#I love Cuddy's “no you fucking didn't” faces so much

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makes sense that they're friends with House

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House MD makes me absolutely FERAL.

For instance, I finished rewatching S3 E15, "Half-Wit", the one when House fakes cancer so he can get high (typical). And

AHHH

Everyone's response to House potentially dying is EVERYTHING. And displays both the characters and their character growth SO WELL.

Wilson, ofc, is offended that his best friend *cough* *lover* *cough* didn't say anything, and hid it. And something I think (and forgive me if this is not actually how it went down to everyone else, it's 1am and I have brainrot) is really interesting, is that beyond Wilson giving House shit for not saying anything, Wilson doesn't give any of the platitudes that everyone else gives. We don't see Wilson trying to "fix" anything or say, "House your dying, can we have an actual human connection for once?". No no, Wilson just lets him be.

Now, either Wilson is pissed and reeling from this news , and is just distancing himself (which tbh feels ooc, like House has crossed worse lines before, and Wilson deals with cancer everyday, idk).

OR you can look at the option of Wilson knows House well enough (and cancer, let's be real) that trying to fix it, won't change anything, that coming up to House and trying to "console" him won't do anything. House is House, and Wilson KNOWS THAT. Wilson knows that if House really and truly wants a conversation about it, or any comfort, House will just be like, " Yo, can we go get wasted?" and that's that.

AND THEN HIS FUCKING ANALYSIS AT THE END AND HIM FUCKING LAUGHING AT THE IRONY.

And Cuddy, I feel like, is the middle ground between how Wilson and the kids react. She doesn't go out of her way to say something, but in an almost hand-on-the- doorknob-as-I'm-leaving type way does she say something. AND THEN THEIR BANTER IN THE HALL IS FUCKING EVERYTHINGG. And her FUCKING smile as House grabs her ass (istg I can only say this in real action to this fucking show) but still dismissing him coming to the bedroom with her

Like both her and Wilson and obviously hurt, right, but they don't outright change their behavior toward House or anything, but they accept it (kind of) and don't go out of their way to change anything,

AND THEN THE KIDS' RESPONSES. ANHHH

I love Chase's moment. He's just like, "Dad, shut up and let me hug you" AND FUCKING STARTS CRYING

CHASE IS LITERALLY THE ONLY ONE WHO CRIES

He's like, "Goddammit, I'm going to lose two of my parentals to this cancerous bullshit. Tf."

AND HUGH LARUIE'S ACTING I CANT

YOU CAN SEE HOUSE REALIZING THAT, "oh shit, they really care and this is really going to hurt them" LIKE WHAT THE HELL. MY HEART, FUCK THIS SHOW WTH

And I love how Cameron is shown in this episode, over the first three seasons, we can see her kinda of coming to her own, and learning from House, so instead of like, backing down from helping House she just fucking kisses him so she can steal his blood. Like. YES CAMERON. GET IT.

AND AGAIN

HUGH LAURIE. YOU CAN SEE HOUSE'S HESITATION, WEIGHING THE PROS AND CONS BEFORE KSSING BACK.

And tbh I feel like House is low key proud of Cameron for a moment in a "she is taking after me" type way.

And Foreman trying not to care, but caring the whole time, and HIS FACE WHEN HES TELLING HOUSE HE DOESNT HAVE CANCER. LIKE. JXNKSCVJVXFBJKBFVSKJ

And I just love everyone's reaction five seconds later when they realize

"House is an addict. Right. Fucking this was a sham, fuck"

AND THEIR FACES ARE EVEYTHING

Cameron is crestfallen, outraged. Foreman is slightly pissed but completely nonplussed almost? Like a I should have expected this/this is such a House thing, which is why I dislike the man. And his sarcastic response is EVERYTHING And, Chase, oh Chase. He's so disbelieving and hurt. Like my baby I'm so sorry.

And House like really understanding how much this hurt them, and kinda of being a fucking TOTAL IDIOT and like slightly scared I feel but arrogant enough to just fucking like. Trying to blame so he doesn't feel guilty (he does) pushing them away so he doesn't have to face consequences (he's spiraling) and and after Wilson (finally) talks to him, having to stop and THINK about how fucking miserable is he really (he's such and idiot) and just AHHH

AND THEN HIM FUCKING GOING INTO THE RESTAURANT AT THE END?????? ITS A FUCKING CRIME THAT WE DON'T SEE THAT CONVERSATION BETWEEN HIM AND THEM. LIKE SIR, I WANT TO THIS POTENTIALLY EMOTIONALLY CHARGED MOMENT. LIKE

And honestly, Ilove how House interacts with the patient in the episode, it's on par with the boy who had autism earlier this season. Like the piano part is what really intrigues him, but still goes forth to give him his life back. Idk, just felt special.

