I wrote this tonight, please let me know what you think :)

Disclaimer: I don’t own House or Cuddy, Fox does.
Note: I got these ideas from listening to songs on Keith Urban’s CD “Love, Pain, & the whole crazy thing”. I also got these ideas from listening to the songs on Keith Urban’s CD “Better Life”.
This is a series of two one-shots about House and Cuddy’s friendship/relationship.
This is also un-beta’d.
Words: 1, 839.
Pages: 7


I Told You So

House sat on his black leather couch, a whiskey tumbler in his hand and Vicodin coursing through his system. His eyes were bloodshot from the lack of sleep in the past week. It was raining outside; the weather matched his mood perfectly.

He was drunk, more so than usual. House was pissed off at himself, for being such an idiot. He and Cuddy had a big fight. House had told Cuddy that she was being stupid in thinking that she could change him. Cuddy thought she could change him and fix him. He yelled at her and said that he didn’t need her help, that he was fine just the way he was and he didn’t need anyone especially a woman who could not even try to have a baby and keep one!


They had both said things they didn’t mean, hurtful things. House had told Cuddy that she was better off without him, as he was being his stubborn smart-ass self. Cuddy ran out of his apartment crying and very angry. Cuddy was angrier than she had ever been at him before.

All of this was a week ago, at work neither of them said a word to each other unless it was Cuddy was telling House to go to the Clinic. Now it was Friday night, House was sitting in his apartment, alone, getting high and drunk.

Wilson would have been there but he had been away at a conference all week. House was still mad at himself. House was not one to listen to country music, but Wilson gave it to him and he thought he would give it a try.

House used the remote control to flip through the songs, when he stopped on the third track, “I Told You So”. As House listened to the lyrics, they spoke to him perfectly.

“You said you needed your space
I wasn't where you wanted to be
I didn't stand in your way
I only want you to be happy
And so surprised am I to see you here tonight

Well, can't you see that for worse or for better
We're better together
Please, just come back home
And don't say that you're sorry
And I won't say I told you so

Sometimes in our lives
We get to where we wonder if
The long road that we're on
Is heading in the same direction
When it comes to you and me
We're right where I know we should be…”

As the music played on, House heard a knock on the door. House looked at his watch, it was 2a.m. House said nothing, grabbed his cane and went to the door. Opening it, House saw Cuddy looking like a drowned rat in the pouring rain. Cuddy was wearing a work outfit and she looked like hell. Her eyes were red from crying and she looked like she had not slept in a week.

House did not say a word to her. He used the remote control to start the third track over again. Cuddy came in, and House had gone and gotten a towel for her to dry her hair and a pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt. Cuddy went into the bathroom and changed.

When she came out, House was sitting on the couch, listening to the music still playing and sipping a glass of whiskey. Cuddy sat down on the couch and took a sip of the whiskey tumbler that was set out for her. Cuddy said nothing as she drank the drink and set the glass down on the coffee table.

No words were spoken as Cuddy looked at House and she looked at him. Their eyes said it all. Cuddy looked at House as saw the self-anger, sadness, hurt and forgiveness all swimming through his bright blue eyes. House looked at Cuddy’s eyes and saw hurt, regret, sadness and forgiveness in her eyes. He leaned over and hugged his lover and best friend as she leaned into his arms and cried on his shoulder. House never said a word.

Cuddy knew that House was not the type of person to express himself and get attached to people. They both knew that without saying the words, which they would get through this.

There would be other fights, other harsh words, but they each knew that they would have each other.

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Making Memories of Us
Cuddy and House had been living together in House’s apartment for about two years. They had been through some ups and downs in their relationship. Cuddy knew that she could not change House. Cuddy did not want to fix House, and she just wanted to love House just the way he was. Even though they did not always get alone, House trusted Cuddy, something he did not do easily. He trusted Cuddy with his life and she trusted House with her life. House had found his best friend in Cuddy. He loved her more than he had loved anyone, including Stacey.

Cuddy knew that House was not a romantic kind of man who gave out flowers and candy. But he was romantic in his own un-romantic kind of way.

