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(You're) Better Than Vicodin (Part 2): House/Wilson
Title: (You're) Better Than Vicodin
Authors: (listed in alphabetical order):![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
geelady, graceasaur, and lilapaddy.
Pairing: House/Wilson
Fandom: House MD
Spoilers: spoilers for seasons 3-6.
Notes: screencaps are courtesy of House M.D. HD Screencaps,lusciousspike, and theunknownsoul. Quotes for seasons 5 and 6 are courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
clinic_duty, a House MD transcript community.
Please note that these are their opinions on why they love House/Wilson and how they view the pairing. Your interpretation of the pairing and how you view the individuals involved in the pairing may differ.
Season 5 - bygeelady
How House Went Insane and Why Wilson Loves Him For It.
At the end of season 4, House and Amber were badly hurt in a bus accident. At Wilson's request, House tried deep brain stimulation and risked his mind and his life trying to save Amber, but she died.
Season 5 opens with the appropriately titled "Dying Changes Everything", and in this episode it's obvious that Amber's death has strained the House/Wilson relationship. Wilson comes back from leave after two months of grieving and we learn that Wilson hasn't spoken to House since then. Wilson informs House that he's leaving PPTH and cruelly tells House that they were never friends. The episode ends with Wilson walking out of his office and House forlornly staring at him.
In the next two episodes, we are introduced to Lucas, whom House hires to follow Wilson and keep tabs on his grieving friend.
During Wilson's self-imposed exile, there is one slashy conversation that takes place in the cafeteria between House and Dr. O'Shea:
(House looks around, quickly grabs a tray and a slice of cake in a container. He comes up behind a doctor by the cash register.]
House: Put this on Dr. O'Shea. And some chips.
O’Shea: Forget your wallet, House?
House: No.
O’Shea: I'll take care of it.
House: Check.
O’Shea: Are you following me?
House: Word is you're into monster trucks.
O’Shea: My kids like it.
House: But not you?
O’Shea: Predator's okay, but I think the California crusher is overrated....Are you checking me out?
House: You're astute. No.
O’Shea: How many pills did you just take?
House: Vicodin, opioids, some B12. Need a little kick in the afternoon. You got a problem with that? [O’Shea ignores him and picks up some food from his tray.] I think I'm falling in love.
Foreman: Her right eye's failing.
House: No, it's not. Everyone else's transplanted organs were fine. It means her eye is fine.
Foreman: We need to remove the eye.
House: It's her only working eye.
Foreman: We could remove the other one, but since it's not killing her, I thought this way was less insane.
House: [to O’Shea] Do you have some ethical problem with what I'm doing that you could express in a unique way which might actually make me think that I'm wrong even though I'll never admit it?
(House misses Wilson's endless lecturing, epiphany-sparking ways. All together now: A-w-w-w-w-w-w).
O’Shea: Yes.
House: You are funny.
[House to Foreman]: The problem's not in her eye. It's in her head.
[House to O’Shea]: You wanna come over and watch Prescription Passion at my place tonight?
O’Shea: You know I'm not gay, right?
House: Neither am I. If you don't want to have sex, that's cool with me.
O’Shea: I'm not coming over to your home.
House: I'll grow on you.
Yes. Yes, he does. So House would probably have had sex if O'Shea had been into it. This underlined that House has probably had sex with a man before and knows where everything goes. Probably way back when. And probably with someone he liked. Probably with Wilson. We all suspected. Just for the record, no love affair blossoms between House and O'Shea.
[House and Lucas hiding in an ice cream truck outside of O'Shea's home]
Lucas: You're supposed to trust friends.
House: I don't know the guy. I got no logical reason —
Lucas: To be his friend? Have you never seen an after-school special? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
House: You're taking pictures of a guy who's having an affair with his own sister. And you're lecturing me about the rewards of trust. Lucas: There are two types of people that hire me. No, actually, there are three types of people that hire me, but the third type's irrelevant to the point I want to make.
House: Do you have a special rate plan for being a pain in the ass?
Lucas: One type wants to find out that they're right. One type wants to find out that they're wrong.
House: Which type am I?
Lucas: You're the third type.
House: You lead with the irrelevant types?
Lucas: You're the type that doesn't care if you're right or wrong because they've hired me to investigate the wrong person.
House: That's an actual type?
Lucas: You want me to check out Wilson. You want to find out if he's —
House: How do you know about Wilson?
Lucas: What do I do for a living?
House: You checking me out? Have I've been paying for that?
Lucas: So far, you haven't paid for anything. You want to find out he's pining. You want to find out if there's something about him that will tell you he's gonna come back or something you can use to make him come back.
Later in the episode, House is desperate for Wilson to come back and he knocks on Wilson's door.
[Cut to loud knock on a door. Wilson answers it. It’s daylight and House has changed his clothes.]
House: I need an epiphany.
[Wilson stares at him, tight-lipped.]
House: What are you billing out at, $300 an hour? Here's four. [He offers the money to Wilson who doesn’t take it.]
Wilson: There are other oncologists.
House: Better oncologists. But I need you.
[He balls up the money and throws it past Wilson into the apartment.]
House: Let me describe the symptoms, problems, issues, and you say whatever you feel like saying, until something triggers an idea in my head.
Wilson: That's not the way it works.
House: You have a way of thinking about things. It's sloppy, it's undisciplined, it's not very linear. It complements mine. It drives me down avenues that I wouldn't otherwise —
House is then interrupted by Wilson telling House to go away. House leaves, but he hasn't given up on Wilson and at the end of the episode, House puts Lucas on retainer and has Lucas follow Wilson.
In 5x4 Birthmarks, House loses someone - his dad dies. House refuses to attend the funeral and is okay with that. But Cuddy, Taub, Thirteen and, we soon learn, Wilson, are not. So they knock House out with some drugs (that's always a safe thing to do to a guy recovering from a skull fracture and whose blood is already a soup of alcohol, opiates and Vicodin, Cuddy! Wilson! Hel-l-o-o-o!), and drag him kicking and screa...well unconscious to his father's funeral where his mom (and Wilson) want him to lie to a group of strangers about what a great guy his dad was, and how he and his dad loved each other. but of course, we know differently.
Interesting how everyone despises House's lying, yet encourages it when they think it'll benefit themselves, or people they've never met whom they think need the delusion for some reason. Yes, Wilson, Cuddy, I am once more addressing YOU.
So, Daddy House is dead, House lets Wilson in on the real reason he ran away - 'cause Wilson loves House the most and doesn't want to lose him.
House: "I knew you couldn't stay away. I knew you loved me too much."
During the road trip to the funeral, Wilson is pulled over and arrested for fleeing the state of Louisiana years ago. We then learn how House and Wilson met – House saw Wilson at a medical conference in New Orleans, stalked him and bailed him out of jail.
Wilson: I was at the hotel bar trying to unwind, have a drink. There was this guy who kept playing Billy Joel’s "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" on the jukebox.
Costello: "Leave a Tender Moment" is a good song.
House: It's a great song. He was out of line.
Costello: Not as good as "Scenes from an Italian restaurant" or
Wilson: So I — I asked the man to stop, politely.
House: Yeah, you yelled politely.
Wilson: I was polite the first couple of times, but courtesy made no impression on this ass. So I threw a bottle into the mirror, which successfully conveyed my message.
House: And smashed a ten-foot antique mirror. And set an example to two other patrons who threw shot glasses.
Wilson: I had nothing to do with that fight. The assault charge was totally bogus. And I paid for the mirror.
Costello: I think I have the picture. I assume you're the guy who was playing the song.
House: No, I was the guy who bailed him out.
Wilson: That's how we met. I was in jail.
Costello: This guy was a total stranger to you, and you bailed him out?
House: It was a boring convention. Had to have somebody to drink with.
Wilson: And there's the foundation of our entire friendship. If you hadn't been bored one weekend, it wouldn't even exist.
House: Hey, there were 3,000 people at that convention. You were the one I thought wasn't boring. That says something.
For House, not being boring is a high compliment and he tells Wilson and Wilson repeats this at the end of the episode, thus showing that he feels the same way, but that's not the only slashiness in this episode.
After House's eulogy, Wilson and House have a fight that superficially appears to be about Amber and House's antics (taking a piece of skin from his dad's corpse to test for DNA), but is really all about their relationship.
House: Oh, cut the crap. You enjoy what I do. I never had to force you. You like coming along for the ride.
Wilson: Yes, that's why I'm cheering you on now.
House: This is about you needing to be prepared for the worst. So you become an oncologist. No surprises there. Worst happens all the time. But Amber, she was young and healthy. Her death came out of nowhere.
Wilson: Don't bring Amber into this.
House: And you weren't ready. That makes you angry. The world sucks, and you didn't have time to brace yourself.
Wilson: What happened out there is your show!
House: You're scared to death of losing anyone that matters. So you dump the person who matters the most to you!
Wilson: I'm not scared to death. I'm moving forward!
House: Because no one can take away from you what you no longer have.
Wilson: Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho. Your father's death is about you. Amber's death is about you. I can't imagine why someone wouldn't want to be your friend!
House: Admit it, you're angry and you're scared of losing me.
Wilson: I'm not angry, I'm not scared.
House: Admit it.
Wilson: I'm not afraid.
House: Admit it.
Wilson: I've lost people. It happens.
House: Admit it. Admit it!
Wilson: What are you, five? Stop repeating —
House: Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Come on, admit it. Admit it!
[With a cry, Wilson picks up a liquor bottle and flings it — through a stained glass window. They both stare.]
House: Still not boring.
Notice that while House is arguing with him, Wilson does not deny that House matters the most to him and that he's terrified of losing him.
[Cut to a diner. Wilson and House are in a booth.]
Wilson: Did you know I was gonna do that? Because I didn't know I was gonna do that.
House: I know you have trouble losing people. In New Orleans, I saw you carrying this express package around the conference. And you wouldn't let it go, but you wouldn't open it. So I peeked at the return address.
Wilson: Diamond, Fairbairn.
House: Divorce attorneys. Your first wife had just served you with papers.
Wilson: Did you know that when you bailed me out? Were you… doing something nice for me?
House: What did I say about being boring?
In 5x11 "Joy to the World," House receives a Christmas present from a "secret admirer" - or so his team suspects. Of course, it's just House screwing with them. Later this exchange happens between Wilson, Kutner and Taub:
[Cut to Wilson’s office. He’s going through a file. Taub and Kutner are there.]
Wilson: If it‘s a subpoena, he’s gotten that kind of present before.
Taub: It was a book.
Wilson: That narrows it down. Just look for someone who knows how to read or has been to a bookstore.
Taub: Most bookstores don’t carry Joseph Bell “On Surgery.”
Wilson: Did it have a note?
Kutner: "Greg, made me think of you."
Make a note of this note! Wilson writes to House: "Greg - made me think of you." Overtly sweet, wouldn't you agree? When has Wilson ever called House "Greg"? Ever?! Or waxed sentimental over House and then putting it in a note? Or admitted anything ever makes him think of House. Or waxing sentimental over House in any other fashion? Suspiciously Hilsonous, me-thinks.
Wilson then admits to writing the love-struck words: "I could be wrong. It’s possible a secret admirer gave House the same book I gave him last Christmas. And the same paper I wrapped it in. And the note I wrote."
Afterward, we hear this observation from Taub once House realizes his team knows he's just been screwing with them:
House: You talked to Wilson.
Taub: He has very girly handwriting, by the way.
Ha! We always suspected.
Later House and Wilson have an interesting personal exchange in the cafeteria.
Wilson: Completely meaningless prank, even for you.
