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Title: Giving Up
Author: Lola Lauriestein
Rating: G
Characters: House, Cuddy, Huddy angst
Spoilers: Everything up to 4x16 Wilson’s Heart.
Summary: Does Cuddy have a breaking point?
Disclaimer: If I was skipping I would hear not-not-mine.

Written for cuddy_fest, prompt: 108. Cuddy/House. "I give up."

With a thousand thanks to my awesome beta, lucyvanflick who can impose discipline on the most run-on of sentences.


Lisa Cuddy was not the sort of woman who walked away from a fight; in fact, a smart person would always put their money on her to win it. She had as many faces as her life demanded—from cold and uncompromising to the maternal or the hilarious. She kept her own life intensely private, but made her friends and colleagues feel she was sharing by involving herself in their problems. Those who saw the compassionate side of Dr. Cuddy wrote her off as just an older version of Cameron, too soft for the harsh realities of the world. What those fools failed to realize was that you didn’t get to be Dean of Medicine at 32 by being a sap. On the many occasions that she was feigning that compassion for appearances’ sake, she was simply lowering expectations in order to keep confounding them down the line.

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