Big Bang Fic: Time Marches On

[namaste]

Title: Time Marches On
Author: Namaste
Rating: Gen, PG
Length: About 23,500 words
Spoilers: Through "Don't Ever Change," fourth season.
Author's Note: Thanks to pwcorgigirl, silja_b and topaz_eyes for beta and feedback duties.
Summary: House once called change one of the greatest tragedies in life. His teams -- the old one and the newbies -- are learning this even as House himself continues to deal with things he can change, and things he cannot. Casefic with multiple POVs -- each chapter is a different POV -- written for the Big Bang Challenge.
Excerpt: House turned to look back at her, his head slightly cocked to one side. Cameron tried to hold back her smile. She'd missed this moment--that split second when she'd see that she'd gotten his attention, when she could sense his mind coming alive to every possibility, see the light in his eyes change from some faint reflection dimmed by drugs and pain to become something brighter, something that flickered and became stronger with each new clue, something that she'd only sense for a half of a breath before he'd turn away and hide it again.

Find it here at the Big Bang archive site. I'll also archive the fic here, at some point.

Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

*gives a standing ovation*

I love a good casefic, and this one is absolute excellence from beginning to end. I particularly like Taub's meditation on what he's lost and how he's trying to catch up, how Kutner's able to use his past skills to read House's damage, and the moment between Thirteen and Ozzie when he asks her what she calls herself. The answer suits her perfectly, with her way of revealing some but not too much about herself.

The best moment, I think, the one that makes the hair stand up on the back of the reader's neck, is when House mentions the hurricane and Wilson intuits that's what the pain is like on days like the one you use for the setting. Woven through all of this is House, who's as restless and unsettled as the weather, and it's a magnificent portrait of how he thinks, works and deals with people.

[namasteyoga.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- and thanks again for the feedback when I was wondering if the thing made sense at all, and for listening to me whine when I lost 15 pages of the thing.