[Wilson gets another ice cream sandwich]
House: Stealing your ice cream is a completely meaningless, albeit delicious prank. Observing my team’s reactions to unexplained phenomena could’ve been pretty useful.
Wilson: Of all the ways to mess with people, why give yourself an imaginary present?
House: Have you checked the prices for firemen strippers recently?
Wilson: Yes. [House stares at the object of his future passion].
In 5x14 "The Greater Good", Cuddy is angry at House and physically tortures him by making him climb stairs and tripping him - causing him real physical pain and blood loss. It's Wilson who finally has to point out to her that this is possibly not the best route to establishing a relationship.
In 5x16, "The Softer Side," House tries methadone to get off the Vicodin. At first, both Wilson and Cuddy are worried that the methadone is dangerous especially when they find House not breathing. After reviving House, Wilson and Cuddy lecture him. Cuddy tells House that he can't work at PPTH if he's on methadone and House quits. Wilson later realizes that House is happy and that they made a mistake in dictating to House how he should live his life, but Cuddy doesn't see it that way.
[Cut to Cuddy’s office, Wilson is there waiting, when Cuddy enters]
Wilson: We made a mistake.
Cuddy: No, we didn't.
Wilson: The methadone's good for him. Cuddy: The methadone is gonna kill him.
Wilson: He shaved. He was wearing a tie. He has a meeting at St. Sebastian.
Cuddy: If he buys a new pair of shoes, should we let him smoke crack?
Wilson: Cuddy, he's happy.
Cuddy: House doesn't do happy, pain or no pain.
Wilson: Okay, maybe, but, he's our friend. And this is his one chance to not be miserable.
Later in the episode, House decides to give up methadone because it's interfering with his ability to solve puzzles (the one thing that he prizes most of all). Cuddy insistently demands he take the methadone because she thinks he's afraid of happiness (and having a relationship with her).
Cuddy: You're afraid of change. The one thing you have is your intellect. You think if that's compromised, you have nothing. (She holds up the dose of methadone) Just take it.
House: No.
Cuddy: Don't do this.
House: It's already done. (He throws the methadone in the wastebasket and grabs a hospital cane which is propped against the wall) This is the only me you get.
In the end, it's clear that Wilson wants House to be happy whether House is with him or not. Cuddy wants House on her own terms, not his.
In the next episode [5x17 "The Social Contract"], House becomes obsessed with finding out what secret Wilson is hiding from him. After House has his team get a locked patient's file from Wilson's computer, House becomes worried when he sees Wilson's name on the file and discovers that the doctor is a psychiatrist. Later House uncovers the truth: the patient is not Wilson, but Wilson's schizophrenic brother, Danny. At the end, House and Wilson talk about their relationship and why it works for them. During this conversation, Wilson gives House the ASL sign for "love."
House: Does it bother you that we have no social contract?
Wilson: (laughs) My whole life is one big compromise. I tiptoe around everyone like they're made of china. I spend all my time analyzing: What will the effect be if I say this? Then there's you. You're a reality junkie. If I offered you a comforting lie, you'd smack me over the head with it. Let's not change that.
House: Okay.
Wilson: No, see, this — if you were implementing the social contract, you'd say that, but only because… It makes me feel better…
House: It is kind of fun watching you torture yourself.
Wilson: Do you think things will work out with my brother?
[The elevator arrives at the ground floor. House and Wilson step out and head toward the exit]
House: No. But when it does go wrong, it won't be your fault.
Wilson: Thanks, House.
During 5x20 "Simple Explanation," House loses one of his fellows, Kutner, who commits suicide. House is convinced, however, that Kutner was murdered. In the end, when it is revealed that Kutner did indeed take his own life, House is worried that he's losing his mind. House and Wilson then have a conversation that foreshadows what is to come in the rest of season 5.
Wilson: You’re in pain.
House: And you’re romanticizing. Again.
Wilson: You worked with him every day for two years and you never saw this coming.
House: No one saw it coming.
Wilson: But you see everything coming. This has never been about what you missed. This is about why you missed it. You’re terrified that you’re losing your gift, losing… who you are. And I’m terrified of what you’d do then.
Just like House reassured Wilson at the end of 5x17, Wilson tries to reassure House when House is worried that he's lost his diagnostic skills. Wilson pretends to go on a healthy diet and House, being obsessive as he is, notices Wilson's changing eating habits. House, of course, figures it out.
House: I've been mooching food from you for ten years. So either something bothered you this week, or you're-
Wilson: Screwing with you. It needed to be done. When Amber died, I withdrew, tried to change everything get everything sorted out, find some deeper truth... It was a mistake. I should have gone back to normal. To here and now. Cause that's all we can ever really count on. Things need to get back to normal in your life. . .And. . What could be more normal than me screwing with you? And you figuring it out?
House [smiling]: You manipulative bitch
At the end of 5x20, Wilson is worried about House and rightfully so because at the end of 5x21 "Saviors," Amber suddenly appears to House in a hallucination, congratulating him for solving another case and saying "looks like you're not losing it after all".
5x22 "A House Divided," starts with House lying in his bed, unable to sleep, hallucinating Amber. They're having a chat about why she's there. House suggests because it's his deeply subconscious desire to get Wilson in his bedroom.
Amber: Aren’t you curious about why I’m here?
[He finally opens his eyes. She’s sitting in the chair in the corner. She’s wearing her lab coat.]
House: Curious why no French maid’s outfit. No spanky pants.
Amber: I’m a hallucination, not a fantasy.
House: It’s insomnia. Four nights without REM sleep can cause p+
Amber: That might explain why you’re hallucinating. Doesn’t explain why you’re hallucinating Wilson’s dead girlfriend.
House: Probably just my secret and very unconscious desire to get Wilson into my bedroom.
As a hallucination, Amber is House's subconscious manifest. Works for me.
The presence of Amber takes on a more sinister tone starting at Chase's bachelor party where Chase goes into anaphylactic shock due to a stripper's strawberry-flavored body butter (the stripper was hired by House at the suggestion of Amber). House realizes he knew of Chase's allergy to strawberries, and wonders if his subconscious, Amber, hurt Chase on purpose. Chase recovers, but House realizes that he must get rid of Amber before something else happens.
In 5x23 "Under My Skin," House must solve his current medical case of a very sick ballerina, even while going to extreme measures (but nothing any more extreme than House-normal extreme), to rid himself of his continuing Amber hallucinations. House confides in Wilson about his hallucinations, but is afraid to tell Wilson whom he is really hallucinating. Simultaneously, Amber argues with House to reveal his true feelings to Wilson while House tries to avoid it.
Wilson: House…
House: I’m hallucinating.
Wilson: I’m… I’ll be right back.
[He follows House into the hall. House closes the office door.]
House: I need you to sit in on my differentials, double-check everything I do.
Wilson: You can’t treat patients.
House: It’s gotta be sleep apnea. I get a good night’s sleep and I still feel exhausted. Lack of delta sleep can lead to hallucinations. Wilson: Do you have any other neurological symptoms?
House: I don’t think so.
Wilson: Aphasia?
House: No.
Wilson: Memory loss?
House: Nope.
Wilson: Irritability?
House: Yeah! That one!
Amber: Don’t deflect. He cares about you. You care about him. Tell him you love him
Wilson: [talking at the same time as Amber] You shouldn’t be practicing. At least…
House: Enough! [Both Amber and Wilson stop talking.] Don’t give me the look. I told you I was hallucinating.
Wilson: [looking behind himself] Who were you talking to?
House: Someone who’s not actually here. Beyond that seems irrelevant.
Wilson: Your mind made a choice. It means something.
Amber: You know he’s just going to keep asking.
House: Kutner.
Amber: Good choice. He feels bad.
Later House accidently reveals that he's hallucinating Amber, not Kutner.
Wilson: Your subconscious picked my dead girlfriend?
House: Yeah. The irrational part of my brain works like the rational part of yours. How about that.
Wilson: It raises questions.
Amber: It answers questions.
House and Wilson write up a list of possible diagnoses, from MS to schizophrenia. House eliminates all possible diagnoses, but severe mental illness and potentially toxic Vicodin addiction.
In desperation, House gives himself insulin shock as a treatment. Right before he goes into shock, he calls Wilson and Wilson rushes upstairs to be by House's side.
After recovering from the resulting coma, House finds himself hallucination-free and returns to the diagnosis of his patient, but once again, he starts to have hallucinations of Wilson's dead girlfriend. House asks Cuddy to help him detox, and she spends the night at House's home, destroying Vicodin and monitoring House's detox. Then the morning House finds himself free of hallucinations and he and Cuddy have sex, but can House really trust what he sees?
In 5x24 "Both Sides Now," we learn that House and Cuddy's night together was only another hallucination and House checks himself into a mental institution and Wilson drops him off, his eyes all watery and sad. Jimmy's gonna miss his secret lover.
In closing, I'd like to underline the love these two men share, and have since episode 1, by repeating here something Wilson said to House in Season 4's "Don't Ever Change"
"Why not? Why not date you? It's brilliant! We've known each other for years, put up with all kinds of crap from each other, and we keep coming back. We're a couple!"
And what House said to Wilson in "97 Seconds" - "I love you." In summation: Wilson plus House equals love and secret sex.
This Law is spoken and shall not be rescinded unto all in perpetuity through-out the universe.
Season 6 - by![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
geelady
If you're a die-hard House fan who has already memorized every utterance from House or Wilson's mouth up to and including the sixth season of House MD, you don't need me to tell you who all the main characters are, and who's slept with who (or thought they did, or not), who married who (or not), and who quit and who didn't. I'm here to tell you which character ought to - for God's sake!! - start sleeping with which character, and why I think that.
With respect to all those Huddy fans out there, my firm, unshakable belief is that Hilson is the true love story in this series and has been since the beginning.
And if season 6 has given us anything, it's a firm slap on the rump that we have been calling the right play all along. Season 6 has been - er - stuffed with enough sexual innuendo and double entendre's to splice together a pretty fair soft-porn starring our favorite boys: Gregory House and James Wilson.
Since the show's conception, these two, it seems, have been portrayed as professional, masculine, hetero' men. But that's a big, stinkin' dump-truck-load of cow-pucks. You only have to watch them for an episode or two to catch on to the homo-erotic ripples under the surface.
These ripples have strong points-of-origin. Let's see what various and sundry 'ship-chips have plopped into the center of their moonlit limpid pool of desire, shall we? We'll concentrate on the current season as of this writing - Season 6.
6X01 titled "Broken" gave us a Wilson proxy in the name of Lydia, a woman who not only looked like a female James Wilson, she was almost as emotional. She (some how obtaining a visitor's to Mayfield that allowed her to do pretty much anything she wanted), be-friended House, kissed him, let him steal her car (and then didn't hardly complain about), had sex with him - then left him. And - oh yeah! - she was married at the time. Can you say conspicuous Wilson proxy??
The only scene in that two-parter episode that contained Wilson gave us a Wilson refusing to help House do some ill-advised digging into Nolan's background (Nolan being House's psychiatrist), so House could use it as leverage against Nolan, thereby extorting Nolan into letting House out early with his blessings. When he hung up on House, Wilson looked like he was going to cry.
Gentle readers, repeat after me: Wilson said no to House because he loved House too much to help him screw with Nolan, and so screw up his own chances for a full recovery. WilsonlovesHouseWilsonlovesHouseWilsonlovesHouseWilsonlovesHouse.
Shall we go on, my friends?
6X3"Epic Fail" was so Hilson, I kept checking my pulse to see if I was awake and that all those homoerotic hints were not just some lovely, lovely dream.
For example, House goes to Wilson's cooking class.
Cooking Teacher: In a lot of ways, cooking is like music. Different elements combine to make a symphony.
