Differential Diagnosis People: Decameron

[namasteyoga]

Making our way through our nominated fics, this one brings us an angle on the sense of an unreliable narrator. It's ten parts in all.

We've got five more fics left in this current grouping of nominations, which will take us through to the start of Season Six. For the schedule, check here.

Title: Decameron (Link is to first chapter, with

Comments

[purridot]

I was surprised by the use of the "second person narrator" in this story; I thought it would be hard to get used to, but in fact I like the way it pulls in the reader personally. I felt I was there myself, a voyeur just as much as Cameron, who uses the invisibility stone for her "well-meaning" spying on House and Wilson. I suppose all fanfic is a form of spying on the characters when they are not onscreen!

I love a good mystery, and there are several to be solved in this story. Who is the narrator? Who gave Cameron the stone and why? What are the stone's true powers? The way the narrator switches throughout the story keeps the readers on their toes and engaged in the story. Audience participation!

I must confess that I always enjoy an “unreliable narrator”. Cameron's earnest self-delusion as she continues to believe she can make House happy through espionage and sabotage and her hatred of Wilson was amusing but also moving. When Cameron sadly muses “Maybe they don't even kiss that often,” it's hard not to be at least a little