

That makes her smile more. "Really? I thought it kind of looked like Cuddy - prancing around, glaring through the glass."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/02/2007 23:01:08  

"No. It's the golden boy."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/02/2007 23:09:14  

"So are you naming it 'Golden Boy', 'Chase' or 'the British one'?"

The joke's a stretch - it's not her strong point. He'll probably tell her not to make the jokes.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/02/2007 23:20:14  

"Don't. Just...no." House shakes his head. "I like British One. BO for short."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/02/2007 23:36:46  

She laughs. She gets the joke. "Okay, I won't make jokes and you..." she ponders this for just a moment, "say one nice thing to me every day for the rest of the week." It's a challenge, but she's doubting he'll take it.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/02/2007 23:57:39  

"You drive a hard bargain." He deliberately doesn't give a proper answer. He turns his focus to a file on his desk. "We need a patient." He looks up at her again, his eyes bright with a child's curiosity.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/03/2007 00:07:29  

She makes a little gasping sound - chock full of sarcasm. "Without a whiteboard? How will we know what the symptoms are?"

But he's right - they need a patient before they get board and start investigating the fish.

She wrinkles up her nose a moment, thinking. "We could go in the conference room and see if the coffee maker works."

She hadn't gotten that far yet - she'd brought in the fish and made the call about the whiteboard.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/03/2007 11:16:15  

"Better yet. Run down to the Starbucks around the corner and get us some of the real stuff."

he flips the folder shut. "And find me a patient while you're there."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/03/2007 16:30:46  

"I don't think Starbucks has 'diagnostic mystery' as a menu item."

She leans against his desk, looking down at him with a soft smile on her face.

"Why don't you come walk with me? Maybe we'll find you a new toy on the way?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/03/2007 19:41:33  

"First breakfast, then a fish, now a toy? Are you trying to seduce me, Dr Cameron?" His blue eyes flash wickedly.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/03/2007 20:07:11  

"I thought I'd already managed that?" she responds with a bright grin.

She's quite proud that those three things he listed all fell on different days. Yes, even the fish. She'd gotten it yesterday, she just didn't officially start work until today, so she couldn't bring it in.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/03/2007 20:30:40  

House grunts. "That you did." He rubs a hand over his face. "Your hair looks nice." See, he's kind of sort of doing that say something nice every day thing. "I need a coffee."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/03/2007 20:49:08  

That bright grin she's wearing - it turns into an even brighter smile and she leans in close to him and whispers, "Thank you," as she presses her lips to his briefly.

She stands again and motions to the door. "Come on. Starbucks awaits."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/03/2007 22:47:19  

He gets to his feet. "You sure one of us doesn't have to stay here and babysit the fish?"
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/03/2007 22:59:56  

"I think it's old enough to manage on it's own for a few minutes."

She reists the urge to take his hand and drag him to the door.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/03/2007 23:10:18  

He takes his time, getting his jacket on. "You owe me for this."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/03/2007 23:23:53  

"I owe you for walking with you down to the coffee shop to get coffee and, potentially, an interesting patient?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/04/2007 00:15:18  

"Yes." House moves toward the door. He opens it, and doesn't hold it for her. He does have a reputation to uphold. "Going out for a bit," he barks at one of the nurses. "Beep me if there's a plague."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/04/2007 00:19:11  

Cameron rolls her eyes as she catches the door and follows him to the elevator, tossing an apologetic look at the nurses. This feels very familiar. It's almost comforting.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/04/2007 00:42:27  

There's silence for a while. Until they're outside and walking toward the Starbucks. "First day going well?"
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/04/2007 00:46:50  

She laughs. It's nice out and - hey, walking and House started the conversation... what could be wrong about that?

