A Myth About Turkeys (PG)

[deelaundry]

Title: A Myth About Turkeys
Author: Dee Laundry
Characters: House, Wilson, OC
Rating: PG
Words: 3392
Summary: Wilson and House wait out the rain.
Notes: Spoilers for the last several episodes of House. Thank you to

Comments

[bironic]

♥

[deelaundry]

Thanks.

[chocolate_frapp]

there's just something about our boys soaking wet, isn't there?
wonderful fic. your usual level of brilliance.

[deelaundry]

Should have been more scenes in canon with them both wet. The only one I can remember is when the sprinklers went off in the loft (and Wilson was trying to protect the TV with a dishtowel). Heh. Thanks!

[chocolate_frapp]

If I recall correctly you liked "It's Room Service", my ending to "Out of the Chute", which also had them both wet because somebody pushed Wilson in the pool after House jumped in, and we even both had House imitating a cartoon character (Beavis rather than Goofy in my case).

[blackmare]

LOVE.

Especially love that our hotel clerk turns out to be working on a master's degree.

[deelaundry]

That degree's not her first and won't be her last. She wants to spend her life studying, and owning the motel lets her do that, as long as she can show enough "on the books" business to keep her aunts, uncles, and cousins off her back. :) Thanks.

[damigella_314]

I now most of all want to read a short story about the hotel clerk. I like her approach to life. [I have no experience with dogs, but having had three preschoolers simultaneously sick I think I get the idea.]

As for the fic, it's beautiful. I particularly appreciated House choosing to shock Wilson by showing off naked - when warming up under the blanket was obviously the logical thing to do. And of course Wilson, who's good at reading people's expression, doesn't need question to gauge how distressed House is by his disappearance.

The final image, with the two of them wrapped in makeshift clothing reading old magazines, is so lovely I wish we had an artist to draw/manip it. Mem'ed, because I can never have enough cheerful post finale fics (although I wonder whether Wilson's disappearance felt ominous for House).

Two minor, personal points.

LOL at US-ians being confused by other US-ians' weird accents. That's how I feel all the time, wherever English is spoken.

Nobody reads Jane Austen for funI was puzzled there, but then I read

[deelaundry]

The motel owner (Wilson didn't realize she was the owner) is pretty awesome. She's got her own direction and she's going that way. :)

House definitely found Wilson's disappearance ominous. Once he found Wilson safe and sound, though, he calmed down a lot.

It would be so wonderful to have an artist draw the two of them at the end. It was a very comfy, lazy-day time.

Thanks!

[taiga13]

This is wonderful. I want them to have adventures like this every day forever.
“Willikers, Wilson,” House replies in a goofy, no, Goofy voice. “Donald Duck doesn’t wear pants, so why do I gotta? Yuk, yuk!”
I LOLed.

[deelaundry]

Hee. I always have wondered why Goofy and Mickey wore pants but Donald didn't -- and I figured it would've occurred to House too. Heh. Thanks!

[srsly_yes]

Delightful! I loved the 70s time warp, and of course automatically had to say "Dryer" out loud after reading, “Where you put the wet things after they’s been in the worsher?” :)

[deelaundry]

She was so annoyed when Wilson didn't get what she was saying. Hee. Thanks!