One of the side effects of shrooms is paranoia. House, the fool, treated his aggressive patient with shrooms, and got hisself assaulted (again), and later passed out. The staff at PPTH is much more comfortable with the regularity of this type of occurrence than Stacy is.
Poor (and sort-of-stupid) House! Stacy's been gone a long time - she doesn't realize this is pretty commonplace for them. It's interesting to see it trigger what caused her to leave the first time. Love that House has a 'usual phrase' for when he's regaining consciousness. And that there are so many House Rules, it's hard to keep track. Taub should certainly be familiar with the repercussions of adultery, but I don't know if I buy that it's solely self-interest.
Stacy doesn't really know what she's been courting for the past few weeks. Nor does she have any idea, how much time, faith and courage it took to achieve the domestication and maturity that she's attracted to in the new House.
Ohhhhh, maybe the very best chapter in Shark Verse, IMO.:)
House's fellows all watching/wondering/concerned about his dalliance with Stacy. Even loved Foerman!
“You never cease to amaze me. You even sabotage your self-sabotage.”
It was enlightened self interest,” Taub corrected grimly. “You make Simon Legree look like a people person, now. I’m not going to work for the person you were without Cuddy, ever again, if I can help it.
I hate flashback scenes and dream sequences on the show, and when I write them(in "Fault Lines" and "Shark Week") they give me fits. But the critical deterioration in House's judgment had to be shown in retrospect because that is the only way we learn. It had to have severe consequences for him, and something had to happen to give Stacy pause. Therefore, he gets (slightly) injured because of a medically reckless choice. It's ridiculously literal -- knocking some sense into his head, and all -- and hurt!House is done to death in fanfic, but I hope it came out well.
Poor Stacy, this kind of predicament that I presume dreaded her seems follow her time and time again. First House, then her ex-husband, then House again.
PS. Don't worry, it's engrossing and nerve-wracking in a good way. Like my fellow readers, I think about this fic all the time.
Thanks. I'm trying -- see my response to leesarenae's comment above -- to be neither too predictable nor too nerve-wracking, and I appreciate the feedback.
The real skill of a good administrator or manager (not that Cuddy is one) lies in how much he/she does that goes unnoticed, smoothly and behind the scenes -- until she's gone, and someone else has to supervise toner distribution and keep the diagnostics department head from traumatizing the chief of anesthesiology and diagnosing patients via magic eight ball . It's a thankless job, even without House.
Wilson is either maturely letting House have time to see the error of his ways, confident that House will pull up just short of disaster, or biding his time for the inevitable fallout. I can't decide.
I think Cameron blathered on cheerfully and positively during House's post-DBS coma, trying to soothe him with encouraging platitudes in between descriptions of how she was going to have her hair styled, what she was going to make for dinner and the novels of Henry James. It's my theory that she meant well, but he still has residual trauma from this.
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Love that House has a 'usual phrase' for when he's regaining consciousness. And that there are so many House Rules, it's hard to keep track. Taub should certainly be familiar with the repercussions of adultery, but I don't know if I buy that it's solely self-interest.
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House's fellows all watching/wondering/concerned about his dalliance with Stacy. Even loved Foerman!
“You never cease to amaze me. You even sabotage your self-sabotage.”
It was enlightened self interest,” Taub corrected grimly. “You make Simon Legree look like a people person, now. I’m not going to work for the person you were without Cuddy, ever again, if I can help it.
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PS. Don't worry, it's engrossing and nerve-wracking in a good way. Like my fellow readers, I think about this fic all the time.
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Wilson is either maturely letting House have time to see the error of his ways, confident that House will pull up just short of disaster, or biding his time for the inevitable fallout. I can't decide.
I think Cameron blathered on cheerfully and positively during House's post-DBS coma, trying to soothe him with encouraging platitudes in between descriptions of how she was going to have her hair styled, what she was going to make for dinner and the novels of Henry James. It's my theory that she meant well, but he still has residual trauma from this.
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