sick_wilson | A Camp!Wilson Poll - "Where Do They Go From Here?"

I chose House will miraculously cure Wilson with some magic diagnosis, and they will live to old age, with House terrifying his fellow retirement community residents because even though I can't have everything I want in real life, I see no reason why I can't have everything I want in my imaginary life. :)

Well, you said most likely so I chose other - i think Wilson will die in 5 months and House will overdose shortly thereafter. I can't see Wilson agreeing to a Thelma and Louise type thing because I don't think he'd want to take House with him, but just going on what the finale set up I think a House suicide would be most likely :(

What I would like to happen of course is the miracle cure, a road trip for about 20 years or so and then House & Wilson creating havoc in the retirement village :)

I know what you are saying. I was wondering for a while whether to word the pll "what you would like to see happen". But then I recall DS saying that "the story ends where the story ends" and refusing to say what will become of either of them. I figured that meant that we could have whatever ending we wanted, and each is as equally likely (though i admit that may just be my overly optimistic interpretation). :)

I agree. I don't think they'd go out "guns a blazing" so to speak but I can't imagine House living without Wilson. He's even said as much. The finale suggested that he was going to try it (otherwise why get off the floor? Wilson has other people who can take care of him. Not as well, and he wouldn't get to do exactly what he wanted House got out of the crack den because he wanted to try and live a better life.) but I don't think he realizes just how bad it's going to be when Wilson gets near the end/ afterward. Also, House would probably make sure that whatever he did to help Wilson end his life painlessly worked before doing anything for himself.

In reality I think it's most likely that Wilson would die and House would go on to a lucrative career in something else--the man has a lot of talents. He could even go work for a certain government agency as himself, if they wanted him badly enough (which I think S4 showed that they might). He'd find new friends and new passions.

But this isn't reality. In the real world every regular character on the show would be dead or would have lost their medical licenses, possibly done time, and probably be working as clerks in bodegas. In the real world Wilson's cancer would have behaved differently.

So I voted for the option I like best instead, and as a bonus it's most in keeping with the show. House saves Wilson with a magic diagnosis. Maybe the reason Wilson's thymoma behaved so oddly is that it isn't thymoma. Or maybe House will save him with a magic no-chemo cure. Either way they ride together for many more years.

House working for the CIA/FBI or likewise is an interesting idea - they'd certainly be able to get him out of his legal problems.

It does seem odd that House, who always looks for zebras, didn't ever query the apparently atypical behaviour of this thymoma.

IMO that was to cue us in that this was for realz.

CIA, FBI, NSA require high security clearance, hard to obtain for a man with precedents of violent crime, forged identity, and repeated abuse of opiates. The latter is particularly bad - it makes him easily blackmailed (there was a time when gay men lost clearance precisely for that reason, at least so I read in the book "A Beautiful Mind"). House is more than smart enough for the job, but his chances to get it are imho very low.

Well, I don't know about the rest, but I think House's precedents of violent crime and forged identity are right up the CIA/NSA's alley--seriously! And a lot of people who work for a spy agency have things about their lives that they can be blackmailed over--their superiors can use it to keep them in line just as well as any enemy could to compromise them. I also think that things are getting a little less hard for gays and lesbians than in John Nash's time, though I could be wrong. They struck down "Don't ask, don't tell, didn't they? And if you're openly gay, how can someone use that to blackmail you? I don't know, maybe I'm naive...

They definitely allow gay men to work for security agencies now, and they did even before the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell" since they were not part of the army; however, being a drug addict makes you imho a security disaster waiting to happen. Still, I have no knowledge either way, so you may well be right.

Oh, I have no idea, really. I'm just throwing out ideas and being devil's advocate just to be a pain in the ass:)

Maybe the reason Wilson's thymoma behaved so oddly is that it isn't thymoma.

Oh, I like this idea! In fact, I think I shall keep it ~~and pet it, and hug it, and call it Wilson~~ as my very own (well, borrowed, but you know what I mean) headcanon. *nods decisively*

Oh good! Glad you like it. :)

I'm with Yarroway -- I chose what I want to have happen rather than what's probable. In reality, Wilson will most likely die and House will have to cope with the aftermath.

But House can be very persuasive, and I think that after they've been together on the road awhile and Wilson has had a chance to fully realize what House has given up for him and what that means about how House feels for him, Wilson will re-think. House might not even have to say a word -- just look at him and let him see those feelings. With only the two of them together, it's not like Wilson can deflect for long -- and he does want to know House loves him.

I think that after they've been together on the road awhile and Wilson has had a chance to fully realize what House has given up for him and what that means about how House feels for him, Wilson will re-think. House might not even have to say a word --

I agree with this. The dinner at the restaurant almost persuaded him as did the cancer patients in the cafeteria, before he began to smell "set up". How long can it take when he sees ont he road how much he means to House?

