Checkmate (complete)

Chapters 1 & 2
Chapters 3 & 4
Chapters 5 & 6
Chapters 7 - 9
Chapters 10 - 12
Chapters 13 & 14

War and Peace on the Kindergarten Playground (complete)

Chapters 1 - 3
Chapters 4 - 6
Chapters 7 - 9
Chapters 10 - 12

Time in Technicolor (complete)

Part 1 
Part 2 
Part 3 
Part 4 
Part 5 
Part 6 
Part 7

Mortification

Chaos Theory (complete)

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Chapter 13: Cross-Check

She briefly remembered falling off her bike as a child, seven years old and bawling, both knees skinned; slicing her finger with a knife while helping her mother in the kitchen and being demoted to stirring duty, not even allowed near the stove; foolishly falling asleep on the beach during her one and only spring break ( Read more... )

Chapter 10: En Prise
House had to stop six people before he found what he was looking for - or at least until someone would let him have it. The refusal of the couple in the elevator had been honest, and maybe that of the woman immediately afterwards, but the male nurse and two teenagers had been lying through their teeth, and it wasn’t until he ( Read more... )

Chapter 7: Deflect

Cuddy’s weariness had already pushed her past the breaking point, was evident in her heavy-lidded eyes, her slightly-slowed movements, the way her every reaction seemed a split-second off. His actions were slowly chipping away at the crumbling remains of her usually stalwart exterior. Inside the sterile hospital walls, she would ( Read more... )

Chapter 5: Positional Play

Oxygen was already in startlingly short supply, her senses stumbling, and the sudden (literally breathtaking) jolt of his mouth pressed against hers sent her into a spiral from which there was no hope of recovering. His lips were surprisingly soft and careful, would flit away like a hummingbird if she made even the ( Read more... )

Chapter 3: Forced Move

“What the hell do you think you’re doing? How did you get in here?”

Cuddy had thought she’d had a headache before, but that had been nothing compared to this; and there was no hope for her at all, what with its double causes striking at exactly the same moment: the doorframe cracking her skull, the man before her a headache ( Read more... )

Chapter 1: Gambit

“So this guy’s kidneys walk into a bar….”

“House,” Cameron interrupted. “There’s no way alcohol’s causing all this.”

“Did I mention the liver?”

“No, but - ”

“I said his kidneys walked into a bar. And I didn’t say they drank anything.” He twirled his cane in one hand. “Maybe they tossed around a couple of darts, enjoyed some yummy ( Read more... )