Tag for Last Night's Episode

[nightdog_barks]

A very short comment-fic, written for deelaundry's Fic Challenge. Further details under the cut. Wilson, no warnings, spoilers for last night's episode, PG-13 rating. 176 words. No beta.



The prompt: "House gave Wilson ten days to 'get back into it.' What happens when the ten days are up, if Wilson doesn't?"


Decoy


Wilson stares at the phone. It stares back at him.

Go ahead, it seems to say. Pick me up. You know you want to.

"No, I don't," Wilson says, and then looks around quickly, sure that someone's overheard him talking to an inanimate object on his desk.

Damn House. If it hadn't been for him, Wilson wouldn't be in this stupid predicament. If Wilson hadn't said anything, though, hadn't staked House to a precise time limit, House would have been hounding him every day, would have been breaking into his apartment (again), bugging his phone, signing him up for JDate, slipping porn into his interoffice mail.

Wilson sighs. It's come down to this, the tenth day, and he's still not ready. At this rate, he doesn't know if he ever will be ready, but it's time to fight fire with fire, and if he has to bring in a ringer, that's what he'll do. Anything to get House off his back.

He picks up the phone, punches in a number.

"Hello?" Wilson says. "Robin?"



~ fin




Note:
Robin was the beautiful call girl in "Airborne."

Comments

[pwcorgigirl]

Oh, you get MAJOR points for bringing back Robin. That's a footnote to Wilson's life that everyone overlooks and it works perfectly here. &hearts

[nightdog_barks]

Whoa, that was fast! :-D

I really liked Robin, so I was super-pleased I could bring her back in this tag.

♥ ♥ ♥

[srsly_yes]

Yup, that's kind of how I saw it playing out, but had never thought of Robin. Genius! Amazing how you summed up Wilson's dilemma with a perfect economy of words.

[nightdog_barks]

*g*

My personal fanwank is that Robin and Wilson actually did date for a while, and Wilson managed to keep her a secret from House. I'm glad you liked this!

[topaz_eyes]

Oh, nice--and such a Wilson thing to do, too.

[nightdog_barks]

Wilson + subterfuge go hand-in-hand.

:-D

[blackmare]

Yep, still love this every bit as much as I did last night.

[nightdog_barks]

:-D

I was very surprised that it appeared at all. Usually I can't write to prompts at all.

[blackmare]

I can't usually do prompts either. In this case it may have been that you were already sort of thinking about what Wilson would do, so the prompt wasn't as external as most prompts are.

And I keep meaning to say that House clearly does not understand the appeal to many women of a man who owns a cat. It means -- provided he's straight -- that he's man enough not care if his asshole friends give him crap about it. And secure enough that he doesn't need to own something that will fawn and slobber all over him. These are attractive qualities.