Sick!Wilson Camp - Three Sentence Story Challenge

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Good morning/afternoon/evening fellow campers. I have a new challenge for you. We did this last year and it was a lot of fun so I thought I'd 'recycle' the idea for this year.

This is called the Three Sentence Story Challenge.

Please comment to this post with a prompt for a Sick!Wilson story. Your fellow campers can then answer the prompts with a three sentence story. Multiple answers to each prompt are fine so don't worry if someone gets in before you - it's always interesting to get different takes on the same prompt! Comments on each other stories are also allowed (and encouraged!)

The prompts can be anything with a Sick!Wilson angle. Anyone is welcome to prompt, - you don't have to write a story to prompt. It would be great to see some prompts from some of you lurkers out there! (and you'd get a very stylish camper badge :)  Prompts and stories must include some element of sick!Wilson. Stories should be three sentences long, there is no limit on the length of the sentences :)

Please leave your three sentence story as a reply comment to the prompt.

I'll leave a couple of prompts to start us off. 

Comments

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Wilson sustains an injury during Saturday Video Game Night
Wilson is injured in the clinic
What Wilson did between House's 'death' and his funeral

[alternatealto.livejournal.com]

What Wilson did between House's "death" and his funeral :


He looked at them, all lined up in a row, a pallid rainbow of colors leading to the only reward he wanted now. Looked at them, and smiled a little to himself because House wouldn’t ever learn, now, how Wilson had pulled the ultimate revenge prank: stealing House’s prescription pad and forging House’s name to the scripts. He’d done it weeks ago, just . . . just in case: now, he only had to make it through a few more hours, a few more platitudes, a simple ceremony – and he’d be free to learn for himself where House had gone.

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

This is so IC I can believe it is a missing scene.

[knitty-woman.livejournal.com]

Incredible.

[petitecuriosity.livejournal.com]

OMG. I'm with yarroway on this. So IC it could have been a missing scene.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Yeah, I can see this - right down to Wilson's curiousity about what lies after.

[sassyjumper.livejournal.com]

This is awesome. So powerful in a few lines.

[petitecuriosity.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Wilson sustains an injury during Saturday Video Game Night

Wilson stared shamfully at his cast-covered left wrist, unable to believe that he had sustained an injury after doing something so idiotic.

"Told you not to mess with the Master of Mortal Kombat; now you've injured the fourth Mrs. Wilson," House taunted.

"Bite me," Wilson muttered through gritted teeth.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

LOL - 'the fourth Mrs WIlson' ;)

[knitty-woman.livejournal.com]

'the fourth Mrs. Wilson' ... lol! Fabulous voices. Well done!

[mnstrtruckslash.livejournal.com]

“Oww!” Wilson whines as his best friend elbows him in the chest—knocking the wind out of him—in the midst of an intense game of Mario Kart.

“That was an accident,” House explains, making sure to press the pause button before he drops his controller and examining his friend’s injuries.

“A likely story,” Jimmy replies, wincing and trying to catch his breath.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

I like how House pauses the game first before checking Wilson over :) And he'll probably claim the win too :)

[alternatealto.livejournal.com]

Prompt: Wilson's first motorcycle lesson.

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Road Rash

"Gas, brake, steering," House intones pointing at each in turn,"keep your helmet and jacket on when you ride."

It's a hot day and Wilson's jacket makes it a million times worse, so he stuffs it into his pack. Three hours later he takes a corner a little too fast, and discovers that House was right.

[petitecuriosity.livejournal.com]

Ouch, yikes! I love how you've left this sort of open-ended, letting us know that Wilson is in danger but not specifying exactly what happened.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Oh ouch! I can see House's 'instructions' being about this terse. At least Wilson kept his helmet on!

[alternatealto.livejournal.com]

Oh, perfect! I agree with Menolly_au that the directions sound exactly like House. I hope road rash was the worst of Wilson's injuries -- but I bet he never leaves the jacket off again!

[mnstrtruckslash.livejournal.com]

Something very similar to that happened to Hugh in real life. I remember thinking about my brother showing me a HUGE scratch on his jacket once from falling off his bike.

[skallaggrex.livejournal.com]

Prompt: In Season 8's "Perils of Paranoia", Wilson fell from the net and broke his collarbone.

[knitty-woman.livejournal.com]

As he lay in the ER awaiting his turn at the xray machine, Wilson alternately cursed his pain and pondered what had happened. How, exactly, had House managed to rig the apparatus on his ten-foot ceiling and insure that the net would hold Wilson's body weight? Not exactly exactly,Wilson thought dopily, and comforted himself with the only slightly reassuring thought that even House could miscalculate once in a while.

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

LOL! Yes, that would be comforting. :)

[petitecuriosity.livejournal.com]

Oooh I love this! It's so well put together, even with having only three sentences. I like that you've both illustrated Wilson's pain, his puzzlement at House's skills, and then amusement over his miscalculation.

