The Sea of Raging Emotions Ebbs [Closed]

[technokinetic]

WHO: Naoe Nagi (technokinetic) and Dr. House (causticguy)
WHAT: probably a lot of discussion between the Doctor and an irritated Prodigy
WHERE: Crimson Dragon -> Schwarz HQ -> House's place
WHEN: wee morning hours of Day 40 (backlogged by 27 days)

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[causticguy]

All right, so Crawford and Nagi had this mentor-student kind of thing going on. House had seen it at work on a few occasions by now. There was a touch of paternalism about it too, and the fact of the matter was that it was just a bit incomprehensible to him, not in that he couldn't figure out how they worked but just that House-who had always chafed under the command of anyone "fatherly" (his father not least of all)-simply could not really relate to why they worked.

But though Crawford might have been strict at times, House didn't think he was oppressive. And he certainly wasn't the type to be stifling: he was in control without being controlling; it was why House was able to work with him.

The crux of the matter, though, didn't sound to be Crawford and what he did or did not give Nagi permission to do. The issue was that Nagi had set out to do something of his own devising and had found that it hadn't worked out as planned. It meant that his "failure" was actually his own. And the fact of killing or not killing aside, that, House figured, was a pretty universal experience of growing up: learning that things didn't always work according to plan and that sometimes you just had to fail at something before you managed to succeed at it.

Nagi might have been a lot less independent than House was himself, but the basic premise of learning to deal with failure, with being wrong, screwing up, or having things not go according to plan-that was something House had long since learned to adapt to. It was just a part of life being random and unpredictable and unfair. "Why not?" he asked evenly. "What stopped you?"