Stolen from hannahrorlove

[deelaundry]

Certain people on my f-list to whom I owe things will kill me for being distracted but this sounds like too much fun:

Name three fics that you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return, I will attempt to write a snippet of one of them.

Snippets (all PG-13ish) written for:

• Self-insertion: House falls for the new doctor at PPTH, Wilson get jealous. 
• Foreman is a go-go dancer.
• What's all this then? House secretly has an adorable niece!
• Wilson kills House. (WARNING:  CHARACTER DEATH)
• Cameron offers House the same microwave-pizza-sex deal that she had with Chase, and House takes her up on it.
• The Super Six wake up and find that they've all grown wings. Big, fluffy angel wings.
• Foreman is transgendered; his other name is NOT Erica, it's Latifah.
• House is a furry.
• House/Julie Whitner-cripple!smut.

There is also a Matt/Ben AU snippet.

Comments

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

When I looked at the Word doc, I was surprised there wasn't any more text than those few paragraphs, because I remember thinking through a lot of it.

Here are some more elements (sorry if this is disjointed): Ben's friend Kevin is an android designer, and Ben used to work with him as an android tester. Kevin and his design team would try to make the androids as human as possible, and Ben would test them out and determine where they deviated from human behavior. There have been seven "generations" of androids, each getting more and more like humans.

They working on Gen Eight, although not at the testing stage, about 18 months or so before this story begins, when Ben caught The Plague. This is a supervirus that is extremely deadly, although slow to transfer from person to person (takes extended close personal contact). About ten percent of people are immune to it, but they become carriers. No one has been able to make any headway on medicine that would wipe out the virus, so carriers are quarantined in special air-locked "towns." (Yes, if it's slow to transfer, there wouldn't be much need for airlocks, but people are stupid.)

Before Ben was diagnosed with The Plague, though, he had already infected his wife and his daughter, both of whom died. Ben has been depressed over this ever since.

Kevin sends Matt to Ben in strict secrecy. Matt is a Gen Eight android, and the closest they've ever come to an android being totally human-like. In fact, they got so close that the government denied the company permission to produce and ordered the Gen Eights destroyed. Can't have people, or worse yet androids, agitating for "android rights."

So Kevin tells Ben that he managed to save this one Gen Eight android, and he wants Ben to test him and figure out what they could change to give them all the "functionality" they want but leave it clear that this is not a human being.

One difficulty that arises is that Gen Eights are designed to adapt themselves to the personality of the human they are with. If the human wants someone meek, or sarcastic, or witty, or kind of dumb but funny, the Gen Eight will sense that out and take on that kind of personality.

There's a lot of double-talk between Matt and Ben on whether Matt is doing that with Ben. And talk on what it means to be human, and whether androids ought to be denied that possibility.

Matt also gets Ben to go out of his house (he's been a recluse all this time) and meet some of his neighbors in the zone - basically gets Ben to reengage in life.

Ben falls in love with Matt in there somewhere, but tries to deny it. And at some point, there's even a question as to whether Matt really is an android, or a human who braved the quarantine to get to meet Ben.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

No, no problems following it. Thank you so much for sharing; it's nothing but wonderful. I love world-building like this.