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nightdog_barks's AU Divergence, in which James Wilson sustained brain damage at age eight. This ficlet is G-rated, no real plot, but Jimmy makes an interesting observation about House. Thank you to Nightdog for permission to use her AU.
House snaps the phone shut and slams down onto the couch. Jimmy tears his overly wide eyes away from the TV and plants them right on House’s face. “You’re mad.”
“Not at you.”
“I know.” Jimmy shakes his head. “At the phone person.”
House crosses his arms and stares intently at the television. Cartoon. Figures. “I can’t stand people who can’t think.”
“What’s ‘can’t stand’ mean?”
House rolls his eyes. Figures that Jimmy’s vocabulary would be especially poor for things that aren’t goodness and light. “‘Can’t stand’ means ‘hate.’“
“Oh, yeah,” Jimmy says, as if it’d been on the tip of his tongue and he’d just forgotten.
The cartoon mouse has just flambéed the cartoon cat’s tail when Jimmy pipes up again. “You don’t hate people who can’t think.”
“I just said –”
“You’re OK with people who can’t think. You hate people who can think but don’t.”
House looks at his feet for a moment, propped up on the coffee table next to Jimmy’s. Jimmy’s feet are the same size as his, might even be a little bigger.
“You’re right.”
“I know,” Jimmy says.
Think, a 185-word ficlet based on
nightdog_barks's AU Divergence, in which James Wilson sustained brain damage at age eight. This ficlet is G-rated, no real plot, but Jimmy makes an interesting observation about House. Thank you to Nightdog for permission to use her AU.House snaps the phone shut and slams down onto the couch. Jimmy tears his overly wide eyes away from the TV and plants them right on House’s face. “You’re mad.”
“Not at you.”
“I know.” Jimmy shakes his head. “At the phone person.”
House crosses his arms and stares intently at the television. Cartoon. Figures. “I can’t stand people who can’t think.”
“What’s ‘can’t stand’ mean?”
House rolls his eyes. Figures that Jimmy’s vocabulary would be especially poor for things that aren’t goodness and light. “‘Can’t stand’ means ‘hate.’“
“Oh, yeah,” Jimmy says, as if it’d been on the tip of his tongue and he’d just forgotten.
The cartoon mouse has just flambéed the cartoon cat’s tail when Jimmy pipes up again. “You don’t hate people who can’t think.”
“I just said –”
“You’re OK with people who can’t think. You hate people who can think but don’t.”
House looks at his feet for a moment, propped up on the coffee table next to Jimmy’s. Jimmy’s feet are the same size as his, might even be a little bigger.
“You’re right.”
“I know,” Jimmy says.
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Date: 2009-02-18 04:25 am (UTC)This is remarkable, and now I am dying to know how Jimmy got into House's apartment or how House got into the place where Jimmy lives.
Because either of those things would have seemed unlikely based on the original story, my brain wants to fill in the gaps.
And then again it doesn't, because this ficverse makes my heart hurt so bad.
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