Quite a long while ago, on Just Friends...
The chó came galloping out of the phòng bếp, nhà bếp and ran full speed into the closet door, slamming it closed. Hugh let out a gasping laugh into Lisa’s ear as she jerked her head around to see what had happened.
“No offense to your dogs, Lis,” he đã đưa ý kiến huskily, taking the opportunity to repay a favor that she had done him numerous times over the course of the season, “but tonight we are going to my place. Unless bạn want to be interrupted again.”
The sudden jolt of heat that struck Lisa’s stomach and slithered its way lower shocked her into silence as Hugh’s tongue began to tease at her earlobe.
“God…” she breathed out hard. “Ok. Your place it is.”
~*~*~
Hugh breathed out hard as he put his car into drive and turned carefully off the small side road that Lisa’s house was situated upon. There were no cars anywhere to be seen, a fact for which he was endlessly grateful. It wasn’t at all that he liked hiding this new and beautiful addition to his life… it just was not the right time hoặc the right way for people to find out.
“Hugh Laurie Makes a House Call!” Hugh put on his very best fake-announcer voice as he sped along toward the studio. “The married House ngôi sao was spotted leaving the trang chủ of his co-star Lisa Edelstein in the wee hours of the morning in what looked like suspiciously day-old clothes!” A sarcastic smile flashed in his rearview mirror and he rolled his eyes. “God. How are we going to manage to keep this under wraps?”
Of course, the phrase ‘under wraps’ brought to mind another type of ‘under cover’ and that was sufficient to nearly send him plowing into a light pole.
Hugh let himself into the meeting room quietly, noting that everyone had already sat down and were just about to start as he took his seat.
“Glad bạn could make it, Hugh,” Greg Yaitanes đã đưa ý kiến drily. “Coffee?”
“Yeah.” Hugh poured himself a cup and looked around. “Sorry. I made it. Just a late night last night, and—right.” His British accent flowed naturally and smoothly, and the other EP’s looked around and shared private, if uneasy smiles. No one was quite sure how he was going to like this…
“Well we were just going to briefly recap how we did in terms of productivity and budget this season,” David started, “and then we’ll talk a little about the premiere of tiếp theo season while we have the finale still fresh in our minds. We’re already thinking about some ideas and we’re pretty excited about them…”
~*~*~
Lisa poked her head in the door of her yêu thích dress cửa hàng and called for the owner. “Mindy? It’s Lisa, I’m here for—”
“Oh my Lord would bạn look at yourself? Skin and Bones is all bạn are, skin and bones, and I don’t care what bạn say about the camera adding ten pounds, bạn have got to fill yourself up if bạn are going to wear any of my clothes. Now just look here—” Lisa found herself being manhandled into a dressing room with nothing in her hands. “I am going to bring out the most darling little number that I made with bạn in mind, assuming you’re going to be dancing the night away like bạn always do, and where in the world did I put those shoes? I found the most perfect shoes that go just exactly with this outfit and I set them aside and I đã đưa ý kiến to myself, ‘Do not lose these shoes, Lisa absolutely must have them for this party, they will just look ravishing’ and now would bạn look at this, I can’t find them anywhere…” Lisa peered over the door of the dressing room, clad only in her bra and panties. “But here is the dress, and I have to say I have outdone myself on this one, I đã đưa ý kiến ‘Mindy, the váy is perfect, just think how it will di chuyển when she dances,’ see look it will hit bạn just below the knees but I used my best silk so it has some movement and I đã đưa ý kiến to myself, ‘Now Mindy, she wears those blasted pencil skirts,” she spit those words out as venom. “That display her gorgeous derriere to such advantage but don’t allow her to di chuyển her legs thêm than an inch at a time in any direction, so let’s put her in something looser that lets her walk and dance and di chuyển any way she wants to…'” Mindy tossed the dress over the door and Lisa held it out and looked at it critically. “Shot silk, and that silver grey is going to make your eyes just luminous if bạn don’t mind my saying, bạn pair it with some smudgy grey eyeliner and that fabulous eye shadow bạn were wearing the last time I saw you, I can’t remember the brand but I’m sure bạn still have it somewhere now I am coming in so cover yourself up if you’re shy which