RIP WIP Challenge
What's a summer camp without ghosts? This is the RIP WIP ("Rest in peace, works in progress") challenge: Take those fragments of sick!Wilson creations that have been haunting you with their unfinishedness and post them in comments here. Bury them, mourn them, and let them go.
When Wilson hadn’t arrived at lunchtime, House was getting worried. It really wasn’t like him to be that late. He took his bike and rode to Wilson’s flat, letting himself in with the spare key he secretly had gotten a few months earlier. Nothing against breaking in with a credit card, but he was tired of explaining to his bank how he again had broken another card and needed a replacement.
Inside the flat everything was silent. Or was it? House wasn’t sure, but he thought he might have heard something from the bedroom. „Wilson?“ He called out. „If that’s you, and you’ve finally got the guts to bring a hooker home you better let me know now, otherwise I’m coming in in a second.“ No reply.
Bracing himself for a possibly unpleasant sight of Wilson and a ‚lady’ he opened the bedroom door. And stood in shock. On the bed sat an old man. And when he thought ‚old’ he really meant ‚old’: deep wrinkles, white hair, long white beard… but what was shocking was that this was unmistakably Wilson. His Wilson!
„Holy smokes! What happened to you?“
„Don’t know“, ancient Wilson croaked. Even his voice sounded old.
„What do you mean, you don’t know? You can’t just turn into Santa Clause’s granddad over night and not have an idea how it happened.“
„… I’m not sure…“
„Spill it.“
„Well, there was this rumor about a fountain. And - you know I told you about being on a cruise?“ House nodded. „Really I was on a pirate ship, and we found it - the fountain of youth, I mean - and I tasted from the water, and then… well… THIS happened!“ Wilson sounded like he might cry every second now, while House looked positively speechless. What the heck?!?
„You - Doctor James Wilson from Princeton - went to look for the fountain of youth?“
Wilson nodded miserably.
„And appareantly you found something, cause I really wouldn’t know how to explain this otherwise…“
Another nod.
„But - how the hell can you age over night when it’s supposed, going by it’s name at least - to make you younger?“
„Dunno…“
„Ok, how did you come across this pirates?“
After Wilson spilled the beans on everything, House came up with a plan. They would try and find the ship and ask Captain Jack about a way to fix this. Obviously Wilson wouldn’t be much help, cause really, just walking to his couch took up most of his strength.
Two weeks later, House finally came across someone who looked as if he could work on a pirate ship, peg leg and everything. He wasn’t really looking for recruits right now, but some very convincing arguments (amongst them some bribery and the promise to make sure the man would need a hook, too, if he didn’t help him) got House on board.
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Still maybe save it for someday when you want to go with it? I bet there are a lot of fans out there who like both PoC and House. :)
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