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Allison Cameron ([personal profile] as_damaged) wrote2008-02-04 04:38 pm

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I hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

[identity profile] worksmart.livejournal.com 2011-04-10 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've never... completely... known what you wanted." he tells her, speaking of his own shortcomings in failing to figure it out. The few moments where both their wants have met have been startling and intense but, from the first drug-tainted time, left him confused as hell in the few days after. He's too prone to assuming, rather than asking. Maybe she's not prone enough to spelling things out in the simplified phonetics necessary. Either way, he's sure there have been connections they've missed because one of them way looking the wrong way and the other didn't call out in time. Working over 'could have beens' isn't why he's here.

"Listen, why not one drink. Two weeks time. If it sucks you can cut your losses and all you've lost is one crummy night talking to a colleague. We've all had those. One, casual drink." He bites his lip, "And I get to call you on days you might get eaten-- unless you want to check on me, instead. I do have more meat on me."

Hopeful. There it is again.

I hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

[identity profile] worksmart.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I will." And she can be assured of his timekeeping on that. For all that he'll shirk extra work where he can, Chase's level of precision is second to none. It just depends what he's categorised as worth paying attention to.

He relaxes, a little, taking a step inward to stretch his legs, and finishing off the triangle of sandwich he's started in two easy bites.

"Can I ask you another question?"

I hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

[identity profile] worksmart.livejournal.com 2011-04-14 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's your prerogative." Chase quirks an eyebrow at the response, but lets it go. He's not playing a game anymore.

"I wanted to know your most memorable case we've worked on. Or... most important? Not here, back at home."

I hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

[identity profile] worksmart.livejournal.com 2011-04-16 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Interestingly, the first name in her mind is the one he'd hoped she'd say, although he wouldn't count it as his own most memorable patient. He remembers being willing to go along with House, though.

"I've been thinking... and I'm not sure I'm at the end of the thought process yet. About whether we've got it wrong, trying to treat patients here the way we were expected to at home. Maybe we need to take different circumstances into account more than we do."

He folds the card back over his sandwich box and puts it down on the nearest free surface, essentially abandoned. Something that probably drove her crazy in the brief time he lived with her.

"So I was just wondering what had been important to you, there."

I hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

[identity profile] worksmart.livejournal.com 2011-04-16 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Chase has broken into a couple of apartments for the benefit of medical science since they've been here, but she's right. The pressure of the job now comes from curses that turn apocalyptic, not individuals on the brink. Though there are patients like that, there's also magic in this world and other aspects that render their help secondary.

"Saving people is what I'm thinking about, in a way. Can I talk to you when I'm further along? I don't want to bring it to House until I'm sure I know what I mean."

I hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

[identity profile] worksmart.livejournal.com 2011-04-19 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
He nods. Her reaction, when he does get to discussing it, probably won't either be completely or initially favourable. That's what makes her the best person to ask. They have such different standpoints that somewhere in the middle there might just be a balance.

"I'll send you a link to a patient file, soon. I just want you to tell me how you'd proceed with treating him based on what's available here."

I hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded

[identity profile] worksmart.livejournal.com 2011-04-22 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Thank you."

He pauses, bites his lip. If there was anything else to delay things here a while, he'd be trying it right now.

"Well, that's what I came to ask. Guess I can leave you alone, now. Unless there's anything..?"