House MD (Cameron) [week 1 - prompt 3]
Title: What Did You Expect Author: Cadence Rating: PG Word Count: 100 Summary: A snippet from S1.
“Do you like me?”
A pause, long enough that she thought maybe—
“No.” Well, what did you expect, some eternally clinical part of her mind asked. House doesn’t like anyone.
That’s not true, she thought back wretchedly. He couldn’t live like that. Everyone likes someone, he just can’t show it. And she believed it. She did.
But hearing something like that, flat and straight, well, it did make her cold for a second. It made her doubt, made her wonder if House really was as miserable as he appeared.
She shoved the thought away and went back to work.