024. Colleagues

[synecdoche]

Title: To Arrive
Characters/Pairing: House, Wilson
Prompt: 024. Colleagues
Word Count: 465
Rating: G, unless you are offended by Kirby's Dreamland.
Spoilers: None.
Author's Notes: tranquil_eyes requested House and Wilson and friendship. This takes place before House meets Stacy, before Wilson meets Julie, and before Wilson is head of Oncology. I have never

Comments

[zanra]

This is really good! It's really good because 1. it's so simple and 2. it's so simple and it makes sense. The hardest of all fanfic adventures for me in the House world is writing how they met, and every time I get frustrated and violent and give up because I can never seem to hit the nail on the head.

But you did it. Congrats! :D

PS I am adding you. I am a rash person sometimes.

[synecdoche]

Thanks! The hard part of writing people meeting, I think, is that most of the time, even meeting the most important people in your life is simple and pretty mundane. (Therefore, I try to write things like that when I'm sleepy so that I don't over-analyze.)

Thanks for friending me! I friended you back -- but you may want to actually join azurefic so that you can request next time, if you'd like. :)

[tranquil_eyes]

Yay! Thank you! I really like the dialogue - it's very them. House, knowing and smug and Wilson, surpised but not backing down. Thanks again!

[synecdoche]

I'm thrilled that you liked it! :) The dialogue part was the hardest, and so was figuring out what to write after the first line. (Gotta love brimstone and hell-fire, but they're pretty hard to follow up.)

Thanks for requesting this! It was a good challenge and lots of fun to write. :D

[dedletrbox]

I don't think you botched him at all! The resolution was pretty quick (House immediately tolerates Wilson upon first meeting him?), but the details seem very believable (the staring contests, janitor, the cutting in line, the neighbors complaining about the noise). And the last 2 lines are the perfect. Oh, but one question: at the end of para. 5 whose the subject of 'it's not as thoug he cares...'?

[synecdoche]

Thanks!

To explain the quick resolution: House and Wilson have such a strange friendship that it seems like one formed very quickly, without them really knowing how it happened. Also, they seem like they'd ask the most important questions (aka: the deep-dark secrets) right away, and then want to hang around each other, if only to find the answers.
On the other hand, it does seem like a fast resolution and will probably be expanded later this summer. :)

The "it's not as though he cares..." line refers to Wilson.

Thanks for the review and questions!

[ladybugkoozl]

The simplicity of this is excellent. You didn't try to make it more complicated than it needed to be. It's really nice. :-)

[synecdoche]

Thanks! I worried that this was too simple; I'm glad to see that it worked. :)

[stephantom]

I think your House was great! I love that he keeps playing his gameboy during the conversation. This was a very good and plausible depiction of these two meeting. Good work.

[synecdoche]

Thanks. :)
I'm not going to lie, I was really excited about getting to put in a brand-new gameboy.