New Fic: 100 Seasons: Chase
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namasteTitle: 100 Seasons: Chase
Author: Namaste
Summary: The third season, according to Chase.
A continuing set of drabbles, prompted from moments in each episode of the third season, from each character’s point of view. You can find House’s split into two parts: So It Goes and Big Brains and the rest collected under the title 100 Seasons beginning with 100 Seasons: Cuddy then 100 Seasons: Foreman
Spoilers: All of the third season.
Sample:
“Maybe what he’s done matters.” Chase shrugs. “Maybe what I do matters even more to me.”
Cameron shakes her head and turns back to the chart. Foreman only nods, then stares out the window into the darkness.
After ten minutes, Foreman returns to the table, sits next to Chase. “I’m coming with you.”
Meaning
In the elevator, halfway between the ER and the OR, Chase realized he was praying. He couldn’t remember when he’d started, but the words were there, floating through his subconscious with a steady assurance that was as much a part of his training -- and himself -- as how he adjusted the pressure bandage against House’s abdomen.
Faith and science.
Now he sees House walking, without a cane, without a limp. Chase wants to call it a miracle, but won’t. House would only reject the word and credit medicine. Chase isn’t going to argue. And he’ll never tell House that he prayed.
---
Cane & Able
Chase’s mother loved science fiction -- movies, TV -- it didn’t matter. He’d hear that whistling theme from the “X-Files” echo through the house as she turned up the volume.
Of course now he wonders if maybe she only liked it because his father hated it.
“That’s not science,” Dad would grumble, then close the door to his office.
Chase loved science fiction because Mum loved it. He believed, because she believed.
Chase doesn’t believe Clancy is actually being abducted, but the part of him that remembers watching movies in dark theaters with Mum back in Melbourne can’t ignore what he says.
---
Informed Consent
Make a choice, make a decision. House goads Cameron in the other room. Foreman ignores them. Chase looks over the tests, but listens to the mumble of voices coming through the door.
He made his decision a long time before Ezra Powell showed up. He made it before he met House.
“It won’t do any good to put her on a transplant list,” Dad had said.
“But why does she have to suffer?”
“It isn’t for us to question God’s decisions,” the monsignor said. “Just believe that he knows what is best for us.”
Chase shook his head. “I can’t.”
---
Lines In The Sand
The first week Chase worked for House, he saw House steal a meal tray from an unguarded trolley in the hall.
“The guy’s unconscious. Doesn’t mean good food should go to waste.”
“Define good,” Chase said. He caught a glimpse of a smile on House’s face before House turned away.
The second week, he got his first burglary assignment.
The third month, he learned why House should never be the one to confront a patient.
“Stop whining. It’s not as if you’re dying.”
When House mutinies until his carpet is returned, Chase doesn’t ask why. House has done stranger things.
---
Fools For Love
Chase has heard of couples with perfect marriages. People whose eyes met and knew in an instant that they’d found their soul mate.
He hasn’t actually met any of them.
He doesn’t agree with House that everyone lies, but he wouldn’t be surprised to discover that everyone cheats. His own parents were just one example.
Find any couple, and you can find a flaw. Maybe they can find a way to work their lives around that flaw, or ignore it completely, but it’s there even if they don’t see it yet. And sooner or later, it’s going to destroy everything.
---
Que Sera Sera
At first Chase sits in the conference room, expecting House to order him to double check some test, or do his clinic hours, or get him lunch.
When that doesn’t happen, he leaves, decides to take in a movie. He smiles to himself when he thinks of what House’s reaction will be when Chase does precisely what he’d told him to do.
He doesn’t actually pay attention to the plot scrolling itself across the screen. Instead, he keeps waiting for his beeper to vibrate, to see House’s number there. When it doesn’t, he’s not sure what he should do next.
---
Son Of A Coma Guy
“Need you to write me a script,” House says the first time. He asks without embarrassment, without explanation.
Wilson is out of town, due back in another day, and Chase realizes that House must have had a bad weekend, taken more Vicodin than he’d expected.
He figures House knows what he needs, and trusts his judgment. Besides, his life is easier when House is happy. He only asks for the dosage level and amount, and hands over the paper.
It’s three months until the next time Wilson is gone, and House just tosses Chase’s pad to him.
