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Wilson finds House endearing, the way he seemed to think he was the center of the world and everything revolving around him, he was just like a kitty, to Wilson at least
Wilson couldn’t do but smile whenever House threw one of his snarky comments at the ducklings and left the room leaving the three confused, and Wilson? Curse him because he almost stood up and ran after House to kiss him, but you know, being a professional doctor and everything
Sometimes he couldn’t hold his smile in, Cuddy shoot him looks, The three fellows shoot him looks, patients even shoot him looks, and he knew he must look crazy smiling like a fool, it’s just cute how House thinks he’s always right,
“Everyone lies” House said as he marched himself onto the chair blabbering about some patients he got in the clinic, something about an affair and something about an ice cream cake or whatever Talking in an animated dramatic way,
Wilson shook his head with fondness and laughed to himself “hah, you know House, you’re adorable” he said making the other stop in his talking and look at him with a confused frown “I don’t get that often, but uh— I’ll say I’m flattered,” House said standing up to leave seeing that his best friend wasn’t exactly listening to the horrors he was dealing with all day leaning on his cane stopping in his pace to utter “you’re not bad yourself, Wilson” quickly before walking out of the room leaving Wilson there smiling sheepishly, see? Very cute!!
Wilson doesn’t even know when those emotions has started, but for some reason they were just growing rapidly these past few weeks and he just felt this urge to speak up, to tell House that he found him really cute and that he, in fact wanted to, he wasn’t sure if that was the right words to describe what he felt,, to kiss House,
what? It wasn’t that weird to him if he was being honest, the thought crossed his mind a few times, and it was just becoming more and more defined that he, maybe and just maybe, might have some sort of feelings for his best friend, and he might or might not do something about it, he wasn’t exactly inexperienced in the emotions & feelings field but thinking about his Best friend, House out of all people was a first
as House’s best friend he found himself quite privileged, spending late nights with House? Ignore the the working part, having dinner together? Seems like a date! Others don’t know what they’re missing for real! And Wilson sometimes caught himself smiling in the mirror
It wasn’t hard for House to catch that, the way Wilson started to act almost a month ago, smiling like a maiden whenever House decided to be a menace, and House was a menace most of the time so imagine how Wilson looked like grinning almost 24/7 before frowning and controlling his expressions into a more safe-for-work one
House wasn’t stupid, he met enough hookers to be familiar with that look, but he couldn’t exactly pinpoint which one that look was, it wasn’t exactly the ‘I wanna get into his pants’ but also not entirely a ‘look at this cute puppy’ one and House thinks he should take some offense if it was the latter, but maybe he isn’t very bothered about that, let a man feel cute for god’s sake
It was alright and it came with it’s quirks, Wilson became a more respectful citizen pitying the cripple and actually listening to House’s diagnose without assuming he’s treating his patients like some kind of experiment. it wasn’t like regular Wilson but this Version worked just as fine
But On the other hand it also came with cons, it was exhausting, Wilson started treating him like he’s some fragile princess, asking him about his pain—weird? offering to help with clinic duty—that’ll be a dream come true but no, Wilson was acting bizarre like he’ll come with a shining armor riding a white horse to help House if needed, and that made House question if that was due to Wilson’s need to be needed or some unknown ulterior motive.
