As you know I do read and especially write deathfics, but it wouldn't occur to me not to label them as such. Here's hoping that the author is just inexperienced and will learn for the future. So sorry for you, and I do hope it prompts more fluffiness (and/or smut, because death makes me crave sex, Eros vs Thanatos and so on). Not that there's any time when I do not like smut, LOL.ETA: I now read the fic myself, and it's by someone who's an expert writer and has been a very generous beta reader for me. I suspect that, if one writes for ff.net only, it's easy to disregard the need for proper warning (if nothing else because there is no way to do the lj equivalent of a spoiler, i.e. a warning people can choose to read or not). Moreover, in this case Wilson dies exactly like canon says he would, which may have made the author feel that warnings were not necessary
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I am trying not to be angry about it, but this entire final arc nearly destroyed all of House-dom for me. Every time I watch even a first season episode now all I can think is 'Wilson dies, so what's the point?' I'm still tearing from reading it which shows you how unstable I am.
Oh you sweet dear thing, I hate death fics too, can imagine how sad it was. Get such a bad surprise without a slightest warning is horrible. I hope you feel better now and that there's enough fluffy and happy fics around to light up your mood even more.
I don't know if this is any comfort or not, but my own belief is that Wilson lives. He's alive at the end of the show, and that means it's up to us what happens next. Sure, he's been given a termination date...but how many times have we seen a last minute save in canon?
For that matter, in C Word House outright tells Wilson he can't survive the chemo treatment, "you can't win this." Wilson lives anyway. For a while I thought House had done something--stopped the chemo, maybe--to make that happen, but canon dropped the issue which made me think that there was no 'there' there. So, House was wrong and Wilson survived the treatment.
I try to look at it that way, but Wilson was so determined not to seek treatment that it's hard to think of a way in which House would be able to get past his stubbornness to convince him to change his mind.
Hope you don't mind me busting in here. I saw this when I popped in to read your fic. I think it's awful when a fic does not warn for character death. I'd be upset, too.
But if it helps, I'd like to echo yarroway. The series ended with H & W alive and together. They also gave Wilson a very treatable cancer. Medically, it makes far more sense that he survives with treatment. And I believe it's very possible that on the road with House, Wilson does change his mind. That's why I done wrote it in a fic :)
Anyway, I think the bottom line is that canon ended with that last scene. Anything can happen from there. And it would not take a miracle cure or divine intervention to save Wilson. From here on out, you and I and whoever can believe whatever we want about House & Wilson's future, and DS cannot wreck it :)
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I don't know if this will be any help, but after reading sad fics like that, I sometimes end with some pure fluff to balance things out.
*hugs*
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As you know I do read and especially write deathfics, but it wouldn't occur to me not to label them as such. Here's hoping that the author is just inexperienced and will learn for the future. So sorry for you, and I do hope it prompts more fluffiness (and/or smut, because death makes me crave sex, Eros vs Thanatos and so on).
Not that there's any time when I do not like smut, LOL.ETA: I now read the fic myself, and it's by someone who's an expert writer and has been a very generous beta reader for me. I suspect that, if one writes for ff.net only, it's easy to disregard the need for proper warning (if nothing else because there is no way to do the lj equivalent of a spoiler, i.e. a warning people can choose to read or not). Moreover, in this case Wilson dies exactly like canon says he would, which may have made the author feel that warnings were not necessary ( ... )
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I don't know if this is any comfort or not, but my own belief is that Wilson lives. He's alive at the end of the show, and that means it's up to us what happens next. Sure, he's been given a termination date...but how many times have we seen a last minute save in canon?
For that matter, in C Word House outright tells Wilson he can't survive the chemo treatment, "you can't win this." Wilson lives anyway. For a while I thought House had done something--stopped the chemo, maybe--to make that happen, but canon dropped the issue which made me think that there was no 'there' there. So, House was wrong and Wilson survived the treatment.
I find that incredibly hopeful.
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But if it helps, I'd like to echo yarroway. The series ended with H & W alive and together. They also gave Wilson a very treatable cancer. Medically, it makes far more sense that he survives with treatment. And I believe it's very possible that on the road with House, Wilson does change his mind. That's why I done wrote it in a fic :)
Anyway, I think the bottom line is that canon ended with that last scene. Anything can happen from there. And it would not take a miracle cure or divine intervention to save Wilson. From here on out, you and I and whoever can believe whatever we want about House & Wilson's future, and DS cannot wreck it :)
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