"Fabulous." She's actually NOT being sarcastic. She's enjoying work so far. "I set up my boss' new pet fish, got him a whiteboard and talked him into going with me to get coffee. How's your day so far?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/04/2007 10:59:07  

"Huh." He rubs his chin thoughtfully. "Odd. I got a new fish in my office, I don't have a white board, and I'm going to get coffee. What are the chances?"
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/04/2007 11:20:05  

"The whiteboard's coming. It should be there when you get back. Hush or that will be your new toy."

She's not annoyed with him - at all. She is, however, seriously resisting the urge to take his arm and walk with him down the street that way. It's very difficult not to do that.

"Oh, I almost forgot. I'm also trying to find my boss a case to work on so that his department doesn't get eliminated before it gets a chance to save a life."

Though why he wants her to find the case is odd - in the past, he hasn't been thrilled with the cases she's chosen.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/04/2007 11:43:22  

"Your boss sounds like a real jerk."

It's not that he wants her to find them a case, it's that he doesn't want to do the leg work himself.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/04/2007 15:51:17  

"Sometimes. But sometimes my boss-the-jerk does a really good job of saving lives."

She can't resist anymore; she's tried. It's a subtle movement, almost imperceptible until she actually touches him, she slides her arm around his - she's on his left, obviously - and walks in step with him.

She left her lab coat in his office, so it's not like she looks like a doctor walking next to him.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/04/2007 16:45:45  

If he had a reply, it fell short when her hand slid against his arm. He looks down at it. His instinct is to pull away. He doesn't. He's making progress.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/04/2007 19:35:53  

She doesn't look up at him, she keeps her eyes focused straight ahead. She's giving him a little test, it isn't fair if she pokes at him too hard.

Nothing said for a little while, then, "I'm not expecting you to hold my hand or take a flying leap into the deep end. If this truly makes you uncomfortable, tell me and I'll let go." A glance up to his face, then she's watching where she's walking again.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/04/2007 19:59:55  

He doesn't answer. He's looking straight ahead. After a moment, his gaze drops for only a fraction of a moment. "Most mammals are pack oriented. They like to keep others close to them. Humans are one of the few who consistently question the natural order of things, but the basic truth is people need to keep other people, at least one, close."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/04/2007 20:08:56  

If she's honest with herself about this, these are the comments that scare her the most. The ones when he sounds like he wants to be with her; when he's sort of nice, but still House. She's not sure what to say in return. Mostly, she's afraid that anything she says will send him scurrying for cover and leaving her right where she started. And she hates that there is still that insecurity. She's known him for three years and he still shocks the hell out of her.

"Society seems to have dictated that humans become solitary." She doesn't think they should, but that doesn't mean she can't see trends.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/04/2007 20:17:47  

"Society has turned human beings into animals. And not very good ones." This is where he thrives. Conversations like tis that seem meaningless, but have a lot of underlying truth.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/04/2007 20:29:53  

"Were humans ever very good animals?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/04/2007 21:03:34  

"I don't think the cave men hunted each other down for their Nikes."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/04/2007 21:09:45  

"No, just their car insurance." And thus Cameron introduces another bad joke - this one's at least based in actual pop-culture.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/05/2007 13:40:47  

He glances at her. "You watch too much television." Hello, Pot. Meet Kettle.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/05/2007 16:29:55  

"This from the man who can't miss an episode of General Hospital. Please."

How far away is that Starbucks?
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/05/2007 22:03:37  

"I miss my TiVo."

Starbucks can be seen, just ahead. Kind of nestled off the street.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/05/2007 22:12:11  

That earns a laugh. "You're on your own for the TiVo."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/06/2007 18:45:38  

"Place I'm staying doesn't even have cable."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/06/2007 18:50:25  

"My place doesn't even have a TV." Not that she's complaining, the entertainment over the weekend was better than television.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/06/2007 19:27:58  

"No TV?" Greg looks astonished. "I'm not staying there over night again."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/06/2007 19:31:34  

She laughs. "And pass up all the free sex?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/06/2007 19:53:46  

He shrugs. He may not have to pay up front, but there is a cost. There's always a cost. Intimacy, vulnerability, emotions. There are all costs, in Greg's mind. And a heavy price to pay.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/06/2007 19:55:44  

She looks up at him. "Did I break some 'during work hours' conversational code that I wasn't aware of?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/06/2007 20:38:03  

He gives her a sideways glance. They've reached the Starbucks, and he uses that as an excuse to step ahead of her and tug open the door, cane in his hand.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/06/2007 20:48:53  

"Apparently," she mutters to herself as she steps inside the building.