House: Difference is that Beethoven's 5th isn't gonna be poop tomorrow.
Wilson: What was my one condition for allowing you to tag along?
House: Try not to be a jerk. I'm trying. I’m just failing.
Wilson: Roll your meatballs and keep an open mind.
[Shot of House with a scheming smirk on his face]
Wilson: How hard are you trying not to make a ball joke right now?
House: (looking past Wilson) They're smoking. (Wilson looks at him questioningly) Your balls.
Wilson: (turning to see his meatballs smoking in the frying pan. He turns off the burner and grabs up the spatula) Ow. No, no. They're browning way too fast.
House: Blue is the color you got to watch out for.
Wilson: Enough. My God, they're – they're still raw inside. By the time they're cooked through, the outside will be burned.
House: I think there's a medicated powder for that. Although, vinegar could work. [House is looking for vinegar among a collection of bottles on the shelf]
My o-chem prof talked about how, theoretically, you shouldn't trust the results of a hemoglobin a1c test on a chronically acidotic patient. The acid in the blood slows the reaction between the hemoglobin protein and blood sugar. Browning meat is the same chemical process, which means, it should also be slowed by acid.
[House has poured some vinegar into a cup and is brushing it onto the meatballs in the frying pan]
Wilson: That actually makes sense. You might've... saved my balls.
House: (smiling) That's the spirit.
This exchange occurs, by the way, while House is looking at Wilson and talking about balls! Visual homoerotic signals, too. Oh, Lawd hep me!
And check out this, too:
Dr. Nolan: No, I didn't say you need a lame hobby. You need something to keep you engaged, connected to other people.
House: You already made me get a roommate. Wilson's got one bedroom. I don't think we can get any more connected without unzipping.
And this:
Wilson enters his apartment. House is folding laundry
House: If you wanted a quickie, you should've called ahead. I'm a mess.
House walks away singing: ♪You always hurt♪ ♪ The one you love♪
In 6x6 "Braveheart," [when he thinks he's caught House masturbating], Wilson mentions: Okay. I am not ready to transition from my dead girlfriend's shrine to your... morning glory.
So, we must infer that Wilson will eventually be ready. Hell - this manifesto is practically writing itself!
Nolan's insistence that House have a room-mate seems to have leaked over into travel arrangements and hotel stays. I mention that because House isn't exactly alone when he goes to a medical conference with Wilson and Cuddy in 6x7 "Known-Unknowns".
House is in a hotel with many, many people, including Cuddy and Wilson, yet House and Wilson share a hotel room. I'm not sure Nolan's insistence that House not be left alone means he can't even sleep in a hotel room by himself, because at home they don't share a bedroom. But it is interesting and 'shippily suspect that they do so while at the conference. House even got the bed nearest the bathroom at the hotel. That's Wilson's bottomless need to help and protect House raising its sugar-muffin head again. Adjoining rooms would have worked just as well - unless even Cuddy ships' Hilson (a distinct possibility since she's now doing it with Lucas (aka Mr. Sprinkles), and subconsciously wants Wilson to divert House's attention away from her).
Although there appears to be a lot of House/Cuddy (Cuddy flirts with House, but tells him she's not interested while hiding Lucas in her hotel room), the episode is really about House/Wilson. When House realizes that Wilson is going to sabotage his [Wilson's] career, House drugs Wilson, takes off his pants and recites the speech in Wilson's stead. Wilson rushes to the auditorium or conference area just in time for him to hear House (in his own Housian way) thank Wilson.
[House looks up and sees Wilson standing at the back of the room]
House: I was wrong when I wrote that. I've never given any less than my best. I am incapable of turning away from a responsibility. My friends take advantage of that fact far too often. I know that I gave that man everything I could. And I know that he knew that too.
At the end of the episode, Wilson, in turn, thanks House and looks at him with a look of such adoration and love.
Wilson: When you do what I did, it's not enough to tell yourself you did nothing wrong. You need to hear it from someone else. If not God or society, a friend. Otherwise you go crazy. What you said to me up there... Thank you. You're a good friend. Cuddy should know that. House: Yeah, you should let her know that I drugged you so you wouldn't confess to murder. Let's get out of here.
Later when House and Wilson go on what is clearly a double-date with Cuddy and Lucas, Cuddy dug her cavern-like hole just a little deeper by letting Lucas rattle on about House's institutionalization - revealing that Cuddy had happily spilled House's freshly scrubbed, private psyche all over her and Lucas's dinner table while sipping frothy cappuccinos. She hurt House badly and Wilson's attitude toward her at that moment was not what a person would describe as thrilled. I could practically see the steam billowing out of his ears.
What was my point with all of this? Oh, yeah - even if House is hurting bad, bad, bad over her, Wilson's going to make everything good, good, good again. In fact, Wilson pulled one of the sweetest, caveman, he-man moves I've ever seen emerge from his dishwater, underwear ironing ways: He purchased an expensive loft for himself and House by out-bidding Cuddy on said loft!
And that leads us to 6x10 "Wilson," an episode that makes it clear that House loves Wilson and Wilson loves House. The episode starts with House waking up a sleepy Wilson in the morning with an acoustic rendition of George Michael's "Faith." House gets jealous when Wilson mentions his day-time date with his friend, Tucker, whom Wilson became friends with after Wilson treated Tucker for cancer.
House calls Tucker a "self-important jerk." Wilson replies, "That seems to be what I'm attracted to."
During their hunting expedition, Tucker's cancer returns. Wilson aggressively treats the cancer, but due to the chemo Tucker needs a liver transplant. Tucker then guilts Wilson into donating a lobe of his liver. House, feeling protective of Wilson, objects and then opens himself up emotionally to Wilson.
House: (looking Wilson right in the eye and sounding emotionally vulnerable) Because if you die, I'm alone.
[He looks away and sits back down behind his desk, rubbing his leg]
[Wilson, looking confused, leaves the office. He pauses for a moment outside the door and than heads on down the hall]
When Wilson is about to go under, he smiles when he notices House watching from above in the OR observation deck. Afterwards, there is a montage of House sitting by Wilson's bedside and House and Wilson laughing. Wilson has his own epiphany in this episode when after the surgery he talks to Tucker and he realizes that the person he wants with him (whether he's living or dying) is House.
Then House and Wilson have a conversation about change:
House: You don't feel angry?
Wilson: Ah. I'm a little disappointed.
House: Disappointment is anger for wimps. You don't have to be so gentle about everything. It's okay to get angry once in a while. Wilson: You can't change a table.
House: Actually, you can. Just need a coat of paint and the guts to use it.
Then Wilson calls Bonnie and outbids Cuddy for the loft (under the pretense of punishing Cuddy), but really it's because he's decided the person he wants with him when he's living and when he's dying is House. The smile and the happy look on House's face when Wilson says that "we need a bigger refridgater" and that Wilson will change "our address to a p.o. box" so Cuddy won't find out right away what they've done, says it all.
Wilson sees that now I'm sure, gentle readers. When Cuddy broke House's heart, Wilson's heart broke for him - it was written all over his face. Wilson then confirmed his love for House by swinging his club and grunting: "She hurt my friend. She should be punished." [6x10 "Wilson"].
In conclusion: Wilson is pathologically protective of House, has secretly desired him for years, but used to camouflage his secret in serial hetero-dating, eventually living with a female that was obviously a proxy of House.
A-n-d...
House has been and always will be helplessly obsessed with Wilson and wants him in his bedroom, like, yesterday!
Thank you for taking this brief cruise with me through Season 6's heavily Hilson-ish waters. Indeed, this 'ship shall come in.
This concludes our time together, gentle readers, but please join me next year when we'll examine the various positions in which Wilson and House have finally "done it".
Glossary:
Ship's (short for "relationship") - No, not sea-going vessels, but those who desire a relationship between specific characters, often in contrast (or in addition) to what's happening on the series itself. Two or more people can be 'shipped together. Hetero', homo', bi'...whatever grabs!
Sapphic - gay, homosexual, homoerotic, etc, etc...
Huddy (that, in case you missed it, means House & Cuddy) - people who want House and Cuddy to eventually do the deed and declare love for each other. (You who were there when Bennifer and Brangelina were born will, I trust, recognize the Hollywood super couple - also known as a power couple, love-duo lingo).
Hilson (also can be abbreviated to H/W) - people who '"ship" (want them together in a romantic relationship) House and Wilson, and want them to finally do the deed already and release the fans from the agony of years of hot, throbbing sexual tension - damn it!
Bromance - Wilson and House's relationship as it stands now; closer than brothers but not a romance - though neither just friends. Presently, Hilson still drifts among the backwaters of bonafide romantic love.
Mr Sprinkles: nickname for Lucas (because of his ice cream truck vehicle in 5x2 said "Mr. Sprinkles" on the side).
Recommended House/Wilson-centric Episodes By Season:
Season 3
3x07 "Son of a Coma Guy"
3x08 "Whac-A-Mole"
3x09 "Finding Judas"
3x10 "Merry Little Christmas"
3x11 "Words and Deeds"
3x19 "Act Your Age"
3x20 "House Training"
3x21 "Family"
3x22 "Resignation"
Season 4
4x01 "Alone"
4x03 "97 Seconds"
4x11 "Frozen"
4x12 "Don't Ever Change"
4x13 "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
Season 5
5x01 "Dying Changes Everything"
5x04 "Birthmarks"
5x05 "Lucky Thirteen"
5x17 "The Social Contract"
5x22 "A House Divided"
5x23 "Under My Skin" except for the last five minutes
5x24 "Both Sides Now"
Season 6
6x03 "Epic Fail"
6x04 "The Tyrant"
6x06 "Brave Heart"
6x07 "Known Unknowns"
6x10 "Wilson"
6x11 "The Down Low"
6x15 "Private Lives"
6x16 "Black Hole"
House/Wilson Related Communities/Websites/Links
House/Wilson seasons 1-2 Shipping Manifesto bypun
25 Reasons To Make House/Wilson Your OTP bypyro_manical
Why House/Wilson Is The Best Slash Ship of the Decade byxguardianangelx
Season 6 Summary Picspam byranrata
house_wilson - main House/Wilson community
greglovesjimmy - House/Wilson slash community
broke_brain - Did House/Wilson break your brain? Join for insanity, fun and hoyay.
housewilsonlol - capslock/regular fandom mix for House/Wilson.
hw_reqs - House/Wilson recs and requests
the_smut_couch -House/Wilson smut fic
h_us_w - Makes You Feel Funny, Good: Camp HoYay
wilsondiary - House/Wilson comm for non-English speakers.
hilsonbr - House/Wilson Brasilian Fan comm
h_w_translators - House/Wilson comm for non-English speakers.
hilson_forever - House/Wilson comm for non-English speakers
Arts/Graphics
housewilson_art - House/Wilson art and graphics community
hw_graphics - House/Wilson graphics community
cane_n_tie - House/Wilson graphics community (closed to new members, but it can still be viewed)
Fests/Prompts/Challenges
hw_fest - House/Wilson Fest
historical_hw - a fic prompt/challenge community about House/Wilson throughout the history.
Non-LJ sites:
Fuck Yeah House/Wilson! - House/Wilson on Tumblr.
I Love You: House/Wilson thread at House's House of Whining
Equally Damaged: An Everything House/Wilson Recommendation Site
We Can Rule The World: House/Wilson Fanlisting
Other LJ comms of interest:
house_slash - a general House slash comm (all slash House MD ships)
lgbt_house - discussing the LGBT aspects of House MD.
Authors: (listed in alphabetical order):
geelady, graceasaur, and lilapaddy.Pairing: House/Wilson
Fandom: House MD
Spoilers: spoilers for seasons 3-6.