I agree with

menolly_au that the most likely outcome is that Wilson will die and House will commit suicide soon thereafter. His outburst to Taub in "Holding On" foreshadowed suicide to me (though you could argue that his outburst to the patient about the human responsibility to stay alive tells us that he wouldn't suicide). Without Wilson, I'm not sure what would make it worth continuing to live with his leg pain.

Well, I went with what I'd would like to happen: House will convince Wilson to do the chemo somehow, and they will both travel on together for the remaining years (possibly having wild slashy moments). I would like to think that Wilson would see how much House sacrificed for him and be willing to sacrifice his pride to at least try chemo for a round or two if not go all the way. I can't see House not being miserable watching the clock tick toward midnight, and Wilson seeing this and being motivated by it. As for the slashy part, there were too many homoerotic messages in season 8 for me to believe that once on their own away from the expectations of the people they know they (meaning Wilson, mostly) wouldn't go there. I think House is already there by the time the finale rolled around (aside from DS's 'Dominika with House jr.' scene--yuck!).

IAWTC.

That may well happen. I am still worried about what happens with House once the years are over.

I voted for House convinces Wilson to do chemo and they both get to practice medicine again because I think that would keep the two of them happiest but I can't imagine that would actually happen in the universe of "Everybody Dies." They set it up to make us believe Wilson was really going to die in five months. I personally think that House would overdose Wilson at the end because 1. it's painless, 2. they've both done it before, and 3. because it has the fewest risks. If it didn't work he could try again with a more tailored cocktail. If they drove their car off a cliff or something, Wilson could end up alive but with massive injuries (so could House) which could cause all sorts of problems for one or both of them.

I also think that House wants to try and live his life but he can't practice medicine without a license and he can't get into a medical school or teaching job without any transcripts. He might get a van full of stolen medical supplies that he would drive around using to treat indigent patients and criminals, and anyone else who can't or won't go to a regular hospital. He said he wanted to live but I don't think House realizes just how strongly he is bonded to Wilson. It's one thing to keep going when your soulmate is riding motorcycles with you and sleeping in the same room every night, but once Wilson was gone... That's another story. I can't see him lasting long without his friend, but I also believe that they would be reunited eventually. I like to believe in an afterlife even though it seems unlikely. I also think that a person like House would be a difficult case to decide but that he would end up with Wilson (especially since I don't believe in Hell even though I do believe Heaven might exist). Once there they could have all kinds of awesome adventures.

I like to believe in an afterlife even though it seems unlikely. I also think that a person like House would be a difficult case to decide but that he would end up with Wilson (especially since I don't believe in Hell even though I do believe Heaven might exist). Once there they could have all kinds of awesome adventures.

Maybe you'd like to write on that a bit? That would make for some fun mini-fics or drabbles. "Excerpts From the Afterlife". LOL!

Actually, I was already planning on doing that, will make sure to post it when I can.

I went for Other as I see it as a combination of some of these elements. No magic, no chemo, but Wilson will go on for more than 5 months (which was surely always a terribly over-precise amount of time), stretching into years, health gradually deteriorating but getting by with Housian-style support, and they will definitely travel on together with lots of wildly slashy moments. And when the end comes, it'll be Thelma and Louise style. Damn have I just given away all my fic plans?

Damn have I just given away all my fic plans?

I hope so, because I want to read that!

I agree!

I voted for "House will miraculously cure Wilson with some magic diagnosis, and they will live to old age, with House terrifying his fellow retirement community residents" ... because that's what I WANT to happen. And since the ending was open -- my desires are as valid as any other potential outcome. :) After all ... remember how many times House pulled off a miracle cure in the last 5 minutes! ♥

<3 Sweet thoughts and sweeter icon.

I voted for Option 3, but my personal headcanon is Other: the Riververse that Nightdog started, in which Wilson does live but it's not House's doing nor the result of chemo, but something else as bizarre as his case of cancer was in the first place.

:-)

That would be great, indeed.

Likely, as in, realistic? Wilson dies in eight months to a year (oncologists often underestimate, plus he's otherwise very healthy). House spends the last three months caring for him 24/7. He promises Wilson to at least trry and stay alive for a while. He has fake documents, and Wilson's (and House's) money. What he doesn't have is legal access to prescription painkillers. He gets caught with a dealer when the local prosecutor decide it's time to get reelected: it's just a routine thing, fingerprints and background check, but his real identity is discovered. He's brought back to New Jersey and sentenced to ten years, which become fifteen when he's caught buying illegal painkillers in prison. The growing, untreated pain due, couple with arthrosis setting in push him to commit suicide by drinking something really poisonous which gives him a long and painful agony.

Likely, as in, what I would like? Well... none of the above, of course :).

OMG...did you borrow that scenario from DS or something? How depressing! It sounds like something he would write! (I'm just kidding, by the way--I mean no offense. You don't have to borrow, either; you are very creative on your own. It is kinda depressing though;-) )

To me, that's just the logical consequence of what DS gave us. Living without legal documents is no picnic - in Europe (apart maybe the UK) it's next to impossible: in the US it can work, but it is a life always at risk. Especially for someone as recognizable as House (over average tall, lame, ~~breathtakingly handsome with blue eyes to die for~~ and having his fingerprints on file with the police and the Department of Corrections).

