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047. Death

Jun 21, 2006 12:58

Title: Postcards From Italy
Characters/Pairing: Wilson/Grace
Prompt: 047. Death
Word Count: 1,016
Rating: PG
Spoilers: House vs. God, Euphoria, and No Reason.
Author's Notes: This is for bironic, who wants more Wilson/Grace fic. The title comes from Beirut's song, "Postcards From Italy." I have way too much fun writing Wilson. :)

( 047. Death )

grace, housefic50, death, wilson, wilson/grace

Comments 40

topaz_eyes June 21 2006, 19:16:31 UTC

Oh my... so delicate a story, so heartwrenching. Like Wilson, this story makes me hope Grace found her miracle.

Part of him wants go take the first plane to Florence and hold her.

should be wants to go take or maybe wants to take?I love this image, to me it describes Wilson's need perfectly.

synecdoche June 21 2006, 20:01:56 UTC

Thanks -- and thanks for pointing out my typo. :) It's fixed now.

It makes me happy that you were cheering for Grace; I was, as well.

wildcatlizzie June 21 2006, 19:23:18 UTC

Oh that was wonderful. It was beautifully written. Nice job! :)

synecdoche June 21 2006, 20:03:31 UTC

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

wildcatlizzie June 21 2006, 20:04:39 UTC

If you ever want me to beta something, just send it my way! :) (Just throwing that back out there.)

synecdoche June 22 2006, 14:47:43 UTC

You'll be seeing something in your inbox very soon, I promise. :)

Thread 6

ladybugkoozl June 21 2006, 19:42:09 UTC

Since I commented almost exactly what someone else wrote, I am going to change my comment! LOL! Damn, this was sad, but so beautiful. The imagery was great and I liked how you weaved the receipt of postcards in and out of canon.

synecdoche June 21 2006, 20:05:07 UTC

Haha, thanks for all the effort you put into the comment! :)
I wrote another Wilson/Grace fic, and originally I wanted to write a kind of epilogue to it using postcards. It became this fic, which is actually a little longer than the original. :)

bironic June 21 2006, 19:49:57 UTC

Mmph, those last lines. Right here.

What a mournful coda to "House vs. God." Having them correspond was a great way to explore what we saw so little of in the episode. All those short sentences worked well in building the emotionally-suppressed, matter-of-fact tone, as did the postcards interspersed, and her degrading handwriting, and the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated events ("House recovers and he's just as he always was.") leaving us to make the connections. How they're mourning themselves and Grace before she has even died. How he waited for her to die before looking for another woman.

I wonder how much of an effect Grace really had on Wilson. I don't doubt that he cared for her, but he only lived with her for a week and didn't seem too broken up about it when he moved out and she flew off. So at first in the fic I thought she was too much of a presence in his life. But then in the middle you had that bit about 'some days he doesn't think of her at all,' and then there's that beautiful ending....

Friends now.

synecdoche June 21 2006, 20:09:18 UTC

Thanks for reading and for the amazingly thoughtful response. :)

I can totally see where you think that Grace seems to have had too much of an effect on Wilson, but at the same time, there's that one exchange between Wilson and House in "Fidelity," where House accuses him of "loving them all, even the ones who weren't your wives," or something. On the other hand, Wilson did go on the date with Cuddy a few episodes later, so who knows?
Now I might have to write yet another Wilson/Grace fic in order to answer these questions for myself...

Actually, I was just going to friend you, so you've beaten me to it. Sweet. :)

bironic June 21 2006, 23:29:35 UTC

Oh, sure, I think he loved her. "You loved all your wives," I think was House's comment. But he might love more than one woman at once, or fall out of love quickly, or love them without... being overly affected by them? If that's possible?

bironic June 21 2006, 23:30:43 UTC

Wait, let me rephrase that: I'm sure it's possible that he loved her.

Thread 6

purridot June 22 2006, 00:39:16 UTC

I really liked how Wilson's feelings swirl around; he really does care how she feels, he wishes he could help her, he knows that he doesn't really *love* her, he knows he shouldn't be doing this... this story could be a microcosm of all his relationships. I think you bring out a side of his character that I have never seen written about before. Thank you for that ;-)

Also, Grace seemed done just right, too; independent and knowing she doesn't really love him either, but needing him nonetheless.

Does your LJ account support graphics? An interesting twist for this story would be to "illustrate" it with the actual postcards, a la "Griffin and Sabine".

synecdoche June 22 2006, 02:59:26 UTC

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. :) I'm glad that the changing feelings worked; I was worried that some of the transitions were too abrupt.

As you can probably tell, I love writing Wilson/Grace. Their characters go together nicely somehow.

I have a paid account, so I can upload graphics. :) Unfortunately, I am a failure at Photoshop. But perhaps I'll stumble on some interesting postcards?