“Refill,” he says.
---
Whac-A-Mole
Chase doesn’t look at Wilson when Wilson leaves the room. Chase feels guilty -- guilt by association as he sits at the table and runs through the possibilities with House.
No one says anything, but Chase catches Cameron’s eye, sees that she wants to go after Wilson. She stays because House told her to stay. Foreman won’t even look at him.
Chase wants to believe that House will somehow make it right, but he’s afraid to admit the signs he sees every day, the signs he used to see at home, every time his mother shut him out, sent him away.
---
Finding Judas
At first, Chase is too shocked to react, to think about what House has done. He feels the sting of the hit, the cold floor tiles under his body.
Later, he can’t stop thinking about it. He replays the moment in his mind, seeing House whirl and swing, falling to floor in slow motion. He doesn’t want to explain it away, to excuse House’s reaction. House has no excuse.
Cuddy tries, Wilson tries, Tritter is trying, but no one can control House. Chase understands that now, and decides it’s time to take control of the only thing he can -- himself.
---
Merry Little Christmas
Chase wants to believe that House is sorry when House asks about the bruise, but he reminds himself that it doesn’t matter what House says, or what House does, or even if House apologizes.
Despite everything, despite himself, Chase still kind of likes House -- parts of House, anyway. The parts that are relentless in finding answers, that craves speed, the part that doesn’t care what others think.
But he knows nothing will ever make House happy.
Chase has a new set of priorities. Learning how to see and understand things the way House does is on it. Pleasing House isn’t.
---
Words & Deeds
“I’m going tomorrow,” Chase says, “to the hearing.”
“Why?” Cameron looks up from the chart.
“Moral support,” Chase says.
“After everything that’s happened? After everything House did?”
Chase nods.
“He hit you,” Foreman points out.
“I know.”
Cameron puts down her pen, stares at Chase. “So ... why?”
“Maybe what he’s done matters.” Chase shrugs. “Maybe what I do matters even more to me.”
Cameron shakes her head and turns back to the chart. Foreman only nods, then stares out the window into the darkness.
After ten minutes, Foreman returns to the table, sits next to Chase. “I’m coming with you.”
---
One Day, One Room
“Trust your father,” Mum told Robert when he asked why he couldn’t go to the same school as his friends. “He knows best.”
“Listen to your mother,” Dad said when Mum didn’t want Robert to join the rugby club. “She’s a wise woman.”
“Let’s talk to her doctor,” Dad said when Mum ended up at the hospital again. “This isn’t my specialty.”
“Talk to God,” the monsignor said as Chase pondered leaving the seminary. “He’ll guide you in the right direction.”
There was no guidance, only more questions.
“There’s no wrong answer,” Chase tells House, “because there’s no right answer.”
---
Needle In A Haystack
It had to happen sooner or later. Chase’s heart beats faster, and he senses Cameron urging him out of the room, but he doesn’t go. As the adrenaline kicks in, he sees details more clearly -- the ring on the man’s hand, the anxiety on the woman’s face which has nothing to do with the strangers at the door.
The puzzle pieces he wasn’t even looking for slide into place, and suddenly he can see a plausible explanation in front of him.
It isn’t the right one, but for a moment he understands why House always wants to know every detail.
---
Insensitive
Chase easily ignores Foreman’s thinly veiled insult that Chase will do whatever House wants and instead concentrates on what they can do to short circuit House’s demand for the nerve biopsy.
He has a snatch of a thought. Once he would have ignored it, waited for someone else to come up with some better idea. Now he begins thinking out loud, building on that one thread until a plan comes into shape.
He doesn’t know if he’s more surprised by the fading skepticism from Cameron and Foreman, or the fact that somehow he knows exactly what they should do next.
---
Half-Wit
House isn’t some substitute father figure. This isn’t an attempt by Chase to save his own father -- or mother -- by somehow finding a way to save House.
This is simply what House taught them to do, to follow up on every clue, to focus on whatever doesn’t make sense. And none of this makes sense. House isn’t going to be taken down by a run-of-the-mill tumor, like a normal person. House’s death will be of his own making.
Chase stares at the bright spot on the film, and tells himself whatever it is, they’ll find some way to fight it.
