Still Here

[downuptime]

Title: Still Here
Rating: T
Pairings: House/Wilson friendship (slash goggles possible), Chase. 
Word Count: 1300+
Spoilers: 8x19 The C Word.
Summary: AU, based on promos of The C Word. “You placed him in a position he should never have had to be in.”

A/N: Completed before The C Word aired. So please ignore the morphine party that House had with Wilson.

Comments

[chocolate_frapp]

brilliant.

[downuptime]

Thanks for reading!

[knitty_woman]

Really, really good. I like that Chase chews Wilson out - somebody needed to (and I say this as a Wilson whore). The whole situation was utterly ridiculous, but it made for great drama. Loved your last scene with Wilson speaking French fry. :)

[downuptime]

I was just frustrated with the premise of the whole thing. I was actually considering using Taub (I liked it when he told Adams that it was not good that House wasn't at work) but I think he doesn't have as meaningful a relationship with House.

I've had the Wilson speaking French Fry scene in my head for a long time. It seemed right to slot it in here :)

[damigella_314]

That's a great AU! Love how Chase enters the picture, and his "absolution" role. And House hiding in the toilet fits so well with the whole Season 8 ;).
"Not before, but I do now."
Indeed.

[downuptime]

Well, I haven't seen House on the roof for a long time :( I think a toilet is the best place for him to have a mini-meltdown of his own without anyone (Wilson!) barging in.

[lit_luminary]

Thank you so much for this. I love it for the medical realism alone (by rights, Wilson would have been killed by that stunt), and Chase's role elevates it to perfection. Someone needed to take Wilson to task for that insanity, and it's fitting that it would be Chase who stood up for House's interests: loyalty runs deep there, because he values House's place in his life at its worth. (I was also pleased that House heard the entire exchange.)

I'm glad that Wilson will appreciate House properly from here on.

Also, your details are excellent. The paragraph on House's caregiving particularly stands out.

[downuptime]

Ha. My paragraph on caregiving was negated by House's morphine party in the episode, which I found hard to believe - he wouldn't let himself get hazy with drugs with such dangerous treatment.

[damigella_314]

he wouldn't let himself get hazy with drugs with such dangerous treatment
Yet another example of the need to "edit" last episode. [I actually thought of that moment as one moment, at a safe time before Wilson started being seriously in danger.]

[aylaliadjo]

I like this fic. Nicely done. I think Wilson deserved someone to point him how selfish he was.

In his delirium, he had said and done things so horrible that no-one, not even House had deserved.

Certainly he hadn't, Wilson. I almost hated him in that scene for saying those things to House.

House hadn't batted an eyelid; it had been Wilson at his worst, but he took it all, stored it away, brushed off the half-complete apology and never mentioned it again. Wilson doesn't know if he could have that.

I'm quite sure he wouldn't have reacted as well as House had. If House would have said the half of it, Wilson probably would have lashed out, at least.

[downuptime]

Thank you!

Oh Wilson definitely would have lashed out. Or at least, lectured House.