"After Hours" post-ep fic.

[lit_luminary]

Title: Bearing Strain
Author: lit_luminary
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Wilson; House/Wilson friendship.
Summary: Cuddy calls Wilson at five in the morning: the conversation we didn't hear.

Comments

[bmax67]

Great fill-in for the scenes I wish we could see but never get the chance.

[lit_luminary]

Thank you! I wish the writers would get over this habit of having Wilson vanish/be conveniently indisposed when House is in crisis, but as it is, well, fic writers will have plenty to play with while waiting for the finale.

[cuddyclothes]

Wonderful fic! Thank you so much!

[lit_luminary]

Thank you for commenting! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[nightdog_barks]

Ah, I really liked this. Lovely touches throughout, and a great last line.

♥

[lit_luminary]

Thank you. I'm detail-oriented by nature, so it's always nice to have readers appreciate the little things.

As for the last line, I thought that that would have to be what makes things different: that Wilson resolves to listen instead of gearing up to lecture; to communicate instead of cornering House with accusations.

[smiddlecn]

I like this. It's a shame we didn't get a scene like this last night. Oh, and I think it's a nice, Wilson-ish touch that you had him remember to feed the cat before he left. It's the sort of thing Wilson would do on auto-pilot while thinking 101 other things.

[lit_luminary]

Thank you! I also felt the lack of something like this, which is why I had to write it.

Remembering to feed the cat went in relatively late in the writing process: it was rather my remembering that Wilson, knowing House was stable, would remember to feed Sarah on the way out.

[topaz_eyes]

So wonderful--I could hear Cuddy's weariness and Wilson's fear and anger were palpable.

[lit_luminary]

Thank you! I write by hearing their voices, so it's always nice when a reader picks up the same sound (so to speak).