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oldblue

House Big Bang Challenge: Half Life

Mar 30, 2008 19:08

Title: Half Life
Pairing: House/Wilson; House/OFC
Rating: R
Length: 29,591
Spoilers: takes place after season 3, AU to season 4
Author's Notes: Many thanks to my wonderful betas,
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oldblue March 30 2008, 02:06:38 UTC

Thank you! You were a great help.

And I'm looking forward to reading yours, too :)

delphinapterus March 30 2008, 06:42:59 UTC

I just... words fail. This was beautiful and achy all at once. The end had me sniffling. I want to be more coherent about this but I just... wow. I'll have to reread it.

oldblue March 30 2008, 13:16:01 UTC

Thank you!

Sorry about the 'surprise' sad ending - I thought warning for it would ruin everything. Glad you liked it :)

Now, I'm off to read yours. Again.

delphinapterus March 30 2008, 15:41:34 UTC

I'm really happy that you didn't warm about the ending because that left it packing so much more emotional punch.

joe_pike_junior March 30 2008, 08:53:30 UTC

I snuck in a read of this before the archive went live. Great job. I like the way you made the story seem so trapped, almost -- House in the camp, Wilson unable to do anything about it -- but kept so many plotlines going at the same time. In the end, House didn't solve the puzzle of the disease and that didn't matter.

Cheers, and so very well done.
Armchair Elvis.

oldblue March 30 2008, 13:17:30 UTC

Cheater ;)

Glad you enjoyed it. Writing this was certainly challenging and I'm happy things seemed to come together.

Cheers!

brandy71 March 30 2008, 11:23:16 UTC

OMG. Speechless.
But I'd better say something.

The first half was so tense and frustrating, all those feelings of anger and despair were so brilliantly written that my stomach was clenching in sympathy.
House's escape gave me brief hope that he would be able to come up with a cure, but his acceptance of the inevitable seemed right somehow. I loved the interlude of happiness when they were tucked away in the cabin.

You did a remarkable job keeping our heroes in character and that's what made this so believable.

As for the ending - my daughter asked me why I was crying at my computer...

oldblue March 30 2008, 13:19:21 UTC

Sorry to make you cry :(

I thought about trying to work in some kind of happy ending, but it didn't seem right somehow. And actually I think the ending is kind of happy. A bit. If you squint... maybe.

Thanks for the nice comments!

hwshipper March 30 2008, 16:32:57 UTC

Oh God that was BEAUTIFUL. I'm not usually a fan of werewolf type AU fics, but this was just wonderful. Really well written, really well plotted out. So sad. I think the ending was as happy for House as it could have been... but I feel for Wilson, left behind.

And I remember when you posted that you'd lost the whole thing and had to start over... amazing that you managed to write this in those circumstances, and so well! *is awed*

oldblue March 31 2008, 21:51:56 UTC

Thank you!

I figured I'd scare off a fair number of readers with the premise. And I went ahead and wrote it anyway ;) Glad you liked the ending.

Yeah, that whole delete thing really sucked. I lost the majority of my artwork at the same time, which was ultimately a bigger deal than deleting the story. I think the story is actually better now than it was going to be. So, that's good, right?