House - Dr. Gregory House - 033. Too Much.
Title: Solitaire
Crossover: House/RPF
Characters/Pairings: Josh Lucas (RPF), references to House, OFC, Josh/OFC, House/OFC, and House/Wilson.
Prompt: 033. Too Much.
Word Count: 647
Rating: PG for language, sexual references
Summary: He knows he's done absolutely nothing wrong, so why is this difficult?
Author's Notes: Takes place in the universe of fr4ctions. If you dislike original characters, slash, or slight RPF, you'll want to skip this one. Explanations are under the first cut, the story under the second. My apologies for borrowing the fabulous Mr. Lucas for this series of fics.
fr4actions is the joint creation of myself and cryptictac. Somehow, out of a warped IM conversation, we ended up combining meta, House/Wilson, and somehow my current obsession with Josh Lucas, currently starring in Glory Road. It's odd as hell, but it's been working quite well for us, as the fic is up to sixteen chapters.
Basically, in this story, House and Wilson are romantically involved. House has also been having an on-again, off-again fling with a Princeton student, and so there's much slash/het/threesome goodness going on. On more than one occasion, House gets confused and disappears. During one such period, said girlfriend met Josh Lucas on accident. They started dating. House got jealous. He's been deadlocked in a battle over her ever since, while contending with his feelings for Wilson and the reality of how the real world regards both same-sex and celebrity couples, as nobody can seem to decide who they want to be with.
This story takes place during chapter 16. Josh and Brittany are in Durham, NC for a Princeton basketball game. They didn't expect House to show up, but he has. Brittany makes the decision to go down and confront him once and for all. This is what's going on in Josh's head while she's gone.
He's keeping track of how long she's been gone. It's going on twenty minutes now.
Keeping track is an entirely pointless activity because he knows which hotel she's going to and it's going to take her at least twenty-five minutes to even get there, let alone find House and talk to him. Josh sucks in a breath. He doesn't even know what she's going to say. Is she going down there to tear him a new one? To tell him how it is? The last time she did that, she ended up sleeping with him.
The idea of that makes a spark of jealousy twitch inside of him.
It shouldn't be, but it does. They've been broken up since April, this is November, and she's Greg's fiancee now. He's got no claim to her. Except that he's been the one by her side, while House is either holing up at work or screwing his best friend.
Josh doesn't give a shit that they're gay. He wouldn't care if House was sleeping with James Wilson or Wilson's wife. What he does care about is that this is the man Brittany intends to marry and he's sleeping around on her just weeks after she accepted his proposal.
For not the first time, he wonders just how naive Brittany is. He knows she's tough when she has to be; he's seen it. But when it comes to Greg House, he has some sort of spell over her. Why else does she keep giving second, third, fourth, fifth chances to a man who treats her so badly?
None of this has to do with envy. He tells himself that. It's not envy.
Over the last eleven months, at least to his knowledge, House has put Brittany through all of the following: at least two suicide attempts on his part, one on hers, a forcible abduction from their apartment, God knows how much infidelity, even more cruel fights, two disappearing acts, and now, if what Brittany has just said is true, one possible rape or at the least, dubious consent. That's an actual possible crime.
And yet, she stays.
He knows there's only so much he can do for her. If she wants to stay, that's her choice, even though he thinks that ever increasingly, she's an idiot. He doesn't want to think that about her, he loves her, but this is really a stupid decision on her part.
He'll just hurt her again. And again. And again.
Josh will make sure he's there to pick up the pieces.
Why does he stay? Why does he put up with the whirlwind of drama his life has been over the past year since he met her? He's got every right to be tired of this, and truth be told, he is. He went from anger to grief and now just plain fatigue. But he can't walk out on her, because he loves her. He never stopped loving her. He wants to marry her. And if he left, would there be anyone here to tell her to stand up for herself?
He stays for love. That's what they're all staying for. She stays because as crap as he treats her, she loves Greg House. House stays with her and doesn't automatically go running back to Wilson because he loves her. Wilson can't keep away from House because he loves him.
It's all because of love.
Josh is reminded that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Twenty-eight minutes and he's staring at the door, wondering if she's coming back or if he's sleeping alone tonight. Either way, he knows that Brittany isn't. Except that one way is the end of the world and the other straight into chaos. No one can win this game.
