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Title: A Bit More Worthy Of Affection (1/1)

Author: Antigone a.k.a. Anty

Rating: PG

Keywords: Short, Vignette, Episode Related, Angst, Wilson.

Spoilers: Meaning (3x01), Cane and Able (3x02), Lines in the Sand (3x04). If you're not familiar with these episodes, this won't make any sense.

Summary: How James Wilson came to resent Gregory House.

Disclaimer & Notes: I wish Wilson was non-fictional and mine, so I could fu— anyway. I apologize that this, again, is angsty. A day may come when I write something in which, during an originally perfectly innocent exam, House puts a very cold stethoscope directly on Wilson's nipple and James will moan just so— but it is not this day (shut up, Aragorn). Many thanks to my beta Sorrel.

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A Bit More Worthy Of Affection
© Antigone, October 12th, 2006

James Wilson had always suspected that altruism lay not in his blood. The truth of said notion came crashing down in a disgusting, nauseous wave, the moment autistic Adam chose Gregory House as the first person to ever make eye contact with.

James had always believed there were two kinds of people: Those who thought they could have what others simply assumed they would get… and those who didn't. Soaking up the look Adam's parents gave his best friend as they took their child back in their arms, James thought of Stacy, of Cameron, Rip van Winkle's wife and seventeen-year-old stalkers, cured families, of himself. And he suddenly understood he had been wrong all along. Because there were only two kinds of people.

Those who loved. And those who were loved.

And maybe he had withheld the truth from House because he had known that that, rather than anything else, would make his wings melt. Because he wanted House to be punished for spurning what James so badly wished he could have.

Or maybe, because after doing so, James finally felt like he deserved it.

"That," he said in a too hollow voice, "was a ten."

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(Fin.)