we both know bạn aren’t and oh my are bạn gorgeous! Look at how that falls, that is just the most beautiful thing I have ever put on you, now turn around a moment and let me see this—see this? See where I have to dart the side here? Dieting. You’re going to wind up in a hospital giường if bạn keep this up, honey, and what kind of man wants to go to giường with a stick and bone skinny Marie? Curves. Now see the neckline, I didn’t want to make the v-cut too terribly deep, bạn see how it just hints at the one place bạn still have curves, it’s the mystery of the unknown, all those boys will just be wetting themselves when bạn walk in now come out here and I’m going to pin you…” Lisa was dragged up onto a ghế đẩu, phân in front of a three-paned mirror while Mindy pinned the dress on her side. “This is going to be fitted just perfectly, bạn go take it off and don’t dislodge the pins, honey, and I will put the dart in right this very một phút so bạn can walk out with it and oh Lord would bạn ever believe? Here’s those shoes, what did I do? I set them down tiếp theo to the machine and đã đưa ý kiến to myself, ‘I will bet money that girl has gone and Mất tích weight again, and I will need to take in the dress, and so I will put the shoes bởi the machine and that way I won’t lose them, now bạn put your jeans back on and try on the shoes do bạn see how perfect they are? Just look at those heels, bạn will absolutely make the boys faint dead away to the floor when bạn walk in, now—” Lisa smiled as Mindy blindly reached over the dressing room door and snatched the dress out of Lisa’s hands. The whirring of the sewing machine filled the cửa hàng but Mindy just talked over it. “This won’t take but a moment, honey, bạn come set out here and put those shoes on, I want to be sure they fit you! I do hope you’re planning on wearing your hair up tonight, this neckline does not need embellishment beyond just this chuỗi hạt, chuỗi hạt cườm that I have set out for you, now where did I put it… oh it was just the length to hang right at the point of no return if you’ll pardon my language, now just look at how gorgeous those look! With jeans, no less, now let’s see if bạn can walk in them, walk over to the other side of the room because I think that’s where I put a box with your name on it, it’ll have the chuỗi hạt, chuỗi hạt cườm inside and bạn take a look and see if bạn like it. Gunmetal, that’s what I’d call this color, and just look now it is absolutely perfect, I’m just going to set it in this dress bag and bạn take it straight trang chủ and hang it up so it doesn’t wrinkle, bạn hear me? Dry clean only, this stuff is not for throwing in the dryer hoặc Mindy will come straight to your house and take it back away from bạn but not before smacking bạn upside your pretty head, do bạn understand me? Dress bag, shoes in the box, necklace, bạn are ready to party! I will put all this on your bill and you’ll find it in your mail sometime in the tiếp theo week hoặc so, now bạn try and have a good time tonight, honey, I am going to close up cửa hàng for an giờ hoặc so and finish ripping the stitches out of old Miss Lambert’s cốc-tai, cocktail dress—I swear she takes on water every time an event comes around just to aggravate me but bạn enjoy and don’t even think about putting that dress in the dryer, do bạn hear? Have a lovely time and say hello to that nice Mr. Laurie for me, bạn tell him if he ever wants a little company in the nighttime all he has to do is call old Mindy and she will be thêm than happy to oblige…”
~*~*~
Hugh shifted in his seat, trying not to look at the clock.
“Now. tiếp theo season.” David folded his hands on the table. “We are going to try something that is probably going to cause some concern so I want to bring it up to bạn all right now so we can get on the same page. The premiere. Hugh. Hugh?”
“Yeah.” Hugh shook his head. “Sorry. The premiere?”
“We’re going to do a 2-hour premiere, and it is going to be much much closer to a feature film than an episodic drama. I don’t want Mayfield to be the total focus of the entire season so we’re going to do it up right in the first episode and then get back to the hospital.”
Doris Egan drummed her fingers on the table. “And bạn think that is going to cause concern?”
“…no.” David looked at Katie, who was leaning phía trước, chuyển tiếp on the table. “We think there’s going to be concern about what he encounters when he returns to the hospital. We’re thinking about—”
“We’re going to put Cuddy in a relationship.” Katie broke in, smiling all around the table. “With Lucas.”