All he can do is try to be the one left standing when it ends.
If it ends.
Crossover: House/RPF
Characters/Pairings: Josh Lucas (RPF), references to House, OFC, Josh/OFC, House/OFC, and House/Wilson.
Prompt: 033. Too Much.
Word Count: 647
Rating: PG for language, sexual references
Summary: He knows he's done absolutely nothing wrong, so why is this difficult?
Author's Notes: Takes place in the universe of fr4ctions. If you dislike original characters, slash, or slight RPF, you'll want to skip this one. Explanations are under the first cut, the story under the second. My apologies for borrowing the fabulous Mr. Lucas for this series of fics.
fr4actions is the joint creation of myself and cryptictac. Somehow, out of a warped IM conversation, we ended up combining meta, House/Wilson, and somehow my current obsession with Josh Lucas, currently starring in Glory Road. It's odd as hell, but it's been working quite well for us, as the fic is up to sixteen chapters.
Basically, in this story, House and Wilson are romantically involved. House has also been having an on-again, off-again fling with a Princeton student, and so there's much slash/het/threesome goodness going on. On more than one occasion, House gets confused and disappears. During one such period, said girlfriend met Josh Lucas on accident. They started dating. House got jealous. He's been deadlocked in a battle over her ever since, while contending with his feelings for Wilson and the reality of how the real world regards both same-sex and celebrity couples, as nobody can seem to decide who they want to be with.
This story takes place during chapter 16. Josh and Brittany are in Durham, NC for a Princeton basketball game. They didn't expect House to show up, but he has. Brittany makes the decision to go down and confront him once and for all. This is what's going on in Josh's head while she's gone.
He's keeping track of how long she's been gone. It's going on twenty minutes now.
Keeping track is an entirely pointless activity because he knows which hotel she's going to and it's going to take her at least twenty-five minutes to even get there, let alone find House and talk to him. Josh sucks in a breath. He doesn't even know what she's going to say. Is she going down there to tear him a new one? To tell him how it is? The last time she did that, she ended up sleeping with him.
The idea of that makes a spark of jealousy twitch inside of him.
It shouldn't be, but it does. They've been broken up since April, this is November, and she's Greg's fiancee now. He's got no claim to her. Except that he's been the one by her side, while House is either holing up at work or screwing his best friend.
Josh doesn't give a shit that they're gay. He wouldn't care if House was sleeping with James Wilson or Wilson's wife. What he does care about is that this is the man Brittany intends to marry and he's sleeping around on her just weeks after she accepted his proposal.
For not the first time, he wonders just how naive Brittany is. He knows she's tough when she has to be; he's seen it. But when it comes to Greg House, he has some sort of spell over her. Why else does she keep giving second, third, fourth, fifth chances to a man who treats her so badly?
None of this has to do with envy. He tells himself that. It's not envy.
Over the last eleven months, at least to his knowledge, House has put Brittany through all of the following: at least two suicide attempts on his part, one on hers, a forcible abduction from their apartment, God knows how much infidelity, even more cruel fights, two disappearing acts, and now, if what Brittany has just said is true, one possible rape or at the least, dubious consent. That's an actual possible crime.
And yet, she stays.
He knows there's only so much he can do for her. If she wants to stay, that's her choice, even though he thinks that ever increasingly, she's an idiot. He doesn't want to think that about her, he loves her, but this is really a stupid decision on her part.
He'll just hurt her again. And again. And again.
Josh will make sure he's there to pick up the pieces.
Why does he stay? Why does he put up with the whirlwind of drama his life has been over the past year since he met her? He's got every right to be tired of this, and truth be told, he is. He went from anger to grief and now just plain fatigue. But he can't walk out on her, because he loves her. He never stopped loving her. He wants to marry her. And if he left, would there be anyone here to tell her to stand up for herself?
He stays for love. That's what they're all staying for. She stays because as crap as he treats her, she loves Greg House. House stays with her and doesn't automatically go running back to Wilson because he loves her. Wilson can't keep away from House because he loves him.
It's all because of love.
Josh is reminded that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Twenty-eight minutes and he's staring at the door, wondering if she's coming back or if he's sleeping alone tonight. Either way, he knows that Brittany isn't. Except that one way is the end of the world and the other straight into chaos. No one can win this game.
All he can do is try to be the one left standing when it ends.
If it ends.