I am never going to get anywhere at this rate.

Her turn to go silent, standing in line, waiting to order her coffee.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/06/2007 21:04:00  

"Don't pout. It's childish." Greg mutters, then gives his order for a decadent coffee and whipped cream concoction.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/06/2007 21:10:25  

She would claim she's not pouting. She orders her coffee and shifts off to the side of the counter to wait. There's nothing to talk about since he cut off the conversation.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/06/2007 21:43:12  

He's amused. This is one of the things he thrives on. Keeping her guessing. She must think she's upset him. He'd guess she was second guessing everything.

A quick glance around the small sitting area, confirmed there was no one he knew. He leans in, and kisses her cheek, then moves a step away to wait for his coffee, both hands on his cane and an innocent look on his face.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/06/2007 21:47:30  

No, that's all - just the face and lots of confused blinking. She's too damned stunned to actually say anything.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/06/2007 22:19:09  

"Thanks, Cindy" He reaches up to take his coffee from the girl behind the counter. He glances back to Cameron. "Coming?"
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/06/2007 22:23:48  

She's still stunned and quite confused, but gets her coffee and walks in a bit of a haze.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/06/2007 22:53:37  

He's smirking. He holds the door open for her.

"I swear, I think Cindy starts making my frapaccino as soon as she sees me coming."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/06/2007 23:04:02  

"Maybe she does."

She walks out the door, sipping her coffee and paying little attention to him at all, just now. She has no idea what to think. All she knows is that he is terribly frustrating. Which, granted, she should be accustomed to, but he still switches gears too fast.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/06/2007 23:18:13  

He grunts.

"Something on your mind, Dr Cameron?"
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/06/2007 23:31:59  

"Just my coffee." She holds up the cup and keeps walking.

Frustrating sonofabitch.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/07/2007 00:02:27  

"Good." He sips his. And makes sure to slurp through the straw.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/07/2007 00:12:26  

It's become a conscious thought now:

Not gonna look at him. Not gonna look at him.

Over and over.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/07/2007 00:47:24  

He's smirking.

"I'm so glad you asked me to come with you."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/07/2007 01:00:12  

"Yeah. Great. Find a patient?"

Drink coffee. Walk.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/07/2007 23:48:16  

"If I only had a white board, I'd work the differential diagnosis for insufferable sulking."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/07/2007 23:54:31  

"I'm not sulking."

She sips her coffee.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/08/2007 00:06:39  

"You're sulking." He glances at her. He's smirking.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/08/2007 00:14:18  

"I'm not."

More coffee.

"I'm thinking." She glances at him. "You're smirking. Why?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/08/2007 00:27:51  

"Because you're rattled. You don't know what to think. You don't know what I'm going to do next, and you're trying to anticipate it."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/08/2007 00:36:17  

"That's why you're smirking? Because you're being you?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/08/2007 01:10:46  

"Do I need any other reason, Cameron?"
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/08/2007 01:17:40  

"Nope."

She keeps walking and drinking her coffee.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/08/2007 01:39:45  

"Then what's the problem?"
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/08/2007 01:44:12  

"No problem. I just want to drink my coffee."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/08/2007 15:01:36  

"Then drink your coffee. I'm going to go find patient."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/08/2007 15:41:03  

"You? You're going to find a patient? Dr. House, the man who prefers to do no work at all, is going to find a patient?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/08/2007 19:54:51  

"I am a doctor, doctor. And you've been no help at all."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/08/2007 20:57:33  

"Only because I was distracted by my jerk of a boss."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/08/2007 21:22:09  

"That sounds like a stressful work environment." He glances at her. He's still smirking.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/08/2007 21:31:20  

"Sometimes. But my boss has this really hot friend I've been thinking of asking out."

