First Impressions 1/?
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First Impressions
Summary: Gregory House (28) and James Wilson (18) meet one fateful day outside a bar before medical school.
Warning: Greg (and maybe James) will most likely come of as a little OOC, slightly AU
Disclaimer: I sadly do not own House or Wilson! Also I am borrowing a character (Gomez) and a basic idea for a scene later on in the story from Audrey Niffenegger’s book The Time Traveler’s Wife.
The clock read 1:20 a.m. and Gregory House was at a bar celebrating his last night of freedom before his final year of Med School began. The thought of sitting through endless monotone lectures annoyed him to no end. His only reason for looking forward to this coming school year was the knowledge that he would finally be done for good. No more textbooks, no more professors who argued with him because he called them idiots, he could finally start his career and get away from dull university life. Still, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something great was going to happen to him that year.
Greg glanced around the bar looking at the people occupying it. He saw among the small crowd some classmates he barely remembered seeing in lecture halls. He didn’t associate with anyone for three different reasons. He found them idiotic and boring, people tried to trade him their friendship in order to try to use his intelligence for their own gain, or he ended up pushing them away with his sarcastic attitude. He had never met anyone in his life besides his two closest friends, Gomez and Mattie, who was able to stand him for more than a few days without blowing up at him in anger. So, in order to spare himself their stupidity he shied away from others and kept to himself.
Seeing what time it was and having no one to talk to, Greg decided to head to his apartment and rest up for the first day back at school. He paid the bartender, got up from his seat and left. After a few minutes he rounded a corner and managed to knock a young man and his books to the ground. Greg muttered an apology and kneeled down to help the brown haired man pick up his fallen things. Doing this he saw that the younger man was studying medicine. He was a little surprised that anyone who looked young enough to be in high school was already in medical school.
“Thank you for your help,” the younger of the two said quietly as they stood up. “And sorry for bumping into you, I wasn’t really paying attention to what was going on around me. By the way, my name’s James Wilson."
“Gregory House.” Greg replied curtly.
“Oh, so you’re the legendary genius on campus I have heard so many rumors about.” James stated.
“Yup, the one and only.” Greg replied, the beginnings of a sarcastic comment already forming. “As you may have heard, complete morons have only to be near me and suddenly they’re passing mid-terms and exams left and right.”
“No, I don’t think I’ve heard that one but I see the one about your massive ego was correct, if not an understatement.” replied the younger man.
To say Greg was not a little shocked at how easily James was able to reply with his own wit would be lying. He was now intrigued by the younger man before him and wanted to continue to see James to determine if he was someone who was worth hanging out with, someone who could handle whatever Greg threw at him and manage to give it all right back. Not that Greg was going to tell him that though.
“Well, as fun as this has been, I’m going home.” Greg said abruptly in his patented ‘Why-am-I-still-talking-to-you’ voice “Now run along before you break curfew and get grounded by mommy.”
Greg started to leave only to stop when the other man asked him, sounding somewhat annoyed, “What made you say something like that?”
“Oh please, have you looked in a mirror recently?” He replied while turning around to face the other man “You have to be no older than, what, 16?” At that time Greg took his first good look at James. He was a head shorter than Greg, his head reaching just below Greg’s chin, and very thin. Yet Greg could tell that despite James’ skinny frame he was not weak, but just had a lean muscular build. His hair was dark brown and his eyes were like liquid chocolate. It was then that he also realized that he found James very attractive. Greg was so deep in thought that it went totally unnoticed by him that James was looking at him in much the same way. James could not help but look at the handsome older man in front of him. He found himself momentarily captivated by Greg’s stunning clear blue eyes. Wow, James thought to himself, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such amazing eyes. Needless to say, he too found Greg to be very attractive.
“For your information I am 18, not that it is any of your business.” James said snapping Greg out of his thoughts. James looked down, once he had Greg’s attention again, in an attempt to hide his blushing face.
Interested to know how James was already in Med school at that age he asked “How in the world did an 18 year old get into medical school?” still trying to sound as uninterested as possible even when it was obvious that he was curious.
“I skipped two years of school and when I graduated from high school at 16 I went to McGill University for college. I tested out after two years. After that I decided to study medicine here and that’s about it.”
“Wow you’re a regular Boy Wonder aren’t you?” Greg replied in a teasing tone. “So what are you planning to specialize in?” Greg asked not even trying to mask his interest in what James had to say anymore.
“Oncology,” replied James “for some reason I have always been interested in it. I think it will be a great opportunity to really try to help people. What about you?”
“Infectious diseases,” Greg answered. “I like to solve the puzzles of what each patient has.”
“Interesting, so what year are you anyways? You look old enough to be towards the end of your studies.” James asked equally interested in Greg as Greg was in him.
“I’m 28. This will be my last year, and then I can finally say good-bye to this place.”
“I take it by your attitude that you didn’t like a few things about being here?” When Greg nodded in the affirmative James continued, rolling his eyes in the process. “So what was it? Did you call a professor idiotic one to many times and get thrown out of class or was it the student populations’ inability to follow your cynical gibes at the human race without getting pissed off or confused?”
Again Greg was shocked. This time by James’ ability to read him well enough to figure something like that out so quickly. It was then that he knew he liked James, a lot. And he defiantly wanted to talk to him again soon. “Both actually if you must know.” He replied. Unfortunately, Greg looked at his watch to see it was now 1:32 and he actually did want to get some sleep before his classes began. “Now as I had said earlier, I really do need to go home.” And with that the two men said their good-byes and went their separate ways.