Fic: Family, Friends and Other Complications, Part 12

Title: Family, Friends and Other Complications
Chapter Twelve: When They Weren’t Together
Author: Namaste
Rating: Gen, strong House and Wilson friendship, PG
Summary: Blythe begins to know a little more about her son, even though he’s far away.
Sample:
One day Blythe opened a package from Greg. The padded envelope held a CD and a short note.

“This is what I do,” he had written.

Blythe recognized the musician’s name, and put it on the stereo, wondering if she could figure out what Greg was trying to say from the music. It was jazz, featuring a trumpet player whose music came out in a rich tone that filled the room.

She closed her eyes and let the music paint pictures in her mind of smoke-filled clubs and late Saturday nights that crept into early Sunday mornings. She wondered if Greg saw the same things in his mind, but couldn't tell what he was trying to tell her.

It was James who finally gave her the rest of the story, the reason behind the music and the note. James told her about the man everyone else was ready to give up for dead, whose fate had seemed hopeless, how Greg had refused to let him die, and about how Greg had cured him.

And Blythe finally understood her son just a little more.


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