Cameron, is not smirking.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/08/2007 21:49:38  

"You're lying. I've heard about your boss. He doesn't have any friends." This is not said in a demeaning, depressing way. He's still smirking.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/08/2007 21:56:53  

"I was being nice. I suppose it's more of a co-worker, than a friend."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/08/2007 23:32:34  

"Huh. Really. And who is this co worker?"
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/08/2007 23:39:01  

"Oh, now if I told you that, it wouldn't be any fun."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/08/2007 23:59:35  

"I do hope it's not that Dr House. I hear he's a real jerk. But I also hear he knows how to please a woman, so maybe the benefits outweigh the cons." He shrugs. "I wouldn't know. I don't like the guy. Comes in here with a rap sheet of patient complaints, acts like he owns the place. The guy's bad news."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/09/2007 00:01:43  

She snorts. "Of course not. Why would anyone want to date him?"

Now she's having fun.

"Cranky, old guy with a limp and a drug addiction. They'd be nuts to want to have anything to do with him."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/09/2007 06:46:45  

"Exactly my point. Hope his co worker isn't so...raw."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/09/2007 12:10:21  

"He has to be." She pulls the door to the front entrance of the hospital open and continues as she steps inside, not holding the door for him... "Because you couldn't pay me enough to date Dr. House, I don't care what he can do with his tongue."

She doesn't do too much to hide the smirk on her face as she crosses the lobby to the elevators. She knows he heard her. She's also aware that half the lobby heard her too. Now, just how many people in the lobby know who Dr. House is, is a whole different story.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/09/2007 16:51:51  

There are a few...curious looks. House isn't rattled, though he is shocked she said that. That she had the nerve to say something like that at all.

"I hear he charges fifty bucks an hour for that privilege."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/09/2007 19:18:08  

She turns around, arms folded, but she's still holding her coffee. "I wouldn't know. He did it for me for free." Her face is serious and she doesn't appear to be fazed by any of it at all.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/09/2007 21:11:22  

"Damn, you must be incredible in the sack." His voice might have had a little too much volume.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/09/2007 21:15:11  

There's a knowing smile on her face as she steps onto the elevator.

"Coming?"

Though, she is thinking that if this conversation has any more sexual under- or overtones in it, they may be told to get a room.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/09/2007 21:36:35  

"Naturally." He steps into the elevator with her. There migh be an echo of clapping in the hospital lobby as the doors close.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/09/2007 21:52:11  

She glances at him once or twice between sips of coffee.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/09/2007 22:12:04  

He's still smirking. Even as he's sipping his coffee.

"If I have to leave town because of you, I'll make sure you won't find me a second time." There is no malice in his voice. Mostly, he's throwing a zinger to try to protect himself.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/09/2007 22:37:30  

"If you have to leave town because of me, I won't want to find you."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/09/2007 22:43:18  

"Good. Long as we got that covered."

The elevator opens and he steps off.

"Coming?"
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/09/2007 22:52:44  

She smirks. "You weren't that good." And she steps off the elevator, coffee in hand.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/09/2007 23:18:15  

"No. I was better."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/09/2007 23:21:02  

"Well, don't we think highly of ourselves."

Please, God, let the whiteboard be in the damned conference room now.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/10/2007 06:44:49  

"I have to. No one else does." He stalks into the office, not bothering to hold the door for her.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/10/2007 22:37:01  

She stalks in right behind him. "Do you really think that or are you being a moron?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/11/2007 06:49:34  

"I'm a damn god doctor. Even the jackasses who don't like me have to admit that. And most people don't like me." He shrugs. "I don't lose sleep over it, Cameron."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/11/2007 07:36:10  

"And you think that no one appreciates that you're a good doctor because they don't like you?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/11/2007 17:29:50  

"Doesn't matter. I don't care what they think of me. I do my job. I save lives." He shrugs. "I've never cared what people think of me, Dr Cameron."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/11/2007 18:21:17  

"That's not what I asked."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/11/2007 19:44:24  

"what was the question?" He blinks at her, feigning innocence.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/11/2007 19:55:32  

"You know what the question was, but I'll repeat it for you anyway:

"And you think that no one appreciates that you're a good doctor because they don't like you?"

