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'Does this look like an 'e' to you?' Cuddy said abruptly, thrusting a piece of paper under his nose.

'I – '

Wilson opened his mouth, and then closed it again. He had stopped by her office to discuss clinical trials, but clearly she had other things on her mind, and Wilson had absolutely no intention of adding to her aggravation. Not when she was looking like that. Incensed. Furious. Hopping mad. D, all of the above. He wasn't a masochist and he wasn't House, and the two were probably not mutually exclusive -

'It could be an 'e',' he observed mildly, taking the paper from her hand for further inspection. 'Or a 'c'. I'm not sure.'

It was report of some kind. From Pediatrics. Which explained a lot, actually, because it couldn't possibly have been written by an adult. It just couldn't.

'How do you spell 'assistance'?' Cuddy said.

'A-s-s-i- ' Wilson looked down at the paper again and winced. 'Oh.'

'This is a report,' Cuddy said. 'From one of my employees.'

'It's… very badly written,' Wilson offered lamely.

'You think?' she said, narrowing her eyes. She was beginning to look… downright menacing.

'Why don't you get your assistant to decipher it for you?' he said with a small smile, hoping to lighten the atmosphere.

It did not have the desired effect.

'You know what I'm going to do?' Cuddy said. 'I'm going to have a talk with this man.' Maybe it was in the way she said it, or maybe Wilson had an over-active imagination, but 'talk' sounded a lot like 'murder'.

She rose to her feet. Wilson followed suit, handing her the report.

She walked out of the office without another word.

Wilson sighed and made a mental note to have a chat with Brown on the writing on some of his reports.

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Beta reading is for squares!

Just kidding. I had two people look mine over.

I love Cuddy on the spelling warpath. I was reading a poorly edited book yesterday (four separate incidents of "it's" for "its"! And two of the wrong homophone for "bear"!) and I almost didn't finish it.

Heh. You = win.

Yes! Editor!Cuddy FTW! \o/

Heh. Perfect!

Now we need grammar-nazi!Cuddy. ;)

Imagine her trauma, having to read that kind of crap in *reports*. *pets her*

Well, Cuddy doesn't pretend to know everything about grammar, but she does hate when people write stupid things that make no sense and would make her English teacher cry.

Cuddy > Everyone else.

La pauvre. *pets her too*

Cuddy hates it when people don't bother to spell things properly. *g*

Cuddy wins at everything. *g*