Evening Hour (nineteenth in the HOUR series)

[kidsnurse]

Title: Evening Hour
Characters: House, Wilson
Rating: PG
Genre: Angst
Word Count: 1100 
Summary: Wilson thinks he's doing fine; House knows better.

The previous vignettes, in order, are: Visiting Hour,  Happy Hour,  Midnight Hour,  Fifty-Minute Hour,  Random Hour,  Painful Hour,  Dark Hour ,  Desperate Hour,  Witching Hour ,  Lonely Hour,  Dinner

Comments

[blackmare]

Whoa. I'm not entirely sure what you did to this since the last time I saw it, but it's better than it was, and I loved it before. And now ...

In case I never told you this the first time around, I really enjoy the way House is pushing at Wilson here, the way he knows exactly how to bring Wilson's real emotions to the surface when he chooses to do so. He does to Wilson all the same hovering kinds of things that would aggravate House, and of course it works, because they really are so much alike.

That sandwich is a thing of beauty.

Wilson's voice sounds exceptionally accurate here. I mean they both do, but it's particularly noticeable for Wilson because he's doing most of the talking. The rushing run-on sentences you used for his thought process, at the end, are really effective at conveying the dizzying surge of emotions that has just come out.

And somehow, for me, seeing Wilson choose to relax and trust House, is perhaps even more touching than seeing it the other way 'round. It's just something Wilson never normally does, and I wish he'd do it more often.

[kidsnurse]

And somehow, for me, seeing Wilson choose to relax and trust House, is perhaps even more touching than seeing it the other way 'round.

i absolutely agree with this. there's something especially poignant about watching the collapse of someone who prides themselves on self-sufficiency and their ability to care for others.