---
Top Secret
Chase follows Cameron into the empty room, ignoring every rule of common sense he’s ever known.
She’s surprised him. Again. For more than a month, she’s shown him sides of herself that he didn’t know she possessed. She pushes boundaries and pushes him, and he follows her every time, curious about what new thing he’ll discover.
When they’re together, she becomes someone no one has ever seen before and Chase wonders if this is some new aspect of herself that she’s just trying on for the first time, or if the Cameron everyone else sees has always been the disguise.
---
Fetal Position
Chase takes another look at the photo, then slides it between the pages of a magazine, slips the magazine into a side pocket on his bag and zips it shut. He doesn’t want to explain himself to Cameron if she finds it. He knows that she won’t like any explanation he’d give.
Chase knows the rules: no emotional commitment. So he hasn’t asked her about her family, about growing up. But he remembers the brief comment she made about her brother. He’s studied the photos on her wall. He’s learning more every day, and now wants to know even more.
---
Airborne
One moment, Chase is looking down at the patient, talking to Cameron, somehow knowing everything is wrong.
The next, Chase almost feels like he’s back in that little house, feeling the hardwood below his feet changing over to the soft texture of the carpet in the bedroom, the bedsprings moving under his back as Cameron pushes him down, seeing the cat staring back at him, as if it knew everything -- every secret -- and Chase just didn’t understand what it was trying to tell him.
Then he’s back in the observation room, Cameron still next to him, and he finally understands.
---
Act Your Age
The smart thing to do is to let Cameron go, to watch her walk away. But Chase is tired of taking second place, of letting others make the rules he’ll have to live with.
He let his father do it, until he left Australia and Rowan’s brand of medicine far behind.
He let House do it, until House struck out at him, and Chase stopped waiting for a pat on the head that would never come.
Chase stands in front of the flower case in the lobby gift shop, and decides it’s time to stop letting Cameron make the rules.
---
House Training
We all did this, Chase thinks as he pauses outside Lupe’s room, the blinds closed.
Foreman wants to take the blame, refuses any offer to talk, saying he’ll have to live with it. House shut himself off in his office, opening the door only for Wilson.
But they aren’t alone. Foreman made the suggestion, House agreed to it.
And Chase ... Chase knows that it’s not what he did -- it’s what he didn’t do. He should have said more, argued the call. He’s told himself he’s finally learned something about trusting his judgment. So why didn’t he trust it this time?
---
Family
Chase doesn’t tell Foreman that he still sees Kayla nearly every day.
She haunts his dreams, raising from his subconscious in unexpected places: sitting at the kitchen table while Mum makes breakfast, appearing as the drowning woman struggling in the waves when he was five, once even replacing Cameron in her own bed. He’d sat awake for the rest of that night, watching television and ignoring his exhaustion.
Foreman wants to believe that somehow Lupe was different, that his reaction is unique.
It isn’t. The only thing that’s unique is that it happened to Foreman this time, and not Chase.
---
Resignation
Chase watches House as he tries to wave off Foreman’s resignation with a joke, and realizes that House is lying, just like Foreman was. There’s something else going on, something neither of them will talk about.
He wonders if House knows how much information he gives away through his eyes, through the slight movement at the corner of his mouth, through the tone of his voice. But maybe that’s the real purpose for the jokes, for the outrageous comments, Chase thinks. Maybe every word is just an attempt to stop people from paying close attention to what he’s really feeling.
---
The Jerk
It’s like following a trail of crumbs through the forest, like Hansel and Gretel, and Chase is trying to figure out who’s the wicked witch at the end of the line.
He tells himself he doesn’t care who set up Foreman. He doesn’t feel obliged to make Foreman feel better. Of course if Foreman really wanted to leave, he’d be doing the mental gymnastics himself. Instead he’s only brooding.
So Chase does it instead.
He’s already ruled out Cameron, followed her trail to Wilson, then back to Cuddy and finally to House who’s denied everything. Then Chase smiles. Everybody lies.
---
Human Error
Chase stares at the box on the floor, filled with papers, books, an old ping-pong paddle. Maybe if he looks at it long enough, some answers will come to him: about why House really fired him, about whether he’s ready to move on, about what comes next.
