HOUSE M.D. FIC: Clarity

[flywoman]

Title: Clarity
Fandom: House M.D.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: House/Cuddy, House/Wilson friendship
Summary: This started out as a ficlet written in response to deelaundry’s fic challenge House gave Wilson ten days to "get back into it." What happens when the ten days are up, if Wilson doesn't? and somehow became a full-blown angst fest.
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Comments

[petitecuriosity]

Wow. Just...wow. That scene at the end between House and Wilson was just so...raw with emotion, so intense. What I particularly like about this fic, is how you've really illustrated what I feel to be Wilson's denial and repression finally surfacing. (Of course, I think that Wilson's so far in the closet that he's found Narnia) But in all honesty, I find that Wilson generally tends to be in denial and represses things. (Throughout his marriages he's denied that they were falling apart and repressed any sort of thoughts or feelings that something might be wrong

[flywoman]

But in all honesty, I find that Wilson generally tends to be in denial and represses things.
You've really captured what I like most about Wilson's character; he's multi-layered, and what appears on the surface of one layer masks the other layers beneath.
Thank you very much! Yes, Wilson is actually much more of an enigma than House, I feel. Many people can see through House's personas. I think it takes a wife - or maybe House - to see through Wilson's.

Everything became clear, sharp-edged, and terribly hard, so much so that I had to look away.
This is one of my favorite lines too; it came to me late, but really ended up defining the piece for me.

I want this sort of thing to happen on the show.
Sigh... you and me both!

Thanks so much for your comments; I'm very glad to hear that you liked this!

[srsly_yes]

Really beautifully written and incredibly sad, but in a good way. I love how nothing was explicitly expressed.

[flywoman]

Thank you very much! Wilson strikes me as the type who wouldn't explicitly express things, even (especially?) to House or to himself.

[black_cigarette]

I'll take "Doomed Marriages" for a thousand, Alex.

Wow.

Well done, and you know, I generally cannot take first-person POV, but you made it lose itself so thoroughly in the story that it just didn't stick out; it feels natural.

Poor Wilson.

I am with you on finding him very often more interesting than House; I definitely think he's more screwed up, and that he's lost without House in a way that House is not lost without Wilson. Because House's self-image, while distorted in many ways, is essentially true, but Wilson can't see himself very well at all. He can't break through his own Wall of Pretense; he relies upon House, the human sledgehammer, to do what he can't do for himself.

[flywoman]

I'll take "Doomed Marriages" for a thousand, Alex.
Heh.

Well done, and you know, I generally cannot take first-person POV, but you made it lose itself so thoroughly in the story that it just didn't stick out; it feels natural.
Interesting; I didn't know that. Choice of POV doesn't really affect my enjoyment of fiction much at all as long as the writing is good and the voices ring true. What I like about first person is using it for unreliable narration and actually saying less instead of more, as here, to gradually reveal the layers of rationalization and self-deception. Anyway, glad to hear that you thought this worked.

Because House's self-image, while distorted in many ways, is essentially true, but Wilson can't see himself very well at all. He can't break through his own Wall of Pretense; he relies upon House, the human sledgehammer, to do what he can't do for himself.
Very well put. IMO, House has this kind of hard clarity when looking at the world all the time, and Wilson is constantly trying to get him to soften it or

[dissonata]

Really great piece. I think petitecuriosity summed my thoughts about this one up for me, and I'm not sure I'm eloquent enough to say exactly what I think about this. I love how nothing is outwardly said, but yet is still very clear -- that reminds me of the show. Wilson is my favourite character on the show for reasons shown in this fic: he's complicated, layered, and enigmatic, and he's barely in touch with himself and his feelings. I feel that there's still a lot to be discovered about Wilson and that what's going on in the show may, perhaps, lead to something like this... I can only hope, of course, but it would be a huge step forward for Wilson's character. I'm not sure he can be in the dark forever. I get the feeling a lot has been undiscovered and unresolved with him and that keeps me intrigued, perhaps much like how it keeps House intrigued. He's one of the most layered characters I have seen in anything

[flywoman]

I love how nothing is outwardly said, but yet is still very clear -- that reminds me of the show.
This is exactly what I was going for.

Wilson is my favourite character on the show for reasons shown in this fic: he's complicated, layered, and enigmatic, and he's barely in touch with himself and his feelings.
I feel like every time I write Wilson, I understand more about his character, and realize how much more there is that I don't (and he doesn't) understand.

I can only hope, of course, but it would be a huge step forward for Wilson's character. I'm not sure he can be in the dark forever.
This would make me so, so happy. It would more than reconcile me for the Huddy-heavy first half of this season.

In any case, I think this fic really takes Wilson's character and does it great justice, particularly with his issue of repression and denial, and in coming to realizations about his feelings. The title really sums it up, of course.Happy that you think so. And settling on a title was the most difficult part of posting this; glad to

[flywoman]

Thank you very much!

I used to think House needed Wilson more than Wilson needed him but recent events on the show have changed my view about that.
I think that this is one of the important truths revealed by this season (and one of the few things that I appreciate about it).