A/N: This was written by a friend for me...don't I feel special! I'll let her write her own authors note...

Isabella Raleigh: Hey! This is my first fanfiction story, I'm a friend of Ros, and she asked me to write a House-related story so this is the first part!

I've never done it before so please forgive me if it's not brilliant, and if the characters are a little OOC.

It's also dedicated to Rebecca (Ros)

Bella xx

Beta'd by Ros Jordan

Disclaimer: No I don't own it....duh

Remember to R&R

Cuddy POV

"Okay. That's great. Thanks Beth." Cuddy finished her conversation with Rachel's babysitter and flipped her mobile shut. Opening her umbrella, she looked up at the grey sky and thought that she would be glad to get away for a week. The planned trip to the Koh Samui medical conference was something most doctors looked forward to, but they didn't have House to deal with. She smiled at and Dr. Hadley as they staggered through the hospital doors carrying two rather large suitcases.

"Shouldn't the cab be here by now?" Asked Foreman, taking Hadley's suitcase from her and placing it next to his own on the pavement. Cuddy sighed and looked at her watch, feeling a small twinge of anxiety in her stomach.

Suddenly, a Volkswagen camper van, with flowers and graffiti covering the rusting surface sped round the corner, The Beach Boys blasting out of the dilapidated car, and an aviator sunglasses and lurid, flowered Hawaiian shirt-clad House stepped out of the driver's seat and limped over to them. Cuddy had resigned herself to a not altogether hitch-less journey, but she had hoped that they would at least have made it to the airport before House unleashed the crazy.

"Ladies, Gents, and Lesbians!" Exclaimed House, taking off his sunglasses and gesturing expansively towards them with his cane.

"Bisexual, actually-"

"Yeah, yeah, same thing. In my mind anyway." Foreman and Hadley rolled their eyes, as Taub walked out of the hospital doors, and Cuddy saw his expression turn from confusion to anxiety as he saw the hippy van, and eventually to a state of apparent resignation to whatever fate House had planned for them similar to her own.

"Ah! And dwarves of course - "

"House!" Cuddy cut him off before he began randomly insulting passers-by. He turned around to face her, an amused and challenging expression on his face. "What the hell is this?"

"Our ride to the airport. We'll look so fly, won't we Foreman?"

"For shizzle." said Foreman, with heavy irony in his voice.

"House," continued cuddy, "where did you get that thing?"

"A buddy of mine sold it to me for 300 bucks. Quite a bargain, wouldn't you say?"

"Great." She snapped back sarcastically. "But I called a taxi."

"Cancelled it. If you want to catch the flight, you'll have to ride with us, O pre-menstrual one." Shooting him her dirtiest look, Cuddy shoved her case into the back of the van, wafting away beads that dangled from the roof, and climbing in next to House in the front. She wanted to laugh, looking behind her to where Hadley, Foreman and Taub were sitting uncomfortably on ripped red velvet seats, looking around for seatbelts, and, finding none, she saw a look of decided terror dawn on each of their faces. But then she remembered she was supposed to be mad at House. She wished she had the ability to stay mad at the ass for longer, but she just couldn't. She actually found this whole situation funny, to tell the truth.

They arrived at the airport and pulled into a parking space, after dangerously swerving around the tight corners in the parking building for eight whole floors.

"Right, I'll go to the check-in counter, and you can bring the luggage-" Cuddy began, trying to regain a sense of authority.

"I'm a cripple! I can't carry luggage!" objected House in his best fake-shocked voice.

"You can push a trolley!"

"I am appalled at your blatant disregard for the needs of the disabled employee-"

"What makes you think I'd trust you to check us in anyway?"

"Team! Luggage!" yelled House, turning away and limping off to the elevators. Cuddy sighed deeply and picked up her bag.

"Well. Come on." She called back to Foreman, Hadley and Taub.

"Do you think we're going to have to play the kids to their Mommy and Daddy all week?" muttered Foreman bitterly.

Boarding the plane, Cuddy couldn't help but remember her last flight with House, and smiled wryly to herself.

"Let's hope this plane trip will be as fun as the last, eh Cuddy?" joked House, as if he had read her mind.

"Yeah, here's hoping." She said, smiling as she watched House begin to insult the steward who informed him politely that they needed to keep his cane stored during the flight. The steward was probably thinking that House using the cane as a weapon was a real possibility. She laughed and pulled House away towards their seats by the arm, smiling apologetically at the rather shell-shocked steward.

A few very irritating and uncomfortable hours later, the announcement that they were soon to land and that they were to fasten their seatbelts came through the speakers, and House, of course, announced that he needed the bathroom and forced Cuddy into a most uncomfortable position on her chair as he pushed past her into the aisle, in the most awkward way possible. Foreman, Taub and Hadley were taking off their eye masks and rubbing their eyes, yawning as they tried to wake themselves up. Cuddy envied them the hours of sleep that she, sitting next to House, had not been able to get. She saw Hadley lean against Foreman's shoulder, and saw him kiss her forehead lightly, and though she didn't particularly like either of them, she had to admit they made a good couple. Looking out of the window, she saw blue ocean and green mountains, and long strips of white around the green land that were the beaches. She smiled. She was here to work, but that didn't make the scene any less beautiful. The other three were all looking eagerly out of the windows at the glistening water.

Walking off the plane into the open air, Cuddy felt the humid heat hit her like a wall, and thought, despite herself, that House's ridiculous' shirt wasn't such a bad idea. Having re-acquired his cane, House led the way through customs to arrivals, where two chauffeurs from their hotel were waiting with a sign reading 'Cuddy'. The two men bowed at them, and took their suitcases to the two cars that would take them to the hotel. When they arrived at the gorgeous hotel and given decorative cocktails, it was hard to shake the feeling that they were on holiday. However, this feeling was short-lived for Cuddy. At the check-in desk, a pretty woman with the hotel's orange uniform gave them two card keys, and confirmed two rooms, two double rooms, one with an extra bed.

"No, I'm sorry, this must be wrong. I booked four rooms."

"Nope. She's completely right." Contradicted House, flashing the girl a grin, and Cuddy felt an inexplicable stab of anger as she batted her eyelashes back at him.

"What?" All four of them looked confusedly at House. Cuddy thought that what she was about to find out couldn't be good at all.

"Well, I thought we should try to cut back on costs. We're on the hospital budget! That money could save lives! 'Fourteen' in one room, and I'm sure Tiny Taub will be perfectly comfortable on the kiddy bed-"

"I hope you're not headed where I think you are with this-"

"And I'm sure we'll also be very comfortable in the other room." He said, giving her the cheekiest, dirtiest grin she had ever seen, and she felt her heart flutter, making her very angry with herself.

"How did you even manage to change the bookings?"

"Oh it wasn't so difficult, partypants!" Cuddy was livid.

"Mr and Mrs Cuddy?" A porter who was presumably going to show them to their rooms approached them, smiling. Cuddy was taken aback for a moment, but House jovially replied, "Yes!" and then turned to Cuddy – "I told them I was your husband. Made it easier." He followed the porter, and called back to her, very loudly, "Come on dear! Why don't we go take the bed for a test drive?"

Cuddy decided that she better not say anything, or else she would break down and cause a scene, so after looking back at Taub, Hadley and Foreman, who looked just as frustrated and resigned as she felt, she followed after House and the uniformed porter.

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TBC

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