He ignores the phone, but when he hears House’s voice Chase is just one of Pavlov’s dogs, responding to his training.
Chase is surprised to find himself smiling at House’s comment when he hangs up. He thinks maybe he should be angry, but he isn’t. Maybe that means something. Maybe it all did.
Author: Namaste
Summary: The third season, according to Chase.
A continuing set of drabbles, prompted from moments in each episode of the third season, from each character’s point of view. You can find House’s split into two parts: So It Goes and Big Brains and the rest collected under the title 100 Seasons beginning with 100 Seasons: Cuddy then 100 Seasons: Foreman
Spoilers: All of the third season.
Sample:
“Maybe what he’s done matters.” Chase shrugs. “Maybe what I do matters even more to me.”
Cameron shakes her head and turns back to the chart. Foreman only nods, then stares out the window into the darkness.
After ten minutes, Foreman returns to the table, sits next to Chase. “I’m coming with you.”
Meaning
In the elevator, halfway between the ER and the OR, Chase realized he was praying. He couldn’t remember when he’d started, but the words were there, floating through his subconscious with a steady assurance that was as much a part of his training -- and himself -- as how he adjusted the pressure bandage against House’s abdomen.
Faith and science.
Now he sees House walking, without a cane, without a limp. Chase wants to call it a miracle, but won’t. House would only reject the word and credit medicine. Chase isn’t going to argue. And he’ll never tell House that he prayed.
---
Cane & Able
Chase’s mother loved science fiction -- movies, TV -- it didn’t matter. He’d hear that whistling theme from the “X-Files” echo through the house as she turned up the volume.
Of course now he wonders if maybe she only liked it because his father hated it.
“That’s not science,” Dad would grumble, then close the door to his office.
Chase loved science fiction because Mum loved it. He believed, because she believed.
Chase doesn’t believe Clancy is actually being abducted, but the part of him that remembers watching movies in dark theaters with Mum back in Melbourne can’t ignore what he says.
---
Informed Consent
Make a choice, make a decision. House goads Cameron in the other room. Foreman ignores them. Chase looks over the tests, but listens to the mumble of voices coming through the door.
He made his decision a long time before Ezra Powell showed up. He made it before he met House.
“It won’t do any good to put her on a transplant list,” Dad had said.
“But why does she have to suffer?”
“It isn’t for us to question God’s decisions,” the monsignor said. “Just believe that he knows what is best for us.”
Chase shook his head. “I can’t.”
---
Lines In The Sand
The first week Chase worked for House, he saw House steal a meal tray from an unguarded trolley in the hall.
“The guy’s unconscious. Doesn’t mean good food should go to waste.”
“Define good,” Chase said. He caught a glimpse of a smile on House’s face before House turned away.
The second week, he got his first burglary assignment.
The third month, he learned why House should never be the one to confront a patient.
“Stop whining. It’s not as if you’re dying.”
When House mutinies until his carpet is returned, Chase doesn’t ask why. House has done stranger things.
---
Fools For Love
Chase has heard of couples with perfect marriages. People whose eyes met and knew in an instant that they’d found their soul mate.
He hasn’t actually met any of them.
He doesn’t agree with House that everyone lies, but he wouldn’t be surprised to discover that everyone cheats. His own parents were just one example.
Find any couple, and you can find a flaw. Maybe they can find a way to work their lives around that flaw, or ignore it completely, but it’s there even if they don’t see it yet. And sooner or later, it’s going to destroy everything.
---
Que Sera Sera
At first Chase sits in the conference room, expecting House to order him to double check some test, or do his clinic hours, or get him lunch.
When that doesn’t happen, he leaves, decides to take in a movie. He smiles to himself when he thinks of what House’s reaction will be when Chase does precisely what he’d told him to do.
He doesn’t actually pay attention to the plot scrolling itself across the screen. Instead, he keeps waiting for his beeper to vibrate, to see House’s number there. When it doesn’t, he’s not sure what he should do next.
---
Son Of A Coma Guy
“Need you to write me a script,” House says the first time. He asks without embarrassment, without explanation.
Wilson is out of town, due back in another day, and Chase realizes that House must have had a bad weekend, taken more Vicodin than he’d expected.
