Who: House and Wilson
What: A confrontation long overdue between best friends
Where: House's bed.
When: After Jimmy's
Nightmare.
Warnings: Language, mentions of mass murder and suicide,
The reconstruction was excruciating but it was nothing compared to watching Jimmy Novak die. The one person he had for certain that would never kill himself jumped to join him in that false Paradise. In the nightmare, Valtiel dragged Jimmy first into the body pit then House: the vessel had more repairs to be done in order to be ready for the upcoming battle. It felt different this time...Three days had since passed and the diagnostician felt not the dank and festering room but the soft thread count of a hospital bed.The doctor opened his eyes and closed them again, not only from the glare of fluorescent lights but because of the realization that his fiancee had gone through so much suffering.
Sometimes, House wondered had things gone differently...would all this pain disappear? His mind traced every decision back to one key choice not done by him but by Wilson...his best friend. That was a touchy subject but he had to come clean eventually. For now, he just wanted to see Jimmy and tend to him, to tell him that his nightmare wouldn't happen.