Cuddy's reaction to go get House/Pete is interesting. I think Cuddy is aware of how important Pete/House is to Wilson, even though Pete is choosing to ignore this. And yes, Pete is feeling guilty here. He may have problems showing the forms of caring and affection that the situation demands, but that doesn't mean that he isn't aware that these things are expected and needed. (He has no problems identifying and naming in his patients and their families those shortcomings of which he himself is guilty.) And although he may not feel for Wilson what Wilson feels for him, he knows that Wilson is tied to him by twenty years of common history and that this will affect Wilson's response to his behaviour.
"I'm not a consolation prize" I probably yanked it from there. If I'm to write idiomatic American English, I have no choice but to yank from House MD, because that's the only show I've watched in decades. But it's also a motif that I attribute to Cuddy. In S2 she mentions to Stacy that she was mad about coming second in her year and in S7 she's in a constant battle for her mother's respect and affection, because she feels she takes second place to her sister. I believe she has feelings of inferiority, of always being second best. I was going to expand on this in the fic, but it's had to make place for other plot bunnies.
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Date: 2014-04-19 07:44 am (UTC)I think Cuddy is aware of how important Pete/House is to Wilson, even though Pete is choosing to ignore this. And yes, Pete is feeling guilty here. He may have problems showing the forms of caring and affection that the situation demands, but that doesn't mean that he isn't aware that these things are expected and needed. (He has no problems identifying and naming in his patients and their families those shortcomings of which he himself is guilty.) And although he may not feel for Wilson what Wilson feels for him, he knows that Wilson is tied to him by twenty years of common history and that this will affect Wilson's response to his behaviour.
"I'm not a consolation prize"
I probably yanked it from there. If I'm to write idiomatic American English, I have no choice but to yank from House MD, because that's the only show I've watched in decades. But it's also a motif that I attribute to Cuddy. In S2 she mentions to Stacy that she was mad about coming second in her year and in S7 she's in a constant battle for her mother's respect and affection, because she feels she takes second place to her sister. I believe she has feelings of inferiority, of always being second best. I was going to expand on this in the fic, but it's had to make place for other plot bunnies.
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