Some people thought Princeton was a happy place. Those people were wrong. Through the cracked window there was a view of the city: that dreary, filthy city, illuminated in neon lights and stinking of stale alcohol and urban decay. Nothing good had ever happened to him there. Every kindness was taken away. Every woman he'd ever loved had turned from him, or been driven. Every friend he'd ever had, gone.
He stood against the brick wall, chalky white pills in hand. The streets stank like shit. The night sky was indistinguishable from the cement underfoot. Nobody would see him, sunken into the piles of trash, and if somebody did, nobody would care.
Sometimes, when he closed his eyes, he heard music. It tantalized him. He could taste it, feel it prickling on his fingertips. He knew he was hallucinating, but why see the world in darkness when you could see it in light?
He was trapped inside himself. He had nobody and nobody had him. A pill was tossed into the air, and he watched it fly. He followed it with his eyes up, up, up and down with a -pop- onto the pavement. He crushed it under his sneaker. Powdered chemicals blew away in the breeze. He sighed.
His eyelids fell shut. He remembered: those he had loved, truly loved. There weren't many people he hated. Most were just under his level of intelligence, bothersome creatures with no real capacity to harm. Idiots? Semantics.
He dropped his cane; it made a hollow sound as it fell to the ground, touching in its wake a pool of fetid water. Doctor Gregory House followed suit, not entirely of his own free will, but ever in charge of his life, he insisted like an impudent child that it was so.
The empty pill bottle rolled out of his pocket, the music reached crescendo, and he never woke up.
AN: Hello faithful followers! Sorry for this EXTREMELY long hiatus. Here's more news: hiatus = easier than saying this. We [Hadley et Marie] were thinking that since this is the end of this account, what better way to end than with the death of a character? (Yeah. We're happy people.) The end had been looming for some time now, as you probably guessed from our knack of forgetting to update. Anyway, thanks to those of you who have stuck with us from the beginning and (hopefully) will be with us in the future on our new account. Email us for more details (see profile). Again, our most sincere thanks... you guys rock. We wrote for you for many years and while that era is over, our love for your awesomeness is not. ;) Adieu, everyone.