On the subject of House & Wilson's relationship, our difference may be on the power and potency of "like." To me, "like" is a separate but no less powerful emotion than love. I am 100% in agreement that Wilson loves House in canon and this fic, and that House loves Wilson in canon (getting there in this fic). But the joy in them comes from liking each other: active delight in the other's actions and words.
House doesn't like very many people, but Wilson is interesting. Wilson likes more people than House does(although I suspect he pretends to like more people than he actually does), but no one challenges or enlivens him the way House does.
There are people in my life who I love and don't like (by which I mean am "eh" toward vs. disliking them); I support them, comfort them, but don't go out of my way to hang around them. I certainly wouldn't spend thousands of dollars and dozens of hours of travel to hang around them.
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House doesn't like very many people, but Wilson is interesting. Wilson likes more people than House does(although I suspect he pretends to like more people than he actually does), but no one challenges or enlivens him the way House does.
There are people in my life who I love and don't like (by which I mean am "eh" toward vs. disliking them); I support them, comfort them, but don't go out of my way to hang around them. I certainly wouldn't spend thousands of dollars and dozens of hours of travel to hang around them.