DISCLAIMER: I don´t own HOUSE, but I sure would like to see the doctor …
NOTES: My first and most likely only HOUSE fic. I just had to write it because the way he looked at Cameron in that scene bothered me. The scene was brilliantly played out with all these obvious undertones, obviously he lied ..I LOVED it and HATED it at the same tim
Truth cut thin
All it took was the space of a heartbeat, just looking at her, those piercing blue eyes directed at her. It was the draw of a breath, but it felt like years going by….watching, staring, waiting. As thought the world was softly shifting out of focus and there was nothing but distance, nothing but time and space between them. Caught between the pit and the pendulum….that one pinnacle moment right there in a hospital corridor, when everything could be changed with the power, the meaning held by a one syllable word.
House looked at her, watched her serious, careful face that never managed to hide what she felt. There had been a moment like this when he had resuscitated John Henry. She had spoken out then, when every one else had been silent. She had spoken with her voice ringing asloud and clear as a bell and they had looked at each other, just likethis- for just a second. And it had been there, this connection he thought he would never feel again…..it had been there.
It was there now …
But this way madness lies, he tells himself. She is open like a book ready to be read, a clean, empty page filled with mysteries undiscovered.
"No" he sais, looking at her, his face unchanged. For a moment her features crumble, but she pulls it together, good, strong girl that she is. Pulls it together and walks away as he watches.
He´d told her the truth; no omitting, no lying, maybe just cutting the truth a little bit too thin…
He liked her once, doesn´t like her anymore…..
But you might come to love her, the madness whispers….still lying in wait
