House welcomed the kiss but her jerked to pull his arms close to him with an, "Argh!" when Cuddy attacked his armpits. He squirmed under the further attacks she laid on him, caught between protesting and letting out vulnerable laughs. He was ultra sensitive after sex; he had ticklish enough spots on a good day but after sex he was simply ticklish everywhere. In retaliation, he dashed a hand out and managed to give her armpit a quick but fierce tickle before he was rolling away from Cuddy, trying to curl up protectively from her onslaught of more tickling
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Maybe he was an idiot. Honestly, he never got it quite right with women he liked. He'd so badly want their attention but always managed to make an idiot of himself in the process
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"I said I audited neurobiology," Cuddy repeated. Really, he was an idiot at times. She was several years younger than him. She was several years behind him at school. She wouldn't have been taking the same classes he did and he should've realized it. He should've known she wasn't supposed to be in his class. Given he normally picked up on each and every little detail, she had to wonder how he'd missed that one
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House stared at her, uncertain whether to be nonplussed or flattered. He was definitely bewildered because in all his years of knowing Cuddy, he hadn't once thought to question why she'd been in his class. At the time, he hadn't really worked up the nerve to talk to her properly beyond tossing her some sarcastic remarks. Perhaps if he had, he would have figured it out. But she'd always seemed so studious and so intensely focused on the 'work' in the class that he'd assumed she was taking the class just like he was.
"Why didn't you just say something?" he asked after taking a moment to let the news sink in. "You call me an idiot and turns out you're no better."
Weirdly, though, these revelations were the epitome of how they're entire relationship - friendship and work-wise - had always been. Dancing around each other with innuendos and making fun of each other, picking on each other, never truly being upfront and honest about the more personal things. They were in a relationship now and they still danced around each other
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"You say erroneous, I say erogenous," he agreed with a leer about looking down her blouse. "Though, if memory serves me correctly, your shirts weren't as low-cut back then. The whole do-me get up came later when you were distracting corporate egos by their penises with your best assets in order to scale corporate ladders
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Cuddy scowled at him briefly when he accused her of using her physical assets to get ahead professionally. He knew as well as she did she hadn't gotten where she was by flashing a little cleavage. She'd fought hard to be taken seriously as a doctor and an administrator. She was intelligent and she worked hard and that's why she was the Dean of Medicine
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"That charming lunatic has to get past me first," he replied, his voice muffled against her neck. "Assuming she's a she and she's into hes and not into shes."
He pulled back to look down at Cuddy, his brows quirked. "That sounded a bit like a Dr. Seuss book." He thought about that for a moment. "Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that if Dr. Seuss had written a book on gays and lesbians, the world would be way more accepting of them. The She Who Liked Shes And The He Who Liked Hes. Or The Lorax And The Lesbian. Or One Fish, Two Fish, Straight Fish, Gay Fish.House liked to think that if their kid turned out to be gay, he'd be completely accepting of that. In fact, he was pretty sure he would be. Well, he'd be a world more accepting of it than if he himself had turned out gay and how his dad would have responded to that. But there was no point thinking about that now. The kid wasn't even born yet; pondering over the possibility of his son or daughter being gay wasn't even necessary to think about until later if the issue arose
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Cuddy chuckled at the idea of a Dr. Suess book about homosexuality. Kids loved silly rhymes whether they understood them or not. They just liked the sound of the words. She could just imagine a pre-school age Junior dancing around reciting rhymes about gay fish and innocently offending some conservative fundamentalist. House would probably love that given his own knack for not-so-innocently offending others.
She wouldn't mind it much herself. She fully intended to raise their child to judge others based on their character, not their race or gender or sexual orientation. And she dearly hoped Junior would be treated with the same respect. Cuddy didn't give a damn what her child was: boy or girl, gay or straight, beautiful or plain, athletic or clumsy.... Whatever Junior turned out to be, she'd be a human being who would deserve to be treated with decency. Anyone who didn't--that person wouldn't have to worry about what House would do. Cuddy would be kicking some ass herself
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"Why didn't you just say something?" he asked after taking a moment to let the news sink in. "You call me an idiot and turns out you're no better."
Weirdly, though, these revelations were the epitome of how they're entire relationship - friendship and work-wise - had always been. Dancing around each other with innuendos and making fun of each other, picking on each other, never truly being upfront and honest about the more personal things. They were in a relationship now and they still danced around each other ( ... )
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He pulled back to look down at Cuddy, his brows quirked. "That sounded a bit like a Dr. Seuss book." He thought about that for a moment. "Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that if Dr. Seuss had written a book on gays and lesbians, the world would be way more accepting of them. The She Who Liked Shes And The He Who Liked Hes. Or The Lorax And The Lesbian. Or One Fish, Two Fish, Straight Fish, Gay Fish.House liked to think that if their kid turned out to be gay, he'd be completely accepting of that. In fact, he was pretty sure he would be. Well, he'd be a world more accepting of it than if he himself had turned out gay and how his dad would have responded to that. But there was no point thinking about that now. The kid wasn't even born yet; pondering over the possibility of his son or daughter being gay wasn't even necessary to think about until later if the issue arose ( ... )
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She wouldn't mind it much herself. She fully intended to raise their child to judge others based on their character, not their race or gender or sexual orientation. And she dearly hoped Junior would be treated with the same respect. Cuddy didn't give a damn what her child was: boy or girl, gay or straight, beautiful or plain, athletic or clumsy.... Whatever Junior turned out to be, she'd be a human being who would deserve to be treated with decency. Anyone who didn't--that person wouldn't have to worry about what House would do. Cuddy would be kicking some ass herself ( ... )
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