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Title: Quadrophobia
Pairing: Cuddy/Cameron
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: House, M.D. is not mine.
Cuddy could name the four scariest moments of her life as easily as she could rattle off the top ten donors to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
When she was sixteen and had just broken up with her boyfriend, there was nothing scarier than thinking she might be pregnant.
Cuddy remembered how frightening the future seemed, looming uncertainly ahead. Everything relied on a single strip of paper: her education, her career, her life.
Cuddy couldn't do it--couldn't give up her dreams, couldn't settle for being a high school dropout working a dead end job, couldn't sacrifice so much--so she did the only thing she could, and made a phone call.
Years later, Cuddy sat cross-legged on her bed, clutching a quilt tightly. She was waiting for a phone call from Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
It felt as if everything was wrapped up in the result of this phone call. Cuddy wanted the job so badly.
Or so she thought.
After the phone call, Cuddy lay on her bed and cried and cried. She had gotten the job, but she had given up so much to get it.
The third scariest moment in her life was when Cameron kissed her.
The fourth was when Cuddy kissed Cameron back.
Cuddy wasn't perfect. She did things she regretted; she did things she didn't want to, but knew she had to do. She did things that scared her.
Kissing Cameron scared her, but Cuddy didn't regret it.
And she never would.
Pairing: Cuddy/Cameron
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: House, M.D. is not mine.
Cuddy could name the four scariest moments of her life as easily as she could rattle off the top ten donors to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
When she was sixteen and had just broken up with her boyfriend, there was nothing scarier than thinking she might be pregnant.
Cuddy remembered how frightening the future seemed, looming uncertainly ahead. Everything relied on a single strip of paper: her education, her career, her life.
Cuddy couldn't do it--couldn't give up her dreams, couldn't settle for being a high school dropout working a dead end job, couldn't sacrifice so much--so she did the only thing she could, and made a phone call.
Years later, Cuddy sat cross-legged on her bed, clutching a quilt tightly. She was waiting for a phone call from Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
It felt as if everything was wrapped up in the result of this phone call. Cuddy wanted the job so badly.
Or so she thought.
After the phone call, Cuddy lay on her bed and cried and cried. She had gotten the job, but she had given up so much to get it.
The third scariest moment in her life was when Cameron kissed her.
The fourth was when Cuddy kissed Cameron back.
Cuddy wasn't perfect. She did things she regretted; she did things she didn't want to, but knew she had to do. She did things that scared her.
Kissing Cameron scared her, but Cuddy didn't regret it.
And she never would.