Why? - Post ep for 7x23

[damigella]

Title: Why?
Summary and warning: Post Ep for S7 finale, based on spoilers.
Rating: general.
Word Count: 200.
Warning: Mentioned minor(!) character death.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the House, MD characters, which is good since I tend to kill them.
Author's note: I wrote this now because I'll be too heartbroken after the finale.



It felt like déjà vu: the hospital room, the pain, Wilson in the recliner looking at him.

"Good afternoon, House."

"How's Rachel? And Cuddy?"

Wilson walked to the window and looked out in the sun. "Cuddy's fine. Physically. Rachel died at dawn in her arms."

He sat down on House's bed. "It wasn't your fault. It was an accident. Even Cuddy said so."

House breathed hard, as the numbers on the monitor slowly came back down. "She must hate me all the same. I'll resign, Wilson. She can't work with me."

"She was faster than you. She has accepted a long-standing offer in Seattle. She's emptying her office as we speak."

"I'll never see her again."

"No." Wilson didn't offer comforting words, nor criticism. He seemed to be as empty and drained as House felt himself to be: even his tears had stopped flowing.

"There will be changes in my life as well," Wilson added.

"Are you leaving, too? Or did they ask you to be interim Dean?"

"They did, and I refused. I resigned from Head of Oncology and asked to work reduced hours."

"Why?"

Wilson's left thumb traced the life line on House’s right palm. “For you.”

Comments

[pgrabia.livejournal.com]

Wow, I hope that this is what happens in the finale--except for Rachel dying (so sad!)--but I doubt it. You could really go somewhere with this if you wanted to continue it. I thought it would be cool to write what I want Season eight to be like, episode by episode, one or two a week over the rest of the spring and summer until the new season begins. It would be a real challenge, though. Actually, it would something that would work well as a collaborative fic, each writer involved writing an episode and then repeating that until 22 eps are written with the finale being written by everyone involved, That would be cool because it would give each writer time to write a decent episode instead of one person being rushed to crank out every episode.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting and for suggesting this could be continued.

I think your idea of a collaboratively produced eighth season rocks. Why don't you post a proposal in that sense on hw_req? I remember reading a wonderful Christmas collaborative fic. It would give all of us a nice summer.

[cellista-in-c.livejournal.com]

Just to second, I think the collaboratively-produced Season 8 writing fest also sounds like a terrific idea! Go for it pgrabia!