Houseficlet: Let the stories be told (they can say what they want)

[nightdog_barks]

Title: Let the stories be told (they can say what they want)
Authors: nightdog_barks and blackmare
Characters: House, various original characters
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No
Spoilers: Yes, for episode 7.23, "Moving On"
Summary: He’s going to be in some bar, you know, that’s the darkest hole in Princeton. And, nope, he’s in Fiji or

Comments

[sassyjumper]

Wonderful, as always. You convey so much in just a few scenes. Love how House goes underwater to escape the world, and his own mind. And how he's thinking of Wilson and Cuddy in unsentimental but still heartbreaking ways. And I do think he might've contemplated ending it while he was in 'paradise.'

[nightdog_barks]

*beams*

Thank you! The weird thing is, I had seriously forgotten about this, and then when I started doing the meme about "the DVD of an excerpt from a story," I ran across while I was looking for an old story! And I said "hey, look at this!" and Blackmare said "hey, here's where I think it goes!" and BOOM, it was done. :D

The other weird thing, though, was that it stirred up so many memories of that episode, and I've come to think that it couldn't be finished when I started it because we needed some distance. That was a really, really ... explosive episode in fandom. And it seriously would not surprise me at all if House had thought about pulling the trigger or swimming out and not coming back.

And! I have to catch up on your Amish Honeymoon cycle! I am really enjoying it. *g*

[knitty_woman]

Ditto everything sassyjumpersaid. Wonderful and heartbreaking.

[nightdog_barks]

Thank you so much, Knitty! I really enjoyed experimenting a little here with House's stream-of-consciousness, as it were, and I'm so happy to know it worked (well, to some degree, anyway). :D

[blackmare]

HI VERB

<3 <3 <3

That stuff you mention is all Nightdog's. That thing about the dreams, yeah. Got me. I've never been sure House really went anywhere other than Out Of His Mind after that crash, but if he really was on some tropical beach, I like to think this is more or less how it went.

[barefootpuddles]

Such a difficult time period. Personally, I disliked everything from Moving On, onward (I didn't like the cancer arc either which I know a lot of H/W fans do). But you put a good spin on it and it does make the the whole thing a tiny bit better for me. The sense of nothingness in paradise is spot on. The little girl and the two postcards really convey a lot - especially the two cards just sitting there side by side, waiting. And the imagery is very vivid. In your short story I felt like I could see all those missing months. If you ever feel the desire, I would love to read your take on Wilson's time.

[nightdog_barks]

Oddly enough, I did start a story about Wilson's time alone, but like this fic, it only went so far and then stopped. I was thinking that I should give it another look, that perhaps since this story got finished, maybe it would too. The title was going to be Blues for Mister Jimmy, and this is a tiny snippet of it:

He's found it works best if he thinks of House as dead. Not gone away, not in prison, just ... dead. Killed in the crash, he tells himself. Support beam fell on him. House never emerged from the car, never spoke to him, never sauntered off down the street. Never could have killed him. Never left him, the son of a bitch.

And yeah, I never watched the "Twenty Vicodin" episode that opened the last season, and I don't think I was really prepared, in a way, to be the same kind of fan I'd been of the show until the cancer arc started. I had a real love/hate relationship with the cancer arc -- the medicine was so abysmally bad, but the performances by HL and RSL were so amazing. :D

Thank you so much for reading! ♥

[barefootpuddles]

He's found it works best if he thinks of House as dead. Not gone away, not in prison, just ... dead. Killed in the crash, he tells himself. Support beam fell on him. House never emerged from the car, never spoke to him, never sauntered off down the street. Never could have killed him. Never left him, the son of a bitch.

You're killing me here. This is great stuff. There isn't that much from Wilson's POV in general and to get an insight to what he was thinking is wonderful. I agree with you that it might have been easier all around from Wilson's POV to just imagine him dead. No one wants to abandoned. I hope you write this someday.

I don't think I was really prepared, in a way, to be the same kind of fan I'd been of the show until the cancer arc startedI felt like a trick was played on the viewer in the sense that what we thought was the core of House himself, wasn't at all. I argued back and forth with a few fans the idea of whether or not anyone can just loose it one day, and maybe people can, but the walking away was too much on

[yarroway]

I never really felt the same way about House after MO. I had hoped that Twenty Vicodin would redeem the character for me, but I liked him less after it than before.

[yarroway]

There are only a few fics that deal with the time between S7 and S8--not immediately after MO, but the year+ after it.. I've always wished there were more. This is a great addition. Lake barefootpuddles, I liked the emptiness of the vacation.

[nightdog_barks]

Heh, see my reply to Barefoot above about my attempted fic for Wilson's year alone. *g*

I couldn't help but think that House would have had a good time for a few weeks or a few months, but Blackmare and I pretty much agreed that he would've gotten bored after that. Finding a friend like Wilson is a lightning strike -- would it have happened again halfway around the world?

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