She doesn't care that he doesn't care if people like him or not. That's not what she was asking.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/11/2007 20:14:38  

"I don't care. My reputation takes care of it. Being appreciated it not one of my life goals. I don't need to go on Dr Phil. I just want to do my job." In other words, he's not answering the question.

He sighs. "When I was fourteen, my father was stationed in Japan. I went rock-climbing with this kid from school. He fell, got injured and I had to bring him to the hospital. We came in through the wrong entrance, passed this guy in the hall. The janitor. Friend came down with an infection and doctors didn't know what to do. So they brought in... the janitor. He was a doctor. And a buraku. One of Japan's untouchables. His ancestors had been slaughterers, gravediggers. And this guy knew that he wasn't accepted by the staff, didn't even try, didn't dress well. He didn't pretend to be one of them. The people around that place, they didn't think that he had anything they wanted... except when they needed him. Because he was right. Which meant that nothing else mattered. They had to listen to him."



*Italics from Hosue 3x07, Son Of A Coma Guy.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/11/2007 20:21:39  

What she's about to say will either piss him off or make him pretend to be pissed off, either way, it's still the truth.

"I appreciate you."

No matter what he thinks.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/11/2007 21:07:43  

"Because I'm a damn good doctor."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/11/2007 21:14:49  

She smiles. "No, that's not it."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/11/2007 21:30:45  

"By all means, Dr Cameron. Enlighten me."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/11/2007 21:41:34  

"No, I think this is one you'll have to learn for yourself."

She opens the door to the adjoining conference room and steps through with her coffee.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/11/2007 21:58:59  

He ignores her, and sits down at his desk. Convenient that the set up is very much like the offices they had in New Jersey.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/11/2007 22:11:32  

She's left the door open and she's sitting at the desk on the other side of the wall - beginning to wonder if House sent a floorplan for how he wanted the office set-up, since it mimcks PPTH.

Her coffee's not quite gone yet and she's sifting through House's e-mail. She is rather pleased that the whiteboard's in place - and it's white, not clear, and it's very sturdy.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/12/2007 18:17:13  

He stays in his office for a few minutes. At least five, by his count. And then he's at the door, and a paper airplane is sailing into her lap.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/12/2007 19:01:17  

She holds up the paper airplane. "Is this a hint?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/12/2007 20:20:59  

"Do you need a hint?" He leans against the door separating his office from the conference room.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/12/2007 20:36:28  

"No. I was just wondering where you were taking me for the weekend." She flashes him a wicked grin.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/12/2007 22:18:36  

"Where do you want to go?" His tone is sarcastic. "Hawaii? No. Australia. We can bemoan the absentee Chase."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/12/2007 22:35:38  

Her eyes go wide for a moment. "I said the weekend, not 'the next month'."

Because, she's thinking, if they were to go to Hawaii, they'd need at least that.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/12/2007 22:50:00  

"So you tell me then." Because no matter what she says, he intends to laugh it off.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/12/2007 23:15:28  

"The janitor's closet?"

It was the first thing that came to mind... aside from 'my bed'.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/13/2007 06:46:20  

He narrows his eyes at her, but says nothing.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/13/2007 07:35:54  

"What? You're too good to sneak into a janitor's closet?"

