Fanfiction / What Lurks in Man (Chapters 1-3)

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Author’s Note: When I first came upon this prompt between seasons five and six, everyone was preoccupied with House as an inpatient at Mayfield. I actually hesitated to take it for that reason – after all, no writer likes to endlessly rehash old ideas. However, when I reconsidered the notion that Wilson might be fractured enough to engineer his way into joining his friend… Well, that gave me considerable impetus. Then there was Broken, and canon threw a wrench into the story I had been carefully constructing around the framework of my necessarily original doctors, nurses, and orderlies. I’m not one to buck canon, you see, and the dreariness of starting over slowed me down; other projects intervened. Now here we are, at the end of House M.D., and as I endured the final weeks of tension leading up to the finale, this story reemerged, rearranged itself, and was finally reborn.

Title: What Lurks In Man
Author: Swiss Army Knife
Rating: worksafe
Summary: Wilson is so lonely that he fakes mental illness to get into Mayfield with House, but both men are quickly overwhelmed by the consequences.

“A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future,
the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
-- Lois Wyse

Chapters 4-6
Chapters 7-9

( The night was starless. Instead, a mist made the lights shine from below, gleaming up from the sidewalk out of the sheen of a New Jersey rain )

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