So he thinks he'll be able to handle her, she thinks she'll be able to handle him, and it turns out they're both a little overconfident. Yup, that sounds about right.
Thanks for posting this. Not many stories look at their history, and this was fun and entirely credible.
I'm glad you enjoyed it,stenveny; thanks for commenting.I thought it likely this had been tried several times before but I hadn't come across such a fic.
Hard to find pre show stories that are not situated in university- something to do with the age of the writers, probably. Loved their first years interactions and your fic fitd right in. I don't buy their 20 years long history; I believe in mutual attirance for someone as highly unusual as you are, and in this growing feeling of "you are always here, you are pzrt of my life, maybe more would be even better". You set up a nice beginning for years of mutual annoyance. By the way, the show repeatedly refered to House and Cuddy as "friends", but we never really saw the frienship between them. Is this a part of House you would explore?
"I don't buy their 20 years long history" No, neither do I, as I think I complained to you before! A one-night fling with Cuddy followed years later by his five-year commitment to Stacey and then, Cameron's dogged, if initially rather naive devotion to him waking him up from his self-inflicted mainly monk-like existence, setting up the possibility of a relationship with Cuddy; that's what I see
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Such a lovely presentation of a little examined period in their relationship. I think you have got their divergent ways of thinking and talking exactly right: House and Cuddy innately get each other at the core of things while talking past one another on some essentials. I hope you write more about their first days together as boss and employee.
I do think that at first the relationship must have been more balanced than when we picked it up in the show. That is, House must have saved her bacon just as many times as she rescued him. Otherwise, why would either one stick with such an unrewarding friendship in which Cuddy is constantly the savior and House is forever the screw-up.
Thank you for your kind comments. You are right about them "talking past one another on some essentials." :) It's hard to imagine how Cuddy gave House so much rope (five years' worth!) unless there was some cogent reason. I'm inclined to put it down to his status as a 'medical genius', of which there was plenty of evidence in the earlier seasons, giving the hospital, and her, a great reputation.
House said "The hospital is her baby." I think that his importance to the hospital in her eyes is, in the first seasons, the main reason for her putting up with him.
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Thanks for posting this. Not many stories look at their history, and this was fun and entirely credible.
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You set up a nice beginning for years of mutual annoyance.
By the way, the show repeatedly refered to House and Cuddy as "friends", but we never really saw the frienship between them. Is this a part of House you would explore?
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I do think that at first the relationship must have been more balanced than when we picked it up in the show. That is, House must have saved her bacon just as many times as she rescued him. Otherwise, why would either one stick with such an unrewarding friendship in which Cuddy is constantly the savior and House is forever the screw-up.
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House said "The hospital is her baby." I think that his importance to the hospital in her eyes is, in the first seasons, the main reason for her putting up with him.
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