For instance, I could picture House maybe wanting to do those things far back in his life, but the way his father treated him, and some of his early life experiences might have worked to make those actions seem futile, so he'd ruthlessly cut them out of his life. But if he can't remember all that, some desire for that might float back up.
That's basically the premise I'm following in this fic. When I started writing I assumed that I'd get here and how that, yes, being Pete has changed House, 'uncovered' him, as you say, sufficiently for him to deal with the situation without automatically reaching for drugs. But when I got here, character consistency demanded a relapse: House has always been prone to risky behaviour and he's always preferred quick fixes to long-term effort.
Nevertheless, I'm not Shore and I wouldn't have bothered to write this if I didn't feel that some things can change. Pete's knee-jerk reaction to stress is the same as House's would have been, but let's see how he deals with this in the long run.
I did mention somewhere that this fic doesn't tie everything up neatly in the end?
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Date: 2012-05-09 07:10 pm (UTC)That's basically the premise I'm following in this fic. When I started writing I assumed that I'd get here and how that, yes, being Pete has changed House, 'uncovered' him, as you say, sufficiently for him to deal with the situation without automatically reaching for drugs. But when I got here, character consistency demanded a relapse: House has always been prone to risky behaviour and he's always preferred quick fixes to long-term effort.
Nevertheless, I'm not Shore and I wouldn't have bothered to write this if I didn't feel that some things can change. Pete's knee-jerk reaction to stress is the same as House's would have been, but let's see how he deals with this in the long run.
I did mention somewhere that this fic doesn't tie everything up neatly in the end?
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