You are mine, and I am yours (Gregory House)

Chapter 18

2005
Even though Cameron scheduled appointments for Stacy's husband, Mark, he never kept them. Finally, House met Stacy and Mark for dinner. House paid the bartender fifty dollars to drug Mark's beer. Once he was admitted to the hospital, his condition worsened. After exploratory surgery, House discovered tremors in the muscle fibers in Mark's abdomen. After another round of tests, Mark became paralyzed.

Reilly listened as Wilson told her that House admitted he didn't care if Mark died and even went so far as to taunt him about Stacy during a PET scan.
"He'll listen to you," Wilson told her. "You need to find out what's going on with him."

"He told you that in private, yes?" she asked. She folded her arms. "I like you, James. I do. But, I'm not Lisa Cuddy. I'm not going to sneak around behind his back and try to fix him. He doesn't need fixing. If he asked Mark those questions during the scan, then he had medical reasons for doing it. If he told you something in confidence, then you shouldn't come running to me about it."

"I think he wants Stacy back," Wilson told her placing his hands on his hips and looking at her defiantly. "I was here with him when she left. I had to pick up the pieces. You didn't."

She laughed incredulously. "Are we competing to see who's a better friend to him?"

"You left him, too."

"Wow," she remarked. "For the record, I wasn't dating him. I also love that he has you in his life. But I will not be pulled into your machinations to teach him some kind of lesson."

Wilson dropped his hands. "He told me to tell you," he confessed. "He wanted to know what you'd do. He needed to know that you hadn't changed."

"Well, I will go tell him I haven't."
She walked away and Wilson smiled.

XxXxXxXx

Reilly found House on the roof of the hospital.
"You're a bastard," she told him leaning against the ledge beside him.

"Wilson told you."

"Do you want Stacy back?" she asked. "Because I thought you were happy with Allison."

"I am. But there's a part of me that wants Stacy to suffer."

"Me, too. But Mark didn't do anything except marry her."

"Tell me what to do," he said staring out at the dark sky.

"Figure out what's wrong with him," she responded. "I've been thinking-"

"Well, that's dangerous." Greg interupted her

"I've been thinking about this, " she continued as she leaned against him. "What if he has AIP?"

"There's not really anything to indicate he does and it's a tough thing to diagnose. We'd have to get a urine sample while he's having an attack. Why do you think he has it?"

"I was going over the results of his PET scan with him and Stacy. You asked about their honeymoon. He said he took her to Paris. She told me they didn't have one because she had to work."

"Put that together with his other symptoms and he's got AIP," he said softly. "I could set off an attack and we could get a urine sample."

"Not the most ethical thing to do," she told him.

"So, that's what we're going to do. God, I'm glad I hired you."
Reilly sighed.

XxXxXxXx

House sat in his office doing research when Cuddy entered.
"You induced an AIP attack in Mark Warner and then pulled a urine sample directly from his bladder?" she asked incredulously. "He gave his permission for that?"

"Nope," House said without looking up from his research. "His significant other did. You remember how that's done, right? You ignore the patient's wishes and go behind his back because the significant other tells you to? It's great because this time it worked. Now we know what's wrong with him and he can receive the proper treatment."

Cuddy let out a silent hmm and said "I want to run something by you."

"I will not have sex with you! Not again! Miserable, that first time. All that desperate, administrative need –" House stated loudly, but was interupted by Cuddy

"Stacy's husband is going to need close monitoring at the hospital. I offered Stacy a job as general counsel. God knows we can use her. Thing is she won't take the job unless you're okay with her working here."

He shrugged. "If you want to hire her, do it."

"And you're not going to play any of your mind games and try to break up their marriage?"

He leaned back and took his glasses off. "I'm with Cameron. Whether any of you believe it or not, I am over Stacy."

Cuddy looked into his eyes, saw he was telling the truth and left. House went back to his research.