He figures House knows what he needs, and trusts his judgment. Besides, his life is easier when House is happy. He only asks for the dosage level and amount, and hands over the paper.
It’s three months until the next time Wilson is gone, and House just tosses Chase’s pad to him.
“Refill,” he says.
---
Whac-A-Mole
Chase doesn’t look at Wilson when Wilson leaves the room. Chase feels guilty -- guilt by association as he sits at the table and runs through the possibilities with House.
No one says anything, but Chase catches Cameron’s eye, sees that she wants to go after Wilson. She stays because House told her to stay. Foreman won’t even look at him.
Chase wants to believe that House will somehow make it right, but he’s afraid to admit the signs he sees every day, the signs he used to see at home, every time his mother shut him out, sent him away.
---
Finding Judas
At first, Chase is too shocked to react, to think about what House has done. He feels the sting of the hit, the cold floor tiles under his body.
Later, he can’t stop thinking about it. He replays the moment in his mind, seeing House whirl and swing, falling to floor in slow motion. He doesn’t want to explain it away, to excuse House’s reaction. House has no excuse.
Cuddy tries, Wilson tries, Tritter is trying, but no one can control House. Chase understands that now, and decides it’s time to take control of the only thing he can -- himself.
---
Merry Little Christmas
Chase wants to believe that House is sorry when House asks about the bruise, but he reminds himself that it doesn’t matter what House says, or what House does, or even if House apologizes.
Despite everything, despite himself, Chase still kind of likes House -- parts of House, anyway. The parts that are relentless in finding answers, that craves speed, the part that doesn’t care what others think.
But he knows nothing will ever make House happy.
Chase has a new set of priorities. Learning how to see and understand things the way House does is on it. Pleasing House isn’t.
---
Words & Deeds
“I’m going tomorrow,” Chase says, “to the hearing.”
“Why?” Cameron looks up from the chart.
“Moral support,” Chase says.
“After everything that’s happened? After everything House did?”
Chase nods.
“He hit you,” Foreman points out.
“I know.”
Cameron puts down her pen, stares at Chase. “So ... why?”
“Maybe what he’s done matters.” Chase shrugs. “Maybe what I do matters even more to me.”
Cameron shakes her head and turns back to the chart. Foreman only nods, then stares out the window into the darkness.
After ten minutes, Foreman returns to the table, sits next to Chase. “I’m coming with you.”
---
One Day, One Room
“Trust your father,” Mum told Robert when he asked why he couldn’t go to the same school as his friends. “He knows best.”
“Listen to your mother,” Dad said when Mum didn’t want Robert to join the rugby club. “She’s a wise woman.”
“Let’s talk to her doctor,” Dad said when Mum ended up at the hospital again. “This isn’t my specialty.”
“Talk to God,” the monsignor said as Chase pondered leaving the seminary. “He’ll guide you in the right direction.”
There was no guidance, only more questions.
“There’s no wrong answer,” Chase tells House, “because there’s no right answer.”
---
Needle In A Haystack
It had to happen sooner or later. Chase’s heart beats faster, and he senses Cameron urging him out of the room, but he doesn’t go. As the adrenaline kicks in, he sees details more clearly -- the ring on the man’s hand, the anxiety on the woman’s face which has nothing to do with the strangers at the door.
The puzzle pieces he wasn’t even looking for slide into place, and suddenly he can see a plausible explanation in front of him.
It isn’t the right one, but for a moment he understands why House always wants to know every detail.
---
Insensitive
Chase easily ignores Foreman’s thinly veiled insult that Chase will do whatever House wants and instead concentrates on what they can do to short circuit House’s demand for the nerve biopsy.
He has a snatch of a thought. Once he would have ignored it, waited for someone else to come up with some better idea. Now he begins thinking out loud, building on that one thread until a plan comes into shape.
He doesn’t know if he’s more surprised by the fading skepticism from Cameron and Foreman, or the fact that somehow he knows exactly what they should do next.
---
Half-Wit
House isn’t some substitute father figure. This isn’t an attempt by Chase to save his own father -- or mother -- by somehow finding a way to save House.
This is simply what House taught them to do, to follow up on every clue, to focus on whatever doesn’t make sense. And none of this makes sense. House isn’t going to be taken down by a run-of-the-mill tumor, like a normal person. House’s death will be of his own making.