If she was being at all serious, this conversation would be frightening.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/14/2007 15:50:13  

"No. You are."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/14/2007 18:23:33  

She shrugs and throws the paper airplane back at him. "Nice to know that you think I'm too good for you to drag into the janitor's closet," she says and turns back to the computer and Greg's mostly-non-existent e-mail.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/14/2007 20:39:02  

"That's Chase's style, not mine." Greg turns, using his cane to pivot, and slinks back into his office.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/14/2007 20:44:05  

She looks up from the computer, frowning.

"Do I want to know how you know that?"
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/14/2007 20:55:56  

He leans back, half in his office and pokes his head around the wall to smirk at her. He hadn't known anything of the sort. But he'd always suspected the two of them might get it on.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/14/2007 20:58:09  

"What?"

She's confused. What the hell is he smirking at?

She was asking, wondering if Chase had dragged him into a closet.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/14/2007 22:53:04  

"I wouldn't have thought he'd actually have the guts to do it." Because, based on her reaction he thinks Chase must have pulled her into a closet.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/14/2007 22:58:44  

"I've never been in a closet with Chase. I slept with him once. And somehow the entire hospital found out about that." She gives House a pointed look.

"Wouldn't surprise me though if he pulled you into a closet. Explains your closet-phobia."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/14/2007 23:02:38  

"Explains it like bad sushi explains puking. Not an exclusive cause. Maybe he did, and maybe I liked it." He turns around so he can lean against the door frame, facing her.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/14/2007 23:08:18  

"And you didn't invite me to watch? Bad, Greg."

Somehow, she's not giggling while saying any of this. Maybe they should do a differential on personality changes.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/14/2007 23:34:04  

Greg tilts his head. "You didn't invite me to watch when you were high and shoving Blondie against the wall."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/14/2007 23:38:09  

"Would've been you against the wall had you cared enough to come see if I was okay."


She really is being rather nonchalant about this.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/15/2007 00:17:06  

"Or, it would have shocked you so hard you'd have dropped dead of a heart attack."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/15/2007 00:24:23  

She shakes her head. "Not that night."

There's a bit of a pause.

"The next morning, maybe."
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/15/2007 00:41:32  

"Do you know for sure that I didn't?"
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/15/2007 00:45:11  

"I'm pretty sure I'd've known if you were there."

Is he trying to set off the 'fantasy land' part of her brain again?
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/15/2007 00:49:56  

"I didn't knock." He shifts, putting more of his weight on the cane.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/15/2007 00:55:07  

She shrugs.

"Hope you enjoyed the show."

E-mail is interesting again. Though, if he was actually there, she's not sure she wants to know.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/15/2007 01:05:28  

He shrugs and moves away from the door. "I know how it feels, the morning after."
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/15/2007 01:08:27  

"The hangover or the puking?"

No, it wasn't truly an alcohol-induced hangover, but it was very similar - meaning, she won't be doing that again any time soon. And yeah, she'd been sick - whether from the drugs or the realization of what she'd done, she couldn't be sure.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/15/2007 01:38:07  

"All of it." Including the self loathing, but he wouldn't mention that.

"I get confirmation on my interview today?" He feels it's time for a change of subject. He stretches his neck like he means to look at the computer he can't possibly reach, for effect.
From: [info]walnutgingertea Date: 04/15/2007 01:47:33  

She looks up at him, maybe a bit confused.

"You set up an interview?"

There is mouse-clicking and scrolling and looking and -

"It's not on your calendar."

This actually seems a bit disturbing, since all of that would've been put on the calendar... except that House had a serious aversion to actually doing things the way one is supposed to do them.

She growls and looks up at him. "I'll put it on here if you tell me when it's supposed to be. And please tell me you got an email to set it up." Because if not, that would suck and she'd have to dig all over the place and she doesn't want to do that - she'd rather go find a patient with Lupus.
From: [info]ineedavicodin Date: 04/15/2007 02:19:48  

"It's a three. And I just asked you if there was an email." Of course it's not on the calendar. not in the computer, anyway. He doesn't use that thing. he likes the pen and paper version, which is in his desk. In his office.