cindylouwho | After Life (Reply)

Author:

cindy_lou_who8
Title: After Life
Rating: R (themes)
Word count: 206
Pairing: House/Stacy alluded to in the past
Spoilers for S5's "97 Seconds"
Summary: What House saw while he was "dead." Inspired by a conversation with

arhh and

bishojo_kitsune

Zap. The electric current flowed into House's body, stopping his heart. This is the story of what House saw before he was resuscitated by Amber.

He saw himself as a child playing in the yard moments before being scolded by his father. He saw himself receiving his college diploma, and only his mother applauding for him. He saw Wilson smashing that glass window twenty years ago in a seedy New Orleans bar.

Instants later he's being shot with a paintball gun by Stacy, and the happy times they shared. Then he’s curled up in pain during the infarction; being shot for real in his office.

Time continues to swirl around him faster and faster until he is no longer in the past but the future. A mangled bus and sad faces. Wilson sitting alone in his apartment, so still. Cuddy smiling down at a dark haired child.

And then as he can feel the electrical impulses restating his heart, he sees the scariest thing of all, a dark haired man lying in a pool of his own blood. He wakes up to see Amber straddling over him, an honest look of concern on her face. That’s the last thing he sees before he passes out cold.