Disclaimer: House is not mine.

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Cuddy was too busy to fall in love. Between managing the hospital and protecting House's career, she didn't think she had time for frivolous things like brunettes with deep, green eyes.

Or so she thought.

People fell in love slowly, swimming in the starry sky and emerging themselves in the depth of gravity, but they realized it in a single instant, like a bolt of jagged lightning shot from a blazing cannon.

One year Cuddy wasn't in love, and the next she was; one day she didn't know it, and the next she did.

Love had hoodwinked Cuddy.

Fin.