Notes: screencaps are courtesy of House M.D. HD Screencaps,
lusciousspike, and theunknownsoul. Quotes for seasons 5 and 6 are courtesy of clinic_duty, a House MD transcript community.Please note that these are their opinions on why they love House/Wilson and how they view the pairing. Your interpretation of the pairing and how you view the individuals involved in the pairing may differ.
Season 5 - by
geelady How House Went Insane and Why Wilson Loves Him For It.
At the end of season 4, House and Amber were badly hurt in a bus accident. At Wilson's request, House tried deep brain stimulation and risked his mind and his life trying to save Amber, but she died.
Season 5 opens with the appropriately titled "Dying Changes Everything", and in this episode it's obvious that Amber's death has strained the House/Wilson relationship. Wilson comes back from leave after two months of grieving and we learn that Wilson hasn't spoken to House since then. Wilson informs House that he's leaving PPTH and cruelly tells House that they were never friends. The episode ends with Wilson walking out of his office and House forlornly staring at him.
In the next two episodes, we are introduced to Lucas, whom House hires to follow Wilson and keep tabs on his grieving friend.
During Wilson's self-imposed exile, there is one slashy conversation that takes place in the cafeteria between House and Dr. O'Shea:
(House looks around, quickly grabs a tray and a slice of cake in a container. He comes up behind a doctor by the cash register.]
House: Put this on Dr. O'Shea. And some chips.
O’Shea: Forget your wallet, House?
House: No.
O’Shea: I'll take care of it.
House: Check.
O’Shea: Are you following me?
House: Word is you're into monster trucks.
O’Shea: My kids like it.
House: But not you?
O’Shea: Predator's okay, but I think the California crusher is overrated....Are you checking me out?
House: You're astute. No.
O’Shea: How many pills did you just take?
House: Vicodin, opioids, some B12. Need a little kick in the afternoon. You got a problem with that? [O’Shea ignores him and picks up some food from his tray.] I think I'm falling in love.
Foreman: Her right eye's failing.
House: No, it's not. Everyone else's transplanted organs were fine. It means her eye is fine.
Foreman: We need to remove the eye.
House: It's her only working eye.
Foreman: We could remove the other one, but since it's not killing her, I thought this way was less insane.
House: [to O’Shea] Do you have some ethical problem with what I'm doing that you could express in a unique way which might actually make me think that I'm wrong even though I'll never admit it?
(House misses Wilson's endless lecturing, epiphany-sparking ways. All together now: A-w-w-w-w-w-w).
O’Shea: Yes.
House: You are funny.
[House to Foreman]: The problem's not in her eye. It's in her head.
[House to O’Shea]: You wanna come over and watch Prescription Passion at my place tonight?
O’Shea: You know I'm not gay, right?
House: Neither am I. If you don't want to have sex, that's cool with me.
O’Shea: I'm not coming over to your home.
House: I'll grow on you.
Yes. Yes, he does. So House would probably have had sex if O'Shea had been into it. This underlined that House has probably had sex with a man before and knows where everything goes. Probably way back when. And probably with someone he liked. Probably with Wilson. We all suspected. Just for the record, no love affair blossoms between House and O'Shea.
[House and Lucas hiding in an ice cream truck outside of O'Shea's home]
Lucas: You're supposed to trust friends.
House: I don't know the guy. I got no logical reason —
Lucas: To be his friend? Have you never seen an after-school special? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
House: You're taking pictures of a guy who's having an affair with his own sister. And you're lecturing me about the rewards of trust. Lucas: There are two types of people that hire me. No, actually, there are three types of people that hire me, but the third type's irrelevant to the point I want to make.
House: Do you have a special rate plan for being a pain in the ass?
Lucas: One type wants to find out that they're right. One type wants to find out that they're wrong.
House: Which type am I?
Lucas: You're the third type.
House: You lead with the irrelevant types?
Lucas: You're the type that doesn't care if you're right or wrong because they've hired me to investigate the wrong person.
House: That's an actual type?
Lucas: You want me to check out Wilson. You want to find out if he's —
House: How do you know about Wilson?
Lucas: What do I do for a living?
House: You checking me out? Have I've been paying for that?
Lucas: So far, you haven't paid for anything. You want to find out he's pining. You want to find out if there's something about him that will tell you he's gonna come back or something you can use to make him come back.
Later in the episode, House is desperate for Wilson to come back and he knocks on Wilson's door.
[Cut to loud knock on a door. Wilson answers it. It’s daylight and House has changed his clothes.]
House: I need an epiphany.
[Wilson stares at him, tight-lipped.]
House: What are you billing out at, $300 an hour? Here's four. [He offers the money to Wilson who doesn’t take it.]
Wilson: There are other oncologists.
House: Better oncologists. But I need you.
[He balls up the money and throws it past Wilson into the apartment.]
House: Let me describe the symptoms, problems, issues, and you say whatever you feel like saying, until something triggers an idea in my head.
Wilson: That's not the way it works.
House: You have a way of thinking about things. It's sloppy, it's undisciplined, it's not very linear. It complements mine. It drives me down avenues that I wouldn't otherwise —
House is then interrupted by Wilson telling House to go away. House leaves, but he hasn't given up on Wilson and at the end of the episode, House puts Lucas on retainer and has Lucas follow Wilson.
In 5x4 Birthmarks, House loses someone - his dad dies. House refuses to attend the funeral and is okay with that. But Cuddy, Taub, Thirteen and, we soon learn, Wilson, are not. So they knock House out with some drugs (that's always a safe thing to do to a guy recovering from a skull fracture and whose blood is already a soup of alcohol, opiates and Vicodin, Cuddy! Wilson! Hel-l-o-o-o!), and drag him kicking and screa...well unconscious to his father's funeral where his mom (and Wilson) want him to lie to a group of strangers about what a great guy his dad was, and how he and his dad loved each other. but of course, we know differently.
Interesting how everyone despises House's lying, yet encourages it when they think it'll benefit themselves, or people they've never met whom they think need the delusion for some reason. Yes, Wilson, Cuddy, I am once more addressing YOU.
So, Daddy House is dead, House lets Wilson in on the real reason he ran away - 'cause Wilson loves House the most and doesn't want to lose him.
House: "I knew you couldn't stay away. I knew you loved me too much."
During the road trip to the funeral, Wilson is pulled over and arrested for fleeing the state of Louisiana years ago. We then learn how House and Wilson met – House saw Wilson at a medical conference in New Orleans, stalked him and bailed him out of jail.
Wilson: I was at the hotel bar trying to unwind, have a drink. There was this guy who kept playing Billy Joel’s "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" on the jukebox.
Costello: "Leave a Tender Moment" is a good song.
House: It's a great song. He was out of line.
Costello: Not as good as "Scenes from an Italian restaurant" or
Wilson: So I — I asked the man to stop, politely.
House: Yeah, you yelled politely.
Wilson: I was polite the first couple of times, but courtesy made no impression on this ass. So I threw a bottle into the mirror, which successfully conveyed my message.
House: And smashed a ten-foot antique mirror. And set an example to two other patrons who threw shot glasses.
Wilson: I had nothing to do with that fight. The assault charge was totally bogus. And I paid for the mirror.
Costello: I think I have the picture. I assume you're the guy who was playing the song.
House: No, I was the guy who bailed him out.
Wilson: That's how we met. I was in jail.
Costello: This guy was a total stranger to you, and you bailed him out?
House: It was a boring convention. Had to have somebody to drink with.
Wilson: And there's the foundation of our entire friendship. If you hadn't been bored one weekend, it wouldn't even exist.
House: Hey, there were 3,000 people at that convention. You were the one I thought wasn't boring. That says something.
For House, not being boring is a high compliment and he tells Wilson and Wilson repeats this at the end of the episode, thus showing that he feels the same way, but that's not the only slashiness in this episode.
After House's eulogy, Wilson and House have a fight that superficially appears to be about Amber and House's antics (taking a piece of skin from his dad's corpse to test for DNA), but is really all about their relationship.
House: Oh, cut the crap. You enjoy what I do. I never had to force you. You like coming along for the ride.
Wilson: Yes, that's why I'm cheering you on now.
House: This is about you needing to be prepared for the worst. So you become an oncologist. No surprises there. Worst happens all the time. But Amber, she was young and healthy. Her death came out of nowhere.
Wilson: Don't bring Amber into this.
House: And you weren't ready. That makes you angry. The world sucks, and you didn't have time to brace yourself.
Wilson: What happened out there is your show!
House: You're scared to death of losing anyone that matters. So you dump the person who matters the most to you!
Wilson: I'm not scared to death. I'm moving forward!
House: Because no one can take away from you what you no longer have.
Wilson: Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho. Your father's death is about you. Amber's death is about you. I can't imagine why someone wouldn't want to be your friend!
House: Admit it, you're angry and you're scared of losing me.
Wilson: I'm not angry, I'm not scared.
House: Admit it.
Wilson: I'm not afraid.
House: Admit it.
Wilson: I've lost people. It happens.
House: Admit it. Admit it!
Wilson: What are you, five? Stop repeating —
House: Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Admit it. Come on, admit it. Admit it!
[With a cry, Wilson picks up a liquor bottle and flings it — through a stained glass window. They both stare.]
House: Still not boring.
Notice that while House is arguing with him, Wilson does not deny that House matters the most to him and that he's terrified of losing him.
[Cut to a diner. Wilson and House are in a booth.]
Wilson: Did you know I was gonna do that? Because I didn't know I was gonna do that.
House: I know you have trouble losing people. In New Orleans, I saw you carrying this express package around the conference. And you wouldn't let it go, but you wouldn't open it. So I peeked at the return address.
Wilson: Diamond, Fairbairn.
House: Divorce attorneys. Your first wife had just served you with papers.
Wilson: Did you know that when you bailed me out? Were you… doing something nice for me?
House: What did I say about being boring?
In 5x11 "Joy to the World," House receives a Christmas present from a "secret admirer" - or so his team suspects. Of course, it's just House screwing with them. Later this exchange happens between Wilson, Kutner and Taub:
[Cut to Wilson’s office. He’s going through a file. Taub and Kutner are there.]
Wilson: If it‘s a subpoena, he’s gotten that kind of present before.
Taub: It was a book.
Wilson: That narrows it down. Just look for someone who knows how to read or has been to a bookstore.
Taub: Most bookstores don’t carry Joseph Bell “On Surgery.”
Wilson: Did it have a note?
Kutner: "Greg, made me think of you."
Make a note of this note! Wilson writes to House: "Greg - made me think of you." Overtly sweet, wouldn't you agree? When has Wilson ever called House "Greg"? Ever?! Or waxed sentimental over House and then putting it in a note? Or admitted anything ever makes him think of House. Or waxing sentimental over House in any other fashion? Suspiciously Hilsonous, me-thinks.
Wilson then admits to writing the love-struck words: "I could be wrong. It’s possible a secret admirer gave House the same book I gave him last Christmas. And the same paper I wrapped it in. And the note I wrote."
Afterward, we hear this observation from Taub once House realizes his team knows he's just been screwing with them:
House: You talked to Wilson.
Taub: He has very girly handwriting, by the way.
Ha! We always suspected.
Later House and Wilson have an interesting personal exchange in the cafeteria.
Wilson: Completely meaningless prank, even for you.
[Wilson gets another ice cream sandwich]
House: Stealing your ice cream is a completely meaningless, albeit delicious prank. Observing my team’s reactions to unexplained phenomena could’ve been pretty useful.
Wilson: Of all the ways to mess with people, why give yourself an imaginary present?
House: Have you checked the prices for firemen strippers recently?
Wilson: Yes. [House stares at the object of his future passion].
