A/N: Time to start a new idea I suppose. Hahah, even though I really don't need to. But I just love music and House I decided I needed a way to combine them both productively….okay, semi-productively. Lol.
So here's the deal:
1.) I'm putting my ipod on shuffle.
2.) I'm taking the first song it's giving me and writing the first chapter to a multiple chapter story.
3.) I'll put my ipod on shuffle again and list out the next five songs at the end of each chapter.
4.) YOU, the reader, will choose the next song for me to write (from those five songs) through your vote in the form of a review!
Each chapter will most likely be written in a different format:
A.) A normal story type thing with the lyrics of the song thrown in like a song fic.
B.) Lyrics from the song being inserted into either the character's dialogue or story somewhere.
C.) A chapter based on the events of that song.
It'll be a random thing. Each chapter will not just be a one-shot, I'm going to attempt to combine each chapter and make a functional story out of it.
I hope this works out well, so here we go! Oh, and if you don't know the song(s) I am/will be using, I recommend you look them up on youtube or something and listen to it before, after, or even during reading. But anyways, on with the show!
Disclaimer: I do not own House, M.D or any of its characters. Nor do I own any of the songs I will be using.
Chapter one:Pinch Me by: Barenaked Ladies
It's the perfect time of year
Somewhere far away from here
I feel fine enough, I guess
Considering everything's a mess.
There's a restaurant down the street
Where hungry people like to eat
I could walk, but I'll just drive
It's colder than it looks outside.
It was a particularly mundane morning for House as he stepped outside his apartment and hobbled down the steps, shrugging his favorite leather jacket onto his shoulders and adjusting it comfortably after shutting and locking his door. He made certain it was locked every day ever since he'd had his stereo system stolen. He blamed that on Hector. He'd grabbed the jacket before he'd left anticipating a chilling morning as it had been for the past week or so. He could recall earlier years when he would consider walking to work, but ever since a certain unspeakable incident, he'd deserted those thoughts completely. Well, almost completely. It's not as if images of a healthier, younger, and even happy House haven't invaded his dreams, running, playing lacrosse, or even waking up pain free every once in a while. He opted to go with driving as he did every other day. It's not as if he wasn't still capable of enjoying his car.
It's the perfect time of day
To throw all your cares away
Put the sprinkler on the lawn
And run through with my gym shorts on.
Take a drink right from the hose
And change into some drier clothes
Climb the stairs up to my room
Sleep away the afternoon.
He searched for his keys in the depth of his jacket pocked and opened his car door, stepping inside and placing the key into its proper place in the ignition. His car roared to life and he pulled out, making his way to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital once again to begin another tedious day. It was still early and House imagined that there were people still occupying the houses and apartments all around him, sleeping their lives away. How he wished he could do the same. It was just that kind of day, one to spend carelessly resting and recuperating from the tiresome preceding work week. But that was never an option for him.
On an evening such as this
It's hard to tell if I exist
If I Packed the car and leave this town
Who will notice that I'm not around?
I could hide out under there
I just made you say 'underwear'
I could leave but I'll just stay
All my stuff's here anyway.
He pulled up to the hospital and parked his car into the handicapped space he'd reserved unofficially for himself. He briefly imagined himself not getting out of the car, just pulling back out and driving far away, where he could relax and live alone, only him and his pain to keep him company. No one would notice right? But he shook his head of those juvenile thoughts and by the time he was through entertaining the idea of peace and solitude he was pushing open the door to a busy and convoluted hospital. He caught sight of Cuddy at the nurses' station signing off on some papers.
Maybe today would be different.
It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya
Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Take your time cos the way I rhyme's gonna make you smile, when ya
Realise that a guy my size might take a while, just to
Try to figure out what all this is for.
Try to figure out what all this is for.
Try to see the world beyond your front door.
Try to figure out what all this is for.
A/N: Yeah, its short and nothing happened, but I just needed a chapter to start things off. Alright, so here are the next five songs my ipod threw out at me:
I Hate Everything About You- Three Days Grace
Hip's Don't Lie- Shakira
Rock Star- Nickelback
Fix You- Coldplay
Better Than Drugs- Skillet
The next chapter is in your hands. Tell me what you thought of this chapter, what you think of this idea, what song you want for the next chapter; just tell me something I'd really like to hear it. If you review quickly I should have the next chapter up fairly quickly. Maybe even today!