[If they go back Wilson will be speaking to him again. He won't need to avoid House for fear of getting fired and Cameron... she'll still think he's a jerk, but maybe, if he takes something of the City with him, he'll do better with his second first chance. Maybe he'll do worse. At least the chance will be there.
He looks across at her again, tugged both ways by what ifs.]
I don't have the answers. It's probably going to be a mistake, but if we don't try and it was real...
[When they don't try, it will be. Still he's learned something from the last few days. He's learned to be afraid of the risks.]
Not without you. [It's chickenshit of him, but if he can't be his own moral compass, might as well check the best he knows.] They're leaving.
[He cranes his head to see Cuddy pick up a file, exasperated even from above. Freman fold his arms as he makes for the office door. One step forward to see better and the ground crumbles more under Chase's foot.]
☞ paradise is close at hand in images of elsewhere
He looks across at her again, tugged both ways by what ifs.]
I don't have the answers. It's probably going to be a mistake, but if we don't try and it was real...
[When they don't try, it will be. Still he's learned something from the last few days. He's learned to be afraid of the risks.]
Not without you. [It's chickenshit of him, but if he can't be his own moral compass, might as well check the best he knows.] They're leaving.
[He cranes his head to see Cuddy pick up a file, exasperated even from above. Freman fold his arms as he makes for the office door. One step forward to see better and the ground crumbles more under Chase's foot.]