One particular evening, Cuddy was still at work and it was now 7p.m. Cuddy was finishing up some paperwork. Usually House would stop by and they would leave work together. However, this night was different than others and Cuddy would soon find out why. Cuddy’s cell phone rang and she picked up the line and a big smile came across her face as she talked to her lover and best friend.

House told her to come at 7:30p.m., he had surprise for her. Cuddy questioned him about it, but he just snarked at her and told her to come home at the right time. Cuddy ended the call and quickly hurried to finish her paper work and head onto House’s apartment. Outside it was raining and this made a little more difficult for Cuddy to get back to House’s apartment in the usual 10 minute trip, it took her an extra 20 minutes.

When she got to House’s apartment, Cuddy was soaked to the bone. Cuddy opened the door and dripped onto the wet floor, she was shocked at what she saw. There were candles lit and placed all around the apartment, casting a warm glow. House had set the table with a chilled bottle of very nice red wine, and very fine gourmet food. Cuddy knew that House was up to something. He was romantic but never like this!


House was sitting on his couch wearing, jeans, an ironed (imagine that!) blue button down shirt, the one that Cuddy loved so much that brought out his eyes, a nice new t-shirt, blue jeans, his ever present Nike Shox. His cane was lying next to him on the floor. He was sipping a whiskey tumbler and he looked at his lover and smiled a big smile. House then fingered the small velvet in the pocket jacket that he wore.


Using his cane, House got up and limped over to his lover. He kissed her deeply. Cuddy loved the way he smelled of shampoo, soap and cologne. Cuddy dropped her things as soon as he kissed her. House broke the kiss and told her that he loved her and to go into the bedroom and to change into the dress he had laid out. Before she left his embrace, House made a leer about her wet clothes and her sexy body, Cuddy just snarked back at him and went to get changed.


After showering quickly and applying makeup, Cuddy came out wearing a very low cut blue dress, which hugged every curve of her body. House just leered at his lover and made a wisecrack about her ‘fun bags’. She snarked back at him and just smiled. They sat down and ate dinner and Cuddy couldn’t believe what was happening!

The dishes were left where they were and Cuddy settled down onto House’s couch with a wine glass in hand. House had sat down his wine glass on the coffee table. He then grabbed his guitar. Cuddy knew that House was talented in playing the piano but in the last few months of their relationship he had been playing songs for her on his guitar.

Smiling at his lover, he got the guitar settled onto his leg and he began to sing and play.


I'm gonna be here for you baby
And I'll be a man of my own word
Speak the language in a voice that you have never heard
I wanna sleep with you forever
And I wanna die in your arms
In a cabin by a meadow where the wild bees swarm

(Chorus:)
And I'm gonna love you like nobody loves you
And I'll earn your trust making memories of us

I wanna honor your mother
And I wanna learn from your paw
I wanna steal your attention like a bad outlaw
And I wanna stand out in a crowd for you
A man among men
I wanna make your world better than it's ever been

Chorus

We'll follow the rainbow
Wherever the four winds blow
And there'll be a new day
Comin' your way
I'm gonna be here for you from now on
This you know somehow
You've been stretched to the limits but it's alright now

And I'm gonna make you this promise
If there's life after this
I'm gonna be there to meet you with a warm, wet kiss
Yes I am

And I'm gonna love you like nobody loves you
And I'll earn your trust makin' memories of us
Ohhh
And I'm gonna love you like nobody loves you baby
And I'll win your trust makin memories of us
Mmmmm
Ohhhhhhhh Oh Baby Mmmmmmm

Cuddy had tears of joy running down her cheeks as he sang the last note.

With that he produced a ring from his breast pocket and tossed it to her “Marry me?” House asked.

Cuddy just looked at him, looked at the ring and then placed the ring on her finger and leaned over and kissed her lover deeply.

She broke the kiss and House asked in a dead panned voice “Is that a yes?” Cuddy just hit him on the arm playfully and went back to kissing him. House dropped the guitar, but he did not care if it was broken.

House and Cuddy spent the rest of the night making love and they knew that they now had the rest of their lives to make sweet memories together. They could not wait to spend their lives together, loving each other, and laughing.

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Note: I wrote this in Word, double spaced it and for some reasome reason it changed when I posted it here.

I'm open to mostly all comments :)

God and peace
Vanessa :)