RIP WIP Challenge

[deelaundry]

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.

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[antiquixotic]

I started on this bit for the Wilson Hit by Car challenge thread on the h-w-chainfic livejournal site. Someone else continued the story before I could finish this bit, though, so I kept it with the intent to cannabilize some of the imagery later.

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Wilson's sigh is expressive, exasperation and amusement pureed in a blender, and he gives the ceiling a long stare, as if asking for patience. “Stubbornness is something we both share.”

The slight grin that tugs at House's mouth is a surprise, and it takes his thumb drifting absently across the tape binding the other's fingers to quell the urge to fall into a familiar pattern of banter. Scowling lightly, he pulls his hand away. A sense of loss squirms like a beetle in his chest for a moment, and then dies.

“Then tell me why. Twenty years has led to you being held together with duct tape and spit, and you're still lining up for more. So what gives?” House tugs experimentally at the cuff binding his wrist, unsure whether to be flattered or insulted that they'd used the good bindings, and not the crap ones with velcro. “My vote's for masochism with a side of Jewish guilt.”

“Oh, for the love of- Haven't we had this conversation before?” His voice cracks with sudden pain, and he grimaces, reluctantly fumbling for the morphine button. He hits it once, and House tries not to register the rapid, shallow breaths that take too long to calm. “Not everything can be categorized, you know. There's no weights or measures for human feeling.”

“Everything can be explained, Wilson,” comes the solemn rejoinder. “People who say otherwise aren't trying hard enough.”

There was a

[rslhilson]

Your writing is wonderful - the dialogue is very IC but your descriptions are especially creative and vivid. Wish there'd been more before you stopped!

[menolly_au]

I like how you end in mid sentence - I do that in my fragment too:) I'm sorry you didn't get to use it in the chain_fic (: You know even if someone has done a continuation you can always post yours as well - one of the chains we have now had a split a fair way into the story and both threads have gone off in radically different directions...