New Fic: He Tries To Speak (And Can't Begin To Say)

[joe_pike_junior]

Title: He Tries To Speak (And Can't Begin To Say)
Author: joe_pike_junior
Characters/pairings: House/Wilson friendship, House/Cuddy, mentions of House/Stacy. Members of the old and new teams make an appearance.
Warnings: Major character death, strong language and themes.

Summary: He tries to tell himself that this doesn't feel like atonement. House remembers

Comments

[damelola]

Oh my God, this was exquisite, absolutely gorgeous. I don't normally read character-death fics if I'm honest, but I thought I'd give it a try and I'm so very glad that I did!

[joe_pike_junior]

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it, and I'm glad you gave it a try. :)

[heledren]

This was just utterly heartbreaking. Please consider posting it to the sick_wilson comm?

[joe_pike_junior]

I did, on your recommendation. Thanks for commenting.

[flippet]

Painfully lovely.

The part where Wilson can't use his dominant hand was shamelessly stolen from an episode of The West Wing where Bartlet suffers from a similar thing.

Yeah, I caught that. :-)

[joe_pike_junior]

Yeah, I caught that. :-) Ya, well... :)

Thanks a lot.

[topaz_eyes]

I love Wilson's insistence, and how you portray House's grief, so weary, so painful.

[joe_pike_junior]

Thank you. I wanted to have a feeling of House as someone who was just tired, tired of being asked and tired of thinking it over and tired of not really telling anyone.

[pwcorgigirl]

This is simply brilliant, so painful and vivid and absolutely true. Every time there are new lines that just get to me, and this one -- later on at work he needles Thirteen harshly because he's an asshole and Wilson is dying and he doesn't want to feel like he's going soft, like he's losing a part of himself with his friend -- really did because that's exactly how House would be, in trying to do the hardest thing he's ever had to take on.

Small thing: You need to close the italics tag after Cuddy tells him to sit down in the next to last paragraph.

[joe_pike_junior]

ARGH WHAT A THING TO MISS.I closed it, but I used one too many of these >. Oops.

Thank you, and thanks for reading the earlier version, as well. :) I decided I was missing something in making House too "soft" -- he'd recognise that and try to bounce back in the other direction, and what better target than Thirteen?