Ahh, this is it. The final chapter. I can't believe I finished this story. I loved writing it and thanks for all the great reviewers out there.

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"I like the name Tabitha." House yawned.

"You want a cat?" You ask making fun of his taste. Tabitha is a horrible name.

"How about Gregoria?" House asks.

"It's way too early for this." You laugh.

"It's your fault we're up." He says shooting you a look. True, well half true, the baby apparently doesn't like to sleep past seven which in turn means House doesn't get to sleep past seven. You two have been early to work everyday for the past two weeks. Cuddy loves it.

"Gregoria is never going to happen. You want our kid to be the one to get teased on the playground?" You say putting on a pair of maternity pants. You feel ridiculous in maternity clothes. It still hasn't really sunk in that you yourself will be giving birth in a few short months.

"Grega?" He asks.

"Remy the second?" You throw back.

"Grace?" he says.

"We're not naming her after you, its bad luck." You answer.

"But we can mane her after you?" He says picking up the same pair of jeans he wore yesterday.

"I was kidding." You say as you snatch the jeans out of his grasp. He sticks out his lower lip and pouts at you.

"She can't very well be named after a her stinky daddy." You say. He makes a face and shakes his head trying to mock you.

"Lulu?" He nods. You laugh.

"We could name him after your dad." You say. He rolls his eyes.

"My birth father's still alive." He says. You roll your eyes back at him. Wilson told you the story of their road trip to House's dad's funeral once a while back. You found the story ridiculous.

"Joanna?" You say not particularly liking the name, but it is the girl version of John.

"No." House says sounding a bit annoyed. You drop the subject, and continue to get ready.

"Have you seen my other earring?" You pop your head out of the bathroom.

"Nope, sorry." He shakes his head. He's waiting on the bed for you to be ready. It's kind of sweet of him to go to work early for you instead of just going back to bed and letting you lie awake bored.

"Here," he says tossing you a black box when you exit the bathroom. You open it expecting to see your other earring inside, but instead it's a ring.

"What is this?" You ask very slowly.

"Not a proposal." Is the first thing that shoots out of his mouth.

"Okay?' You say slowly hoping he'll continue.

"It's just a ring. I want people to know you're mine, and I thought it was about time I bought you some jewelry." He shrugged.

"Like a promise ring?" You ask slipping it on. You smirk – House would know the size of your finger.

"7th grade style, baby." He says.

"I love it," You kiss him on the cheek.

"-and it'll drive the team crazy." He nods happily. You chuckle. They know you're pregnant, but you've avoided letting them know the kid is House's. They'll be furious if they think you're engaged and never told them.

"I'm going to tell them." You say.

"I know." He shrugs sanding up. He grabs his keys and tosses you your jacket. You put it on as you follow him to the car to get to work.

He speeds happily down the empty road – there's one perk to leaving over a full hour earlier - and parks in his spot. Cuddy smiles at you as you walk hand in hand into the hospital with House. You can tell she's thankful for the subtle changes you've instilled in him, and for the happiness he's given to you.

Stepping into the diagnostic office you see Taub has come in early too.

"Trouble with the wife?" House asks as he walks into the office with you. Taub looks up from his coffee mug and cell phone on the table.

"Trouble with the car." Taub makes a face at House, "She had to drop me off on her way to work – two hours before I actually need to be here and three and half hours before you're usually here."

"Well, lucky you. You've caught me and Thirteen sneaking in together." House deadpans. Taub looks up at you startled for a moment. He smiles and rolls his eyes at you as if to say how ridiculous House is, but then his eyes stop at your hand.

"Is that a ring?" He asks.

"Yes," you say dryly. You take a seat and House comes by a moment later and places a cup of decaf in front of you.

"From the baby's daddy?" Taub asks.

"I hope," You joke as you look over at House. He grins amused at your antics.

"-And who might this man be?' Taub asks interested enough to actually put his cell phone back into his pocket from the tabletop.

"Chase, I told you that months ago." House pipes in as he prepares his red mug of coffee. Taub gives you a look and you nod. He gives you a look.

"Chase and Cameron have a pool going, and since Chase isn't betting on himself I'm going to say he's not the daddy." Taub answers.

"Can I get in on that?" House asks before you have time to say that he's the father.

"Sure, Cameron's actually got three hundred on you." Taub says. You almost spit out your coffee from laughing. Cameron's a little cheater. You're going to make her cut you in.

House disappears and you assume he's going to the ER to find Cameron or Surgical to find Chase and place a large bet.

"So who is it? Because I was going to put fifty in Foreman, but I also wasn't sure about the mysterious stranger category." He says.

"Like someone who doesn't work in the hospital or forgotten one night stand?" You ask.

"Like a boyfriend outside of the hospital, one night stand is another option but I didn't think you did that with men." Taub says as if you were talking about the weather and not your sex life.

"Well, that and the whole one night stand's don't usually give out rings." You mumble.

"Well, then Foreman's out fifty." Taub says.

"Great," You say a bit annoyed. That was kind of a jerk bet on his part. In fact, just that category annoys you a bit. But then again you did obviously used to sleep around, and you know its just all the hormones that rile you up. You almost yelled at House for wearing a shirt with a hole in the sleeve the other day. At any other time, you couldn't have cared less. He sort of just took it and changed though.

"I'm baaaaack." House sings as he reenters the office. Foreman is following him and Cameron and Chase have apparently been dragged around too.

"And the winner is-" House says spinning around and pointing at you. You feel your cheeks go red. This is so not how you wanted to announce that you and House are together.

Cameron gives you a grin, and you cover your eyes before saying the name.

"House," You practically yelp. The room goes silent. You peel you hands away from your eyes to see three open jawed doctors, House doing a victory dance and Cameron is counting bills from Chase's pocket. She hands half the stack to House who continues to dance around with his cane.

"Congratulations." Chase mutters somewhat sincerely before exiting with a very happy Cameron.

House dances over to your seat and pulls you up to dance around the office with him.

"How? What? Why?" Foreman mumbles. Taub looks over at Foreman and they share a confused look.

"Come on, I'll buy the celebratory breakfast." House says holding up his wad of money and giving you a quick kiss on the cheek to freak Taub and Foreman out.

You take his hand and walk to the cafeteria with Foreman and Taub following behind. You can see all the questions coming to their minds.

You're glad it's in the open now and that House is in such a great mood. You're happy too. You feel, for the first time in a very long time, like everything will be okay.