Cheaper than Prozac

[extrabitter]

Characters: Gen, with House, Wilson, Mod Squad
Rating: PG, for one slightly off-color Aussie idiom that I found online.
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Length: 1,200 words

Notes: From housefic_pens Kickstarter Number Two, prompt 2 “I’m not cleaning this thing out again. It’s somebody else’s turn.” I wanted to write something silly and light. Call it Goofy Without Plot

Comments

[azure_lily]

He turned his head to keep House from noticing that his dimples were showing.

Ah, I'm in love! These boys are so good together. Write more!

I can related to Cameron. I'm the one who always do the cleaning in the lab.

[pwcorgigirl]

You had me laughing at "Like I'd lend you my toothbrush." So true! I really like the funny little bits in this, with the patient having the same symptoms as the coffee maker, everyone's choice of reading material, and House figuring it out by sniffing everything. (The man has a nose like a bloodhound!)

Now, that it was Wilson was an adorable surprise. Obviously he has studied at the feet of the master prankster. This is just so darned cute: He turned his head to keep House from noticing that his dimples were showing.

So a "brown-eyed mullet" is the Aussie equivalent of a "bathtub Baby Ruth"? You get extra points for funny-gross instead of disgusting-gross, and excellent in-character voices.

[extrabitter]

Heh. Got it in one. I scoured several Aussie slang sites to come up with some idiom I could use to relate to bad coffee, and this was the closest thing I could find.

It's funny, setting aside my dislike of Cameron to write her for the Kickstarters prompts has been a good experience. Maybe I'll tackle putting her into a real story one of these days.

Oh, and I did not catch that I gave the patient the same symptoms as the coffee maker. I wrote the first part, before House showed up, right when the prompts were posted, and the rest of it last night in one fell swoop. "Vomiting coffee grounds" is a symptom I've had a couple of times, and it's nasty. I just stuck it in there because the phrase always sounded weird to me, and because it was something I didn't have to look up.

I'm pleased with the way this turned out. Might change a few words and post it to the general public.

[pwcorgigirl]

One of the aims of Kickstarters was to get writers working on something new, so our plan has succeeded if you're actually thinking favorably of Cameron. When I wrote that prompt, I originally had her saying it about the office fridge (God only knows what House has in there), but decided to make the prompt less specific. I'm delighted with what you did with it.

[anonymous]

Very cute! So, why did Wilson spike the coffee??

[extrabitter]

WIlson had no particular reason for spiking the coffee. I probably should have specified that this was set around the time they were living together, pulling childish pranks just to one-up each other.

Fic: Cheaper than Prozac

[secondsilk]

Ha! yay! to Foreman's response to Cameron's accusations of sexism. And yay for Cameron, too.
I had to look up brown-eyed mullet, although I really shouldn't have had to.
Wilson and House just staring at each at the end.
And "On the coffemaker?"
*g*

Re: Fic: Cheaper than Prozac

[extrabitter]

I don't write the Mod Squad very much, but I think the exchange between Cam and Foreman turned out pretty well.

Glad you liked it, and thanks for commenting.

[evila_elf]

Awesome!
The trio conversation before House even showed up was hilarious!

[extrabitter]

The Kickstarter prompts have been great for getting me to write something different. The scene you liked took less than half an hour to write, then I left it pretty much alone while I was editing. I'm kind of surprised that it's actually funny. I wasn't sure it would be.

Thanks for your comments. I'm glad you enjoyed this.