Ficlet: Jones

[blackmare]

Title: Jones
Characters: Cameron
Spoilers/Warnings: None
Summary: Habits can be broken, but memories are tougher. 350 words.

Comments

[menolly_au]

Oh, nice to see what Cameron is up to, and that House has had a lasting influence on her - not all bad.

She was used to all the displeasure being thrown at House, like ping-pong balls at the side of a cliff. For all the dangerously insane shit he'd asked his team to do, he'd also drawn the enemy fire to himself.

Very nice observation and realisation of Cameron's part, House always took respoonsibility for everything they did which would be a lot easier than having to take it on yourself.

Very true about Cameron's addiction to House and/or diagnostics, she never could keep away even when she wasn't working for him.

You write such great character pieces, love them :)

[blackmare]

Thanks! This kind of popped into my head out of nowhere this morning. I think House leaves a mark on everyone who works with him for any length of time, and that this isn't always a bad thing.

And that Cameron is always going to care about him, and miss him. He seems to have that effect.

[perspi]

Aw, Mare, this is a fabulous look at how Cameron's time with House changed her, and how she's doing now. *loves*

[blackmare]

Sometimes I wish we could learn something about her life, and perhaps (eventually) Cuddy's, now that they've left House behind. I do want them to be okay, but I think they will never be the same, and I'd kind of like to see how.

[leakey_lover]

Dollink. You have made me care about Cameron. Beautifully wrought.

Thank you.

[blackmare]

LOL

You know, I never adored her, but I got a lot more sympathetic toward her in general, as time went on. I think she was an idiot to leave Chase, and to declare herself irrevocably "broken" without ever seeking help for her troubles. But people do stupid things, and perhaps she was right. Chase clearly wasn't ever going to leave House behind, and Cameron might have needed to.

I just think about her sometimes and wonder whether she's happy where she is, or whether (and how deeply) she misses what she left behind.

[leakey_lover]

I felt she was a fool to leave also.TPTB wrote that that sanctimonious shit won out, and I hated it. I also hated her for saying goodbye to House. She should have just left, but she never had that kind of grace.

I really liked how you considered House like [H]eroin or addiction in general. And she's ultimately and forever intimately bound. She can run away and make a new life but he got under her skin and there's no getting [h]im out.

Now, and I can hardly believe I'm saying this, I want an epi devoted to the women who have tried to leave House.

Maybe you'll write the rest. I love your deft hand.

[taiga13]

What menolly said. I have come to appreciate that out of everyone, only Cameron voluntarily walked away from him.

[blackmare]

Well, I guess we can add Cuddy to that list, now, but I know what you mean. I'm not sure I agree at all with what Cameron did, since she also destroyed her marriage, but we'll never know if she could have saved things with Chase and still escaped House.

[taiga13]

I didn't include Cuddy because she was driven away.

[pwcorgigirl]

This is marvelous, Mare. I love the line about giving her right arm for a cane-wielding manic because it encompasses the good and the bad of House so succinctly.

[blackmare]

The thought of House-as-shelter is an odd one, isn't it? Because there are so many booby traps and hidden passageways and for damn sure the roof leaks -- but still. :-)