~*~*~
*sigh* Sorry... not my best work but it had to be done to try and bust through this writer's block! Still feel Stuck, but at least now I'm trudging toward the light!
mav
The chó came galloping out of the phòng bếp, nhà bếp and ran full speed into the closet door, slamming it closed. Hugh let out a gasping laugh into Lisa’s ear as she jerked her head around to see what had happened.
“No offense to your dogs, Lis,” he đã đưa ý kiến huskily, taking the opportunity to repay a favor that she had done him numerous times over the course of the season, “but tonight we are going to my place. Unless bạn want to be interrupted again.”
The sudden jolt of heat that struck Lisa’s stomach and slithered its way lower shocked her into silence as Hugh’s tongue began to tease at her earlobe.
“God…” she breathed out hard. “Ok. Your place it is.”
~*~*~
Hugh breathed out hard as he put his car into drive and turned carefully off the small side road that Lisa’s house was situated upon. There were no cars anywhere to be seen, a fact for which he was endlessly grateful. It wasn’t at all that he liked hiding this new and beautiful addition to his life… it just was not the right time hoặc the right way for people to find out.
“Hugh Laurie Makes a House Call!” Hugh put on his very best fake-announcer voice as he sped along toward the studio. “The married House ngôi sao was spotted leaving the trang chủ of his co-star Lisa Edelstein in the wee hours of the morning in what looked like suspiciously day-old clothes!” A sarcastic smile flashed in his rearview mirror and he rolled his eyes. “God. How are we going to manage to keep this under wraps?”
Of course, the phrase ‘under wraps’ brought to mind another type of ‘under cover’ and that was sufficient to nearly send him plowing into a light pole.
Hugh let himself into the meeting room quietly, noting that everyone had already sat down and were just about to start as he took his seat.
“Glad bạn could make it, Hugh,” Greg Yaitanes đã đưa ý kiến drily. “Coffee?”
“Yeah.” Hugh poured himself a cup and looked around. “Sorry. I made it. Just a late night last night, and—right.” His British accent flowed naturally and smoothly, and the other EP’s looked around and shared private, if uneasy smiles. No one was quite sure how he was going to like this…
“Well we were just going to briefly recap how we did in terms of productivity and budget this season,” David started, “and then we’ll talk a little about the premiere of tiếp theo season while we have the finale still fresh in our minds. We’re already thinking about some ideas and we’re pretty excited about them…”
~*~*~
Lisa poked her head in the door of her yêu thích dress cửa hàng and called for the owner. “Mindy? It’s Lisa, I’m here for—”
“Oh my Lord would bạn look at yourself? Skin and Bones is all bạn are, skin and bones, and I don’t care what bạn say about the camera adding ten pounds, bạn have got to fill yourself up if bạn are going to wear any of my clothes. Now just look here—” Lisa found herself being manhandled into a dressing room with nothing in her hands. “I am going to bring out the most darling little number that I made with bạn in mind, assuming you’re going to be dancing the night away like bạn always do, and where in the world did I put those shoes? I found the most perfect shoes that go just exactly with this outfit and I set them aside and I đã đưa ý kiến to myself, ‘Do not lose these shoes, Lisa absolutely must have them for this party, they will just look ravishing’ and now would bạn look at this, I can’t find them anywhere…” Lisa peered over the door of the dressing room, clad only in her bra and panties. “But here is the dress, and I have to say I have outdone myself on this one, I đã đưa ý kiến ‘Mindy, the váy is perfect, just think how it will di chuyển when she dances,’ see look it will hit bạn just below the knees but I used my best silk so it has some movement and I đã đưa ý kiến to myself, ‘Now Mindy, she wears those blasted pencil skirts,” she spit those words out as venom. “That display her gorgeous derriere to such advantage but don’t allow her to di chuyển her legs thêm than an inch at a time in any direction, so let’s put her in something looser that lets her walk and dance and di chuyển any way she wants to…'” Mindy tossed the dress over the door and Lisa held it out and looked at it critically. “Shot silk, and that silver grey is going to make your eyes just luminous if bạn don’t mind my saying, bạn pair it with some smudgy grey eyeliner and that fabulous eye shadow bạn were wearing the last time I saw you, I can’t remember the brand but I’m sure bạn still have it somewhere now I am coming in so cover yourself up if you’re shy which we both know bạn