So yes, I definitely did channel DS: that's what he gave us, the crazy world who jails a doctor for saving a life and jails him again for flushing cardboard down a toilet. In such a context, going to jail for faking your death and taking on anssumed identity (with all ensuing crimes, plus the prison avoidance) seems only logical.

This is the future I saw at the end of "Everybody dies". I hope you understand now why I hated* it.
i probably see it extra bleak because 1) I'm depressed myself 2) I am European, hence do not understand how the US works.

*What I outlined here isn't even my worst scenario.

I absolutely agree that the scenario you lay out is logical ... which drastically lowers the chances of it ever happening in House World ;)

No, I get where you're coming from;) I'm Canadian so I'm not an expert on their law and the way things work their either, lol!

Good lord - I thought my contribution to the discussion was depressing enough ! Maybe you should write that one up for dark_fest next year :)

What is dark_fest? Why do I never here about good things? (feels very stupid)(pouts)

I have voted for „House will miraculously cure Wilson with some magic diagnosis, and they will live to old age, with House terrifying his fellow retirement community residents” because I can´t stand the thought of Wilson dying of cancer and House being alone after that. And I somehow can´t stand and handle reading death fics. I have already lost too many people in real life due to death.
Wilson and House will have suffered enough until Wilson is cured and after that there should come some happy times again. Since [H]ouse MD is a show about a doctor who cures people who have zebra illnesses, I think that some kind of zebra/miracle cure for Wilson might be fitting.
House without Wilson is an absolute No-Go for me. The same goes the other way around.

Since [H]ouse MD is a show about a doctor who cures people who have zebra illnesses, I think that some kind of zebra/miracle cure for Wilson might be fitting.

That's sort of how i look at it too. If it was a more realistic show it wouldn't make sense, but when it comes to medicine this show is always talking about the 1%, so why not for Wilson too? Seems fitting to me!

I voted for option #2 because that's what I see as the most likely outcome though not the most desirable: Wilson dies - maybe in five months, maybe a bit longer - and House carries on. He's so devious he wouldn't have any trouble forging a new identity for himself; I must point out I'm thinking in-universe, where House stopped Alvie from being deported by running a DNA test on a necklace, which makes absolutely no sense but House got away with it because that's what he does. If he wanted to practice medicine again he would, though he'd have to be careful about being discovered. In my fantasy he'd write a book about diagnostic medicine.

I voted they go out together, Thelma and Louise style. It wasn't particularly clear that it had to be within five months on that option? But I do think they'll go out together, however long into the future, in a not boring way.

I voted for "other" because even though I think that House will ultimately kill himself either willfully or submissively (i.e., committing "actual" suicide versus partaking in VERY risky behavior with the subconscious desire to have the outcome be death; for example, riding his motorcycle on a curved road, at very high speeds, while knowing he was well above the legal blood-alcohol limit), I can't see it happening in a blaze-of-glory, Thelma-and-Louise kind of way. Because even though I think that Wilson has always known that House can't really function without him, there's a big difference between knowing it and being forced to deal with it directly. I can't see the House who, through it all, has always cared for Wilson making him face something like that. Instead, I think he would stay with Wilson until the end, making it come sooner if that was what Wilson wanted, but not kill himself until after Wilson was already gone. I'd even go so far as to say that even though House likes to think of himself as the beacon of truth (ha!), we know that House is (usually) atheist, doesn't believe in an afterlife, and can be kind and gentle when he wants to be...so I can even see him going so far as to at the very least imply that he planned to go on with his life, if that was something Wilson requested of him (as dying characters so often seem to do in fiction...and, dear God, is "[H]ouse, M.D." fiction!), secure in his own belief that it's irrelevant, because Wilson's going to be dead and gone anyway.

Also, I kind of wonder if, after Wilson is gone, House might look Thirteen up to see how she was coming along. Because I think he takes the promise he made to her very seriously, and he knows her well enough to know that she of all people wouldn't rat him out in any way. I'm not saying that he would make sure to stay alive until she was ready to die, but I can see him checking up on her, thinking that maybe if it was going to be soon, he'd just stick around to keep his word.

(Oh, and ...for however much time he does stay alive and semi-sane, I actually really love the idea of him playing piano in some dive-y blues bar somewhere. In fact, I love it enough that I now may need to make art of it, even though I can't post it here. If I do, I'll definitely credit you for the idea.)

Edited 2012-06-08 12:32 (UTC)

I chose the second one because that's about as close to what I think will happen. Wilson will die in 5 (to 12) months, then House will try to go on without him (I quite like the idea of him setting himself up in New Orleans) He may go on for a while but I think inevitably the depression of being without Wilson, of not being able to return home to practise medicine, knowing that a jail sentence is all that's awaiting him and that he's already dead to the other people he cares about, he will eventually end it.

What I wish to happen of course is for many more years of wild slashy moments!

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