Snapped [new one-shot]

[kidsnurse]

Title:  Snapped

Genre:  Angst

Rating:  PG

Characters:  House, Wilson, Cuddy

WordCount:  2175

Spoilers:  4.15/4.16; House’s Head/Wilson’s Heart

Summary:  Tag for episode 4.16: Wilson’s Heart.  He felt when it broke, an actual physical sensation.
A/N:  Did you know that blackmare_9  is brilliant?  Her suggestions always and magically make my

Comments

[chocolate_frapp]

this is really beautifully written.

[kidsnurse]

thank you. it was painful to write, and the end result hurts to read, but i suppose that means i did what i'd set out to do, so that's good. :)

[car8]

Please continue to put all your eggs in one basket because this new story is proof of how wonderful and important your basket is. We fans need this and will continue to need it as long as the show's canon is not KidsNurseKanon!

[kidsnurse]

i'm so glad you enjoyed it! and thanks for the vote of confidence.

[mickey_p]

I vote we get the shows writers to can their canon and start using KidsNurseKanon. It's a much more insightful Kanon, don't you think?

[anonymous]

Oh, poor, poor House, so confident that Wilson will be back, making Cuddy get the cot (I don't even want to consider how heartwrenching this must have been for Cuddy), and then the SNAP - wonderfully evocative writing but so sad, it hurts to read it. And this line: So he’d strode smoothly away from Amber’s cool serenity, limped brokenly back towards Wilson and the waiting pain, so painful: from striding to limping...

Beautiful. Thanks.

[hibernia1]

Oh, and that was me above, sorry, too tired to think & log in...

[kidsnurse]

so painful: from striding to limping...

when i rewatched that scene while writing this, i noticed for the first time that house truly was striding smoothly on that bus--no cane, no limp, no pain. the courage it must have cost him to leave that wonderful place, that pure physical freedom... hurts to think about.

and i'd guessed this comment was from you, hib! i am just that good.

what? *looks around in confused innocence*

[hibernia1]

You are that good! You know, I noticed that too, and it made me cry, him giving that up, of his own free will.... ah heartbreaking.

[kidsnurse]

except the part where it's broken, right. *pats aiatalay comfortingly*

[blackmare]

I just realized I never told you how well I like the few changes you made since the last draft I saw. They work so well.

And I have felt that living connection before, between myself and certain of my closest friends -- I know what it is, which perhaps is why this piece affects me the way it does.

[mickey_p]

I've also had that "golden thread" of connection between myself and a friend. Once, my friend was pregnant and living half-way across the country from me..on 4th of July I got the unmistakable feeling of "thrumming" along the connection and I just *Knew* something was very wrong. It was almost 2 weeks before I finally managed to get ahold of her, 2 weeks of worry and hell. I knew SHE was ok, but I also knew something was very wrong. I found out later that her youngest son (age 12) had climbed 45 foot up a poplar tree, trying to get his kite unstuck. He was moving out on a branch while holding on to another above him when both snapped. The top branch acted as a balance (like a tight-rope walkers balance)so he fell upright and on his feet; but he broke every bone in both feet and had cardiac arrythemias for several days. The stress put her in the hospital and she had to have a c-section while he was still hospitalized. I still don't know why I felt that; but I did

[kidsnurse]

glad you liked the changes; thanks again for your help.