"You're having 공식 만찬, 저녁 식사 at Cuddy's? 당신 can't be serious, House," Wilson said as he sat down on his friend's couch.
"Jimmy, I've never been 더 많이 serious."
"She's still with Paul, isn't she?"
"Yeah, she's still with the funny looking P.I."
"So, why on earth is she having a 공식 만찬, 저녁 식사 날짜 with you?"
"Because I am a master manipulator."
"What did 당신 do now?"
"I merely appealed to her fervent desperation to have all department heads at her dull fundraiser."
"I have a feeling she wasn't the one to offer 공식 만찬, 저녁 식사 at her place," Wilson said as he propped his feet up on the coffee table.
"She offered the usual. I wasn't interested."
"You not being interested in a week off clinic duty is strange unto itself, but 당신 being 더 많이 interested in having 공식 만찬, 저녁 식사 with her, is just completely weird, even for you."
"Weird. You're the one that thinks I have a thing for her. Isn't this what men do when they want a woman?," he said taking a sip of his beer.
"Usually bribery isn't a tactic but then again maybe for 당신 it is. What are 당신 trying to achieve anyway?"
"It's about gaining information, Wilson. I've already found out that she's done the dirty with him. Can 당신 imagine what I'll find out over the course of one evening."
"Again, what are 당신 trying to achieve?"
House took another swig of his 맥주 and turned his attention to the 텔레비전 screen.
"I need to know how serious she is."
"How serious she is about him?"
"No. How serious she is about me."
"God, 당신 really can't tell 의해 now? How many times has she risked her job, reputation, and everything else just to save 당신 from being canned on your 나귀, 엉덩이 또는 put in prison..."
"That's because I'm an asset to the hospital..."
"Please. You're 더 많이 than just an asset to her. 당신 two have only known each other about twenty years."
"We're quasi-friends and at times enemies but..."
"Stop minimizing. She was holding your hand when 당신 came out of the coma. She was doing everything to make sure 당신 were recovering well..."
"Wait. How do 당신 know about that? That was the period when 당신 were being all bitchy and not talking to me."
"Cuddy is Cuddy. Even though I didn't want to talk about 당신 she'd bring 당신 up in conversation nonetheless. I know she was practically at your place everyday for a 월 before she felt like 당신 could handle things on your own."
"She was insufferable that month. She was monitoring my diet and wouldn't allow me any 정크 food. She was constantly cleaning too."
"Was she a good cook?" Wilson asked with a smile.
"What you're implying is that she was a good cook ergo I miss her cooking ergo I miss her being around me twenty-four seven ergo the real reason I wanted her to make me 공식 만찬, 저녁 식사 at her place."
"Well, yeah."
"She is a good cook. She's made vast improvements since college."
"What was she like in college?"
"The same just with a tighter ass."
"Did 당신 two date? Neither of 당신 ever talk about Michigan. Makes me wonder what went on between 당신 guys."
"We didn't date," he said as he got up to go to the fridge.
"Was it a flirtation?" Wilson asked as he followed House to the other room.
"Dumb question."
"Okay, knowing 당신 there had to have been inappropriate gestures and comments. I mean did 당신 ever try to be with her?"
"What 당신 are really trying to ask but are too cowardly to is whether 또는 not we did the deed."
"Well?"
"Despite what others may think, I am a gentleman. I don't broadcast my sexcapades," he said with an overly dramatic shake of his head.
"Alright, 당신 don't have to tell me, but I do have to tell 당신 something."
"You met the future fourth Mrs. Wilson to day?"
"I had a talk with Cuddy about you."
"What's new about that. 당신 two girls are always gossiping about me."
"She seems torn between her deeper feelings for 당신 and the blossoming feelings she has for Paul. I sensed that she wants Paul because he's 더 많이 open and less..."
"Caustic, sarcastic, offensive, insincere..."
"Yes, less you."
"So, big deal. Like I told her, he's a distraction."
"Or 당신 want him to be a distraction."
"You really think he has a shelf life past three months? There is a reason I'm the only man who she's had a long term connection with. She likes conflict just as much as I do. I'm a sadist and she's a masochist," he said as he popped a few of his vicodin.
"Pretend all 당신 want to, but if he really isn't a formidable opponent then why even go through all this trouble? Why would it matter to know how serious she is about you?"
"Look, I know she cares about me, but I'm never sure if it's just this weird co-dependent thing we have 또는 if it really is..."
"Love."
"Yeah."
"That's nice."
"Oh, shut up."
"You want to know if she's as in 사랑 with 당신 as she's alluded to because you've fallen in..."
"Shut up!"
"Okay. I'll stop talking about your girlfriend."
"Why do I associate with you?"
"Because I tell 당신 the truth and I'm the only one willing to associate with you."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hand me another beer."