fanfic100: Humiliation
Title: Humiliation
Fandom: House
Characters: Dr. Greg House
Prompt: 025. Strangers.
Word Count: 189
Rating: PG
Spoilers: "Fools for Love"
Summary: He's not the apologizing kind.
Author's Notes: Thank God for new episodes. A very short little snarky piece. This is set following the events of the 10/31 episode, so if you haven't yet seen it and don't want to be spoiled, come back later.
He'd wanted to humiliate him.
House had been listening very clearly to Michael Tritter's words in Cuddy's office, but not giving them very much mind. A lot of his patients griped or complained. None of them had followed through on heretofore empty threats. Not until he was being handcuffed and taken to jail.
Somehow, "he's being mean to me because I left a rectal thermometer up his ass, next to the big stick that was already there" didn't seem a compelling argument to put in front of a judge.
But as much as House had underestimated Tritter, Tritter had underestimated House. He wasn't the kind of man to run off to his mother after a slap on the wrist. He'd spent his whole life showing people up. Idiot patients, other doctors, the physical therapists who'd said he'd never walk again. He was a fighter and after all that, he wasn't about to let himself get put down by some aging cop who'd been bullied one too many times on the school playground.
He wanted to humiliate him?
He'd have to try a hell of a lot harder than this.
Fandom: House
Characters: Dr. Greg House
Prompt: 025. Strangers.
Word Count: 189
Rating: PG
Spoilers: "Fools for Love"
Summary: He's not the apologizing kind.
Author's Notes: Thank God for new episodes. A very short little snarky piece. This is set following the events of the 10/31 episode, so if you haven't yet seen it and don't want to be spoiled, come back later.
He'd wanted to humiliate him.
House had been listening very clearly to Michael Tritter's words in Cuddy's office, but not giving them very much mind. A lot of his patients griped or complained. None of them had followed through on heretofore empty threats. Not until he was being handcuffed and taken to jail.
Somehow, "he's being mean to me because I left a rectal thermometer up his ass, next to the big stick that was already there" didn't seem a compelling argument to put in front of a judge.
But as much as House had underestimated Tritter, Tritter had underestimated House. He wasn't the kind of man to run off to his mother after a slap on the wrist. He'd spent his whole life showing people up. Idiot patients, other doctors, the physical therapists who'd said he'd never walk again. He was a fighter and after all that, he wasn't about to let himself get put down by some aging cop who'd been bullied one too many times on the school playground.
He wanted to humiliate him?
He'd have to try a hell of a lot harder than this.