Okay, um so thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Idk what happened.

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Do you have any pre-infarction house headcanons? Especially with stahudson polycule? Was house hitting on cuddy and making gay jokes about wilson when he was with stacy? Did they all hangout together in cafeteria? Did stacy even work in ppth? I am starving for more pre-infarction house contents

I love love love love asks like this!! I have so.many. preinfarction headcanons where do I even begin. Buckle up because I'm going IN.

I think stacy was a hilson enabler from the beginning. she was the #1 perpetrator of "my boyfriend and his boyfriend" jokes from the years 1996-1999. she understood and respected the homoerotic friendship (bc she too has had homoerotic friendships). honestly that understanding that house and wilson loved each other was the thing that allowed her to finally let go of house and move on after the infarction. she knew wilson would take care of him if she left. but not only did she respect their relationship, she absolutely enabled the weirdness of it and was the one who started bringing wilson up in bed just to fuck with house. she created the Wilson Fetish that cuddy would one day have to endure (I use endure loosely bc cuddy enjoyed it just as much). in fact, stacy even gave house permission to invite wilson to have a threesome with them when he was in between marriages to bonnie and julie, but house was too afraid to actually invite him bc he wasn't ready to open the can of emotional worms that would've come with sleeping with his best friend.

Now to answer some of your specific questions;

I don't think house hit on cuddy as much when he was with stacy, but he still flirted with her on occasion bc that's just how he is. but stacy flirted with her too bc they were friends and she knew that cuddy and house slept together in med school, so it was always the unspoken joke between them. There was a lot of "well, house likes his pretty brunettes, you know how it is." alrjalkg. But flirting with wilson was always and will always be on the table, house himself can't even stop it from happening.

I don't think stacy originally worked at ppth, but I think cuddy and stacy were friends first and cuddy invited stacy and house separately to the paintball match they met at in hopes they would hit it off. It was a no brainer once she started dating house and a job became available for stacy to take, so she started working there.

When their schedules aligned, they def all liked sitting in the cafeteria and having lunch together but it didn't happen that often on account of house and stacy sneaking off to make out whenever they got a chance, plus cuddy working through her lunch more often than not bc thats who she is, especially as the youngest Dean of Medicine, she still felt that she had a lot to prove back then. but I think that's what started cuddy and wilson's tuesday tradition of having lunch together since their friends were too busy fooling around without them.

Now talking about the stacy-house-wilson-cuddy polycule.......what a beautiful disaster that would've been 😭 they break up and get back together about 500 times and each time they breakup, someone gets fired and then rehired a couple weeks later. poor cuddy never rests bc her best doctors are legal disasters, her lawyer is in love with the biggest disaster of them all, and she's in love with all of them so there's literally no winning (until they all make it to the bedroom, and then cuddy is The Winner bc they all have some bullshit to apologize to her for.)

tequila is to blame for it all. cuddy was actually the one who followed wilson to the bar after work one day bc she noticed his wedding ring was gone and wanted to talk to him abt it. he told her abt him and bonnie splitting, said he hadn't even told house yet bc house had been so preoccupied with stacy (and maybe he just didn't want to have to face two ppl who were so damn in love with each other that it made him sick). he had those big sad eyes and cuddy just couldn't let him go home so sad and alone, so she ordered them a round of tequila shots. one round turned into three or four and then they had to ask house for a ride. but the party didn't end there, insisting on breaking out more booze once at house's place and they all four ended up drunk and horny together, waking up in a naked heap together the next morning.

they swore it would Never Happen Again. that lasted about two days until wilson gets all weepy over his impending divorce again and they show him what he has to look forward to as a single man. (patheticness is an aphrodisiac to these ppl, I swear)

cuddy holds out a lot longer than the rest of them, but eventually she approaches wilson like "hey...so listen....I need u.. to...do that thing. that thing with ur tongue. pls. pls and thank u."

they attempt to establish some boundaries and do the Normal Relationship Thing, stacy dating house and cuddy dating wilson, but it falls apart the very first time cuddy and stacy have some alone time to talk about it and end up on top of each other again. house and wilson never even actually tried, they agreed they Shouldn't Do This and then immediately did it twice more in a row.