In 5x14 "The Greater Good", Cuddy is angry at House and physically tortures him by making him climb stairs and tripping him - causing him real physical pain and blood loss. It's Wilson who finally has to point out to her that this is possibly not the best route to establishing a relationship.
In 5x16, "The Softer Side," House tries methadone to get off the Vicodin. At first, both Wilson and Cuddy are worried that the methadone is dangerous especially when they find House not breathing. After reviving House, Wilson and Cuddy lecture him. Cuddy tells House that he can't work at PPTH if he's on methadone and House quits. Wilson later realizes that House is happy and that they made a mistake in dictating to House how he should live his life, but Cuddy doesn't see it that way.
[Cut to Cuddy’s office, Wilson is there waiting, when Cuddy enters]
Wilson: We made a mistake.
Cuddy: No, we didn't.
Wilson: The methadone's good for him. Cuddy: The methadone is gonna kill him.
Wilson: He shaved. He was wearing a tie. He has a meeting at St. Sebastian.
Cuddy: If he buys a new pair of shoes, should we let him smoke crack?
Wilson: Cuddy, he's happy.
Cuddy: House doesn't do happy, pain or no pain.
Wilson: Okay, maybe, but, he's our friend. And this is his one chance to not be miserable.
Later in the episode, House decides to give up methadone because it's interfering with his ability to solve puzzles (the one thing that he prizes most of all). Cuddy insistently demands he take the methadone because she thinks he's afraid of happiness (and having a relationship with her).
Cuddy: You're afraid of change. The one thing you have is your intellect. You think if that's compromised, you have nothing. (She holds up the dose of methadone) Just take it.
House: No.
Cuddy: Don't do this.
House: It's already done. (He throws the methadone in the wastebasket and grabs a hospital cane which is propped against the wall) This is the only me you get.
In the end, it's clear that Wilson wants House to be happy whether House is with him or not. Cuddy wants House on her own terms, not his.
In the next episode [5x17 "The Social Contract"], House becomes obsessed with finding out what secret Wilson is hiding from him. After House has his team get a locked patient's file from Wilson's computer, House becomes worried when he sees Wilson's name on the file and discovers that the doctor is a psychiatrist. Later House uncovers the truth: the patient is not Wilson, but Wilson's schizophrenic brother, Danny. At the end, House and Wilson talk about their relationship and why it works for them. During this conversation, Wilson gives House the ASL sign for "love."
House: Does it bother you that we have no social contract?
Wilson: (laughs) My whole life is one big compromise. I tiptoe around everyone like they're made of china. I spend all my time analyzing: What will the effect be if I say this? Then there's you. You're a reality junkie. If I offered you a comforting lie, you'd smack me over the head with it. Let's not change that.
House: Okay.
Wilson: No, see, this — if you were implementing the social contract, you'd say that, but only because… It makes me feel better…
House: It is kind of fun watching you torture yourself.
Wilson: Do you think things will work out with my brother?
[The elevator arrives at the ground floor. House and Wilson step out and head toward the exit]
House: No. But when it does go wrong, it won't be your fault.
Wilson: Thanks, House.
During 5x20 "Simple Explanation," House loses one of his fellows, Kutner, who commits suicide. House is convinced, however, that Kutner was murdered. In the end, when it is revealed that Kutner did indeed take his own life, House is worried that he's losing his mind. House and Wilson then have a conversation that foreshadows what is to come in the rest of season 5.
Wilson: You’re in pain.
House: And you’re romanticizing. Again.
Wilson: You worked with him every day for two years and you never saw this coming.
House: No one saw it coming.
Wilson: But you see everything coming. This has never been about what you missed. This is about why you missed it. You’re terrified that you’re losing your gift, losing… who you are. And I’m terrified of what you’d do then.
Just like House reassured Wilson at the end of 5x17, Wilson tries to reassure House when House is worried that he's lost his diagnostic skills. Wilson pretends to go on a healthy diet and House, being obsessive as he is, notices Wilson's changing eating habits. House, of course, figures it out.
House: I've been mooching food from you for ten years. So either something bothered you this week, or you're-
Wilson: Screwing with you. It needed to be done. When Amber died, I withdrew, tried to change everything get everything sorted out, find some deeper truth... It was a mistake. I should have gone back to normal. To here and now. Cause that's all we can ever really count on. Things need to get back to normal in your life. . .And. . What could be more normal than me screwing with you? And you figuring it out?
House [smiling]: You manipulative bitch
At the end of 5x20, Wilson is worried about House and rightfully so because at the end of 5x21 "Saviors," Amber suddenly appears to House in a hallucination, congratulating him for solving another case and saying "looks like you're not losing it after all".
5x22 "A House Divided," starts with House lying in his bed, unable to sleep, hallucinating Amber. They're having a chat about why she's there. House suggests because it's his deeply subconscious desire to get Wilson in his bedroom.
Amber: Aren’t you curious about why I’m here?
[He finally opens his eyes. She’s sitting in the chair in the corner. She’s wearing her lab coat.]
House: Curious why no French maid’s outfit. No spanky pants.
Amber: I’m a hallucination, not a fantasy.
House: It’s insomnia. Four nights without REM sleep can cause p+
Amber: That might explain why you’re hallucinating. Doesn’t explain why you’re hallucinating Wilson’s dead girlfriend.
House: Probably just my secret and very unconscious desire to get Wilson into my bedroom.
As a hallucination, Amber is House's subconscious manifest. Works for me.
The presence of Amber takes on a more sinister tone starting at Chase's bachelor party where Chase goes into anaphylactic shock due to a stripper's strawberry-flavored body butter (the stripper was hired by House at the suggestion of Amber). House realizes he knew of Chase's allergy to strawberries, and wonders if his subconscious, Amber, hurt Chase on purpose. Chase recovers, but House realizes that he must get rid of Amber before something else happens.
In 5x23 "Under My Skin," House must solve his current medical case of a very sick ballerina, even while going to extreme measures (but nothing any more extreme than House-normal extreme), to rid himself of his continuing Amber hallucinations. House confides in Wilson about his hallucinations, but is afraid to tell Wilson whom he is really hallucinating. Simultaneously, Amber argues with House to reveal his true feelings to Wilson while House tries to avoid it.
Wilson: House…
House: I’m hallucinating.
Wilson: I’m… I’ll be right back.
[He follows House into the hall. House closes the office door.]
House: I need you to sit in on my differentials, double-check everything I do.
Wilson: You can’t treat patients.
House: It’s gotta be sleep apnea. I get a good night’s sleep and I still feel exhausted. Lack of delta sleep can lead to hallucinations. Wilson: Do you have any other neurological symptoms?
House: I don’t think so.
Wilson: Aphasia?
House: No.
Wilson: Memory loss?
House: Nope.
Wilson: Irritability?
House: Yeah! That one!
Amber: Don’t deflect. He cares about you. You care about him. Tell him you love him
Wilson: [talking at the same time as Amber] You shouldn’t be practicing. At least…
House: Enough! [Both Amber and Wilson stop talking.] Don’t give me the look. I told you I was hallucinating.
Wilson: [looking behind himself] Who were you talking to?
House: Someone who’s not actually here. Beyond that seems irrelevant.
Wilson: Your mind made a choice. It means something.
Amber: You know he’s just going to keep asking.
House: Kutner.
Amber: Good choice. He feels bad.
Later House accidently reveals that he's hallucinating Amber, not Kutner.
Wilson: Your subconscious picked my dead girlfriend?
House: Yeah. The irrational part of my brain works like the rational part of yours. How about that.
Wilson: It raises questions.
Amber: It answers questions.
House and Wilson write up a list of possible diagnoses, from MS to schizophrenia. House eliminates all possible diagnoses, but severe mental illness and potentially toxic Vicodin addiction.
In desperation, House gives himself insulin shock as a treatment. Right before he goes into shock, he calls Wilson and Wilson rushes upstairs to be by House's side.
After recovering from the resulting coma, House finds himself hallucination-free and returns to the diagnosis of his patient, but once again, he starts to have hallucinations of Wilson's dead girlfriend. House asks Cuddy to help him detox, and she spends the night at House's home, destroying Vicodin and monitoring House's detox. Then the morning House finds himself free of hallucinations and he and Cuddy have sex, but can House really trust what he sees?
In 5x24 "Both Sides Now," we learn that House and Cuddy's night together was only another hallucination and House checks himself into a mental institution and Wilson drops him off, his eyes all watery and sad. Jimmy's gonna miss his secret lover.
In closing, I'd like to underline the love these two men share, and have since episode 1, by repeating here something Wilson said to House in Season 4's "Don't Ever Change"
"Why not? Why not date you? It's brilliant! We've known each other for years, put up with all kinds of crap from each other, and we keep coming back. We're a couple!"
And what House said to Wilson in "97 Seconds" - "I love you." In summation: Wilson plus House equals love and secret sex.
This Law is spoken and shall not be rescinded unto all in perpetuity through-out the universe.
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geelady If you're a die-hard House fan who has already memorized every utterance from House or Wilson's mouth up to and including the sixth season of House MD, you don't need me to tell you who all the main characters are, and who's slept with who (or thought they did, or not), who married who (or not), and who quit and who didn't. I'm here to tell you which character ought to - for God's sake!! - start sleeping with which character, and why I think that.
With respect to all those Huddy fans out there, my firm, unshakable belief is that Hilson is the true love story in this series and has been since the beginning.
And if season 6 has given us anything, it's a firm slap on the rump that we have been calling the right play all along. Season 6 has been - er - stuffed with enough sexual innuendo and double entendre's to splice together a pretty fair soft-porn starring our favorite boys: Gregory House and James Wilson.
Since the show's conception, these two, it seems, have been portrayed as professional, masculine, hetero' men. But that's a big, stinkin' dump-truck-load of cow-pucks. You only have to watch them for an episode or two to catch on to the homo-erotic ripples under the surface.
These ripples have strong points-of-origin. Let's see what various and sundry 'ship-chips have plopped into the center of their moonlit limpid pool of desire, shall we? We'll concentrate on the current season as of this writing - Season 6.
6X01 titled "Broken" gave us a Wilson proxy in the name of Lydia, a woman who not only looked like a female James Wilson, she was almost as emotional. She (some how obtaining a visitor's to Mayfield that allowed her to do pretty much anything she wanted), be-friended House, kissed him, let him steal her car (and then didn't hardly complain about), had sex with him - then left him. And - oh yeah! - she was married at the time. Can you say conspicuous Wilson proxy??
The only scene in that two-parter episode that contained Wilson gave us a Wilson refusing to help House do some ill-advised digging into Nolan's background (Nolan being House's psychiatrist), so House could use it as leverage against Nolan, thereby extorting Nolan into letting House out early with his blessings. When he hung up on House, Wilson looked like he was going to cry.
Gentle readers, repeat after me: Wilson said no to House because he loved House too much to help him screw with Nolan, and so screw up his own chances for a full recovery. WilsonlovesHouseWilsonlovesHouseWilsonlovesHouseWilsonlovesHouse.
Shall we go on, my friends?
6X3"Epic Fail" was so Hilson, I kept checking my pulse to see if I was awake and that all those homoerotic hints were not just some lovely, lovely dream.
For example, House goes to Wilson's cooking class.
Cooking Teacher: In a lot of ways, cooking is like music. Different elements combine to make a symphony.
House: Difference is that Beethoven's 5th isn't gonna be poop tomorrow.
Wilson: What was my one condition for allowing you to tag along?
House: Try not to be a jerk. I'm trying. I’m just failing.
Wilson: Roll your meatballs and keep an open mind.
[Shot of House with a scheming smirk on his face]
Wilson: How hard are you trying not to make a ball joke right now?