Chase stares at the bright spot on the film, and tells himself whatever it is, they’ll find some way to fight it.
---
Top Secret
Chase follows Cameron into the empty room, ignoring every rule of common sense he’s ever known.
She’s surprised him. Again. For more than a month, she’s shown him sides of herself that he didn’t know she possessed. She pushes boundaries and pushes him, and he follows her every time, curious about what new thing he’ll discover.
When they’re together, she becomes someone no one has ever seen before and Chase wonders if this is some new aspect of herself that she’s just trying on for the first time, or if the Cameron everyone else sees has always been the disguise.
---
Fetal Position
Chase takes another look at the photo, then slides it between the pages of a magazine, slips the magazine into a side pocket on his bag and zips it shut. He doesn’t want to explain himself to Cameron if she finds it. He knows that she won’t like any explanation he’d give.
Chase knows the rules: no emotional commitment. So he hasn’t asked her about her family, about growing up. But he remembers the brief comment she made about her brother. He’s studied the photos on her wall. He’s learning more every day, and now wants to know even more.
---
Airborne
One moment, Chase is looking down at the patient, talking to Cameron, somehow knowing everything is wrong.
The next, Chase almost feels like he’s back in that little house, feeling the hardwood below his feet changing over to the soft texture of the carpet in the bedroom, the bedsprings moving under his back as Cameron pushes him down, seeing the cat staring back at him, as if it knew everything -- every secret -- and Chase just didn’t understand what it was trying to tell him.
Then he’s back in the observation room, Cameron still next to him, and he finally understands.
---
Act Your Age
The smart thing to do is to let Cameron go, to watch her walk away. But Chase is tired of taking second place, of letting others make the rules he’ll have to live with.
He let his father do it, until he left Australia and Rowan’s brand of medicine far behind.
He let House do it, until House struck out at him, and Chase stopped waiting for a pat on the head that would never come.
Chase stands in front of the flower case in the lobby gift shop, and decides it’s time to stop letting Cameron make the rules.
---
House Training
We all did this, Chase thinks as he pauses outside Lupe’s room, the blinds closed.
Foreman wants to take the blame, refuses any offer to talk, saying he’ll have to live with it. House shut himself off in his office, opening the door only for Wilson.
But they aren’t alone. Foreman made the suggestion, House agreed to it.
And Chase ... Chase knows that it’s not what he did -- it’s what he didn’t do. He should have said more, argued the call. He’s told himself he’s finally learned something about trusting his judgment. So why didn’t he trust it this time?
---
Family
Chase doesn’t tell Foreman that he still sees Kayla nearly every day.
She haunts his dreams, raising from his subconscious in unexpected places: sitting at the kitchen table while Mum makes breakfast, appearing as the drowning woman struggling in the waves when he was five, once even replacing Cameron in her own bed. He’d sat awake for the rest of that night, watching television and ignoring his exhaustion.
Foreman wants to believe that somehow Lupe was different, that his reaction is unique.
It isn’t. The only thing that’s unique is that it happened to Foreman this time, and not Chase.
---
Resignation
Chase watches House as he tries to wave off Foreman’s resignation with a joke, and realizes that House is lying, just like Foreman was. There’s something else going on, something neither of them will talk about.
He wonders if House knows how much information he gives away through his eyes, through the slight movement at the corner of his mouth, through the tone of his voice. But maybe that’s the real purpose for the jokes, for the outrageous comments, Chase thinks. Maybe every word is just an attempt to stop people from paying close attention to what he’s really feeling.
---
The Jerk
It’s like following a trail of crumbs through the forest, like Hansel and Gretel, and Chase is trying to figure out who’s the wicked witch at the end of the line.
He tells himself he doesn’t care who set up Foreman. He doesn’t feel obliged to make Foreman feel better. Of course if Foreman really wanted to leave, he’d be doing the mental gymnastics himself. Instead he’s only brooding.
So Chase does it instead.
He’s already ruled out Cameron, followed her trail to Wilson, then back to Cuddy and finally to House who’s denied everything. Then Chase smiles. Everybody lies.
---
Human Error
Chase stares at the box on the floor, filled with papers, books, an old ping-pong paddle. Maybe if he looks at it long enough, some answers will come to him: about why House really fired him, about whether he’s ready to move on, about what comes next.
