my watch has stopped.

         i’m waiting for you to name something new to our relationship.

     “ we all have our skill sets. “

     “You do rank up pretty high in the idiocy charts.”

     “ i’m sorry. you’re right. you’re deeply repressed. “

     “ -- and you’re an idiot. A huge one.”

     “ don’t be so vanilla. i didn’t go into detail. “

     “I am not vanilla. Not spending money on hookers named Morgan, Candy, Trish, or Kassandra with a K doesn’t mean I’m vanilla. We’ve been through this.”

     “ unless morgan the nurse moonlights as a morgan the smokin’ hooker, that’s a big fat no. “

      “I regret asking.”

     “ … – her name was morgan. c cups. “

      “House, I said I don’t want to know! Jesus. ... wait, Morgan, as in the nurse downstairs who has kids and just left her husband?”

     “ what you see is ruggedly handsome, “ the giveaway click of his seat belt is petulantly delayed ten seconds from sounding out. “ one day, if you wish really, really hard, you’ll grow out of your baby face. “

     “I’d say ‘ bite me,’ but you’d take it as an actual invitation and I don’t have time to deal with a rabies shot today.” Tossing House a look, he shifts the gear into reverse and finally pulls them out of his parking space. “I don’t know where your mouth has been. And no, that’s not an opening for you to tell me either.”

     “ on the contrary, nu-uh, “ he holds on continuing his retort to duck into the passenger’s seat, closing the door after him. “ because i don’t look at my face as much as you do. “

     “Aren’t you lucky?” In the time it takes his friend to be situated, the younger of the two is adjusting the mirror and checking behind them. “You’re spared what I have to see. Click it.”

     “ what look is that – ? “ swinging the passenger side door open fills the second pause between. “ i want to hear this. “

     “You know exactly,” he has to pause to slip in to the driver’s seat. The key is in the ignition and already turned, too, before Wilson turns his focus back to House. “ -- what damn look it is. Put your seatbelt on. I don’t want a ticket.”

     “ … – “

      “No, don’t give me looks like that either. Get in the car.”

     “ that sounded better in your head, didn’t it – ? “

     “ -- no, wha-- damnit, House. Don’t talk to me right now.”

     “ far superior, but costs more. he micro-micro-manages his money. “

“that’s probably a good thing. i’m more shocked anyone actually uses pay-per-view for porn anymore.”

      “...--”

     “ believe what you want. “

     “Oh, trust me ... when it comes to you, I do.”

     “ by chicks who want into your pants. i’d question the sincerity of it. “

      “Are you saying you’re sincere when you say it -- ?”

     “ he’s lying. it was. i was there. i saw him choose lesbian spank inferno with my own two eyes. “

“i don’t believe that for a second. not when lesbian spank inferno 3 is far superior.”

      “...-- wait, this ... what.”

     “ charming. “

      “So I’ve been told.”

     “ what can i say – ? i just can’t seem to shake the guy. always is pushing it, xena. “

“’could’? interesting use of the hypothetical. and i promise not to call unless it’s something absolutely necessary. think of it as a… corleone-type arrangement.”

      “... Corleone. Okay, great. Oh, the stuff on pay-per-view wasn’t my choosing. Just for the record... since you’ve probably definitely looked thoroughly into us.”