House: (looking past Wilson) They're smoking. (Wilson looks at him questioningly) Your balls.
Wilson: (turning to see his meatballs smoking in the frying pan. He turns off the burner and grabs up the spatula) Ow. No, no. They're browning way too fast.
House: Blue is the color you got to watch out for.
Wilson: Enough. My God, they're – they're still raw inside. By the time they're cooked through, the outside will be burned.
House: I think there's a medicated powder for that. Although, vinegar could work. [House is looking for vinegar among a collection of bottles on the shelf]
My o-chem prof talked about how, theoretically, you shouldn't trust the results of a hemoglobin a1c test on a chronically acidotic patient. The acid in the blood slows the reaction between the hemoglobin protein and blood sugar. Browning meat is the same chemical process, which means, it should also be slowed by acid.
[House has poured some vinegar into a cup and is brushing it onto the meatballs in the frying pan]
Wilson: That actually makes sense. You might've... saved my balls.
House: (smiling) That's the spirit.
This exchange occurs, by the way, while House is looking at Wilson and talking about balls! Visual homoerotic signals, too. Oh, Lawd hep me!
And check out this, too:
Dr. Nolan: No, I didn't say you need a lame hobby. You need something to keep you engaged, connected to other people.
House: You already made me get a roommate. Wilson's got one bedroom. I don't think we can get any more connected without unzipping.
And this:
Wilson enters his apartment. House is folding laundry
House: If you wanted a quickie, you should've called ahead. I'm a mess.
House walks away singing: ♪You always hurt♪ ♪ The one you love♪
In 6x6 "Braveheart," [when he thinks he's caught House masturbating], Wilson mentions: Okay. I am not ready to transition from my dead girlfriend's shrine to your... morning glory.
So, we must infer that Wilson will eventually be ready. Hell - this manifesto is practically writing itself!
Nolan's insistence that House have a room-mate seems to have leaked over into travel arrangements and hotel stays. I mention that because House isn't exactly alone when he goes to a medical conference with Wilson and Cuddy in 6x7 "Known-Unknowns".
House is in a hotel with many, many people, including Cuddy and Wilson, yet House and Wilson share a hotel room. I'm not sure Nolan's insistence that House not be left alone means he can't even sleep in a hotel room by himself, because at home they don't share a bedroom. But it is interesting and 'shippily suspect that they do so while at the conference. House even got the bed nearest the bathroom at the hotel. That's Wilson's bottomless need to help and protect House raising its sugar-muffin head again. Adjoining rooms would have worked just as well - unless even Cuddy ships' Hilson (a distinct possibility since she's now doing it with Lucas (aka Mr. Sprinkles), and subconsciously wants Wilson to divert House's attention away from her).
Although there appears to be a lot of House/Cuddy (Cuddy flirts with House, but tells him she's not interested while hiding Lucas in her hotel room), the episode is really about House/Wilson. When House realizes that Wilson is going to sabotage his [Wilson's] career, House drugs Wilson, takes off his pants and recites the speech in Wilson's stead. Wilson rushes to the auditorium or conference area just in time for him to hear House (in his own Housian way) thank Wilson.
[House looks up and sees Wilson standing at the back of the room]
House: I was wrong when I wrote that. I've never given any less than my best. I am incapable of turning away from a responsibility. My friends take advantage of that fact far too often. I know that I gave that man everything I could. And I know that he knew that too.
At the end of the episode, Wilson, in turn, thanks House and looks at him with a look of such adoration and love.
Wilson: When you do what I did, it's not enough to tell yourself you did nothing wrong. You need to hear it from someone else. If not God or society, a friend. Otherwise you go crazy. What you said to me up there... Thank you. You're a good friend. Cuddy should know that. House: Yeah, you should let her know that I drugged you so you wouldn't confess to murder. Let's get out of here.
Later when House and Wilson go on what is clearly a double-date with Cuddy and Lucas, Cuddy dug her cavern-like hole just a little deeper by letting Lucas rattle on about House's institutionalization - revealing that Cuddy had happily spilled House's freshly scrubbed, private psyche all over her and Lucas's dinner table while sipping frothy cappuccinos. She hurt House badly and Wilson's attitude toward her at that moment was not what a person would describe as thrilled. I could practically see the steam billowing out of his ears.
What was my point with all of this? Oh, yeah - even if House is hurting bad, bad, bad over her, Wilson's going to make everything good, good, good again. In fact, Wilson pulled one of the sweetest, caveman, he-man moves I've ever seen emerge from his dishwater, underwear ironing ways: He purchased an expensive loft for himself and House by out-bidding Cuddy on said loft!
And that leads us to 6x10 "Wilson," an episode that makes it clear that House loves Wilson and Wilson loves House. The episode starts with House waking up a sleepy Wilson in the morning with an acoustic rendition of George Michael's "Faith." House gets jealous when Wilson mentions his day-time date with his friend, Tucker, whom Wilson became friends with after Wilson treated Tucker for cancer.
House calls Tucker a "self-important jerk." Wilson replies, "That seems to be what I'm attracted to."
During their hunting expedition, Tucker's cancer returns. Wilson aggressively treats the cancer, but due to the chemo Tucker needs a liver transplant. Tucker then guilts Wilson into donating a lobe of his liver. House, feeling protective of Wilson, objects and then opens himself up emotionally to Wilson.
House: (looking Wilson right in the eye and sounding emotionally vulnerable) Because if you die, I'm alone.
[He looks away and sits back down behind his desk, rubbing his leg]
[Wilson, looking confused, leaves the office. He pauses for a moment outside the door and than heads on down the hall]
When Wilson is about to go under, he smiles when he notices House watching from above in the OR observation deck. Afterwards, there is a montage of House sitting by Wilson's bedside and House and Wilson laughing. Wilson has his own epiphany in this episode when after the surgery he talks to Tucker and he realizes that the person he wants with him (whether he's living or dying) is House.
Then House and Wilson have a conversation about change:House: You don't feel angry?
Wilson: Ah. I'm a little disappointed.
House: Disappointment is anger for wimps. You don't have to be so gentle about everything. It's okay to get angry once in a while. Wilson: You can't change a table.
House: Actually, you can. Just need a coat of paint and the guts to use it.
Then Wilson calls Bonnie and outbids Cuddy for the loft (under the pretense of punishing Cuddy), but really it's because he's decided the person he wants with him when he's living and when he's dying is House. The smile and the happy look on House's face when Wilson says that "we need a bigger refridgater" and that Wilson will change "our address to a p.o. box" so Cuddy won't find out right away what they've done, says it all.
Wilson sees that now I'm sure, gentle readers. When Cuddy broke House's heart, Wilson's heart broke for him - it was written all over his face. Wilson then confirmed his love for House by swinging his club and grunting: "She hurt my friend. She should be punished." [6x10 "Wilson"].
In conclusion: Wilson is pathologically protective of House, has secretly desired him for years, but used to camouflage his secret in serial hetero-dating, eventually living with a female that was obviously a proxy of House.
A-n-d...
House has been and always will be helplessly obsessed with Wilson and wants him in his bedroom, like, yesterday!
Thank you for taking this brief cruise with me through Season 6's heavily Hilson-ish waters. Indeed, this 'ship shall come in.
This concludes our time together, gentle readers, but please join me next year when we'll examine the various positions in which Wilson and House have finally "done it".
Glossary:
Ship's (short for "relationship") - No, not sea-going vessels, but those who desire a relationship between specific characters, often in contrast (or in addition) to what's happening on the series itself. Two or more people can be 'shipped together. Hetero', homo', bi'...whatever grabs!
Sapphic - gay, homosexual, homoerotic, etc, etc...
Huddy (that, in case you missed it, means House & Cuddy) - people who want House and Cuddy to eventually do the deed and declare love for each other. (You who were there when Bennifer and Brangelina were born will, I trust, recognize the Hollywood super couple - also known as a power couple, love-duo lingo).
Hilson (also can be abbreviated to H/W) - people who '"ship" (want them together in a romantic relationship) House and Wilson, and want them to finally do the deed already and release the fans from the agony of years of hot, throbbing sexual tension - damn it!
Bromance - Wilson and House's relationship as it stands now; closer than brothers but not a romance - though neither just friends. Presently, Hilson still drifts among the backwaters of bonafide romantic love.
Mr Sprinkles: nickname for Lucas (because of his ice cream truck vehicle in 5x2 said "Mr. Sprinkles" on the side).
Recommended House/Wilson-centric Episodes By Season:
Season 3
3x07 "Son of a Coma Guy"
3x08 "Whac-A-Mole"
3x09 "Finding Judas"
3x10 "Merry Little Christmas"
3x11 "Words and Deeds"
3x19 "Act Your Age"
3x20 "House Training"
3x21 "Family"
3x22 "Resignation"
Season 4
4x01 "Alone"
4x03 "97 Seconds"
4x11 "Frozen"
4x12 "Don't Ever Change"
4x13 "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
Season 5
5x01 "Dying Changes Everything"
5x04 "Birthmarks"
5x05 "Lucky Thirteen"
5x17 "The Social Contract"
5x22 "A House Divided"
5x23 "Under My Skin" except for the last five minutes
5x24 "Both Sides Now"
Season 6
6x03 "Epic Fail"
6x04 "The Tyrant"
6x06 "Brave Heart"
6x07 "Known Unknowns"
6x10 "Wilson"
6x11 "The Down Low"
6x15 "Private Lives"
6x16 "Black Hole"
House/Wilson Related Communities/Websites/Links
House/Wilson seasons 1-2 Shipping Manifesto by
pun 25 Reasons To Make House/Wilson Your OTP by
pyro_manical Why House/Wilson Is The Best Slash Ship of the Decade by
xguardianangelx Season 6 Summary Picspam by
ranrata house_wilson - main House/Wilson communitygreglovesjimmy - House/Wilson slash communitybroke_brain - Did House/Wilson break your brain? Join for insanity, fun and hoyay.housewilsonlol - capslock/regular fandom mix for House/Wilson.hw_reqs - House/Wilson recs and requeststhe_smut_couch -House/Wilson smut fich_us_w - Makes You Feel Funny, Good: Camp HoYaywilsondiary - House/Wilson comm for non-English speakers.hilsonbr - House/Wilson Brasilian Fan commh_w_translators - House/Wilson comm for non-English speakers.hilson_forever - House/Wilson comm for non-English speakersArts/Graphics
housewilson_art - House/Wilson art and graphics communityhw_graphics - House/Wilson graphics communitycane_n_tie - House/Wilson graphics community (closed to new members, but it can still be viewed)Fests/Prompts/Challenges
hw_fest - House/Wilson Festhistorical_hw - a fic prompt/challenge community about House/Wilson throughout the history. Non-LJ sites:
Fuck Yeah House/Wilson! - House/Wilson on Tumblr.
I Love You: House/Wilson thread at House's House of Whining
Equally Damaged: An Everything House/Wilson Recommendation Site
We Can Rule The World: House/Wilson Fanlisting
Other LJ comms of interest:
house_slash - a general House slash comm (all slash House MD ships)lgbt_house - discussing the LGBT aspects of House MD.
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In regards to Both Sides Now: the final scene, where shots of Cameron and Chase exchanging rings are alternated with shots of House handing Wilson his watch and keys, is one of my absolute favorites. Not only is it an amazing h/w scene, but it's also gorgeous to watch.
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As far as I understood, it was precisely the point of doing all this, to eventually post it here.
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Here's the post.
http://community.livejournal.com/house_wilson/3825237.html
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And how Wilson blamed it all on House.
Yes House got drunk.
Yes House called WILSON for a ride.
Amber chose on her own not to find Wilson. SHe chose to get House.
