Chapter 1
The alarm sounded at 9:19, he woke with the pain he had had for the last six years. He reached for the Vicodin, which he had been taking in increasing amounts; it was the loneliness that made the pain worse. Stacy had left him first, and then he pushed her away again after she was preparing to leave Mark. He brightened up at the thought of Wilson cooking some breakfast; Wilson had left his home after he had found Julie having an affair. Ironic, he thought.
He got dressed the looked in the mirror, Gregory House was staring him back in the mirror looking more tired and unhappy than usual, he hobbled over to his cane and shook the image from his mind, refusing to believe what the mirror showed him. Everybody lies. Even the image in the mirror.
He walked into the kitchen were the kettle had boiled and the smell of eggs and toast filled his nostrils. Wilson was in the living room munching on his own eggs on toast.
"I left you some on the counter, could you pour the coffee? Since I made breakfast"
"What if I didn't want any breakfast?" House retorted.
However his stomach screamed to him that it was hungry and House could never argue with a growling stomach. So he walked over to the kettle to pour the water in the porcelain cups. Just to show he didn't do everything Wilson asked him, House walked back to the couch with his mug of coffee and his plate of toast and eggs.
"So where's my cup?" Wilson asked with a mouth full of food.
"What was that Jimmy? Oh, you wanted me to bring the cup over to you? Dude, you can't get cripples to work for you, that's just unfair!" House grinned to himself.
Wilson gave him a look then rose off the couch to put his plate in the sink and to retrieve his lukewarm coffee.
"We better be getting to work House, Cuddy will have our asses if we come in late"
"Correction Wilson, Cuddy will have YOUR ass, but she can't touch this" House said gesturing to his butt.
"So shall we take my car?"
"What! We'll look tons cooler if we go on my bike" House moaned to his best friend, Wilson looked uneasy, he never like going near motorbikes, let alone ride on them, but he had an idea which House couldn't object to.
"If we go in my car, you'll save money on gas" House mulled this statement over and agreed to take the car, but decided to play about with the radio stations just to show Wilson that he hadn't won.