Fic: Lair

[fayding_fast]

Title: Lair
Author: Fayding_fast
Summary: At Wilson's expense, House discovers that a battle has been won.
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em
Wordcount: 553
Rating: PG
Warning: This isn't fluffy. Some may find it disturbing.
Spoilers: For season 4.
Con-crit? Yes please and thank you.
Author's note: In canon, House can be a pretty scary guy.

Comments

[purridot]

No! Not the end! Please!!!

[fayding_fast]

It's funny, when I posted this over on the H/W comm, I expected it to be savaged to bits as I was deliberately swimming against the current, and portraying House in such a terrible light. I thought it would be the last fic I ever posted there.

But instead, to my amazement, people seemed to like it. Sometimes, I really don't get it.

[vettithoughts1]

Wow...
What happens next.....
Came here through a H/W request post and have started reading your fic.
You are an amazing writer.
Do you mind if I friended you?

Thanks
VT

[fayding_fast]

Hi there. You're very kind.

Of course I don't mind if you friend me; please go ahead.

[dangomango]

Wow, what a dark version of House! - but it fits in pretty good with what canon we've been given of him, which is why, I suspect, people at house_wilson didn't flame you.
Also because it's well-written (and because House's eyes maybe glittering gives him some human emotion), also because there have been dark versions of Wilson in stories and those didn't get flamed, although people who leap to House's defense usually aren't bothered about Wilson being portrayed in a negative light.

[dangomango]

although people who leap to House's defense usually aren't bothered about Wilson being portrayed in a negative light & vice versa

[fayding_fast]

It is a very dark version of House, yes. (although I don't think he's as dark in this as in my later story, Pawn.) I find it very easy to write fics where House is portrayed like this.

To be truthful, I don't know why this story didn't get flamed. In fact, both these stories seemed more popular than anything else I've written, and I'm fascinated by that, because it doesn't make sense. (I was almost disappointed that I didn't get banned from the H/W comm ;D )

I think that your last point is a very good one. Perhaps everyone that left me a comment praising this story prefers the Wilson character to House's. I must confess, I have just read a story where Wilson is portrayed as a psychopath, i.e worse that Dexter, and I absolutely hated it.

Thank you for your much valued feedback.

[dangomango]

I will have to look up your other story then - I don't really care for dark versions of characters myself (some dark versions of House do work), but I like to think about "what could be".

Did you want to get banned from house_wilson? LOL.

I think I read the story you are talking about - I....didn't like it, but respected it for the amazing story-telling is was...no, I didn't like it.
That could be because the fandom's "canon" more or less regards Wilson as secertly being a bigger bastard than House, and it's far more complicated than that - so I tend to get defensive of his character when I read those things.

Wilson is my weakness - I admit to being biased, he's probably my favorite character out of all media I have read/watched so far in my life.

[jadzia7667]

I can see House behaving this way. I like the slight bit of vulnerability he's shown in canon, but this...this is where he lives.

[fayding_fast]

I think that he can be a very scary guy. He doesn't have many redeeming features.

[jadzia7667]

Intensely scary, because there's so much capacity to hurt people in him. Yet, he's compelling; just when you think there's no redeeming value in him, he does something selfless or caring and WHAM...you're sucked in again. I totally feel for Wilson. I used to be married to someone very close to House's personality type. Eventually, those crumbs of caring aren't enough...unless you are Wilson, who keeping coming back for more.

Not that Wilson's entirely blameless or the eternal victim - he is an enabler, just as he said he was. He doesn't always handle things the best way. House may need him desperately, but he needs House just as much.

[fayding_fast]

just when you think there's no redeeming value in him, he does something selfless or caring and WHAM...you're sucked in again

Absolutely. If this wasn't the case, House wouldn't have run for as long as it has. People just wouldn't care about the main character. His "nicer" side is often evident when he's talking to young kids.

I used to be married to someone very close to House's personality type

You have my sympathy :) It must have been a challenging marriage.

unless you are Wilson, who keeps coming back for more.

It's a sado/masochistic relationship.

House may need him desperately, but he needs House just as much.

He does. Season 5 has underlined that.