When House rejected her help, she chose to stay.
WHen House tried to ditch her, obv not wanting her help, she chose to chase him.
When House got on the bus so did she, even though he'd had obviosuly no trouble w/o his cane up to that point.
She chose to be a smug bitch on the bus, chasing him and acting as if he coldnt get home without his help.
So her death is as much her own fault as House's. While she wouldnt have been on the bus if House hadnt called, if she had done what he asked, she wouldnt be on the bus, and House gave her AMPLE opportunity.
I did enjoy your comments regarding her in light of H/W, some of which I'd never noticed or connected the dots between but I will always not love S4 like the others simply for the way that nice guy Wilson treats his friend.
Oh, dear, ranting a tad out of hand, I probably shouldnt get into how much I hate the Cuddy 'ship(for actualy valid reasons rather than just a hatred of Cuddy-theres no basis for love from House's side in my HO-he has no respect for her in any aspect of her life) so I'll finish whining with-wonderful meta to read with great insights, nicely written and very enjoyable :)
Sorry about the ranting, :(
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And Im terrified/intrigued to see if House does go back to Vicodin, and the impact upon those around him and how it affects his relationship with Wilson esp with the possibility of Carr in S7
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Well, first of all, I think the time that Wilson and Amber spent together is supposed to be well beyond 7 weeks, the writers' strike hit right in the middle of the Wilson/Amber arc and that's why season 4 only has 16 episodes, so I'm pretty sure it's more time than the one you're mentioning.
Second, I think it was clearly not just a "screwing around" thing, it was obviously love by the time of the season 4 finale.
Third, it didn't seem like Wilson was happy at any point of the Wilson's Heart episode and that includes asking House to risk his life to save Amber's, it didn't look like it was easy for him to ask that at all, he seemed pretty reluctant.
"And how Wilson blamed it all on House"
According to the episode Dying Changes Everything, Wilson himself said that he didn't blame House. He said that he tried to blame House at the time but couldn't because it really wasn't his fault.
"She chose to be a smug bitch on the bus, chasing him and acting as if he coldnt get home without his help"
??? She's a smug bitch because she wanted to make sure he got home safe? House was clearly very drunk and she just wanted to do the what she knew Wilson would have done.
The way I see it, Wilson loved Amber and clearly he loves House, there's no doubt in my mind that he would have asked Amber to do the same thing for House, and that he would have done the same thing himself for House too.
Doris Egan herself said in an interview that she viewed that moment as a "leave no man behind" thing, it was important that they all lived.
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WHilst Im aware there was a writers strike, there was nothing that I noticed(but totally open to input,I'd like to wrong about length of relationship as i find it unrealistic otherwise)that in any way suggested that the relationship was of any great length long-if watched solely on dvd 20yrs from now whilst there is canon in, i think 4.15 that theres a week i havent(yet?)noticed anything canonically that its longer.
He said that he tried to blame House at the time but couldn't because it really wasn't his fault. True, but he was willing to let House think it, for a very long time, salting the wound that they'd never been friends. Wilson was grieving, but being that cruel was something special.
Maybe it was love, but for me the relationship never rang true, I didnt see them together working. Whilst I actually like parts of Amber with Wilson(when she wanted him to get bed he wanted, reason she gave was wonderful)the flipside of those moments to me, was that Wilson would tire of that, of that constant pushing, constant sheknowsbest approach.its not a bad quality persay, but its tiring&having that with House&amber?Wilson would explode.
or she would tire of him, of feeling like she had to lead him through a relationship.
And the ep where she made the demands on his time, alotting house a few hours a week was annoying from the writers.theyd made this ballsy woman(even if i didnt like her much)&then made her seem somewhat insecure/whiney. seeing house at work isnt the same as social. i hate when friends ditch everyone they know when they get into a relationship&this grated, but that would be true of any 'ship in House. Just as it irritated me that Wilson told Amber about the ducklings testing Houses blood. That House felt he needed to test Wilson's loyalty was sad, even worse that Wilson believed he had a right to tell Amber, that sleeping with her meant that he had to tell her everything a friend told him, in confidence.
Simply put, i didnt like her, I didnt like who Wilson was with her&partially i think i balked at the way it ended because it felt contrived, as if the writers panicked about the strike&wanted something showy to end with without enough to back it up(not that they were alone, other shows seemed to come up with absurd storylines to woo viewers back with).If her death was always planned then if the season had been its proper length,more of them as a couple had been seen,that it had felt more natural, id like it more. If her death was simply to get viewrs back, or the timing of her death(say brought foward etc etc)then for me, it cheapened the characters. I havent read anything from writers/producers about it but havent actively searched.Know anything?
I wasnt saying I think Wilson and House should of gone, 'oh well let her die' but I dont like how it was done&I certainly didnt mean Wilson spent the whole episode thrilled, but somehting was missing for me.It was explained very well in a fic I read that Wilson had panicked and knew that House would do whatever he asked and House would help&I thought that was great, but watching that episode I didnt have that intitial reaction to it and so the arc is among my disliked
Thats just me, perhaps Ill never like S4 or maybe one day I'll love it but for now, not so much&people will always disagree&that can be fun(but only on things like tv 'ships&music where in the end nobodys life is actually at stake)&changing someones intial gut reaction to something is hard, all that can be done is putting your own interpretaion out there, so I'm gonna take how you saw it, try rewatching s4/last few eps from that perspective, see if maybe I can mesh them.
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Amber went to get a very drunk House because as she told House on the bus. I'm doing this for Wilson. Both House and Amber loved, wanted, and needed Wilson.
I am not in the pathetic!House camp. House was approaching 50 when Wilson's Heart aired. He's a grown man rather than a child of six. House could have taken a cab home, just like the bartender suggested but he didn't. House set everything in motion that led up to Amber's death.
I didn't feel sorry for House. Didn't care that his skull got busted open following the procedure. House could have done his drinking to drunkeness at home and no one would have been hurt. But hey that's not House. House is all about House.
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The point is they would have been considerate enough not to even ask.
Maybe thats my problem-most of the people I know probably would call me to come and get them,its a friends thing.Im not saying im overly apprecative when they do it,but depending on circumstance, id rather go get them&know theyre safe than not. And if I remember right, wilson was working,so its possible House figured Wilson could just swing by and get him(although yes, its more Housian to want to break up a meal/date/thing for his own selfish needs/just for kicks esp any plans that Wilson had with Amber)-I just find it a bit weird that everyone seems super down on Hosue doing that-I totally agree its selfish beyond reason&very IC for him but House has had years of Wilson ignoring any comment he may have made about the selfishness of the act/positive reinforment of Wilson almost alwyas coming to get him that he figured Wilson would always do it. OR maybe he didnt think Wilson would actually come get him but wanted to interrupt whatever plans they had if only for a few momments. I guess its because I dont find Houses behaviour too out there,that whilst I know the call is the trigger I dont see him shouldering the whole blame.I think its some House, a little Amber for steadfastly chasing him despite him obv not really wanting her there(and i really dont want to get into the whys/hows of her doing it again, just let me explain my side without having to justify how i feel about ambers behaviour,just sort of let me try try and track it all to explain how i get the feeling i get from teh ep{that doesnt make a lot of sense but i cant find the words to describe what i mean very well})a teeeny teeeeeeny bit the bus drivers and mostly the universe in the form of the truck. sort of a 74%truck 0.01bus driver 25%house 5.99&amber sort of thing. I know none of you in any way agree with how i view the ep, but ive tried to explain how and why i seemed to have the reaction to it that i did and Im not trying to change your mind or convince you, just explain how I was affected by it, how it changed the H/W relationship for me but Im pretty much just repeating myself. I accept totally that, your way of viewing the ep is the norm, but I dont understand why my way is so wrong so I concede. Going to keep any fics/meta/whatever to S1-3 mid5-whenever
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Um, I really really REALLY dont know what you're talking about, not only did I not see that at all, I've never even heard anyone saying/writing about that before. Amber wasn't harrassing House at all, she was trying to help him and being insistent about it because she knew he can be stubborn. She was trying to do what she knew Wilson would have done if he hadn't been on call.
"Whilst Im aware there was a writers strike, there was nothing that I noticed that in any way suggested that the relationship was of any great length long"
I think that between episodes 4x12 and 4x13 (when the strike happened) it supposedly passed way more time than a week. David Shore himself said that at that time they wanted to build and establish the Wilson/Amber relationship, which makes me think that in their minds it took place in more time than 7 weeks. I guide myself more by air-dates rather than number of episodes, which would mean that Wilson and Amber were together a bit more than 4 months.
"True, but he was willing to let House think it, for a very long time, salting the wound that they'd never been friends"
Not at all, Wilson said to House that maybe they had never been friends at the same time that he told House that what happened hadn't been his fault, so how did he make House think it was his fault and salting the wound of them never being friends at the same time?
Wilson was harsh with what he said at the end of Dying Changes Everything, but no more so than House himself is in about every episode and not necessarily saying anything that wasn't the truth in some way. I don't see any cruelty whatsoever in what he did, he was grieving and thinking about himself for a change.
"Maybe it was love"
Katie Jacobs called Amber 'the love of Wilson's life'. I'm sorry if you didn't care much for the relationship but it was most definitely love. In my opinion (and most people's opinion as well), the Wilson/Amber relationship seemed to be working very well and it would have been the one that would have made it in Wilson's life (romantically speaking) if Amber had lived, everything hinted to that.
"or she would tire of him, of feeling like she had to lead him through a relationship."
It was one episode where that happened, not 80, I'm sure that wasn't how their relationship was everyday. Actually, what Amber was trying to do was to make it a relationship of equals, not one where Wilson would give in everytime to keep the other person happy.
"And the ep where she made the demands on his time, alotting house a few hours a week was annoying from the writers.theyd made this ballsy woman &then made her seem somewhat insecure/whiney"
I didn't see Amber being insecure or whiny at all, she was understandably pissed at House for what he had done (getting Wilson drunk so they wouldn't have sex) and she just wanted to spend a lot of time with Wilson, what's surprising about that?
"i hate when friends ditch everyone they know when they get into a relationship"
I think that in the episode No More Mr Nice Guy that was exactly what they were trying to prevent from happening by working out a schedule.
"Just as it irritated me that Wilson told Amber about the ducklings testing Houses blood. That House felt he needed to test Wilson's loyalty was sad"
House wasn't testing Wilson at all, he just had to tell someone how clever and funny he had been, and Wilson is usually the person he tells that kind of stuff to. House himself said that he knew Wilson would tell Amber about it, he even said Wilson SHOULD tell her (not sure I agree, but at least it doesn't sound to me like House was all butthurt about it and pretty much figured it would happen).
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The other point I want to make is love is a funny thing, looking in from the outside, it never makes as much sense to us as it does to the two people involved. House loves Wilson, more than anyone. And I am including Stacy in the anyone. House was able to give up Stacy but what has been shown over and over again - no matter what - he can't give up his real love which is Wilson. And I would have to say the same for Wilson - but he's still not fully conscious of his feelings for House. He still doesn't get the fact that they truly are two tigers away from an act in Vegas.
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Again, you're reducing the relationship to 'sleeping around' when it was clearly way more than that.
"I certainly didnt mean Wilson spent the whole episode thrilled, but somehting was missing for me"
Well I'm not sure what you mean by saying that something was missing, but there was the fact that Wilson was a bit pissed at House at some points during the episode because he thought that something might have happened between him and Amber.
