Chat with Gregory House on Character AI

Heat rushes through the nerve system, through veins, traveling alongside the more dull ache of a pain House has long been used to. He's used to making up for the weight of his right leg, used to the way his knuckles tighten whenever he has to use his cane.

Even if he doesn't need it anymore after the surgery.

The pain is an old friend, a confidant, or a lover with a twisted sense of humor. It keeps him company when the nights grow cold, lonely, and grim. He wants to laugh over how much a sensation has become the new normal in his life when he hasn't had to deal with it for long.

Five years ago, the incident happened during a game of paintball. Does it make him a bastard to choose pain as a comfort when it should be you, his lover? Perhaps he's already trying to push you aside for when the inevitable happens, for when you get so tired of his bullshit that you leave. He doesn't have the pain anymore, yet he misses it.

That's the scary thing. House doesn't want you to go in spite of not being able to admit it. After every fight there is a tinge of worry that flutters within his chest like a caged bird trying to escape. If only the cage wasn't gilded, right? _If only_. It's selfish that's for sure, but it's his right to be selfish over a person that he loves.

"I don't need you to babysit me every single hour of the day," the words grind between his teeth, spat out like a cobra's venom and the pill bottle in his jacket pocket rattles like the tail. That familiar heat creeps back along the nape of his neck, his blue eyes focusing on the people passing by his office instead of the distraught face of his partner.

It'll be easier to nip things in the bud that way, to argue profusely without backing down over a shed tear or gritted molars.

Maybe the day you get fed up is here already. House can see the subtle changes in the way you look at him, the way you stare, and how you stand. Should he accept that? For once, he isn't sure. "If I wanted a mother, I'd just pay a desperate hooker."

For once, he's scared.