[skallaggrex.livejournal.com]

Thanks for answering the prompt! That episode had me scratching my head about how House had set the trap, and how Wilson fell for it. Well, if Wilson got his shoulder X-rayed, maybe the thymoma will be discovered sooner and can be removed. That though will be AU territory...

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Well, if Wilson got his shoulder X-rayed, maybe the thymoma will be discovered sooner and can be removed

Now *that's* an AU I never thought of. if only....

And yeah, the net, while being a nice visual, was totally absurd.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Wilson stared at the scan numbly - an incidental finding, a thymoma, discovered when doing scans after his fall - he had cancer, stage one, an easy surgical removal. He was lucky, they said. As he moved his arm and felt the piercing pain from his broken collarbone he didn't feel that lucky.

[sassyjumper.livejournal.com]

Excellent! You've fixed the whole final arc in three sentences.

[skallaggrex.livejournal.com]

Nice one! And I can see Wilson still insisting on chemotherapy even when all of the tumor can be removed. It will be just like him to think of the worst in terms of statistics...

[mnstrtruckslash.livejournal.com]

House's net was probably set up in a similar fashion to the one Wilson put up with the trip wire, and some levers and pulleys and things, but Wilson didn't expect House to have booby traps up.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

I like Wilson's dopey thoughts :)

[knitty-woman.livejournal.com]

that should be 'dozily' rather than 'dopily' ... can't seem to edit this properly.

[mnstrtruckslash.livejournal.com]

House was unable to resist tickling his best friend, now that Wilson was partially defenseless due to his immobilized right arm.

“Knock it off or I’ll blab to everyone about that thing you did with the rubber duck,” Wilson warned, finally smiling.

“You swore you’d never tell,” House exclaimed, backing up in terror.

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love it when we see Wilson get the upper hand.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

LOL - now one wonders exactly what House did with the rubber duck...

[mnstrtruckslash.livejournal.com]

Yep, that was my goal. I had to think of a way for Wilson to make him stop, and this was the first thing to pop into my head. I have no idea what happened to the rubber duck anyway, which is why I made it a three sentence story.

[skallaggrex.livejournal.com]

Haha, this reminds me of how House managed to get Wilson to do his bidding in "All in". Nail Polish on was it.. toe nails?

[mnstrtruckslash.livejournal.com]

toenail polish

[petitecuriosity.livejournal.com]

Wilson injures himself during the Tritter arc.
What Wilson did after speaking to House on the phone in "Broken."
Wilson hurts himself playing Dance Dance Revolution.

[mnstrtruckslash.livejournal.com]

Wilson hurts himself playing Dance Dance revolution


“Tell me how this happened again?” House asked, barely containing his giggles.

“Stop laughing; I’m in pain,” I complained, “And I’ve told you like five times: I wrenched my back trying to do this special move in a song I’d never played before.” House nearly fell off the sofa from laughing so hard.

[petitecuriosity.livejournal.com]

LOL. That's hilarious!

[sassyjumper.livejournal.com]

What Wilson did after speaking to House on the phone in "Broken."

[The semi-colon is a wonderful cheating device.]


He stood there, holding the phone against his chest and trying to pretend he hadn’t just done it again. The last time he’d hung up on someone who needed him, things hadn’t turned out so well; but he told himself this time would be different. A moment later, he dropped the phone on the couch and shuffled to the bathroom, because he had his own pills to take.

[alternatealto.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love the parallel between House's condition and Wilson's, here. Brilliant!

[petitecuriosity.livejournal.com]

I love this so much. Thank you for writing it! I love the comparison of House to Danny, and of the connection between House's pills and the one Wilson takes (presumably?) for depression.

[knitty-woman.livejournal.com]

I agree. Very nice parallels with David's situation.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Good old semi-colons :)

Love the comparison to Danny, I wonder how much that drives Wilson - that he can't abandon someone in need again.

[alternatealto.livejournal.com]

What Wilson did after speaking to House on the phone in "Broken."


He held on to the phone for a long time after ending the call, staring into space, his grip on the handset gradually getting tighter and tighter, squeezing until his fingers went numb. He'd thought he'd known what a void there was in his life with House away, but it seemed he hadn't: and now he couldn't be sure that House was getting better, was even trying to get better --and what if he couldn't?

He held on to the phone for a long time after ending the call, staring into space, the fear and worry inside him gradually growing stronger and stronger, squeezing until his heart went numb.

[petitecuriosity.livejournal.com]

*sniffles* This was just lovely.

I like the way you describe Wilson's grasping of the phone handset, his fingers going numb. I had a physical sense of empathy while reading it. I also like the way you paralell the squeezing of his fingers with the squeezing of his heart, the overwhelming worry inside. I also love how you describe Wilson's thoughts over whether or not House will be able to get better. I could totally see this happening in that scene inbetween. Very IC, believable, and cathartic. (And so amazing to capture such intense emotion in a mere three sentences.)

[yarroway.livejournal.com]

"...squeezing until his heart went numb..."

:(

Amazing what can be done with three sentences.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

This is lovely. I can feel Wilson's despair at the thought that House isn't even trying to get better. Great stuff!