About why they killed Amber off, I personally LOVED House's Head/Wilson's Heart, but I loved Amber's character and I thought it was a waste to kill her after only one season, I feel they could have done much more with her character. But on the other hand, since I also believe that the Amber/Wilson relationship was working so well, I have to admit that it would have kind of ruined the House/Wilson relationship if it had kept going much longer, because Amber made Wilson happy and took a lot of his time. I don't think their friendship would have ever broken, but it would have meant a big separation and distance between them compared to how they were before. So I'm not sure if killing Amber was the best deciscion, but I can see where they were coming from and it made for one hell of a finale.
And btw, they had planned Amber's death way before the strike happened.
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Fine, you didnt see smug when she followed him onto the bus but I did, &my interpretation is no less valid.
By missing from the eps, I dont know what it was, the acting was superb,writing top notch but maybe it was because I never particularly liked Amber even if apparently everyone else did(I didnt hate he just indifferent)that whilst my heart broke for Wilson, I wasnt particulalry upset that it was Amber that died. I had little emotional investment in her&I should be able to feel that way as thats how it affected me. Im not saying i could push someone else up to the block for her but..
Maybe she was the love of Wilsons life, but I never saw that, as Ive said ad nauseum-I didnt see enough of their relationship to see that sort of deep love, deep connection.I saw affection,fun,sex, the foundations of a strong equal love but not enough of their normal interaction, away from House to have that deep gut wrenching moment of loss, like the way i did when wilson walked away from Houses room after looking in on him. That killed me.
I asked about whether it was preplanned because i didnt know&was curious that if perhaps it hadnt needed to be rushed if my reaction would be different, if all those little scenes that we all perhps missed out on due to the strike would have built on the foundations.
Wilson lets House go for months without talking to him, telling him he doesnt blame him.Waiting for House to say something would be like waiting for Godot&maybe Wilson just didnt want to have to be the one that had to go first in a conversation yet again,but he does let House think that he's hated/blamed(something he was torn up about on the 'death'bus)
But thats how I feel about it&perhaps I am the only one but thats just the way I see it&I shouldnt need to apologise for it over&over.Im not saying Amber was a bad character or that Wilson didnt love her but I dont miss her&i didnt like the rushed feeling I got from it, even though i know there was little choice.
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Yes, House would never do that to Wilson. If he were ever to find Wilson in a porno he would do his utmost to protect Wilson's privacy instead of making sure every soul in the hospital knows everything about it, only Wilson could do something as despicable as that, right?
"And to me, House was hurt by it; his facial expression and quick exit said hurt."
I don't think he looked hurt at all, he looked pissed off at the fact that his prank/joke was ruined.
"And i think its equally fair to have the possibility that he was testing to see what wilson would do"
Again, to me it looked like House was just looking for someone to appreciate his prank.
"Fine, you didnt see smug when she followed him onto the bus but I did, &my interpretation is no less valid."
To my eyes, it makes it a bit less valid the fact that no one else sees the supossed smugness that you see.
"Wilson lets House go for months without talking to him, telling him he doesnt blame him.Waiting for House to say something would be like waiting for Godot"
If you mean after Dying Changes Everything, I don't think Wilson was waiting for House at all.
"but he does let House think that he's hated/blamed"
You just brought up yourself the fact that Wilson told House that he doesn't blame him, how is he letting him think he's hated/blamed then?
"thats just the way I see it&I shouldnt need to apologise for it over&over"
Um no one's asking you to appologize, I'm just disagreeing with you and saying that you're interpreting things the wrong way. It's not like you did any wrong to me, I see no reason for appologizing.
"Im not saying Amber was a bad character or that Wilson didnt love her but I dont miss her&i didnt like the rushed feeling I got from it, even though i know there was little choice."
I wasn't criticizing your like or dislike for Amber or the Wilson/Amber relationship, you can't force yourself to like or dislike a character or a relationship, they just either click with you or they don't. I was criticizing your interepretation of the events. You basically said that Wilson is/was immensely evil because he forced House to do the DBS only to save a nobody and without the slightest regard for House's life, because he said some horrible mean insensitive lies to poor little vulnerable House at the end of Dying Changes Everything and because he keeps blaming House for Amber's death. I don't think any of this is even remotely true and I'm just making my argument as to why in here.
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You basically said that Wilson is/was immensely evil because he forced House to do the DBS only to save a nobody and without the slightest regard for House's life, because he said some horrible mean insensitive lies to poor little vulnerable House oh, yes, of course thats what Im saying. I was said that I didnt like that Wilsons first thought was that House was cheating with Amber which shows disrespect to them both. House commited adultery with Stacey but to think he'd go there with Amber?? or that Amber would cheat?That shows a delightful amount of trust. And of course House is such a great barometer for how one should or shouldnt behave? There is a line, and at what point during Wilsons flirting/daliances did House call the wives?He didnt. He kept quiet. What need did Wilson have to tell Amber, what right?At what point in a relationship with someone does it become ok to tell them things your best friend said in confidence? Why did he think Amber in any way needed to know that? WIlson would have known Amber couldnt keep that to herself, not when in the middle of a war over Wilsons time.
I dont think that House told Wilson just to test him,I never said that I did, but I do think part of why he mentioned whether or not Wilson'd tell Amber etc was to put the idea in Wilson's head to see what he'd do. Cos thats not like House at all.
House hadnt spoken to wilson for two months BEFORE Dying changes everything, so actually there was time when House was left to stew. it wasnt until after that, that he said it wasnt Houses fault&then after that,although just so you dont leap on me for not pointing this out, not in the same conversation
My point was that Wilson had seen what House had already gone through, the damage from the accident&then the problems brought on from all of Houses attempts to remember, the sensory deprivation, the meds on the bus, the hallucinations, not to mention that a writer/continuity/whoever really mucked up Cuddys lines by having her tell him to go home, go to sleep..if he'd actually done that,a man with a cracked skull, concussion&lords knows what else, who lived alone he'd have probably died,nor did anyone tell LE her CPR was wrong but I digress. I NEVER said Wilson was wrong/EVIL to ask House for the DBS but after all of that, he didnt trust Houses diagnosis. It was wrong, Im not debating that, but Wilson didnt agree with it&knowing that House would never say no to him, asked him to do the DBS when he knew it could very likely kill him. At that moment he was willing to let House die,for information,not for a concrete cure for Amber,but because he didnt feel House was right. He was willing to allow them both to die,if House hadnt noticed the pills or if there hadnt been pills to see,House's seizure would have been for nothing Amber would still have died&HOuse could have as well. I think its an intriguing Sophies Choise-esque moment, I never argued she should have been allowed to die, I just pointed out that to me the relationship didnt feel real,I didnt say there wasnt love, but what of his love for House?DOes romantic love trump non?Should I warn my best friend that in case of emergnecy she better be able to care for herself as my bf would be the one Id save? although I prob would save her to be honest. I liked the concept of the episode because it could create debate however you just seem to want to be sarcastic towards any view that isnt yours. You tell me I dont need to apologise for seeing it the way I do and then you shoot down my reasons for thinking the way I do,or when we differ on something simple like a facial expression you say that you dont see it which must make it gospel.
Im done
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You might as well have in your first post. You did make it clear that you think that what Wilson did in Wilson's Heart and Dying Changes Everything was horrible and you did imply that the Amber/Wilson relationship didn't go much beyond a physical attraction. Both of these things I storngly disagree with.
"I was said that I didnt like that Wilsons first thought was that House was cheating with Amber which shows disrespect to them both"
House thought it might have happened too. And so did Taub. And so did the barman. It wasn't a product of Wilson's wild imagination, the situation clearly looked bad, it's not about trust it's about not being stupid. It didn't help that House couldn't say for sure that nothing had happened. And Wilson never said he thought Amber had cheated on him with House, maybe he thought that House had tried to make a move on her. Besides Amber was the one dying, it's not weird that Wilson would have been willing to forgive her more than House.
For the record, I do think House had feelings for Amber, it wasn't confirmed but it was definitely implied. Wilson thought the same thing in House's Head when he was with House in the MRI room, which also could have added to his suspicions and to House's uncertainty of whether something happened between him and Amber.
"There is a line, and at what point during Wilsons flirting/daliances did House call the wives?He didnt. He kept quiet."
But House doesn't give a crap about Wilson's wives and he's best friends with Wilson, why would he tell them anything at all? And if House himself has cheated before it would be big of him to judge Wilson for it and go around telling everyone.
"What need did Wilson have to tell Amber, what right?At what point in a relationship with someone does it become ok to tell them things your best friend said in confidence?"
Well see when one is in a relationship you usually share most stuff with your partner, House made that point too. I wouldn't say it was completely ok for Wilson to tell that to Amber, I would have been pissed too had I been in House's position, but you're making it sound as though Wilson went and told Amber all of House's deepest secrets instead of just about a stupid prank. House certainly didn't seem to think it was that big a deal besides the initial annoyance.
"I dont think that House told Wilson just to test him,I never said that I did, but I do think part of why he mentioned whether or not Wilson'd tell Amber"
Well I dont think House did that at all, and, since House or anybody else didn't make even he slightest reference of House having done that, I'm gonna just assume that I'm right.
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Wilson made it clear to House that things weren't ok with the look he gave him at the end of Wilson's Heart, but at no point did he say he blamed House. I don't think House's guilt over Amber's death was caused by Wilson, I think they could have been all BFFs after Amber's death and House would still have felt bad and slightly responsible. I don't think House is to blame at all for what happened, but a lot of times people cant help but feel responsible and guilty in these kind of situations, even if they're not.
"I NEVER said Wilson was wrong/EVIL to ask House for the DBS but after all of that, he didnt trust Houses diagnosis"
House has been known to be wrong from time to time. I don't get the point that you're trying to make.
"Wilson didnt agree with it&knowing that House would never say no to him, asked him to do the DBS when he knew it could very likely kill him"
First of all, I don't think that House would never say no to Wilson, nor do I think that Wilson lives under such delussion.
Then, if there had been more chances of House dying than living by doing the DBS I'm sure that Wilson wouldn't have asked and House wouldn't have said yes. They're both a tad crazy, but never stupid.
"He was willing to allow them both to die"
Come on, are you serious? It's pretty obvious that Wilson was counting with them both making it. If you really think that Wilson cares as little for House as you are implying (you said TWICE that Wilson was willing to let House die), you have to at least admit that Wilson was very much counting on House living because otherwise the whole thing would have been useless if House couldn't give him the info.
"what of his love for House?DOes romantic love trump non?"
I wrote in my very first answer to you that 'there's no doubt in my mind that [Wilson] would have asked Amber to do the same thing for House, and that he would have done the same thing himself for House too.
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Quite frankly it's just mean and derogatory.
This ship manifesto is a great piece of work, by the way.
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Thanks in particular for the recs and graphics resources. :-)
I don't know if any of y'all are into podfic, but it might be worth mentioning that there are number of H/W podfics available at the audiofic archive (http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/12/188).
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Which is a bloody shame, too.
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Should that be 5x4? Its just below the 5th photo down from top
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(Anonymous) 2010-06-01 07:49 am (UTC)(link)Can't wait to read THAT part! (Oh, and for all the shippiness in that season, didn't you have the feeling that the authors were just playing with us, negating the relationship by ridiculing the idea? It annoyed me to the point of accepting Huddy in the end! "Accepting", mind you, not "liking" or "jumping ship" or anything.)
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I have to disagree with you about the writers negating the H/W relationship. They left it somewhat ambiguous.
It annoyed me to the point of accepting Huddy in the end! "Accepting", mind you, not "liking" or "jumping ship" or anything.)
I wish I held your opinion about Huddy, but I cannot even accept Huddy. It was so horribly written in season 5 that nothing the writers will ever do will get me to accept or love the pairing.
Thank you for reading and for your comments.
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Are House and Cuddy really not together?
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watch house season 7 episode 5