Allison Is a Quick Study (R)

[deelaundry]

Title: Allison Is a Quick Study
Author: Dee Laundry
Pairing: House/Cameron, House/Wilson implied
Rating: R
Summary: 309-word prequel to Pillory. Prompt by jdr1184: In the Pillory universe, what is Wilson doing while House is having sex with Cameron? Does he watch? Does he fume in the other room? Does House only have sex with her when she’s in heat?

Allison is a quick study. Although she has been with her husband only a handful of times, she already knows well how to drive his passion, as one would drive sheep toward a new pasture. She knows the levels of his excitement, and how to bring him from one level to the other, and how to time the changes so as to increase her own pleasure.

She knows how to lengthen his time with her, draw it out. She is certain she would also know how to finish his pleasure in the shortest time, although she has no intention of testing this theory.

What she does not know, cannot fathom, is how to dispense with the eyes in the corner of the room that burn her skin. Every first wife has the right to be present as the husband attends his second wife. James is the first person Allison has ever met who exercises that right. Every time.

Greg’s attention never wavers. He has a remarkable capacity for concentration, when he wishes it, and as she moves with him, she feels that he is with her wholly. It is Allison who cannot block out the silent, unmoving presence of James.

It is the only time in her life that someone has hated her.

Her time with her husband ends always in the same manner. As his pleasure peaks, he grunts or groans, and then falls silent, his lips captured by James’. The kiss is long, and Greg draws away from her.

James helps their husband up, embracing him, supporting him. Greg smiles lazily, sated. Allison has provided the pleasure, but the gratitude is always for James.

The two of them head for the door, leaving Allison behind. “I pray for your fertility,” is the last thing she always hears, falling from James’ lips, and then she is alone again.

Comments

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

THANKS! James is completely and utterly resentful that Allison is there at all.

Did you read the original? (http://deelaundry.livejournal.com/18844.html)

[earlwyn.livejournal.com]

I did read the original! And kind of flipped my lid about it. *g* I want to crawl inside the universe you created and live there and never come out for the next few months because it is JUST. SO. COOL.

I think it's the second best AU next to [Unknown site tag]'s Annals -- because as much as I love your writing, nothing warms the cockles of my historian heart like the Romans. But Pillory comes very, very close. It's such an interesting dynamic that you painted, where there is actual justification for Wilson being feminized -- and yet, controversely, he's not in characterization. It's such an intriguing dynamic. Plus, the fact that it's such a firm commitment to make, between Greg and James, that James would give up his birth rites to be with Greg. That's -- simply incredible. And you explore it so well, without delving into angst or over sentimentality about The Woe (heh)involved.

Then the style in which it is written just makes everything complete. The fact that it feels and sounds almost Puritan in nature -- did you read documents of that era to get a grip on the language or are you just preternaturally brilliant? I'm going with preternatural brilliance -- makes the entire experience all the more gorgeous and original and other complimentary words that I can't think of at the moment BECAUSE I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THAT FIC.

Anyway, consider this a long overdue comment. Do I recall correctly reading somewhere that you had a sequel planned/possible/in the works?