He ignores the phone, but when he hears House’s voice Chase is just one of Pavlov’s dogs, responding to his training.
Chase is surprised to find himself smiling at House’s comment when he hangs up. He thinks maybe he should be angry, but he isn’t. Maybe that means something. Maybe it all did.
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Date: 2007-06-18 10:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-18 11:06 pm (UTC)I was surprised to find something within "Fools for Love" that I could play with that would have an impact on his attitude toward Cameron later in the season, or his trying to learn how to interpret House back into "Que Sera Sera."
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Date: 2007-06-18 11:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-06-19 01:30 am (UTC)I'm especially impressed that you came up with a good Que Sera Sera rationale.
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Date: 2007-06-19 01:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-19 01:37 am (UTC)Plus, I'm a sucker for The X-Files :-)
Some minor technical notes:
Chase has a new set of priorities. Learning how to see and understand things the way House does is on them.
Set is singular, "them" is not. And you don't put something on a set of priorities.
He’s told himself he’d finally learned something about trusting his judgment.
Tenses are wrong in the dual use of "he's" and "he'd."
Then Chase smiles. But everybody lies.
The "but" in this case is extraneous.
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Date: 2007-06-19 01:49 am (UTC)And I'm glad you liked my take. Obviously I think everyone has their own image of why characters do what they do. My hope was to see how they could add together, to take him from where he was, to where he is now.
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Date: 2007-06-19 04:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-19 12:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-19 05:39 am (UTC)Beautiful story! I'm very interested in reading about your Cameron and how she views the relationship (since I have yet read any story from her POV on the Chase/Cameron relationship). I think many aren't very sure what she feels lol, so I can't blame them for not writing it ^_^
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Date: 2007-06-19 12:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-19 06:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-19 12:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-19 05:40 pm (UTC)I love how you have Chase developing through the season, without him realising (for a while, at least) that it's happening.
I think he should be House's second in command now - he's the best of the Ducklings for that.
*mems*
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Date: 2007-06-19 09:51 pm (UTC)ok entirely off-topic
Date: 2007-06-21 05:39 pm (UTC)if none of this long, exhausting babbling that i'm doing makes any sense, feel free to send any expletives my way, and i'll leave you alone, with sincere apologies and eternally blushing cheeks.
if you feel the chill of familiarity, please comment back. as a superstitous believer in spiritual things, i wonder why i keep running into this facinating Namaste person and would really like to meet/talk to/etc said forum-goer.
thank you for your time.
P.S. on topic: love your Chase. spot on.
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Date: 2007-06-21 07:04 pm (UTC)Re: ok entirely off-topic
Date: 2007-06-22 06:39 am (UTC)a suburb north of south lyon
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Date: 2007-07-20 04:40 am (UTC)"He wonders if House knows how much information he gives away through his eyes, through the slight movement at the corner of his mouth, through the tone of his voice. But maybe that’s the real purpose for the jokes, for the outrageous comments, Chase thinks. Maybe every word is just an attempt to stop people from paying close attention to what he’s really feeling."
Wow!!! Love this quote and so true!!! I've started wondering that myself - that for someone so intensely guarded, House really gives a lot away, if you are paying attention.
Love how you brought forth Chases' Journey through the final bits of his time with House. He too, has changed and grown, mostly for the better, I think. More comfortable with himself and his opinions. I've always really admired how, even after House decked him in 'Finding Judas', he still fought for the patient... and won.
One does have to wonder, besides the quite real 'letting the ducklings fly', if there was also some male 'you stole my woman' thing going on bet. House and Chase over Cameron. Never mind that it wouldn't have had a happy ending, you can still see that House has feelings for her (witness his anger about the kiss in 'Half-wit'), and can't have been thrilled w/the way it worked out. Not that Chase would care, at this point, but one wonders.
I don't know about the 'Finding Judas' perspective, although I like the drabble quite a bit... I still think, as I believe Wilson did, that he was leaning rather heavily at that moment towards taking a more earthly revenge against House for the punch. I'd feel better about it, if he were not, but the look on his face leads me to think otherwise.
Another wonderful piece!!!
-Katrina