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xfirefly9x ([personal profile] xfirefly9x) wrote2012-01-29 07:22 pm

Fic: Love Isn't Easy (House/Cuddy)

Title: Love Isn’t Easy
Fandom: House MD
Characters: House/Cuddy
Prompt: #024 "Love isn't that easy."
Word Count: 276
Rating: T+
Summary: House slips up. Cuddy is concerned (though not as much as he is).
Notes: Written for [livejournal.com profile] xyamountofwords. 3/10/09.
Beta: [livejournal.com profile] friv0lity. (no changes made)

”Love isn’t that easy.”

“L…love? What has love got to do with this? Any of this?”

House gapes at her, his mouth open.

He didn’t mean to say that.

He really didn’t.

He is certain by the way she is looking at him that she can sense that.

His heart rate increases.

“I…nothing,” he says firmly. “It’s got nothing to do with – “

“No, House. Are you saying that you…love me?”

“No! God, no. Why would I say that?” His words lack conviction.

“Devil woman,” he mutters to strengthen his point.

She stares at him.

He squeezes his eyes shut, hoping for it to all be a dream.

He opens them again.

“Not a dream.”

“Huh?”

“Never mind.”

“House. Just…what’s going on? Is this…is us…” She pauses, frowns. “What’s going on?”

“Well,” he says, “you said to ‘forget about it, you’re not changing your mind’, I said ‘love isn’t that easy’ and then awkwardness ensued from there.”

“I know what happened, I just… You love me?”

He hangs his head, frowns at her. “The point is I can’t just forget what you did. I can’t. No matter how many extra perks you give to me in the bedroom to make me forgive you, I – “

“House!”

“I can’t,” he finishes. His voice is firm.

“House, seriously. All I said was that I moved Coma Guy to a new room.”

“A room without cable TV.”

“A room that is better suited to his needs.”

“Exactly.”

She continues to pierce him with her intense blue eyes. She sucks her bottom lip into her mouth and squints at him. “You love me?”

He sighs heavily in exasperation. “Oh brother.”