House decided that he was gonna get to the bottom of this, not in a detective kind of way but in a more straightforward way. He entered Wilson’s office noting how the man’s face lit and he smiled this big smile that he would’ve compared to the sun if he was a poet and stood right in front of his desk
“someone is acting off, and I’m here to learn the reason”
“Hi, House” Wilson said smiling more fondly which seemed to irritate House more, he was curious and Wilson wasn’t trying to hide whatever was going on, “I’m not fragile, and you know that I’m not gonna giggle and and my eyes sparkle or whatever you imagined will happen in your fantasy”
“is that for offering to help you with the Stairs? I wasn’t trying to offend you in any way, and I wasn’t expecting that kind of reaction of you” Wilson said seeing that his intentions were wrongly interpreted his face shifted into a more concerned expression making House feel almost bad to see that smile vanish from his face, curse him too for feeling things for his best friend just for acting a little bit more nicely,
well look what kindness does to one
“Dr. Wilson,” he said trying to compose himself and take the lead of the conversation again, “—you’ve been looking at me, smiling like a schoolgirl with a crush, and giving me looks, like you wanna kiss me—so bad” House said with a pinch of sarcasm emphasizing every syllable of his words
Wilson shrugged “What if I am” he said rolling in his chair and standing up to face the other man a little surprised at the rush of confidence that washed over him all of a sudden
And that shouldn’t have shocked House as much as it did, because House’s eyebrows shot higher before he frowned gaping at the floor for a few seconds before looking at the other again, he got closer leaning into Wilson’s desk “what if you are?”
“I do feel like I want to kiss you most of the time, it’s all I’ve been thinking about for the past, few weeks” Wilson said openly looking at House through his lashes, cheeks flushing as he admitted brushing his hand lightly on his nape to ease the big words he’s saying making House blush himself and swallow eyes blinking a few times before he looked into Wilson’s again
“I—I mean” House found himself out of words which is very serious if you asked anyone “I’m not very against that idea” That was enough for Wilson to smile widely as he pulled House’s closer by the hips closing the distance between the two of them.
Now that they were officially dating it was so much easier to identify that all the emotions he was feeling before could be translated to a thing called love, crazy how he never thought of that one! how did he miss that when he was Mr lover guy! he loved everyone! but how did the metaphor go ? Love makes you blind?
It was easier to tell House now how he wanted to kiss, hug or even touch and the most delightful thing about dating is that the feelings were mutual! but now that his first dilemma was solved he was met with this new feeling, he sometimes felt like he wanted to squeeze House, and this time he really isn’t sure what the root of this one is, he remembers being the one to tell House to squeeze but uh not thinking about this at work, he needed to remain in his professional mode
“So you’re saying, You feel like you wanna do something violent to that person, but not exactly, because you think they’re—Cute?” Forman said counting the symptoms as if this was yet another case to be assigned to them
“Well Im not sure if we’re the kind of doctors to diagnose that but I’m pretty sure that’s ’cute aggression’ you’re feeling”
He found himself there in House’s office discussing that with the ducklings “I just feel like I wanna bite them sometimes it’s like my teeth are aching” He said clinching and unclenching his jaw showing the movement of hitting—squeezing and squishing with his hands
“well Wilson I know that it’s a normal instinct but the important thing is to not act upon it” Cameron tried reasoning, they really weren’t that kind of doctors, they were more used to treating what comes after rather than the actual thing which got a sigh out of Wilson, “Cuddy said I’m love sick and now you’re saying I have cute Agression, it’s like my whole world lights up when I see him I just don’t know what to do I miss him” he sighed talking about his boyfriend who he hadn’t seen for probably less than an hour, but come on that was long enough wasn’t it
The three looked around the room in awkward silence not knowing if the should ask all the questions the had in their heads,
“but now that you say it who is that you’re taking about? You never mentioned a—” Chase said being his nosy curious self asking Wilson who was about to continue his love talk when House entered the room Wilson standing up upon seeing him,
out of habit Cameron was about to tell House about the situation and the symptoms Wilson was showing before she and the other two noticed how Wilson’s attitude made a quick shift, like someone’s appearance just lit his world up or whatever he was just saying
they noted how House smiled Too making them frown looking at House than Wilson than House again before it clicked
“what the fuck?”
“There’s no way”
Wilson knew not everyone saw House as cute as he saw him and he was alright with that as long as they both stayed together, he was Wilson’s Cute adorable kind of an asshole previous Best friend, now boyfriend soon husband who knows,
he was really acting like a schoolgirl with a crush.