New fic: Jump In The Stream

[joe_pike_junior]

Title: Jump In The Stream
Author: joe_pike_junior
Pairing: House/Foreman
Warnings: A couple of swear words.

Summary: Foreman didn't ask for this.

Disclaimer: House belongs to Fox. I make no money.

Thank you to topaz_eyes, nightdog_barks and daasgrrl for reading, and thank you to pwcorgigirl, queenzulu nomad1328 for beta-ing and talking.For what seems like a very long time, Foreman doesn’t speak. He doesn’t ask House

Comments

[topaz_eyes]

I love the changes you've made. I think only Foreman could have the distance to see what's going on.

[joe_pike_junior]

Thanks a lot. I really like the cool, calm, collected thing Foreman's got going on.

[namasteyoga]

Great imagining of an alternative version of events, and the thought of House cast adrift and clinging to whatever -- or whoever -- will put up with him is intriguing. Foreman is great in this too, seeing what's happening, but yet becoming engantled with House despite himself.

[joe_pike_junior]

Thank you. I've not written Foreman before, and when I thought of him "replacing" Wilson in a way, but still remaining very Foreman, I knew what I wanted to write about.

[joe_pike_junior]

:D Thanks for all your help.

I realised that House wouldn't be all "poor, poor me" -- it needed some sarcasm.

[shara_i]

Wow! There is sooo much going on in this fic; but you connected all the different events together so well--Wilson's death, the bus crash, House's father's funeral, even House's not!dad. The Superman/Spiderman conversation pretty much broke my heart, as did Foreman's belief that he was being measured against Wilson and found wanting. Awesome job!

[joe_pike_junior]

The bit with House's not!dad, as you say, is one of my favourite parts.

Thank you.

[deelaundry]

This is wonderful. Such a realistic progression of Foreman getting drawn in.

I had anticipated something a little different because of the "Pairing: House/Foreman" label, which generally implies slash, but got over that dissonance by the end. The second reading was even better.

[joe_pike_junior]

Thank you.

I was going to call it "House/Foreman friendship", but I thought that sounded like a cop-out, so I just went with the House/Foreman. Shrug.