aren’t and oh my are bạn gorgeous! Look at how that falls, that is just the most beautiful thing I have ever put on you, now turn around a moment and let me see this—see this? See where I have to dart the side here? Dieting. You’re going to wind up in a hospital giường if bạn keep this up, honey, and what kind of man wants to go to giường with a stick and bone skinny Marie? Curves. Now see the neckline, I didn’t want to make the v-cut too terribly deep, bạn see how it just hints at the one place bạn still have curves, it’s the mystery of the unknown, all those boys will just be wetting themselves when bạn walk in now come out here and I’m going to pin you…” Lisa was dragged up onto a ghế đẩu, phân in front of a three-paned mirror while Mindy pinned the dress on her side. “This is going to be fitted just perfectly, bạn go take it off and don’t dislodge the pins, honey, and I will put the dart in right this very một phút so bạn can walk out with it and oh Lord would bạn ever believe? Here’s those shoes, what did I do? I set them down tiếp theo to the machine and đã đưa ý kiến to myself, ‘I will bet money that girl has gone and Mất tích weight again, and I will need to take in the dress, and so I will put the shoes bởi the machine and that way I won’t lose them, now bạn put your jeans back on and try on the shoes do bạn see how perfect they are? Just look at those heels, bạn will absolutely make the boys faint dead away to the floor when bạn walk in, now—” Lisa smiled as Mindy blindly reached over the dressing room door and snatched the dress out of Lisa’s hands. The whirring of the sewing machine filled the cửa hàng but Mindy just talked over it. “This won’t take but a moment, honey, bạn come set out here and put those shoes on, I want to be sure they fit you! I do hope you’re planning on wearing your hair up tonight, this neckline does not need embellishment beyond just this chuỗi hạt, chuỗi hạt cườm that I have set out for you, now where did I put it… oh it was just the length to hang right at the point of no return if you’ll pardon my language, now just look at how gorgeous those look! With jeans, no less, now let’s see if bạn can walk in them, walk over to the other side of the room because I think that’s where I put a box with your name on it, it’ll have the chuỗi hạt, chuỗi hạt cườm inside and bạn take a look and see if bạn like it. Gunmetal, that’s what I’d call this color, and just look now it is absolutely perfect, I’m just going to set it in this dress bag and bạn take it straight trang chủ and hang it up so it doesn’t wrinkle, bạn hear me? Dry clean only, this stuff is not for throwing in the dryer hoặc Mindy will come straight to your house and take it back away from bạn but not before smacking bạn upside your pretty head, do bạn understand me? Dress bag, shoes in the box, necklace, bạn are ready to party! I will put all this on your bill and you’ll find it in your mail sometime in the tiếp theo week hoặc so, now bạn try and have a good time tonight, honey, I am going to close up cửa hàng for an giờ hoặc so and finish ripping the stitches out of old Miss Lambert’s cốc-tai, cocktail dress—I swear she takes on water every time an event comes around just to aggravate me but bạn enjoy and don’t even think about putting that dress in the dryer, do bạn hear? Have a lovely time and say hello to that nice Mr. Laurie for me, bạn tell him if he ever wants a little company in the nighttime all he has to do is call old Mindy and she will be thêm than happy to oblige…”
~*~*~
Hugh shifted in his seat, trying not to look at the clock.
“Now. tiếp theo season.” David folded his hands on the table. “We are going to try something that is probably going to cause some concern so I want to bring it up to bạn all right now so we can get on the same page. The premiere. Hugh. Hugh?”
“Yeah.” Hugh shook his head. “Sorry. The premiere?”
“We’re going to do a 2-hour premiere, and it is going to be much much closer to a feature film than an episodic drama. I don’t want Mayfield to be the total focus of the entire season so we’re going to do it up right in the first episode and then get back to the hospital.”
Doris Egan drummed her fingers on the table. “And bạn think that is going to cause concern?”
“…no.” David looked at Katie, who was leaning phía trước, chuyển tiếp on the table. “We think there’s going to be concern about what he encounters when he returns to the hospital. We’re thinking about—”
“We’re going to put Cuddy in a relationship.” Katie broke in, smiling all around the table. “With Lucas.”
~*~*~
*sigh* Sorry... not my best work but it had to be done to try and bust through this writer's block! Still feel Stuck, but at least now I'm trudging toward the light!
mav
