New Fic: Belief, Faith, Trust

Title: Belief, Faith, Trust
Author: Namaste
Rating: Gen, PG

Summary: What made House such a cynic anyway?
A look at lies he’s been told, and what he’s come to believe with stops in his life up to the start of the third season. Plenty of House and Wilson friendship with appearances by Cuddy, Stacy and John and Blythe House.

Excerpt: “You’re pathetic,” House said. “You want to believe everyone. You want to believe that your patients are doing exactly what they’re supposed to do. You want to believe that they’re sticking to their diets, that they’re doing their exercises.”

“And you don’t believe anyone, about anything,” Wilson said. “You’d rather believe that no one can be trusted to do the right thing, that the only thing that you can trust are tests and scans and lab results that you can measure and study and quantify -- numbers that you can log in a book and then one day look back at and prove to everyone that you were right.”

House leaned forward, elbows spread across the closed file. “Being right matters,” he said. “Being right means that I save lives. I thought that’s what you all expected me to do.”

“Sometimes you have to trust that the other guy is going to do the right thing too,” Wilson said. “Sometimes giving someone that trust is harder than proving that you’re right.”

AN: Thanks to everyone who swung by to give me feedback from the first half of this fic and helped shape it as a whole.
You may note I stole a scene from “Tracking Time” and cast it in a different POV. Is it still plagarism if you’re stealing from yourself?


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