Title: While You Were Out Author: lit_luminary Rating: PG-13 Characters/Pairings: House/Wilson (friendship). Summary: House believes he’s at fault for Chase’s injury. Wilson begs to differ. ( Read more... )
You know, not-watching the episodes and relying on your post-eps for a quality take on canon is working out pretty well for me. I love the patience your Wilson always has - he's not a saint, but he knows how to deal with House. I love how House has to have pain personalized for him to care about it. And I love the callbacks to Stacy.
If that's been your approach, I'm glad it's working. Canon has been better this year than last, but this is the first arc I've really found engaging. The other episodes were neither appealing nor appalling enough to write about.
I heard Wilson very clearly as I wrote this: patient enough, but not indulging House's self-blame, either. (He should have a very acute sense of how to deal with him, after all these years.) I loved the portrayal of House's brand of caring last night, and loved that Chase recognized it for what it was.
The look on House's face as he watched Chase in physio made it an imperative to bring Stacy into this: the parallel is too clear to do anything else. Of course, it doesn't extend so far that Chase is going to hate House for this injury (or not when I write him, anyway; I don't expect much from the PTB, since they seem to want to go in the 'Chase blames House' direction).
(It's been too long since we last chatted; I'll have to IM with you sometime soon.)
but if you’re going to see him, don’t just stand in the hall.”
“He’s going to hate me.”
“Give him a chance not to,” Wilson says, “and see what happens.”
Love this part of their exchange. If there's anything House needs to do in his life it's to stop standing in the hall. I hope Wilson is this supportive, and that Chase doesn't really blame House.
Agreed. Chase knows House well enough to take his standing in the hall as a kind of support, but in this case, that won't go far enough. Last night showed how much he cares, and I want that to manifest in some active role in Chase's recovery. I don't think that's beyond House to do--not now, when he can't help but empathize.
Next week's preview seems to be taking the "Chase blames House" route, which makes me furious: it's not consistent with Chase's character or the relationship between them, so I'm not going to write from that faulty premise. (I'm also going to write L5 injury as L5 injury: what's happened doesn't mean anything if Chase is fit to run a marathon in a month.)
Next week's preview seems to be taking the "Chase blames House" route, which makes me furious
Me too - I can't for the life of me see how this was House's fault at all. Now if Chase decides he doesn't want to work in that sort of work environment any more I would be quite okay with that, but I can't see him 'blaming' House unless it's a trauma induced reaction. I'm going with the theory that he knows he's screwed up but he's looking to pass some of that blame rather than accepting it Unfortunately the shows produceers/writers have said from what I've read that it's Houses's fault and Chase does blame House. sigh...
Unfortunately the shows produceers/writers have said I think TPTB have done so much OoC in the last seasons that as a fanfic writer I feel no need to respect canon. You earn respect by showing it, and they seem bent on destroying every single charcacter in this show. Chase had so far escaped.
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Very well done.
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I heard Wilson very clearly as I wrote this: patient enough, but not indulging House's self-blame, either. (He should have a very acute sense of how to deal with him, after all these years.) I loved the portrayal of House's brand of caring last night, and loved that Chase recognized it for what it was.
The look on House's face as he watched Chase in physio made it an imperative to bring Stacy into this: the parallel is too clear to do anything else. Of course, it doesn't extend so far that Chase is going to hate House for this injury (or not when I write him, anyway; I don't expect much from the PTB, since they seem to want to go in the 'Chase blames House' direction).
(It's been too long since we last chatted; I'll have to IM with you sometime soon.)
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“He’s going to hate me.”
“Give him a chance not to,” Wilson says, “and see what happens.”
Love this part of their exchange. If there's anything House needs to do in his life it's to stop standing in the hall. I hope Wilson is this supportive, and that Chase doesn't really blame House.
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Next week's preview seems to be taking the "Chase blames House" route, which makes me furious: it's not consistent with Chase's character or the relationship between them, so I'm not going to write from that faulty premise. (I'm also going to write L5 injury as L5 injury: what's happened doesn't mean anything if Chase is fit to run a marathon in a month.)
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Me too - I can't for the life of me see how this was House's fault at all. Now if Chase decides he doesn't want to work in that sort of work environment any more I would be quite okay with that, but I can't see him 'blaming' House unless it's a trauma induced reaction. I'm going with the theory that he knows he's screwed up but he's looking to pass some of that blame rather than accepting it Unfortunately the shows produceers/writers have said from what I've read that it's Houses's fault and Chase does blame House. sigh...
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I think TPTB have done so much OoC in the last seasons that as a fanfic writer I feel no need to respect canon. You earn respect by showing it, and they seem bent on destroying every single charcacter in this show. Chase had so far escaped.
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