Blessings, Part 16

[stenveny]

Title: Blessings, Part 16
Paring: House/Cuddy established
Characters: House, Cuddy, Rachel, Wilson, some OCs
Warnings: some angst, unplanned pregnancy, minor medical crisis. there is no tragedy in this fic

Comments

[waylandsmithy]

Those two last paragraphs are killers. I don't often empathise with Wilson as much as I should but you really did it there.

A wonderful chapter; laughter, sentiment without sentimentality, and all of us on the edge of our seats for what comes next!

[stenveny]

I love Wilson. And not just because House does,

Thanks for reading.

[janeqdoe]

I'll add my love and kudos for the last paragraph/sentence. Wilson & Cuddy certainly have a love/hate (like/dislike) relationship. They can snark at each other until the cows come home, but it was also nice to see Cuddy say she wanted him in Baltimore, and being a comfort in the ambulance. This extended family does know how to come together in a crisis.

Kristen is even polite when she's having a medical emergency! I trust you to resolve any and all cliffhangers.

Georgie sounds like a great fit for this family, especially the master. What kind of dog is she?

And of course House can manage to hit Wilson's Top 10 no-no's in just 1 conversation. He is exceptionally gifted like that, and Cuddy, through long practice and probably a judicious memory, is gifted in that she doesn't hold it over his head & would probably still sleep with him that very night.

I love the ongoing little plot point about House's concern over his wife's weight - he can be caring, but couch it in pervy terms, a win-win!

[stenveny]

One of the (several) things Wilson envies House (besides his designer refrigerator), is that he's found a woman to whom he matters enough to make her insane, and who loves him even when he's making her furious. Wilson, lovable as he is, will never inspire, provoke, or require that kind of intense reaction.

It took me several tries to come up with Georgie's name and backstory (yep, such is my obsession. My own dog doesn't have a backstory.) She's a "re-homed" service dog; Cuddy scouted the service/emotional support animal communities until she found someone fostering a trained adult dog whose previous owner could no longer care for her. (The literary license here is that it would take up to a year to locate such a dog, and I have Cuddy accomplishing this in a matter of weeks/months.) House refuses to consider her a "cripple dog" or god forbid a psychological support, but she's definitely more than a pet. Someone with House's needs would be matched with a medium-energy, highly trainable, large breed with low territorial/

[janeqdoe]

I love hearing about the process - it's like getting little DVD commentaries. :) And it was really interesting hearing about Georgie's background, and I've learned something about service dogs too!
Looking forward to the next installment...

[jwhite2199]

Major kudos on this chapter, especially the last two paragraphs. The style and language are exquisite. From many, many other authors, those last two sentences would have been an unreadable mess but you, technically speaking, pulled it off very well; content wise, it's also wonderfully done.

Very clever bit with Wilson's "Top 10 No-no's." Only House could pull off all of those in one conversation and, largely, get away with it.

As I was reading, I pictured Georgie as a chocolate lab. I don't know if that's because of Hugh or because of the service angle, but I was tickled to read the comment above about your process in creating her backstory. Again, very clever.

Thanks for another great chapter.

[stenveny]

Those are horribly long run-on sentences, but I'm glad they didn't confuse and served their purpose in pacing the last part of the chapter.

Hugh Laurie has a chocolate lab? Cool.

Thanks for reviewing.