*challengers theme intensifies*
I’ve been reading some of these and just. ARGH.
The idea of chase and foreman sitting in House’s office, because it’ll never quite be chase’s, and just looking around at the room the first time back after his death. Both of them are so lost in their memories they basically forget the others there, and then their attentions cross paths again. For a split second they see the other all those years ago, foreman newly hired and Chase baby faced. They notice the stress lines and the fatigue that’s deep into each of their bones now that they carry like an old friend, and they don’t want to break the silence, because then it’ll be real.
It’s foreman who eventually does it, seeing the shine of nearly shed tears in Chase’s eyes. “Hey, what’s the betting that they’ve actually ran off together to watch monster trucks and trashy soaps in peace?” And it’s said with a small smile, a hopeful attempt to make chase laugh. Chase blows out a shaky but amused huff, “you think Wilson’ll allow that? He probably has house drinking a carrot and kale smoothie as we speak.” the reply is quiet and thick but it’s there, both finding relief in the fantasy of what should be and isn’t. Chase will tell himself it is, foreman won’t correct him.
With a final look in the office for the day, the air becoming too stifled with the clutter of old memories and not enough room to make new ones. They’ll face that tomorrow, so they head to foreman’s office, not quite ready to go home to face their separate apartments alone just yet.
“Hey, if you’re dean of medicine, does that make you Cuddy and me House?” Chase asks, and it’s the first time Foreman has heard him sound like himself since the news. Not wanting to break the delicate atmosphere, he replies,
“House doesn’t cry at Christmas movies”
“And you don’t have Cuddy’s ass.”
“6 hours of clinic duty.”
“..foreman?” Chase hesitated
“Yeah?”
“We’ll be okay?”
“We’ll be okay.”
I’ve been trying to be the person someone else wants me to be for… I don’t know how long.
An edit of the 1st pic Wilson and 2nd pic House lovingly gazing at each other would be too powerful
House S4 Alone, 2007
i've always wished that this show explored more of house in his pre-house md era because of scenes like these. on one hand, we get crumbs of how house was like from stacey's perspective...
... whereas on the other side of the spectrum, we get this from wilson:
”they’re all dead?”
“Everyone dies sometime, kiddo. Some of them before you, some long after.”
ive been thinking abt thirteen and kutners friendship quite a lot lately. may u please <3
Comic Con 2008 🎬
i’m just here whenever i don’t have anyone to ramble about my new hyper-fixation with || a mish-mash of brba, bcs, lost, house md & severance
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