Messaging the Undead

by innerurge1

It's been a year since House's death and Cameron has seen better days. She spends her lonely nights drinking and surfing Facebook. House's profile is still activated and too often she 'talks' to her dead mentor via the site's messaging feature. It quickly becomes a tool to vent life's frustrations. Afterall, it's safe to say just about anything to a dead man.

1. Preface

Messaging the Undead

Preface:

Hello, everyone. This story starts around a year after House's 'death' and sometime after Wilson has died. If the dates seem off, it's because House's prison sentence was around a year, so I went with the assumption that the first seven seasons of House happened more or less around the time of being aired, so the prison year would then shift the last season to occurring one year after the air time. So 2012, would have actually been 2013 in the show's timeline.

This story is set in the spring of 2014 through January 2016.

At the start of the story, Cameron is in Chicago, still head of the ER department at her hospital. Her life outside of work is less than stellar. During her low points (which are often than not) she finds herself drinking too much and surfing Facebook. She keeps viewing House's profile, frustrated no one takes it down one minute and happy to have the connection to him the next.

At some point, she decides to strike up a message with him and it becomes her new way of venting her life's ups and downs and her drunken sexual frustration. And so begins our tale.

You will find the first few chapters to be a selection from these messages. Because Cameron is writing them, for the most part, late at night and less than sober, they are formatted with rough grammar, typos and missing punctuation. Some of her thoughts ramble and are convoluted. I want them to read like a normal person in that situation would type them. Bear that in mind as you read and think "What the fuck, innerurge1? Have you forgotten how to write complete sentences and did atavares forget how to spell and punctuate too?!"

We didn't have a stroke, it's just formatted that way for the sake of realism. Also, a note for my international audience: the timestamps from the facebook messages are in US format (MM/DD/YYYY) because we are in Cameron's POV and she's in the US. Thanks again to my beta for pointing out that it creates confusion.

Be warned, this is not the Cameron we are used to. If I did this right, she should seem a little out of character and hopeful you'll lecture the screen a few times as you read. If you'll humor the idea that she's in a more House-like place mentally, I think you will enjoy the drama of her poor decision making, kinda in the same way one finds themselves enjoying Walter White in Breaking Bad. That's about as descriptive of a disclaimer as I can give you without spoiling the plot.

This is a Hameron story and it's by me and it's rated M for some really great reasons, so if you don't like any of those things, best to back on out now. :P

Thank you for giving it a shot and I hope you'll leave me a note in the reviews from time to time.

And finally, one huge Hugh thanks to atavares for going all in on yet another novel. It's not even close to the length of the last two, but it's nothing to sneeze at I think. I can't believe we've been doing these things for almost two years now. Kinda crazy. Thanks and love to you, my friend.

— innerurge1