The Odds Are

[downuptime]

Title: The Odds Are
Rating: T
Pairings: House/Wilson friendship (slash goggles possible)
Spoilers: 8x20 Post-Mortem
Summary: House confronts Wilson with the odds.

A/N: Let's pretend that House, after repressing all his feelings, is capable of letting it all out in a relatively healthier way than drowning himself in Vicodin and alcohol. Also, this may

Comments

[knitty_woman]

Amazing fic. I love House using Wilson's technique against him so effectively. And while I certainly have no medical knowledge, I always thought Wilson's initial plan sounded crazy. But then again, this is Houseland, where "poetic license" is taken to alarmingly unrealistic degrees. Self-surgery in the bathtub, people?

[downuptime]

Yes, Houseland requires the suspension of disbelief. I love the House/Wilson drama but my logical mind cannot ignore the pure ludicrousness of the medicine. And I’m not even a MD.

Thanks for reading! :)

[downuptime]

I think Wilson is making his decisions based on his emotions and fears. House, on the other hand, would rely on the numbers, and be somewhat unable to understand where Wilson is coming from. He probably thinks Wilson is being a daft idiot. And the thing is, House isn’t angry at Wilson. He’s angry at… everything else. Including himself.

But in the end, House's emotions still came through inevitably.

Thanks for reading! :)

[menolly_au]

Love House in this, dragging Wilson bodily through the hospital and dumping him in a doctor's office. Then dragging him home. His anger is white hot, that he's risked everything, and Wilson risked everything, for nothing. House being mad at someone else's self destructive urges is nicely ironic :) Love House showing Wilson his successes rather than the failures which is all he seems to remember and telling him just how much Wilson means to him.

I must be on a different page from everyone else with the medicine, I thought that 80% or whatever people survive this cancer because chemo/radiation shrinks it to an operable size and then it's removed. So if Wilson's super-duper almost lethal chemo didn't work then there's a good chance nothing else will either, and they can't operate and he won't be in the 80% so at this point his odds are considerably worse. That's how I read the show's theory anyway - no idea if it has any actual reality.

[yarroway]

That makes perfect sense. Thanks, Menolly! I know the medicine in Houseland is a little strange, but I like to follow it when I can.

[downuptime]

House isn’t angry at Wilson - he’s angry at everything else, and most of all, himself. I think he would be mad at himself for having gone along with Wilson in the first place for the treatment instead of browbeating him into doing the right thing.

Your interpretation does make sense for Houseland . I’m not entirely sure about the medicine (not a MD) but it would strike me that 1) there are other viable chemo meds to try, and 2) that a prolonged exposure to the meds over repeated cycles of treatment would be way more effective than a flash-shock-treatment of 3 days. But then again… I always need to remind myself that this is Houseland. My rational mind isn’t allowing me to enjoy the drama and House/Wilson relationship as much as I want to, especially since the whole premise is shaky :(

[yarroway]

I'd be ranting about the medicine, too, if it weren't for the way House is reacting. In the last episode he told the fellows that if the tumor had shrunk Wilson would live and if it hadn't Wilson would die. Wilson wasn't even in the room when House said it, and not one of the fellows argued with him. All the characters are behaving like the medicine makes sense, and that helps sell the plot (for me, anyway, because I'm shallow like that).

Then again, once the Hmong boy levitated I gave up on any kind of realism.

I wish the reality you portray in your fic were the one Shore et al. were using. I'd be more worried over Wilson's bizarre decisions, but much less worried about his fate. FWIW, I liked what House did in your fic. It sounded much truer to character than the oddly fatalistic guy on the show.

[idonmatrix]

Oh this fic rocked so hard. And please please writers do it just like this.

[downuptime]

Thanks for reading! Let’s hope what comes our way is good.

[3rdgal12]

Touching, relevant, and yet ends on that distinctly uncomfortable House-like note. Well done!

[downuptime]

Thank you! In the end, House's emotions won out over the numbers.