PART ONE: THE FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER 1-PILOT
Intellectual people are often self-sufficient and a bit more introverted as they believe they can solve things for themselves. It would seem a waste of time to tell anyone else about it. This is the explanation I have come up with to explain, in simplest terms, the behavior of my friend. He is arrogant, abrasive, and flat-out rude. But he is needy. He needs me (I think) and he needs Cuddy. I know I'm drawn to neediness, but my friend isn't openly needy. He challenges people to give to him, which is why I think I continue to find our relationship attractive.
He enters my office without knocking, insults me and my patients, ruins my relationships, embarrasses me, and physically assaults me, among other things, but for some reason we are friends. He would try to rationalize it away, saying how we're all just animals crawling this earth that occasionally have the chance to do something that will mean something to someone, but to tell you the truth I don't entirely believe that. Then again, I don't have an explanation of my own. Some cosmic force out there has pushed us together and molded us until we fit into each other's lives like slightly misshapen puzzle pieces.
I've saved his neck more than a few times, and I've been pushing him to be a little more human since the day I met him. Really, though, I often find myself wondering how far I would really go for Gregory House.