Viaticum (Sacrament) [House; Chase, brief Chase/OMC]

[ll_cool_cj]

Title: Sacrament (Viaticum remix)

Author: joe_pike_junior

Summary: Chase and his decision to leave the seminary.

Rating: PG

Fandom: House

Warnings: One swear word.

Original title, author: Viaticum by yevgenieAt Xavier College he joins Ignatius house. He wears a little red pin on his blazer. He does as other boys do and rakishly stuffs his tie into his back pocket

Comments

[bironic]

Man, I do *not* envy Chase his youth. Such painful, confused snapshots of what it might have been like for him, dealing with his mom and absent father and losing/abandoning one vocation for another. One interesting detail, I thought, was how he seeks or at least cherishes the pain the night of his mother's wake, and what it implies for his upcoming relationship with House.

[vitawash24]

This is great - the story is poignant without becoming over the top. What's really remarkable is how well you communicate the way Chase suffers a double loss, both his mother and the faith that was his companion.

[yevgenie]

He never pleases all those old men, the Fathers who educated him first in the way of God, and then in their own fashion in the way of the world. They had nothing but bland words of compassion when Chase's mother died, and he didn't expect anything more.

Yes, that, that -- EXACTLY.

[sits and wrings hands quietly in gratitude]

This remix is so -- I feel like saying THANK YOU for what you've done with it, it's the House story I'm proudest of and you've taken it and chopped it up so the *bones* show (in patterns, arranged always in these patterns) and it's all so very *Chase*, the lies he'll tell to cover over the problems, the way he keeps trying to please a series of fathers, the way pleasure comes mixed with pain, always. His parents failed him, and his faith failed him, but he keeps coming back to the old patterns despite himself.

*Lovely*.

[deelaundry]

You are very talented to have pulled off this remix technique -- same actions, same timeline, same POV, same motivations, but somehow a unique re-telling. Yevgenie described it so excellently: "chopped it up so the *bones* show."

I don't normally read Chase fic, but this (and the original) feels very true to Chase on the show; I can absolutely imagine this as his adolescence.