I've been a little remiss as a mod, life got in the way temporarily, and I'm in the midst of a fic-writing cycle that seems to demand every free minute that I'm not out and about. Anyway, I thought it...reliving of her snappiest comebacks and melting at her scenes of heartbreak commence! ---------------- Now playing: The Von Bondies - This Is Our Perfect Crime via FoxyTunes    

Title : There Will Be No Divorce Chapter 9 Author : Lola Lauriestein Rating : PG 13 this chapter, overall up to NC17 Pairing : House/Cuddy Spoilers : Everything up to Wilson's Heart, we're going...empty box. Struggling to digest the information presented, House grasped blindly for his cane. He had to move, he had to get away from the glaring facts in front of him. He had to get to Cuddy.  

Imagining Cuddy and 13 together on a king-sized bed with mirrors on the ceiling? Well, now I am too!

Title : There Will Be No Divorce Chapter 8 Author : Lola Lauriestein Rating : PG this chapter, overall up to NC17 Pairing : House/Cuddy Spoilers : Everything up to Wilson's Heart, we're going to...that would spur House into some kind of action, and if not, at least he’d be doing the right thing by a friend. Satisfied, Wilson started his BMW and drove off to his empty apartment.   Chapter 9 -->

On the very theme from which this comm was founded, here is one of the best-written character explorations I've ever read .  It's our own cryptictac  's full-throated defence of one Dr Lisa Cuddy...the first place. If it inspires anyone else to write a response to the character assassinations currently polluting fandom, please let us know!  Love is after all the perfect antidote to hate ;)

Title : There Will Be No Divorce Chapter 7 Author : Lola Lauriestein Rating : PG13 this chapter, overall up to NC17 Pairing : House/Cuddy Spoilers : Everything up to Wilson's Heart, we're going...he thought, he’d lasted months longer than anyone could ever have expected. So what if he’d blown it now? Chapter 1 , Chapter 2 , Chapter 3, Chapter 4 , Chapter 5 , Chapter 6 Chapter 8

Title : Overtime Author: Lola Lauriestein Pairing : Cuddy/Stacy Rating: PG for a little bit of language Spoilers : Set pre-show, about a month after the infarction. There's a lot of timeline speculation...met for the second time there was no gentleness, no hesitation. There was only need, pain and desperation, but it felt fucking fantastic. It would be over by morning. But morning was hours away.

Title : There Will Be No Divorce Chapter 6 Author : Lola Lauriestein Rating : NC17 Pairing : House/Cuddy Spoilers : Everything up to Wilson's Heart, we're going to have to ignore s5 though, sorry...the end of the bed. Reaching for a sheet to cover herself, she threw the bottle at her reclining lover. “House, I think we need to talk.” Chapter 7 -->

Title : There Will Be No Divorce Chapter 2 Author : Lola Lauriestein Rating : PG-13 for now. Pairing : House/Cuddy Spoilers : Everything up to Wilson's Heart, we're going to have to ignore s5 though...that would ramp up the pain in his thigh another notch, so she was going to have to wait. When Cuddy arrived at his office door 30 minutes later, he was nowhere to be found.

Since ‘No Children’ was a while ago, and you may not have time to skim 16 chapters all over again, here’s a brief recap of where we left our intrepid characters: Cuddy is pregnant, House...worse than usual flickered briefly through her thoughts, but it dissolved in the face of exhaustion. She remembered nothing else until the sound of the alarm roused her six hours later.