House Ficlet: Fool's Paradise

[blackmare]

Title: Fool's Paradise
Characters: Jessica Adams, Foreman, Wilson; gen
Spoilers: Not really, just speculation
Warnings: none
Length: ~1,030 words
Summary: She's just been handed the glass slipper, but she's waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Comments

[bmax67]

Really enjoyed this POV.

I remember comparing working/being with House to being in the mafia.

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."

Once you're sucked into House's vortex, there's no escape. :)

Wish I could get sucked in. LOL

[blackmare]

Many thanks. I felt like I was venturing out on a bit of a limb by writing Adams, since I doubted whether many people would even read something from her POV.

There's a somewhat archaic term for a person like House: "firebrand." While it generally means a hot and obdurate temperament, I think it would be appropriate for him in particular. Because anyone he takes into his world, he marks -- permanently, and with some scarring involved -- as his own.

[barefootpuddles]

A lot of humor buried in this otherwise cautionary tale. ;) Loved the hotel California 'reference', I think that very much applies to House himself. People may go away from him, but they can't really leave him behind. How is it that a man so anti-social engenders such strong connections?

I also chuckled at this line - "He's probably not." Foreman says. Tact is evidently not his strong suit. "He is into Wilson, though."

I just hope they don't make Dr. Adams too naive. I am getting tired of the naive, pretty girl routine.

[blackmare]

Adams looks disturbingly like Thirteen in the promo pics for tonight's episode, doesn't she? And I thought Thirteen looked disturbingly like Cameron. It makes me a bit squirmy how easy it is to tell what David Shore's favored type is -- super thin, long dark hair, model-pretty. I'm with you in hoping that her personality, at least, will be different. It seemed to be, in the jail. I liked that the focus was, "You are so bored," rather than, "You are so naive."

I'm also hoping we'll see more of Foreman's weird sense of humor, which I always enjoy when it does show up. It makes the character more accessible to me.

[waylandsmithy]

I really liked this glimpse of PPTH and some of its inmates through the curious but as yet largely innocent eyes of Adams. She knows House only as a prisoner, without all the status that he once had and this makes a refreshing view.
Poor Wilson; he seems defeated.