Thanks for posting your thoughts on this, I've found reading other people's comments and your responses very interesting through this fic, it's good to get a different perspective on the House/Cuddy trainwreck of season 7.
Like you I didn't see any great bonding between Rachel & House, more that House decided to tolerate her for the greater good (his relationship with Cuddy). As an aside, Wilson was also incredibly awkward around Rachel, and I liked his unhappy look in your story when it was suggested he might go alone with Rachel to London :)
When Cuddy and Wilson are in the baby shop and House comes in and learns that she is trying to adopt you can see the dismay on his face, and then when she loses that child he makes a move on her, and they are inching towards a possible relationship when Rachel arrives on the scene, and again you can see what he feels about that in the last scene of that episode - he has always clearly seen a child as an obstacle in his way. He doesn't want to/or thinks he can't share Cuddy.
I do think House's relationship (or lack therof) with his own parents plays some role in his reluctance to have a child involved in his relationship with Cuddy.
I like your reasoning as to why Pete is more open to the idea, less jealous. And that he partly broke up with Cuddy over his blaming himself for what happened to Rachel - that would indeed be a difficult burden to bear while interacting with the child on a daily basis.
I love the way you portrayed Rachel in this story and her perspective on events in the last chapter was very interesting.
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Like you I didn't see any great bonding between Rachel & House, more that House decided to tolerate her for the greater good (his relationship with Cuddy). As an aside, Wilson was also incredibly awkward around Rachel, and I liked his unhappy look in your story when it was suggested he might go alone with Rachel to London :)
When Cuddy and Wilson are in the baby shop and House comes in and learns that she is trying to adopt you can see the dismay on his face, and then when she loses that child he makes a move on her, and they are inching towards a possible relationship when Rachel arrives on the scene, and again you can see what he feels about that in the last scene of that episode - he has always clearly seen a child as an obstacle in his way. He doesn't want to/or thinks he can't share Cuddy.
I do think House's relationship (or lack therof) with his own parents plays some role in his reluctance to have a child involved in his relationship with Cuddy.
I like your reasoning as to why Pete is more open to the idea, less jealous. And that he partly broke up with Cuddy over his blaming himself for what happened to Rachel - that would indeed be a difficult burden to bear while interacting with the child on a daily basis.
I love the way you portrayed Rachel in this story and her perspective on events in the last chapter was very interesting.