House: Too Screwed Up
August 17, 2007 | Filed under Media
Set at the end of Season One, an alternative (read: happy!) Hameron ending to the episode “The Honeymoon”, the last episode of the season.
“I thought you were too screwed up to love anyone. I was wrong. You just couldn’t love me.”
She can barely get the words out. Despite the fiasco of their one official date, she still has feelings for House, and memories of their easy camaraderie that night they went to see monster trucks. To see him standing there looking at Stacy and her husband with longing in his eyes…it breaks her heart, knowing that his belongs to another.
“It’s okay. I’m happy for you.” Fighting back tears, she gives him a small sad smile, and turns away. She heads down the hallway towards the elevators, feeling his eyes boring into her back.
—-
He knows that he’s a miserable bastard. Enough people have told him that. He plays up to this perception, having wanted nothing but to keep people at a distance since she’d left him five years ago. In that time, only his protegees have managed to make him feel anything close to a strong emotion. He verbally spars with Cuddy and confides in Wilson, but only his hand-picked team of diagnosticians have made him truly feel. Foreman makes him proud, Chase annoys and frustrates him, Cameron…Allison Cameron is there. Always there.
Her beauty isn’t simply ornamental like he had quipped earlier in the year. Ornaments don’t brew the best tasting coffee in the world. Ornaments aren’t fragile and delicate, but with strong moral resolve. Ornaments don’t worm their way their way into your psyche, their image drifting before you when you try to sleep at night. Ornaments don’t plague your every waking moment, your miserable life brightened every time it comes near.
He takes one last glance into the room. They’re cuddled together, her back to House. He’s glad. It seems apt – the last he saw of her five years ago when she said goodbye was her back. The last he’ll see of her now when he says goodbye will be her back.
—-
Cameron wipes a rogue tear away, willing herself to stop crying. She jabs the button again furiously, wanting to get away from the House, and the memories of his many rejections.
The elevator arrives, and she gets in. She takes a deep breath as the doors start to close; she doesn’t want anyone in the clinic to see any sign of weakness and the precious few seconds she’ll have to herself in the elevator will give her a chance to collect herself.
She jumps though, as a cane blocks the doors from closing. She gapes, startled as House hobbles his way into the elevator to stand next to her, staring straight ahead as though she’s not mere inches from him.
—-
They stand there side-by-side in silence, watching the doors close, watching the lighted numbers on the control panel indicate their descent to the ground level.
Halfway between the second and first level, he makes a sudden movement, pushing the emergency button with his cane. The elevator shudders to a stop, and she can hardly catch her breath…was this it? The moment of truth?
There’s a moment of hesitation, the tension in the air heavy between them. Then he moves. He crowds her into a corner. She can barely breathe, her eyes half-closed in heady anticipation.
His lips, hesitant at first, but passion takes over. It’s been a long wait. His hand tangles in her long hair, hers caressing the strong muscles in his back. It only takes a minute for them to become close, as close as two people can become. A shudder, a moan, a whimper.
—-
He steps out of the elevator, leaving a dishevelled Cameron in the elevator. Turning to look at her, her eyes bright and aflame with desire, he smiles wryly.
“Monster trucks tomorrow. Yes?”
She nods, a grin on her face, sex on her mind.
He enters the clinic, ready to log some hours.
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Have you watched the season 3 finale or gotten at least half way through season 2? If not then… well I’ll just wait to see your reaction to it :D
Dead, dead, dead, DEAD.
Becky on August 17, 2007 #
I hardly ever watch house as I’m usually at work, and even though I watched it a few times I still have trouble putting names with the faces lol
Chans on August 17, 2007 #