#blythe holds a lot of like willful ignorance/neglect at play wrt the john-greg conflict

[marc--chilton]

i can imagine that house would want his daughter to know her grandma. but does house ever let john near giselle? does wilson know about all that john has done?

good question! i only actually just started figuring out a better timeline for when giselle's born and settled on a post-birthmarks point and just sort of futz with canon after that point. so giselle doesn't ever meet john, but given how stressed house gets when his dad gets brought up, she pieces some stuff together and finds she's not exactly heartbroken to not know him. she has a nice relationship with granny blythe though her shortcomings as a beta who doesn't have strong instincts can ring pretty loud sometimes -- she hasn't changed since house was a kid in that way, so it's sort of a raw spot all around.

i'm gonna be so fr right now. i feel like whenever house opens up about like his childhood or trauma or what have you he like barely gets any comfort and i'm a little mad about it! so i take advantage of having a bad memory and trick myself into thinking over the course of the 'birthmarks' trip wilson ended up garnering a lot of reluctant sympathy for house bc he was genuinely so pitiful trying to convince wilson to let him off the hook by explaining a little of how awful john was to him. the stuff house has hinted before but wilson had just chalked it up to that just being john drawing on military knowledge for discipline (which. isn't entirely wrong i guess. but it was very much abuse too)

BUT

if john WERE still alive. oughh. blythe would want to visit immediately after giselle's birth and she'd drag john with her despite knowing how poorly john and house get along. she doesn't even consider the danger -- actual danger, real harm -- that could ensue if house doesn't want to see his dad. haywire hormones and high instinctual drive to protect his newborn pup could very well lead to a physical altercation that even if house won would still hurt him terribly.

and even with the lax attitude wilson holds for the father-son relationship, he too would get set off rejecting john's presence through sympathetic response to house's own distress on seeing him. bc like granted everything's running high in that timeframe, but now he's a parent too, and he just thinks on what house has told him in varying degrees of detail john's forms of punishment for minor infractions, and how when his dad's around, house's entire demeanor changes to uncharacteristically demure, polite, with a wariness that comes from experience.....

what's really sick is how john can just huff at house once as a warning if he starts acting up and house would heel with a flinch. he does it once when house had seen john reach for giselle while blythe was holding her. house's growling dies instantly (fearful, but mostly just resentful) but wilson's cranks up and he finally physically escorts john out of the room, who goes semi-willingly because frankly the whole thing just reminds him that his son's an omega so he didn't exactly love to be there either, he just came because blythe wanted him to.